Sentences with phrase «seeking changes to the way»

The first was a petition from animal rights activists seeking changes to the way breeders who sell puppies online are treated.

[16] long - sought changes to the way the state calculates school performance grades: http://www.ncpolicywatch.com/2015/09/02/another-round-of-stigmatizing-grades-for-low-income-schools/

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With their book, Gerber and Paugh seek to change the very way we think about networking.

Whether they're tackling world hunger, improving education or helping people rent out the things they aren't using, companies of all sizes are seeking ways to make positive change in the world.

Guests on Aliya Janjua's monthly podcast, Confessions of Successful Asian Women, tell stories of how they have defied marginalization and worked their way up to success, pioneered in their fields and sought to change paradigms or fight injustice through their work.

As government policies adjust to accommodate changing social norms and demographics, employers will have little choice but to seek ways to proactively manage — and leverage — family - friendly benefits.

For as long as The Defense Alliance of Minnesota continues to offer services, The Defense Alliance of Minnesota shall provide (and seek to update, improve and expand, in similar and different new ways) The Defense Alliance of Minnesota's platform and service with the purpose of providing all members with professional networking connectivity, through proprietary tools, rules and protocols which The Defense Alliance of Minnesota may update, improve, discontinue and change at any time, at The Defense Alliance of Minnesota's sole discretion.

After graduating from college in the mid-2000s, I sought ways to integrate finance with positive social and environmental change.

Going forward, it seems that BWW will need to find a way to continue appealing to consumers with changing tastes and preferences, while also better controlling costs to improve profitability, as the company seeks to deliver the above - average returns it historically yielded for investors until recently.

This quarter saw new rounds for AI - powered Prose, which aims to change the way consumers purchase beauty products, as well as Winky Lux and S.W. Basics, which seek to differentiate themselves on the quality of their ingredients and efficacy of their products.

Between these there is a place for reflection that seeks ways of influencing the church, guiding its response to changing conditions and situations.

So, I pray that as I grow in my faith and as my children experience their own challenges... be it that one chooses to be a pastor or my daughter chooses a life of servitude as a nun that they will also always know that the Lord gives them the freedom to make changes and seek him in whatever way they need to without compromising the fact that he died for us to save us.

Instinctively we know that our best preaching comes about when we have discovered the ways in which the biblical writers sought to change minds, hearts, and lives and then have taken those «available means of persuasion» with us into the pulpit.

It is ground owned by a congregation that, in the past, has acted in ways that made the racial tension worse; they are now seeking to change that dynamic.

If he was not able to change the face of the present in a decisive way, his groping toward the mainsprings of human existence enables one not only to grasp more deeply the religious situation of our time but also to foresee the direction in which a new breakthrough must be sought.

I also come from the dominant Euro - American tradition and seek to change it in such a way that it will be receptive to new voices.

Already a movement is under way to improve end - of - life care by educating health - care providers to respond better to the needs of dying patients, by creating new care settings or improving existing ones, by seeking changes in methods of paying for appropriate care, by educating the public through conferences, town meetings, television programming, and even Web sites (see www.careproject.net), by providing adequate relief of pain, by withholding or withdrawing treatments that only prolong dying, by keeping company with those who are lonely, and by being a resource of meaning and hope for those tempted to despair.

Strategy seeks for concrete ways and means to affect change that will move the real toward the ideal, the bad toward the better, the intolerable toward what is at least bearable.

On the contrary, it is a reason to seek all the help we can get and to express appreciation for those who have worked more directly and effectively to change the way people perceive.

Such «religious intuitions» are the «somewhat exceptional elements of our conscious experience» that Whitehead seeks to elucidate as evidence for God's consequent experience of the world.9 Only a living person experiencing a whole series of divine aims, sensitive to the way in which these shift, grow, and develop in response to our changing circumstances can become aware of their source as dynamic and personal, meeting our needs and concerns.10 Jesus, full of the Spirit, knew God personally in this intimate way, until these aims were taken from him in the hour of his deepest need, when he experienced being forsaken by God on the cross.

It is easy to stand and prophecy that in the future there will be strange new religions, that people will do things foreign to our understanding, and swear that our gods will not be pleased... and be correct... because it is the nature of human beings to change, to modify our beliefs to fit our experience, to seek out new understanding, change the way we dress and do our hair, and unfortunately, it is in our nature to fight over stupid crap like land and religion.

A new argument is changing the way Christians are seeking to persuade sceptics of the truth of the resurrection.

Historian Philip Jenkins in Hidden Gospels: How the Search for Jesus Lost Its Way has gone so far as to assert that the alternative gospels tell us less about the beginnings of Christianity than about «the interest groups who seek to use them today; about the mass media, and how religion is packaged as popular culture; and... more generally, about the changing directions of contemporary American religion.»

It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its sting so often departs and turns into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it cheerfully, that a man is simply bound in honor, with reference to many of the facts that seem at first to disconcert his peace, to adopt this way of escape.

The way consumers are seeking to engage with premium offerings is changing, with convenience and sensory experiences in growing demand.

The fast - casual chain that seeks to change the way people eat on the go becomes among the only locations in the U.S. serving Kombucha on tap

I don't think he's earned the right, he's had enough time to sought out these things too much time for me and based on how the summer, and Jan transfer window panned out I don't think wenger will change he's obsessed with doing things the way he does.

West Ham changed to a four - man defence at half - time with Antonio replacing Evra and Moyes seeking a way back into the contest.

I just mean that any petitioner (PCRM or another group or person) seeking to change the NSLP in a way that would significantly and adversely affect agricultural producers would be likely to fail in the effort, given USDA's charge to protect those interests.

It offers information and a way for women from the Vancouver area to connect with each other in order to recover from their trauma and to seek ways to change the political, societal and health care systems that caused their trauma in the first place.

We are seeking views on the design of the high needs national funding formula and on changes to the way we distribute high needs funding.

But that is quickly changing, as divorce rates soar and people seek new ways to make love last.

By changing the way you respond to her actions, the attention - seeking behavior will eventually stop.

First, the fact that, and the way in which, the PCRC has produced these three impressive documents has itself created a dynamic that can, and should, be used to seek to influence the government to introduce measured constitutional change.

Schneiderman's campaign has made choice a signature focus, using it as a cudgel with which to smash his GOP / Conservative opponent, Staten Island DA Dan Donovan, who is personally pro-life, but insists he won't actively seek to change state law in this arena the way attorneys general have done in other states.

Using the example of the current debate surrounding anthropomorphic climate change, Thompson sought to evaluate the argument from authority through a single prism, the way in which science is handled in argumentation about public policy.

Of course, there's not just the congestion - combating part of the plan to consider; as the city and state both move to uphold the Paris climate accord — which seeks to combat climate change and lower carbon emissions — encouraging people to drive less seems an obvious way to get New York closer to achieving that goal.

The prime minister insisted he was «confident» he could persuade Brussels officials and European leaders to agree to the shopping list of changes to the way the EU operates now being sought by the UK.

On same sex marriage for example, he says that he opposes it, but that he will not seek to change New York's law (engineered by Governor Cuomo) because «it was done the right way», i.e. by legislative action.

In this way the party leader has sought to craft a new identity in which the Liberal Democrats are no longer outsiders, but are bringing about real change in office.

«However, nothing should stand in the way of any parties seeking to address climate change and social justice.

Now that President Buhari has formally declared his intention to run in the 2019 election and seeks a fresh mandate I fear that what is coming our way is not just an election but a series of cataclysmic events that will change our lives and our country forever.

For Liberal Democrats, who seek a fairer, more sustainable future, what we want is to fundamentally change the way British politics works — not to become a pale imitation of the two old parties.

The former Vice President, while maintaining that the future of the country is bright in view of anticipated changes in all aspects of the life of the nation, appealed to groups «that are aggrieved in one way or the other and espousing separatist sentiments, to drop their agitation and take advantage of the improving political climate in the country, to seek accommodation in the larger united national community that is fast unfolding.»

The county on Friday filed a federal suit against several national drug manufacturers that seeks to recoup some of the public costs associated with drug overdoses and change the way companies market their products.

Kinnock insisted that Miliband was a «real leader» who was seeking to change Britain in far - reaching ways and that his authenticity would impress voters in the end.

«Building change in community when Labour is out of power and Westminster, is not just something to bide our time while we seek power, or a way of making it more likely that we'll gain power.

The de Blasio administration has also been looking for ways to bring in new leaders, announcing in September that it was seeking to change civil service laws to allow the hiring of high - ranking correction officers from outside the department.

It should perhaps be said that this is an odd way of seeking to oppose the changes since it is based on a strange logic that argues that the Labour - Union link must be preserved in its current format, while estimating that only a tiny proportion of members would actually positively commit to joining Labour.

While not the only changes I will seek to make, these will go a long way in allowing Erie County to better react to child abuse and neglect.