Sentences with phrase «led by men and women»

A war that was fought for economic and political reasons was led by men and women whose words and deeds were almost biblical.

It afforded the emotional comfort of certainty, offered a compelling explanation of current affairs, situated its adherents on a social map, and was led by men and women of skill.

This fall, the company — doubtlessly aware that young people distrust brands that don't give back and eager to signal its commitment to gender equality — launched what it calls the 50/50 Founders» Fund, donating a dollar from each sale to a pool of seed money evenly distributed between startups led by men and women.

Not exact matches

Morneau's group of extraordinary men (six) and women (six), led by Dominic Barton, the head of global consultancy McKinsey & Co., appears destined to receive a certain amount of criticism.

According to a study led by Alison Wood Brooks of Harvard Business School, men and women are more likely to be influenced by a business pitch if it is delivered by a man — even if the exact same words are spoken by a woman.

I've passed on opportunities to invest in ventures where I didn't trust the CEO or felt the relationship lacked alignment or the problem or solution presented wasn't compelling - these were led by women and men.

In meetings led by men, women would echo key points made by female colleagues and be sure to attribute them to the original speaker.

In the film Wonder Woman, a band led by the eponymous hero fight and win a battle at a place called No Man's Land.

Bloomberg Markets» Scarlet Fu led the discussion, which addressed a broad range of issues faced by young entrepreneurs — women and men alike — as well as the possibilities, obstacles, and advice for female entrepreneurs.

Not merely a collection of good ideas, this book spells out the 67 timeless principles and practices used by the world's most successful men and women — proven principles and strategies that can be adapted for your own life, whether you want to be the best salesperson in your company, become a leading architect, score top grades in school, lose weight, buy your dream home, make millions, or just get back in the job market.

Some awkwardness and misunderstanding is inevitable in relationships, but sometimes, Christian women get so bogged down by the concept of men being «leaders» that we fail to recognize that God only calls us into this kind of «leading» relationship within the walls of a loving, respect - filled, and mutually submissive marriage.

According the the revered Theologan Calvin, women are»... more guilty than the man, because she was seduced by Satan, and so diverted her husband from obedience to God that she was an instrument of death leading all to perdition.

There would be apostolic visitations of seminaries and houses of religious formation, led by seminary rectors and religious men and women from living and growing communities, who would recommend needed changes; the trustee agency would then mandate their implementation.

He was making the case that men are «hardwired» to protect women and women are «hardwired» to be protected by men, and so the lifeboats on Titanic prove that women should not teach or lead in the church.

Calvin described women as»... more guilty than the man, because she was seduced by Satan, and so diverted her husband from obedience to God that she was an instrument of death leading all to perdition.

This from reading a book written by men with an agenda to control the world with their blatherings, centuries of corrupt, evil popes leading to King James, who burned women at the stake and believed in the divinity of kings?

Within that bond, protected as they are by promises of fidelity and permanence, sexual relations nourish the unity of the couple, lead to the procreation of children, and provide a most immediate way for a man and a woman to learn what it is to love another as one loves oneself.

The main biblical evidence is (1) the stories of the creation (Gen.I: 26 - 27 with 5:1 - 2; 2:18 - 25) and the fall (3:16 - 20); (2) Jesus» respect for women, whom he consistently treated as men's equals (Luke 8:1 - 3; 10:38 - 42; 11:28 - 28; 13:10 - 17; 21:1 - 4; Mark 5:22 - 42; John 4:7 - 38; 8:3 - 11; 12:1 - 8; (3) references to women ministering in the apostolic church by prophesying, leading in prayer, teaching, practicing Samaritanship both informally and as widows and deacons, and laboring in the gospel with Apostles (Acts 2:17 - 21; 9:36 - 42; 18:24 - 26; 21:9 Rom.

In such a situation the providential call assumes increased importance, for the question the Church raises through its various agencies is which young men and women have been endowed by God with the spiritual, moral and intellectual qualities necessary to this work, which of them through the guidance of their lives have been led by God toward the ministry, which of them it ought therefore to call.

Spelled out in a lengthy lead editorial entitled «Evangelicals in the Social Struggle,» as well as in books such as Aspects of Christian Social Ethics, Henry's understanding of Christian social responsibility stressed (a) society's need for the spiritual regeneration of all men and women, (b) an interim social program of humanitarian care, ethical proclamation, and personal, structural application, and (c) a theory of limited government centering on certain «freedom rights,» e. g., the rights to public property, free speech, and so on.18 Though the shape of this social ethic thus closely parallels that of the present editorial position of Moody Monthly, it must be distinguished from its counterpart by the time period involved (it pushed others like Moody Monthly into a more active involvement in the social arena), by the intensity of its commitment to social responsibility, by the sophistication of its insight into political theory and practice, and by its willingness to offer structural critique on the American political system.

I've watched women and men stand side by side as they served communion and collected the offering and led worship.»

In Genesis 3, the woman usurped authority over her husband and took the lead in the Fall, and is now forbidden to do so in the local church by teaching Scriptures to men.

We and many others made the case to our culture that traditional marriage is God's good design, that this institution, embodied by a man and a woman joining together, leads to social flourishing.

Propagate the natural reading of the account from a version true to the Hebrew (such as nkjv): godly men marrying women for their beauty producing a generation of ungodly «men of renown;» and lead people to scholarly sites where they can see what the Hebrew says and compare the Biblical basis for the various interpretations, such as Who Were The Nephilim, Genesis.6 & Numbers 13 A Fresh Look, by Bodie Hodge at Answers in Genesis.

I lean towards the third view... but I admit it is the most difficult of the three views... Christ's priorities appear to be «love in motion» flowing in almost unpredictable directions as dictated by the greatest need: — He heals a slave rather than rebukes slavery; — He heals a man at a pool, then leads the man to belief, then says «cease from sinning»; — He heals many others and says «go and sin no more» to but a few; — He shares money with the poor but establishes no long - term aid; — He touches lepers; He converses with seeking Pharisees; He debates with other Pharisees; He lives with Samaritan outcasts for two days; — He acknowledges the five «marriages» of the Samaritan woman as «marriages»... and then remarks about her current co-habitation... but then moves to higher priorities; — He seems so very focused on internal holiness and not on external holiness; — He violates the Sabbath; He says He is Lord of the Sabbath; He even says that the Sabbath was created to assist man, rather than man created to serve the Sabbath... thus turning the entire concept of the Law into one of assistance rather than being chained to obedience; — He insists on impartiality in the way we bless others, even if we call them «evil» or «good».

Having spent most of my life surrounded by some incredible women of God who knew the Word, lived the Word, spoke the Word, led Bible Studies, preached powerful sermons to thousands at a single gathering and so on, had the ability to heal with the Word, raise the dead, cast out Demons with the Power of the Word and so on I have come to the conclusion that «MAN» has distorted what God has always intended for His church.

Unfortunately, many men (husbands and fathers) have not led by example or had good loving relationship with their wife and children but become abusive, lazy, unspiritual, and the children of those fathers begin to feel distrustful to men and could steer towards accepting women who have possibly been more obedient to God or seem more pure.

As the revered Christian theologan Calvin put it, woman is Calvin described women as»... more guilty than the man, because she was seduced by Satan, and so diverted her husband from obedience to God that she was an instrument of death leading all to perdition.

In other words, I believe that both men and women can be gifted by God to preach and lead churches...

6 — For from these arise those men who slyly work their way into households and lead as their captives weak women loaded down with sins, led by various desires, 7 — always learning and yet never able to come to an accurate knowledge of truth.

In light of a few things that happened of late — the Supreme Court's ruling on marriage for same - sex couples, the addition of the word cisgender into the Oxford English Dictionary, the rise of the transgender movement, with Germany leading the way for parents to register their baby as something other than just boy or girl, the increase in stay - at home dads and egalitarian marriages, universities recognizing a third gender, the desire by some to be called they versus he or she, the declaration that 2015 is the year of the gender - neutral baby, it's clear we are moving toward a society that is busting up traditional views of gender and what men and women, husbands and wives, fathers and mothers look and act like.

Statuettes of Britain's leading politicians by Simon Bingle, and photo collages by Julian Bray, connect the art more closely with the men and women stalking parliament's corridors.

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He leads by 22 points among men and 50 points among women.

Cuomo has the support of 33 percent of Republicans in the district, and also leads Astorino by 35 percentage points with women and 5 with men.

Collins leads among men by 16 points and Hochul has a 12 - point lead among women.»

Off the top of my head the biggest ones are: (1) corruption within the Buildings & Grounds Department (2) corruption involving school district vendors over-billing and paying bribes and kickbacks that led to those two Federal indictments and convictions; (3) corruption involving police harassment of a woman on behalf of the manager of a local beach club; (4) a child rapist operating out of a public middle school; (5) an illegal gambling and pornography web site operated by members of the New Rochelle Police Department; (6) a retired police officer defrauding charities including St. Jude's Children's Research; (7) illegal asbestos handling and asbestos removal at an elementary school; (8) an effort to artificially inflate the salaries and pensions of senior police commanders; (9) the relationship between the New Rochelle Police Commissioner and a corrupt contractor, a man who has since been convicted on Federal corruption charges; (10) the sordid history of former New Rochelle Schools Administrator Freddie Dean Smith.

The Siena poll shows Democrat Hillary Clinton leads Republican Donald Trump by eight points with women and Trump has a commanding 29 - point lead with men in the 22nd Congressional District.

«We've picked up intelligence that, some suspected criminals have invaded the area, so we sent a team led my deputy and supported by the crime officer to swoop the place, where we arrested 13 people including two women, 11 men, age ranging from 19 to 50».

There is virtually no gender gap in this race between a Democratic woman and a Republican man, as Amedore leads with men by 14 points and he leads with women by nine points, according to Siena pollster Steve Greenberg.

«He leads by 30 points with men and 20 points with women, and even has the support of 40 percent of Cuomo voters.»

«Stefanik continues to lead Woolf by about a dozen points with women and has increased her lead with men to 24 points.»

The latest Quinnipiac University poll shows Cuomo leading Republican rival Rob Astorino by 32 points among women and only 4 points among men.

Trump has a sizable lead among men and leads by three among women.

Brown continues to lead by at least 20 points with men, women, voters with and without a college degree, and voters from union and non-union households,» Siena's Steven Greenberg said.

Who will have the courage to declare that this house of the Legislature can not be led by a man who engineered a coverup that enabled criminal conduct and torment of young women?

David Cameron led Ed Miliband by 15 points (42 % to 27 %) as best Prime Minister in the national poll, though it was notable that his lead was twice as high among men (22 points) than among women (10 points), and more than twice as high among private sector workers (24 points) than public (10 points)-- though for him to have any sort of lead among public sector workers in the current climate is an achievement worth noting.

He's leading by 35 points in the polls — and is already more popular among women than men — but that hasn't stopped Gov. Cuomo from courting still more women's votes via a new ballot line: the «Women's Equality Party.&rwomen than men — but that hasn't stopped Gov. Cuomo from courting still more women's votes via a new ballot line: the «Women's Equality Party.&rwomen's votes via a new ballot line: the «Women's Equality Party.&rWomen's Equality Party.»

«Our finding that news reporting on obesity as a public health crisis brought on by bad personal choices can worsen anti-fat prejudice and increase people's willingness to charge obese men and women more for insurance» said David Frederick, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology at Chapman University and lead author on the study.

«For men and women with excess body weight, modest weight loss provides powerful protection against cardiovascular disease, regardless of whether weight loss is achieved by using exercise, a healthy low - calorie diet, or both,» said Edward Weiss, Ph.D., associate professor of nutrition and dietetics at Saint Louis University and the lead author of the article.