Sentences with phrase «individual lives and families»

Not exact matches

Thriving individuals also have some or all of the following elements in their lives: challenges and difficulties that are at a manageable level; employer / family / other support; a calm environment; a high degree of autonomy; and a reputation of being competent.

Our efforts are leading to a better quality of life for people with Medicare, families, individuals, military service personnel, and communities at large.

Other measures include: • remove rule limiting Child Tax Credit (CTC) to one claimant per household (to allow two or more families sharing a house to claim the CTC); • repeal $ 10,000 cap on medical expense tax credit claims made on medical costs incurred for an eligible dependent; • easier access to funds in Registered Disability Savings Plans for beneficiaries with shortened life spans; • improved Employment Insurance benefits to parents of gravely ill, murdered, or missing children; and • enhanced ability to make transfers between individual RESPs, and better access to RESP funds for post-secondary students studying outside Canada.

But individuals who are willing or able to sacrifice some basic aspects of normal life, such as sleep or friends and family time, to pursue these extreme sports are the ones who have the mettle to succeed when faced with entrepreneurial challenges.

Our Members are successful individuals who have committed to working with other business leaders and our Group Leaders to develop action plans for improving their success on all levels — in their businesses, as well as in their personal and family lives.

We grouped the list of Canada's wealthiest individuals and families by where they live, and tallied each province's fortunes.

You'd think that high - profile individuals with substantial and varied assets, often - complex family lives and a team of high - powered advisors at their disposal would have this locked down, more so than your average American.

Having one's job and a portion of one's wealth in the same firm can create undue financial risk for workers, as it does for individuals and families who use some or all of their life savings to start their own businesses or otherwise invest heavily in one asset.

The Giving Pledge is an effort to help address society's most pressing problems by inviting the world's wealthiest individuals and families to commit to giving more than half of their wealth to philanthropy or charitable causes either during their lives or after their deaths.

Living here offers a great lifestyle and community to individuals and families, especially business executives or retirees who want to lock the door & let the 24 hour security take cares of things.

Term life insurance is often the best type of life insurance for families, but whole life can be beneficial for individuals with a higher income and have maxed out retirement plans.

Life insurance is applicable to individuals and families in a wide range of financial situations because it refers to a group of several different products, each of which can be customized with riders (basically, add - ons to the policy).

Hallett is a life insurance Brokerage General Agency (BGA) that has been helping licensed insurance advisors protect individuals and families since 1990 by providing customized life insurance quotes, case designs, and case management services.

«Over the last six years, we have seen many individuals and families face serious financial implications caused by life events,» said Danae Ringelmann, Chief Development Officer of Indiegogo.

They talk about their families because that is what really matters in a person's life... that is thier true legacy and their only real immortality... most people, I am fairly sure, know deep down that god is a fairy tale, a cushion, and that death is truly the end... what this very excellent young woman heard from these dying people makes perfect sense... death is a time to end the bs and look at and reflect upon what was real and important in that individual's life

Furthermore, the idea that I am just an individual, owing little or nothing to anyone, that I need to be autonomous, seems absurd when we consider our own personal origins: we each owe our conception and birth to a mother and a father; our whole lives involve a series ofinterlocking relationships with parents, family, friends, teachers, society and so on.

The church tries to get around the issue by attempting to somehow separate the individual from who they are and thereby maintain the right to openly condemn them and / or seek to impose a life of celibacy and deny them the same rights of love, marriage, and family they themselves enjoy.

We acknowledge that our societies must respond more effectively to the material and spiritual needs of individuals, their families and the communities in which they live throughout our diverse countries and regions.

As the first Humanist Chaplain at USC, he is committed to developing a community that offers regular inspiration, pastoral care, supportive fellowship and service opportunities to students, faculty, staff members and local families and individuals exploring or actively pursuing secular goodness as a way of life.

By working to get these recognised as social evils akin to racism or sexism [2] it has been possible to get towards the goal, which is that homosexual behaviour is firmly accepted in society and that society should be indifferent to the form of relationships which individuals choose to enter or make the basis of their family lives.

Ultimately and fundamentally it is the divergence of the living shoots, operating from the highest level down to the family and the individuals composing the family, which has always been the cause of human conflict.

Thus it was with a grim literalness that there was fulfilled, in the life of entire cultures and not only of individual families, the alienation described by the saying of Jesus in the Gospels: «I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter - in - law against her mother - in - law; and a man's foes will be those of his own household» (Matt.10: 35 - 36).

People would stop living for and generally being obsessed with themselves as individuals and start living as social animals for the species, finding their happiness primarily in the pleasures and duties of families and friendship.

The reflections of the French Catholic writer François Mauriac, who succeeded in leading a conventional family life despite what he experienced as the powerful lure of alcohol, drugs, and homosexuality, demonstrate the gap between the austere piety of the religious individual and the tactful lifestyle that Tóibín detects in James:

By joining parts of their bodies, a husband and wife continue their family heritage, affirm their own individual and marital identity, and perpetuate the stream of life.

Economics should be just one part of the good life; instead, powerful economic forces now create pressures on individuals and families to pursue material gain at the expense of other important human ends.

In the name of further revelation, the Bible is tailored to fit a typology in which two philosophies of life, the «Abel - type» and the «Cain - type,» struggle in cyclical battles throughout history, each struggle building upon the previous success of the Abel - type and so ascending toward a complete restoration of the individual, the family, the nation and the world.

In sum, because it treats belief as an atomistic decision taken piecemeal by individuals rather than a holistic response to family life, Nietzsche's madman and his offspring, secularization theory, appear to present an incomplete version of how some considerable portion of human beings actually come to think and behave about things religious — not one by one and all on their own, but rather mediated through the elemental connections of husband, wife, child, aunt, great - grandfather, and the rest.

It's a value system based on community rather than the individual, and holds that the honor of the community is more important than the life, health, or well - being of any one person or family in the community.

Only in a tradition where adults continue to refer to the family life of individual church members as «the Christian home» would pastors, educators, and theologians have continued to believe for so long that parents are more important than the church is to the faith of children.

If one were to draw a diagram with a point at the center to indicate the individual person and a series of concentric circles for his major relations in society, the first circle would represent the family and the second his economic life.

The quality of life in nations and communities, in family relations, in individual worlds is the imperative issue of our times.

(4) Leaders of congregations should recruit, train, and continue to coach carefully chosen caring teams to provide better support for individuals and families experiencing major life crises.

Individuals» core identities were interwoven with the generations that came before, their extended families, their community, and the land where they and their ancestors lived.

While not every individual or family would choose to pursue therapy that is open to the idea of questioning the innate good of one's sexual impulses, it is a valid avenue to help adults, teenagers and families seek understanding, gain clarity and take action to live in alignment with their values.

An individual does have the «right to die» when individual choice has disappeared and the decision on life or death has fallen to the community (primarily the family).

It is also necessary to raise the spiritual content of well - being and reduce all the symptoms of anomie, like family disintegration, conflict and tensions, crime, alcoholism, drug addiction and mental illness, all indicating lack of inner happiness and contentment in the life of individuals.

«I believe in an America where government is not permitted to dictate the religious life of our people; where religion is a private matter between individuals and God, between families and their churches and synagogues, with no room for politicians in between,» he states.

«People aren't just atomistic individuals bouncing around in a free market; they are members of communities with attachments to faith, family, and civic associations that give their lives meaning.»

Individuals do everything necessary to make their own life full of happiness and joy, even if it means destroying the lives of others, betraying friends and family, and ruining the hopes and dreams of countless people.

The show — which at looks the lives of several individuals and families experiencing a series of emotional plot - lines — was a critical and audience favorite for NBC.

Yet in our individual lives, in our families and in our congregations, there are often unresolved rifts of long duration.

These manuals follow a common pattern, taking up individual cases and indicating how they are to be resolved, and the directions they offer are remarkably similar in character.53 The greater number of cases discussed deal with moral perplexities — questions involving family life, economic activity, military service, political issues, the relationship of master and servant, the right use of recreation — but spiritual perplexities — involving «the great case which the Jews put to Peter and the jailer to Paul and Silas «54 undoubtedly received equal attention in actual pastoral work.

Personal loyalty, the sacrifices entailed in family life, and the rights of the individual also are values sought in un-PC films.

«We seek wines of true distinction that represent the terroir from which they hail, preferably from organic origins and are made by families and individuals who share our life philosophies,» said Andre Shearer, Cape Classics» Chairman & CEO.

Nestlé in the United States is committed to enhancing quality of life and contributing to a healthier future — for individuals and families, for our thriving and resilient communities, and for the planet.

«Addiction / alcoholism is a devastating family disease that is responsible for corroding communities as easily as it takes the lives of those individuals suffering from the direct effects of drinking and drugging,» said Zimmern.

Services include supported living, independent living homes, intermediate care facilities, individual day support services, assessments, information and referrals, affordable housing advocacy, recreation and vacation travel for adult residents, teen recreation integration programs, autism specialists and in - home support for families.

Our mission is to improve the lives of individuals with autism and related disorders and the lives of their families by enabling them to become active participants and contributing members within their families and communities.

Siegel's Special Needs Weekend is the perfect opportunity for individuals living with special needs and their families to enjoy participating in the farm's activities without the normal crowds.