Sentences with phrase «of ordinary practice»

The familial group is smaller, not only because family planning has become a matter of ordinary practice but also because economic and social conditions have made large households almost impossible to maintain.

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South Korean family - run business empires like Samsung Group have a reputation for low dividend payouts and other governance practices that favour controlling shareholders at the expense of ordinary investors.

«The defining difference between Silicon Valley companies and almost every other industry in the U.S. is the virtually universal practice among tech companies of distributing meaningful equity (usually in the form of stock options) to ordinary employees.

If ordinary Christians could feel confident that having a faith was a reasonable life choice, was normal, acceptable, then this part of their lives wouldn't have to be practiced in the shadows.

These acts may seem small and limited, against a global background of persecution and terror, but every act of kindness and mercy, practiced on a wide scale, by ordinary believers, would be significant.

If what I believe about Love doesn't find a roost here in my regular and ordinary and unremarkable life where I learn and practice what Eugene Peterson called «the biggest nouns and verbs,» then I have no right to those words in moments of transformation and change and importance.

None of this is intrinsic to the Missa Normativa, but accretions and excesses have so often become identified with it in practice that it has fuelled the false perception, on both sides of the progressive / traditional divide, that the ancient (Extraordinary) and modern (Ordinary) forms of the Roman Rite embody two opposing ecclesiologies.

Not the haburah fellowship meal celebrated by a group of Pharisees; no such meal existed (J. Jeremias, Eucharistic Words of Jesus [1965], pp. 30 f.) Not the Qumran communal meal anticipating the «messianic banquet», for all that this may have influenced the Christian practice, because that is simply a special meaning given to the regular communal meal at Qumran, whereas our evidence indicates that the Christian practice was something out of the ordinary which the early Christians did and which helped to give them a special identity.

What is the relation of this teaching to the ordinary moral practices of society?

These forces are the stuff of everyday life: rates of birth higher for Mexicans and Mexican - Americans than for most other ethnic groups; a chain of entirely legal immigration, as Mexican - Americans bestow residency and citizenship on their spouses, children and parents; and a practice of illegal immigration that is, in the vast majority of instances, born from ordinary people exercising common sense.

The ordinary members of the Orthodox and Byzantine Rite Catholic Churches have a far less authoritarian mentality than Catholics, a far more widespread and lively sense of the richness of their traditions of prayer and practice, and a far more secure sense of ownership by the people of the symbols which provide continuity with the Christian past and guidance to its future.

His first book, The Way of the Prisoner (Lantern, 2003), deals with centering prayer and abounds with examples of how ordinary Christians can practice what ancient monks did in their cells.

Because it is education that must proceed indirectly by way of the examination of texts and practices whose study is believed to lead to understanding God and all else in relation to God, and because those texts and practices employ ordinary languages belonging to widely shared cultures and do themselves have cultural locations, such education is inescapably a public undertaking, understandable to anyone who understands the relevant languages and cultures.

It suggests that, in addition to the contempt shown for human life in these practices, they are also very bad medicine: «One is struck by the fact that, in any other area of medicine, ordinary professional ethics would never allow a medical procedure which involved such a high number of failures and fatalities» (DP 15).

A practice that appears to give people what they want — and what some of them are prepared to clamor for — turns out to be difficult to combat with ordinary professional experience and wisdom.

Yes, Science and spirituality are «friends» after all, but this recognition and practice is a neglected treasure in a society so materialized, animalizedand, often, religiously misdirected, as to be blinded by the senses and fear they worship instead of using those senses as agents to advance beyond the cave of ordinary thought.

«The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.»

So the devotion had finally made its way into the life of every ordinary Catholic, beating a new life and fervour into the practice of the faith by drawing fresh attention to the true motivating love behind all of Christ's actions.

A community is true when, in the ordinary circumstances of daily life, its institutions and practices enable persons to multiply the frequency of their acts of knowing and loving.

Tolentino says the destroyed field was part of a study aiming to figure out whether Golden Rice will behave just like ordinary rice, thereby not requiring farmers to change their practices.

In that ordinary yet profound moment, I appreciated that all of the patience, compassion, responding with sensitivity, and positive discipline I have practiced raising my children.

Do you have a favorite story that illustrates how your practice of Attachment Parenting, in an ordinary situation, helped you overcome a parenting challenge?

SILVER claimed his law practice involved the representation of «plain, ordinary simple people.»

I believe that the everyday petty and oppressive corrupt practices that blight the lives of ordinary Ghanaians will disappear if high government officials are seen to be persons of integrity.

In response to further questions by Sen. Joni Ernst (R - IA), Pruitt said he would not regulate «ordinary farming practices» under regulations designed to protect the waters of the United States.

In practice, since both of the above mentioned therapies are tied up in the slow - moving edifice of Big Pharma regulatory capture, it will be a long time before they make it to the clinic in any way that is accessible to an ordinary individual.

«Unless you are engaging in practices that are out of the ordinary, I would say absolutely not.»

Natural cleansing and healing by means of hydrotherapy, hot and cold baths, friction, compresses and enemas has been widely practiced by monks, naturopaths, doctors and ordinary folk throughout history.

«When we practice yoga nidra we step into the rhythm of deep sleep — a kind of rest that is even more healing and reparative than ordinary sleep because there is an element of effortless consciousness abiding there.»

Natural cleansing and healing by means of hot and cold baths, friction, compresses and cold packs has been widely practiced by naturopaths, doctors and ordinary folk throughout history.

I'd signed up with a new practice and as part of that I had to go in for a routine examination, fill out some forms — nothing out of the ordinary.

I am an ordinary Muslim girl who wishes to meet man of her dream... Someone who is understanding, self assured and responsible... Practice Islamic ways of living and teachings... Love is not made in a day, but in a lifet..

As practice shows, funny things always happen to ordinary folks, featuring lots of jokes, and online dating is an especially great resource for finding humorous stories.

About Blog Our aim is simply to further the cause of mindfulness in whatever way we can, and also to give ordinary people the chance to talk about the practice.

Join us for a discussion of how schools can look at ordinary data in new ways to find policies and practices that may be unintentionally undermining students.

Today, the challenge is to embrace increasing diversity with different [shades of] pedagogical practice, and that's really at the heart of the equity agenda... it's about personalising educational experiences, it's about realising that ordinary students have extraordinary talents.»

What we do not know is whether the new practices have been embedded sufficiently in the ordinary fabric of schooling in the district to endure.

But the evidence available to teachers and principals has often come from their impressions of «ordinary workplace practice»; these typically narrative accounts of experience «constitute a pervasive feature of workplace discourse and a resource for workplace learning» (Little, 2007, p. 220).

The district also sought to make these new practices part of ordinary schooling, since the Ellis funding would not be permanent.

Situated cognition involves knowledge that is situated in an authentic learning environment, or ordinary practices of the culture.

At the high - school level, recent years have seen the spread of a dubious practice known as «credit recovery,» whereby young people who fail to complete required courses may retrieve the missing credits by taking online courses and kindred options that may or may not be equivalent in rigor and content to the ordinary courses that they finessed or flunked.

While aviculturists probably receive the lion's share of criticism, in many places, even ordinary bird owners are sometimes called upon to defend the practice of living with feathered companions.

About Blog Our aim is simply to further the cause of mindfulness in whatever way we can, and also to give ordinary people the chance to talk about the practice.

In Sairento, you play as a member of the Silent Ones — a righteous but covert organization of seemingly ordinary people who practice the long forsaken code and martial arts of the ancient samurais and ninjas.

His practice challenges the role and control of media and its charged relationship to ordinary people, in which they lack a real voice and representation.

A new series of portrait paintings by Kehinde Wiley is a departure from his practice which usually captures ordinary people from around the world recast in scenes from European history paintings.

Whereas Martin operated largely within the confines of painting and drawing, Tuttle's practice eludes formal categorization and is grounded in handmade constructions of ordinary materials, such as wire, tape, thread, and cardboard that are raised to the pinnacle of beauty.

The artist dedicated his later studio practice to the consideration of simple and ordinary objects, often in sparsely composed table studies, imbuing his subjects with symbolic content and an unexpected complexity.

Ordinary Pictures Featuring works by some 45 artists, Ordinary Pictures surveys a range of conceptual picture - based practices since the 1960s through the lens of the stock photograph and other forms of industrial image production.

I suspect he intends the ambiguity, in what could represent either controlled substances or ordinary medical practices, to evoke the shock of transgression and the dread viewers may feel confronted with their likely future.