Sentences with phrase «observance founded»

Today, as we celebrate SpankOut Day April 30th — an annual observance founded by the Center for Effective Discipline (now part of the Gundersen National Child Protection Training Center) to bring attention to the need to stop physical punishment of children and promote nonviolent discipline — I want to encourage everyone to take this movement a step further than ending spanking as a discipline method.

Editor's note: Today, April 30, is SpankOut Day — an annual observance founded by the Center for Effective Discipline, working to eliminate physical punishment of children and to promote nonviolent discipline.

Editor's note: This week, May 1 - 7, is Screen - Free Week — an annual observance founded by the Campaign for a Commercial - Free Childhood.

At the same time, and as a necessary consequence, there is a communion among those who have been caught up into Christ, so that when the Eucharist takes place those who are assisting at its observance find themselves belonging with each other in a new and vitalizing fashion.

There is not a single pet - related holiday included in the list of federal observances found in Chapter 36 of the U.S. Code.

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Interestingly, Pew also found that, across the countries surveyed, attitudes toward honor killings were not consistently linked to religious observance; Muslims who pray several times a day are just as likely to oppose honor killings as those who do not.

In the past, however, you will have found Google celebrations of both the Persian and Chinese New Year observances.

The only Christian observance I've found recorded in the Bible is the memorial of Jesus death.

In the pursuit of his mission he found himself obliged not merely to neglect some of the finer points of current religious practice (such as fasting on the proper days) but also to break some of the rules which were thought necessary to safeguard the religion of the Law (such as those of Sabbath observance).

Using a four - part measurement of religious observance for Christians — weekly church attendance, daily prayer, saying religion is important and believing in God with «absolute certainty» — Pew found that 70 percent of Christian college grads were highly committed to their religion.

In 1955, modern soil conservationists from all backgrounds then piggy - backed on the Christian observance, leading to the bulletin that my great grandmother Annie found worth saving two years later.

, where you'll find articles, images, action steps, and more to help with your successful WBW 2016 observance.

A time of Christian observance, a celebration of new life, an opportunity to eat too much chocolate and buy lots of small plastic eggs for which you will never find a purpose.

Their findings have potential applications for the remote observance of patterns in oceanography, meteorology, crowd surveillance, and environmental monitoring.

May 18 — HIV Vaccine Awareness Day (HVAD)-- is an annual observance to recognize and thank the thousands of volunteers, community members, health professionals, and scientists who are working together to find a safe and effective HIV vaccine.

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STEUBENVILLE, Ohio — Two high school football stars were found guilty on Sunday of raping a 16 - year - old girl last summer in a case that drew Calendars — online and print friendly — for any year and month and including public holidays and observances for countries worldwide.

Earth Day observance in the Philippines was initiated in 1990 by Senator Heherson T. Alvarez, then Chairman of the Committee on Environment, 25 years ago and founding member of the Global Legislators for a Balanced Environment (GLOBE) with US Senator Al Gore.

Forman also is a founding member of the Student Coalition on Human Rights, which has sponsored such events as bringing a portion of the AIDS Quilt to Middlebury and leading Middlebury's observance of the statewide Holocaust Days of Remembrance.

Woodson, who worked in Kentucky coal mines to support himself until he was able to enroll in high school at the age of 20, went on to receive his Ph.D. from Harvard and to found Negro History Week, the predecessor of today's February observance.

Founded in 2005 by Surfrider Foundation and Surfing Magazine, International Surfing Day has gone from just a handful of local observances in the United States to more than 200 events in 30 countries worldwide.

Founded in 1993 by the United Nations, World Water Day is a global observance that highlights the need for the care and management of the world's water resources.

The Strasbourg institutions have not been at all ready to find an interference with the right to manifest a religious belief in practice or observance where a person has voluntarily accepted an employment or role which does not accommodate that practice or observance and there are other means open to the person to practise or observe his or her religion without undue hardship or inconvenience.

Sunday observance was also raised in the Employment Tribunal case of Ewieda v British Airways plc (2006)(displaying a cross at work) but Ms Ewieda failed with her claim for indirect discrimination on this point, as the Tribunal found that her request for religious observance precedence over other employees would have given her a form of preferential treatment on the grounds of religion.

He stressed the importance of strict observance of service rules imposed by the state in which the person served was found.

However he did consider that he had set out the primary facts in sufficient detail for the Full Federal Court on the appeal to make a finding on continuity of observance and make a determination if they so decided.117

[Justice Mansfield's] findings that Larrakia did not maintain the acknowledgement of their traditional laws and observance of their traditional customs are based upon evidence, particularly from older members of the Larrakia group, that practices they had engaged in during the first half of the twentieth century did not last into the second half.

He found the current normative system of the Noongar people belongs to the Noongar society that existed at sovereignty and continues to be united by its observance of some of its traditional laws and customs.

(a) by Black CJ that a finding that at some point in the past there has ceased to be any real acknowledgment and observance of laws and customs based on tradition needs to overcome difficulties of a formidable nature [26], including:

He has suggested that the Federal Court should be empowered to make a declaration about traditional ownership based on descent, and without needing to find continuous observance of laws and customs, or to make orders about particular uses of the land.