Sentences with phrase «old practice as»

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Before her tenure as a NASA astronaut, Jemison practiced medicine across the world, and served as a medical officer in the Peace Corps, overseeing care in Sierra Leone and Liberia when she was just 26 - years - old.

As a twenty - six year old who partnered with my parents in building our company after college and who is now a mom myself, I am beginning to realize some of the parenting habits my parents consciously or unconsciously practiced in raising my brother and I that set me up for a life in business (whether I knew it or not at the time).

Members of the cluster specialize in environmental issues such as recycling old airplane parts, decreasing the weight of planes so that they require less fuel, and encouraging the military to adopt these «green» aviation practices.

The volatile scheduling practices have affected her personal life as well, leaving both her husband and 10 - year - old son at the mercy of her employer.

Yet the shops» old - world practices have their advantages: book - acquisition costs are minimal to nonexistent, as the stores acquire titles either inexpensively or in the form of donations (even though the business is not a nonprofit).

Each year as we say «goodbye» to the old and «hello» to the new, many of us have made a practice of reflecting on the year past.

The suit comes after Apple justified its practice of slowing down older phones, saying it does so to keep them from «to protect its electronic components» as their batteries age and become less potent.

But as marketing practices continue to evolve in the digital age, this old rule may no longer be relevant.

Complaining about VCs is a practice nearly as old as venture capital investing itself, of course.

Video, statistics, and old - fashioned X's and O's can be collected and served up on any device, either for sideline analysis during a game or as a practice tool.

Despite backing from Founders Fund — along with Kleiner Perkins, ORIX Growth Capital, Artis Ventures and others — Practice Fusion had stumbled in recent years as bigger competitors such as 38 - year - old Epic Systems continue to gain market share.

Chris has been a instrumental influence in the growth of the search marketing industry with his 10 + year old search consulting practice, past involvement with Search Engine Watch and Search Engine Strategies as well as his new role as Executive Editor at Search Engine Land, running the Search Marketing Now webcasts and helping to program SMX conferences.

And not go deeper in new ways of praying, but actually return to old historic practices that are rooted in our historic Christian contemplative tradition and my sense here, in the Sacred Enneagram is that as we come to terms with what our type is, that actually gives us a clue of what it looks like to nurture a deep, contemplative spirituality.

Hello Hadz — As a practicing Mormon we believe one of the purposes of the millennial period (the 1,000 year return of Christ to the earth) is to complete the promise in the Old Testament's Malachi 4:6 to turn the hearts of the children to their fathers, and fathers to children.

We'll also let 56 year old men marry 6 year old girls and practice male - male relations as often as possible to protect the purity of women before we marry several of them and cover them from head to foot, restrict their movement, disallow legal protection of them, etc..

No, and you who I as - sume you, who has common sense, and do not believe, would understand that is an Old Testament practice, not about what the New Testament church is today.

There may or may not be a God, but if there is, I sure hope he (or she or it) does not go around raising up killers, plying them with semiautomatic weapons, goading them to target practice, encouraging them to plot mass killings and cheering them on as they shoot multiple bullets into screaming 6 - and 7 - year - old children.

Many of these practices are hundreds of years old, but as Claire Musters discovered, they've huge relevance for Christians today More

(Exodus 20:24 [marginal translation]-RRB- The Old Testament as a whole represents an era from which the cruder practices of animism had been elided, but all the more impressive are the obvious remnants of the original primitivism, such as holy trees.

In this way, a communal practice as old as the Church itself became a matter of private choice.

Whether subconsciously, or as a result of the word pagan's origins, a lot of people refer to old or rustic practices as «pagan.»

The Old Testament, however, as we shall see, clearly reveals the inner perplexity and the outward conflict involved as religious thought and practice moved from primitive shrines toward the idea of Jesus: «Neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, shall ye worship the Father....

The Concordant Literal translates the two words as «sodomites» (those who practice sodomy — either anal sex (an act not limited to m / m pairs, although they do practice it; the NIV uses the phrase «shrine prostitute») or zoophilia (person / animal)-RRB- and «catamites» (young boys kept by older men for sexual purposes; it is suggested by some scholars that the boy the Centurion asked Jesus to heal in the Gospels was a «kept boy»).

The question is as old as the early church's concern over the use of pagan practices of oratory.

Moreover, it is arguable that the Whiteheadian analysis of the self is morally unacceptable; for insofar as each momentary self is held responsible for the actions of its predecessors in the personally ordered society of which it is a member, the Whiteheadian analysis involves the Old Testament practice of visiting the sins of the fathers on the sons.

[18] The old practice of identifying the «non-Christian worlds» as «mission fields» was done away with.

What I find so maddening in my efforts to negotiate the barriers between my Protestantism and my seminarians» Catholicism is that while we are united in so many of our convictions and practices, we are divided by differences real enough to make the Omega Point almost as remote as in the bad old days of open hostility between our churches.

If we've still got ta» follow the Old Testament practice of tithing, then hadn't we oughta distribute the «tithe» as those folks were supposed to distribute it?

He seemed to view faith as a romantic adventure and the universe as a wild fairy tale — I had a similar perspective on the world, as a twenty - one - year old in D.C. Chesterton died long before YouTube, but if he were alive today, I think he would advocate new, creative methods to revolutionize the practice of journalism.

But Barr is harshest on the scholar to whom he refers as «my friend Professor Brevard Childs,» the distinguished Yale Old Testament theologian known for his advocacy and practice of the «canonical method» of biblical interpretation and his sympathies with Barthian theology.

The bible is a bunch of fairytales written by 3,000 year old shepards... not something you should live your life by or shove down other peoples throats... I only hope you use 3,000 year old medical practices as well

Community and Scriptures have been brought much more closely together in practice and in theory than was the case in the older view of the minister as preacher.

Old testament practices of worship are some forms of worship Jesus did, and we should worship God in our actions, by giving, singing, etc (but Jesus has obviously replaced the need for burnt offerings, but instead we offer ourselves as a living sacrifice to God).

The development of such a comprehensive view has long been a need, for it has become clearer and clearer as we have become familiar and involved with a constantly widening horizon of different musical aims and practices, that the old «common practice» theories of harmony and counterpoint could no longer be overhauled or extended, but had by necessity to be replaced by a way of description and analysis that treated the «common practice» of Western music from the late seventeenth to the end of the nineteenth centuries as only one instance of a much wider musical method and practice that could be applied to all of Western music, from its origins to the present, as well as to music of other cultures.»

My 18 year old daughter took it this past year because we wanted her to discover for herself what she believed in and she walked away as an Atheist... a choice she made for herself and one that her practicing pagan father is fine with.

In specifically Christian practice it is instinct with the presence and action of Christ who in it accepts as his own, whether they are old or young, those who would be his.

By conjuring up notions of the traditional wedding as timeless and unchanging, Howard writes, businesses have been able to slip in new products and requirements, resulting in what Mead dubs the «traditionalesque»: «a pleasing mélange of apparently old - fashioned, certainly nostalgic... practices that may have little relevance to the past or to the future and are really only illustrative of the present in which they emerge.»

The American bishops did much better: while also making the matter optional, they offered a powerful and sympathetic discussion of the religious reasons for the old observance and urged American Catholics to continue the practice as a gesture of solidarity with, and gratitude for, the passion of Christ, as an act of fidelity to the Christian past, and to help «preserve a saving and necessary difference from the spirit of the world.»

She's a busy mom, planning birthday parties this month for her two oldest children, Ella and Nate, as well as ferrying everyone in the SUV to school, and to practices for soccer and baseball.

Many of these practices are hundreds of years old, but as Claire Musters discovered, they've huge relevance for Christians today

This older man, I learned, had a practice which seems to me admirable but which so far as I know is very seldom found.

And as far as Islam goes, many of the practices of Islam are those that many Ultra Orthodox Jews practice or in otherwords, practices noted in the Old Testament (Christianity) or Tanakh (Judaism).

As Matthew points out, in the vast majority of cases, the word «abomination» (typically the Hebrew, toevah, which is used in Leviticus 18 and 20) refers to what the Israelites associated with the idolatrous practices of the Gentiles, leading Old Testament scholar Phyllis Bird to conclude that «it is not an ethical term, but a term for boundary making,» with «a basic sense of taboo.»

He condemns ho - mos - exuality even though it is a natural practice (feel free to disagree all you want, but that argument will go nowhere), and his idea of a good marriage is a 13 year old girl being given to a 40 year old man as payment for a land deal, with her bloody sheets being used as a receipt of a good deal, and if she isn't a vir - gin (she could have been ra - ped, or her hy - men could have burst while riding a horse or something) she is to be stoned to death on her parent's doorstep.

There are many illustrations of their nostalgic attachment to the old ways, such as their tendency to escape into the desert for sports and physical and spiritual refreshment, the practice of sending their children to be reared in Bedouin encampments to protect them from the effects of city life, and the legends of the desert which beguile their evening hours.

Pastors deserve to receive what's due for them, I think that's unarguably Biblical, from the Old to the New Testament that has been the Biblical practice and command of God, even as pointed out by the Apostle Paul.

Such practices are as old as the nation and are regulated by innumerable statutes, but the Court suddenly elevated patronage to the level of a First Amendment violation.

Second are those in which religion in general, or a specific faith in particular, is favored against other beliefs, as in the older requirement at the state level that officeholders believe in God, or in the nineteenth - century practice of supporting some churches with taxes.

For example, the historical and theological areas may be combined into an area described as «Interpretation of Christianity» while the older «practical» field is divided into two, one dealing with «Church and Culture» (sociological, psychological, and philosophical studies of church phenomena in American culture) and the other dealing with the practice of ministry construed as the application of social scientific and psychological theory to clergy responsibilities.

As you replenish food supplies, practice stock rotation so that older items are placed near the front to be used first.