Sentences with phrase «life of our community as»

It looks upon the daily work to support one's family and to improve the life of the community as an obligation as important as prayer.

Our vision is to provide evidence - based education and health - related services to enhance the quality of life of our youth and by extension, the quality of life of our community as a whole and we aim to reduce teen pregnancy in selected Erie County zip codes by 30 % by year 2020.

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Shira Abramowitz, the director of content on the community team at Summit, does this by framing event topics as if they're living room conversations.

Recall «David,» the everyman who appeared on the first page of Morneau's first budget in 2016: «Though he loved the community he lived in as a child, when it came time to buy his own family home, [David] had to look elsewhere.

Successful people don't see money solely as a personal reward; they see money as a way to grow a business, reward and develop employees, give back to the community... in short, not just to make their own lives better but to improve the lives of other people, too.

Organizations are recognized as good community citizens when they support programs that improve the quality of life in their community, including crime prevention, employment, environmental programs, clean - up and beautification, recycling, and restoration.

«It has the power to influence public debate, mobilize communities, and — most importantly — offer creative solutions to help people receive better care, no matter where they live or who they are,» write Richards and Karp, who believe that the tech industry owes its success to both of its employees as well as the communities it serves, whose health needs are often partially met by Planned Parenthood itself.

The city's efforts to position itself as a hub of the global high - tech entrepreneurial community will be showcased this week with its five - day Digital Life Design (DLD) festival, driven by the mission to create a network of innovation, digital prospects, science and culture.

The Index's authors define social progress as «the capacity of a society to meet the basic human needs of its citizens, establish the building blocks that allow citizens and communities to enhance and sustain the quality of their lives, and create the conditions for all individuals to reach their full potential.»

Bankwest today launched its new charity, which will raise funds for community initiatives, as well as a scholarship program that aims to better the lives of Western Australians, and has pledged $ 1 million per year to the charity for five years.

The treatment, named Kymriah, was hailed by doctors and the life sciences community as a major advance in medicine and a boon to children and young adults with a certain form of leukemia (the group for whom the gene therapy is approved).

As you're reading these examples, please keep the Small Businesses Do It Better community in mind — each Tuesday evening during the live show, all sorts of entrepreneurs chat and network with one another, and many connections turn into business collaborations.

Hsieh has lots of other ideas, too -; displayed as 108 multicolored Post-it notes, assembled in columns, on his living - room wall, with words like Farmers Market, Breakfast Place, Community Kitchen, and Pool scrawled on them.

Otherwise, there's the nearby and ever - entertaining New York City, a hundred - plus miles of Atlantic Ocean coastline, a smallish mountain range or two, a major amusement park, a half dozen professional sports teams (most of them mediocre at best), small - time skiing, a pretty Ivy League campus by the name of Princeton University, a wealth of black bear in exclusive suburban communities, the early homes of such celebrity types as Martha Stewart, Jack Nicholson and Bruce Springsteen, the site of the Hindenburg disaster, and (for visionary types) the ghosts of Albert Einstein and Thomas Edison, who lived and worked in the state for awhile.

That's when he came up with the idea of forming a co-working hospitality business that would combine all the elements of great work / life balance and attract a community of like - minded professionals who played as hard as they worked.

In fact, if you look at communities like the South Side of Chicago or West Baltimore, you can find people living with the same life expectancy as individuals in third - world countries.

«The global community will rightly expect the pace — alongside a high level of diligence — to be maintained so that people in affected communities and others living in countries at risk of Ebola can have access to a vaccine as soon as possible.»

cost of living, crime and safety, English spoken, entertainment, environmental conditions, expat community, health care, infrastructure, recreation, residency options and taxes, as well as real estate affordability and restrictions on foreign ownership.

With Starbucks's growth and more than 1 million active duty members of the U.S. military transitioning to civilian life in the coming years, Starbucks sees the commitment as a strategic form of outreach to the military community.

Examples of work - life program components include things like flexible work arrangements (such as flexible hours or a compressed workweek), allowing part - time schedules, offering telecommuting options, permitting «shift swapping» (for companies with around - the - clock work shifts), or providing discretionary leave, such as paternity, educational, community - service, or sabbatical.

Researchers of the Canadian study says factors such as work, urban size, population density, economic opportunity or deprivation, and access to and quality of infrastructure, amenities and services may explain the community - level differences in life satisfaction.

It boasts both low living costs and a high quality of life — with popular developments, such as the Atlanta Beltline Trail and Ponce City Market — attracting a new generation of talent to the startup community.

Held in English and a part of a series of similar events held in other cities, such as Hamburg and Copenhagen, the Athens version of Startup Live aims to tie Greek entrepreneurs to the rest of the start - up community in Europe.

But what I liked best about the book is how it engages with what I see as one of the most important and difficult social - policy questions of our time: How do we unstack the deck and, at the same time, get people to take ownership over improving their own lives and communities even when they reasonably believe that the deck is stacked against them?

In Uganda — and since last year in Kenya — more than 1,000 Living Goods «community health promoters» in bright blue T - shirts make their rounds through urban communities and rural neighborhoods, peddling an assortment of malaria medicine, fortified cereals, vitamins and soap, as well as larger items such as cookstoves, solar lanterns and bednets.

In her community, where gun ownership is considered a fact of life and a point of pride, she's bravely taking a stand as one of the few voices advocating for change in her area.

In The International Living Guide to Retiring Overseas on a Budget, published by Wiley, Haskins and Prescher provide a step - by - step roadmap to finding the world's best communities for English - speaking retirees seeking a happier, healthier, more affordable life in some of the world's most beautiful and accommodating destinations... often on as little as $ 25,000 a year or less.

Ideas around the non-monetary aspects of employment in providing a self - image for people, giving them standing in the community, a sense of personal worth, a role as family provider, a network of peers, and way of life are not part of the economics curriculum, so can be assumed not to matter.

«I could not be more proud to stand with President Trump as he continues to stand shoulder to shoulder with communities of faith,» evangelical preacher Paula White told Religion News Service, «This order is a historic action, strengthening the relationship between faith and government in the United States and the product will be countless, transformed lives.»

At Franklin Templeton Investments, we strive to be recognized as a responsible global corporate leader, working to support and enrich the social, economic and educational wellbeing of the communities where we live, work and do business.

As part of our commitment to enhancing the communities where our employees live and work, Franklin Templeton supports nonprofit organizations through a variety of programs, with an emphasis on supporting causes that our important to our employees.

«I've seen so much solidarity in our communities — something I think we had lost as a culture with the craziness of everyday life,» Aquino said.

One of the primary benefits is that they'll share their first - hand experiences of living in Mexico and introduce you to the communities they live in... places you'd likely never visit as a tourist.

Mobile home renters living in a community also need to make sure they have a clear understanding of what they are responsible for as a tenant.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

Further, after the emergency has passed, these communities are often displaced or left out of rebuilding initiatives as developers and corporations use the destruction as an opening for permanent displacement of the people who live there and launch rebuilding initiatives aimed at turning a profit and privatizing public services.

While it is a substantially tested technology, this could be the first live usage of Segregated Witness which is valuable information for the Bitcoin community that is in a debate about whether to integrate SegWit as well.

The chairman and ranking member, respectively, of the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development subcommittee of the broader Senate appropriations committee want GAO to «examine the impact self - driving trucks will have on the two million Americans who currently work as truck drivers and the communities where they live,» according to a press release issued last week.

Building better communities Better communities come when governments work together to fund infrastructures such as roads, water, schools and transit that are the framework for a community's Quality of Life.

She couldn't be more honored and excited to introduce Pure Barre to her hometown and watch it change the lives of a brand new community — just as it did for her!

I see the trends in my own life and community, as a woman, from a unique vantage point with 96 % of venture capitalists being men and a pressing need to design and develop products and processes that more effectively, efficiently and responsibly fulfill people's needs.

The B.C. Liberals» legacy of environmental hypocrisy continues to grow as they push projects like the Enbridge tar sands pipeline that threaten the very way of life in our communities.

The God - given gifts of science and technology should be used only as a means to respect and promote communities, life and human dignity.

It brought to mind my own experience with the funeral of a dear lady who'd lived what we call around here «a hard life» and was best known in the small rural community as «the bootlegger's widow.»

The show does not deal with the important things that go on at a community college which are basically apprenticeships in needed skilled careers required for a productive economy, as well as training in skills that can provide for the needs for one's own life and family in terms of holding a career in an honorable and albeit remunerative manner.

I've really appreciated your work over the past year as I've gone through my own transition and found the kind of community that promotes health rather than just covering up the ugly in my life.

Certainly, you find me fighting more for the rights of LGBT people to live as LGBT people in Christian community — but that is because I think they are the ones not allowed to have a voice.

«In Rabbi Jesus: An Intimate Biography (2000), Professor Bruce Chilton develops the idea of Jesus as a mamzer; someone whose irregular birth circumstances result in their exclusion from full participation in the life of the community.

Then the canon, the listed set of writings making up the Bible, is recognized by the community of faith as the written word of God, possessing final authority for faith and life.

Leaders of the Christian community saw this as an extremely grave threat to the faith; and, for this reason they fled the comforts of society and chose to live in solitude and want in remote parts of the world (such as Syria and northern Africa).