Sentences with phrase «of that favored family»

In America, we debate what to do about undocumented aliens, how many visas to allocate to highly skilled workers, and whether a long - term policy of favoring family reunification should remain in effect.

While it's quite rare, some dogs who were once reliably housetrained seem to lose their training after a major change occurs in the household, such as the addition of a disliked individual or the departure or death of a favored family member or pet.

Take advantage of that favored family status and ask her to make a present of your down payment.

Not exact matches

The turning point was McChord's decision to forgo direct sales in favor of partnering with managed service providers who resell and install Datto technology alongside other complementary IT offerings; thousands of international channel partners now market Datto products like the Siris enterprise business continuity family and the Alto small - business continuity solution.

It was favored by one of the company's forebears, whose family business in London had traded decorative seashells earlier in the 1800s.

Even with more women settling into the role of family breadwinner, the gender pay gap only rarely settles in their favor.

The survey, released Tuesday, polled 500 small business owners from around the country and found that half of them are in favor of a policy that would allow employees to use earned sick time when they or an immediate family member falls ill or needs preventative medical care.

In one change earlier this year, Facebook (FB) said that it was going to de-emphasize articles from mainstream media sites in favor of posts from a user's friends and family.

It will be a welcome update after the discount retailer's bid for Family Dollar was turned down in favor of rival Dollar Tree (DLTR).

Family members, authority figures, or executives who want to appear to care about the opinion of another person, but really want their instructions carried out without discussion, often favor tag questions.

In January, Facebook tried to soothe investors after announcing changes to its News Feed that demoted news in favor of updates shared by users» friends and family.

Families were replacing their video game consoles in favor of a home computer.

Mr. Diess won favor with the Porsche and Piëch families, who own a majority of Volkswagen's voting shares, by improving profits at the division that makes Volkswagen - brand cars despite a decline in the number of vehicles sold.

It has proven very difficult to bring the savings rate down because this can only happen by diverting resources away from wealthy and powerful groups and families in favor of ordinary households.

At the high end, clients with more than $ 50 million at their disposal may well bypass private banks in favor of proprietary family offices.

Half of Republicans (50 %) with family incomes of $ 100,000 or more favor cutting tax rates on high incomes, compared with no more than about a third of Republicans in lower income categories.

It started when Facebook announced its sweeping algorithm update earlier this year, which is aimed to de-prioritize publishers in favor of updates from family and friends.

Sustained national media attention on the shooting, emotional confrontations between politicians and survivors and their families, as well as a public - opinion shift in favor of stricter gun laws could spur Congress to do something to tighten access to guns.

Sen. Rubio and Rep. Schock would eliminate other tax incentives in favor of a version of the AOTC targeted towards low - and middle - income families.

The appetite for various hedge fund strategies among family offices is dynamic and strategies fall in and out of favor on an on - going basis, the organization said in a statement.

Not only did Facebook implement a new News Feed algorithm that favors content from users» friends and family, but just over a month ago they rolled out a new desktop business page layout — something they had been testing for a couple of months.

Individualistic countries value individual effort and achievement and thus are in favor of redistribution of family wealth toward creating more equal economic opportunities, independent of the social context (i.e., wealth of the family) into which one is born, which legitimizes high inheritance taxes.

While they might fall out of favor with their families for doing so, at least they have free choice and are not forced to stay... similar to the Amish.

What this means is that God only set His favor and affection upon Israel out of the all the families of the earth.

Even if one chooses to completely ignore the historical foundations of inequitable opportunities in America and tries to eliminate any discussion of race, we are still faced with the fact that millions of kids have grown up and are growing up in places where the economic incentives and social supports don't favor stable work and families.

Pray for His love to descend upon the battlefields, so that understanding and enlightenment causes those who were harming families and communities to set down their instruments of war in favor of seeds and plows and bricks and mortar in an effort to rebuild.

I would also favor adding 15 percent to the vouchers of students from families with incomes below the poverty level.

Do yourself a favor... research the families of the victims of Flight 93.

Jesus has come to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor on the teenagers who are homeless, on the Syrian refugees, on the Mexican migrants, and the people who find themselves prisoners of addiction and their families, on the poorest of the poor in Haiti — Jesus has come for them.»

He abandoned his family business in favor of ministry, becoming financially dependent on others — even women.

Right at the introduction to Romans 9, Paul shows that he is not writing about how the people of Israel were part of God's family and then were rejected as members of His family, but is instead writing about the favored members of God's family who have position, power, and privilege within the family because of how they live.

When the High Court did not rule in favor of the family, the Evanses made an appeal which was also lost and then taken to the Supreme Court.

There is, moreover, a powerful inclination to pick and choose among human rights, which results in favoring some (e.g., the right to privacy) at the expense of others (e.g., the rights of the family).

Jeremy's description of biblical adoption is similar to the current cultural practice of adoption in Japan where most adoptees are consenting adults, the favored employees in family firms with no heir.

Its author was born in Florence into a family of minor nobility, Guelph in its political alignment and thus siding with the popes in the city's political tensions (as opposed to Ghibellines, at the time mainly banished from Florence, who favored the imperial cause).

Propaganda in favor of North Korea is a constant — usually in the form of catchy songs that remind them to remain obedient to the Kim family, to serve their country faithfully and to remember that they are the happiest people in the world.

As a result, religious advocacy groups invariably favor comprehensive immigration reform that will allow for increased legal immigration, more rapid family reunification, and the legalization of irregular aliens.

Each of us contributes more to the common good when we dare to undertake a journey into our own particularity (this family, this community, this people, this culture, this religion) than when we attempt to homogenize all differences in favor of some lowest common denominator.

When Plan Colombia was under consideration by Congress, a vice president of Occidental Petroleum (in which Albert Gore's family owns stock), who is also a leader of the U.S - Colombia Business Partnership, testified in its favor.

The modern American legal system favors the rights of biological families, and tends to try to keep biological families intact.

4) Next, during the Depression stage, you will cancel all your pre-Christmas plans with friends and family in favor of hiding under the covers and questioning the existence of God.

Particularly moving is «The Family Out of Favor,» in which Novak turns from the political to the personal as he ponders the role of the family: «Seeing myself through the unblinking eyes of an intimate, intelligent other, an honest spouse, is humiliating beyond anticipFamily Out of Favor,» in which Novak turns from the political to the personal as he ponders the role of the family: «Seeing myself through the unblinking eyes of an intimate, intelligent other, an honest spouse, is humiliating beyond anticipfamily: «Seeing myself through the unblinking eyes of an intimate, intelligent other, an honest spouse, is humiliating beyond anticipation.

Noah's righteousness is not the samething as «sinless» nor «perfection» Because Noah found favor of God or Grace in the eyes of God, he was saved along with his family.

This will tend to make him, or her, hostile to societies traditionally organized to favor heterosexuality and the family, and persuade him to advocate policies that seek not tolerance but the transformation of popular or traditional attitudes toward homosexuality.

The Spirit is like a seal, an emblem bearing the family crest, a promise of belonging, protection, favor...»

A tipping point occurred during a sleepy, 9 - a.m. Introduction to World Literature class when my class read the Epic of Gilgamesh, an ancient Mesopotamian poem purportedly written before the book of Genesis, which tells the story of a worldwide flood, a favored family, and an ark full of animals, only with Sumerian gods and heroes at its center instead of the familiar Yahweh.

You would be doing yourself and your lesbian friends» a huge favor instead of thinking that all gay people are gay because they come from dysfunctional families.

Biblically literate women looked to scripture to justify their changing situation, especially in the churches.25 Gabriele Dietrich emphasizes three points which are important in our context from the Jesus Movement26: firstly, the Jesus Movement was critical of the existing patriarchal family structure and created new forms of community; secondly, it was egalitarian in terms of class with a bias in favor of the poor; and, thirdly, it provided for a participation of women which was far reaching and unusual under the conditions of the time.27

Set in the schlock district of rakishly decorated motels built in the 1950s to house Disney World around Orlando, and Kissimmee, Florida, the story follows families who have fallen below the minimum score to rent an apartment and are stuck in a cycle of poverty that includes living indefinitely in cheap rent - by - the - night rooms that have long since fallen out of favor with tourists.

No doubt ideas of kin altruism (the mutual support extended between those who share in the family gene pool) and reciprocal altruism (favors done in the expectation of favors later to be received) shed some Darwinian light on aspects of human behavior.