Sentences with phrase «local groups which»

I also found a few local groups which again were long on information but little to no practical help.

COPOH has 10 provincial affiliates, comprised of approximately 84 local groups which are ultimately accountable to an active membership of more than 25,000 disabled individuals.

Karen Gorham has encouraged people to donate to local groups which help heat the homes of people who are struggling financially.

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I did the unthinkable and joined the local Toastmasters chapter where I was living, which was a group of professionals who would get together once a week to practice giving their pitches.

In 1947 he founded the company that became the Olayan Group, which gained a reputation as a favored «local partner» — a requirement at the time for all foreign companies.

Ten team members at Burlington Massachusetts - based PR firm Davies Murphy Group were invited to attend a business meeting by a colleague, which turned out to be a complementary lunch at a local restaurant.

There are also some smaller regional groups, which can be located through the Yellow Pages or local chambers of commerce.

The nonprofit group WelcomingAmerica.org is already running similar programs in such cities as St. Louis and Detroit, which are supporting immigrants as a way to spur stagnant local economies.

BIBA, as Milchen's group is known, started in 1998, which makes it the oldest known alliance promoting local independent businesses across the spectrum.

She advises making contacts at local business groups, which, in addition to providing program information, can help a company determine eligibility.

The state has its own investment fund, the Missouri Technology Corporation, which invests in local businesses; the fund, together with newly formed private investment groups, have helped the state emerge as a regional leader in startup financing.

KMC Solutions, Inc. is part of the KMC Group of Companies, which includes local real estate firm KMC Savills, Inc. and business consultancy, Kittelson & Carpo, Inc..

I was studying the role of public participation in resource project decision - making in New Zealand, and came across a local group organized as Kiwis Against Seabed Mining (KASM) which had become the front of opposition to the Trans - Tasman mining proposal.

KICKICO recently co-organized a cryptocurrency congress in Argentina, which took place from the 6th to the 10th of April in Cordoba and Buenos Aires.The event demonstrated a rapidly growing interest for blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies with a KIKCICO - led group of Russian specialists meeting local students, startups and government officials.

According to the Hindustan Times, Amreli police superintendent Jagdish Patel was arrested Sunday on suspicion that he helped a group of police officers detain a local resident after which he was forced to give up his bitcoin.

Though almost three windows of 90 days have passed since Manchester first started letting locals know last summer that he wasn't built to sit behind a desk and run a newspaper enterprise, Burnham's group hasn't gotten that commitment in this cat - and - mouse game of selling and buying, which Manchester is handling himself, sans broker.

McDonald's — which has been taking heat from parents, consumer groups and local lawmakers over the nutritional content and marketing of Happy Meals — said it would start making the changes in September and the new Happy Meals would be available in all of its 14,000 U.S. restaurants by the end of the first quarter of 2012.

Many local Christians fled their communities when the radical Islamic group took over large portions of Iraq and Syria, abandoning their homes — many of which were ransacked, fell into disrepair or destroyed.

A pastor will wish to read the basic AA books and pamphlets, which can be obtained from the local group, but no amount of reading is a substitute for the experience of observing AA in action.

There were many other independent Christian groups which had neither the resources nor the stature to attract free time from either networks or local stations for the broadcast of their programs.

So far as AA is concerned, every pastor ought to read and digest the contents of Alcoholics Anonymous, the «Big Book» (Alcoholics Anonymous Publishing, 1955), which can be obtained through any local AA group.

A perusal of the Church of the Brethren Web pages provides clear evidence that a commitment to pacifism is not limited to denominational headquarters: the 48 churches of the Northern Indiana District Conference have joined to urge «the use of nonviolent approaches and interventions» in response to the terror; the Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, Church of the Brethren has adopted a statement in which they «remain committed to walk in the Jesus way of nonviolent love, in which evil can only be overcome with redemptive acts of love»; a group of Brethren Volunteer Service Workers have issued a statement in which they «advocate the use of nonviolent means to settle disputes» and «stand opposed to the increased drive toward militarization»; on October 7 members of local Brethren churches (along with Mennonites and others) organized a peace rally at the state capitol in Harrisburg, «Sowing Seeds of Peace: Prayers and Petitions for Nonviolent Action,» which attracted over 300 people.

Wayne said that his group had come straight up against the local power structure, which considers private property to be sacrosanct.

A systematic effort to encourage church members to become involved in the activities of the local Mental Health Association, a citizens group which engages in educational and preventive programs on all three levels.

Well, Marty tells us, that phrase — which is not found in the Constitution or the Bill of Rights but comes from a letter that Thomas Jefferson sent to a group of Connecticut Baptists — will not be of much help to a congregation that needs to challenge a local zoning ordinance, or to ask the city police force for help in keeping the neighborhood noise level down during Sunday morning worship hours.

Both the left and the right effectively enact a pincer movement in which local associations and groups are engulfed by an expanding state and by the market, each moving toward singularity in each realm: one state and one market.

In an article on «Group Dynamics in a Local Church,» Philip H. Anderson asks rhetorically: «Are we so sure that the committee which ignores the feelings of individual members in order to get a job done is the most efficient and productive in the long run?»

While congregations and other types of society possess obviously different intentions, they nevertheless work through analogous forms of culture in which a local church might recognize its deeper solidarity with other human groups.

Interwoven with familial, civic, devotional, and secular configurations that are structurally different from the local church, other religious groupings offer alternative patterns of collective reverence and incidentally suggest other ways by which Christianity might conceivably have spread among peoples.

Each year, the WACC, which provides funding for communication development worldwide on behalf of churches throughout the world, is channeling less of its funds into large shortwave services and large publishing houses, and more into the development of small printing presses, the production of audiocassettes, local drama and music groups, and the use of communication forms indigeneous to the village life, such as story telling, puppets and mime.

State or local mental health associations can provide church social - action groups with current information concerning the problems and needs of their area, including mental health legislation which needs citizen support.

A third example of public / private cooperation is one in which local government contributes block - grant funds or technical assistance to a project directed by church groups.

Stout invites us into a vigorous local democracy in which kids play soccer and a diverse and dedicated group of neighbors team up to protect their community from the encroachment of a large, bureaucratic medical center.

The needs of the local situation were studied and a decision made by the responsible group concerning which unmet need should have top priority.

Explaining the priests» grievances he said the local clergy and bishop were from different clans of the Igbo ethnic group which led them to question why someone from outside the diocese was appointed.

In a Midwestern city of 50,000, a marriage counseling center begun by a group of clergymen and based in a local general hospital which furnished secretarial service, is to be incorporated into the new mental health center established in the community.

Churches recognize that issues of justice in local and national development can not be addressed without a consciousness of the role of communication, nor can any group do so without the tools with which to make their views known.

Who then has the right to make the decisions: the individuals as such; local groups; or the church, which represents the corporate experience both of interpreting and of applying the biblical directions?

Urbanization has called forth two types of reaction in Protestantism: first, the church and the ministry have devised numerous means of reaching out to all kinds of people and groups in the cities; and second, attempts have been made to strengthen the inner fellowship of the local church, to bring about a genuine community in which each individual has a sense of being a member of the one body.

McKibben proposes that church groups, which have long been interested in food and hunger issues, start to take malnutrition seriously and link up with farmers» markets and local - food movements in order to begin to create a more equitable system for the distribution of healthy food.

Local groups should ally themselves with the national ecology groups which are educationally and politically effective.

They point to other destructive aspects of television that have been stressed by television researchers and theorists; the privatization of experience at the expense of family and social interaction and rela - tionships; (33) the promotion of fear as the appropriate attitude to life: (34) television's cultural levelling effects which blur local, regional, and national differences and impose a distorted and primarily free - enterprise, competitive and capitalistic picture of events and their significance; (35) television's suppression of social dialogue; (36) its distorted and exploitative presentation of certain social groups: (37) the increasing alienation felt by most viewers in relation to this central means of social communication; (38) and its negative effects on the development of the full range of human potential.

It is a stand - out among a small group of market darlings that include Bellamy's Organics and Blackmores, which are chasing the local and Asian wellness dollar.

According to a local Shidao newspaper, the cattle will be taken by the Taixiang Group, which has built a quarantine facility and abattoir 32 kilometres from the port.

By introducing international beer brands and nurturing local brands, Carlsberg Group now owns a product portfolio in China which boasts over 20 brands.

Coca - Cola Hellenic operations in Ukraine and Serbia are members of business groups which have been named as being among the top three performers in the world under the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) local network programme.

Irish dairy groups Dale Farm and Lakeland have been linked as possible suitors for local peer LacPatrick Dairies, which has announced it is mulling its «strategic options» after recent interest from companies in the sector.

They are the group where the farm gate price is pretty much set by the export parity price, which applies mainly to the farmers in southern Australia and particularly in Victoria, and the farmers who are in areas that are not so involved in the export market, so their marginal sales of milk are much more closely aligned with supplying fresh milk to the local markets.

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Which means, in short, that any group of interested people can approach their local authority and make the case that a building, or piece of land, is an asset of community value.