Sentences with phrase «more affirming»

Not doing so may drive her into the arms of a more affirming Lothario.

First, in spite of their angry exchanges they still have many more affirming and positive interactions.

As your daughter begins to see which patterns are getting in her way, she may be more able to open up and shift into patterns that support healthier, more affirming connections.

Is soft pile more affirming than carpet tiles?

Through our Public Policy office in DC, we work with federal policymakers and agencies like the Department of Education to create laws and policies that make schools more affirming for LGBT students and safer for all.

Theres nothing more affirming than having a group of LGBT friends..

More affirming than the report itself was the amount of attention it drew.

Negative cycles of mutual deprivation happen less frequently when couples learn to give and receive more affirming strokes and thus to initiate cycles of mutual nurture.

I urge you to join with me in advocating for effective change that makes Princeton a more affirming community.

When faced with an unhappy sexual culture among the young, baby boomer liberals almost always urge greater openness about sex and a more affirming attitude.

The whole process has required more patience than I anticipated... but has also been more affirming and rewarding than I ever could have imaged.

A deceptively simple looking device assembled from an LCD display, a mirror, an ultrasonic sensor and 3 - D printed case, when the user looks into the mirror, the closer they get, the more affirming and positive messages they see in front of them.

Not exact matches

Emily's journey began long before Yelp reviews or «That's So Raven» and hearing her story affirmed the depth of her intuition even more than what she'd communicated to me.

But more important, it hopes that Shpeel will affirm that there is still a lot of life in the Cirque du Soleil brand.

So far, more than 300 merchants, including consignment marketplace Tradesy and mattress store Casper, have partnered with Affirm to let consumers make purchases using Affirm loans online.

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP)-- Eni will proceed with more exploratory drilling south of Cyprus over the next 20 months, affirming a «strong engagement and commitment» in a hydrocarbons search off the east Mediterranean island nation, the Italian company's chief executive said Wednesday.

Once again, Stats Canada says, «Canadians in younger age groups were more likely to affirm these beliefs than their older counterparts.»

By: Ryan McMaken In a court battle that has apparently been working itself out for 17 years, the Quebec High Court this week affirmed that a law establishing a simple majority as key in triggering secession talks with the Canadian government — known... [Read More]

The March minutes affirmed our view that the bar is relatively high for policymakers to change the current plan for two or three more hikes in 2018.

And few developments affirm that more than news that President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un plan to meet for talks this spring.

«This partnership with Intel Security will help deliver more a complete mobile security solution and affirms our commitment to making the shift to the mobile - cloud era seamless for our customers.

In recognizing the catalysts behind the public's persistence to save and reluctance to spend, additional analysis by policymakers should focus on the efficacy of further rate cuts on spending and investment, as well as potential «roundabout» benefits of a more normal rates regime to affirm support toward the public's saving objectives, with the end goal of boosting public's risk sentiment and perceptions of future economic stability.

Philbrick affirms that credit structures have gotten more aggressive.

This session affirmed that for us even more!

In an op - ed piece for The New York Times in May, he wrote: «More than 600 economists, including seven Nobel Prize laureates, have affirmed the growing consensus that raising wages for the lowest - paid workers doesn't hurt the economy.

The question is whether those who would condemn homosexual acts should be able to force their views of Scripture on those who disagree any more than those who affirm gay relationships should be able to force their view of Scripture on those opposed.

When the Oliners affirm that the language of care — of compassion, hospitality, and helpfulness — is overwhelmingly employed to express their motives, they clearly imply that face - to - face compassion is a far more salient motive for sacrificial and heroic moral altruism than abstract principles of equity and justice.

Quite the contrary, what is more general is lower on that scale of value, a point that Jews who affirm the divine election of Israel and Christians who affirm the Incarnation can readily understand.

Along the way, Milbank suggests that the Church's emphasis on sexual sins and on hell played a role in secularization, and he ends by asking how we can affirm at least some «procedure and institutionalization» in reinventing a more participatory, erotic, and interpersonal Christianity.

But in the face of a society marked by unbelieving ideologies and the culture of death, we deem it all the more important to affirm together those foundational truths of historic Christian orthodoxy that we do hold in common.

Noel Murray at The Los Angeles Times also wasn't much of a fan, but wrote that we should «give credit to the filmmakers for making a faith - affirming picture that aims to be more thoughtful than maudlin.»

One of the idiots who supported the discrimination bill in Arizona said, «The religious beliefs of all Arizonans must be respected and this bill did nothing more than affirm that.»

Who can thusly affirm themselves to being no more than a container of wherein nothingness becomes the bonding agent of one's body?

Widely affirmed proposals call for the restructure of low - performing schools, more emphasis on the basics, safer classrooms, more rigorous graduation standards, periodic measurement of progress through some kind of standardized tests, longer days and year - round schooling, decentralization into smaller learning communities and greater freedom for those smaller units, smaller classes, better - qualified teachers and improved salaries, more parental input and more equitable funding.

Assistant Professor of Social Work, Barb Burdge, published an essay in July on the importance of social workers undermining the alleged «social construct» of gender.In «Bending gender, ending gender: theoretical foundations for social work practice with the transgender community,» Burdge asserts that social workers must reject «a dichotomous understanding of gender» in favor of «more accurate and affirming conceptualizations of gender.»

Therefore, I felt that my philosophy and theology should not be permitted to separate, but that within their unity it should be possible to affirm the awe - inspiring otherness of God even more uncompromisingly than Barth had done, since he returned to reasoning by analogy.

In God, Power and Evil, Griffin mentions two more criticisms of a free - will defense which affirms (16) and thus (14).

This view is, I hold, more or less pervasively affirmed, explicitly or implicitly, throughout the liberal tradition, so that its absence would provide good reason to doubt whether the theory in question is a part of that tradition.

Pope Gelasius I (492 - 496) expressed his vision of the West in a famous letter to the Byzantine Emperor Anastasius I, and, even more clearly in his fourth treatise, where, with reference to the Byzantine model of Melchizedek, he affirmed that the unity of powers lies exclusively in Christ: «Because of human weakness (pride!)

The model of Jesus, John the Baptist, and Paul has not yet enabled even biblically serious Evangelicals to shape a theology that would affirm celibacy as anything more than a regrettable alternative to more - or-less mandatory marriage.

Are oppressed people ever going to be able to affirm judgment like Isaiah did when he declared: «For behold, the Lord is coming forth out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity and the earth will disclose the blood shed upon her, and will no more cover her slain» (26:21)?

Probably more people have rejected «God» because they could not affirm the «God» who causes such suffering than for any other reason.

But to affirm as Mr O'Donnell does that the celibate «is more available and can give himself more to the service of the Lord and his people» (and that this is St Paul's understanding of the «higher vocation of the celibate») is simply to recognise that the celibate priest is freed to love the Lord and his people in a way that is closest to Christ's own loving who «gave himself to the point of laying down his life and came «to serve and not to be served».

I perpetuate the disease when the wounds inflicted by a narcissist become a reason for me to become the center of my own universe, when I only talk to people who affirm my wounds and lash out along with me at those who inflicted them, when I develop an «us vs them» mentality... it all starts to look like nothing more than the mirror image of those damn narcissists out there that hurt me.

This entails more than Jewish tolerance; it requires Jews to affirm that the God of Israel has elected the Church to join gentiles to the people Israel.

Slightly more than half (54 %) of white evangelicals, according to the Pew Research Center study, favor completely overturning the 1973 Supreme Court decision that affirmed a woman's right to have an abortion.

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 Rite is at pains to place a high value on the more common vocation of marriage, which is not to be considered as denigrated by implication, but it affirms the positive value of the vocation to consecrated virginity in itself.

He must either become more and more unreasonably dogmatic, affirming that on all these questions he has answers given him by his tradition that are not subject to further adjudication, or else he must finally acknowledge that his theological work does rest upon presuppositions that are subject to evaluation in the context of general reflection.

It is a paradox, yet true, that the more deeply we seek to affirm the reality of God's condescension to the depths of our human situation, the more we are enabled, and indeed led, somehow to represent the content of his act in Christ in objective terms.