Sentences with phrase «military life as»

In military life as in civilian life, folks can fall in to financial hard times due to unforeseen situations.

Not exact matches

Taiwan's defense ministry accused China of using «cheap verbal intimidation and saber rattling» to threaten them as China began a massive live - fire military drill in the Taiwan Strait, stoking tensions in the area.

The US bomber flight comes amid a series of Chinese military exercises, including live - fire drills, near Taiwan that a government spokesman said were meant to send a message to Taipei that Beijing would take further steps if Taiwanese independence forces continue doing as they please.

Over the last several years, Google has offered military veterans and their families several tools, such as the Veterans Job Bank, for finding jobs and transitioning to civilian life.

Smith has build a successful career as a professional communicator — and realizes that some of the current gaps between American civilian and military life owe to how veterans discuss their experiences, and who they discuss them with.

What started as more or less a backup plan for a military communications system, has arguably today become the center of many peoples» daily lives.

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.

Zafrir, a former commander of Israel's famed intelligence corps, Unit 8200, told me that the conscripted Israeli military experience has become a major generator of entrepreneurial skills, as people are trained fast, learn how to cope with failure and how to innovate by achieving the impossible because lives depend on it.

If you're not from Kentucky, you may have assumed that Sanders served as a military leader at some point in his long life.

Participants were asked to rank their level of anxiety (or lack thereof) on subjects such as their country's current political leadership, economy, health care, cost of living, and their perceived level of threat from terrorism and military hostilities.

The store in Tucson, Arizona supports military and their families as they transition to civilian life, and creates an environment where veterans, reservists and military spouses feel welcome and recognized.

There are many challenge in military life, such as duty station changes, long hours, and deployments.

China's military conducted live - fire exercises in coastal waters opposite Taiwan, trying to send a message to the democratic island whose Defense Ministry dismissed the drill as small - scale intimidation.

As in military wars, its devastating consequences threaten to include shortening life expectancy, lower health standards and depopulation, poverty and de-industrialization, rising debt arrears and defaults.

As more employers embrace work flexibility and remote jobs, opportunities for military spouses to maintain meaningful careers, no matter where they live, continue to expand.

Living in Japan as a military spouse, Adrienne desired to be a working professional.

I knew I had to have life balance to support my military husband, be able to take care of my children, and also keep my independence as a woman who can also financially contribute to the family.»

At FlexJobs, we see a variety of people looking for part - time work, such as working parents, semi-retirees, people with health issues or disabilities, military spouses, millennials, career changers, and people seeking better work - life balance.

The store, which is near Davis - Monthan Air Force Base, supports military and their families as they transition to civilian life.

«As we honor our brave military men and women this coming Veterans Day, we should continue to extend special opportunities to transition to civilian life after their service is done,» said Mike Bidwell, CEO and President of The Dwyer Group and a U.S. military veteran.

The members are called Jesuits and are also known colloquially as «God's Marines», [2] these being references to founder Ignatius of Loyola's military background and members» willingness to accept orders anywhere in the world and live in extreme conditions.

It is my right, as an American Citizen, after devoting many years of my life defending OUR country in the military, to NOT believe in god.

This is manifested in the economic life as the giant economic corporation, in the political life as the state bureaucracy and modern military organization, in the cultural life as the information and knowledge industry such as the universities and coqunication media.

The International Information fundamentally represents the dominance and penetration of the technocratic culture into the life of the peoples in the third World, either in the form of science and technology transfer, or in the form of economic development and coqercial advertisement, or in terms of the inculcation of military values such as national security doctrine and peace propagenda.

In theory they were organized as a parenthesis in life, devoid of political consideration.74 For this reason, when the Arab terrorists struck within the Olympic Village, the playing field was not immediately open to the German military.

Had Brown not been cut down, he may have grown into a more life affirming position; perhaps as an internationally renowned neurosurgeon, a nationally syndicated newscaster, a White House cabinet member, a military general, a preacher of the Gospel, or perhaps as a simple and ordinary man who loves his wife and leads his family well, like so many who sit in our congregations every Sunday.

The character of this suffering moves theological attention to the social systems that shape our lives — economic, political, cultural — as well as to public events themselves (the Holocaust, programs and policies of economic austerity, military intervention, terrorism, ethnic nationalist expression, struggles for survival and freedom).

The system is «designed to allow Israel to control every aspect of Palestinian life in the occupied territories while lowering Israel's military profile in order to give the impression to the outside world that what Palestinians refer to as «occupation» is merely proper administration, and that Israel has a «duty» to defend itself and the status quo, Halper says.

Landstuhl serves as the central hospital for the U.S. military in Europe, and real - life challenges to any world - view show up everyday, some battlefield - related and some not.

In preparing to teach a course, I looked through a folder of accumulated notes and realized that I first taught the course to an adult class consisting of three women: Jennifer, a widow of about 60 years of age with an eighth - grade schooling, whose primary occupations were keeping a brood of chickens and a goat and watching the soaps on television; Penny, 55, an army wife who treated her retired military husband and her teenage son and daughter as items of furniture in her antiseptic house, dusting them off and placing them in positions that would show them off to her best advantage, and then getting upset when they didn't stay where she put them — she was, as you can imagine, in a perpetual state of upset; and Brenda, married, mother of two teenage sons, a timid, shy, introverted hypochondriac who read her frequently updated diagnoses and prescriptions from about a dozen doctors as horoscopes — the scriptures by which she lived.

about people who experience same - sex attraction trying to live a Christian life, this fuller exposition of his thought on the new ideologies presented a fascinating look into the way in which colonialism — discredited by liberals and to lesser extent many conservatives as well — has gone away from the actual military and political rule seen in previous centuries, to a stealthier and subtler form of the exertion of foreign power.

By the time of the Maccabees, for example, the practice of keeping the Sabbath was so central to Judaism that, according to Josephus, the Romans had to exempt the Jews from military service because they were useless as soldiers on the Sabbath.12 Seneca could not understand the Sabbath exercise and chided the Jews for spending every seventh day of their lives in idleness.13

just as a comment on my own personal experience, the next religious conservative i meet who expresses remorse over the loss of sacred but iraqi life, civilian or military, in the iraq war will be the first.

This placing of their very lives in the hands of a strategic elite was like the trust that always had to be granted by democracies to their military leaders, such as in ancient Athens or pre-1950s America; it was unlike it in the sheer immediacy of the new sort of death - threat and the practical impossibility of evading it.

Of course, if you're taught over and over by the rock mythology, or even by PBS or the NYT, that the Righteous Artist ought to say the equivalent of «F# $ @ You» to the likes of the «military - industrial establishment,» the «system,» or the «Power,» you might assume that you ought to say the words themselves to something a bit more obviously impacting your life, such as your ex-girlfriend.

Callie Glorioso - Mays is on an uphill journey to learn continually, love freely and live vulnerably as a writer, a military wife and mama to one.

And thus began a journey which included a retreat in a desert, some work as a catechist, military service and then, back in Spain, an encounter with people living in a shanty town.

I have suggested elsewhere that value - free technology, the military - industrial complex, and narrow nationalism might be modern examples of such principalities and powers.9 Hendrikus Berkhof suggests that human traditions, astrology, fixed religious rules, clans, public opinion, race, class, state, and Volk are among the powers.10 Walter Wink sees the powers as the inner aspects of institutions, their «spirituality,» the inner spirit or driving force that animates, legitimates, and regulates their outward manifestations.11 They are «the invisible forces that determine human existence «12 When such things dehumanize human life, thwart and distort the human spirit, block God's gift of shalom, the followers of Jesus are rallied for a new kind of holy war.

The importance of the power problem for Christian ethics derives both from the fact that power, whether economic, political, military, or spiritual, means capacity to determine life for good or ill, and from the fact that some fundamental redistribution of power is necessary as a condition of the freedom and dignity of men in their social relations.

As for that erosion, recent data from the World Values Survey tells us that only 30 percent of U.S. millennials (i.e., those born after 1980) think it «essential» to live in a democracy; 24 percent of those same millennials think democracy a «bad» or «very bad» way to run a country; and only 19 percent judge it «illegitimate» for the military to take over when the government is incompetent or failing to do its job.

And what does that have to do with the Christian life today, with being a progressive Christian today — when for the first time in polling history the military now supercedes the Church as «the most trusted institution»?

Some Christian pacifism has made its radical protest on that point alone, the refusal of military service, but more often it has appeared as the declaration of a way of life intended to express love directly, as in the Society of Friends.

They listed the «occupation» of Palestinian lands, Israel's separation barrier with the West Bank, its military checkpoints, political prisoners, demolition of homes and disturbance of Palestinians» socio - economic lives as factors that have made life increasingly difficult for Palestinians.

I do not need the government or media to tell me how to live my life, I spent over ten years in the active military I joined when it was an honor to serve and as soldiers we did not have to follow bureaucratic system of rules that are in place now we had something the liberals will never have honor and morality.

CW, if gays shouldn't serve in the military, maybe they shouldn't be in the same schools as «normal» people, or work in the same jobs or pay the same taxes or have the same police and Judaical protections or the right to vote or the right to live anywhere in the country they choose.

Simply by living as a citizen of a State that maintains gigantic armaments, to say nothing of paying taxes to that State, one makes concessions to the use of military force.

Poverty indeed is the strenuous life — without brass bands or uniforms or hysteric popular applause or lies or circumlocutions; and when one sees the way in which wealth - getting enters as an ideal into the very bone and marrow of our generation, one wonders whether a revival of the belief that poverty is a worthy religious vocation may not be «the transformation of military courage,» and the spiritual reform which our time stands most in need of.

As far as life - threatening experiences... can YOU top 21 years of military service like I diAs far as life - threatening experiences... can YOU top 21 years of military service like I dias life - threatening experiences... can YOU top 21 years of military service like I did?

The company concentrates on segments such as the K - 12 and higher education market as well as chain restaurants, corrections, military, clubs, etc. «Healthcare is also a monster for us,» Jones says, adding that the company has a healthcare director, Sandi Ratcliff, who regularly visits nursing homes, assisted living, rehabilitation and acute care centers.

Growing up as a grandchild of a military family, Webb's grandmother lived in numerous countries and regions including Morocco, Spain, California, and Mississippi.