After decades of rhetoric validating women's choices to «opt in» or «opt out,» women often resolve work -
life conflict by pulling back from work.
Not exact matches
But if you're responding to
conflict in a negative way, or feeling threatened
by a peer or subordinate, or letting
life pressures from outside the job leach into the workplace, counselling in the short term can offer some insight into why you're acting the way you are.
Apart from the destruction and loss of
life, Saudi Arabias oil reserves are bombed, the U.S. is poised to enter another Middle East
conflict and, in the end, Irans nuclear capabilities are only set back
by a couple of years.
Mercy Corps team members are working tirelessly to provide lifesaving aid for hundreds of thousands of people affected
by Syria crisis, and others
living in
conflict and crisis.
I would rather cultivate a strong intuitive sence of judgment and understand the root of morals from within that to
live by a very limited and
conflicted set of rules such as in the KUran or Bible and never cultivate a good sense of judjment or a moral sense.
More recently, Coronation Street's Rev Billy Mayhew (Daniel Griffith) is a gay character who struggles with the apparent
conflict between his sexual identity and the Church he loves, which could be viewed either as a reflection of real
life, or a deliberate ploy to drum up viewing figures
by exploiting a delicate and complicated theological subject.
The UNHCR is still on the ground in Syria coordinating a massive refugee support effort supporting the
lives of those uprooted
by the
conflict.
The
life of our times was enriched
by a voice speaking out on the greatmoral truths, above the tumult of daily
conflict.
But as Christians we
live by hope, and our hope is that some elements of harmony will soften the horror of the apparently dominant forces of
conflict.
Similarly, people born into any given religious faith — Christian, Muslim, Hindu, etc, etc, etc — and who are immersed in that faith, and surrounded
by people of that faith, all of their
lives — and especially their childhood — can't be expected to suddenly cast off such total indoctrination when an atheist such as myself presents them with certain facts which
conflict with their world view.
It is an experience of
living together, in community and in
conflict, within boundaries set
by our moral and philosophical commitments but also under conditions determined
by our vices and virtues, our character, our circumstances, and the habits of our variegated culture.
If Christians believe that undisciplined sex is a good thing, then they are
living by a standard in
conflict with biblical teaching.
Family
life will be strengthened
by minimizing the
conflict between home and job, fostering cooperation rather than competition between them.
As I'll discuss at the end of my presentation, political science only does this
by dint of a systematic abstraction of our
lived political experience, that is,
by singularly emphasizing politics as the management of a
conflict of interests rather than the prudential navigation of
conflicts between competing claims to honor, or of competing claims to the good.
Henry Kissinger has made a diplomatic career of explaining peoples in
conflict to one another; in private
life the imagination (emotion) powered
by factual information (intellect) could, if exercised assiduously, make simply astonishing headway toward breaking down factionalism, the sense of us and them.
Never forgetful of the
conflicts of history and of the harsh treatment received
by their people, the authors of Salvation and of The New Discovery of America have long known and loved mediæval Christianity and Catholic spiritual
life.
The
life and work of Galileo Galilei were marked
by an ironic
conflict: Despite being a devout Christian believer, he was persecuted
by the Church for his revolutionary work as a scientist.
Living a
life by principles that
conflict with your religious / moral ones is called Cognitive Dissonance.
To
live by this vision and to affirm its dynamic relevance in this
conflict ridden situation should be the starting point of our reflection.
By the same token, conflict between rival groups within a society may be intensified by differences in their net reproduction rates; such differences may have implications for the tenor of civil life or the composition and character of the national directorate, factors that may play a decisive role in determining the climate for developmen
By the same token,
conflict between rival groups within a society may be intensified
by differences in their net reproduction rates; such differences may have implications for the tenor of civil life or the composition and character of the national directorate, factors that may play a decisive role in determining the climate for developmen
by differences in their net reproduction rates; such differences may have implications for the tenor of civil
life or the composition and character of the national directorate, factors that may play a decisive role in determining the climate for development.
This
conflict, which could be most briefly defined as the
conflict between ethics and politics, is made inevitable
by the double focus of the moral
life.
According to Shulman «In the myth's earliest version, there is no mention of Parasuraman's divine identity: he is simply the startling, unruly product of a horrifying mixed union... Brahmin and kingly blood flows in almost even quantities in his veins, and he acts accordingly, in a tragic
life guided throughout
by conflicting impulses.
Let us be specific about what it means to say we
live in that history which is determined
by the reign of Christ in
conflict with his enemies.
Keeping my eyes on the bigger story of what God is doing in the world helps me to remember that even when I am discouraged
by disagreement or
conflict that this
conflict is part of the story and the rest of the story testifies to abundant
life and Gospel goodness.
The claim of Christian belief is not first and foremost that it offers the only accurate system of thought, as against all other competitors; it is that,
by standing in the place of Christ, it is possible to
live in such intimacy with God that no fear or failure can ever break God's commitment to us, and to
live in such a degree of mutual gift and understanding that no human
conflict or division need bring us to uncontrollable violence and mutual damage.
Because our culture has for so long insidiously taught citizens that the good
life is measured
by their economic success and participation in the consumer society, it is small wonder so many believe that politics is a burden that
conflicts with their pursuit of what really matters.
But beneath all other longings for security is his desire to be free from fear and inferiority and
conflict within, to find meaning in
life and a power to
live by, to find a home for his soul.
These myths gave him hope because they told him that in the
conflict between death and
life, while
life was not wholly victorious, yet death was
by no means the last word.
At the same time, only with intelligent
life can there be any sense of alienation from divine creativity, any awareness of our capacity to thwart the divine purpose
by self - centered activities randomly
conflicting with one another.
A psychiatrist who studied the effects of the school desegregation
conflict on children in the Deep South reports: «I have been struck
by how clearly young Negro children foresee the bleak future of their
lives.
Men and women through the ages have also spoken of a reorientation of one's
life in which, at least partially, anxiety and internal
conflict can be replaced
by an inner unity and sense of direction; self - defensiveness and pretense
by the ability to look at oneself honestly; self - centeredness and alienation from other people
by a new capacity for genuine concern; and guilt and insecurity
by a sense of God's forgiveness and acceptance.
That glorious treasure which was just as old as faith in Abraham's heart, many, many years older than Isaac, the fruit of Abraham's
life, sanctified
by prayers, matured in
conflict — the blessing upon Abraham's lips, this fruit was now to be plucked prematurely and remain without significance.
Psychological disturbance is understood as being caused
by blocked development at a particular early
life stage when the developmental
conflict of that stage is not resolved satisfactorily.
Life will no longer; and it is vulnerable to the violent
conflicts and confrontations, produced
by limitless competition.
It is a healthy thing to recall that the alcoholic's
conflicts are structured
by the culture in which he
lives, and that they are shared to a degree
by even the so - called normal individuals Within that culture, including those who write books about alcoholics and those who try to help them.
The Archbishop of Canterbury has met with children who have been forced from their homes
by ongoing
conflict in Syria and are now
living in neighbouring Jordan.
Tragically, it is possible that, in the future, the pond as a whole — the peninsula itself — will be polluted
by conflict in such a way that no
life will be possible.
Instead, however, and as the best substitute, the Church would need to give the individual Christian three things: a more
living ardour of Christian inspiration as a basis of individual
life; an absolute conviction that the moral responsibility of the individual is not at an end because he does not come in
conflict with any concrete instruction of the official Church; an initiation into the holy art of finding the concrete prescription for his own decision in the personal call of God, in other words, the logic of concrete particular decision which of course does justice to universal regulative principles but can not wholly be deduced from them solely
by explicit casuistry.
Daniel Von Allmen of Switzerland began his paper on «The Kingdom of God and Human Struggles»
by saying that
conflict seemed to be a permanent truth about human
life.
But in the complexity and ambiguity of human relationships, many decisions can be made creatively only
by dialogue and negotiation with those whose
lives and needs intertwine and often
conflict with our own.
Andrews has been tortured all his
life by the
conflict between the cowardly and the critical halves of his personality.
In a word:
By means of the law John the Baptist made the Jews realizing their deep sinfulness and at the same time he told them, that their was the Anointed One, Jesus Christ, who could give them the Holy Spirit, so that they might become able to
live a
life, which is not in
conflict with the law, but fullfills it automatically.
«The kind, scope and intensity of such
conflicts are largely determined
by the civilization in which we
live.»
But even in writing his scathing reply to Camus, Sartre had first to admit the truth, «In you were summed up the
conflicts of our time, and you surmounted them
by your eagerness to
live them.
Once more the Commandments call us to
live out a higher destiny, a higher humanity that befits the elected people of God, whose
lives have been so touched
by grace and love that they can overcome the
conflicts present in their own inner
lives and give honor to their fathers and mothers.
The word for peace is Shalom, not just the absence of
conflict, but the blessed harmony of those who
lived by God's Law, perhaps the peace of the coming age of the Messiah.
Whether we are liberal or conservative Christians, we must confess that the central problem of our
lives is that we are torn apart
by the
conflict between our attraction to the good news of God's abundance and the power of our belief in scarcity — a belief that makes us greedy, mean and unneighborly.
In re-using the remnants from poppy production to create War Room, Cornelia Parker poignantly reminds us of all the holes in our
lives left behind
by those who have been lost in
conflict.»
Men's reported level of work -
life conflict has risen significantly over the past three decades, (from 34 % in 1977 to 45 % in 2008) while the level of
conflict reported
by women has not changed significantly (Galinsky et al, 2009)
Partnering relationships were marked
by confusion and
conflict due to incarceration, deteriorating commitments, and stresses of low - income family
life.