Sentences with phrase «made intentional efforts»

Sharing a meal is not something new to Christians, but making an intentional effort to share a meal with persons from a different community or perspective may be something out of the ordinary.

This suggests that the pastor's role as spiritual leader is to make an intentional effort to help the people live in faithful response to God.

I'm the sort who goes through moods (overwhelmed is a common state of mind) but I do believe that making an intentional effort to find happiness is absolutely necessary if you want to find it.

But Kentucky Education Commissioner Stephen Pruitt is making intentional efforts to turn the tide.

While I believe that EVERY teacher is a leader, I didn't consider myself a «teacher leader» because I wasn't yet making an intentional effort to drive this dynamic profession forward.

Further, the qualitative findings revealed the positive effects of knowledge integration prompts in facilitating students to make intentional efforts to identify and explain major concepts and their relationships that are necessary for solving the ill - structured problem.

Make an intentional effort to continue talking about sex in your relationship.

Make an intentional effort to replace negative thoughts with compassion and empathy.

The challenge for all couples is once you've identified your own susceptibility to the negative (even the kindest of us get pretty defensive at times), it's important to unhook from these powerful currents and make intentional efforts to shape the interactions toward the more understanding, compassionate and appreciative energies that feed love.

By looking at their relationship with a critical eye and making intentional efforts, my husband and I can build our own marriage on a firm foundation instead of sinking sand.

Not exact matches

I could not tweet about immediate needs, so when I was lucky enough to have access to email I made sure I was intentional with my requests for the recovery effort.

The infraction is inherently subjective, its entry in the NHL rulebook (69.1) filled with ambiguous phrases like «impairs the goalkeeper's ability to move freely,» «initiates intentional or deliberate contact,» and «made a reasonable effort to avoid such contact.»

I make a specific, intentional effort to be really kind to my kids, my friends, my family, and everyone I encounter in my daily life.

«Making a more intentional effort to maintain a healthy sex life should be considered an issue of human sustainability, and as a result, a potential career advantage.»

Even worse is when you make a great deal of intentional effort to support friends who flat - out don't return the favor.

The CEL / Uinta School District partnership provides yet another example of how these intentional efforts translate into making a significant difference in the lives of our students.

This reality, and the election's result, has made us reflect on our own work, asking whether we should make a more intentional effort to ensure that civics education is a subject that is actively pursued beyond just the coastal areas.

In addition, an intentional and consistent effort must be made to move the priorities, values, and engagement of educators, communities, families, and young males of color into alignment regarding the value of school.»

We must work together to deepen community, to make a conscious, intentional effort to build on the connections between us and resist the pull of the often shallow and disingenuous responses to complex issues that face our community.

The mechanics were as was expected, and whilst I did not feel as though the maps had been tailor - made for wall - running quite like Black Ops 3 I feel as though this was an intentional effort to force emphasis on grounded combat.

I believe it's intentional, but there's been a conscious effort to make the formula accessible with releases like Persona 4: Arena.

Nor is it likely to be «enough» in the absence of intentional effort and policy - making.

In a lot of ways, we are living a simple / intentional life... We live a simpler life because I make much of our own food, we create much of our own entertainment, and we make a deliberate effort to infuse meaning into our every day lives.

Her proposed solutions to address the bias are multi-faceted, concrete and should not be hard to implement, but doing so will require that an intentional and coordinated effort be made.

So if you find yourself feeling like this too often, for too long, it's worth making that extra, intentional, effort to push past feeling like you've got nothing to say.

So I think I will make a change to make a better one...», This is consistent with Rogg and Bradbury's (2002) notion of differentiating induced change, or changes made by intentional effort, and natural change, or changes that occur without purposive intervention, and that both are essentially part of the dynamic of the changing reality.

Be Willing to Work to Make Your Relationship Thrive You've probably heard this before, but that's because it's true: «Having a good marriage takes intentional effort,» says Schade.

You have to be intentional about it and keep making conscious efforts toward having more gratitude in your life.

Study findings suggest that parents make active and intentional efforts to attempt, appraise, and apply the intervention material within their various life contexts, contributing to change in their parenting practices.