Sentences with phrase «supporting living american»

The identity of this institution and our goal of supporting living American artists are built through the biennial; the biennial started two years after the museum opened.

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But the American Dream today is on life support.

Nevertheless, unemployment threatens the American economy, which is still on life support, and any gains in U.S. oil demand will have a tough time making up for ongoing stagnation in Japan, European austerity and Chinese curbs on inflation.

About 95 percent of the world's customers live outside the U.S., so it's incredibly important that American businesses be able to tap into sales around the world — sales that could support hundreds of thousands of American jobs.

When Americans complete their military service, the USO is there to support the transition back to civilian life,» said Lisa Anastasi, USO Chief Development Officer.

But many American practices go against the grain of the more comfortable and communitarian cultural systems of their own societies - the Japanese with life - long employment for their workers, the Germans with their unions having a say in management under co-determination, and the French with their government supporting the right of unions to pressure business from retrenching, by requiring large compensation to be paid to laid - off workers.»

One of the largest life insurers in the United States, John Hancock supports approximately 10.7 million Americans with a broad range of financial products, including life insurance, annuities, investments, 401 (k) plans, and college savings plans.

Five weeks after Hurricane Harvey caused the largest flooding event in U.S. history, the American Red Cross continues to provide shelter, food, relief supplies and other support to help people whose lives were turned upside down.

Heaven forbid we raise the tax rate on the very richest Americans to support the lives of the most vulnerable people.

He cites data showing that support for the unlimited abortion license imposed by Roe v. Wade is also declining, as more and more Americans identify themselves aspro - life.

Believing that God is the giver of all life, our aim is to uphold and support the dignity, sacredness, personhood and flourishing of every human soul, whether born or unborn, elderly or young, privileged or poor, healthy or sick, strong or weak, American or international, Christian or Muslim or other faiths or no faith at all.

His support for the unborn resonated with Americans fighting the consequences of Roe v. Wade: The right to life movement received a new language and dimension when he first spoke about a «Culture of Life» in 1993 — significantly, during a visit to America — and two years later, described his full vision in his great encyclical, Evangelum Vilife movement received a new language and dimension when he first spoke about a «Culture of Life» in 1993 — significantly, during a visit to America — and two years later, described his full vision in his great encyclical, Evangelum ViLife» in 1993 — significantly, during a visit to America — and two years later, described his full vision in his great encyclical, Evangelum Vitae.

When this breaks out into the forefront, those supporting Santorum will finally recover from their senior moment and vote for someone who honors the most treasured American value, and that is the right for Americans to govern their OWN LIVES.

When Obama invoked Jesus to support same - sex marriage, framed health care as a moral imperative to care for «the least of these,» and once urged people to read their Bible but just not literally, he was invoking another Christian tradition that once dominated American public life so much that it gave the nation its first megachurches, historians say.

President Obama has been a leader on so many of the issues and values religious Americans are passionate about — from comprehensive and just immigration reform to the Affordable Care Act to maintaining and supporting the critical role of faith in public life.

They do not see how their very success in re-ordering American law, policy, and society to provide maximal freedom and support for their own lives has led to devastating consequences to Americans living on the other side of the divide.

(ENTIRE BOOK) Supported by intensive research, Dr. Niebuhr reevaluates the role of the church in American life and its relationship to the seminary.

It is generally understood that those who support the «conservatives,» expect them to uphold the system which has been camouflaged by the loose term of «the American way of life.»

While the division of opinion revolved around whether the church should ever get involved in politics and whether Christians could support a known communist, the unspoken issue was the historic suspicion that communism is an attack on the American way of life.

Faith in Public Life: People of Faith Support Minimum Wage Raise Majorities of all religious groups favor increasing the minimum wage from $ 7.25 an hour to $ 10.00 an hour, including black Protestants (87 %), Catholics (73 %), Americans who are religiously unaffiliated (68 %), white mainline Protestants (61 %) and white evangelical Protestants (61 %).

Universities became important in American life, as earlier colleges had not been, because they served the technological economy, training its experts and its supporting professionals, and conducting much of its research.

Perhaps one day Americans will honor our founders and support their declaration: We hold these truths to be self - evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

It has provided caring and support for millions of Americans who were suffering from addictions, personal crises, loneliness and self - doubt, helping them to put their lives back together.

«Catholic politicians should build new coalitions in support of protecting innocent human life: Coalitions, first and foremost, with American women» the majority of whom are pro-life» who understand that Roe's abortion license has encouraged irresponsible male sexual behavior more than any other legal act in our history.

This kind of reasoned, argued, exemplified and Bible - supported moral illumination — not electioneering and lobbying — is what American public life needs from religion.

That means supporting and implementing an enforcement regime that operates on the rule that those who live in America are welcomed as future Americans.

To support an urban style of Christian life against the rural romantic piety of most American Protestantism is not to defend the crime - ridden, auto - infested ruins we have heaped up where cities once stood.

Frank and Greenberg suggest that their heavy viewing of religious programs probably helps to satisfy their needs for support and contact and reinforcement of the more traditional values associated with American life.

I hope millions of Americans will join me in praying for our nation and to vote for candidates who will support the biblical definition of marriage, protect the sanctity of life and defend our religious freedoms,» the evangelist's statement continued.

Churches in the more conservative Protestant traditions attract new members and are growing because they still support «the American way of life.»

However defined, Updike's religious consciousness informs all of his work; a close reading of his fiction supports the claim that he is seriously involved in enfleshing that marginal belief which underlies life for an increasing number of Americans.

In his study of the way Americans order and interpret their lives through rituals and moral codes, he found that religion and family were dependent on each other in supporting a symbol system that gave meaning to life and moral behavior.

«GMA and its member companies fully support First Lady Michelle Obama's goal of solving childhood obesity within a generation, and these results show that our industry is committed to helping Americans lead healthier lives.

The survey follows hot on the heels of news that the influential American Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics has given its resounding support to meat free eating, saying diets containing zero animal products could be «nutritionally adequate [and] appropriate for all stages of the life cycle».

The grant, in partnership with the American Beverage Foundation for a Healthier America (ABFHA), will be used to support the city's «Healthy City, Healthy Life» program.

Two 2003 studies suggest that heading in soccer may result in weaker mental performance, including a decline in cognitive function, difficulty in verbal learning, planning and maintaining attention and reduced information processing speed, but a critical review of the literature in 2010 by an expert panel of the American Academy of Pediatrics found no support for such a finding, and a 2012 study in the journal Neurosurgery concluded that it was «unlikely» that the subtle cognitive differences detected were sufficient to affect the daily lives of players.

We are proud to partner with the American Pregnancy Association to support women throughout these important life stages.

The American Academy of Family Physicians recommends that breastfeeding continue throughout the first year of life and that «As recommended by the WHO, breastfeeding should ideally continue beyond infancy, but this is not the cultural norm in the United States and requires ongoing support and encouragement.

A recent study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition lends support to this line of thinking, whereby researchers observed that excessive amounts of nutrition early in life are associated with being overweight later in life.

Whatever faults their parents may have, whatever failings they encounter in their lives, their children do not deserve to be punished and I am appalled at how many Americans feel perfectly comfortable punishing the children because they sit in judgement of their parents» lives and how many support political candidates and causes that victimize children.

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«During the most intimate time of their life, women need support beyond what their doctors, and often their husbands, can offer during labor and delivery,» says Leslie Ludka, M.S.N., senior technical advisor at the American College of Nurse - Midwives and a certified nurse - midwife who has attended the births of nearly 4,000 babies.

Case in point: In a policy statement issued in 2012, the American Academy of Pediatrics reaffirmed its support of breastfeeding with its recommendation for «exclusive breastfeeding for about the first six months of a baby's life, followed by breastfeeding in combination with the introduction of complementary foods until at least 12 months of age, and continuation of breastfeeding for as long as mutually desired by mother and baby.»

He is also active as an American Heart Association Basic Life Support and Pediatric Advanced Life Support instructor.

The more theoretical answer is that, to live in a country, the people in that country have to agree to a set of governing principles (e.g. the American Constitution), and the political landscape of the entire world is too diverse to support a consensus necessary to create a single government.

Given that American society is one of the most urbanized in the world — 82 percent of Americans live in cities or in the suburbs (a number on the rise)-- the slump in urban population support should be a wake - up call for the GOP to immediately change direction.

At 1 p.m., Dominican - American New Yorkers will hold a rally to support the re-election of Sens. Jose Peralta and Marisol Alcantara, and to denounce NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer's «discrimination against» the more than 1 million Dominicans living in NYC, 1 Center St., Manhattan.

A young woman juggling an entry - level administrative job and classes at a community college; a divorced dad working 40 hours a week as a custodian to help support his two kids; a veteran trying to make a living back home after serving our country overseas: They, and millions of other hard - working Americans, struggle to make ends meet because their jobs pay low wages.

List of Supporting Organizations: • African Services Committee • Albany County Central Federation of Labor • Alliance for Positive Change • ATLI - Action Together Long Island • Brooklyn Kindergarten Society • NY Immigration Coalition • Catholic Charities • Catholic Charities Brooklyn and Queens • Catholic Charities of Buffalo • Catholic Charities of Chemung / Schuyler • Catholic Charities of Diocese of Albany • Catholic Charities of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Syracuse • CDRC • Center for Independence of the Disabled NY • Children Defense Fund • Chinese - American Planning Council, Inc. • Citizen Action of New York • Coalition for the Homeless • Coalition on the Continuum of Care • Community Food Advocates • Community Health Net • Community Healthcare Network • Community Resource Exchange (CRE) • Day Care Council of New York • Dewitt Reformed Church • Early Care & Learning Council • East Harlem Block Nursery, Inc. • Family Reading Partnership of Chemung Valley • Fiscal Policy Institute • Food & Water Watch • Forestdale, Inc. • FPWA • GOSO • GRAHAM WINDHAM • Greater New York Labor Religion Coalition • HCCI • Heights and Hills • Housing and Services, Inc. • Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement • Jewish Family Service • Labor - Religion Coalition of NYS • Latino Commission on AIDS • LEHSRC • Make the Road New York • MercyFirst • Met Council • Metro New York Health Care for All • Mohawk Valley CAA • NAMI • New York Association on Independent Living • New York Democratic County Committee • New York State Community Action Association • New York State Network for Youth Success • New York StateWide Senior Action Council • NYSCAA • Park Avenue Christian Church (DoC) / UCC • Partnership with Children • Met Council • Professional Staff Congress • PSC / CUNY AFT Local 2334 • ROCitizen • Schenectady Community Action Program, Inc. • SCO Family of Services • SICM — Schenectady Community Ministries • Sunnyside Community Services • Supportive Housing Network of New York, Inc • The Alliance for Positive Change • The Children's Village • The Door — A Center of Alternatives • The Radical Age Movement • UJA - Federation of New York • United Neighborhood Houses • University Settlement • Urban Pathways, Inc • Women's Center for Education & Career Advancement

We're asking — no, begging — you to support them and nearly 24 million Americans who face losing access to potentially life - saving care.