Sentences with phrase «voluntary association in»

A year later, 100 founder Members had been elected, and the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) was launched as a voluntary association in 1996, with then - President Nelson Mandela as patron.

Here, the church as voluntary association in somewhat like a religious civic club.

A church that is the largest voluntary association in the country; a church whose universal pastor has, over the past decade, definitively answered Stalin's cynical query about the pope's divisions; a church that is, demographically, at its strongest historical point of leverage in American society — this is a church that would seem well positioned to seize what Richard John Neuhaus and others have seen as a possible «Catholic moment» in American history, pro Deo et patria.

I noted several of these institutional changes: (1) Churches became voluntary associations in a strict sense, though lines around religious liberty or «free exercise» were (are) difficult to draw in this «separation» of church and state.

Another promising sign is the fact that the current head of the executive branch paid eloquent tribute to voluntary associations in his speech accepting the 1988 Republican presidential nomination.

One of Tocqueville's major insights was that Americans have benefited from popular participation in the large number of churches, charities, clubs, and voluntary associations in our country, as well as in state and local governments, which stand between the individual and the national government in Washington, D.C.

HALIFAX: The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF) is intervening in support of freedom of association for all voluntary associations in Canada, in a court application commenced by Trinity Western University (TWU) against the Nova Scotia Barristers» Society.

Not exact matches

Andrew Herdman, director general of the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines, said the IATA data needs to be viewed with caution «as event descriptions are not always standardized» and there are «significant variations in the level of voluntary reporting by airlines.»

In an April, 2003, speech, Harper defined social conservatism as «respect for custom and traditions (religious traditions above all), voluntary association, and personal self - restraint reinforced by moral and legal sanctions on behaviour.»

Promisingly, in May 2016 the Family Business Council - Gulf (FBCG), the regional association of Family Business Network International (FBN), launched the GCC Family Business Governance Code which serves as voluntary guide on how to organize the family and business together.

It was adopted as part of the official party doctrine at the NSDAP congress in 1920 to express a worldview which was Christian, non-confessional, vigorously opposed to the spirit of «Jewish Materialism», and oriented to the principle of voluntary association of those with a common racial - ethnic background.

The teaching of «oughts» properly belongs in the hands of private, voluntary associations — churches, families, neighborhood groups.

They classify churches, synagogues, and temples as «civic» or «voluntary» associations in the same league as «schools, recreation leagues, Boy Scouts, and Camp Fire.»

Networks working in this direction are many and diverse in nature, ranging from radical political militancy to forms of moderate, reformist or humanitarian voluntary civil associations.

If they prove themselves worthy of public confidence by maintaining high standards of competence, if through professional associations and voluntary accrediting agencies they discipline themselves in matters of knowledge, skill, and character, independence of political control can be assured, and unwarranted interference and coercion can be successfully resisted.

(2) Churches engaged in much political activity, though generally in the same manner and with the same weapons as other voluntary associations.

The most pressing question for Muslims in many lands is how to order the life of the community in a society that is not governed according to Muslim law and in which Muslims must conceive of their religion, at least in part, as equivalent to a voluntary association.

Grant applicants are required to describe how families and «religious and charitable organizations, voluntary associations, and other groups in the private sector as well as services provided by publicly sponsored initiatives» will be included in the proposed activities.

This is not just a logical nicety but an important protection of the freedom of association — a freedom that has been safeguarded in decisions like NAACP v. Alabama (357 U.S. 449, 1958), which held that a state may not compel a voluntary association of citizens to turn over its list of members because that might subject them to governmental penalties.

Moreover, as the 19th century progressed, evangelical Protestants availed themselves of the wide freedom accorded them under the First Amendment to form voluntary associations, the goal of whose activities was the erection of a de facto religious establishment in America.

His work in founding the communitarian movement in 1977 came not because he thought he had changed but because he thought the United States was abandoning its commitment to families and all the voluntary associations that Tocqueville observed as a defining part of a liberal republic.

The Jonah House community is a voluntary association of persons who have no time commitment to each other and who own all of their property in common.

His 1984 speech to the National Religious Broadcasters is particularly revealing, for there he most obviously makes public a piety which is essentially personal, even private — a piety which takes social form in intimate, bounded and family - like voluntary associations that see themselves in tension with the larger society even as they claim to be its spiritual center.

Against both of those, we are to have a called community — not a voluntary association, but a people addressed and bound in a concrete and abiding loyalty.

The second model of the church that is operating in North America is the church as voluntary association.

But it also nourishes the achievement of a vastly larger number of voluntary associations, a higher degree of voluntary social cooperation, a broader base of love and gratitude for the commonwealth, and a more explicitly consensual national community than was known in ancient or medieval times.

It is a feature of liberty, and not an implication of religion's special status, that «voluntary private associations» that provide «private relational benefits» enjoy some freedom from state interference in choosing members and leaders.

But they soon learned that under religious freedom in the Republic this had to be instrumented through the indirect influence on the general population of voluntary associations of what Lyman Beecher called «the wise and the good.»

Meanwhile, the conception of the church under the impact first of «toleration» and then of complete freedom and separation had largely lost the sacramental dimension which traditionally had sanctified her regular observances under Episcopal direction by making them intrinsically meaningful, and had become that of a voluntary association of explicitly convinced Christians for the purpose of mutual edification in the worship of God and the propagandization of the Christian faith as the group defined it.

The PIRSA grants are dollar for dollar voluntary contribution grants, and their purpose is to offer «support in assisting food and beverage businesses and industry associations to help attain industry standard third - party certifications that will support achievement of either or both of the following aims: (a) accessing new or higher value markets for product, or (b) contributing to premium positioning and achieving superior prices for products.»

In addition, the Australian Beverages Council has adopted, as policy, the Australian Association of National Advertisers» (AANA's) voluntary guidelines for advertising directed at children, and is a signatory to the Code of Practice on Nutrient Claims and to all other voluntary advertising industry codes of practice.

Welcome to the Association for Vertical Farming Careers Portal to find out all job placements, internships, freelance or voluntary work in the Urban and Vertical Farming industry.

Interscholastic Athletics: Statute 13 -36-4 (2003) gives the school board power to delegate the control, supervision, and regulation of any high school interscholastic activities to any voluntary, non-profit association Statute 13 -36-7 (2003) deems any student enrolled in a public school district eligible to participate in any interscholastic activity sponsored by the SD High School Activities Aassociation Statute 13 -36-7 (2003) deems any student enrolled in a public school district eligible to participate in any interscholastic activity sponsored by the SD High School Activities AssociationAssociation.

In 2011, the Association of Placenta Preparation Arts began to offer a voluntary six - month certification that requires members to learn basic food - prep safety and blood - borne pathogen guidelines before they can make their placenta truffles, smoothies or pills.

Courts have also taken the position that they are not in the best position to decide sports disputes and instead defer to sport regulators and voluntary associations to make decisions according to their own rules (Indiana High School Athletic Association v. Carlberg, 1997).

In a borough where the Tory group leader has held the same seat since 1955, the withering of the voluntary association is one familiar part of the tale.

There will then be a meeting at which Eric Pickles, Patrick McLoughlin, the Opposition Chief Whip, and Jeremy Middleton, representing the voluntary party as chairman of the National Conservative Convention, will draw up the final shortlist for the association - no - one else will be involved in the process.

And the industry - backed European association PV Cycle, based in Brussels in Belgium, is implementing a voluntary take - back and recycle programme that it hopes to have running by 2015.

Among the new voluntary efforts by pharmaceutical companies to post clinical trial data, the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry, one of the trade groups behind last week's proposal, will recommend that its members post trial results on a World Health Organization (WHO) global trials database that WHO hopes to establish in July.

The team did not find any association between better mental health and participating in church or some other voluntary groups.

The current number of CAMP members is about 150 which is a number slightly lower than the total number of medical physicists in the Czech Republic (CAMP is a voluntary based association).

The Slovenian Society of Plant Biology (former Slovenian Society of Plant Physiology) has been active since 1982 as voluntary scientific and professional association gathering researchers who investigate physiological processes in plants, and interactions of plants with their biotic and abiotic environments.

About Site - The Alzheimer's Association is the leading voluntary health organization in Alzheimer care, support and research.

4] and keep repeating the same tone - deaf talking points, mostly just infuriating the skeptics (the enthusiasts are apparently in disbelief that anyone might regard an enterprise driven by two DC associations and backed by federal incentives as anything other than a truly «voluntary» state effort).

In 1963 and 1964, the International Association for the Evaluation of Education Achievement (IEA) administered the first of a series of mathematics tests to a voluntary group of countries.

According to the Higher Education Act (HEA) of 1965, all institutions receiving Title IV funds must submit specific data about their educational programs, student population, enrollment, attrition, and completion rates, staff and faculty, financial information, tuition and fees, and allocation of all student financial aid (NCES, n.d.) IPEDS HistoryIn 1995, NCES established the National Postsecondary Education Cooperative (NPEC) as a «voluntary organization that encompasses all sectors of the postsecondary education community including federal agencies, postsecondary institutions, associations, and other organizations interested in postsecondary education data collection» (NPEC, n.d., p. 4).

When Bill Clinton proposed voluntary national testing in 1997, he drew opposition from both ends of the political spectrum, including the Eagle Forum, the Christian Coalition, the Congressional Black Caucus, and the National Education Association.

At its annual meeting this month, the National Business Education Association unveiled draft voluntary standards for what students should know and be able to do in business in grades K - 12 and through the first two years of college.

Increasingly, however, advocates of greater state provision and direction of education became more vocal in their opinion that «popular education could not be left to chance to voluntary associations.»

The Middle States Commission on Higher Education is a voluntary, nongovernmental, regional membership association that serves higher education institutions in Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and other geographic areas in which the commission conducts accrediting activities.