Sentences with phrase «public and government life»

And Christians should stop trying to shove aspects of their beliefs into every facet of public and government life.

Not exact matches

«Twitter is the most direct way to engage with the candidates and issues of this election and to participate in the live, public conversation around its key events,» said Adam Sharp, Twitter's head of news, government, and elections, in a statement.

In 2013, the Twitterati helped nudge Bitcoin into the public consciousness as both a controversial new investment and a punchline; kept investors informed as the Nasdaq suffered an unprecedented, hours - long meltdown; and posted live updates as legislators failed to reach a spending deal and shut down the federal government for 16 days.

Every day of my working week in my early 20s I was reminded how incredibly fortunate I was, to live in a country with a democratically elected government, where legal representation and a public trial were the rights of everyone.

«We need a government that is willing to commit to adequately staffing and funding public facilities to ensure that Alberta seniors can have the quality of life and the level of care they deserve.»

Since 2016, the Commonwealth government has been forced to shut down 179 primary and secondary schools, increase the sales tax to 11.5 %, and «sharply [raise] electricity and water rates,» while calling for a $ 450 million cut to the island's public university — all policies that hurt the nearly half of Puerto Ricans living below the poverty line.

Although I frequently find myself at odds with First Things over issues pertaining to economics and the role of government in public life, I usually find its critique of American social mores and ethics to be insightful and illuminating.

And it is because I see this problem as so far from solution, yet so central to my own sense of satisfaction with our public life, that I despair over our government's lack of commitment to its resolution.

Here in China where I live and work as a teacher, there is a state church that is monitored heavily by the government and there are the House churches that are now beginning to be heard and are holding there services out in public, but the members are being arrested and thrown in jail and yet they continue to hold there services.

Lasch reminds us that the corrosion of our democratic way of life and especially our public discourse has its roots in widespread distrust of our institutions and the traditions around which they have developed and of which they are the expressions — whether the family, church, and local communities, or private enterprise and all the various levels of government.

The government doesn't need to recognize marriage (I don't give a hang if they don't recognize my relationship with my wife); the government doesn't need to run public schools (and get into the fight about whether evolution truly explains the origin of species and the origin of life).

But we are living in a world where this government has promoted an attitude to life which now aspires not simply to referee public behavior but to control the very thoughts we have and to decide on that basis whether we are legitimate members of society or not.

Today the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life released what it claims to be the first quantitative worldwide study on how governments and societies infringe on the religious beliefs and practices of individuals.

For most of my childhood, my family was living on public assistance, food pantry fare, government cheese, and the discounted bread that had passed its expiration date.

Yet the draft describes wide - ranging protections, saying, «Persons and organizations do not forfeit their religious freedom when providing social services, education, or healthcare; earning a living, seeking a job, or employing others; receiving government grants or contracts; or otherwise participating in the marketplace, the public square, or interfacing with federal, state, or local governments.»

State atheism may refer to a government's anti-clericalism, which opposes religious inst itutional power and influence in all aspects of public and political life, including the involvement of religion in the everyday life of the citizen.

[2] State atheism may refer to a government's anti-clericalism, which opposes religious institutional power and influence in all aspects of public and political life, including the involvement of religion in the everyday life of the citizen.

And recently, those revelations were brought into even broader perspective through a study conducted by the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion and Public Life, which rated most of the Arab Spring countries as «high or very high» concerning government - imposed religious restrictioAnd recently, those revelations were brought into even broader perspective through a study conducted by the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion and Public Life, which rated most of the Arab Spring countries as «high or very high» concerning government - imposed religious restrictioand Public Life, which rated most of the Arab Spring countries as «high or very high» concerning government - imposed religious restrictions.

As such, if the religious want it let them put it in one of their churches but DO NOT display it as an object of spiritual significance on government land using public funds in a memorial to commemorate a disastrous attack that affected the lives many, many people who do not share your beliefs in Christ and crosses.

Moreover, Muslim influence in Nigerian public life is far disproportionate to the numbers: almost every major figure in the current military government, including the president and all but one cabinet member, is Muslim.

In squeezing the Church and other mediating institutions out of the public square, government naturally assumes more power over the nation's economic and social life.

Keeping religion OUT of the public debate would be most helpful, keeping religion out of schools, out of government, out of my bedroom, and out of the lives of those who don't fit in the «mold» of what the religious approve of — NOW we can begin to agree on something.

The real curiosity, however, is that such advocates want the government and the public schools — the coercive, not the voluntary, elements of American life — to propagate the tradition.

«A brief delay in unlawful deportation of residents who have lived here with government permission for over a decade outweighs the public interest in prompt execution of removal orders, where petitioners have been law - abiding and pose no threat to public safety,» Saris wrote.

State atheism may refer to a government's anti-clericalism, which opposes religious institutional power and influence, real or alleged, in all aspects of public and political life, including the involvement of religion in the everyday life of the citizen.

The jumping - off point for this symposium is the contention that Jews are «increasingly contending for «equal time» in law and government programs that encourage rather than restrict the role of religion in public life.»

In this connection, we should note that Luther was doubtful whether public life and particularly government could be Christianized.

The Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion and Public Life said government restrictions and religiously motivated hostility rose significantly between mid-2006 and mid-2009, when the research was conducted.

Working in government is supposed to be about public service and yet it has become an environment ruled by greed and money and it frightens me that my children's lives are now at stake.

The department still works with the Government and wider public sector to inform people about issues that affect their lives - that includes health and education, benefits, rights and welfare.

What are we seeing in our country today?It is no secret that plans are being made in right wing think tanks and some law firms, within the elephants media and among Npp leaders to bring back to life the 18th century notion that the heavenly prescribed duty of the opposition is to obstruct government business and to incite the public against the establishment.

A «country that works for everyone», is a country where the government does not allow private interests to come before the public interest, where access to power is democratic and not something enjoyed only by a privileged few through expensive lobbying, where in fact people can work hard and get on in life whatever the circumstances of their birth.

The Government Affairs Group is the public affairs wing of the CIPR and it represents the views of public affairs professionals across the industry, giving evidence to the Committee on Standards in Public Life and the Public Administration Select Commpublic affairs wing of the CIPR and it represents the views of public affairs professionals across the industry, giving evidence to the Committee on Standards in Public Life and the Public Administration Select Commpublic affairs professionals across the industry, giving evidence to the Committee on Standards in Public Life and the Public Administration Select CommPublic Life and the Public Administration Select CommPublic Administration Select Committee.

The government will today sign up to the United Nations Convention on Disability Rights, guaranteeing disabled people the right to education, employment and participation in political and public life.

George Bilicic, Lazard's Global Head of Power, Energy Infrastructure, touted Suozzi's «years as a government reformer» and his experience in the office he lost in a upset last fall to Republican Edward Mangano, saying it provided him with a unique understand of public - private partnerships and «real - life insight into the workings of government.»

And often, the principle of independent scrutiny was then taken by the government, or the hard - pressed leadership in a particular area of public life where standards were said to be inadequate, to imply formal enforcement by an external body.

The government reassured residents of the safety of the lives and property, advising the general public to be extra vigilant and report any suspicious activity in their immediate environment to the Police or any of the security services.

The Empire Center is dedicated to making New York a better place to live and work by promoting public policy reforms grounded in free - market principles, personal responsibility, and the ideals of effective and accountable government.

Under Governor Andrew Cuomo, New York state government has failed to live up to the CFE ruling, continuing to underfund public schools and stubbornly refusing to pay what the courts have said is owed to them

Our mission: Make New York a better place to live and work by promoting public policy reforms grounded in free - market principles, personal responsibility, and the ideals of effective and accountable government.

19 December 2011 — COMMITTEE ON STANDARDS IN PUBLIC LIFE Question: To ask Her Majesty's Government how much they estimated the inquiry by the Committee on Standards in Public Life into party political finance would cost; what the final cost of the inquiry was; and how they would assess what represents value for money in the case of such inquPUBLIC LIFE Question: To ask Her Majesty's Government how much they estimated the inquiry by the Committee on Standards in Public Life into party political finance would cost; what the final cost of the inquiry was; and how they would assess what represents value for money in the case of such inquirLIFE Question: To ask Her Majesty's Government how much they estimated the inquiry by the Committee on Standards in Public Life into party political finance would cost; what the final cost of the inquiry was; and how they would assess what represents value for money in the case of such inquPublic Life into party political finance would cost; what the final cost of the inquiry was; and how they would assess what represents value for money in the case of such inquirLife into party political finance would cost; what the final cost of the inquiry was; and how they would assess what represents value for money in the case of such inquiries.

Our party will raise public awareness of the discriminations and poor life outcomes experienced by men and boys in modern Britain, many of them partly or wholly attributable to successive governments» actions or inactions.

The claim earlier today began a confrontation between Labour and the government over whether making public sector contracts conditional on the living wage being paid is legal under EU law.

The Walsh administration has increased public access to government through both public forums and live streaming of city hall meetings.

The new coalition government in Britain has begun a process of attacking working class living standards through public spending cuts, slashing public services and reducing public sector pay, jobs and pensions.

Guide Dogs does not receive any government funding and completely relies on public donation to pay for its life transforming work.

Less cynically, the leaders of ISIS may sincerely think that the Western way of life exemplified in rock concerts, large scale commercial banking activity contrary to Islamic law, and government institutions of countries that advance a way of life contrary to Islamic law in the world, is evil and that it is their duty to take action, on behalf of God, to punish this evil in a public way that discourages others.

And to further fortify their actions and garner public sympathy, IPOB has set up an elaborate media campaign team to blackmail the Federal Government and its security agencies in discharging its onerous lawful responsibilities to the people of Nigeria by protecting lives and properAnd to further fortify their actions and garner public sympathy, IPOB has set up an elaborate media campaign team to blackmail the Federal Government and its security agencies in discharging its onerous lawful responsibilities to the people of Nigeria by protecting lives and properand garner public sympathy, IPOB has set up an elaborate media campaign team to blackmail the Federal Government and its security agencies in discharging its onerous lawful responsibilities to the people of Nigeria by protecting lives and properand its security agencies in discharging its onerous lawful responsibilities to the people of Nigeria by protecting lives and properand property.

«We have a government destroying our public services and wrecking the lives of public servants.

The guide dog service receives no government funding and relies on the generosity of the public to fund its services, meaning a bit of de-cluttering by everyone can make a real difference to the lives of blind and partially - sighted people.