Sentences with phrase «which adopted people»

, in which adopted people take over the microphone in this space for November's National Adoption Awareness Month.

Jodi Haywood returns for the third November in a row (2014 post 2015 post) to participate in the #flipthscript movement, in which adopted people take over the microphone in this space for November's National Adoption Awareness Month.

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Spam While it's hard to pin down the one person who decided that junk mail should be called spam, internet entrepreneur and author Brad Templeton says that the famous Monty Python viking spam sketch, which made the lunch meat synonymous with unrelenting repetition, was adopted by the users of very early chat rooms in the late 1980s to describe the process of overwhelming a computer with data to crash it.

Each executive team member, myself included, adopts a class, which can range from three to 20 people.

Prosecutors are hoping the Supreme Court adopts the 9th Circuit's view and rejects the 2nd Circuit's narrow interpretation, which authorities said could result in some people avoiding charges and could affect investigations.

Singles Day was started in the 1990s by Chinese college students as a version of Valentine's Day for people without dates, but it has since been closely linked with Alibaba, which adopted it as a shopping event about a decade ago.

But if your 1996 investment thesis had been that ordinary people would adopt Linux en masse over the next decade — which would not have seemed at all crazy — then you would have been in for a giant world of hurt.

As sensors become smaller and easier to use, Dexcom and its competitors are betting that the systems will be adopted by the much larger group of people with Type 2 diabetes, which is typically controlled with medications, diet and exercise.

The Board of Directors has adopted a written policy for review of transactions involving more than $ 120,000 in any fiscal year in which the Company is a participant and in which any Director, executive officer, holder of more than 5 % of our outstanding shares or any immediate family member of any of these persons has a direct or indirect material interest.

This seems largely to be the work of the devil; but I also suspect that it is in part an effect of the existence of pacifism, as a doctrine which many people respect though they would not adopt it.

A very large part of most religious beliefs involves free will and people are free to work towards affording healthcare, people and people can adopt healthy lifestyles which minimize the need for healthcare and of course, people can choose to help others through donations.

Article 38 of the country's interim constitution says that «no person shall be coerced to adopt such faith that he / she does not believe in, nor to practise rites or services to which he / she does not voluntarily consent».

As must now be evident, the charismatic orientation may be cloaked in the style of those groups which call themselves charismatic or Pentecostal, but it is important to note that the charismatic negotiation is primarily a structure and as such may give form to the world views of persons and groups that do not adopt any of the features or practices of what is conventionally called charismatic religion.

Just as the Romans never knew which face of Janus was going to show up at any one time, this is how many people feel about God when they adopt a chronological approach to the revelation of God in Scripture.

They are a neo-Judaic people so separate and distinct that new converts must undergo a process of assimilation roughly comparable to that which has to take place when immigrants adopt a new and dissimilar nationality.

A perusal of the Church of the Brethren Web pages provides clear evidence that a commitment to pacifism is not limited to denominational headquarters: the 48 churches of the Northern Indiana District Conference have joined to urge «the use of nonviolent approaches and interventions» in response to the terror; the Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, Church of the Brethren has adopted a statement in which they «remain committed to walk in the Jesus way of nonviolent love, in which evil can only be overcome with redemptive acts of love»; a group of Brethren Volunteer Service Workers have issued a statement in which they «advocate the use of nonviolent means to settle disputes» and «stand opposed to the increased drive toward militarization»; on October 7 members of local Brethren churches (along with Mennonites and others) organized a peace rally at the state capitol in Harrisburg, «Sowing Seeds of Peace: Prayers and Petitions for Nonviolent Action,» which attracted over 300 people.

Again, a prejudiced society which expects American Indians to be lazy and dishonest, Mexicans or Puerto Ricans to be vicious and delinquent, and Orientals to be subversive — in every case as a natural racial trait — is likely to adopt attitudes and policies toward these people which will lead them to some extent to respond accordingly.

To be a person in any satisfactory sense is to have a characteristic way of life — a system of ideals and values that one has adopted as his own or to which he has declared his allegiance.

But then the owner died and the place was converted into a chrome - and - fern restaurant which catered to the people who had dropped out of carpentry to adopt an alternative lifestyle and drink chablis.

In these religions there were wars in heaven before the creations... there was killing on earth by the first peoples God created... even Moses who got the ten commandments... of which the first said «Tho shall not kill» immediately upon receiving slaughtered thousand of his own for not immediately adopting them.

Some examples: that «every single organic being around us may be said to be striving to the utmost to increase its numbers»; that «of the many individuals of any species which are periodically born, but a small number can survive»; that it is to a mother's «advantage» that her child should be adopted by another woman; that «no one is prepared to sacrifice his life for any single person, but... everyone will sacrifice it for more than two brothers, or four half - brothers or eight first cousins»; that «any variation in the least degree injurious [to a species] would be rigidly destroyed.»

Along that path a person can adopt a particular spiritual path which is neither right or wrong but fulfills the person's spiritual needs to their greatest and highest good.

These symbolic rituals could be adopted today in lieu of water baptism which might do a better job of representing our full identification with Jesus Christ in His death, burial, and resurrection, and which, when we undergo them, would cause people who know us and observe what we are doing, to ask us why we would perform such a bizarre and morbid action.

These are a few examples of symbolic rituals that could be adopted today in lieu of water baptism which might do a better job of representing our full identification with Jesus Christ in His death, burial, and resurrection, and which, when we undergo them, would cause people who know us and observe what we are doing, to ask us why we would perform such a bizarre and morbid action.

An inquiry into or a formal presentation of the gospel took place which emphasized not so much belief in this or that doctrine but the converting person's willingness to adopt the Christian lifestyle — to take up the cross of Jesus and to follow him.

The Court, if it had wished to rely upon Jefferson to determine the true and original intent of the First Amendment, could have served themselves and the American people well by referring to Jefferson's warning to Judge William Johnson regarding the de-ter-min-ation of the original intent of a statute or a con - st - itu - tion On every question of con - struc - tion, carry ourselves back to the time when the Con - st - itu - tion was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed.»

Israel met the crises of her existence - which was suddenly made unfamiliar and vastly more complex when the people settled in Canaan - by adopting many formal regulations already and for long successfully in operation there.

Distributists allege that their principles, when adopted and carried to their term, are ordered to the most noble of ends, which culminate in the very contemplation for which the human person is created.

If a new theory offers a simpler explanation which explains more phenomena, and is superior in other ways to other theories, then eventually it will be adopted, that is if there are enough people who are willing to abandon their dogma and recognize the superiority of the new theory.

Wenger lost the plot when he brought in Giroud... what about the beautiful game involves having a lumbering striker who's main attribute is holding up play... our success with Wenger, and even before, came with pace and clinical striking up front, having a boss in the midfield and having physically imposing CBs... what about Wright, Bergkamp, Anelka, Henry or RVP remind anyone of Giroud (minus the left foot of course)... the formula was broken, which didn't have to be the end of our success, but when you adopt half - measures you can't expect things just to work themselves out on their own... at the very least Wenger should have brought in some wingers that can consistently cross the ball and then spend significantly more time addressing our lack of success with set pieces... ultimately this is why we continued to struggle with consistency and continued to constantly play people in the wrong positions

On the other hand young kids sometimes adopt dangerous and bad things in their lives which can harm them badly and even they spoil them as a person.

These benefits include but are not limited to the power of the human touch and presence, of being surrounded by supportive people of a family's own choosing, security in birthing in a familiar and comfortable environment of home, feeling less inhibited in expressing unique responses to labor (such as making sounds, moving freely, adopting positions of comfort, being intimate with her partner, nursing a toddler, eating and drinking as needed and desired, expressing or practicing individual cultural, value and faith based rituals that enhance coping)-- all of which can lead to easier labors and births, not having to make a decision about when to go to the hospital during labor (going too early can slow progress and increase use of the cascade of risky interventions, while going too late can be intensely uncomfortable or even lead to a risky unplanned birth en route), being able to choose how and when to include children (who are making their own adjustments and are less challenged by a lengthy absence of their parents and excessive interruptions of family routines), enabling uninterrupted family boding and breastfeeding, huge cost savings for insurance companies and those without insurance, and increasing the likelihood of having a deeply empowering and profoundly positive, life changing pregnancy and birth experience.

I'd point out that many kids, not just adopted ones, go through a stage in which they want to go live elsewhere, to the supposed greener pastures of a neighbor, a friend or relative, other people's parents» house.

Ray Dalio, one of the world's most successful investors and entrepreneurs, shares the unconventional principles that he's developed, refined, and used over the past 40 years to create unique results in both life and business - and which any person or organization can adopt to help achieve their goals.

Depending on the State in which the adoption occurred and individual circumstances, information from adoption records or the adopted person's original birth certificate, if available, may provide a starting place when conducting a search.

While the people who adopt are being provided financial help from the government until the adopted child is 18, moms are made to feel guilty for considering even some temporary assistance which would help them care for their own child.

In the post WWII era laws were enacted which prevented both the adopted person and adoptive family from accessing the original, and the information given to them can be quite limited (though this has varied somewhat over the years, and from one agency to another).

This is because we Brits are particularly sensitive to power hierarchies, meaning that people tend to take offence when a speaker adopts a position of superiority to which others feel they are not entitled.

The great majority of federations, including those which started with important cultural and political diversity, evolved towards a form of Unitarian federalism which, in its fundamental aspects, eventually adopted the shape of the dominant State, the Nation - State (one State, one people).

Also on Thursday, a trio of county executives held a press conference — during which they spoke to reporters in person — to announce a resolution adopted by the New York State Association of Counties in opposition to the federal tax plan.

In addition, any proposal which would mean the UK giving up its border controls, or any proposal to adopt a common EU defence policy, would also require a referendum of the British people before the Government could agree.»

The City Council is in the midst of weeks of hearings on de Blasio's executive budget, while Johnson and others continue to push their top priorities — the property tax rebate, reduced price MetroCards for people living in poverty, and an added $ 500 million into reserves — for inclusion in the adopted budget, which the two sides must agree on by the July 1 start to the new fiscal year.

As with previous measures adopted by the 51 - member Council to prohibit smoking in bars and to include calorie information on restaurant menus, the impact of the bag bill, which would take effect in October, is likely to be immediate for millions of people.

Adopting any of these novel encryption standards will take time, Ding says, and people will debate which approach is the best.

PET scans have not been widely adopted as a clinical tool but are used in research, which clearly shows amyloid starting to clog the brain some 10 to 15 years before a person shows noticeable memory loss.

The draft plan, which is expected to be adopted in the next few days by the National People's Congress in Beijing, would resolve one long - standing conflict of interest that has undermined efforts to discourage smoking.

The study included 1,341 people, data collected by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and focused on a specific partisan issue on which scientific consensus has been widely adopted by Democrats but challenged by Republicans.

«Many of these people are opinion formers, and the government of Botswana should be aware of the massive drop in popularity which the country would suffer were it to adopt the culling policy.»

One of the causes of asymmetric self - righteousness is that «people evaluate them - selves by adopting an «inside perspective» focused heavily on evaluations of mental states such as intentions and motives, but evaluate others based on an «outside per - spective» that focuses on observed behavior for which intentions and motives are then inferred,» the researches said.

Almost a decade later, a group of lawyers from around the country developed a draft uniform law they encouraged all 50 states to adopt, which would allow people to specify in their wills that the executor of their estate can access their email and social media profiles.