Sentences with phrase «of members of society who»

A generational movement consisting of creative consumers who modify proprietary offerings, and of members of society who in turn use their developments, all without any moral and legal considerations.

For an interesting insight into human nature, talk to some of those members of our society who, in fact, are constantly lied to, to the point where they have come to expect falsehood.

Not exact matches

«There's a full section that talks about pay equity, and what is the larger impact that the gender pay gap has on our society, our economy, our families,» says Deepti Gudipati, vice president of member leadership programs for the AAUW, who is working with the city to roll out the program.

It's viewed better as a group of people, group of members who come together with a common goal and agenda, and a common sort of direction for how they want to help Bitcoin grow, help promote Bitcoin, in the face of challenges and push - backs from governments and other aspects of society.

We treat all members of World Club, Platinum Circle, Explorer's Club, Publisher's Roundtable, Lifetime Society and Real Estate Trend Alert who join us at our live events with the perks befitting a VIP.

Guardians (in this case guardians of legal minors) are those whose responsibility it is to provide care and protection for the members of society who can not care for themselves.

If they live their faith, I bet by and large, they are contributing members of society who place emphasis on good work ethic, honesty, education, family and kindness.

• The Colson Center held a lunch - time forum on religious freedom at the Evangelical Theological Society meeting, and the four speakers were Timothy George and Ryan Anderson, both members of our Advisory Council, and Thomas Farr and Russell Moore, both friends of the magazine who've written feature essays in the last two issues.

If the wise and prestigious members of society will not heed the Gospel, fortunately there are some who will — the simple, the openhearted, babes, as it were, whose innocence is credulous and believing.

Corporate sponsors included the Dominicans, of course, but also the Benedictines, Carmelites, Augustinians, the Society of Jesus and many others who bound their members in their statutes to follow the teaching of St. Thomas.

Congregational pastoral care occurs when members reach out through very concrete acts such as sitting by the bedside of someone who's ill, listening as parents describe their fears and grief when a teenager leaves home, offering hope to someone in despair, or praying for those who suffer on the margins of the church and society.

The changes in social structures of moral action, which previously were strongly linked to and supportive of Christian faith, has important implications both to how we conceive our relationship as Christians to our host society, and how we nurture ethical behaviour within adherents of the Christian faith who also participate fully as members of this society.

This is the great challenge to those of us who remain members of the affluent society, those of us who are unable or unwilling to make the sacrifices or the great change in lifestyle of the radical response: are we able to be serious about our faith?

Our society is not the same as that of first century Palestine, where families were close - knit and stable and elders were respected and those few who lived to a ripe old age could count on living out their years as an honored member of an extended family.

We, the president and the members of the commission, wish to affirm that our obligations under civil law must certainly be followed, but even beyond these civil requirements, we all have a moral and ethical responsibility to report suspected abuse to the civil authorities who are charged with protecting our society.

A member of African society has a moral responsibility in regards to past generations to venerate the ancestors; a moral responsibility in regards to the present generation to consider the well - being of his / her contemporaries throughout the community; and a moral responsibility in regards to future generations to create conditions which serve the well - being of those who are called «the beautiful ones» by Ayi Kwei Armah in his classical novel — The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born.

We are called to selflessly love not only members of our own communities (who look like us and believe like us), but also those who society would have us believe are our «enemies.»

Consider a partial list of developments since just World War II: a broad national decline in denominational loyalty, changes in ethnic identity as hyphenated Americans enter the third and subsequent generations after immigration, the great explosion in the number of competing secular colleges and universities, the professionalization of academic disciplines with concomitant professional formation of faculty members during graduate education, the dramatic rise in the percentage of the population who seek higher education, the sharp trend toward seeing education largely in vocational and economic terms, the rise in government regulation and financing, the great increase in the complexity and cost of higher education, the development of a more litigious society, the legal end of in loco parentis, an exponential and accelerating growth in human knowledge, and so on.

The survival of recognizably Protestant colleges therefore seems to depend on the survival within the larger society of Protestant enclaves whose members believe passionately in a way of life radically different from that of the majority, and who are both willing and able to pay for a brand of higher education that embodies their vision.

On this issue it is possible to experience such contradictory jolts of conscience that one finally doesn't know whether to list oneself as a member of a society of the courageously righteous who are mature enough to face up to life's ambiguity and do the difficult things that freedom requires — or simply a society of moral failures.

You're certainly correct that we need to be clear about the terms we are talking about, for example the first two «we's in this sentence refer to you and I specifically, or generally anyone who is engaging in a debate / discussion — but when I said «If war is wrong, then it follows that we should never go to war» the «we» meant Christians, when I'm talking to you I agree that we are talking about what we as followers of Jesus should do, not just generally members of a given country or society should do.

There are, for example, highly conservative evangelical or fundamentalist Christians, including one ranking member of Pat Robertson's presidential campaign team, who oppose capital punishment on the grounds that responsibility for life and death belongs only to God, and that society should never cut short any person's opportunity to repent or embrace faith.

Clearly this dimension is far more important in Orthodox and Catholic churches with their elaborate services than it is to austere Protestant churches or to members of the Society of Friends (Quakers), who sit together mostly in silence.

Such openness and receptivity, he found more frequently among those who knew themselves as sinners than among the outwardly righteous members of society.

When one of the members of the society collected a list of young men who frequented whorehouses in Boston, Mather set the society to «writing reproving letters to each of the fornicators.»

Soviet spies were of the left generally, they supported liberal causes, they defended the Soviet Union in all circumstances, they were often secret members of the Communist Party, they were uniformly suspicious of American initiatives throughout the world, they could be contemptuous of American democracy, society, and culture, and, above all, their offenses were often minimized or explained away by apologists who felt that no man should be called traitor who did what he did for the cause of humanity.

After every one of the Bach Collegium's performances Suzuki is crowded on the podium by non-Christian members of the audience who wish to talk to him about topics that are normally taboo in Japanese society — death, for example.

Communities may exist as cooperative societies made up of essentially independent and self - reliant members who share common concerns.

Father Lapomarda, who heads the Hiatt Holocaust Collection at Holy Cross college, is the author of a previous acclaimed study, The Jesuits and the Third Reich, which established how many members of the Society of Jesus — who took a special oath of fidelity to the pope — actively opposed Hitler and his crimes.

But that crude caricature of religious belief and moral conviction is false; it's adolescent, if not downright childish; it inevitably lends itself to the kind of vulgarity that intends to wound, not amuse; and over the long haul, it's as corrosive of the foundations of a decent society as the demented rage of the jihadists who murdered members of Charlie Hebdo's staff.

One was the work of a sociologist, Earl Brewer, who, with the aid of a theologian and a ministries specialist, sought by an extensive content analysis of sermons and other addresses given in a rural and an urban church to differentiate the patterns of belief and value constituting those two parishes.67 The second was the inquiry of a religious educator, C. Ellis Nelson, who departed from a curricular definition of education to envision the congregation as a «primary society» whose integral culture conditions its young and old members.68 James Dittes, the third author, described more fully the nature of the culture encountered in the local church.

The pages of the Torah resonate with a profound concern for the socially and economically vulnerable in society — the poor, day laborers, orphans and widows, resident aliens, and even the Levites who, unlike members of other tribes, were assigned no parcels of land in Israel.

The attachments that develop among the members of small groups demonstrate clearly that we are not a society of rugged individualists who wish to go it entirely alone, but are a communal people who, even amid the dislocating tendencies of our society, are capable of banding together in bonds of mutual support.

The prophets after the Exile are of a lesser breed, and most of the authors of the period are anonymous members of the community who give expression to a wide range of religious experience as it comes to individuals living within the framework of a religious society.

In our modern, fragmented societies, where families are often isolated from the help of extended family members or other close communities, it can indeed be a burden for some families who have many children.

Significantly, alongside this theological development the term person had also evolved in the secular sphere, and had come to be applied to all members of society with civil and legal rights, to all who could be designated as actors in the drama of public life.

A weak moral structure will lead to individuals who act for themselves or with disregard to the needs of the society, resulting in internal conflict and the likely failure of the society if the members aren't capable of completely independent survival (and humans aren't).

The economic factors of life in many primitive cultures dictated that those members of the tribe who could not share the burden of the struggle for survival were not carried by the tribe, even as revered, elderly dependents of the society.

In practice the people who severely limit the number of children they have tend to be the more successful, productive members of society, the kind of people who understand the consequences of unrestricted population growth and so on.

In this fashion he swept through Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York, leaving behind thousands of convinced antislavery members who organized local societies.

Social Gospellers were members of the oppressing group who sympathized with the oppressed and wanted to extend to them the benefits of the oppressor's society.

Because of this immigrant quota, ICE is literally grabbing people (who have been law - abiding, productive members of society) for some minor infraction that happened 20 or 30 years ago!

Inadvertently, those process thinkers who think of the Jesus - event as the common element of form that is the defining characteristic of the society called the church can be interpreted to depict the Jesus - event as having agency, as the mind of the organism, in a manner of speaking, that subsumes the individuality of it members.

The first, to be held in Daniel's private dining room, is for 27 members of the «international gastronomic society» the Chaîne des Rôtisseurs, who have amassed for a feast of old - school French dishes drawn from Boulud's book Daniel: My French Cuisine.

The McCarrison Society for Nutrition and Health was formed in 1966 by a group of doctors, dentists and a veterinarian, all members of the Soil Association, who were convinced of the supreme importance of nutrition in the promotion of health and the prevention of disease.

«When you talk about investment in a child, it's not just buying the Pampers — it's all the things that go into producing an adult who's a functioning and productive member of society,» she says.

In a fit of pique the other night, Leavitt went through a list of the members of the society, noting those with few or no horses, those with favored family connections, those with no visible qualifications and one who is «a dedicated drunk.»

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Providing environments that support healthy emotional as well as academic growth makes it more likely that we will see kids who are not diverted from their job of becoming engaged, reasonably happy, functioning members of society.

It was attended by many prominent community figures, including Mayor Susan Haynie and the Boca Raton council members, Mary Csar of the Boca Raton Historical Society, and several board members from the Junior League of Boca Raton, who also received one of the special Addison Boca Raton awards that evening!