Sentences with phrase «practical efforts of»

Samuel Gompers expressed the trade unionist's lack of confidence in ministers accusing them of being apologists and defenders of the status quo and of using «their exalted positions to discourage and discountenance all practical efforts of the toilers to lift themselves out of the slough of despondency and despair.»

Not exact matches

«Strenuous effort is underway, but it is not practical to set an exact deadline,» Mr. Ross said of closing the trade gap.

APEC is also where practical efforts are being made that will help Canadian companies take advantage of the opportunities available in the dynamic and fast - growing economies in Asia.

These guys lived their faith in real, tactical, practical ways that led millions of people closer to Jesus, in big efforts and small acts of love.

Along with this effort to provide a broader social understanding of religious institutions and a more sophisticated framework in which to explain the dynamics of religious life, practical theologians raise specific questions about education for contemporary religious leaders.

The current interest in practical theology may be seen as a return to the earlier effort to develop a comprehensive, integrated understanding of the life of faith in contemporary society.

In practical terms, I suspect that this means that Christians must make an ever more concerted effort to recall and recover the wisdom and centrality of the ascetic tradition.

This practical attraction stimulated the efforts of many and was present in many missionary enterprises.

His tireless efforts to revive a Lincolnian understanding of the American proposition are not a mere exercise in theoretical reasoning, but an eminently practical endeavor that has helped to shape pro-life litigation and legislation.

In an effort to help establish such a method, I have introduced the idea of levels of practical moral reason.

In the U.S. and Western Europe, both levels have been targeted for attention, though most large - scale efforts until rather recently were directed toward the practical concerns of adequate food, housing and health care.

Contrary to Weber's effort to show «how abstract ethical doctrines could influence everyday life,» Zaret concludes that «practical ethics in profane activities can be no less influential for the formation of abstract doctrine.

If the left insists on the liberal interpretation of our constitutional and political institutions in an uncompromising effort to defend the ever - expanding role of the state to secure the practical liberty of individuals, the right defends the free - market system and uncompromisingly rejects any restraint on the unfettered economic choices of individuals.

For example, people reading this exchange with a view to assessing the validity of Madden's criticisms of my position and the soundness of my rebuttal are acting on one of practical reason's per se nota first principles» namely, that intellectual understanding of matters such as those under discussion is something worth having and expending time and effort to achieve.

The preacher who is doing his reading these days has been encouraged by the fact that there are a number of recent attempts «to find a new way through from exegesis to the sermon».1 That these efforts among biblical scholars, systematic theologians, and practical theologians are taking place has several clear implications.

The present ecological crisis is partially the practical consequence of the old Newtonian philosophy of nature as dead, insensitive, and mechanical; and Hartshorne's panpsychism should aid man's efforts to rethink his relation to the cosmos.

Equally important, the two foci of each dimension of practical theology — one in the church and one in the world — help to encourage a dialectical relationship between the Christian faith community and other perspectives and efforts to shape our common life.

Although my thinking is inspired by the seminal work Practical Theology: The Emerging Field in Theology, Church, and World, edited by Don Browning (Harper & Row, 1983), my thoughts essentially are an attempt to make sense of what I do, and thereby add one more opinion to the important effort to reform and renew theological education.

Knott, in» Publius and the NSA Surveillance Program» argues for prudence and for surveillance of electronic information as a practical and historical imperative, arguing especially against the efforts of Congressman Justin Amash and Senator Rand Paul.

What have been the practical consequences of these persistent efforts to divide Korea?

Practical reason is the effort to devise an immediate course of action which Ulysses shares with the foxes.8 By this definition, reason is not unique to people.

But as he urged them then to get down to more concrete work in support of various efforts of appropriate technology research and development, their comments and questions kept skimming past this first priority to the practical pros and cons, the alleged sins of the oil companies, his attitude toward women's liberation, the possibility and desirability of violent revolution.

This is in the spirit of Shankar Guha Niyogi who emphasized that the agenda of peoples» movement has to include simultaneously struggle and creative efforts»: (Life - centred Production - Practical Steps Towards a Feminist Eco-Socialism.

Despite our efforts to assist Agriculture Victoria and the relevant ministers in understanding the practical realities of small - scale livestock farmers, the draft graduated controls don't appear to reduce red tape for small - scale commercial farmers, nor homesteaders or hobbyists, and yet they make it easier than ever before to set up a 1000 - cattle feedlot.

«Overloaded and Underprepared» is a detailed documentation of those efforts, offering a practical, research - based road map to students, teachers, parents and school administrators on how to implement similar change at their schools.

The Journal of Perinatal Education (JPE) publishes peer - reviewed articles and evidence - based, practical features to inform childbirth educators and other health - care professionals on research and resources that will improve their practice and their efforts to support natural, safe, and healthy birth.

Together with our partners, we work in 190 countries and territories to translate that commitment into practical action, focusing special effort on reaching the most vulnerable and excluded children, to the benefit of all children, everywhere.

Those early efforts were the first to benefit from database modeling of proposed districts down to block level, and even though new plans often took hours or even days to run through the mainframe, the practical political results were impressive at the time.

What if more of the informed students that the worthy transparency efforts produce act instead in their own practical interests and opt to use the next 11 years to become, say, neurosurgeons instead of Ph.D. holders and postdocs?

After that I wanted to do something very practical so I switched to work on magnetic confinement fusion, as part of the ongoing effort to develop fusion reactors.

The collaborative effort may be the best means of putting to practical use the emerging (and still esoteric) field of systems biology, which studies complex interactions in biological systems.

«The Commission is concerned that over-reliance on international offsets — given the practical difficulty of assuring that emissions reductions claimed in other countries are real, permanent, additional, and verifiable — could undermine program goals and political support, especially if substantial U.S. funds are leaving the country to support abatement efforts abroad rather than at home,» it states.

We retain indefinitely all the information we gather about you in an effort to make your repeat use of our website more efficient, practical, and relevant.

The effort is part of a much broader debate that spans research and clinical care over which genetic results should be returned — an ethical, legal, and practical minefield.

The effort has already had one practical result: the discovery of two new genes for resistance to a race of wheat stem rust to which there is virtually no resistance in wheat.

Jones describes an additional assignation of «guarantor» which would identify persons who invest substantial intellectual and practical effort in the research, and who are publicly responsible for ensuring the integrity of the entire project and the final publication.

Despite extensive efforts to develop practical applications for graphene and explore the exotic physics at work in its two dimensions, obtaining a usable sample is still more art than science, as Scientific American learned one slushy winter afternoon in the Columbia University lab of Philip Kim, one of our co-authors and a leader in the field.

It mixes practical measures for protecting vultures with public relations efforts aimed at transforming vultures from symbols of doom to icons of the environment.

His work has spanned the range from basic science, including ultrahigh vacuum surface science experiments on model single crystal catalysts, to applications - oriented efforts that are impacting the practical implementation of new «lean - NOx» reduction technologies.

Addressing the Zika outbreaks has been a challenge for health officials, and since the first microcephaly cases were reported in Brazil last year, there has been a nationwide effort to find practical solutions to the growing threat of the virus.

Another deserving effort in promoting scientific integrity in China is to foster a healthy research environment, which includes making explicit research ethics policies, issuing a practical code of conduct, establishing a credible and authoritative national organization to supervise local units, protecting whistle - blowers, building a rigorous and fair peer review system, revising the criteria for promotion and reward to emphasize research quality rather than quantity by a researcher, and achieving zero tolerance for unethical research behaviors.

Her new book, «Eat to Feel Full (and Nourish Yourself for Good)», is a beginner's guide to self - nourishment, offering a combination of food knowledge, insights into the habits that block our efforts to transform, and practical techniques for developing a mindful, healthy relationship with food..

Straightforwardfatloss.com is primarily a discussion of practical strategy on how to make health and fitness efficient, thus taking as absolutely little time and effort as possible.

And sure, we can (and should) always be mindful of our posture and make a conscious effort to keep our shoulders back... however, that's also not practical.

Dr. Cate, thank you for all of your efforts, research, and the practical experience that went into creating Deep Nutrition.

Eat to Feel Full (and Nourish Yourself for Good) is a beginner's guide to self - nourishment, offering a combination of food knowledge, insights into the habits that block our efforts to transform, and practical techniques for developing a mindful, healthy relationship with food.

Whether it's a summer, fall, winter, or spring nuptials, we aim to provide brides with practical wedding information to save time and the effort of planning a wedding.

Hmmm... I'm Practical and honest and don't appreciate people who waste my time because I put 100 % effort in most of what I do.

They are staged well, look cool, and really make you appreciate the ahrd work and effort that goes into practical effects, as well as the touch of movie magic that is all but absent in this day and age.

Yoji Shinkawa was in fact keen to create believable weapons, so he put a great effort on offering many options both on design that on the practical use of them.