Sentences with phrase «people than institutions»

So I'm advocating that we'd be more productive by changing people than institutions.

Not exact matches

Companies and institutions often appear monolithic from afar but the reality is that they're nothing more than collections of people trying their best to work together.

Three facets of today's U.S. civic discourse would worry the Framers, said Eisgruber: «mistrust of institutions,» which they considered crucial to forming a republic; the «geographic sorting» that finds people of like - minded views grouping together rather than being more evenly distributed throughout the country; and the rise of technologies (read: Facebook) that are keeping people from reading facts and views that give them proper «civic understanding.»

If the census were to count only citizens, rather than all residents, the budget allocations will not accurately reflect the actual number of people who will make demands upon public institutions.

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Mutual Fund Sales Loads: A mutual fund sales load is nothing more than a commission that goes to the person or institution that convinced you to invest your money.

It applies to the economic or professional activities of a wide range of persons, including credit and financial institutions, organizers of games of chance, intermediaries in transactions with real property, traders in transactions involving more than $ 15,000 or its equivalent, pawnbrokers, precious metals and stones traders, auditors, providers of trust and company services, and non-profit associations and foundations.

Rather than put our trust into an institution or person, we put a lot of stock in Jesus» statement that the Holy Spirit will lead us into all truth (John 16:13).

Conservatives no less than progressives can traffic in paranoia and victim complexes, and were these impulses better chastened by the Right's most influential people and institutions, traditionalists would be much better off.

Or am I contributing to the problem by helping support this institution - one that has some amazing people but are dedicated to teaching students more about how evolution is wrong than in following the call of Jesus to love your enemies.

The bishops seem to see American society and its institutions as a market rather than a community united by a common culture — a place where strangers work and pursue their economic interests, not a society where people share common bonds and shared responsibilities.

I would also limit the term «shepherding» to those situations in which it is possible for the minister to concentrate on the healing, sustaining, or guiding of the person or persons, rather than having primarily, at that point, to protect the interest of the group or the institution as perhaps against that of the person.

Current enthusiasm for civil society is usually traced to the arguments of Vaclav Havel, the Czech president, and others who posited the claims of civil society against the totalitarian claims of communism, and, earlier than that, to the To Empower People manifesto authored by Peter Berger and myself in order to lift up the crucial role of non-governmental «mediating institutions» in public policy.

As a Christian institution, should we be following this worldly pattern of honoring people for success relative to their peers rather than success relative to their gifts and callings?»

By this I mean that they have less control over their lives, less latitude in decision - making, and less influence over political, educational, and economic institutions which impinge upon their lives, than is the case with people in the middle classes.

Additionally, nearly 56,000 people were displaced, forced to flee into the forests, as mobs burned down more than 5,600 houses, 300 churches, and other Christian institutions.

It seems probable that, in the age into which we are entering, the Church will be less a community institution and more an organized minority than among European peoples between Constantine and the nineteenth century.

He holds simultaneously that existing democratic ideas, traditions, and institutions were often championed in actual history by those who were non-Christians or even anti-Christian; and yet that, in building better than they knew, such persons were often generating in human temporal life constructs whose foundations were not only consistent with Jewish and Christian convictions about the realities of ethical and political life, but in a sense dependent on them.

So Lambda and its allies are quite right to believe that, in getting the government to declare that millennia of classical, Jewish, and Christian teaching on homosexuality is nothing more than prejudice, «gay people have found far more success in the courts than in Congress» — or in any other institution with a measure of accountability to the American people.

... many structures and institutions may be built into the Church which give the people of the Church a more active role than that which they have previously had in the life of the Church itself.

Roof muses that those of us writing and debating the issue at the time seemed more concerned about the survival of our institutions than the spiritual health of people.

Ms. Crabtree is minister and director of Greater Hartford (Connecticut) Campus Ministry, serving four institutions and more than 16,000 people.

but seriously, there are far more people than we know who have been disillusioned by the church institution, yet have not given up on faith altogether.

Since the World Bank affects poor people around the globe more directly than any other social institution, John Cobb's exploration is important for anyone concerned about how Christians can creatively engage economic issues and trends.

It is equally easy and false to take a docetic view of revelation: to suppose that the content of the scriptures, for example, is, just simply, the thoughts of God, the human writers contributing no more than a pen for God to write them down with; or to imagine that a person or a group of people or an institution can, as it were, throw a switch from time to time and become a transmitter of revelation from an external divine source: a group of bishops, for instance, when assembled in council, or a pope when defining a dogma ex cathedra.

Perhaps a broader view of the church as an organization serving people's spiritual needs would speak more powerfully to the laity than does the picture of an institution clutching its «patent.»

I like organizations and institutions, their power to unite people and create positive change by making it possible for people to do more together than they could apart.

But again, the focus is on leading people towards life in Jesus rather than dismantling institutions.

Far more serious than any of the startling events of the decade was the massive erosion of the legitimacy of American institutions — business, government, education, the churches, the family — that set in, particularly among young people, and that continues, if public opinion polls are to be believed, in the 1970s even when overt protest has become less frequent.

All the way back to my original point — criticizing institutions (and inevitably the people involved in them) will prove to be much less effective than building people up in Christ.

When you take people out of the equation, an institution is little more than words on paper, bricks, wood, and some chairs.

The term applies properly to people or institutions rather than to the statements which they make.

While this is at least somewhat consistent with what we might expect developmentally from teens, it is worth noting that this generation of young persons has less experience with religious institutions and formal belief systems than any of its predecessors.

One should also appreciate the fact that though an institution founded by Christian Missions, considering the inter-religious character of the academic community of the college, the founders emphasized the Christian «values» of self - giving service to the poor and concern for the whole person rather than Christian salvation, thereby somewhat separating the common «culture» and values of humanism of academic community of the college, from the Christian «religion» and thus relatively secularizing it to keep the academic community free from discrimination on the basis of religion.

These institutions regularly direct the individual toward more cooperation and justice than he would be inclined to observe as an isolated private person.

I think a lot of our criticisms relate more to our past experiences with people in institutions (a church) rather than what really is.

ACEs Connection is a social network that accelerates the global movement toward recognizing the impact of adverse childhood experiences in shaping adult behavior and health, and reforming all communities and institutions — from schools to prisons to hospitals and churches — to help heal and develop resilience rather than to continue to traumatize already traumatized people.

For many reasons, but here's one couples rarely think about nowadays as they search for a «soulmate» and marry for love (which, as historian Stephanie Coontz has famously written, destroyed the institution of marriage): the traits that you might want in a person to co-parent with may be different than the traits you want someone to spend your romantic life with.

He demonstrates, as is generally found, that with voluntary voting only, wealthy people are more likely to vote than poorer people, which could distort the representation of interests by electoral institutions.

Most people would also argue that on average, in the long run, working democratic institutions yield better results in terms of general well - being than policies devised by a populist leader and his family and cronies.

Positive Money makes the case that QE for People (we call it Sovereign Money Creation) would be much more effective than giving money to financial institutions.

The Labour leader offers an innovative politics of participation which is about doing things «with» people rather than «to» them, sweeping away anachronistic institutions and inherited privilege; if carried forward this might be the platform for a resurgence of British social democracy.

Thus, not only do rural people have a greater democratic say in how their local governments are run, they also have a greater democratic say in how some of their key utilities and economic institutions are run, and are far more likely per capita to serve on the governing boards of such institutions, (even though, as in the case of governments, they have far less formal training and expertise in doing so than their urban counterparts running investor owned corporations that do the same things in urban areas).

The money was generally used to help pay for carers so people could live in communities rather than institutions.

«I believe also that this particular special edition is going to go down as a historic edition and I don't want to miss that point because it's something that we must be able to put in all our institutions so like I said we are going to get many copies to be able to give to embassies, our hotels, our schools, our libraries, all our institutions, in the secondary schools and also to be able to keep for those yet unborn to be able to see in pictorial form of the things we have tried to do in the last 50 years and maybe inspire some other people to do greater things than what has been recorded here,» the Governor said.

Rather than suggest the institution of a panel of inquiry to unravel the truth like most informed people are saying, you will want this man arrested for speaking for his unheard people.

«Activities of this monster dovetailed into a disaster worse than that of a war - torn country; our people took flight; our economy was grounded, financial institutions relocated and our once buzzing city of Omoku was reduced to a ghost town.

With arrangements like this, researchers at smaller institutions — people who have no more startup money than you do — often manage to do great science.

On Saturdays 40 years ago, when Singer (then Alison Tepper) was 5 years old and wanted to be in ballet class, she and her parents would set out on a very different errand: visiting her autistic 7 - year - old brother, Steven, at the Willowbrook State School, an institution on Staten Island, New York, that housed more than 5,000 people diagnosed with mental retardation and developmental disabilities.