If America is founded to guarantee religious freedom by the first Europeans who arrived and
later by the Founding Fathers, then why do politicians continuously use it in debates, primaries, and speeches to encroach individual freedoms with their religious beliefs?
Not exact matches
A trim long - distance runner and
father of three, Marcus Gillam comes
by his building ways honestly: his
father, Keith,
founded Vanbots, which was a construction powerhouse in the Greater Toronto Area from the 1970s to the
late 2000s.
He wrapped up an hour
later by citing John A. Macdonald, the Conservative
founding father of Confederation, who once foresaw a nation «great in thought, great in action, great in hope and great in position.»
In 1978, Blankfein graduated from Harvard Law School and took a job as an associate at Donovan, Leisure, a small «old - line» law firm
founded in 1929,
by William J. «Wild Bill» Donovan, who
later formed the Office of Strategic Services during World War II and was known as the
father of the CIA.
«Trinity» did not originally mean, as it does for some
later, that there are three kinds of revelation, the
Father speaking through creation and the Spirit though experience,
by which the words and example of the Son must be corrected; it meant rather that language must be
found and definitions created so that Christians, who believe in only one God, can affirm that he is most adequately and bindingly known in Jesus.
Later, in Reflections on America, Maritain wrote: «The
Founding Fathers were neither metaphysicians nor theologians, but their philosophy of life, and their political philosophy, their notion of natural law and of human rights, were permeated with concepts worked out
by Christian reason and backed up
by an unshakeable religious feeling.»
Examples abound: twins, separated at birth, reunite and conceive a superman child before one is killed
by his
father (Wagner's Die Walküre); a polygamous American seduces and
later abandons an Asian girl and their child (Puccini's Madama Butterfly); through deceit, seduction, and murder a prostitute becomes empress of Rome and
finds true love (Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea); to prove the inconstancy of feminine love a cynical aristocrat convinces two young lovers to seduce each other's girlfriend (Mozart's Cosi fan tutte).
Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed
by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his
father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the
founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the
founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then
later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed
by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.
Another speaker, Deborah Ghate, co-director of the Policy Research Bureau, said that her
latest research demonstrates how family centres fail
fathers, who often
find them to be a hostile environment over-dominated
by women.
The study
by Dr Howard Steele, a psychologist at University College, London,
found that babies who were not given regular care
by their
fathers often experience significant and long - term relationship problems in
later life.
It was
founded by a
father and son team in 1994 and was
later purchased
by Campbell Gower who became CEO of the company in 1998.
Male birds that were asleep in the nest while their mate awoke,
later found themselves taking care of nestlings
fathered by an early riser.
Sirius B itself was not actually observed until January 31, 1862
by Alvan Graham Clark (1832 - 1897), who was testing a new 18 - inch telescope built for Dearborn Observatory
by the famous company
founded by his
father (Alvan Clark) and
later run
by his brother and himself.
Walking into rooms full of only men, sitting in chairs hovered over
by men, advised and talked down to
by her board that is only men, compared constantly to her
father and reminded repeatedly that he handed over the business to her
late husband, and in one significant moment, even talked to sharply
by Bradlee himself (a scene lifted out of the mundane
by just the look Streep gives, and he ignores), the actor gives an outstanding portrayal of a woman
finding her feet.
Years
later, as revolution stirs once more in the streets of Paris, Cosette (Amanda Seyfried)
finds herself besmitten with a young rebel named Marius (Eddie Redmayne), and is soon dragged with her
father into the political tumult, pursued ravenously
by Javert.
After a
late - night adventure
by Saoirse into the sea to explore these new -
found wonders, her grandma decides the lighthouse is no safe place for children and takes them away to live with her, with Ben and Saoirse determined to remain
by the ocean with their
father.
His
father (Voight, Transformers) has stuck
by his side, as we
find out that he also put his relationship as secondary to the thrill of the hunt, when we meet his estranged wife Emily (Mirren, The Queen)
later in the film, the requisite new tagalong to the motley bunch.
Creed (PG - 13 for violence, profanity and sensuality) Seventh installment in the Rocky series revives the franchise with this spin - off which
finds Apollo Creed's son (Michael B. Jordan) being trained for a title fight
by his
late father's legendary adversary (Sly Stallone).
Some years
later, the young girl (played
by Alicia Vikander) sets off on the journey to a place where she expects to
find some evidence of her
father.
First Book in Highland Treasure TrilogyOriginally published
by Signet (Penguin) When her
late father was branded a traitor to the king, Catherine Percy
found sanctuary in Scotland.
«Retirees in Canada and other developed countries demonstrate a strong tendency to reduce their out - of - pocket spending in real terms starting at around age 70 and accelerating at
later ages,» wrote Vettese, chief actuary for the Morneau Shepell human resources firm, which was
founded by Morneau's
father.
Metal Gear Solid had Liquid Snake as the villain, only wanting to continue what he saw as the will of his
father, Big Boss; and
by proxy as we would
find out
later, a warped version of the Boss» will to create an independent nation for soldiers without a nation.
Following the sudden deaths of both his
father (in 1917) and his elder brother James Laughlin Phillips (in 1918), he and his mother
founded The Phillips Memorial Gallery, based around the modest family collection of paintings, augmented
by new purchases of mainly
late - 19th century and early - 20th century paintings.
After a bout of depression and anxiety forced him to quit law school — a circumstance also faced
by founding father William Samuel Johnson, who served as a judge on Connecticut's colonial supreme court — Webster
later found another lawyer to tutor him and passed the bar examination in 1781.
In a study of unwed
fathers one year after their children's births, Mincy, Garfinkel, and Nepomnyaschy
found, using Fragile Families data, that strong enforcement, measured as a city or state's commitment to establishing paternity, increased the chance that
fathers had seen their child in the past thirty days and that they had received an overnight visit from their child in the past year.47 A nuanced set of
findings emerges from a separate study
by Nepomnyaschy of the interactions between
father involvement, and formal and informal support payments.48 Both formal and informal support payments one year after a child's birth raise the likelihood of
father contact two years
later.
Now a 30 - year program
founded by Suzy Bassani, it is a tribute to those in the Miami Valley who have kept it going for so long and to the funders as well, people like the
late Virginia Kettering whose
father - in - law invented the self - starter for the automobile and whose Kettering Families Foundation has provided support for so many artistic endeavors through the years in Dayton.