Sentences with phrase «of listening to its community»

Local B.C. Liberal MLAs dismissed concerns raised by doctors, local representatives and the public from the very start, and instead of listening to the community and ordering a full environmental assessment of the creosote incinerator, their government issued permits and announced taxpayer - funded grants for the company.

«Our approach to wellbeing is very aligned and the Urban Wellness Retreat is a result of listening to our communities and understanding what they need.»

(or moving it somewhere else???) DE (Digital Extremes), the developers of Warframe, have done an amazing job of listening to their community.

Steam user Atrium sums up the issue stating that essentially what caused most of the problems is the lack of listening to the community and a test server whereby the community could test out the new additions before it was implemented across the board.

While it still makes mistakes here and there, it has managed to adhere to its core belief of listening to its community, while building a device that is both affordable and competitive.

Not exact matches

It's not only a great listening device for tapping into your target audience's community, but also a place to share your expertise and gain loads of customers.

«If you go back to some of the threads from year one or year two of League of Legends and all the Riot [online] forums,» says Steve Arhancet, a former pro gamer and now co-CEO of LoL team Team Liquid, «you had your developers, your executives, all chiming in to the conversation, listening to the community, making adjustments based on forum threads.

In the Street Art Project, users can watch and listen to artists sharing their stories, see every detail of over 4,000 pieces of art in high - definition imagery and become part of the Google Street Art community by sharing photos of street art on social media with #streetartproject.

With a community of like - minded colleagues that share your beliefs, have insight and expertise in your sector and can be there to chew the fat, spit ball ideas and occasionally listen to your anguished cried of pain helps keep you on track, keeps you smiling, and keeps you focused.

RECENTLY I had the opportunity to listen directly to the key thoughts of a value - creating chief executive officer, one of the clear leaders in the Australian business community and one whose appointment and subsequent

What's important to take from these examples is that the best, most innovative, most forward - thinking companies have made it part of their model to constantly monitor and listen to their communities.

They've done a great job of listening to the Bitcoin community and now offer a bunch of items that appeal directly to Bitcoiners.

The Mobile Vaani network makes use of an intelligent IVR (interactive voice response) system that allows people to make a free call into a number and leave a message about their community, or listen to messages left by others.

We do things like take organization - wide coffee breaks where we ask staff to go buy a coffee and ponder a specific question; we hold online book clubs and create communities of shared interests that range from using data tools to vegetarian cooking to working parents; around the holidays we host regional holiday parties and virtual «Holi - DJ» listening parties, where team members swap playlists of their favorite music.

«As we open our doors to UK crypto enthusiasts, we're listening and acting on what the community wants - and that's an array of good quality coin options to trade; all backed by a reliable, comprehensive and user - friendly service that they can trust.»

SURREY — All levels of government must listen to community outrage over violence in Surrey and come together to create a safer, healthier community, say New Democrats.

If anyone outside of the bitcoin community would have listened to various mainstream media outlets this week, one would think that the virtual currency market has imploded, investors have lost their entire net wealth a la 1929's Black Tuesday and critics have been proven correct.

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And what I think we're seeing now in the first part of this year with the market correction with the experience is a new and rejuvenated community that understands the reason for regulation: not to put handcuffs on people, but ultimately to say, listen, this is best for the community, this is best for the global economy moving forward, and it is time we take noticed to move responsibly forward.

In November 2015, Enbridge attended a ceremony to listen to the traditional knowledge of Elders of AMC member communities.

«I think that's a great opportunity for the Church to go in, be the hands and feet of Jesus, and really meet that community where it's at, just being the presence of God, being a listening ear and being able to help people.»

One night Grey listened to village politicians in a Chicago suburb as they claimed that gambling would generate vast amounts of wealth and economic growth in their community.

Holiness for me was found in the mess and labour of giving birth, in birthday parties and community pools, in the battling sweetness of breastfeeding, in the repetition of cleaning, in the step of faith it took to go back to church again, in the hours of chatting that have to precede the real heart - to - heart talks, in the yelling at my kids sometimes, in the crying in restaurants with broken hearted friends, in the uncomfortable silences at our bible study when we're all weighing whether or not to say what we really think, in the arguments inherent to staying in love with each other, in the unwelcome number on the scale, in the sounding out of vowels during bedtime book reading, in the dust and stink and heat of a tent city in Port au Prince, in the beauty of a soccer game in the Haitian dust, in the listening to someone else's story, in the telling of my own brokenness, in the repentance, in the secret telling and the secret keeping, in the suffering and the mourning, in the late nights tending sick babies, in confronting fears, in the all of a life.

A member of the Miwaukee area Sikh community weeps as he listens to information about the shooting spree in Wisconsin.

Obviously, the real work begins when we come together in community to do the hard, daily work of reconciliation, listening, serving, and worshipping in spirit and truth.

Preparation for preaching, therefore, should include time spent studying the human and social implications of their pastoral and community relationships; reading papers and magazines; listening to radio; watching television; attending the theater and movies in order that the church's preaching may engage the meanings that influence people with the meanings of the gospel.

C. Ability to listen, understand and formulate the real needs of persons and structures from all areas of the community.

Because the information and entertainment industries serve to consolidate those same structures, in which the voice of the people is not listened to and is often silenced, in which we have to demystify media power, and in which it is necessary to work with the whole community to create structures that allow the right to communication to be expressed in all its fullness.

It's an awesome online community of a great diversity of kind people waiting to listen to what...

I seen and heard the line of crap about helping your community while screwing members of the church Also I did not have enough faith and thats why I developed cancer Never again will I listen to such bc again we went back to my original church a small Catholic Church and refuse to watch any mega churches or attend them Hypocrites

However, for Nahmanides (Notes on the Book of Commandments, Positive Commandment 5), the commandment to pray applies only when the community is faced with great distress and then, in that moment, it is an imperative to affirm our belief in a God that listens to prayers and intervenes.

So the approach of the conference was to try to hear the message Muhammad recited and to listen in it for a word of God to those of another community of faith.

But I believe that in these sorts of situations, Christians need to stop and listen to the LGBTQ community and what they say about Christian hatred.

If one has never journeyed into the deep — prayed (which includes Scripture / theological study, faith sharing, adoration, spiritual formation / retreats, pilgramages, Mass, reconciliation, fasting, listening for God's voice, and more) on an ongoing fashion or done God's will (been obedient, patient, humble, unconditionally sacrificing, unselfish) to the extent that they understand what it means to be Catholic and God being your number one priority — that His Ways and those of His Church are not the ways of the world (trade vices for virtues) and that we are being called into communion with Him via love for Him and one another in our faith community and broader community — then it is no wonder some are lost or disillusioned.

While these programs are usually beneficial to the community, they serve as platforms for religious dogma — the old «hey we are doing something for you so you need to listen to, and believe what we tell you regardless of how counterintuitive it may seem».

The people listen to preaching both out of and toward their engagement in community organizations.

Theology finds it primary task in assisting the community (of faith) to listen, worship, preach and serve.

Maybe some people don't like just sitting on their asses every Sunday and listening to the blah blah blah of whoever is up there loving the spot light... maybe that's why they leave, maybe they are tired of the bull shit and lack of real community, not the «community of a few in a little social club»... hmmm?

Listen to Craddock again: «Historically and theologically the community and the book belong together in a relationship of reciprocity.

And... IF my community members show the need for the second site (TLS), that is, the willingness to actually engage in a real exchange of communication, the willingness to listen, and to write with a careful choice of words... to heal rather than to take advantage of the wounded... then, I may consider recommending the TLS site.

«I think in aftermath Grenfell Tower, if anything positive can come after such a tragedy, it's that all of a sudden our community is being listened to and we have a voice.

It might not be copper coins that we sacrifice to faithfully walk in our calling; rather, it might be time to listen to someone who has a story or experience to process, commitment to a cause that needs the aid of faithful volunteers, mental effort to solve a problem that has caused havoc in a community, patience with someone God has asked us to accompany through a trial.

And it means listening to the stories of survivors, identifying our blind spots, learning from our mistakes, and vowing to do everything in our power to make our churches and faith communities safer places to worship and grow together.

Like disciplined thought itself, community flourishes or perishes depending not only upon the critical acumen of the various voices that comprise it but also upon the extent to which and the manner in which they respect and listen to one another.

Characteristically they invite the listening community out beyond the presumed world to a new world of freedom, joy, and obedience.

The listening community is engaged in a constructive act of construal, of choosing, discerning and shaping the text through the way the community chooses to listen.

Rob Parsons, chair of Care for the Family, said: «In our experience, the second deepest hurt of those who have suffered abuse is so often having nobody who will listen to their plight, or even sometimes a Church culture which will not allow the possibility that such things could occur within its community.

In our communities, it could be going to town hall meetings and listening to the grievances of our neighbors that are being wrongfully pursued in various ways within law enforcement.

The Anglican scholar gave large credit both to experience and to the Bible, but stressed that in actual churchmanship, decisions become, in the last analysis, either a matter of thin individualism or of listening to the long wisdom of the mature church and of co-operating with the total community in its faithfulness to the inner heart of the Gospel.

Revd Paul Hackwood, executive chair of Church Urban Fund, said: «This exercise shows us how important it is for churches to spend time listening to people in their communities.