Sentences with phrase «particular people and communities»

First, we see in Scripture particular people and communities that represent times and places very different from our own.

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What attracted him to Kapor, in particular, is its emphasis on empowering minority communities: Between 2015 and 2017, the firm says it will have invested $ 40 million in startups that give women and people of color better access to technology and business opportunities.

And if that isn't recommendation enough, Gilead and the two novels that follow in its footsteps, offer a vibrant, realistic picture of faith unfolding over decades amidst a community of people in a particular plaAnd if that isn't recommendation enough, Gilead and the two novels that follow in its footsteps, offer a vibrant, realistic picture of faith unfolding over decades amidst a community of people in a particular plaand the two novels that follow in its footsteps, offer a vibrant, realistic picture of faith unfolding over decades amidst a community of people in a particular place.

If you're considering help from a private practitioner, check on going rates in your community for persons of that particular training and experience.

I think people will see for themselves just how the community responds and just how people draw together in light of this tragedy and I hope that will go some way to dispel myths that terrorism is associated with any particular community.»

But these buildings also tell us about the particular people who commissioned, designed and built them, and how a particular community aims to live out its faith.

Such an affirmation, of course gives to the Church the responsibility to engage in the moral formation of its community — it is to «help shape both character and particular moral choices and action people take, singly and together.

Other stories serve explicitly to raise the consciousness of the community to the situation and meaning of particular persons, groups, and institutions.

There is in short a way of appropriating oneness that very effectively rules out any kind of diversity, dialectic, or even dialogue, and lends itself, for that purpose, especially to those persons and forces within the community whose power is great enough to sustain their own particular version of Christian unity.

To use the perhaps outmoded idiom of an earlier day, the ordained person is to care for the flock of Christ, to see that they are fed and tended, to aid them and urge them to be what they are — Christ's people gathered into a community whose chief Shepherd is the Lord but on whose behalf the ordained person is to do a particular sort of work.

All I can try to do now is to remind you that the process of reflection upon the God of Jesus, by which I mean upon the good news announced by Jesus, that the kingdom of God is at hand, was begun and carried on by people whose thinking was determined by the fact that they belonged to a particular community.

The Eucharist is by ecumenical consensus the corporate act in which «the community of God's people is manifested,» and it is of crucial importance that the identity - defining rite of the Christian community is precisely a rite of remembrance, an act in which the many are united in a common turning in the Spirit to one in particular, to the Palestinian Jew Jesus, through whose life and in whose person the salvation of the God of Israel is confessed to have been conclusively bestowed on humankind.

It is true, as Hall points out, that for Whitehead ordering principles are «immanent» within particular occasions (see UP 261 - 70), but in most cases those ordering principles also reflect the «mutual relations» of individuals, as well as the «community in character» pervading groups or societies of individuals (AI 142).13 This is particularly true of persons: the relations between occasions which constitute the human body and brain, and the «community of character» of the succession of personal experiences, give an essential element of unity to human experience.

Detached from the concrete habits and ideals that ground particular moral communities, empathy would not enable a person to discriminate among competing kinds of suffering.

Then it has to enter into the conflicts and contradictions that characterize a particular situation and the struggles that are being gone through to become truly a people, a community.

In becoming a member of a particular scientific or religious community, a person acknowledges its exemplars and comes to adopt its assumptions and expectations.

1) It will demand that we recognize our own interconnectedness, that we understand ourselves as distinct persons and particular communities embedded in an interdependent social and natural world.

It encourages employees to engage in activities within their local communities, with particular emphasis on actively supporting charities and community projects that support babies, children and young people.

In the meantime, my friend and I could only empathize with the online activists in this particular community, who get to watch as other people assemble modern political operations and wonder why they can't do the same.

«It's taxpayer dollars the governor is proposing,» said Amedore, the Albany - area Republican, «so you need to have an all - hands - on - deck approach and have communities with everyone involved in the process, from lawmakers to local officials to regional councils that are not just behind closed doors selecting projects that may be of interest to one or two particular people.»

A statement by Deputy Director, Army Public Relations, 6 div, Col Aminu Iliyasu said, «In the early hours of Monday, 20th November, 2017, as part of the continued efforts to rid the Niger Delta of criminals and acts of criminality, troops of 6 Division Nigerian Army, based on a tip - off by some patriotic citizens, raided the camp and shrines of a notorious militant, cultist, kidnapper and ardent illegal oil bunkerer, Mr. Igwedibia Johnson, (aka «Don Waney»), who has been terrorising the peace - loving Omoku community in particular, as well as the entire people of Rivers and Bayelsa States.

Democrat Sandy Frankel also approved of the concept, saying that, «We need to see that our kids in the city school district in particular have that resource available to them, and people in the community need that.

Instead, it suggests making communities attractive places for firms that employ well - educated people to relocate to, and also for those people to live, with particular «emphasis on K - 12 education, and recreational and housing amenities.»

It might be people with whom I share a hobby or a particular belief, but it's there, ready to combust at any time, and there are thousands upon thousands of communities like that out there right now.

They propose instead that rock art is connected to ritual — and to one ritual in particular: a healing dance that is still practiced by communities in Botswana and Namibia (these peoples do not make rock art).

I think the same should be said for alternative treatments like supplementation and perhaps this is why there is such a choice of treatments to choose from for any given ailment, simply because there have been many people over many years all finding slightly different solutions to health problems in their own particular communities, such problems being similar but perhaps not identical, for example, to another community?

In each case, I was passionate about bringing a community of people around free products or online services and in particular, products and services which had traditionally been paid for by consumers.

In particular, urbanization in China has uprooted the traditional community - based networks through which people meet their spouses and has thus made it more difficult for Chinese adults to find mates.

When you are from a particular community or race speaking English as your native language and you fall in love with a person from your own community who speaks English, you will not have any problem in expressing your intentions in English, as that language is the mother tongue for both of you.

The AOCC seeks to inspire and impact the improvement of the education sector by annually convening Harvard Graduate School of Education alumni, students, and friends concerned with issues of race, class and education as they pertain to all people, and in particular to communities of color.

Being exposed to a range of firsthand stories and perspectives can expand young people's view of what «culture» means: they can come to see it as a complex, fluid phenomenon of which they are a part; as something deeply individual and personal; and as something associated with particular geographies or communities.

Our community includes a lot of people who sit on charter school boards, work in the charter school industry, but I knew that even a lot of people who are pro-charter in general were anti this particular charter, and I wanted to ensure that we could build a coalition that was as wide as possible.

In NJ, one and only one person, the state Education Commissioner, is exclusively tasked with deciding whether a charter application should be granted — there is zero local control over whether a charter is granted for a particular community.

In a debriefing session that followed this particular videoconferencing session, a discussion ensued on the social issues that arise when people see little hope for the future, as well as the ways social, political, and economic forces work together in negative ways that can exacerbate tensions in distressed communities.

In particular, the Challenge sought to encourage communities to reimagine existing transportation projects via innovative and restorative infrastructure design that addresses past mistakes, reconnects people and neighborhoods to opportunity, and reinvigorates opportunity within communities.

Ebooks in general and Amazon in particular gave people with limited means and limited mobility access to the community of letters in numbers that were unthinkable before.

I am an active supporter of my local library and have been in all the communities where I have lived and know how important they are to so many people and in particular the very young children and school children.

In particular, the people who continue to overstate the threat of rabies, leveraging whatever fear they can muster in their ongoing campaign to undermine community cat programs and TNR efforts.

I have been criticized for being a closet racist — not only for singling out a particular breed of dog, but also the people who live in violent communities where these dogs are kept for personal protection, often left in outdoor yards, and forced into illegal dog fights.

Trap - neuter - return (TNR) is a program through which free - roaming community cats (not belonging to a particular person) are humanely trapped; spayed or neutered and medically treated.

The principal aim of BIGGSD is to help rehome German Shepherd dogs in the UK & Ireland and this is done mainly by: Making people aware of the dogs in need, at rescue centers, dog pounds, other rescue organisations and with private individuals Bringing particular attention to the plight of dogs who are under immediate threat of being put to sleep (pts) Helping to fund the kennelling, fostering & transport costs whenever possible via the BIGGSD fund Bringing German Shepherd dog loving people together through this board as a community Helping any other breed or crossbreed dog too, to find a safe, secure and loving home whenever possible Offering a list of homecheckers, volunteers & fosterers that are members on the site who can help rescues & private individuals whenever possible and providing the ability to request help too.

When I booked my ticket to Tallinn, Estonia, from Stockholm, the agent mentioned something about this particular trip being a Persian - themed party cruise, which I found out later on meant that a large group of people from the Persian community in Scandinavia had planned a special holiday party cruise, complete with a special dining menu in the buffet, Persian DJs and bands all night throughout the cavernous ship, and a few hundred partygoers ready to enjoy the festivities in the open water of the Baltic Sea.

It's from Wikipedia) But there is a term, «urban Indian,» describing people of Native American descent who «may or may not have direct or active ties with a particular tribe, but they identify with and are at least somewhat active with the Native community.»

I make a living simplifying things for other people and this site is a passion project where I bring those particular skills to the retro gaming community's gate.

During these travels Brian has been inspired by the people, places and cultures he has encountered, in particular by the manner in which communities are shaped by their environment.

West, Kathya M. Landeros's photography show at kijidome, presents both the people and the land of Central California and Eastern Washington State, bringing a particular reality — that of Latinx agricultural communities in these regions — into focus.

The declaration should also guarantee procedural rights of peoples and communities, in particular access to environmental information, public participation in decision making and access to judicial remedies, in order to enable citizens and communities to play an active role in protecting their health and environment from air pollution.

This new report by Forest Trends and IDESAM (Instituto de Conservação e Desenvolvimento Sustentável da Amazônia) shows that over US$ 2.2 billion in REDD + funds have been used by Brazil to implement deforestation policies and recommends that more finance should go directly to the stakeholders who are implementing the deforestation policies, in particular subnational governments, indigenous peoples, farmers and local communities of the Amazon.

It calls for the systematic design and use of participatory communication processes, strategies and community - media to share information and knowledge among relevant stakeholder, in a particular agro-ecological context, in order to encourage attitudes and practices that increase people's resiliency and offer livelihood options to cope with climate change.

I ask the environmental and social activism community, as well as my fellow Goldman Prize winners to write a letter to the World Bank, in particular the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes, demanding justice for the Salvadorian people, whose lives and livelihoods are put at risk by this lawsuit.