Sentences with phrase «of active life as»

If detected early, surgical removal can give several more years of active life as happened with one of my oldies.

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As an active owner of both public and private companies, CPPIB already lives its long - term investment philosophy, notes Winslow.

Nike is essentially betting that James will stay scandal - free throughout the rest of his career, as well as have staying power in the many years of his life when he is no longer an active player.

As a child, I often filled in these blanks with my very active imagination, and my poor mother would have to refute yet another wild story of mine about how I'd come to live with my family.

It began life as one of Canada's first food banks, and while it still maintains a small, active one, with a focus on fresh produce, it long ago expanded far beyond simply handing out food.

Personalized pricing for virtually any product is already a fact of life on hyper - active shopping sites such as Safeway.com.

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.

And in fact, once we've experienced these hyper - speed services either as providers or recipients, once we're an active part and a participant in the «right now» economy, we soon mentally up our own expectations and anticipate exactly the same levels of speed and service throughout the rest of our lives.

Living Goods began, in 2008, as a partnership with BRAC to operate a network of CHPs in Uganda, and in 2009 launched a directly - managed network of CHPs using the same model.42 Living Goods has provided both technical and financial support, totaling over $ 2 million, to BRAC for the CHP program.43 BRAC has 128 branches with active CHPs in Uganda, but only 24 of these branches currently receive significant funding from Living Goods and have additional features, such as incentive payments for CHPs and a higher number of CHPs per branch.44

I lived in what I considered one of the greatest cities in the world — Vancouver, British Columbia — where I worked as a senior marketing executive at a restaurant group, earning a great salary that afforded me an active social life, overpriced lattes and other little luxuries.

Get employees off their seats; reduce the sedentariness of office life by providing «active desk» options, such as standing or treadmill desks.

Throughout his career he has been active on public and private corporation boards as well as those of 501 (c)(3) organizations; he believes that «to whom much is given, much is expected in return» and attempts to live life and manage wealth with reference to the Golden Rule.

In his 1897 essay «The Will To Believe,» James explained why, even in an age of doubt, Christianity remained a real, active option, that is, as he defined it, the subject of a live, forced, and momentous decision.

The book of Acts tells us that the first Christians referred to their own faith as «The Way» (9:2; 19:9; 22:4; 24:14, 22), indicating thereby that the faith is not merely a collection of dogmas but an active life of obedience to the God who has saved us through his Son.

This seems to be the raison d'être of the most dramatic miraculous encounters — as a way for non - Christians to be alerted to the reality of a living and active God.

As both of you have pointed out, active abusers must always live with what they are, and that can be very ugly.

The «active participation of the faithful» is encouraged as an interior participation through the joining of one's life to Christ in the offering of the Mass..

I'd started to scratch it down in my journal and that scratching started decoding a bit of my life: You end up drinking mud soup whenever you see yourself as the passive victim in your story, instead of an active co-writer of your story, when you act like you don't determine your responses to a situation — but your actions and responses are determined by somebody else.

Others could easily affirm God as active in the lives of persons.

It did not require each person to proclaim a reading, hold up a banner or do a dance; active participation in the divine work celebrated at the altar meant something deeper for St Paul, as indeed for the Fathers of the first five centuries of the life of the Church.

All this, which is only a part of what ought to be said about the Atonement, is not irrelevant to our discussion; for like Professor MacKinnon, though in a rather different way, I want to lay the greatest emphasis on the decisiveness and uniqueness of the Cross and the Resurrection In both these acts of God, however, I find no inconsistency between their decisiveness and «objectivity» and the fact that they are directed towards men: the former as conveying to them the divine acceptance which is also judgement, the latter by bringing to them, in the Easter experiences, the active presence of the living Lord.

Glorious Lord Christ: the divine influence secretly diffused and active in the depths of matter, and the dazzling centre where all the innumerable fibres of the manifold meet; power as implacable as the world and as warm as life; you whose forehead is of the whiteness of snow, whose eyes are of fire, and whose feet are brighter than molten gold; you whose hands imprison the stars; you who are the first and the last, the living and the dead and the risen again; you who gather into your exuberant unity every beauty, every affinity, every energy, every mode of existence; it is you to whom my being cried out with a desire as vast as the universe, «In truth you are my Lord and my God.»

If the work of creation is seen as an evolutionary process, then existence of matter is the necessary precondition for the appearance, on earth, of spirit: elsewhere Pere Teilhard de Chardin speaks of matter in more exact language as the «matrix of spirit»: that in which life emerges and is supported, not the active principle from which it takes its rise.

In this sense, the human mind exhibits a resolution to a problem which first emerges with life itself; namely, the reconciliation of security and adventure: «The universe is to be conceived as attaining the active self - expression of its own variety of opposites, of its own freedom and its own necessity, of its own multiplicity and its own unity» (PR 531).

And all this labour was set in motion by the active, creative awakening of his soul inasmuch as that human soul had been chosen to breathe life into the universe.

For the latest is precisely the holy, Christian Catholic faith which we have received as children, and which we have preserved in our life, perhaps even through many troubles and difficulties, our active Catholic faith of which we shall have to give an account before God; and this faith, of course, remains the same.

If there is a «treasury of the Church» (D 550 - 2,757,1541; Paul VI, Indulgentiarum Doctrina) which consists actually in the active union with God of all justified Christians, then this, too, makes it clear that all acts of those justified in the Holy Spirit constitute the very life of the Church, hence that the action of the Church is not the same as the action of her official representatives or what is done explicitly in their name.

Though this is not meant to imply that an educated layman ought not also sometimes have the courage, in the right place and in the right manner, to give an account of the hope that is in him and, as the apostle says, is active in his life.

The friends of Jesus, and afterwards Paul himself who had been, until that moment, an active enemy and persecutor of the first Christians, found that Jesus, who had died and been buried, encountered them as their living Lord and claimed them for his service in the world.

She invites her readers into Christian practices that heighten both the spiritual and relational dimensions of time, so that we may live with greater authenticity as people created in God's image — with an awareness of time as a gift rather than a burden thrust upon us by our daily planners, and with a sense of being «attuned to the active presence of God.»

For Calvin, though the word of God is the only reliable source of knowledge of God, its authority is realized in the reciprocal relation between the word and the spirit as these are active in the life of the church.

My mother has been active in the Methodist church as a choir member and pianist for most of her life.

[49] Our purpose is better served by the former because our concern is not so much on the theories and concepts of religion, but on the interactions between living and active religions on such central concept as salvation.

«We have no alternative but to admit,» Mommsen writes, «that a considerable number of those who played an active part in the July Plot, and in many cases lost their lives as a result, had previously participated in the war of racial extermination, or had at least approved of it for quite a time and in some cases had actively promoted it.

The «new» will be taken to include both the new which encounters us and the new actions which, as active subjects, we contribute to the process of life.

Inadequate as the representation of certain groups may be, American political life clearly includes the active participation of many ethnic and racial groups besides the Anglo - Saxons in the late decades of the 20th century.

The phrase «the image of God» means more than mere reflection as in a mirror; it means the active and energizing capacity given to humans, as created entities, to live with integrity as the «created second» of the God who is making them.

In every human life made in the image of God, however defaced by sin that image may be, the Word is present and active as the ground and linking of humanity with God (spermatikos).

(«Religious switching,» as Wade Clark Roof and William McKinney call it, goes both ways, but aside from the drift into secularity and out of active church life, the dominant one is from the conservative toward the moderate or liberal side.)

Every human existence which is not conscious of itself as spirit, or conscious of itself before God as spirit, every human existence which is not thus grounded transparently in God but obscurely reposes or terminates in some abstract universality (state, nation, etc.), or in obscurity about itself takes its faculties merely as active powers, without in a deeper sense being conscious whence it has them, which regards itself as an inexplicable something which is to be understood from without — every such existence, whatever it accomplishes, though it be the most amazing exploit, whatever it explains, though it were the whole of existence, however intensely it enjoys life aesthetically — every such existence is after all despair.

Begin to drop a providentially active God from this picture, and we get a vision of life that makes human happiness central and sees us as beings whose dignity lies chiefly in enacting that benevolence in ordinary life.

Let us illustrate this point of view toward which our whole discussion has been moving by looking briefly at the sacraments of the Church, the Christian meeting of death, and the Christian life of active service as expressions of the way which is enclosed in the grace of this kind of community.

I have just put the word spirit with a lower - case «s»; but I might quite as readily have put it with an upper - case «S.» For the living reality of the Christian Church in which the Spirit of God — or the divine responsive movement to what was expressed in the event of Jesus Christ — is present and active is seen by the Christian ages to be not an accidental or merely historically - conditioned development.

It is also an insistence that in thus remembering the totality of his life, there is established a present awareness of him as active in the world today through the Spirit was released in and through him.

There are benefits to this approach, a very for - the - people - by - the - people model of priesthood that affirms God as active and leading in our lives.

As the just person lives by faith, says Augustine, so the association of just men and women lives by faith active in love, the love by which one loves God alone and one's neighbor as oneselAs the just person lives by faith, says Augustine, so the association of just men and women lives by faith active in love, the love by which one loves God alone and one's neighbor as oneselas oneself.

While it is affected by the wars of Europe and either as a belligerent or as an active sympathizer with one or another of the contestants has been drawn into each of the general European wars which have been fought within the span of its history, geography has spared the United States the full impact of these wars and the nation has not been so severely impoverished as Europe, nor has its normal life been so badly disrupted.

Man as we know him today, man of metaphysics, of abstract thought, the creator of his own environment, the space - traveller, the moulder of himself, the man of God and of grace and of the promise of eternal life, precisely this man who is radically distinct from any animal and who at the moment of man's origin, though perhaps very slowly, took a path which led him so far away from all that is merely animal, yet in such a fashion that he carried with him the whole inheritance of his biological pre-history into these realms of his existence remote from the animals, was there when man began to exist.18 And what now is historically and externally manifest, was then present as a task and as an active potentiality.

Next week, we'll celebrate the active struggle of life again in Pentecost and the call to go to the ends of the earth as messengers of the gospel.

This may look like working within the community as a partner, it may look like supporting active work, it may look like participating in a big life - changing way, foster care advocacy, it may look like writing to our government, employment, opportunity, friendship, or perhaps protesting or participating, it may look like advocating for these changes and opportunities at the highest levels of government.