Sentences with phrase «leaving your community behind»

«When she asked me if I wanted to play Esti, my heart just kind of broke for the character and the predicament she's in, the pain of even contemplating leaving your community behind when it's strong and supportive, yet makes you deny a central part of yourself.»

This was one of her themes in office, where she spoke of her overarching ambition to leave no community behind and target effort and resources at the parts of the country where people faced the toughest challenges and fewest opportunities.

Not exact matches

But for most middle - and even upper - middle - income earners, the prospect of making one's savings stretch into what seems like an endless retirement is a daunting one, increasing the uncertainty around how to invest, how to pay for medical care, and whether you can leave a legacy behind for the kids or your community.

But as Gen Xers start preparing for their golden years, they should also spend time thinking about their own legacies and what they want to leave behind to their children and their communities.

But on a more basic level, if communities and workers are being left behind, the question is: Why privilege trade over other policy levers — whether that means restricting it, as Trump wants to do, or expanding it, as many economists advocate?

The 17 who were lost in the senseless shooting on February 14 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, leave behind heartbroken family, friends, classmates and communities.

«Northern and rural communities have been left behind by Christy Clark because she puts rewarding friends and donors above the best interests of ordinary people.

For community banks, it's a wake - up call to adopt faster payment solutions that younger customers expect — or get left behind.

When Hurricane Harvey came through Aransas Pass, he left behind a lot of destruction of homes, businesses, and lives, but in the aftermath, a group of volunteers came in to work hands - on in the community and help it rebuild.

In Difficulties of Anglicans, a set of lectures written just after his conversion and addressed to the Anglo - Catholic community he had left behind, Newman describes the scene outside a Catholic church during a fiesta:

If present trends continue, the Palestinian Christian community, which claims a historic continuity dating back to the first disciples, will disappear from the Holy Land, leaving behind nothing but museums or shells of churches.

Do not doubt for a second that if more of us left our bubbles, abandoned culture wars, locked up our guns safe behind our legal right to own them and brought the physical presence of Christ into the communities stricken by violence, we would see dramatically less devastation — by gun or otherwise.

Some of these pioneers in changing the church find that the best way to function as the Body of Christ is to leave the institutional church behind, and live and love like Jesus with other people in their community and their neighborhood.

Although the American Catholic community has been confronted with yet more difficulties — ranging from the redefinition of marriage to assaults on religious liberty — one of the reasons for hope, moving forward, is that John Paul II left behind a rich spiritual and intellectual infrastructure for Americans to draw upon, to deal with these ongoing challenges.

Though I don't want to let go of any insights from the social sciences, all this «nothing but» leaves me a bit edgy, and Lord Zealous has seized on my restlessness: There is a hint of a taunt behind her slightly glazed smile as she keeps reminding me that my community is devoted to scholarship; the history of religion.

They left behind one set of family and community institutions — like quilting bees and barn raisings — for the city.

It can get so caught up in being a community of believers that those on the outside get left behind and forgotten.

They tend to withdraw into gated communities, with private security guards and «enclaves of good schools, excellent health care, and first - rate infrastructures — all the while scoffing at almost all functions of government, thus cutting off the supply of taxes for most public undertakings — leaving much of the rest of the population behind.»

Footsteps is a Jewish organization that helps Hasidic Jews wishing to leave their ultra-orthodox community become integrated members of secular society and work through the profound difficulties of leaving behind their past and, in most cases, being disowned by their families.

Furthermore, whatever our aesthetic and theological misgivings about the Left Behind phenomenon, we do the Christian community no favors by failing to take an honest and sympathetic look at the underlying apocalypticism to which such novels respond.

He left all that behind in August 1986 to attend Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley and Metropolitan Community Church of San Francisco (MCC - SF), a predominantly white church in a denomination that ministers to the lesbian and gay cCommunity Church of San Francisco (MCC - SF), a predominantly white church in a denomination that ministers to the lesbian and gay communitycommunity.

Each one of these deaths was devastating to the family and community left behind.

Our choice is not between freedom and suffocating community but between a «society based on reciprocal respect and solidarity and a society that leaves many people behind.»

Children's Defense Fund: The Children's Defense Fund's Leave No Child Behind ® mission is to ensure every child a Healthy Start, a Head Start, a Fair Start, a Safe Start, and a Moral Start in life and successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and communities.

(Not to knock on working mothers because I am sure it's hard to leave your little ones behind) but also because in most instances; WAHMs suppport local economy by employeeing their community and offering them fair wages.

«Nothing else truly matters: not the NHS, now in its most severe crisis since its creation; not the real challenge of the modern economy, the new technological revolutions of AI and Big Data; not the upgrade of our education system to prepare people for this new world; not investment in communities left behind by globalisation; not the rising burden of serious crime; or bulging prison populations; or social care; not even, irony of ironies, a genuine policy to control immigration.

«They know Commander Plumb has what it takes to protect jobs here in New York while making sure America remains safe from terrorists at home and abroad — unlike Congressman Tom Reed who's become part of the broken system in Washington that's left our towns and small communities behind,» campaign manager Jason Robert Henry said.

This is why, as part of my plan to rebuild and transform Britain, I have pledged to increase funding to the arts to reach the European average, so that no one and no community is left behind.»

«I expect the shooting community will now leave behind the celebrity sideshow and get back on with the work it does best, which is to support shooting, invest time and money in conservation and work for the sustainability of rural communities.»

We have a wealth of talent in our party and the strength of our shadow team will develop Labour's alternative plan to rebuild and transform Britain, so that no one and no community is left behind.»

We're critical of the New Labour narrative of «progress» that has left many communities behind.

He could start by listening to Labour's calls for a credible fiscal framework and serious, sustainable investment in our economy, so that no one and no community is left behind.»

Over the years however, these communities have been left behind in development planning.

«We just went through a national election where Democrats did not campaign aggressively in every community and as a result, there were voters who felt as if they were left behind,» Jeffries said.

«Syracuse and all of New York, is facing serious problems with dire consequences; homelessness, gun violence, communities trapped in financial hardships and neighborhoods that are traditionally left behind.

It's been one year since Tropical Storm Irene came up the coast and into the northeast, leaving behind damage that most people and most communities had never witnessed before.

GE, the we good things to life folks, are packing up moving out of our community and leaving behind families with no income, dead real estate and who knows what manner of toxic waste that we the people will have to pay to clean up.

Community Health and Research Initiative (CHR), an NGO, has appealed to the Federal Government to ensure that girls in hard to reach areas are not left behind and that all girls have access to important vaccines

We are committed to building a more prosperous and a more equal Britain, in which every region benefits and no community is left behind, as we set out in our manifesto.

«I believe that this can work nationwide and I believe it's a step that can start to restore confidence and trust and tell communities that feel left out and left behind that we are with you,» the governor declared.

It is well known that broadband coverage has an economic, community and social effect, and the rural areas can't be left behind.

He said: «We must win the next general election so that Labour can rebuild and transform Britain — so that no one and no community is left behind.

In a tenure of four years, a president can take his rest in each of the six geo - political zones and leave behind with the host community, something memorable for that community.

Governor Ambode, who thanked all those who believed in him and voted for him, said the government has faithfully carried out the promise of transforming the communities and running an all inclusive administration where no one is left behind.

«Exactly one year after, we are here to keep our promise to the good people of Aboru, Abesan and other communities and reaffirm our commitment that no community or area will be left behind.

«This is a community that has too often been ignored, too often has been left behind, too often has been alienated from this government,» Squadron said in English on Tuesday.

Miner said this economic development strategy enriches developers and leaves the rest of the community behind, but in the PILOT, Pyramid has put in provisions to address the issue.

She will serve as a Special Advisor for Policy and Community Affairs of New York State Homes and Community Renewal, leaving behind a rich legacy as a legislator.

Without proper access to the digital world, low - income communities are increasingly left out and left behind.

«Make no mistake, there will never be any valid grounds or rationale behind such violence, that has left many families without their loved ones, and one more community in grief and shock.