Sentences with phrase «life of public service»

Think about the years of education and how costly they were for these people to get the degrees that they have and how dedicated they've been to a life of public service where they're not making the kind of money they could in the private sector, but they're doing such an enormous job for the public and one the Congress wanted them to do by passing this law.

However, it was really no surprise to find out that despite tremendous personal loss, she'd continued her life of public service and ascended the ranks to become General Organa of the Resistance.

So began a life of public service, including six years in the U.S. Navy, four of which were served in the Middle East...

«You supported my ambition to continue my life of public service in challenging and important roles,» he wrote.

Today he formally begins a new chapter in his life of public service by being inaugurated as state Senator for the 14th Senate District.

It was this upbringing, and it's embrace of the shared and common struggles of Queens middle - class families, that inspired Grace to lead a life of public service as a public interest lawyer and now as a member of the New York State Assembly.

Politically, we need to provide much better formation for those young Catholics who would aspire to a life of public service; we also need to enhance our support — including spiritual support — for those already embarked upon this noble vocation.

A non-profit study center, the Institute offers a variety of educational and outreach programs with the mission of inspiring men and women to lives of public service and preserving the health and future of our democracy.

Not exact matches

The editorial neglects to mention that Amazon wants enormous «tax incentives» so the deal would probably cost Baltimore more than it would benefit us — and by «Baltimore,» I mean those of us who live here, who use public services, who send our children to public schools.

IDT Corporation (NYSE: IDT) is a growing public company, continuously innovating new products and services to enrich the lives of our customers by providing communications, entertainment and payment services.

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.

Important factors that may affect the Company's business and operations and that may cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward - looking statements include, but are not limited to, operating in a highly competitive industry; changes in the retail landscape or the loss of key retail customers; the Company's ability to maintain, extend and expand its reputation and brand image; the impacts of the Company's international operations; the Company's ability to leverage its brand value; the Company's ability to predict, identify and interpret changes in consumer preferences and demand; the Company's ability to drive revenue growth in its key product categories, increase its market share, or add products; an impairment of the carrying value of goodwill or other indefinite - lived intangible assets; volatility in commodity, energy and other input costs; changes in the Company's management team or other key personnel; the Company's ability to realize the anticipated benefits from its cost savings initiatives; changes in relationships with significant customers and suppliers; the execution of the Company's international expansion strategy; tax law changes or interpretations; legal claims or other regulatory enforcement actions; product recalls or product liability claims; unanticipated business disruptions; the Company's ability to complete or realize the benefits from potential and completed acquisitions, alliances, divestitures or joint ventures; economic and political conditions in the United States and in various other nations in which we operate; the volatility of capital markets; increased pension, labor and people - related expenses; volatility in the market value of all or a portion of the derivatives we use; exchange rate fluctuations; risks associated with information technology and systems, including service interruptions, misappropriation of data or breaches of security; the Company's ability to protect intellectual property rights; impacts of natural events in the locations in which we or the Company's customers, suppliers or regulators operate; the Company's indebtedness and ability to pay such indebtedness; the Company's ownership structure; the impact of future sales of its common stock in the public markets; the Company's ability to continue to pay a regular dividend; changes in laws and regulations; restatements of the Company's consolidated financial statements; and other factors.

To determine our peer group of companies, we considered public cloud - based services providers and selected those most similar to us based on various factors, including, but not limited to, financial risk, company size, geographic diversification, profitability, growth characteristics and stage of life cycle.

Fildebrandt said such action «feeds a growing culture of disrespect of people who chose to dedicate their lives to public service.»

Having lived in Ottawa for a number of years and a federal public service employee for neatly 30 years, I like the Wildrose but maybe lack the necessary experience which might cause the voters to split the vote, hence a minority goverment.

Their self - destructive real estate bubble has loaded down their labor force with high debt service and housing costs, whilst their giveaway of public infrastructure to insiders (with no price regulation) has led to high basic living costs.

When oil prices drop and natural resource royalties are low, our artificially low tax rates are unrealistic if we want to sustain the public services that contribute to the high quality of life we enjoy in Alberta.

Palin works from the assumption that one enters public service not to uphold the constitution, not to defend the nation, not to enrich the lives of citizens, but to honor God.

The median Swedish family has a standard of living rough iv comparable with that of the median U.S. family: wages are if anything higher in Sweden, and a higher tax burden is offset by public provision of health care and generally better public services.

The culture of consumerism and the chase for material symbols of wealth and security have sometimes come to be dominant; the pursuit of spiritual fulfillment in many has slowly begun to degenerate into empty and sterile ritualism; the legitimate thirst for education has often become perverted into an obsessive drive to acquire with the greatest speed the formal diplomas necessary to gain entry to jobs offering the easiest opportunities to make the quickest rupees; political statesmanship in some areas has begun to depreciate into an opportunities race for power and position; the spirit of SEVA (Service) to the nation has intermittently begun to be suffocated in many, by the abuse of discretions, sometimes mediated by a bloated bureaucracy itself enmeshed in a vast network of multiplying paper and self - proliferating regulations; menacingly many good and decent people even in public life, have come to be corroded by a culture of demanding corruption; and some potentially creative lawyers, have begun to take perverted pride in mere «cleverness», rendering themselves vulnerable to the prejudice that they are a parasitic obstruction in the pursuit of substantive justice.

As mystics and missionaries, heroic martyrs and courageous founders of religious orders, in public life as sovereigns or in quiet service in convent or school, the Church's women saints are testimony to the fact that Mother Church takes legitimate pride in her daughters.

In a truly meaningful service of public worship one feels not only the companionship of the living, who share common needs and a common faith, but the companionship of those who have gone the king's highway before us and have left a priceless heritage.

We owe to God both a public service and a private one; one can not slip a knife between civic virtues and the life of devotion and say that one is pleasing to God and the other is not.

Such a celebration has a scope broad enough to include all the New Testament means by leitorgia, latria, diakonia (the service of God), and has enough specific concreteness to be verbalized in the liturgical life of the church where it is assembled in public worship.

The comprehensive effort considers every aspect of community life: economic opportunity, physical development and infrastructure, public safety, and services and institutions.

People, who have visions of those missiles crashing into our public buildings, whose friends, fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, children, relatives were killed, whose firemen, policemen, service personnel lost their lives, whose businesses have collapsed, whose futures are in jeopardy, whose grief is overwhelming — can they respond to a call for creative justice?

Hence their worship services and other «religious» activities have frequently been transformed as if they were means of upholding the morale of a group in society whose special interest is the maintenance of the ideal and program of the good life in the public affairs of the day.

In public worship (there was, after all, no other legal option) he prayed with a congregation that used Cranmer's superbly crafted Book of Common Prayer and heard at these same services the Bishop's Bible (the immediate predecessor to the King James Authorized Version), echoes of both of which can be detected in the plays, and of course he was buried in Stratford's Trinity Church; while privately he probably held to the Old Religion throughout his life, as recent research is making increasingly evident.

In a recent interview with the Washington Post (part of their ominously titled «Voices of Power» series), Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius discussed Archbishop Joseph Naumann's request that she not present herself for communion because of her public support for legalised abortion: «Well, it was one of the most painful things I have ever experienced in my life, and I am a firm believer in the separation of church and state, and I feel that my actions as a parishioner are different than my actions as a public official and that the people who elected me in Kansas had a right to expect me to uphold their rights and their beliefs even if they did not have the same religious beliefs that I had.

In some study papers it was proposed that although the church might be of prophetic service in a variety of arenas of public life, the primary locus of church mission should be the urban community.

Finally, through private and public insurance, as well as by direct provision of services, those whose health, old age or youth prevent them from fully supporting themselves receive the help they need to live in dignity.

As a Muslim who has made his life in the USA, I say to Mr. Hooper: Condemnation of the terrorists needs to be repeated often, repeated to no end, repeated till there is no doubt, repeated in many formats (news media tv and print, public service messages, and much more).

And much though not all of First Things» work has been in the service of a religiously informed «public philosophy,» seeking to find a common language for perennial truths about marriage, life, freedom, and other issues in the public square.

Similarly, attempts to fight the new Gnosticism with the weapons of logic deployed in service to moral truth are almost certainly doomed to be frustrated, because public life is not, in the final analysis, an exercise in logic alone.

By constantly reminding the world that salvation history is the interior, if you will, of world history, and that salvation history tells the world's story in its full depth and against its most ample horizon, the Church does the best service it can do for the world, including that part of the world we call «public life.»

They have a tremendous track record of charitable - giving and public service that enhances the overall quality of life in this region, something that's very important to our core values at Deschutes Brewery.»

Child Nutrition Services - Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) Child Nutrition Services (CNS) assists school districts and other program sponsors in providing quality nutrition programs that promote life - long healthful living while providing nutritious meals each day that prepare children for learning.

Emily has also served as a consultant for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, working to tell the stories behind their work and shed light on how public programs and services can make a difference in the lives of Americans from all walks of life.

Clinical services and public - health policies that promote exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months of life are likely to yield important benefits for early child development.

Article 11 (2) In order to prevent discrimination against women on the grounds of marriage or maternity and to ensure their effective right to work, States Parties shall take appropriate measures: (a) To prohibit, subject to the imposition of sanctions, dismissal on the grounds of pregnancy or maternity leave and discrimination in dismissals on the basis of marital status; (b) To introduce maternity leave with pay or with comparable social benefits without loss of former employment, seniority or social allowances; (c) To encourage the provision of necessary supporting social services to enable parents to combine family obligations with work responsibilities and participation in public life

Ellen Haas has spent a good portion of her adult life trying to improve the nutrition of the nation's school lunch program, first as the founder and director of the consumer group Public Voice, and in the last two years as Department of Agriculture undersecretary of food, nutrition and consumer services.

The aim of a progressive political economy ought to be forging a resilient and balanced economy where people and businesses can plan ahead; delivering more egalitarian outcomes that narrow the inequalities of wealth and ownership which characterise modern capitalist economies; and sustaining growth that is necessary both for rising living standards and improvements in public services.

In an age in which most of our key players pay lip service to Awo's ideals as well as the symbolism around his life and service, it is refreshing to find someone in such a critical position as the Governor who not only exemplifies Awo's commitment to public good, but also recognizes the value of symbolic memory».

Gov. Andrew Cuomo said in a statement that Abdus - Salaam was a pioneer with an «unshakable moral compass» and «a trailblazing jurist whose life in public service was in pursuit of a more fair and more just New York for all.»

More people lifted out of poverty; social mobility increased; more funding for public services; greater life expectancy and public health; better security services; better at looking after people; better at anti-discrimination; fairer society.

«Bruno has had a record of extraordinary accomplishments and throughout his career in public service did much to improve the lives of all New Yorkers,» Pataki wrote.

Fidler makes no mention of his political future other than to say «I have spent my life in public service and have no intention of stopping that now.»

After years of dedicated public service it's time for me to spend more time with my family, whose lives I miss each day that I spend away from home.

But, for the life of me, I can not comprehend why, when it is interviewing political nominees, it is not allowed to carry out the same rigorous interviews to ensure probity, experience, suitability and devotion to public service.

The government reassured residents of the safety of the lives and property, advising the general public to be extra vigilant and report any suspicious activity in their immediate environment to the Police or any of the security services.