Sentences with phrase «voluntary association of»

About Blog A voluntary association of both hobbyist and professional beekeepers.

The voluntary association of commissioners was formed to set standards and best practices, conduct peer reviews, and to help coordinate regulatory oversight.

The Ontario Labour - Management Arbitrators» Association (the «Association») is a voluntary association of individuals who serve as neutral labour arbitrators and who are engaged in the impartial resolution of labour relations disputes in Ontario.

The Suzuki Elders are a voluntary association of self - identified elders working with and through the David Suzuki foundation.

The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) is a voluntary association of governments, companies and civil society groups; Global Witness is a member of its board.

The voluntary association of commissioners was formed to set standards and best practices, conduct peer reviews, and to help coordinate regulatory oversight.

The word society may also refer to an organized voluntary association of people for religious, benevolent, cultural, scientific, political, patriotic, or other purposes.

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.

Is the church a voluntary association of individuals, or is it a people God has chosen and ordained?

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.

The church was a voluntary association of the saved.

Instead of centering on a voluntary association of interested individuals, ecumenism would be officially structured into church life.

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.

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.

A legal relationship created by the voluntary association of two or more persons to carry on as co-owners of a business for profit.

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.»

The boards may continue as voluntary associations of council leaders.

Lawyers are always free to form voluntary associations of their own, apart from any state bar exam.

Not exact matches

... People do credit cards, equity lines,» said Borg, president of the North American Securities Administrators Association, a voluntary organization devoted to investor protection.

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.»

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.

For those who can't gain homeowners insurance through the voluntary market, the Massachusetts Property Insurance Underwriting Association (MPIUA) is the market of last resort.

By: Jessica Oosthuizen 27th April 2018 The issue of discounting the professional fees of consulting engineers, driven by public sector and private sector clients alike, is plaguing the sustainability of the consulting engineering industry, says voluntary association Consulting Engineers South Africa (Cesa) CEO Chris Campbell.

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) is a voluntary organization of the chief insurance regulatory officials of the 50 states, the District of Columbia and five U.S. territories.

HSBC is a member of the International Capital Market Association's (ICMA) Executive Committee for the Green Bond Principles, which are a set of voluntary standards for issuers of green bonds.

The VetFran program is a voluntary effort of International Franchise Association (IFA) member companies to encourage franchise ownership by offering financial incentives to honorably discharged veterans.

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

Through churches, voluntary associations, local governments, and a variety of institutions, conservatives strive to keep community healthy.

Consumerism and privatization undermine the very institutional basis of democracy — that is, the structure of voluntary association, the civil society, without which democracy becomes, as Tocqueville warned, democratic despotism or the rule of an economic aristocracy.

A more explicit theologian, with UU identification and salience, is James Luther Adams, who has focused on social ethics and the religious role of voluntary associations.

Believing God alone is the Lord of the conscience, Baptists deny that civil magistrates have any legitimate authority to regulate or coerce the internal religious life of voluntary associations.

The American novus ordo, with its revolutionary form of social life — the voluntary association — demonstrates that ordered liberty and human rights are products of social arrangements that give primacy to both persons and communities.

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.

We respond to God's calling to reunite the separated or the broken as well as the calling to provide for our families, to be a parent, to be a member of voluntary associations, to be an employee.

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.

He says about «the various Protestant denominations and ecclesial communities» that «their churches are viewed as human constructs of voluntary association.»

The minimal proposition is that government should get off the backs and out of the way of mediating institutions — family, church, voluntary associations, etc. — and let them do their vital work as they best know how.

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.

It is no mere voluntary association, along the lines of the local garden club, the bird watching society or the professional group.

The community is more than the state.48 The creative and redemptive work of God we may readily admit depends perhaps more basically upon the voluntary associations, the communities of artists, the scientists, and the schools than upon the political order.

Can churches, universities, and voluntary associations become places where the identity of the common and public spiritual culture will be comprehended?

The widespread recognition of the limits of statist solutions for social problems, and of the indispensable role of mediating institutions such as families, churches, and voluntary associations.

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.

By the early 1830s, through the persuasive evangelism of Walter Scott and through union with Barton Stone's Christian movement, what had begun as a voluntary society became a rapidly expanding association of churches.

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.

One of the distinctive characteristics of American democracy is its voluntary associations, which citizens are free to join or not to join.

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.

If the Church refused to marry them because they did not meet its criteria for a sacramental wedding» if both parties were of the same sex, for example» the state could do nothing about it, since the Church is a voluntary association protected by the free exercise clause of the First Amendment.