Sentences with phrase «of civil relationship»

She's too good for him — kind and insecure, and deserving of a civil relationship that's beyond his capacity.

This article is helpful if you have the type of situation where the father and mother have some kind of civil relationship.

Not exact matches

«I have a civil relationship with everyone at Nutanix,» he says, but «I did not take money from any of the people associated [with Nutanix].

After a civil conversation, it became apparent that the two of us had different visions of how this relationship was going to work out, and thus had completely different expectations.

Berkun credits «the relationships he built with the society of civil engineers, and the investments he made in explaining to them why his design was superior to others.»

Will the SEC take this opportunity to clarify that same - sex couples in civil unions, domestic partnerships, and similar legal relationships intended to give them at least some of the economic benefits of marriage, are «spouses» to one another, and thus eligible for the alternative accredited investor qualification standard made available to persons who are married (with the Supreme Court's recent decision striking down Section 3 of DOMA, it is already clear that persons in same - sex marriages are «spouses» to one another)?

Recalling that internationally - recognized human rights include social, economic, and cultural rights as well as political and civil rights, we should acknowledge that economic relations and human rights are mutually supportive dimensions of our mature relationship with China.

When a foreign born gay or lesbian has to leave the country despite being in a committed relationship because they can't marry and get the same benefit of residency that the spouses of hetero Americans use all the time, that's a civil rights issue.

When two people live in a committed relationship for decades and some hospital functionary bars one from visiting the other in the hospital because they can't marry and hence are technically unrelated in the eyes of the law, that is a civil rights issue.

In squeezing civil society and in effacing the distinction between levels of government, the President's vision would seem to leave little room for the development or maintenance of a rightly ordered relationship between the individual and the community.

Bishop Mark will also express concern that the Government may «further undermine» marriage as it considers proposals to reform marriage registration for the first time since 1837, including a right of heterosexuals to register relationships as civil partnerships instead of marriages.

In this chapter, one has a fuller and more subtle exposition of the relationship between religion, civil religion, and the American Revolution.

What is happening here, for the first time in two thousand years, for the first time since the apostle Paul pondered the continuing «mystery» of Living Judaism, for the first time since the Church condemned Marcion as a heretic in the second century, for the first time since so many things in our tortuously entangled relationship, is that believing Jews and Christians are encountering one another on a footing of civil equality in a shared exploration of the way through history of the God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Jesus.

Branch carefully follows King's path to the Dexter Avenue pulpit, describing his often tempestuous relationship with his father and tracing his maturation from a dandyish Morehouse College undergraduate to a thoughtful scholar - minister with advanced degrees from Crozer Theological Seminary and Boston University (where he met Coretta Scott, whom he married against the wishes of «Daddy» King) In one of his all - too - rare explorations of the intellectual underpinnings of the civil rights movement, Branch makes a solid case in these early chapters for the decisive influence of Reinhold Niebuhr on the development of King's moral philosophy.

Civil unions are contractual representations of a business relationship and governments should work hard to keep things on a business basis.

The advice issued by the House of Bishops at the time did not prevent clergy from entering civil partnerships, on the basis that the law did not specify the relationship as necessarily sexual.

Four young men have filed civil lawsuits accusing him of abusing his spiritual authority to coerce them into sexual relationships, allegations he has denied in a statement issued by his attorney.

Children must «learn the nature of Civil Partnership, and the importance of strong and stable relationships».

That debate is poised to go public again because of the upcoming release of two potentially explosive books, one of which examines King's close relationship with an openly gay civil rights leader, Bayard Rustin.

There are an awful lot of gay clergy in the C of E, especially at the high church end and t he church has had to allow for them to be in civil partnerships with their same sex partners and share church accomodation, whilst never explicitly acknowledging that these are sexual relationships — a typical Anglican compromise and a very English, «we won't mention it» way of dealing with a situation.

Self - involved, self - righteous, and sullen, the adult Scout is a young woman trying to make sense of her relationship to the town, or more precisely, trying to make sense of what it means to remain in continuity with this world when its aggressive reaction to national events is at odds with her own, which, it has to be said, is not without some unseemly elements (as when she assures a relative that while she supports civil rights, she'd never want to marry a black man, personally).

If marriage and civil partnerships are all about commitment, as David Cameron insists, then there is no difference, apart from the sexual aspect, between the relationship of a same - sex couples and that of equally loving, cohabiting sisters.

A healthy civil society is marked by a flourishing of such groups and relationships freely cooperating in a spirit of solidarity.

America's public faith (a term I prefer to «civil religion») emerged precisely because denominationalism could be tolerated only if a creative relationship to the larger political and cultural dimensions of religious necessity were maintained.

The complex of organisations and relationships that form civil society provide the environment in which we typically experience our everyday lives.

David Quinn also commented that a legalisation of same - sex «marriage» would perpetuate the discrimination against non-sexual relationships, which has been created by allowing civil partnerships.

If the Church is deeply engaged in the civil rights movement, if it is struggling against right - wing misrepresentation of Christianity and of civil life, if it finds itself in a new phase of the Church - State relationship, if it is deeply involved in urbanization and in the passing of previous forms that once marked the so - called Christian epoch, then all these factors must have a profound impact upon theological education and the preparation of men for the ministry.

But the other elements of community organizing would come together again and again: the foot - slogging, one - on - one recruitment effort to form an organization of organizations, the struggle to get past ethnic differences, the taking of the public stage, the sequence of conflict - organization - power as the route to negotiation, and the critical relationship to other social movements — which became a guarded relation to the civil rights movement.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

For instance, we are told: «Civil partnerships were a huge step forward in the recognition of homosexual love and commitment in a relationship» (p69).

Fairly distinct types of solution to the religio - political problem (Or fairly distinct types of civil religion) seem to correlate with the phases of religious evolution as I have described them.3 In primitive society neither politics nor religion is very well differentiated, so there is not much point in talking about the relationship between them.

Too many of us involved in the civil rights and antiwar movements wrecked our marriages and other relationships.

Edward Shils explains the relationship this way: «The notion that every man has a spark of divinity in him, that all men participate in a common substance — sacred in the last analysis but civil in its concrete and mediated forms — has grown out of the conjunction of the modern national State and Christian Protestantism.

Answering the question about the Church's relationship to the civil order, at any moment in history, requires us to begin with ecclesiology and to remember that the Church's first obligation is to be the Church: the communio that witnesses to the Resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ and the in - breaking of the kingdom of God, here and now.

School prayer and abortion — the items highlighted in the survey — are comfortably within the realm of family values, but they are something else, too: questions closely allied to the First and Fourteenth Amendments, to civil rights as much as to family values, and, above all, to the nature of the relationship between the individual and the Creator who, as our Declaration states, endows each one of us with every right that matters.

Of course none of this addresses that some feel they should not be excluded by any U.S. law from using the term to signify their civil relationship in the way they choosOf course none of this addresses that some feel they should not be excluded by any U.S. law from using the term to signify their civil relationship in the way they choosof this addresses that some feel they should not be excluded by any U.S. law from using the term to signify their civil relationship in the way they choose.

4) Facilitation / Divorce Co-ordinator (Couples / Family): Facilitation can be used to resolve any type of family dispute — divorce (financial aspects, contact and care, rights and responsibilities in respect of the parents to the children, holiday contact, maintenance issues), post-divorce disputes (ongoing contact, disputes with regard to joint decisions to be made between the parties etc), maintenance, permanent relationship or civil union disputes, relocation matters, testamentary division.

The rule of Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos seemed secure: the government had insulated itself from civil society groups working on human rights and governance issues, improved its relationships with business - hungry Western states, and deepened its strategic partnership with China.

The Civil Partnership Act 2004 comes into force today, enabling gay couples to obtain legal recognition of their relationships.

Like other religious opponents of same - sex marriage, he goes on to argue that civil partnership is «in every respect in ethical terms an honourable contract of a committed relationship».

As a result of this, often cosy relationships are formed between defence contractors, politicians and civil servants.

e. Project its civil military cooperation relationship by creating awareness prior to the provision of people oriented programme and sustain it through vigorous pursuit and provisions to Tarabans.

Government could use parliamentary committees to look at proposals and identify problems in advance — pre-legislative scrutiny in practice doesn't match its current remit, and there is a need to bring back «in - house» a lot of work that was traditionally done by civil servants but has been outsourced, with an unhealthy relationship between the private sector and consultants.

Regardless of the rights and the wrongs of this particular case it does raise very important questions about the relationship between ministers and civil servants.

Assad is not worried about significant Western intervention because he believes that the West will not risk World War III with its ally Russia over its conduct of a civil war in which the West has only modest material interests, particularly given Donald Trump's history of a cozy relationship with Russia.

But from what is public about their toxic relationship, Brown didn't practice tough love... he was an enablear.Whitney's tragedy should not be used to defend the counterproductive war on drugs.This war has failed; mainly serves the money intererts of the prison / industrial complex; and has strongly curtailed our civil liberties.Insteaed, Houston's tragedy should be used to argue the position that drugs and drug addiction is a medical issue, not a criminal issue.The war on drugs should be reconfigured, beginning with the legalization of medical pot

«We don't feel there is either a necessity or a requirement to open up civil partnerships to heterosexuals because there is no deficit there — there is no lack of an ability to be able to formalise a relationship in a legal way,» she said then.

Alongside this push for marriage rights I've simultaneously been championing a whole new legal framework of relationship recognition, rights and responsibilities which I've called a civil commitment pact.

Based at the University of Edinburgh, the Forum runs a programme of national and international activities to draw natural and social scientists, policy makers, regulators, civil society and business into an ongoing dialogue about the relationship between genomics and society.

In every case, the rules regarding the application and effectiveness of the legal norms, legal - civil relationship on the marriage, ordinance of registrations and public instruments -LRB-?)