Sentences with phrase «now coming of age»

This case seems further proof, as I noted less than a month ago in this post, that the FMLA is now coming of age, which means more reported decisions, which in turn will lead to more cases.

The first generation born in France from this wave of immigration is now coming of age.

Perhaps this is not a surprise, given that a generation of artists weaned on the Internet is now coming of age.

October 13, 2014 • The generation now coming of age is spending — and giving — differently.

Techniques now coming of age allow astronomers to more easily photograph distant planets rather than inferring their presence indirectly

Even so, those born in the latter years of the generation are probably just now coming of age to have children while many of those born in the early years are probably just about ready to have their first child.

(2) In other words, the world has reached a certain point of autonomy - human beings have now come of age [D. Bonhoeffer]- which affects, for example, the religious sphere.

«By the Court» has now come of age as an innovative and uniquely Canadian practice for particularly important decisions, primarily but perhaps no longer exclusively with respect to constitutional law, and in the process it has become a more reliable marker of a decision that deserves particular notice.

Not exact matches

There's now an entire generation of young entrepreneurs coming of age amid buoyant refrains of «fail early, fail often.»

Tokyo and Munich, in particular, coincided with the graphic design profession's coming of age, Hulse notes, when some now - universally recognized visual shorthands came into being, such as the men's and women's symbols on bathroom doors.

The result is that this third generation, now moving into the ranks of power in North Korea, has a greater understanding and interaction with the West compared to their parents, who came of age at the height of the Cold War.

According to David Dodge, former Bank of Canada governor and deputy minister of health, now is the time to discuss implementation of private health - care options, particularly when it comes to tending to an aging population.

But, I can say that the millennial perspective, built from growing up with technology and coming of age in a tough economy, is invaluable to any company hoping to thrive now — and in the years ahead.

thanks, and yes, a pittance of a pension and regular checkups keep us on budget and head off any problems — best decision i ever made (financial or otherwise) was serving our country doing search - and - rescue, oil and chemical spill remediation, etc. (you can guess the branch of service)-- along the way, frugal living, along with dollar - cost averaging, asset allocation, and diversification allowed us to retire early — Vanguard has been very good over the years, despite the Dot Bomb, 2002, and the recession (where we actually came out better with a modest but bargain retirement home purchase)... it's not easy building additional «legs» on a retirement platform, but now that we're here, cash, real estate, investments and insurance products, along with a small pension all help to avoid any real dependence on social security (we won't even need it at full retirement age)-- however, like nearly everybody, we're headed for Medicare in several years, albeit with a nice supplemental and pharmacy benefits — but our main concern is staying fit, active, and healthy!

The case comes to the Supreme Court amid intensified scrutiny of fees in retirement accounts, now the primary savings vehicle for old age.

Given that NAFTA came into force before the dawn of the digital age, some revision clearly makes sense, with the now - shelved Trans - Pacific Partnership likely to serve as a template for modernization.

So there are lots of those long - term factors, demographics, aging population, global competition that mean that long - term interest rates may not rise at the same level, but one can't help but feel that we have seen six, seven years and in some cases, 10 years now post global financial crisis of near - zero interest rates and it's just, I suspect, there are a lot of market practitioners have gotten used to that idea and haven't really gotten their heads around the fact that we are still seeing Fed governors suggesting we have got one more rate increase this year and potentially two or three coming out next year.

It's been your lifetime of work, now that you've Come of Age, it's time to enjoy the all of the fruits of your labor!

Upon his return at the age of 33 now being called Jesus Christ he has come back to regain his throne but is arrested on political charges (Threat to the Roman Empire) and ordered Crucified.

We shall live through a long, long chain of days and endless evenings; we shall patiently bear the trials fate sends us; we'll work for others, now and in our old age, without ever knowing rest, and when our time comes, we shall die submissively; and there, beyond the grave, we shall say that we have suffered, that we have wept, that we have known bitterness, and God shall have pity on us; and you and I, Uncle, dear Uncle, shall behold a life that is bright, beautiful, and fine.

Thus the parables, like the sayings, show how to be acceptable citizens of God's kingdom, both now and in the coming age.

I know that unfortunately, the universal acceptance of gay marriage and pro-abortion laws will come in our days with or without Obama, as we approach to the end of the age Jesus talks about in Matthew 25 (I wonder if President Obama has read that chapter too); but we don't have to settle right now for a Mormon Priest and President.

With less fanfare than Boomers received coming up, a new generation of youth has come of age behind them and now occupies young adulthood.

For example, in the last part of chapter 1, Paul told us that Christ was given new life, and raised from the dead, and seated at God's right hand in the heavenly places, so that everything, both now and in the ages to come might be placed under Christ's authority.

I would think that evolutionists in this day and age would now be able to «create» the most simple life form, since it's so easy that just a matter of time, in a totally sterile environment, could see life come forth.

But now, Dalit theology has come of age and it stands by its own uniqueness and creativity.

Now that humanity had come of age, however, it should be left behind.»

His theme is life eternal, that is to say, in eschatological language, the life of the Age to Come, but life eternal as realized here and now through the presence of Christ by His Spirit in the Church.

We are now in the realm of things to come at the end of the present age.

Recalling my past, I can see now that coming out has been a long and puzzling journey out of the heterosexual box, in which I was no more comfortable at age five than I am now at thirty - three.

When he arrives in the new Age to Come he will reward the «Living» of spirit who now reside in flesh.

Then along came John F Kennedy and the Vatican Council; the visibility and vitality of black Protestantism; new religions and now New Age religions; the more patent secularity of the «no religious preference» sort; curiosity about Jews in respect to Israel, and, most of all, the revitalization of conservatisms.

The one thing we can do now, is pray for our salvation, because the end of age is coming.

On the continent, «the world come of age», «religionless Christianity», «true worldliness» have tempted Bonhoeffer's former pupils, now in theological faculties or church administration, towards cultic passions.

The fundamental question that Bonhoeffer poses before us is «If religion is no more than a «garment of Christianity» which must now be cast aside because it has lost its meaning in a «world come of age», if the real problem facing Christianity today is not so much that of religionlessness, but precisely that of religion, then what does all this mean for the church?»

We are just now coming out of an age of doctrinization that has had the deleterious effect of obscuring the truth inherent in experiential reality and a secular age that has sought to destroy the transcendent pole of a reality defined as nonexistent.

They had widened the gateway so that all who suffer might pass through, regardless of their belief or lack of belief God was certainly there in our Steps, but He was now expressed in terms that anybody — anybody at all — could accept and try» (Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age [New York: Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, 1957].

You interpret eschatology, for example, as the word of the age to come now realized in the words and deeds of Jesus.

A new humanity has been created, the spiritual humanity of the age to come, to which even now one can belong (fully, in principle, and partially in actual fact), through faith in — that is, through personal trust and self - denying devotion to — the one who loved us and gave himself for us.

For the eschatological hope was not a hope only; the return of Jesus as Inaugurator of the age to come would be but the culmination of an event which had already begun and was now far advanced, the eschatological event with which history was ending.

«Truly I tell you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields, for my sake and for the sake of the good news, who will not receive a hundredfold now in this age — houses, brothers and sisters, mothers and children, and fields with persecutions — and in the age to come eternal life» (Mark 10:29 - 30; cf. Matt.

«Now these things happened to them as an example, but they were written down for our instruction, on whom the end of the ages has come» (I Cor.

There are many reasons why this has happened; this is no place to discuss them, but among others we may mention scientific constructions, psychological discoveries, awareness of sociological conditions, and all that Bonhoeffer summed up in saying that man has «come of age» (by which he did not mean that man is an entirely mature and adult creature who now can take the place of God, in a fashion not unlike the claim made by the Provost of King's in his recent utterances; but he did mean that we now know our own responsibility and that God treats us, not like slaves nor like little children, but like sons to whom He entrusts such responsibility).

As Dietrich Bonhoeffer said, we are now living through humankind's «coming of age».9

At first this expectation was doubtless emotional in its appeal, as Mussolini stirs Italians now by pictures of a new Roman Empire, but as the centuries passed and the powerful theological conviction that Israel was a chosen people in special covenant relationship with Yahweh blended with the national dream, the coming Messianic age became increasingly a fixed idea and a cherished dogma.

Simple: Any one of the hundreds / thousands of miracles / acts of god / you name it that the bible is full of, in a time when books were written by bronze age men in caves... Why can't your invisible man in the sky come down now and turn 5 fish into thousands, or turn water into wine, or heal the sick, rise from the dead mr zombie dude!

Each interpretation presupposed a particular pattern of eschatological outlook; and it is clear that the earliest Christology was really, as the term suggests, an eschatology, in which the central figure was the same — the risen, glorified Christ who had lived and talked and done mighty works in Galilee but had died on a cross outside Jerusalem, who was now at the right hand of God, and was soon to come in glory to inaugurate the New Age.

Somehow I doubt the experience as mayor in a new suburb in the west would really qualify for dealing with urban issues that come with millions of people in cities now aging into centuries.

If this future reigning is already effective in our world, then we may anticipate the conditions of the age to come here and now.

Heaven is where our dear ones are now who have passed away, and the restored Earth takes place at the coming of Christ and ushers in what Scripture refers to as the coming age — kind of the next chapter in the story right here on the planet you love.