Sentences with phrase «ties of family»

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The Future She Left Behind By Marin Thomas Author Website: www.marinthomas.com Brought to you by OBS Reviewer jerjen Synopsis: One woman's journey home gets derailed by her soon - to - be ex-mother-in-law in a novel filled with humor, small - town charm, rekindled love, and the resilient ties of family.

Both candid and compassionate, Before I Let You Go explores a hotly divisive topic and asks how far the ties of family love can be stretched before they finally break.

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In her words, «the basic ties of the family are at the heart of our society and are the nursery of civic virtue».

In We Were Warriors, he comes across as a natural patriot, proud to have served his country, a great believer in small group military loyalty, but whose ties of family became increasingly important to him.

We have ties of family, kinship and history to countries like India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and countries across Africa, the Pacific and Caribbean.

Even though Jesus affirmed the law and the commandments, he called on men to abandon ties of family and clan (Matthew 19:29), even to abandon their natural inclinations: «For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye?»

Not exact matches

Both churn out plenty of job candidates, many of them with family ties that make them eager to stay in the state.

Companies tied to Mr. Low's family have also purchased a $ 39 million mansion on Oriole Drive in the Hollywood Hills in Los Angeles, the L'Ermitage Hotel in Beverly Hills and part of the Park Lane Hotel in New York.

It was also worded in an unwieldy way, putting Ms Mead's fate in the hands of Mr Lemon whom she had never met and had close ties with other family members, which was unreasonable, Master Sanderson said.

(Undoubtedly, the recent stock market rally certainly has some Americans feeling a lot richer as well, but since average U.S. families tend to have most of its wealth tied up in real estate rather than the financial market, the impact of housing is probably the more relevant one.)

It takes more than 15,000 Christmas - tree farms to produce that annual harvest, most of them small, family - owned businesses with longstanding ties to their land.

Family ties frayed in 2012 when Rupert's daughter Elisabeth, who chairs London - based TV production company Shine Limited, spoke disapprovingly of News Corp.'s handling of the hacking scandal while delivering an address in Scotland known as the MacTaggart Lecture.

But there are other connections that matter, too, connections that are more fundamental and more personal — ties to a family and a history, to memories of a father or dreams for a son, to a husband or a wife across a desk, or to a grandmother whose lessons lie in the distant past.

Though an admirer of U.S. technology, he deplores the new permissiveness, the weakening of family ties, and the lax discipline in the labor force.

He notes that our late twenties is the first time many of us are truly cut free from the educational ties and family environments that previously cocooned us.

I believe everyone can carve out 60 minutes a day of «free» time, a period not tied to work, family, sleep, errands or the typical demands of life.

But relatively recent trends — urbanization, mass immigration, the rise of big business — have found us more frequently living and working alongside strangers rather than neighbours; as Cain writes, «facing the question of how to make a good impression on people to whom [we] had no civic or family ties.»

In addition to asking passengers to pay for a formerly free service, the new fees have helped spawn a whole new family of optional charges related to advance boarding privileges — all the better to beat the rush of passengers lugging swollen carry - on luggage into the cabin and tying up precious overhead bin space.

That said, our family's strongest tie to Dickinson is the countless hours my mother, Lucia Gurley, spent in service of the town and community over her 38 years as a resident.

The new survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that 36 percent of firms with more than 200 workers, and 18 percent of firms over all, use financial incentives tied to health objectives like weight loss and smoking cessation.

But the family ties to suppliers and service providers were never discussed, according to three people with knowledge of the investments.

Trudeau told a black - tie - and - gown audience in Hamburg, Germany (text, video) that for too long, executives have been putting their shareholders ahead of their employees, their workers» families, and the communities in which they operate.

While on paper many families are affluent, the bulk of their assets are tied up in an incredibly illiquid resource: their home.

Studies have found that most entrepreneurial teams are composed of groups with strong personal ties, such as family members and workplace friends.

«I've known Missy for over 30 years and while she's now in Florida and I remain in Marietta, the family ties that are so much a part of Marietta City Schools run strong,» Meaders wrote.

Her career began as a tax lawyer with the private client group of Baker & McKenzie in Hong Kong where she specialised in trust and tax planning for families with ties in Canadian, US and Hong Kong.

Even though they're not tied to an office, they still need to get away now and then, whether that means taking a walk around the neighborhood for five minutes or spending a few days of vacation time with family.

Long story short, a permanent plan is best suited for reducing the inconvenience of a death when it inevitably happens, and making sure that all of your financial loose ends can be tied up with minimal hassle for your family.

The family of Ryan Straschnitzki is angry over what appears to be another fake social media account claiming to be tied to the Humboldt Broncos hockey player.

Families account for 25 percent of visits to its U.S. restaurants, and the company is updating the Happy Meal menu to make it more appealing to those looking for healthier kids» fare, including Disney, which recently reunited with the Golden Arches for Happy Meal tie - ins.

Again, the very essence of eternal salvation is completely by - passed for a discussion on «warm and fuzzy» family ties.

In sum, although a few apologists such as Stephanie Coontz still insist otherwise, just about everyone else in possession of the evidence acknowledges that the sexual revolution has weakened family ties, and that family ties (the presence of a biologically related mother and father in the home) have turned out to be important indicators of child well - being — and more, that the broken home is not just a problem for individuals but also for society.

And he did so based on the belief that this is the New Testament vision: a family «built around the quality of relationships shared by the members of God's kingdom rather than blood ties.»

Although a Guelph by family ties, early disposition, and Florentine political allegiances, Dante in this treatise turns in the direction of empire.

Love Is Our Mission, a preparatory catechesis on family tied to the Catholic Church's upcoming World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia, begins exactly as it should: with Jesus revealing that being created in the image and likeness of God means being created to offer others the gift of ourselves.

Sehra: As the Hindu priest ties the sehra (flower veil) on the forehead of the groom while chanting sacred mantras, the close family members sing sehra songs to pep up the environment.

This is one reason why the passing of the family altar is much to be regretted, for when it was vitally maintained, it not only enriched the spiritual lives of its participants but bound the family together with ties seldom approximated in our modern individualistic living.

The family is bound genetically by blood ties and by a closely knit culture arising out of its common life.

It is true that when societies become industralized and the ties of the extended family break down, there are certain common problems everywhere.

Their many family ties and common customs bind these people closely to the people of Syria.

On the other hand, particularly in the New Testament, the limitations of family ties are recognized.

The church is also being regarded as an important community of memory because the other sources of a rich narrative tradition — families, ethnic groups, residential communities — are also subject to the growing pressures of change, while more recent institutions, such as business firms and the mass media, are believed to have only shallow ties to the past.

In the East, people gather around personalities that they trust — because of a connection like family ties, friend of the family, from the same village, speaks the same language, etc..

All the attention devoted to the first Roman Catholic Synod on the Family, which wraps up this week at the Vatican, is but one sign that the ties binding hearth and altar to one another can still be the subject of considerable concern.

And on a question directly related to Berger's idea that discrete spheres of relevance in everyday reality need to be integrated by some broader framework, respondents were asked, following a set of items dealing with family, friends, work, and the like as sources of meaning, if they «try to keep all these areas separate or tie them all together?»

If this encompassing logic of choice applies to the most elemental and basic relationships of the family, then it applies all the more to the looser ties that bind people to other institutions and associations, in which continued membership is subject to constant monitoring and assessment of whether it benefits or unduly burdens any person's individual rights.