Sentences with phrase «much of a sense of community»

Voted at Dulwich Hill PS the other week and was cheered by how much of a sense of community there was there.

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By making employee interactions common, you can more easily build a much needed sense of community in your office.

And while our research found that some people interact with fellow coworkers much less than others, they still felt a strong sense of identity with the community.

Investors are finally coming to their senses — much to the delight of the precious metals community.

There is of course much to be done on behalf of the GLBT community, but I get the sense that we are headed in the right direction and that the network of support is growing stronger.

There is a much stronger sense of community in countries that have a large indigeneous population and a deeper shared sense of belonging to the natural order than there is in Western nations that have experienced the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution.

Sometimes the most secular of scholars found that what Frei was doing, with his attention to narrative and his interest in the language that shapes a particular community, made more sense to them than the work of many theologians much more systematically concerned to address other academic disciplines.

In the present volume there are repeated and sometimes moving narratives of a sense of «coming home» upon joining the homosexual community, much as Cardinal Newman and other converts have written about «coming home» when they joined the Roman Catholic Church.

Much of the new mystique of the racial minorities comes from the fact that they are alleged to have retained a sense of community missing among whites.

And not only that, even when people who are different come in and become part of the community, we want to, in a way, and much of this is unconscious, we want to make it clear that it is really our club, and they are, in a sense, still visitors, maybe even guests, but not fully members.

So much is this true that the total separation of faith and religion from life and culture became a cardinal principle of a new outlook, now called The Philosophy of Science, the doctrine of which is that nothing is valid in society, in community law, or in educational principle, unless it belongs to the experimental order and can be proven by the senses.

It makes much more sense to just create a nation - wide / state - wide acceptance of a legal agreement between two individuals, and then leave it up to the individual churches and communities to celebrate what they consider «marriage» at all.

First, he says, it divides people into «we» and «they», the «saved» and «unsaved» and this hinders building a sense of national community and may be one reason why, in much of India, Christians are on the margin.

Following the late Benedict Anderson, we might call a nation an imagined community, given that we do not naturally feel a sense of kinship and camaraderie with those living even half an hour from us, much less on the other side of the country.

The earlier books in general certainly betray a very vivid sense of the solidarity of the nation, so much so that the community can be addressed, or spoken of, as if it were one person «Israel is my son, my firstborn», says the Book of Exodus.

Like Bellah, he recognizes that much of the traditional importance of religion lies in its capacity to instill a sense of community and perform socially integrative functions.

The ingredients of Kerala's success have much to do with a strong sense of community which has consolidated village communities.

I too, have been outside the burden of church and I admit that it feels much lighter and the community of creative people that I am a part of support each other and provide a fantastic sense of safety and support.

«Their model of distributing perishable food into the communities that need it makes so much sense and we are proud to work with them.

«We have a strong sense of social responsibility and try to give back as much as we can to the community,» Peña says.

With much of the internet's information being peer - generated and reviewed, the strong sense of community that has been built online may be the main driving force behind the changes.

As a family - oriented organization with a strong sense of community involvement, we offer fun and exciting activities including summer camp, youth sports, swimming, dance, teen leadership clubs, and much more.

If Brexit means that people care about the places they'd never heard of before (Sunderland, Hartlepool, Spalding), if Brexit means that embarrassing levels of inequality are considered a problem, if Brexit means that those in charge realise that a sense of community and of job satisfaction matter as much as income to live on, then 2017 may the long overdue — a year when we start to address these challenges.

But I do thing that there're you know, [that] reality carries it owns kind of beauty and pleasure and that the world we're capable of creating will have certain redeeming qualities, including a much stronger sense of community, and probably a somewhat closer connection to the natural world, too.

«When you drill down to specific policies, you see that Americans are very much in support of common - sense regulations to keep their families and communities safe from gun violence.»

Have rules, it's a great way to build a sense of community — but then don't fret too much about them or take them too seriously.

With meditation fast becoming mainstream, the mission behind The Big Quiet is to deepen our real - time interactions with others and make meditation a part of our culture — much like music, art and food — fostering a sense of community and interconnectedness.

Let's feed the senses, show off, and make as much money as possible while we pretend to be enlightened», this is not in keeping with the true spirit of this yoga and the community of Mysore as a whole does not endorse it at all.

These days there are tools ranging from Unity and Unreal to Game Maker and Twine, all with robust communities around them, so there's really not much other than time and your own sense of your limitations to stop you from making games.

Singles who join these dating services have a sense of community and much better chance at finding love.

What keeps Reverse Shot's writers in the game, as much as any hope of others reading their work, is the journal's palpable sense of community and cinephilia.

While women are activated and thrilled with long - overdue progress and a sense of shared community, male industry players are hanging back, not publicly saying much beyond the appropriate thing.

Binding him to his brothers and workmates isn't so much a sense of community, but the fact that they all knew each since the Depression, and knew who was sleeping around with whom before everyone got hitched.

Going forward, much of the company's investment will be in this platform, as it will shelve the old one and work to take the things the old platform did around creating cohorts for a sense of community and offer those social experiences in a self - paced model.

The comments come from current Teachers, Teaching Assistants, SEND co-ordinators, heads of house, inclusion managers and Form Group Tutors...: We used this in small groups in our new class every morning for a week, what a great start, everyone is still buzzing... Builds a strong sense of belonging to something special... your class... Encourages differences and similarities to recognised and valued... Hugely improves our efforts at inclusion... The students quickly came out of their shells and are blossoming... Reveals much of the nature of the students... Gets us buzzing as a group... Encourages participants to take part in their own game and go and find things out from others... brilliant ice breaker game... Helped to resolve a huge problem we had in getting students to gel... Switches the students brains on from the moment go... Helps to break down various barriers... Gives a big boost to developing important life skills... This gives a great insight and a fantastic array of examples, clues and hints as to the characters of each individual in the group... Helps participants learn some things about themselves... Helps participants learn some things about others... Helps you learn about the participants (you can be a player as well on some occasions)... Makes it easy to develop class rules of fairness and cooperation... Builds a sense of purpose... Creates a sense of community and togetherness... Brilliant, just brilliant... our school is buzzing...

All of these considerations must be evaluated and incorporated into the layout of the school room, as much as possible, so that children focus on learning while creating a sense of community as they interact.

Although there wasn't any singing of Kumbaya around the campfire, participants agreed they felt a sense of community, which is much - needed in work where burnout and heightened scrutiny are constant factors, says Valerie Fisher.

Participation in learning communities gives teachers an opportunity to work on a sustained basis with their colleagues, develop a sense of shared mission, and feel much more connected and committed to the school.

She said KIPP is already focusing on sending more students to HBCUs, which are more likely to offer summer bridge programs — and where there is «a much stronger sense of identity and community» than at types of colleges.

With so much of the industry divided on the benefits of e-reading versus the damage it can do to the vital indie bookstores — and with so many of the players in the industry, including BookPeople, divided on Everyone vs. Amazon — an evolution of this kind seems not only natural, but laudable; it means bookstores can still be the place to turn to for reading content, selection advice, and the sense of community that comes from people getting together to talk about a book.

«That sense of community built up [very quickly] around this digital publication, and it became very apparent that Shonen Jump Alpha is much more than something you download onto your phone or something that you check in on on your website once a week,» Lu said.

It's a neat and nasty way of breaking any sense of community for authors (and one which would incidentally make collective action much more difficult should Amazon's terms become more onerous).

That's really a big deal as well because I think it fosters a much better sense of community and that you're on the inner loop, as it were.

Much of their E3 2016 was focused on a sense of community, and how their new cross-platform direction encourages that.

The extent fear appeals work tends to reflect how much control people feel they have to correct the problem and the strength of a sense of community (i.e. is there a common purpose?).

«Not having a sense of community is the reason for many of the issues society has, and tiny houses are so much more than a cool space — they are just the tip of the iceberg in a much bigger conversation society needs to be having.»

But having said climate forecasting is not much more than common sense I didn't want to shock the tender sensibilities of the blogger community too much.

My sense is that the dynamic is now leaning much more in the direction of building the solutions in our communities.

After all, its roots clearly hold much more than earth in place: a sense of pride in the community, too.

In much the same way as the biodiesel filling station brought sustainability - minded travelers to his door, Eric says he is looking forward to the sense of community and meeting new people that comes with inviting likeminded strangers to hang out.