Sentences with phrase «issues of acceptance»

It is during adolescence that peer groups become stratified and issues of acceptance and popularity become increasingly important.

Rather than discuss issues of acceptance and equality, I ignored them.

Christians are increasingly divided over the issue of the acceptance and inclusion of gay persons into the church.

Not exact matches

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Important factors that could cause our actual results and financial condition to differ materially from those indicated in the forward - looking statements include, among others, the following: our ability to successfully and profitably market our products and services; the acceptance of our products and services by patients and healthcare providers; our ability to meet demand for our products and services; the willingness of health insurance companies and other payers to cover Cologuard and adequately reimburse us for our performance of the Cologuard test; the amount and nature of competition from other cancer screening and diagnostic products and services; the effects of the adoption, modification or repeal of any healthcare reform law, rule, order, interpretation or policy; the effects of changes in pricing, coverage and reimbursement for our products and services, including without limitation as a result of the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014; recommendations, guidelines and quality metrics issued by various organizations such as the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, the American Cancer Society, and the National Committee for Quality Assurance regarding cancer screening or our products and services; our ability to successfully develop new products and services; our success establishing and maintaining collaborative, licensing and supplier arrangements; our ability to maintain regulatory approvals and comply with applicable regulations; and the other risks and uncertainties described in the Risk Factors and in Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations sections of our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and our subsequently filed Quarterly Reports on Form 10 - Q.

Considering insurers will accept the vast majority of medical issues, we wouldn't recommend a guaranteed acceptance policy unless you have a severe condition or can't handle daily activities by yourself.

«We seem to be at a tipping point with [privacy] issues, with the great acceptance that the price of digital communications is some intrusion on privacy being replaced by a more cynical, or at least aware, attitude toward what is actually happening.

Once other e-governance and trade facilitation initiatives proposed by the FTP are implemented — such as online issue of export obligation certificates, acceptance of mobile applications and 24/7 customs clearance at 18 major seaports and 17 air cargo complexes — business conditions for traders will improve even further.

The value of Bitcoin as a viable currency would clearly be threatened if governments issue a competing currency or take actions to restrict Bitcoin's acceptance.

«Divisive issues such as Hezbollah's weapons and the controversy over its participation in regional conflicts are almost entirely absent from the electoral campaigns, indicating implicit acceptance of the party's domestic hegemony,» wrote analyst Joseph Bahout in an article for the Carnegie Middle East Center.

Don't miss read this note, the issue of female pastors is not out of date — I have several female pastor friends who struggle for acceptance in the church at large.

It also seems quite hard to swallow that a person could spend his or her life helping the poor, counseling the down and out, building homes for Habitat for Humanity, giving millions to charitable causes, assisting those with disabilities and mental health issues, and without a sincere acceptance of Jesus Christ as Savior, be doomed to eternal condemnation and suffering, no getting out early for good behavior.

Instead, they want the church to change its position on some very controversial and contentious issues (a key example is the gay / lesbian push for acceptance of a sinful behavior), and that's not going to happen... most especially not in the Roman Catholic Church or Eastern Orthodox Church.

While glad to see the change of attitude among conservative Christians with respect to gay civil rights and acceptance of gays as human beings, some persons were troubled over other aspects of the issue.

Allowed public funding of campaigning groups who use health and bullying issues to promote their vision of sexual relationships and the acceptance of homosexuality.

Thus we must not oversimplify the issue and say that in a given situation the attitude of Christian love must always be that of meek acceptance and the patient smile.

A South Carolina judge on Wednesday (Jan. 23) issued a temporary restraining order that prevents the national church from using the name or seal of the diocese, which espouses a more traditional theology and disapproves of the national church's acceptance of same - sex marriage and gay bishops.

Whenever its the gay issue - all you see is ignorant Christians holding tight to their prejudices - why is it so hard to find a christian these days espousing any principle that is christlike - I was raised in evangelical christianity - and still hold on to some great teachings - but division, non unity, non acceptance and certainly denial of the creative nature of God is NOT christ - like.

The priest celibacy issue is the only item even on the agenda, but without female clergy, birth control and acceptance of gay relationships they haven't got a hope in the modern world.

The result is that America is a nation deeply divided between people who are concerned about real - life issues — war and peace, social justice, the health and welfare of people — on one hand, and other people who are concerned, instead, about «values,» by which they mean adherence to ancient taboos, dependence on a magical God, enforcing acceptance of ancient creeds, requiring everyone to believe as they do, and finding safety in raw (though often hidden) social and economic power.

I am encouraged by his acceptance of a substantial part of my criticism of classical theism as found in Aquinas; however, he sides with Aquinas and against me on some issues.

Although Obama made a point in his Denver convention acceptance speech in 2008 of telling Americans (and the world) that «it's not about me,» a phrase he has repeated frequently since, there must be some reason why he has had to issue the disclaimer so often.

The nub of this issue is whether divine acceptance must be mediated verbally or whether it can be adequately mediated nonverbally through an interpersonal relationship.

In many ways, the Church as a whole has come a long way in its acceptance of mental health and addiction issues as no - fault struggles facing Christians and non-Christians alike.

It could be argued that «gay rights» are but a side show and that the defining issue delineating the gulf between the Catholic Church and the modern world, or the «wider world» as Dr Rowan Williams calls it, is the acceptance or rejection of the Jesus of history, his Revelation and the structures he left for the transmission of that Revelation.

SCHÖNBORN REFINED The important debate over the nature of the Church's acceptance of the theory of evolution has been refined over the last couple of months, allowing a clarification of the key issues.

He will not lose sight of the ultimate issues of faith which he would bring before the other, but if he is to open the way to that faith he must practice a loyal, patient, and sacrificial acceptance of persons in their struggles.

Black acceptance in our country took too long, don't be on the bigoted side of this issue given the discriminatory history of blacks in America.

Their beliefs, and their «acceptance» of anyone, was NOT, in fact, at issue here.

Another facet of the Christian's problematic relationship to the public - order - and - safety issue may be found in our conscious or unconscious acceptance of the popular liberal attitude toward history.

The issue of full acceptance of homosexuals tore the old - line Protestant churches in North America apart.

Peter's vision (Acts 10) and its bearing on the acceptance of the Roman centurion Cornelius into Christian fellowship bears directly on the issue of segregated churches today, and the truth could hardly be more forcefully put than in Peter's words that clinch the matter, «Truly I perceive that God shows no partiality» (v. 34).

While the scooter crowd may have to work harder to gain the respect of the skateboarders (think early skiers vs. snowboarders issues), it is slowly gaining acceptance in the skating community.

Top 4 should be a minimum acceptance w eye on winning league or Cup, the issue is, we are now like Athletico Madrid, w a tier of cash spenders above us in city and chelsea that make top 2 very tough.

I've been thinking about these issues so much — not so much because of media spectacle, but because I've seen parent friends navigate their kids» paths, and also in my ongoing conversations with Laurel and Violet about differences and acceptance.

The numbers can be manipulated any way one chooses, but the real issue is that acceptance of another person's rights would solve almost every one of the world's problems... but I digress.

(Yet when it comes to the Stanford test, which has no bearing on these issues but which is important to parents because it plays a role in middle school acceptance, we get, like, two days of casual review.)

Additionally, when kids feel accepted at home, the issues with bullying are less debilitating because of the acceptance they already feel.

Statements will be broadly published (e.g., in each issue of the JHL, on each page of the TXBC website, in conference media) declaring that acceptance and publication of advertisements does not reflect endorsement by TXBC.

Based on what I'd read in Satter's books and elsewhere, all the elements likely to lead to eventual acceptance of vegetables were in place: we weren't forcing the issue, my son saw enthusiastic vegetable consumption modeled by the rest of us every night, and year after year in the school garden he carefully tended the cucumber or carrot plant (something which farm - to - table groups assure us will create a desire to eat the harvest).

If one partner wants kids and the other doesn't, Luster says you may be able to work through the issue with counseling and acceptance that your idea of a family may have to change.

Welcoming the questions about your child's changing body and sexual issues — and not treating them as dirty or embarrassing subjects — will help foster a healthy sense of self - acceptance in your child.

To bring attention to this issue and promote greater acceptance of those living with food allergies, KFA joins the No Appetite for Bullying campaign with the goal of creating solutions that foster tolerance and understanding.

Issue 1: Whether the acceptance of the Ford Expedition vehicle by the Respondent [President Mahama] contravened existing Gift Policy under the Code of Conduct for Public Officers

World Population Day is observed mainly to address 5 major issues: increase the acceptance level of family planning, ensure gender equality, reduce poverty, ensure maternal health and establish human rights.

Issue 2: Whether the acceptance of the gift by the Respondent placed him in a conflict of interest situation under the Code of Conduct for Public Officers and Conflict of Interest Rules?

(His GOP opponent, Harry Wilson, has already made the comptroller's acceptance of the WFP line a campaign issue).

After concerted campaigning by EMLD, supported by SLF, within the party for acceptance of the report's recommendations, our representatives in government have already begun implementation in some areas: Nick Clegg personally intervened recently to add a raft of diversity issues to Michael Gove's National Curriculum.

If the voting age is to be lowered, it should come about as a result of general acceptance in society, a campaign from backbenchers in Parliament, and / or being prominently placed in the manifesto of a winning party - all of which would follow a period of serious consideration of the issue.

For Story and the other members of the nascent Refugee Information Network, the goal is wider: to provide «basic information about all EU countries: what rights you'd have there, what the asylum process is like, but also cultural issues like the level of acceptance of refugees in those countries.