Sentences with phrase «people at a time of crisis»

The latest exhibition in MoMA's ongoing series emphasizes the human experience, the power of people at a time of crisis.

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Since most phone systems were down at the time, NHN Japan, a subsidiary of South Korean Internet company Naver, created LINE so people could contact family and friends in crises like this.

In a statement, Pope Francis said: «At a time when our human family is beset by grave humanitarian crises demanding far - sighted and united political responses, I pray that your decisions will be guided by the rich spiritual and ethical values that have shaped the history of the American people and your nation's commitment to the advancement of human dignity and freedom worldwide.

Experience at family service centers has shown that many people can be helped significantly in one or two sessions at a time of crucial decision or crisis.

It is also good to opt for family counselors who would definitely be the right person to show as wells guide the right way of thinking and acting in such crisis times of life The right thing would be to take control of oneâ $ ™ s emotions and act prudent enough because the life of not one but two are at stake in problematic affairs.

This response was continuous, although the resurrection marked the crisis in its development — the moment when loyalty to the person reached its climax and when faith in the meaning of the event as an act of God became for the first time clear and sure — but at every stage this response was a constituent and creative element in the event itself, and the event had not fully happened until this response of faith had been fully made.

However, generically speaking I continue to be surprised at how many times there are significant issues in families and marriages that involve, as one of the major components, if not THE major component, crisis brought about because people's perceived needs and rights (I call them their «wants») are not being met by others.

The alert parish clergyman routinely functions as a crisis counselor when his people come to him at times of stress in their lives.

At the same time that the counselor is assessing the nature of the crisis, he will also be assessing the strengths of the person's resources.

If the counselor decides, however, that there is no imminent physical emergency then he will be free to move into the second kind of assessment and determine, in detail, what kind of crisis is now in effect, what the stresses are, and what they mean to this person at this time.

At other times crisis intervention is carried on by helping the person to gain cognative control of his own thought processes — by helping him to structure, to outline, to list in an organized and rational way the different elements of his life.

Yes, for some people faith brings comfort at times like these, but many people suffer a crisis of faith.

In my time of crisis (if that is the right name for the devastation of a child's richly peopled world during the war of 1914) death superabundant and the rest of life endlessly disordered induced at last a suicidal state and swept away all but the verbalisms of the creed trustingly learned earlier.

Chelsea have nothing like that; guess they are hoping for a completely injury free season again where people exclaim they are in crisis whenever they are missing a maximum of two players at one time (Costa and Fabregas).

Every time I pick up my kids from school only to discover that they've been chowing down on brownies or chocolate - covered Oreos or candy (which seems to happen at least twice a week), I can't help but think: In the midst of an obesity crisis, why are other people being allowed to shovel my kids full of unhealthy food at school?

Yes, there has been some media coverage of the people at the sharp end of London's housing crisis but I have lost count of the amount of times I've heard people say things like «Well I can't afford to live in central London, so why should they get to stay?».

«Blaming poor people or migrants for hardships at the time of economic crisis is not entirely unknown, but it is not intelligent politics in my view,» he told the Observer newspaper.

Sadly, some people can't seem to put partisan instincts to one side — as this report commissioned by the Yes campaign just before Christmas showed - you may also like to read this blog from the very same author who, a year ago, wisely said: «At a time of economic crisis, when people are calling for clear leadership and direction, it would be foolish to abolish a [voting] system that carries out these functions.»

«The greater degree of scrutiny these policies have, the more that people will realise that while Nick Clegg is a very attractive individual in many ways, the policies of his party are outside the mainstream and a little bit eccentric — not necessarily what you would want at a time of crisis and difficulty.»

Inside City Hall, the episode felt like an existential crisis for the administration and Mr. de Blasio had hoped that his old friend would be of some assistance, according to people in touch with him at the time.

A senior source told the Sun: «At times of crisis and when people are suffering, Britain stands ready to help and assist.

«We support Obasanjo for his timely intervention because at a time of national crisis and with people losing their lives across the Middle Belt and Southern Nigeria, anybody discussing partisan politics under such an atmosphere of mass misery is not fit to be regarded as a human being talk more, a leader.

At a time when hundreds of billions of dollars each year veer to war rather than peaceful development, and when media attention is riveted on the U.S. financial crises, it is hard to raise even a few billion dollars for desperately hungry people.

It's not clear why, but the buffering theory holds that people who enjoy close relationships with family and friends receive emotional support that indirectly helps to sustain them at times of chronic stress and crisis.

Obviously, we are at an important time in history where diabetes, cancer, heart disease and obesity are at all time highs (to the point of a crisis), so it is time that people take responsibility for their health.

Basques protest in support of catalan independence as crisis in spain grows: tory whip chris pincher dressed in his bathrobe «tried to untuck the man details the time he got drunk and wrote to denmark to one woman gave a subtle hint to her dates that she's not to be messed with by brandishing an axe in her profile photo, while another will at least attract people with a keen interest in angling by lying alongside a giant fish.

And Manohla Dargis of The N.Y. Times claims Farhadi's script is «far too busy — the movie is crammed with characters and underexplored themes, including class tensions, nativism and ugly attitudes toward migrant workers — but he's exceptionally deft at mining the spaces that open up between people, particularly during a crisis.»

At the same time, many CSOs face an existential crisis: for many, the funding situation is getting worse, and the new people's movements and great wave of activism of 2011 happened largely independently of organised civil society.

Pressed several times on whether the NAO was in fact the latest sign of a crisis, Mr Gibb instead referred to problems created by «the challenge of a strong economy», with high demand for graduates, and described government initiatives like bursaries aimed at attracting people to the classroom.

No one else can really see Bob (most people are convinced he's a strange sort of chicken), and Livy's memories of their prior time together are hazy at best, but new clues — and a new crisis — send the two friends in search of answers.

We know about an investing strategy that beats Buy - and - Hold in 102 out of 110 time - periods, an investing strategy that permits us to obtain far higher returns at dramatically less risk, an investing strategy that permits us all to retire years sooner and that would bring us out of this economic crisis if we could share it with millions of middle - class investors (if people could switch to an investment strategy that would put their retirement plans back on track, they would feel free to start spending again and businesses could start hiring again), and our first reaction is to come up with convoluted arguments as to why the best thing to do is to AVOID learning more about it and to AVOID getting the word out to the millions of middle - class people whose lives we have destroyed with our promotion of Buy - and - Hold.

At the same time, she cautions, you should be prepared to talk with people who don't grasp the importance of the human - animal bond and consider pets a low priority for a family in crisis.

«Ghosts,» she says, explaining that the island evokes — or rather is haunted by — the spirits of a generation of men and women: artists, thinkers, people of color, the affluent, the middle class, the ignored, the displaced, those let down by their government, those who caught the disease too early, those who didn't realize they had caught it at all, those who thought they would never catch it but who did, all of those who were lost to the dark times when she first came to New York City in the early 1990s, at the height of the AIDS crisis.

I'm not an expert, but even to me it seems that with the climate warming at such a fast rate, whatever the cause, the sheer number of people on the earth at this time constitutes a crisis.

At a time when professional politicians from indistinct political parties struggled to connect with ordinary people, an overweening global crisis like the end of the planet presented politicians with a way of overcoming their own, more mundane problems.

You often see people at their worst, but their biggest crises and worst times of their life is your day to day.

NPR ran a heartbreaking story on Friday about the state of crisis in which Legal Services finds itself because «the number of poor people who need legal advice has gone through the roof — more senior citizens and more homeowners who lost their jobs» while at the same time there are severe funding cutbacks.

It would be a retrograde step to remove the specialist position of Social Justice Commissioner, with functions performed by someone experienced in Indigenous life, at a time which I consider is a crisis point for Indigenous people in this country.

Following consultation with service users and clinicians, we elected not to screen young people at first presentation in the emergency department or primary care because in this time of crisis, immediately following the self - harm event, young people and their families would not be in a position to readily give fully informed consent.