Sentences with phrase «public life offer»

Those who hate all forms of religious practice in public life offer nothing positive in exchange for ripping out the existing furniture.

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In a year that saw a terrible Ebola pandemic in Africa and the resurgence of Legionnaire's disease in New York, it's small wonder that life sciences and health - care companies are also leading the way for initial public offerings.

Some of it has been hidden from the public - the nightly legal battles to keep defamatory stories out of papers; her mother having to struggle past photographers in order to get to her front door; the attempts of reporters and photographers to gain illegal entry to her home and the calls to police that followed; the substantial bribes offered by papers to her ex-boyfriend; the bombardment of nearly every friend, co-worker, and loved one in her life.

As online review service Yelp prepares for its initial public offering, the company quietly has gone live in Australia today.

«It has the power to influence public debate, mobilize communities, and — most importantly — offer creative solutions to help people receive better care, no matter where they live or who they are,» write Richards and Karp, who believe that the tech industry owes its success to both of its employees as well as the communities it serves, whose health needs are often partially met by Planned Parenthood itself.

Between speculation of an initial public offering, the Apple Watch shipping in April, and the recent launch of its own new devices, Fitbit arguably is in for the workout of its life.

The life sciences and frontier - tech companies that are making an impact are the ones that are most likely to make it to an initial public offering or an exit for their investors — more so than are traditional tech companies.

The proposed regulations, put out for public comment Jan. 4, would ban high upfront fees and restrict the kinds of contracts debt settlement companies can offer, effectively outlawing the business model most popular with, among others, Cambridge Life Solutions, a company Matt McClearn and I wrote about in this magazine last fall.

«As technology jumps forward and people are changing preferences we have to think long and hard about what the public sector offers to people when it comes to money and how do we facilitate people living in society getting access to money in the forms and shapes they prefer them to be,» Skingsley said.

It has the power to influence public debate, mobilize communities, and — most importantly — offer creative solutions to help people receive better care, no matter where they live or who they are.

The makeshift memorial created in Olive Square, a backyard for this vertical neighbourhood, represents the rich public life this densely populated city offers

We help with all aspects of a company's life - cycle including financings, strategic relationships, mergers and acquisitions, and planning and preparation for public offerings.

Our team has been involved in virtually every phase of corporate finance at every stage of a company's life cycle, including raising venture capital for early stage companies, raising growth capital for later stage companies, taking companies public, managing secondary offerings, and arranging mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, recapitalizations, and leveraged acquisitions.

Since the company's initial public offering in 2013, Voya has reduced the number of variable annuity policies with living benefits in its closed block by 35 percent to 199,000 policies at the end of the first quarter.

Few executives show more public passion for March Madness than the Berkshire Hathaway (BRK - A) CEO, whose contest for Berkshire employees this year offers a prize of $ 1 million per year for life for correctly predicting the Sweet Sixteen, or $ 1 million for nailing the first 32 games, or $ 100,000 to the person whose bracket remains perfect the longest.

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.

This year's Republican primary season offers us an important opportunity to confront our scruples about the privacy of faith in public life — and to get over them.

a set of values, beliefs, and structure in a person's life in order to give them direction and a sense of right and wrong is fine, but organized religions are no more than large corporations, and like any large corporation are only focused on their bottom line... trying to control the public and extract as much money as they can from them by any means necessary... promoting fear, uncertainty, hate and a sense that they alone can offer salvation... for a price (although they are very cleaver about getting to this hidden and unspoken cost... after all these hundreds of years they have perfected their craft well!)

Good economists know, from work carried out within their discipline, that the foundations of their subject are virtually non-existent... Conventional economics offer prescriptions for the problems of inflation and unemployment which are at best misleading and at worst dangerously wrong... Despite its powerful influence on public life, its achievements...

Though he prefers the older word «piety» — with its deep rootage in Roman history and Calvinist theology — J. I. Packer offers a succinct positive definition of Christian spirituality as an «enquiry into the whole Christian enterprise of pursuing, achieving, and cultivating communion with God, which includes both public worship and private devotion, and the results of these in actual Christian life.»

The readings offer four distinct perspectives on the nature and attainment of happiness, each of which will serve as the springboard for the discussion of a different set of issues in relation to the search for human ful llment: participation in public life, self - control and education, the longing for God, and the confrontation of death.

Many times Mother Teresa offered to leave public service, but her sisters and her confessor assured her that although she could not sense her own faith, her life radiated with God's love.

On many counts it seems extraordinary that it took place at all: a man and a woman in public; a Jew and a Samaritan; a transient and a citizen; one offering living water and another caught in the ceaseless rounds of drawing water at the well.

Religion and the Death Penalty, which emerged from the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, and Millard Lind's The Sound of Sheer Silence and the Killing State offer much to extend and challenge thinking about capital punishment.

Bishop Azariah of Dornakal, in theologically justifying the rejection of the reserved minority communal electorate offered by Britain to the Christian community in India, spoke of how the acceptance of it would be «a direct blow to the nature of the church of Christ» at two points — one, it would force the church to function «like a religious sect, a community which seeks self - protection for the sake of its own loaves and fishes» which would prevent the fruitful exercise of the calling of the church to permeate the entire society across boundaries of caste, class, language and race, a calling which can be fulfilled only through its members living alongside fellow - Indians sharing in public life with a concern for Christian principles in it; and two, it would put the church's evangelistic programme in a bad light as «a direct move to transfer so many thousands of voters from the Hindu group to the Indian Christian group» (recorded by John Webster, Dalit Christians - A History).

Every Living Thing: An Evangelical Statement on Responsible Care for Animals is a new offering spearheaded by Barrett Duke of the Southern Baptist Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, Michael Cromartie with the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and the Clapham Group's Mark Rodgers, a former chief of staff to Senator Rick Santorum.

In an argument which was becoming public, he was being offered a virtually magical doctrine, a sort of droit de papaute extending autocratically into life after death, and all of it backed with the threat of public violence, the violence of death by fire.

The emergence of industrial civilization, in other words, called forth a federal apparatus sufficient to the need to regulate the private sector in the public interest, to provide macroeconomic stability amidst the uncertainties of the business cycle, and to offer the nation's citizens welfare and security programs appropriate to the vicissitudes of modern life.

Mark offers a historical perspective on the separation of poetry from public and political life, and Julia recommends a poem for the Trump Era.

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The Australian Beverages Council has today slammed Live Lighter's research that a soft drink tax is supported by the public in WA, offering evidence that a tax on beverages has been proven as an ineffective measure to combat obesity, time and time again.

A non-profit study center, the Institute offers a variety of educational and outreach programs with the mission of inspiring men and women to lives of public service and preserving the health and future of our democracy.

Since 1999, we've been offering betting trends, real time live odds, and betting systems to the general public.

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Certain of my friends have also had positive comments offered to them when nursing older toddlers in public and this is of great reassurance to me as I enter a new phase in my life as a nursing mother.

I rarely see women breast feeding in public where I live (Columbus, GA) but there is a BF group that meets twice a week at the library, BF classes offered by the hospitals and community, and not one but TWO baby - friendly hospitals in town.

The next afternoon Mugabe called her from a public phone to offer his thanks and enquire after her baby.This memory of an act of thoughtfulness from Mugabe clearly shaped Holland's early views of the guerilla leader, but it is also led to a simple question, which recurs throughout her many interviews with those who knew him best as a child and in his early life.

Also, live broadcasting platforms offer channels to continue the public discourse following an event as well.

Let me offer three reasons why standards issues continue to trouble us so much, despite the many years of good work by the Committee on Standards in Public Life.

She offered a much more powerful and exciting sense of the possibilities of political life than I was getting, even from the communitarians in the liberal - communitarian debate, and certainly more so than the liberals, who are less committed to the public side of politics.

This is one of those rare political memoirs, self - deprecating and amusing, which are very readable, revealing much about the author's private and public lives and offering shrewd observations about opposition politics and the pressures of ministerial life.

A decline in the City's quality of life is her overarching theme, with subway delays, public urination, crippling traffic and increasing numbers of homeless people on the street prime examples she offers of problems caused, or at least not adequately addressed, by Mayor de Blasio.

That moment — an early sign of Dean's ultimate unelectability — offered a progressive vision of the political family, an apolitical spouse reluctant to set aside her life and craft a flattering public persona she saw as potentially inauthentic.

New York City's public hospital system is offering to cover Memorial Sloan - Kettering patients who live in the city and are set to lose their health insurance because of the collapse of the nation's largest co-op, Health Republic.

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.

His role as a chief campaign surrogate could offer him a path back to public life, but also puts him at odds with many fellow Republicans and could cost him his legacy.

The event will feature medical, public health and human rights experts looking to offer an open and honest conversation about the effects of the virus in Africa and the current climate in our own communities, while providing facts about Ebola that can save lives.

As far as second acts go, public life in post-imperial Britain offers two distinct options.

That's why Labour needs to offer hope: a living wage, for instance; letting councils build Britain out of its housing crisis; an industrial strategy to create the renewable energy jobs of the future; turning the bailed - out banks into accountable public investment banks; tax justice; and public ownership of our key utilities.

But Mr. Gibson said family considerations, as well as a job offer from Williams College, which he will join in February as a visiting lecturer on leadership, had influenced his decision to step away from public life.