Sentences with phrase «special leave of»

From 1992 - 1995, Rupert took a special leave of absence to work with the Federal Aboriginal Justice Directorate, studying aboriginal approaches to crime, justice and healing across Canada.

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On what he wants to see happen next: «I would advise [Obama] personally call for a special committee to review these interception programs, repudiate the dangerous «State Secrets» privilege, and, upon preparing to leave office, begin a tradition for all Presidents forthwith to demonstrate their respect for the law by appointing a special investigator to review the policies of their years in office for any wrongdoing.

Michael «Mike» Pearson, chairman and chief executive officer of Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc., left, speaks as Howard Schiller, former interim chief executive officer and former chief financial officer of Valeant Pharmaceuticals, center, and William «Bill» Ackman, founder and chief executive officer of Pershing Square Capital Management LP, listen during a Senate Special Committee on Aging hearing on Valeant Pharmaceuticals in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, April 27, 2016.

Dell's special committee has warned that the stock might drop to anywhere between $ 8.67 and $ 5.85 if shareholders reject the buyout, leaving them with a company in decline as consumers continue to snub desktop and laptop computers in favor of tablets and smartphones.

While tech companies dislike paying taxes — just look at Apple, which keeps much of its money offshore to avoid taxes, or Twitter, which once threatened to leave San Francisco unless it received a special tax break — none of them wants to be labeled as an opponent of anything that would provide help for the homeless and those with low incomes.

The recipient of several Bronze Stars and Service Medals (among other awards), Dunbar had to leave his UCLA EMBA program for a time so he could lead special forces operations inside Afghanistan, which included (in Dunbar's words) «11 different battalions, from 7 different countries, 13 different governmental and non-governmental agencies with over 6,000 personnel with no positional authority over the networked organization.»

«As older people leave the workforce, the city has been privatizing those jobs instead of bringing people back in to pay into the fund,» said Ed McNeil, special assistant to the president of Michigan AFSCME Council 25, which represents city workers.

Chip Huggins, who is the son of the company's longtime CEO and who began working at See's for his father at age 14 and eventually left to run Joseph Schmidt Confections, asks, «If you put See's everywhere, what makes it so special anymore?»

But the latest carries special importance: this will be the first budget of the country's 11th Malaysia Plan, generally referred to as 11MP, a five - year plan aiming to plot a course for the country to leave its «emerging» status behind to become a developed nation by 2020.

A day after releasing Dimon's annual letter to shareholders, J.P. Morgan Chase (jpm) Wednesday revealed details of its special provisions for compensating employees who leave the bank for government service.

Our special forces and members of the Free Syrian Army are cleaning the remains and the traps they left behind,» Erdogan said.

In another example, Zuckerberg demonstrated how people can leave special digital messages on the tables of their favorite dive bars.

On the left is its special edition Dominator Platinum series (only 1,000 kits will be made) of high - speed DIMMs that are optimized for use on Intel's current top - tier motherboards and bear eye - catching styling and adjustable LED lighting.

«The great concern is they're not going to leave, and that's not paranoia,» Gen. Tony Thomas, the head of the United States Special Operations Command, told a national security conference in Aspen, Colo., in July.

He said this included an insistence by one supervisor that he join a special program to prepare for the Series 7 broker examination because blacks» «intellectual weakness» left them «inherently less capable» of passing, the complaint said.

For instance, a big special dividend financed by debt would still leave shareholders with a period of high leverage and potential earnings volatility before they have as much in their pockets as the buyout price.

On the left side of the margin, there are special promotions, gifts, tournaments, and messages.

Local news outlet BJ News writes: «[According to] a number of informed sources, the current special currency trading platform executives and so on are not allowed to leave Beijing, [in order] to cooperate with the investigation.

«A number of informed sources say the executives of special currency trading platforms are not allowed to leave Beijing to cooperate with the investigation.

But even if we were to accept the proposition of «guided» evolution, we're left with the question of who designed the designer which only leads to arguments of special pleading... I.e. a dead end.

But it takes a special kind of nerve to caution conservatives about «the high costs of tying a church with a rich tradition of social teaching to the right end of politics,» when you are on board with efforts at the left end of politics to alter and thereby betray that tradition.

Today, special envoy for North Korean human rights issues Robert King and a group of U.S. diplomats will leave for Pyongyang in an effort to secure the release of an...

Today, special envoy for North Korean human rights issues Robert King and a group of U.S. diplomats will leave for Pyongyang in an effort to secure the release of an imprisoned American missionary.

Evangelical Catholics know what «all that» is by reference to what is taught by the bishops of the Church in full communion with the bishop of Rome, the vital center of the Church's unity, who bears a special responsibility for preserving the integrity of the truth Christ left to his Church.

Holding hands with a special someone, getting a hug, giving a hug, taking a nap, reading a good book, working out, knitting something, taking a good picture, baking something for someone, sitting and talking with people I love — all of these things bring me joy and leave me feeling content.

Oh, forget this debate about religion and cheer up folks because NASA's Special Effects department keeps discovering alien planets left and right and they're gonna build us some kind of tin - can «Ark» to take us there just before we destroy this Earth...

Some of Clinton's plans include guaranteeing 12 weeks of paid family and medical leave, expanding early childhood education, capping childcare expenses at 10 percent of a household's income, helping the families of children with autism and other special needs get access to more resources and support, and insuring more families through the Affordable Care Act.

It means celebrating parenthood by making America the most generous country in the developed world when it comes to maternity and paternity leave, not the least generous, and it means working together on efforts to reduce the costs of food, diapers, childcare, pediatrician visits, college tuition, adoption, and resources for special needs children.

For those who are convinced that God «has nowhere left himself without witness,» it is part of the glory of Christianity that it can include, and by including be modified by the wider range of the divine self - revelation, without losing its own distinctive and special quality.

On the other hand, however, it must be said that Just because of its special character spirituality must be left much freedom to realize itself in an individual way which can not be commanded and institutionalized.

It will probably not be an actual crown or ring of leaves, but will be some sort of special blessing, honor, privilege, or recognition in the future, eternal reign of Jesus.

Perhaps she was left out of the canon because she never again did anything memorable, perhaps because her «special» relationship with Jesus would have made her a target for attack by those who wished to discredit his work.

Those whacky Franciscan priests took special delight in burning entire clans in their kivas, and Onate was clearly filled with God's love when he killed 800 Acoma villagers, including men, women and children, enslaved the remaining 500, and amputated the left foot of every Acoma man over the age of twenty - five... because they wouldn't give up their winter supplies to support the missions.

I know of several people who have left the church a few have become less active (only attending on special occasions).

Anti-Mormonism is especially prevalent, and I can't help but feel that those who dishonestly mock the faith of another (left and right) are more concerned about their special interest than they are for the Country.

Noni and all those who find themselves ostracised or slandered unfairly firstly God loves you and you are special to him you are his children his daughters and sons do nt ever forget that so you are not alone in fact you are the apple of his eye and he loves you.No matter what people say about you it does nt change the fact that he loves you and will protect you just abide in him he will strengthen you in your weakness.Never think you are alone we have the holy spirit and have other believers even though we may not go to church together we love the Lord just as much as you do which means we are brothers and sisters in Christ.Just trust him and take each day as it comes he promises to never leave us or forsake us.He has given us his strength in our weakness so that like him we are overcomers the head not the tail.Keep asking the Lord what it is he wants you to do and be obedient though it may be hard but in the end it will prove good for you for the Lord is for you not against you.regards brentnz

To get rid of the nitrogen, and if they use the correct weeds, those weeds leave behind a special blend of nutrients that is perfect for fruit growing.

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This «exception» seems to be the only one that has to be dealt with, if we leave out of account the fact that a thorough - going Vitalism, which after all is a doctrine quite commonly supported in Christian philosophy, would have to require a predicamental activity of God within the natural world and its history for the origin of life, too, and perhaps for certain definite categories of living things, unless of course such Vitalism were to hold that there has been «life» in the physical world from the beginning or that a special ratio seminalis of its own for life could have been created into the material world from the beginning.

Griffin & Sherburne, New York: The Free Press, 1978, 96) His comments are conjectural because he has left metaphysical generality and is»... considering the more special possibilities of explanation consistent with our general cosmological doctrine, but not necessitated by it.»

Thus freedom is always called to decisions which can not be derived from general norms and eternal laws alone (even though they must not contradict them) and which nevertheless are not left to an arbitrary choice but claim the whole man because of his special call.

I owe a special debt to Walter Brueggemann, who patiently read the manuscript while on leave at Cambridge and promptly sent a multitude of helpful suggestions back across the Atlantic.

The resulting belief system involved four layers: a redefinition of «Jew,» a redefinition of «Nazi,» a denial of the concept of «left» and «right» in politics (to totally disorient the believer); and, for Jewish LaRouchians, a guilt trip and special fears.

I can't help but feel that those (left or right) who defame on religious grounds, are more concerned with their Special Interest than they are with the fate of our Country.

ting just let you know i am hurt by what you said about me and you know i am sorry that i have special needs problems and i feel like i made the right choose to leave my ex husband to make a better life for me and my daughter and i live very well knowing my kids are very much takeing care of by me and my husband i am with now

I know it is hard to keep it in your pants but you need read about the harm you might be causing maybe not to yourself but the partner you only plan on having for one more good time and leaving them to deal with the emotions of losing that special bond.

Many cases of able - bodied young persons who were given the chance and left, of rabbis who made use of their special standing outside the immigration quota, filled us with sadness and indignation.

The description of believers who physically vanish and who, left behind, receive a special mark identifying their allegiance to good, suggests that the now invisible divide between the righteous and the wicked will be revealed.

From the opposite viewpoint, from the left, Jaspers and Ogden can argue, in effect that faith - knowledge is only a special kind of historic knowledge.

Ideologies and superstitions, concentration - camp utopias and interplanetary folklore occupy the void left by the withdrawal of the Christian soul and scientific humanism, by the ebbing of Christian intellect and the elitist encystation of men (and women) of science in their special languages, waterproof compartments.