Sentences with phrase «issue calls for action»

Yet if we are not careful, we convert that directive into a sentimental blasphemy, which appeals to both liberals and conservatives in the church, but which is dangerous in a way: when we issue calls for action on the basis of Christ's presence, there tends to be no stopping us.

The Out In The Open event marks the first time Ministers will come together to issue a Call for Action and discuss new recommendations for education -LSB-...]

Students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School joined others from across the country Friday outside the U.S. Capitol to issue a call for action from lawmakers ahead of Saturday's «March for Our Lives» rallies.

NAR President Elizabeth Mendenhall issued another Call for Action last week to help push for the changes NAR seeks during the conference committee.

NAR is issuing a Call for Action to its members that emphasizes the need for any tax legislation to do no harm to the economy by retaining the deductions for mortgage interest and property taxes, the capital gains exclusion on proceeds from the sale of a principal residence, and extension of mortgage cancellation relief.

Mortgage Debt Forgiveness Tax Relief Act NAR has issued a Call for Action to encourage your legislators to extend the Mortgage Debt Forgiveness Tax Relief Act.

The resulting turmoil prompted NAR late last year to issue a Call for Action in support of bipartisan House and Senate bills to require FEMA to stop implementing the changes so it can get a better handle on how the new actuarial rates are to be determined.

In the event of a Senate vote, NAR will issue a Call for Action, asking you to write to your senators.

Not exact matches

As part of the Demo Day, President Obama issued a call to action to both the public and private sector, according to Tom Kalil, deputy director for technology and innovation at the OSTP.

EcoPeace Middle East, an international environmental group, organized the first - ever Dead Sea Swim to raise awareness of the issue and call for government action.

In contrast to their anemic foray into governance issues, conservative U.K. prime minister Theresa May last week made a bold call for action to create a British economy and society that «works for everyone.»

While there is reason for some optimism on the issue of net neutrality with members of both the NDP and Liberals calling for action in this regard, the question remains whether the majority of Canadians are aware of the import of these issues on their daily lives or where the parties stand on them.

Hughes» words, action and leadership issue a strong, clear and distinct call for full support of minority supplier development as an absolute business imperative for establishing and maintaining success in the global supply chain.

After initially defending the actions of the arresting officers, Philadelphia Police Commissioner Richard Ross issued an apology for the way police responded to Starbucks» call.

Calls for social action and justice rang out loud and clear from pulpits and pastoral letters, although pro-life issues were all too often noticeable by their absence.

There is a place for the greening of theology that is the correcting of long - held wrong doctrines, the call for changes in action, and reflection on all sorts of issues in light of the crisis we face.

Before corrective action can be taken, one needs to have as clear a picture as can be had of the constellation of factors that have led to life - frustrating situations that call for change, whether the issue be poverty, pollution, overpopulation, or the rich - poor gap among the nations.

Those who profess to be followers of Christ and who frequently invoke their religion as justification for their stands on certain issues need to be called out when their actions run directly contrary to the values and teaching of Jesus.

For then theory by definition presupposes some practice to be explained and criticized, and it issues in revised practice; and practice by definition presupposes some theory by which to assess the present situation calling for action, and it issues in theorizing about what happened and what to do neFor then theory by definition presupposes some practice to be explained and criticized, and it issues in revised practice; and practice by definition presupposes some theory by which to assess the present situation calling for action, and it issues in theorizing about what happened and what to do nefor action, and it issues in theorizing about what happened and what to do next.

Stearns issues a moving call to action that challenges Christians to look beyond the walls of their churches and work together to demonstrate God's love for the world by acting justly, loving mercy, and walking humbly with God.

Decisions had to be made from time to time as to where or when services of the church would be held; the church needed to be told of the impending visit of an apostle, or of some prophet or teacher from abroad; a question has been raised as to the good faith of one of these visitors, and there must be some discussion of the point and a decision on it; a fellow Christian from another church is on a journey and needs hospitality; a member of the local congregation planning to visit a church abroad needs a letter of introduction to that church, which someone must be authorized to provide; a serious dispute about property rights or some other legal matter has arisen between two of the brothers and the church must name someone to help them settle the issue or must in some other way deal with it; a new local magistrate has begun to prosecute Christians for violating the law against unlicensed assembly, and consideration must be given to ways and means of meeting this crisis; charges have been brought against one of the members by another member, and these must be investigated and perhaps some disciplinary action taken; one of the members has died, and the church is called on for some special action in behalf of his family in the emergency; differences of opinion exist in the church on certain questions of morals or belief (such as marriage and divorce, or the resurrection), differences which local prophets and teachers are apparently unable to compose, and a letter must be written to the apostle — who will write this letter and what exactly will it say?

Earlier this week we issued a call to action for businesses to help support the work of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil — read the story here.

A dozen leading researchers have issued an urgent call to action for the Murray - Darling Basin, arguing that the billions spent on water - efficient irrigation have done little for the rivers» health.

Many speakers issued calls - to - action for stakeholders from all regions, socio - economic standing, and sector to collaborate to ensure the world's plentiful food gets to those who most need it.

There are many action prompts out there but here are my top two recommendations: 1) At Daily Action you can sign up for a daily text alert — they tell you what the issue is, who to call, and often provide a link with backgrounder informaction prompts out there but here are my top two recommendations: 1) At Daily Action you can sign up for a daily text alert — they tell you what the issue is, who to call, and often provide a link with backgrounder informAction you can sign up for a daily text alert — they tell you what the issue is, who to call, and often provide a link with backgrounder information.

On this basis, Baby Milk Action reported the product to the responsible authority calling for an Improvement Notice to be issued to give the manufacturer a deadline for bringing the labels into compliance.

While online petitions can at times be an effective means of gathering support for some issues, Mass Audubon's experience is that emailing and calling legislators and the Governor's office is a more personal, timely, and direct method of requesting action.

No matter where you stand in this whole issue, anyone who has a modicum of math ability and critical thinking should be shocked and appalled that MANA had the numbers for 5 years and sat on them, and then when they finally released them, bent and twisted and fibbed to make themselves look good instead of using this as a wake up call for action.

Supporters and individuals who have experienced speedy trial issues — including Cuomo's ex-wife Kerry Kennedy — held a rally at the Capitol yesterday calling for action on Kalief's Law by the Senate Codes Committee and by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to fix New York's speedy trial statute.

«Labour has called on the government to show that it is serious on this issue and to take the action needed to stop rewards for failure - yet again it has fallen short.

Corruption Trials and Two Reform Reports Make the Case for Action Now In light of the corruption trials of two former legislative leaders taking place this week and New York State's D - minus grade in how it handles issues of integrity from a national comparison study, New York's leading good government groups today called upon the -LSB-...]

For email - newsletter - like issue updates that didn't contain a call to action, that number would double or even triple.

Indeed, there is a well - developed trend in the Global North to focus on the issue of rape in the DRC (see Eve Ensler's call for an end to report - making of rape in the Congo and a move towards action, titled «Over»).

There is no longer any point them issuing their own calls for the bullying of their colleagues to stop if they are not prepared to take concrete action to ensure it stops.

With our resolution, New York City's oldest and most progressive political club calls for immediate government action to address the issue of climate change.

The governor's office flatly rejects that assertion, noting the governor's call for an independent probe into Mr. Klein's actions, and saying on Monday that Mr. Cuomo will include a raft of measures aimed at fighting sexual harassment in his budget presentation on Tuesday, effectively forcing the issue into immediate negotiations.

State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman issued the guidance in advance of a Thursday deadline for so - called Dreamers to renew applications to stay in the country under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program created by executive order by then - President Barack Obama.

As members of that party continue their cash dash, Sen. Liz Krueger, a Manhattan Democrate, is preparing to file a report for a new political action committee called «No Bad Apples,» designed to recruit Democratic candidates whose track record on reform issues is similar to her own.

Conference calls upon the National Executive to: (a) consider issuing a specific action instruction on interventions and teaching outside the school day; (b) strengthen the Action Short of Strike Action guidance to members, reminding them of their rights regarding working time and (c) continue to campaign for inspection bodies in the UK to include the inspection of work / life balance and workload in their frameaction instruction on interventions and teaching outside the school day; (b) strengthen the Action Short of Strike Action guidance to members, reminding them of their rights regarding working time and (c) continue to campaign for inspection bodies in the UK to include the inspection of work / life balance and workload in their frameAction Short of Strike Action guidance to members, reminding them of their rights regarding working time and (c) continue to campaign for inspection bodies in the UK to include the inspection of work / life balance and workload in their frameAction guidance to members, reminding them of their rights regarding working time and (c) continue to campaign for inspection bodies in the UK to include the inspection of work / life balance and workload in their frameworks.

«Every several years or so a legislator is called upon to cast a momentous vote in which the stakes are high and both sides of the issue are vociferous in their views,» Mr. Schumer said, saying he had thoroughly heard out arguments for and against the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.

He also called for a «power audit» to ensure that «only where issues are most effectively addressed by collective action, should the EU act».

The ruling came three days after Mr. de Blasio, in his State of the City speech, predicted a court victory on the issue, and criticized what he called the «landlord lobby» for being behind the legal action and a separate court challenge to a rent freeze approved by the Rent Guidelines Board.

Mark Emanatian is the Capital District Organizer with Citizen Action of New York: «Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim, Catholic, Protestant and Jewish groups are coming together to an interfaith call for justice to work on the issues of poverty, what causes poverty, how we can solve poverty.»

In a speech calling for stronger laws to protect voting rights, President Barack Obama endorsed the activism of Rev. Al Sharpton, encouraging a crowd in Midtown to form a national network for action on the issue.

The U.N. declaration calls for action on multiple fronts, including slashing the use of antibiotics to promote growth in farm animals, limiting their use among humans to only when they are truly necessary and ramping up education about these issues.

They promise to study the views of public and professional interests before deciding whether action by government is needed on delicate issues such as screening for the condition called fragile X syndrome.

An emotive call for action on environmental issues by Pope Francis will shake up climate politics in the world's most powerful nation

Meanwhile, WHO and Doctors Without Borders (MSF) today issued fresh and even more urgent calls for immediate, massive international action to contain the West African outbreak, which is spiraling out of control.

The findings, published July 9 in The Lancet, come four years after the same group of researchers issued a call to action, laying out an ambitious plan to curtail HIV epidemics in gay men, setting targets for policy reform, funding and improvement in effective HIV prevention and treatment services, including expanded access to pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) which has been highly effective in dramatically reducing transmission among this population.

Their banners testified to the issue's complexity: no - nukes signs next to calls for zero - carbon power, «grandparents for climate action» next to signs deploring pension funds» fossil - fuel investments.