Sentences with phrase «important role groups»

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Whether they're churches, sports teams, unions or other local groups, they all share important roles as social infrastructure for our communities.

The small group of women in these important roles tended to be focused at the largest companies, where pay is higher.

From volunteer groups to the rooftop garden club, these emerged from the grass roots and play a very important role in creating a higher level of social inclusion, engagement and communication in the office.

Multiple groups within Fidelity work together to create a comprehensive investment service, with each group playing an important role.

To say that 40 percent of births in America are to unmarried persons masks important differences between ethnic groups and explains little about the roles of education, economics, delayed marriage, and poverty.

Similar essays include Ben Avery's study of the ramifications of the Fall as they play out in Jackie Brown and Russell Hemati's «Like A Man,» which illuminates the important role of group dynamics in the nature of sin.

It will come as no surprise to most of you that groups play an important role in the spiritual lives of the people in our churches.

If we are to move toward a more just placement system for women, there are three groups of persons who can play an important role in bringing about such change: the men who currently serve as senior pastors, the men and women who serve as denominational placement officers, and the clergywomen themselves.

Marty says nothing about what this challenge might mean for theological schools, whose attention to these topics will play an important role in educating the people — pastors, denominational employees, lay leaders and the like — whom he frequently singles out as important interpreters and «brokers» of the public involvement of religious groups.

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In a body, a «senate,» the aged may function as a «presbytery,» as «elders»; but as individuals the old seer, prophet, teacher, and master will play an important role in the group, whether it be a natural group or specifically religious.

The proposal outlined in this paper, asking for religiously affiliated people to work together to face the issues of terrorism, violence and injustice, in not meant to diminish the important role that all other human agencies, state sponsored or voluntary organizations, groups and movements, have to play.

In such projects, it is important to train a group of laymen within the church for the various roles which they may fill.

During the spirited dinner conversation that preceded the event a group of us got to talking about the important role that high - profile public figures can play in breaking down religious stereotypes.

The «chaplain» and «mediator» roles must be carefully distinguished from each other, but both must rely upon trust and confidence in order to perform their important work — important not just to them or to the groups they serve, but to all of us.

There was another group of writings which never did become canonical but played a very important role in late Judaism and early Christianity, for they were an integral part of the thought and outlook of the Jewish people which provided the background for the development of Christianity.

According to the group, the best way forward is greater transparency in supply chains, with new technologies and global alliances playing an important role.

Every person plays an important role in Traussi's lineup, but the cleanup hitter is Chef Daniel Boulud, the founder and driving force behind The Dinex Group.

«With increasing demand from markets in China and south - east Asia for high - quality, value - added product, Australia, through companies such as Freedom Foods and Perich Group, is well placed to play an important role in the development of this supply chain,» Freedom Foods managing director Rory Macleod said.

Our role as a trusted partner to the voluntary sector is really important to the charities and community groups we work with and we are excited to launch this new service with Tesco's support.»

We re-constructed the experiment with a group of local parents here in the Twin Cities about ten years ago, and it serves as a catalyst for important conversations about the role that self - discipline plays in our children's success and happiness...

Give children of all ages an important role — such as setting the table each night — and explain how everyone in the community has a responsibility to help make the group function a little better.

To establish the roles that members can take on (note: it's important to be flexible regarding roles, especially with a small group; members may take on responsibilities as action items arise).

A Waldorf school is a living organization involving many people who each have their own relationship to the endeavor, and who find themselves in groups that have particular roles and responsibilities — all important to the overall function and health of the organism.

And it's important to be a good role model for your child — don't tell inappropriate jokes, especially ones making fun of a particular group of people.

The government has an important role in engaging with various faith and interfaith groups for different purposes.

Whatever one thinks about the potency of the Big Society as a political message — and I have my doubts, as I have said before — it is based on a good Conservative principle: that the state's role is limited, and voluntary groups have an important part to play in helping society flourish.

Female purity is so important because marriage plays such a central role in affirming the bonds of the extended family and demonstrating loyalty to a group united by shared descent.

Newly minted Nassau County Executive Laura Curran on Tuesday officially took on another important role — a leader in a key regional transportation planning group — and laid out challenges facing Long Island.

Graham Watson MEP, Leader of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats in Brussels, said his group would continue to play an important role in the European Parliament.

«Train companies and the rail industry as a whole recognise the important role cycling plays in our growing railway and the Cycle Rail Working Group has been working hard on how we can improve cycle - rail provision further.

Latino advocacy groups are holding simultaneous press conferences in six municipalities across the state today to urge Governor - elect Andrew Cuomo and LG - elect Bob Duffy to adopt 12 recommendations designed to «allow the talent in Latino communities to participate in meaningful and important roles in the new administration.»

For six years, a particular group of workers employed through contracts with the city, and filling important roles, saw their wages stagnate.

International groups, such as the Society for Mathematical Biology (SMB), play an important role in building the mathematical biology community by holding annual meetings and mentoring young researchers.

That our research group has been able to demonstrate such an important and basic physiological role of AMPK in muscles is fantastic, and a reward after many years of effort,» according to Professor Jørgen Wojtaszewski, who had overall responsibility for the group's work.

So, while group intervention programs can play an important role in preventing substance abuse, especially in at - risk populations such as homeless youth, they can also inadvertently expose participants to negative behaviors.

At first it was thought that only functioned as cellular debris warehouses but in recent years has been that could have an important role as a messenger between cells of the body and now many groups focus their research on the role that could be played exosomes in various diseases, including cancer.

Researchers from UC Davis School of Medicine and Shriners Hospitals for Children — Northern California have identified a group of cells in the brain that they say plays an important role in the abnormal neuron development in Down syndrome.

They found that although the presence of non-breeding adults in breeding groups is not associated with contrasts in climate, non-breeders commonly play an important role in raising the offspring of breeders in species living in dry environments.

Not only did they find that students in public pre-K were significantly more likely to take the gifted and talented test, regardless of demographic background, but they also found that attending public pre-K may play an important role in helping to reduce test - taking disparities among different groups of children.

Affinity groups are by no means unique to universities and biotechnology companies — but in these settings many of them are playing an important role in supporting diversity.

And as long as the demand for Ph.D. scientists remains strong across the career board, groups such as the IR will continue to play an important role in the accomplishments of every university's graduate student body.

Another important observation made by the group, and which supports the hypothesis that prions have a role in depression, is the fact that the prion protein is found in the same places in the cell as the dopamine and serotonin receptors.

Winogradsky discovered several groups of bacteria that play important roles in ecosystems.

Moreover, Albertini's group is exploring whether these plumbing lines, which corkscrew into the outer rind of the egg, play a role in establishing one of the most important geographic landmarks in the life of an egg cell — an event, Albertini likes to say when lecturing medical students, that marks «one of the most important days in your life.»

A few months ago, her group found a gene that plays an important role in 20 % of the cases of congenital blindness.

«We were surprised to find that DNA methylation from the egg played a much larger role in placental development than methylation that was introduced after fertilisation, whereas in the embryo both are important,» explains Miguel Branco, a group leader from Queen Mary University of London who led the work.

His research over the last decade played an important role in assisting the World Health Organisation's Strategic Advisory Group of Experts in making recommendations on potentially life - saving childhood vaccines such as the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine and the rotavirus vaccine.

«The Cancer Research Institute plays a very important role to support the work of scientists who have original ideas of cancer immunotherapy, which are promising, but not yet proven enough for obtaining financial support from commercial groups.

Michael Croft, Ph.D., and his team focus on a number of molecules that are members of the tumor necrosis factor (TNF) and tumor necrosis factor receptor (TNFR) family, a group of proteins believed to play important roles in the ability of the immune system to guard the body against harmful microorganisms.