Sentences with phrase «known community leader»

Francesca Carlow is a scrupulously honest person who has lived in our district, raised her family, built a business and been a well known community leader for 30 years, a person who, while not a professional career politician, made the decision to get involved in public service with no goal other than to make long island and New York State a better place to live work and play.

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The first decision I made to get connected in the Chicago tech community was to get involved with the community leaders, also known as the «super connectors.»
The 2015 Rix Award for Engaged Community Citizenship will be presented to Carole Taylor, a community leader who is well - known for her years of service in municipal and provincial politics (including her role as B.C.'s Minister of Finance), her 20 - year career as a journalist with CTV and CBC, and, most recently, her role as Chancellor of Simon Fraser University until JCommunity Citizenship will be presented to Carole Taylor, a community leader who is well - known for her years of service in municipal and provincial politics (including her role as B.C.'s Minister of Finance), her 20 - year career as a journalist with CTV and CBC, and, most recently, her role as Chancellor of Simon Fraser University until Jcommunity leader who is well - known for her years of service in municipal and provincial politics (including her role as B.C.'s Minister of Finance), her 20 - year career as a journalist with CTV and CBC, and, most recently, her role as Chancellor of Simon Fraser University until June 2014.
Chairman - CEO Fisk Johnson, fifth - generation family leader of the company, says in a statement that the company wants people to know it's «committed to doing what's right for our consumers, communities and the environment.»
Emma Smith and her son stayed in Missouri, stating that Brigham wasn't supposed to be the next leader of the church, and reformed the church as the Reorganized Church of Jesus of Christ of Latter Day Saints, now known at the Community of Christ.
Most likely, it reflects the old Ottoman millet system, in which patriarchs were both spiritual and secular leaders, expected to represent their entire communities at the sultan's court (though Copts did not, as far as I know, constitute a millet in Ottoman times).
Hall said political leaders have been «in terror of the gun lobby,» but now they need to know that faith communities such as his are willing to stand behind efforts to push for gun control.
No longer can pastors and leaders assume that the people in their communities share their unique cultural experiences.
A well - known Hebrew Christian whom I interviewed, a leader in missionary outreach to the Jewish community, shook his head and quietly explained:
«She is known as a leader with clear vision, a pastoral heart and a strategic mind, all of which commend the Church to the wider community
Altee11, no matter how many meetings between the leaders and religious leaders and community leaders, etc, NOTHING will be change if their mindset is NOT changed.
The leaders of the community were the apostles whom Jesus himself had chosen, and who had known both the Jesus of the earthly ministry and the Jesus who had appeared to them after his resurrection (Acts 1:21 - 22).
It would be hypocritical of me to continue going to Church when I know the priest and community blindly follow not the teachings of Jesus but their leaders» self - serving, exclusive, and good - old - boy rules.
The needs are great, but we know that our leaders will be able to guide their communities through the aftermath of this storm and lead them down the path of recovery and development!
It is clear that our Personage could not have known the vulgar class of immigrants for he lived either alone, in complete solitude, or as a shepherd, or as a big merchant in a caravan, or in the high society with the leaders of the community.
I don't know if the problem is tithing so much as being able to teach people to be leaders and take responsibility for the community God has put them in.
Which is to say, the leader of the community in this or that place acts as the designated «elder» and performs what can rightly be known as priestly functions, even if that particular word is not employed.
Every real Christian knows, Please We must hold our leader's accountable For the Christian community and the World.
Pastoral leaders need to know how to keep the life of a community alive and how to keep it effectively engaged in a way of abundant life, both for the sake of the specific company of people who make up that congregation and fur the sake of the larger world.
And being the astute man of public affairs he always was, Richard quickly got to know the legendary, absolutely authoritative leader of this community, Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum.
Speaking from the event on Premier's «News Hour», Dr Anne - Marie Wilson from Christian charity»28 Too Many», which campaigns against FGM urged Christian leaders here to do more to end the practice, she said: «we know that communities that come from overseas to be part the population of Britain will carry on cutting or taking their daughters back home to the motherland to be cut.
Instead, our role as Christian leaders within the community can be to actively engage in conversations around education equity issues like accountability, state vision, and transparency and accessibility in reporting so parents and community leaders alike have the needed information to know how to best support strengthening local schools.
However, the majority of those involved were ministers, priests, or rabbis who were well known as community leaders, usually in charge of a large influential congregation.
As a leader in a faith community, I struggle with those who know the truth and my own desire to find the Truth.
One, we encourage our new small groups leaders to bring around them four to six people they connect with — people who share a common vision for community, spiritual growth and service, and... with whom they want to know more.
With Thomas Berry, I believe that we need spiritual leaders who will assume the global human heritage as [their] own individual heritage,» who through contact with other traditions will come to know their own traditions very deeply, and through whose «own self - integration a healing comes to all [humankind]... and the human community is brought into the divine presence.»
Mrs. Nazareno, or Nay Virgie as she is most fondly known, is a farmer - leader from Kiday Community Farmers Association (KCFA) in Gen. Nakar, Quezon.
In addition to the full schedule of sessions on farm production, marketing, business, and finance, conference - goers will have multiple opportunities to learn from nationally - known leaders on topics encompassing current political, ethical, and social issues, such as fixing school food, GMOs (genetically modified organisms), and the fast - growing CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) movement.
GLEN ELLYN — Though most communities won't know who their next local leaders are until after next April's municipal elections, a group of Glen Ellyn residents has already selected their likely village president, village trustees and Library Board members.
Part of my email reply back to J said, «What I think is interesting about your insight is that clearly if you were working through this material as a class / community, there would be opportunity for someone (leader or class participant) to say, «Oh, hey, you know my cousin feeds her babies on demand and they are truly Christ - centered and have a solid marriage blah blah blah» so that there isn't this FEAR FACTOR of what MIGHT or WILL happen if you don't follow the Ezzo's advice.»
What would probably happen would be employment of Taqiya - lying to unbelievers, where official leaders of Muslim community in France would publicly claim lots of thing like aforementioned verses in Quran are no longer valid, how Islam is religion of peace etc...
Hon Nii Lante Vanderpuye who is known as a grassroot man and the longest serving Assembly Member in the Accra Metropolitan Assembly used the occasion to engage opinion leaders from the various ethnic groups in the Old Fadama and Kokomba Yam Market community and members of the National Democratic Congress in his constituency to share ideas on how to mobilize people and make the Party more appealing to the constituents.
If you're a Muslim in this community, as the leader of Facebook I want you to know that you are always welcome here and that we will fight to protect your rights.»
The party knows that it must poll better with business leaders and become attractive again to corporate backing (and ideally bring in more donations from the business community).
We know that female entrepreneurs, especially in Asian and South Asian communities, are on the rise and are increasingly featuring amongst the world's business elite on rich lists and at business award ceremonies, yet substantial changes need to be made in how this entrepreneurial talent is nurtured and developed if women are to prosper and gain as much of the limelight and recognition as male business leaders.
«Now I think what's got to be done — and I know Tom Watson [Labour's deputy leader] takes this incredibly seriously — is that those 400,000 people have to become part of what I never managed to really do completely, which is to make Labour into a genuine community organisation: to use those people to make them feel it's not simply about attending meetings or engaging in internal events, it's about reaching out.»
He knows his district intimately, has experience in the Greene County Legislature as the Minority Leader and he's worked with first responders in every community as a flight paramedic.
You should know that Ramon Anibal and I were probably not the only ones to advise Linares not to run against Espaillat, but many other people and community leaders must have done so as well.
Recalling that «This is the reason why I was up and down to Niger, Chad, Cameroon, Benin and Germany to meet the leaders of G7 and the leaders of international community to put our case forward which is well known, Buhari said, «If in the capital of a developed country, 130 people were killed, who is Nigeria?
As a community leader, I know Mr. Weprin did little for our community when he was our councilman.
«Elected leaders, community members and grassroots supporters know that John Liu is the only choice to stand up to the Republican status quo and fight for good jobs, affordable housing and better schools for every community in the 11th District.»
You should know that the result of that race could have been completely different IF every single leader of the Dominican community would have joined the efforts of New York Puerto Ricans to get Linares elected.
Some State Police officials said they believe Freilich has held onto his non-union job through four governors, and at a time when many state workers are facing the loss of their jobs, because top state officials and their political advisers believe Freilich can marshal votes in Jewish communities known for voting in unison behind candidates recommended by their religious leaders.
The resolution — approved by 41 of the 51 council members, with eight voting «no» and two abstaining — bizarrely paints the 72 - year - old imprisoned and unrepentant leader of the terrorist FALN (Fuerza Armadas de Liberacion Nacional, Spanish for Armed Forces of National Liberation) as a «decorated Vietnam War veteran and community activist» who received a «disproportionate» 55 - year prison sentence for his crimes.
Shi Ge Jing, known to some as State Senator Daniel Squadron, was endorsed by a group of Chinese - American community leaders.
State Senator Jeff Klein joined Aunt Cathy Praino, a community leader well known for her dedication to the troops, to bundle a holiday mailing to our men and women abroad, on Thursday.
I realize that the times of Ramón S. Velez, Gilberto Gerena Valentín, Dr. Evelina Antoneti, Herman Badillo, Belen Dennis and those great leaders who moved our community no longer exist.
sean is a true gentleman and a great guy cares about his community and knows exactly how to get things done for his future constituents he WILL bring home the bacon for his district and do whats right when those decisions are most needed now for our fiscal security and our future for our children i will be voting for Sean FOR SURE — lets support a proven leader and a great american
Ms. Nixon, an education advocate and actress best known for her role in «Sex and the City,» has also personally been reaching out to community leaders, knowing she must crack Mr. Cuomo's hold on the black vote.
We thank her deeply for her service to our communities, and we know that her work will serve as a powerful example for the next generation of progressive leaders across New York.
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