Sentences with phrase «of making our voices heard»

«Sometimes [threatening not to report] is the only way you have of making your voice heard.»

Employing a staff of roughly 15 people, almost entirely female and representing the Midwest and West Coast markets, Huttner dedicates her time and talents in the hopes of making their voices heard.

You frequently hear AACTE champion the virtues of advocacy — of making your voice heard to help land you a place «at the table» rather than «on the menu.»

At the same time, we also learned the importance of making our voices heard right now in Sacramento.

Many folks in the AT community are aware of the need for native MathML support in EPUB reading systems but we lack sometimes a systematic way of making our voices heard.

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There's a lot of moving parts in the book, but at its core, it's about finding your voice and learning to make yourself heard, even if it's uncomfortable.

Making inclusion a cornerstone of company culture assures you that every good idea is voiced and heard.

In most companies, anyone from the CEO to the newest employee can access the same internal collaboration platform — think of the platform as a way for you to get virtual face time with management and make your voice heard.

But as awareness and concern reaches critical mass, it's likely that a growing number of LPs will make their voices heard — if not with words, then with dollars.

«It is not their intent to disrupt operations, but to make their voices heard and have their concerns of wage theft, safety, and working conditions to be taken seriously,» SEIU Local 1 spokesperson Izabel Miltko - Ivkovich told CNN Money.

Agrawal: We're very worried about the state of our country and our rights as women and our reproductive rights, and in order to not move backwards, we are playing our part to make sure that our voices are heard.

The likes of ex-RIM co-CEO Jim Balsillie have suggested the tech sector needs to lobby governments more actively, and 29 - year - old Litt believes there's a place for his fresh - faced cohort of entrepreneurs to make their voices heard.

Smaller players are looking forward with renewed confidence, according to the 2014 Hiscox DNA small business survey, which found that 51 % of smaller businesses in the U.S. are feeling good about the year ahead and want to make sure their voices are heard this week.

Editors rarely get phoned anymore which makes them far more open to hearing a real life person's voice on the other end of the phone.

«Members of the tech and business communities made their voices heard on the necessity of the IER, and we are dismayed that the Administration has chosen to ignore the advice of so many job creators,» Todd Schulte, FWD.us's president, said in a statement.

Burger King should be able to provide Tim Hortons with a bigger platform to make its voice heard south of the border.

Overall, there are plenty of social media posts screaming for people's attention, so making sure people hear your voice is vital.

New Democrats proposed: Adrian Dix and the New Democrats are opposed to the Enbridge pipeline, and will reclaim B.C.'s legal jurisdiction to conduct a «made in B.C.» environmental assessment to ensure the voices of all British Columbians are heard.

I hear the voice of someone shouting, «Make a highway for the Lord through the wilderness.

But what most of us want is to make your voice heard across green crescent and change the military - mullah - extremist - terrorist nexus, and bring peace to this insane world of crazy ideology.

At the very last moment, Abraham hears the true voice of God, the voice that says, «Don't send your hand onto the youth and don't make any blemish.»

«The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by human hands «Acts 17:24 «Then I heard another voice from heaven say: ««Come out of her, my people,» so that you will not share in her sins, so that you will not receive any of her plagues;» Revelation 18:4

Looking back on T. S. Eliot's life, Russell Kirk said, «He made the poet's voice heard again, and thereby triumphed; knowing the community of souls, he freed others from captivity to time and the lonely ego; in the teeth of winds of doctrine, he attested the permanent things.

What is possible for us is to take seriously what is said by those who speak from the side of oppressed groups, to do what we can to make sure their voices are heard, and to try to adjust our own living and thinking to make them more appropriate to what we have learned.

4) Making people who are not Christians feel that their voice will not be heard on the same level of Christian citizens.

That explanation would have made sense to me last year, when it felt like I actually heard God's voice or instruction or guidance well up from - as you said - inside of me.

The Gospels prepare us to hear the word of grace by first making us hear the voice of John, the voice crying in the desert, denouncing and exposing the leaders of the people as a «brood of vipers» and calling all to a baptism of repentance.

And on this day, called Hoshana Rabba, during the morning service, the priests would make seven circuits around the altar with palm branches and they took the branches and beat them on the floor of the synagogue or on the furniture while the worshippers would chant in unison, «the voice announcing the coming of the Messiah is heard, the voice announcing the coming of the Messiah is heard, the voice announcing the coming of the Messiah is heard.»

«We've been clear that people need to be able to feel strong in their religious identities and are making sure that the voices of people of faith are heard in Government.»

Behold, in the day of your fast you seek your own pleasure and oppress all your workers Fasting like yours this day will not make your voice to be heard on high.

So for example, in my case and that of other persons whose minds dissociate when we engage in intense / deep spiritual practices like intense / deep prayer, meditation, fasting etc and we hear voices, hallucinate, see visions, experience thought insertions, automatic channelling just like a spirit medium as well as other psychic phenomena (clairvoyance etc), and the mind dissociation makes some persons mentally and emotionally unstable; our minds enter an altered state of consciousness just like those of the Buddhist monks but in our case the altered state of our brains results in psychotic and psychic symptoms being induced (interestingly, some persons who are ignorant of how the human brain functions chalk up these experiences to demonic attack)......... are these psychotic, psychic experiences which persons like myself experience a gift from God as well?

I mean, I go back to the baptism of Jesus Christ where God spoke and His voice was heard from above, Jesus Christ was being baptized on earth and the Holy Ghost was coming down as a dove... well, you so call Christians don't make sense sometimes.

When we hear of those who have died in the «war on terror,» or from hunger and preventable diseases like AIDS, we often don't believe our voices and actions can make a difference.

Nevertheless, this wider movement of women making their voices heard is an example of the dynamism that characterizes all the cultures involved.

I was like Chopra... I was all about be positive and I realized that one day I could make money... but nobody would believe me because most of the time I hear voices that tell me things... well I can't tell you what they tell me.

I think of the steak dinners my parents make for us nearly every game day in the fall, the patchwork of crude drawings on our refrigerator, the last time I heard the swell of choir voices echo off cathedral walls.

It doesn't matter if Joe has absolutely no concept of an indoor voice or that Anne practiced my old trick of selective hearing, making me think there is definitely something to karma.

Yet as we look at each of the Five Points in more detail in subsequent posts, we will make room for other Calvinistic voices to be heard as well, and as we look at the biblical passages they use to defend their theology, we will see that Calvinism may not be as reasonable or biblical as it first appears.

In Jakim's rendering, the voice of the Underground Man achieves something of the startling novelty it no doubt had in the ears of those who first heard it, when the book made its debut and a new, altogether indispensable fictional personality entered the canon of modern literature.

For less than a cup of Coffee, you can make that difference and be involved in making history by making your and our voice heard this and every Christmas.

«After so many folks sacrificed so much so that we could make our voices heard, so many of us just can't be bothered,» she said.

Put up that screen again and from behind it let me hear a voice, female or male, awkwardly stumbling through a few sentences with this «her / his,» «humankind,» «repairperson» business, and I can make a strong prediction as to the class of the individual speaking.

Commission members are to open their April plenary by meeting with victims privately, and discussions are continuing to create an «international survivor advisory panel» to advise the commission and make sure the voices of victims are heard in all its deliberations, the statement said.

We are His sheep who hear His voice and will NOT follow another, but there is one comment by Jesus that for years has made me think along the lines of what you've written.

The claim of the Christian Church to make its voice heard in matters of politics and economics is very widely resented, even by those who are Christian in personal belief and in devotional practice.

Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee: And upon earth he showed thee his great fire; and thou heardest his words out of the midst of the fire.

When here and there in draft decrees of the Council stress was laid on this role of conscience as irreplaceable even in practice, anxious voices could be heard in the aula, pointing out in alarm that in earlier days the Church used to lay down clear and unmistakable norms, whereas now even at the Council appeal was being made to the individual conscience, so running the risk of slipping down into an arbitrary, subjective situation ethics.

A parallel cartoon might be made of a charismatic Christian thinking he's hearing Jesus» voice.

Perhaps it is our European genetic / cultural heritage that makes it so difficult for Western Christians to hear the voice of the Spirit of God within over the voice of our own narrow, individualist self - interest and disordered desires.

The signs are that the Catholic Church will at least make its voice heard when the Bill comes to be debated in the Commons: but any hope that the C of E will come up to scratch seems, on the evidence so far available, dubious to say the least.