Sentences with phrase «of present efforts»

Much of the present efforts toward justice reform is focused on improving public legal education, redesigning justice processes and integrating social services within justice processes.

I'm involved in a number of the present efforts to reform family justice.

An interesting, timely, and well - informed book on the impact of present efforts to eliminate affirmative action in college and university admissions.

The legislative outcome of present efforts to further increase the Child Tax Credit will play out in a political arena in which the prospect of winning or losing typically comes to take precedence over (and sometimes eclipses entirely) the substantive goals that originally motivated legislative interest.

He said, «May I appeal to the committee and, by extension, the party hierarchy to make sure that something concrete comes out of our present efforts at guaranteeing true federalism in Nigeria.

Not exact matches

A brand strategist should be able to present specific measures of consumer engagement and even sales responses to their rebranding efforts.

«If the entrepreneur is really doing it, not just presenting an idea but has put a lot of effort into making it happen already in real life and could use the funding to move their business forward, that carries a lot of weight with the judges,» Behnke says.

Conceived somewhere between philosophy, psychology, and spirituality - this type of heightened awareness means you see the present moment without preference, effort, or compulsion.

The New Plastics Economy presents three key platforms: creating an effective after - use plastics economy by improving global recycling efforts, reducing the leakage of plastic waste into the environment, and decoupling plastic from the fossil fuels used to create it.

In an effort to find answers to some of those questions, researchers recently identified the so - called «wanderlust gene» (DRD4 - 7R, to be exact), which is present in about 20 percent of humans.

Instead, it requires coming to terms with the fact that masculinity trains men to have great difficulty recognizing women — or, indeed, anyone that presents as feminine — as persons, as agents, as authoritative and worthy of respect, and then making an effort to see and treat them that way.

There were reports of a two - day executive offsite where, instead of presenting the status of his critical Windows 8 development effort, Sinofsky stood up, referred his peers and CEO Steve Ballmer to his blog, answered some questions, and left a day early.

Still, he says, it's worth the extra effort to explain and present NPV because of its superiority as a method.

While Sapphire Ventures has used reasonable efforts to obtain information from reliable sources, we make no representations or warranties as to the accuracy, reliability, or completeness of third - party information presented herein.

The Metzger Law Group is concerned that this carcinogen is in so many foods that we eat and is seriously undertaking efforts to require food companies to reduce the acrylamide content of their food products or, if they can not do so, to warn California consumers that this carcinogen is present in the foods that they sell.

The idea takes its inspiration from efforts in the past and present that encourage and recognize givers of all financial means and backgrounds.

So in an effort to be present and follow the stirring of our team members» hearts, BLVR contributed to their cause — enabling a group of inspiring volunteers to get to Texas or bust!

Kalanick formally announced the effort as part of a slide presentation about the company's business at its San Francisco headquarters, said those present.

Throughout the competition, the top participants develop their ideas with seasoned mentors and present to active VC investors from Atlanta and Silicon Valley, all in an effort to help Atlanta identify and support the next generation of outstanding tech companies.

Oli Gardener published an article on the Unbounce blog presenting the results of a 30 - day experiment and discovered that their content only converted about 0.3 %, meaning that despite his efforts to increase product awareness, only 0.3 % of visitors signed up for a trial of their products.

Public relations firms have been doing this for years, but using this strategy as part of your content marketing efforts presents a huge opportunity for restaurants.

So, while I wish the sponsors of the present legislation good luck with their efforts so far, I hope they'll follow them up with some reforms specifically aimed at replacing the present, unreliable, and inefficient monetary control system with a more old - fashioned, but nonetheless better, alternative.

«This outcome addresses our efforts to have a cathedral large enough to meet our present and anticipated needs,» Tod D. Brown, the bishop of Orange, said in a Thursday statement.

I agree with all the positive things Travis LaCouter said yesterday about Adam Greene's Bibliotheca Kickstarter campaign, an effort to present a reader's edition of the Bible, stripped of all verse numbers and other annotations and bound in four handsome volumes, one for the Law, one for the Prophets, one for the Writings, and one for the New Testament.

My own efforts to probe the present and historical uses of the word «evangelical» have caused me to wonder if it is possible to give the word a common meaning applicable to all the contexts in which it is used.

Given these historical errors and oversights in both our biblical interpretation and our artistic engagement, we must support efforts to study and present a true, uncompromising picture of both the glory of God's creation and the depths of human folly.

This article presents an in - depth defense of the conjugal view of marriage, and I included it on the reading list as part of my efforts to expose students to a range of viewpoints — religious and secular, progressive and conservative.

In her effort to present this gap in belief and experience between the time of Jesus and our own time, she includes an unusual element: two passages, five and eight pages long, which don't just describe but re «imagine the historical context of ancient Palestine.

The effort to obtain a change of present policy in Central America is not foredoomed to failure.

One significant feature of the book, which sets it apart from other books in the third period, is Altizer's effort to reconcile his present thought with his early work on Buddhism.

The effort of these programs is to present theological terminology and formulations that will have «cash value» in terms of contemporary culture.

Whether or not the present Government will seek to reintroduce some of these measures remains to be seen, but there has certainlybeen no let - up in the efforts of the sex education establishment to lobby in favour of statutory SRE and to remove the right of parents to opt out.

Any effort to understand God truly that is guided by an interest in the peculiar ways in which God is present involves acquiring capacities for critique of falsity, including the falsity of ideology.

They are interests relevant to understanding God, however, because of how God is present to be apprehended and not because they are morally admirable and compelling interests — although they are certainly that also — that persons bring with them to the effort as a theological school to understand God truly.

Authors Ed Dobson and Ed Hindson, professors at Liberty Baptist College in Virginia, base their reasonably balanced effort to define and locate fundamentalism on a wide reading of secondary sources and present a convenient summary as well as a campaign document.

We present some «plan of salvation,» then dedicate our lives to politically fighting any efforts to allow our nation to adopt the principles Jesus taught as a basis for merting needs.

Any effort to bring CST to life is welcome, and the editors of Catholic Social Conscience, a collection of papers presented at a 2010 conference in Oxford, deserve thanks.

In the name of stability of life and values, our children are presented with role models of adults who (at least on the surface) make every effort to block out the feelings and influence of the child.

In this last stage of synthesis, Whitehead returns to the history of man's effort to create civilization and shows the presence of God as Eros and Beauty present within man's consciousness, effectively directing man's pursuit of civilization even in the face of tragedy.62

57 The consequence of this understanding is the adopting of a position that I have termed «hard determinism,» controlling every element in creation, in contrast to «soft determinism,» in which God's final victory gives definitive shape to all that we have provisionally worked out by our own exercise of freedom along the way.58 It is what finally renders Pannenberg's attempt to defend Augustine by shifting God from Eternal Present to Ultimate Future an unsuccessful effort to resolve the issue of theodicy.

She wasn't vocal about much of anything, and her usual efforts to be present in her fans» lives were subdued.

This practical attraction stimulated the efforts of many and was present in many missionary enterprises.

There is no lust in christ but just an infinite source of the love of the spirit that's pure and delightful.Marriage itself is a concession to the weakness of our present being.God designed woman as the companion of man with complimentary attributes.I could justify all kinds of sin through the fact that I'm bonded to them.we were slaves of sin as Paul tells us.I couldn't come out of sin with all my efforts Jeremy.We have a sinful nature.But, Sin never provides life because the spirit of god is love and life to us.When I cried out to God to save me from this nature, God did by his grace.Now, I detest sin having tasted love of christ.

They then present an array of strategic moves by which leaders can counter the efforts of their constituencies to «push them aside.»

I suggested that this would be an ecumenical effort since I thought by presenting the work of John Howard Yoder to Catholics and Lutherans I would help them see they shared much in common — namely, that Catholics and Lutherans had always assumed it was a good thing to kill the Anabaptists.

In an effort to present Tom with the most watertight case for Christianity, I quickly began distancing myself from any aspect of church life that I deemed suspect.

At a deeper level, as people are conditioned to a consumer outlook, the church finds itself under challenge to present the Christian faith in a way that meshes with people's desire for answers, and in a more pernicious way for a faith «product», that will meet their needs with a minimum of effort and disruption.

«The present life is a wholesome discipline, affording room for the exercise of free will and the attainment of goodness, which without our effort would be destitute of moral worth.»

Its present success is due to the fact that the collective effort and strong centralized authority associated with it are producing dramatic improvements in the economic, political, and military position of nations hitherto impeded by traditional systems unsuited to industrial civilization.

The effort may be present at lowly levels of achievement; the quality itself is never fully present at the highest, since «no one is good [in the absolute sense] except God alone.»