Sentences with phrase «lay members»

But any group is best characterized by its common lay members.

Such behaviours would lay a member of one of the bodies open to disciplinary action.

Tributes have been paid to a leading Church in Wales lay member who retires at the end of the year.

Taking witness statements as read and dispensing with lay members in the EAT are probably in this category.

Women as lay members apparently occupied a place of considerable importance in the church, and Phoebe is referred to as a «deaconess of the church at Cenchreae» (Rom.

Introducing fees to bring claims; imposing financial penalties on errant employers; dispensing with lay members in the Employment Appeal Tribunal and unfair dismissal cases; reducing the length of hearings by making it the general rule that witness statements be taken as read and finally the removal of expenses for witnesses are all financially motivated.

The Institute offers several more courses than the previous colleges and considerably expands the ministry and education opportunities for lay members of the church.

In 2012 the laity fell six votes short of the required two thirds majority among lay members, despite being backed by almost three quarters of the synod.

Duncan Smith said it may be right to end the way in which MPs have the sole right — apart from the non-voting lay members of the standards committee — to sit in judgment on the findings by the independent standards watchdog.

Seventeen people from the SEPC have been arrested and released in relation to its building and land confiscation, and separately six clergymen and two lay members from various in Sudan have also been arrested by Sudanese since December 2015.

Candidates are nominated by clergy and lay leaders; a nominating committee of clergy and lay members vets the candidates and prepares a provisional list.

And why should I, as a faithful lay member of the Church, have to disagree with the Church as represented by its shepherds when I make judgments of fact and feasibility, judgments on which people of goodwill may disagree?

Though lay members of search committees may feel that to attract young couples to church they at least need an under - 50 clergyperson with church experience.

Watson also hit out, saying: «I find it incomprehensible that our elected lay members on the disciplinary panel found Ken Livingstone guilty of such serious charges, and then concluded that he can remain a member of the Labour party.»

«Phrases like «scientifically proven» should be confined to claims that are just that, not used in crude puffery designed to lure in those longing for love,» said Lord Lipsey, a former lay member of the ASA's council.

If more influence is to be placed on the views of individual tribunals it will be necessary for a new cadre of experienced lay members to be introduced and for all unfair dismissal cases to be heard by a full panel.

Currently, Nova Scotia has a pilot called the Public Navigator Program that offers assistance by trained lay members of the public and is restricted to procedural information.

Those demands often mutate into complaints to the law societies, which now include lay members of the public as a symbol of their openness.

In a unanimous judgment released on 12 May 2017, Employment Judge Snelson and two lay members rejected all claims by Ms...

I can only speak of my own Law Society and over the years I have served on committees with such lay members.

This paper reports on a preliminary effort to establish «explanatory metaphors» that would bring lay members of the public closer in line with the perspectives of experts about what children need for their healthy development.

• There should be at least two lay members who have never been parliamentarians on the standards and privileges committee.

John Mann, the Labour MP who lodged the original complaint about Miller, has been highly critical after the standards committee, which includes 10 MPs and three non-voting lay members, recommended that Miller should repay # 5,800 in expenses.

Seven clergymen were accused along with 6 lay members of the Church.

Rt Rev Peter Hancock, Bishop of Bath and Wells, who is the Church's lead bishop on safeguarding issues, revealed the figures responding to a written question from Kat Alldread, a lay member of the Church's governing body.

T. V. Philip, born in India and a lay member of the Mar Thoma Church, has worked and taught in India, Europe, USA and Australia.

Along the way I became a Catholic and then an oblate of the community — a lay member who promises to, as much as possible, make use of the same framework for life that the monks do: the Rule, frequent Eucharist, daily devotions, the incorporation of silence.

To do so, both clergy and lay members must look beyond parochial institutional concerns and deliberately develop a broader view of the world and the role of the Church as a transforming agent.

Lay members are given tremendous freedom to develop programs.

As a lay member of an Anglican congregation and a sometime delegate to the Provincial Council of the Anglican Church in North America and to the Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON 2), I looked forward to reading what I supposed would be a celebration of the coming together of Anglicans from all over the world.

He should become a lay member of the church till he gets his acts together

I, as a lay member, will be preaching next Sunday on the Prodigal son story, a story of prevenient Grace, which is open to all peoples, regardless of gender, race, ethnic background, Deafness... welcoming all to the Table.

If the church exists not for itself but for the world, then it is at the local level, and especially through its lay members, that church and world meet.

The ministry of the ordained, to be effective, requires the ministry of the lay members.

He is a lay member of The United Methodist Church.

Jennifer Margulis (whose husband is a lay member of the Oregon Board of Direct Entry Midwifery) did try, however with the stupidest excuse for homebirth deaths ever:

Questions - energy and climate change Business statement Motion - relating to Standards and Privileges, Lay Members of the Committee on Standards Backbench business - live animal exports and animal welfare Adjournment debate - sharing of sexual health data

It may be prepared to budge an inch on the role of lay members - or «blokes off the street» - but there will be no meaningful change.

It will use practical examples of working with group members throughout the bid process including: developing and agreeing a feasible research question; choosing an appropriate funding stream; identifying and working with an NHS partner; identifying suitable research roles for the lay members of the research team and providing the necessary research training and support.

MPs agreed in 2010 that lay members be included on the standards committee and it was agreed in principle they be given a vote.