Sentences with phrase «living an attitude of»

This would be a lovely idea to plant in a child's heart and provides a concrete way of living an attitude of respect for a child's birth family.

These players navigate in - between worlds of fantasy sword fights and mundane reality and by juxtaposing them against the domestic and urban backdrops, the parallel realities in play in COSplayers reveal the life attitudes of China's modern - day youth as alienated urban superheroes trying to deal with the urgent reality and the unease of populations left out of economic miracles.

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The increasing availability of education, coupled with shifting roles in the home for women, is not only changing women's lives but also reworking attitudes toward gender differences and equality.

CNBC takes a look at how the changing attitudes of Chinese youth towards work and life and what that means for the future of the world's second - largest economy.

A lot of people are looking to improve different areas of their lives, and almost anything can be marketed to the New Year's attitude.

While in 2013, Buffett argued that «women are a major reason we will do so well» in an essay for Fortune Magazine, he also warned that the great «enemy of change» lives in «the ingrained attitudes of those who simply can't imagine a world different from the one they've lived in.»

If you understand this fact, then suddenly, you can have a better attitude toward the change in your life while continuing to attempt to control the outcomes as much as possible — but not letting the things that are out of control upset you.

Canerday suggests that married couples with an estate valued at less than $ 20 million take a «wait and see» attitude regarding the value of their business or assets before a potential in life transfer.

It has often been said that «nothing good in life comes easy», and it's the sculpted attitude of the hero - entrepreneur alone that knows there's no such thing as a reward without a risk.

The contrast she drew between American and Nordic attitudes toward life related to many themes in her 2016 book, «The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life.&ralife related to many themes in her 2016 book, «The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life.&raLife.»

The American public's attitude toward government, especially toward the federal government, recalls a classic scene in Monty Python's «Life of Brian.»

With the motto «God first, family second, career third,» she encouraged sales reps to take control of their work lives — «They are presidents, literally, of their own little companies, and they can make them as big as they want,» she told Inc. — an enlightened attitude, particularly in the hardscrabble world of MLM.

It's the kind of attitude that permeates Paradox Sports, the group Skelton and co-founder Timmy O'Neill launched to provide «inspiration, opportunities, and adaptive equipment to the disabled community, empowering their pursuit of a life of excellence through human - powered outdoor sports.»

Much of life's experience depends on your attitude.

Their flexibility allows them to see the humorous side of life's struggles with an easygoing, take - it - task - by - task - and - day - by - day attitude.

Such statistics likely reflect the impact of the voter attitude behind another of our key findings: over 80 % of respondents to our survey either «agreed» or «strongly agreed» that a politician who is dishonest in his or her personal life can not be trusted in their professional role.

Jack Tatar is the author of the book, «Safe 4 Retirement: The Four Keys to a Safe Retirement» which takes a holistic approach to retirement that considers not only the financial aspects but the need to focus on health, wellness, mental attitude and staying involved as keys to living a long and safe retirement.

2016.05.18 Canadian Water Attitudes Study: climate change ranked the top threat to our fresh water But three - quarters of Canadians do not believe they live in an area prone to drought or flood...

It's impossible to predict what jobs there will even be in the future, so life - long learning and a positive attitude to embracing change needs to be a fundamental aspect of the UK's future success.

If your attitude is that no one with $ 500k per year should discuss their expenses as it insults the median worker earning $ 50k per year, what do you say to the 1 out of 3 citizens of our planet living on less than $ 2 per day?

If you read the sentence, the words — who the child in the mother's womb will be — mean what his / her life will lead him / her into becoming which kind of human, that is, what kind of temperament, attitudes, talents & gifts, and such that human will have.

The general attitude needs to be that EVERYONE needs to be welcomed and loved at church... thats the job of the congregation... dealing with the issues of someone's life is up to the pastoral staff and unless you're part of it whats going on in someones life is none of your business.

I've seen too many lives wrecked by the attitude towards gays... of seminaries refusing to deal with the issue and ultimately landing someone out of the church and away from God.

Perhaps this attitude is best seen in the most influential Southern Baptists in America today: Billy Graham, a «prophet with honor» and America's chaplain for more that fifty years; Chuck Colson, evangelist, prison reformer, and cofounder of Evangelicals and Catholics Together; and Rick Warren, a pastor whose writings have touched millions of lives.

Then there is the FACT that you continue to use inflammatory language such as «lack of intellectual honesty,» «too busy,» and «naive» and my developing THEORY that your arrogant attitude may be what is preventing both riches and fame from making their way into your life.

«The chanciness is part of the lasting magic of gay life,» writes Browning, «a sort of radical plot twist that characterizes queer life and sets aside so many conventions of social judgment, class, race, and attitude, supplanting them with a direct and naive faith that bonds of great value can be forged on nothing more than instinct....

In the second attitude, these gifts are corrupted: Philosophy, science, history, poetry are merely recognized for the useful knowledge they may happen to supply and are thus assimilated into the so - called great business of human life - satisfying human wants.

This striking transformation of life into lifestyle, the way in which the tools, garments, and attitudes specific to particular times and places become commodities to be marketed to anonymous and rootless consumers: they are the natural (if also banal) expressions of our normal nihilism.»

I see Orthodox Christians living in dirt poor conditions who to their deaths from ISIS with an attitude that transcends the worst of human behaviour.

Not only do these two moments illustrate the trauma involved in taking another life, they also run contrary to the attitudes of the typical Western, which thrives on a «shoot first, ask questions later» mentality.

The interview format used by the Oliner team had over 450 items and consisted of six main parts: a) characteristics of the family household in which respondents lived in their early years, including relationships among family members; b) parental education, occupation, politics, and religiosity, as well as parental values, attitudes, and disciplinary approaches; c) respondent's childhood and adolescent years - education, religiosity, and friendship patterns, as well as self - described personality characteristics; d) the five - year period just prior to the war — marital status, occupation, work colleagues, politics, religiosity, sense of community, and psychological closeness to various groups of people; if married, similar questions were asked about the spouse; e) the immediate prewar and war years, including employment, attitudes toward Nazis, whether Jews lived in the neighborhood, and awareness of Nazi intentions toward Jews; all were asked to describe their wartime lives and activities, whom they helped, and organizations they belonged to; f) the years after the war, including the present — relations with children and personal and community — helping activities in the last year; this section included forty - two personality items comprising four psychological scales.

After an introduction consisting of an obligatory celebration of our emergence from those dark times in which religion adversely affected our sex lives, there are thirty - eight tables on sexual attitudes broken out by religious category.

I wonder if these results from the recent Pew poll of attitudes toward religion in public life don't foretell a real change, however partial, however qualified by any number of other factors.

Old habits and attitudes unraveled, as raider ways spread to areas of professional life where they wrought havoc with relationships that depend on trust.

But we are living in a world where this government has promoted an attitude to life which now aspires not simply to referee public behavior but to control the very thoughts we have and to decide on that basis whether we are legitimate members of society or not.

Rather than a means of removing suffering, prayer (and today I would add, meditation) seems to me to be a practice which can assist in navigating the inevitable challenges and sorrows of our lives, and act as a vehicle for thoughtfully reflecting on the joys and goodness we experience in an attitude of thankfulness.

Yet the implication is that our government and way of life have a monopoly on truth — an attitude characteristic of totalitarian states, not one embodied in traditional American values.

It is our duty as Americans to know and appreciate the systems of belief — the mythic cosmologies, the scientific laws, the common - sense attitudes — that in times past have served to give coherence and purpose to our life together.

I was surprised to see such a dismissive statement from Keller, who has devoted so much of his life to carefully addressing the questions of skeptics with nuance and respect, and who has a generally open attitude toward doubt.

It's been an experience that improved your attitude, your outlook on life, your ability to deal with adversity, probably fostered good friendships with like - minded people and encouraged you to be a better member of society.

Given the range of forms, uses and attitudes of prayer, the poverty of a monochromatic prayer life seems tragic and wasteful: at the risk of sounding too pragmatic, prayer could be serving many more functions for most of us than we allow it to.

We may be led to undertake specific tasks and missions in this life, but much of what we are called to do has more to do with attitude and heart (Spirit) when we are presented with people and situations.

Then there are the Bad Attitudes of the immature in faith: I have a hard time accepting myself; I feel overwhelmed by all the responsibilities and obligations I have; My life is filled with stress and anxiety; I tend to be critical of other people; I do not want churches getting involved in political issues; I do not understand how a loving God can allow so much pain and suffering in the world.

If this quality of relationships is experienced, to some degree, part of the time, then a deep - level religious attitude toward persons and life will be caught by the children and reaffirmed in the adults.

Because of its permissive attitude toward theological ideas, it accepts the alcoholic at the point he has reached in his religious life and allows his religious formulations to grow as his experiences change.

If we are capable of extinguishing ourselves and most, if not all, other life, metaphors that support attitudes of distance from, and domination of, other human beings and nonhuman life must be recognized as dangerous.

``... those who saw the risen Christ remained persuaded that life was worth living and death a triviality — an attitude curiously unlike that of the modern defeatist, who is firmly persuaded that life is a disaster and death (rather inconsistently) a major catastrophe.»

13 How effective AA will be in non-Western cultures (with different attitudes toward guilt, pleasure, and the goals of life, for example) and what modifications will eventually occur in the AA program in such cultures has yet to be determined.

Tolstoy seemed forever in an identity crisis in three areas of his life; his attitudes to Russian nationalism, to religion and to sex.

Johnston explores current attitudes toward and descriptions of play, then looks at three representative theological positions in hope of clarifying the reader's understanding of the human player — life - style, mission and opportunity.