Sentences with phrase «on human agency»

Part documentary, part fiction, it braids together technology and history (specifically, the Battle of Okinawa) for a meditation on human agency and memory.

In short, the sacraments have come to depend on human agency — our ability to remember God — rather than on what God out of his grace does.

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The Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Health and Human Services are also impacted by the orders, which were reportedly handed down this week, and include a prohibition against some of the agencies posting on social media.

Studies have found that the additive increases risk of certain types of cancer in mice and the International Agency for Research on Cancer classifies byproduct 4 - Mel as «possibly carcinogenic to humans.»

If the next decade of human space transportation is about private companies finding and developing cheaper and more efficient ways into Earth orbit, the decade following will be all about space agencies learning how to operate farther and farther from home, with an eventual eye to orbiting and eventually landing humans on Mars in the mid-2030s (per NASA's timeline).

«On some level, the agency [responsible for the Lyon promotion] thought that their campaign would be acceptable» for a company like Uber, says Susan Heathfield, a management consultant and About.com's human resources expert.

WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday released a list of toxic chemicals that will be the first reviewed under a recently enacted law that gives regulators increased authority to ban substances shown to endanger human health.

It relies on partnerships with a wide range of government agencies and other bodies to have any effect — and that has forced Gates, the uncompromising and impatient tech leader, to apply the human touch.

«Early in the investigation process [that led to the firings], it was decided, as is the norm in such serious human resource matters, to have the Public Service Agency (PSA) lead the investigation,» Whitmarsh wrote on Oct. 6 to McNeil, adding that the Public Service Agency had support from the province's Chief Information Officer to investigate the handling of government data.

«Your letter states that the Public Service Agency's review is directed solely at «the human resources and investigation processes and procedures» that led to the termination of the employment of a number of Ministry of Health employees in 2012, rather than being a review of the decisions themselves,» Adams wrote on Whitmarsh's behalf.

We stopped by a human - resources staffing agency where many of the employees worked on the move at treadmill desks — a creation of Dr. Levine's, later sold by a company called Steelcase.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration will issue this notice, saying in its request that it «is is primarily concerned with vehicles that do not have the means for human driving, e.g., a steering wheel and brake and accelerator pedals,» though the agency is also seeking input on semi-autonomous vehicles that do require human interaction.

But life is not found here either, for sex is one human being sharing with another on the deepest level, and this is patently impossible when love and community are separated from sex or when one relates to a sex partner as a thing, as impersonal as a partner from a rent - a-body agency.

One journalist who filed a pretty standard Freedom of Information Act for government records on national white supremacist groups seems to have gotten way, way more than he bargained for when a Department for Homeland Security - linked agency sent him a file titled, and we quote, «EM effects on human body.zip.»

To talk in that fashion is not to speak of a kind of meaningless re-enactment of what went on in the creation; it is to speak of a vital, living, and ongoing movement, where God knows and experiences (if that word is, as I believe, appropriate to the divine life) that which has taken place, but knows it and experiences it with a continuing freshness and delight — and, if what has taken place has been evil, with a continuing tinge of sadness and regret — such as must be proper to the chief creative and chief receptive agency who is worshiped and served by God's human children.

Even in defensive emergencies the Hebrew people were assiduously to seek God's guidance as the key rather than to rely on human power and agency as central.

The reports on the Summit indicate that the market economics of the G7 - TNC - IMF - WB - WTO combination dominates through their «global governance» not only the political UN but also the UN Special Agencies for social development and justice like ILO, UNESCO, FAO, Commissions on Human Rights, Women's Development, Indigenous People etc for their goal of economic growth.

Chapter three sets forth Polkinghorne's trademark proposal that God's action in the world be modeled on the concept of human and divine agency through «holistic causal principles of a pattern - forming kind,» summarized in the term «active information.»

In the New Testament itself the universal fatherhood of God involves the universal brotherhood of man, and, so far as human agency is concerned, only moral forces are counted on to bring about the recognition of the one and the reformation of life to fit the other.

(b) Of the spiritual and eternal salvation granted immediately by God to those who believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, e.g., Acts 2:47, 16:31; Rom 8:24; Eph 2:5, 8; 1 Tim 2:4; 2 Tim 1:9; Titus 3:5; of human agency in this, Rom 11:4; 1 Cor 7:16; 9:22

President Lagos appointed her to the Commission on Torture and Political Prisoners, which is headed by Sergio Valech, a retired bishop and the last director of the Vicariate of Solidarity, the Catholic Church's human rights agency, founded during the darkest years of the Pinochet era.

Should the end be precipitated by human agencies in defiance of the will of God, it would obviously need to come in a realm beyond human existence on this earth.

The form of argument in this presentation has emphasized several specific points: first, that the Asian values argument, as a challenge to the implementation of constitutional democracy, is exaggerated and fails to account for the richness of values discourse in the East Asian region - local values do not provide a justification for harsh authoritarian practices; second, that the cultural prerequisites arguments fail because they ignore the discursive processes for value development and they are tautological, excessively deterministic and ignore the importance of human agency it, therefore, makes little sense to take an entry test for constitutional democracy; third, the difficulties of importing Western communitarian ideas into an East Asian authoritarian environment without adequate liberal constitutional safeguards; fourth, the positive role of constitutionalism in constructing empowering conversations in modern democratic development and as a venue for values discourse; fifth, the importance, especially in a cross-cultural context, of indigenization of constitutionalism through local institutional embodiment; and sixth, the value of extending research focused on the positive engendering or enabling function of constitutionalism to the developmental context in general and East Asia in particular.

American Express and The New York Times Company's experiential design agency, Fake Love, today launched «Platinum Transported,» an innovative content series that brings viewers on an immersive digital adventure tied to the human senses.

Experts from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) strongly believe BPA levels currently found in humans are higher than the levels found to cause problems in the studies on animals.

It is sad that we get bucket loads of information from agencies about the legal and paper work stuff, but not much on what actually birth / first moms want, the human side of it.

Formaldehyde has been recognized as a probable human carcinogen by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and as a known human carcinogen by the Int» l Agency for Research on Cancer.

A Task Force of the United Nations System Standing Committee on Nutrition has looked at global obligations of states and international agencies in relation to the human right to adequate food.

Rosa Aliberti Rosa has worked on diverse labor and employment law matters, including wage and hour cases; workplace investigations; severance, employment, and non-compete agreements; has drafted and responded to discrimination complaints before government agencies, including the U.S. EEOC and NYS Division of Human Rights; and, has assisted in federal and state court litigations.

Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies The subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies holds jurisdiction over the U.S. Department of Agriculture (excluding Forest Service) and the Food and Drug Administration - related subsidiaries of the Department of Health and Human Services.

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Mass Audubon, the University of Rhode Island's Coastal Resources Center, and the Natural Capital Project recently received a $ 560,636 grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to develop information on the human benefits provided by the Narragansett Bay watershed.

Organizations like Nebraska's Voices for Children have expressed support for LB 834, and human services agencies should also put pressure on lawmakers to vote for the bill.

On her part, the Coordinator of the event and Assistant Director, Administration and Human Resources of the Agency, Miss Abiodun Olayinmika Macgregor, said the forum is targeted at business moguls, CEOs, Captains of industries and other well - meaning philanthropists all over Nigeria and the international sectors who are in the vanguard of giving back to the society, especially where they operate.

This has been confirmed time and again: most recently by Europe's preeminent group of regulatory assessors at the European Medicines Agency Committee for Medicinal Products for Veterinary Use (CVMP), which says in its draft strategy on antimicrobials that: «it is recognized that the biggest driver of AMR in people is the use of antimicrobials in humans or human health.»

Delivering judgment on Tuesday, Justice John Tsoho, in giving the EFCC a go - ahead to continue and conclude its ongoing investigations, struck out the fundamental human rights enforcement suit filed by the former First Lady against the anti-graft agency.

The Seneca Nation called on Paterson to «publicly condemn and distance himself» from Bloomberg and stated that the nation's president reserves the right to file a complaint alleging a «human rights violation and a hate crime» with the Justice Department and several other agencies.

While many have said that the office would be a duplication of roles, because there are agencies such as the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice and the Economic and Organised Crime Office that are responsible for investigating corruption, others have praised its implementation and called on the president to make it truly independent of political interference.

«We are fortunate that the Lt. Col. Matt Urban Human Services Center, one of our community's premier human services agencies, also realized the need and began work on this sheHuman Services Center, one of our community's premier human services agencies, also realized the need and began work on this shehuman services agencies, also realized the need and began work on this shelter.

The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) on Thursday said that it had arrested 18 persons in Osun for human...

He said he would also put the United Nations and other international human rights agencies on notice.

«I have written to all relevant human rights agencies both within and outside the country to assist in that regard as Kogi Government and its officials are averse to constructive criticisms, yet refused to take the welfare of Kogi workers and pensioners on the priority list of its administration

Former EPA Region 2 Administrator Judith Enck, who was featured in the Politico article and is also a regular voice on WAMC, called the actions by EPA and the Department of Defense «scientific censorship» of the report being compiled by the Department of Health and Human Services» Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.

Mr. de Blasio was standing with a cadre of advocates from agencies that help the homeless who will serve on the task force, including Laura Mascuch, the executive director of the Supportive Housing Network of New York, who serve as its co-chair along with two administration members, Human Resources Administration Commissioner Steven Banks and Housing Preservation and Development Commissioner Vicki Been.

He's campaigning on the motto «Stop Wasting Our Money,» and proposes capping public - sector salaries at $ 100,000 a year and eliminating various state agencies such as the Thruway Authority, the Division of Human Rights, and the Office of Homeland Security.

In early 2014, months before the DOH staff member suggested the possible use of PFOA in Petersburgh in the email with colleagues, the federal Environmental Protection Agency already had issued a guideline on the pollutant, ruling that it could be dangerous to humans.

Zucker, testifying under oath, blamed the federal Environmental Protection Agency for any mix - up, saying they kept making «sudden» changes on their guidelines for safe levels of PFOA for human consumption, and the state health department struggled to keep up.

Other attendees included Erie County Legislator Peter J. Savage; Kimberly Trent, representing the City of Buffalo's Commission on Citizens» Rights and Community Relations; a dozen local human service agency partners; students from Bennett Park Montessori School, singer Kevin McCarthy, young entrepreneur Daniel Gibbs; and the Library System's new owl mascot «Reada Book.»

Speaking at the hearing conducted by the Senate's Joint Committee on INEC; and Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters, Saraki stated that the National Assembly had powers to legislate over the electoral body and other agencies of government.

While the debate on Oteh's saga was yet to subside, a coalition of youths, led by human rights activist and President of Civil Rights Congress, Shehu Sani, queried the rationale behind the appointment of a new Chairman for the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) when a northerner, Kabir Mashi was already in the position and improving the revenue base of the agency, especially VAT collection for the Federation Account.