Sentences with phrase «public life began»

Sarah KANE»S public life began in a blizzard of condemnation, thanks to British theater critics» outrage at «Blasted,» her grisly, taboo - breaking dramatization of everyday hatred and cruelty exploding into the horrors of war.

Sir Christopher Kelly's committee on standards in public life began examining options for political party finance after the coalition committed to pursue reform.

Indeed, this journal of religion and public life began by insisting that religion and public life «mean something like what Saint Augustine meant by the City of God and the City of Man.

His public life begins with the highest promise.

Not exact matches

The second step is to begin a dialogue on how to reduce the need for legislation on every aspect of business life and instead implement regular independent reviews of large companies to identify the ones that pose risks that are not overwhelmingly balanced out by the public benefits they provide.

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.

Here the Supreme Court began to set in legal concrete the notion that sexual morals and patterns of family life are matters of private choice or taste, not matters of public concern in which the state has a legitimate interest.

I do not know the precise history of those two key phrases, but I would guess that their origins are fairly recent — say, in the 1920s or 1930s, when media began to «personalize» and «democratize» so much of American private and public life.

Like others of that time, Lenski did not anticipate the resurgence of evangelical Protestantism in our public life, a resurgence that began slowly in the 1950s and came to widespread public notice in the second half of the 1970s.

Was it ordained before the foundation of the world that the year 2015, which saw the rise of Donald Trump's candidacy and his clumsy attempts to establish Evangelical bona fides, should also see the publication of the long - awaited first volume of In the Beginning Was the Word, Mark Noll's history of the Bible in American public life?

Yet there, too, the ancient religious traditions are undergoing a crisis and secular thinking has made inroads and begun to dominate public life.

The culture of consumerism and the chase for material symbols of wealth and security have sometimes come to be dominant; the pursuit of spiritual fulfillment in many has slowly begun to degenerate into empty and sterile ritualism; the legitimate thirst for education has often become perverted into an obsessive drive to acquire with the greatest speed the formal diplomas necessary to gain entry to jobs offering the easiest opportunities to make the quickest rupees; political statesmanship in some areas has begun to depreciate into an opportunities race for power and position; the spirit of SEVA (Service) to the nation has intermittently begun to be suffocated in many, by the abuse of discretions, sometimes mediated by a bloated bureaucracy itself enmeshed in a vast network of multiplying paper and self - proliferating regulations; menacingly many good and decent people even in public life, have come to be corroded by a culture of demanding corruption; and some potentially creative lawyers, have begun to take perverted pride in mere «cleverness», rendering themselves vulnerable to the prejudice that they are a parasitic obstruction in the pursuit of substantive justice.

Most public debate concerns ethical issues such as the beginning and the end of life, or the permissibility of certain sexual behaviors.

Long - range planning for preaching can be assisted by formulating an annual grid listing the months of the year along one side and three sets of factors along the other: (1) human factors (personal and public) relating to the seasons of the year beginning with spring; (2) congregational factors relating to the church life cycle usually beginning in September; (3) theological factors relating to the Christian Year, to lectionary selections or lectia continua, and to spiritual and theological themes needed by the church in its life and mission beginning with Advent.

What we are seeing in the attacks this week on Boehner and Ryan is the beginning of a long overdue public conversation about what it means to protect the sanctity of life.

Joel Carpenter begins his long - awaited and richly informative book with that quotation, gently noting that while one may question fundamentalism's constructive achievements, «no one can deny that fundamentalism has survived» and «has found ways to influence American public life.»

And then we kicked ourselves again when Susan's life story — one wrapped up in years of unemployment, the recent loss of both her parents and struggles with her mental health — began to seep into the public arena.

The end of an occasion's private life — its «perishing» — is the beginning of its public career.

The revision of American thought and practice about life questions began with abortion, and examination of the moral confusion attending that issue helps us understand more general developments in public morality.

Rev Mike Long at Notting Hill Methodist Church - a short distance away from the scene of the deadly tragedy on 14th June which claimed at least 80 lives - said people are «relieved» the public inquiry has begun and are hoping for transparency.

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.

and that she and several brothers and sisters of Jesus still lived there after Jesus» public career had begun.

A good bit of public attention in recent years has been focused on developments at the beginning of life: new reproductive technologies, for instance, and research on embryos.

Neither of us, I think, was quite certain just what contribution I might be making to the enterprise, but I was a reasonably educated and reasonably pious» though hardly properly observant» Jew who had worked for many years as an editor, and since Religion and Public Life had recently begun publishing First Things, I suppose it was thought that I was qualified to add some, albeit hardly scholarly, expertise to the enterprise.

While Rome rebuked parts of the Americanizers» program, the fact that American Catholics could even contemplate a change in strategy indicated that they were beginning to reassess their involvement in public life.

While parent - education, group - counseling, and public psychodrama are performing their life - shaping functions, another phase of the Wesley program is beginning where life ends.

Liberalism began as a political project that sought to curtail the role of religion in public life.

Taylor begins with the «affirmation of ordinary life» that marks the modern focus on the individual and displaces the ancient emphasis on heroic public actions.

While we can see firsthand some of the trajectories mentioned in these essays» for example, an increase in liturgical sobriety within Christian churches and an increased hostility toward religion outside them» the endpoints of those trajectories form the world in which we begin our engagement with public life.

What began as a kind of public humiliation of «the angriest man in the world» slowly transformed into a cult following of a man who insisted... with choice words... on living a life of integrity.

On 16 October 1978 Cardinal Karol Wojtyla of Krakow was elected Pope and with this the church once excluded from public life, was now in everyone's thoughts and people began returning to its fold.

And the signs so far in Brazil are very positive — a public inquiry will be held, legislation to ban live export is to be drafted, vets and vet students are being educated and beginning to speak out against the trade, and the meat processing union has publicly announced its opposition to live export.

In it, I suggested that the Big 12, fresh with a new commissioner and yet another new lease on life, should begin public pursuit of BYU, Clemson, Florida State, Louisville, Miami and Notre Dame, not unlike what Larry Scott and the Pac - 10 did with the Big 12 South in his first months on the job.

Hawkins and the Green Party have long advocated for a Green New Deal, which is a full employment program with a public guarantee of a living wage job that begins with transitioning to 100 % clean energy by 2030.

The features of a socialised mutual economy are beginning to emerge — one characterised by a new kind of economic citizenship, grounded not only in an entitlement to a share of decision - making power, but also in an obligation to participate in the maintenance of a public life which allows democratic organisations to be sustained and reproduced.

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 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.

Onondaga County Comptroller Bob Antonacci began his new life as a nominee for state comptroller pledging to run a positive campaign on Wednesday, saying that it was «crucial» considering he will participate in a public matching program.

After 20 years in public service, first representing the South End on the city Common Council beginning in 1998 then as council president starting in 2010, McLaughlin said her life has become intertwined with public service.

Miliband himself has now begun to outline how he believes Labour will triumph come 2015, stating that the party «must regain its economic credibility, have a credible program of reform for public institutions, and capture the imagination of the majority of Britons to want to get on in life and see their families prosper».

George Osborne has begun planning for life after the Treasury by looking to sign up with what may be the world's most expensive public speaking agency.

More than a month after New York City began offering free lead testing to nearly 3,000 children living in public housing apartments in the wake of a lead - paint scare, only 73 children have been tested under the initiative, city officials said.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio will begin «City Hall in Your Borough Manhattan» week with three public events, starting with a live appearance at 9:15 a.m. on The Danny Jones Show on 580 AM.

For the child just beginning to discover the wonder of reading; for the teen striving to make meaningful life choices; for the unemployed adult struggling to re-enter the workforce; for the retired senior desperate to access and understand computers and the Internet so she can share e-mail with her out - of - town grandchildren, there is no substitute for the public library.

Today he formally begins a new chapter in his life of public service by being inaugurated as state Senator for the 14th Senate District.

The report follows an inquiry by the independent committee for standards on public life - which began after the MPs» expenses scandal in May.

Residents have protested the shelter from the very beginning, claiming it is too close to the elementary school P.S. 75 and has contributed to quality - of - life issues such as vandalism, public drunkenness, noise disruption and thefts.

If you want to know what happened to it, take a look at the Department of Health's first annual report on the «End of life care strategy» (62 full colour pages) which asserts that the initiative is off to a great start: it is establishing a National Implementation Advisory Board and a National Coalition to raise public awareness, has published a set of Quality Markers and core competencies, built monitoring into Operation Finance Guidance, tendered for a pilot of a national survey and begun the process to set up an Intelligence Network.

The dig, which began with a Facebook call for skinny cavers who could reach the fossil chamber in a South African cave, was live - blogged and was the focus of a N OVA / National Geographic documentary aired on public television in the United States Wednesday night.

Rather than change his position, Edison issued fatuous warnings about AC's «greatly enhanced risks to life and property» and became involved in a smear campaign that began with the public electrocution of dogs, horses, and cattle — experiments purporting to demonstrate the lethality of AC.