Sentences with phrase «of families living»

When Steven Goodbred, an Earth and environmental researcher at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, came across this site during a field trip in 2011, he and his students were shocked to find the land still badly flooded and thousands of families living in tents and ramshackle huts.

Ministers say it will free up homes for thousands of families living in overcrowded conditions.

But a program about my area this week on BBC Wales showed the utter devastation in my area of families living on what is now well below poverty levels, one chap said after he pays his bills electric gas water he is left with ten pound a week to buy food, and thats not unusual around me.

A great number of the families living there are from the State of Puebla, and so the food sold at said restaurants are inspired by the dishes in that state, like these quesadillas which are made of fresh masa (or corn masa - harina mix) tortillas folded in half and stuffed with cheese, shredded beef, and other fillings.

Millions of families living in federally subsidized public housing would have to pay more for rent under a Trump administration proposal.

Innovation and Activities Living Goods seeks to reinvent how the poor access vital goods and services, leading to significant gains in the health and wealth of families living in poverty.

Living Goods seeks to reinvent how the poor access vital goods and services, leading to significant gains in the health and wealth of families living in poverty.

Cedar: We pursue a model we call «Parallel Innovation,» where we incubate core technologies with the potential to empower millions of families living in energy poverty around the world.

She cites a 2007 UCLA study that found «the quiet, in - between moments of family life did as much of the real work of family bonding as any fabricated family time.»

The intersection of family life and business can be chaotic.

Most important, they become aware that their work is a stressor — that they need to leave it behind when they go home, to improve the quality of their family life and free time.

Being rich helps more than anything else, but it is not all that counts; things like crime, trust in public institutions and the health of family life matter too.

«It seems such a minor, sideline type of measure, but it does strike at the core of whether a job is workable within the context of family life,» said Lisa Guide, associate director of the Rockefeller Family Fund, which has financed research and advocacy on this subject.

The mainline Protestants quickly embraced the new «diversity,» especially of family living arrangements.

His strength on the dimension of ethos lies in his steadiness and the probity of his family life and personal character.

And, sometimes the tragedy of family life.

We pledge to stand with you, our Christian brothers and sisters of the historic Black church, and to work arm in arm with you in Christ - like self - sacrificial love to build in America a true culture of life and of family life.

Here the Supreme Court began to set in legal concrete the notion that sexual morals and patterns of family life are matters of private choice or taste, not matters of public concern in which the state has a legitimate interest.

The proliferation of communication technologies, the changing structure of everyday life (due largely to technology), the growing complexity of family life, the changing understandings and norms of sexual conduct and the expansion of consumer culture (as evidenced by unprecedented levels of consumer debt) are only a few of the conditions that present pastors with new kinds of demands.

Understood in this way, a family is something quite different from a political community, and the language of «rights» — which, in my own view, has served us well in the political sphere — is peculiarly unable to capture the texture of family life.

These are the days when I light a candle, even (or maybe especially) in the chaos and noise of family life because Brian is home from his travels and I have a buttoned - up Easter lily on my kitchen table.

We could think about this parable in terms of family life.

What has been interesting is that our political classes are, by and large, indifferent to the importance of family life for the well - being of society.

Anyway, I was thinking about that word «undignified» after that come - to - Jesus moment a few weeks ago, and realised that I've almost always found God most in my undignified moments — by dancing ridiculously, by telling secrets, by being willing to be foolish, by taking chances, by working hard, by engaging in the mess and weirdness of family life, all of it.

You used to be a night owl but that has changed over the years in response to the demands of family life and work.

Every people has its culture, whether primitive or advanced, and this culture is discerned in the folkways and moral standards, forms of family life, economic enterprises, laws and modes of dealing with lawbreakers, forms of recreation, religion, art, education, science, and philosophy that constitute the social aspects of human existence as contrasted with the bare biological fact of living.

If you marry my wise daughter and settle down in the household, you will - by virtue of a family life lived well - gain all the wisdom that you are seeking.

The synod agreed that the evils responsible for the recent catastrophes were such things as pride in heart and body, a spiritual falling away, excessive profanity, breakdown of family life, and failure to observe the Sabbath.

In seven short years there has been a massive transformation in the understanding of family life.

The Church recognises the family as the building block of society and for good reason has carefully defended the understanding of family relationships and of human sexuality which is so intimately linked to the ordering of family life and the procreation of succeeding generations.

I met with the Jan and Yousef families in northern Amman, where the 14 members of their families live in a small apartment that they can not afford with zero opportunity to return, work, or emigrate.

The friendly visitors often helped the patient readjust in the area of his family life.

By working to get these recognised as social evils akin to racism or sexism [2] it has been possible to get towards the goal, which is that homosexual behaviour is firmly accepted in society and that society should be indifferent to the form of relationships which individuals choose to enter or make the basis of their family lives.

In their introduction to Domestic Revolution: A Social History of Domestic Family Life (Free Press, 1987) Steven Mintz and Susan Kellogg paint a portrait of family life today:

The family was confronted by the crisis of the fall and return of the prodigal, and in this crisis the quality of the father's love made possible a new and deeper reality of family life and relationships.

Through documenting the changing patterns and forms of family life in America, Mintz and Kellogg dispel the popular sentiment that the American family is in a state of decay.

He was the father that God gave us for the great adventure of family life.

So while the current vision is important — women do need encouragement as they battle the frustrations of family life — it is also rather small.

The success that conservative Protestant churches have achieved in combining a clear vision of family life with innovative family programs for nontraditional families suggests that the mainline could do something similar.

This imbroglio is emblematic of the mainline's difficulty with articulating a substantive vision of family life and family ministry in recent decades.

We often wish we could find a verse that would settle all the complex issues of family life, economic competition and tension, international order, and war.

Extend this dilemma to problems of family life and business dealings, to the moot problems of school integration and the use of atomic and hydrogen bombs in war, and it becomes evident that there is no unanimity among Christians as to the will of God in concrete matters of ethical decision.

But neither do we have the reign of God for the redemption of society when Christians are unconcerned about the plight of their fellow men, or when such giant evils as war, race discrimination, alcoholism, economic injustice, hunger and homelessness, and the shattering of family life go unchallenged.

The irony is that there will be no renewal of family life until authentic alternatives to family exist for persons who are not called to that very special and demanding relationship.

These and others show themselves in broken homes, juvenile delinquency, and the general unsettledness of family life.

And their newfound strength leads them to gradually change the pattern of relationship with their husbands, and contribute to the conversion of many and thus to the transformation of family life.»

They earn higher incomes, but there may be a disruption of family life, neglect of children, trauma effects on them etc..

But this way of thinking about the normal patterns and tensions of family life makes it seems like the evils of «the world» have invaded «the Christian home.»

For instance, the goods of family life are undermined by the communist imperative to inform, even on family — a duty the show drives home with all the subtlety of an American after - school anti-drug special.

The same principles have taken hold in many families, where sweetness and light and good times have been the primary objectives of family living.