Sentences with phrase «which by our participation»

They spoke of «the miseries which had entailed on them by the slave trade» and» the duty of making some recompense for the injuries and wrongs, which by our participation in that nefarious traffic, we had inflicted on Africa...» This position led evangelicals to argue that Britain's role in Africa should be that of guardian and protector of the people.

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The idea was, Let's allow employees full participation in the management of the shop, which probably had up to 20 people by then.

If growing unemployment was not enough, a decline in labor market participation was also on the rise, the ILO said, a warning borne out by the latest U.S. jobs data from December which showed that the labor force participation rate tumbled to 62.8 percent, its worst level since January 1978.

In 2006, Congress passed the Pension Protection Act, which helped raise participation rates by clarifying language on default opt - ins for employees.

The percentage of women coached by women has declined to an all - time low, even while Title IX, which prohibits sex - based discrimination in any education program or activity that receives federal dollars, has dramatically increased participation numbers for female athletes.

Britton served as an advisor of the on - demand participation network, which went on to raise more than 12 million in funding and is used by more than 100 of the largest brands and marketing agencies in the U.S.

For months, South Korean President Moon Jae - in has sought North Korea's participation in the hopes it will ease tensions between the still officially warring nations and prevent the kind of violent incidents which have plagued previous major events hosted by the South.

Sullivan was then confronted by a manager and told her participation in the Disney College Program would end early, after which she was escorted out of the park.

THE whole picture of industry, business, and amusements, then, may be summed up by repeating that while there are certain industries which Jews dominate and certain industries in which Jewish participation is considerable there are also vast industrial fields, generally reckoned as the most typical of our civilization, in which they play a part so inconsiderable as not to count in the total picture.

Economists arguing the US has additional unused capacity cite the country's participation rate, which is its total workforce divided by total population.

The manner in which the employee can request the participation of a representative from their bargaining agent, where the employee is represented by a bargaining agent, or other representative from the workplace, where the employee is not represented by a bargaining agent, in the development of the accommodation plan.

In a closed economy, which the US approaches more closely by the reduction of foreign participation, savings = investment.

Unemployment, Marginal Attachment and Labor Force Participation in Canada and the United States Stephen Jones, McMaster University Craig Riddell, University of British Columbia Jones and Riddell build on two previous papers: one by David Card and Riddell (originally published in Small Differences that Matter) that studies the reasons for higher rates of unemployment in Canada than the U.S. in the 1980s, the other by Jones and Riddell which uses data from the U.S. Labor Force Survey to study the differences in rates of job creation for people who are counted as unemployed versus those who are counted as out of the labor force.

Summary A cloud - based «big - data» advertising platform which enables brands with loyalty programs to leverage members» web / app usage to place ads strategically, and at the same time accelerate customer retention by offering points for active opt - in participation.

Sundaresan is CTO and co-founder of Trusted Key, which on May 2 also announced it raised $ 3 million as part of a seed funding round led by Founders Co-Op, an early - stage venture fund, with participation from Pithia, Inc., the venture capital company of The RChain Cooperative.

Hyde Park Venture Partners led the round, which included participation by Hyde Park Angels; Harvard Business School Angels; Bluestein & Associates, a Chicago - based family office; and Otter Consulting, a Boca Raton - based family office...

Yet another portfolio company is the autonomous drone maker Airobotics, which closed on $ 32.5 million in Series C funding last fall, led by BlueRun Ventures China, with participation from Microsoft Ventures.

Key to our ecosystem is the innovation of REAL Tokens, a unique Blockchain - secured digital asset with inherent value as a secure cryptocurrency, which may be traded or used to participate in Crowdfunding by purchasing Real Estate Participations...

What follows are comments from a roundtable discussion held at the University of Ottawa on February 28, organized by Mario Seccareccia, and which featured participation from Marc Lavoie, Louis - Philippe Rochon, Mario Seccareccia, Slim Thabet and Bernard Vallageas.

The deal, which is the largest Series B for a Thai startup to date, is co-led by Indonesia's Provident Capital Partners with participation from PE firm Lombard Investments.

But the participation rate for people age 25 to 54, which shouldn't be affected much by such factors, has fallen to 80.7 %, from 83.1 % at the end of 2007.

As a result, the unemployment rate, which is derived from the household survey, has fallen by about 1/2 a percentage point from its recent peak, although this decline is also partly explained by a large fall in the participation rate.

The expenditures upon which we seek a report are those that Congress has said to not warrant a deduction as an ordinary and necessary business expense, namely, lobbying, participation in the political system by supporting or opposing candidates for office, and trying to influence the general public or segment thereof as to elections, legislative matters or referenda.

Like Luther, Lumen Gentium affirms the common priesthood of the faithful and grounds it in a shared participation of all believers in the one priesthood of Christ: «The baptized, by regeneration and the anointing of the Holy Spirit, are consecrated to be a spiritual house and a holy priesthood, in order that through all those works which are those of the Christian man they may offer spiritual sacrifices and proclaim the power of Him who has called them out of darkness into His marvelous light» (cf. 1 Peter 2:4 - 10).

Rather it is determined by its participation in and exemplification of the rich resources from which all being springs.

This is the meaning and message of the Passover, and participation in it has the sacramental efficacy of producing rebirth; this is also the meaning of the commemoration of the sacrifice of Christ on Calvary, for by participating in the death of Christ who sums up all of the past, we also participate in his resurrection, which attains the eschatological future.

In his book Being and Having, Marcel uses a series of polarities to delineate two basic modes of relating to the world: being and having; participation and objectification; mystery and problem; presence and object; I - Thou relationships and I - It relationships; thought which stands in the presence of, and thought which proceeds by interrogation; concrete thinking and abstraction; secondary reflection and primary reflection.55 Marcel recognizes that both modes of relating to the world are necessary, but he feels the contemporary person is increasingly becoming a slave to the possessive orientation.

* be guided and instructed by the Good News message, which is: ---- God is unconditional boundless grace and unlimited unrestrained love and always has been; ---- God wants to have a loving intimate relationship with each of us without exception and without qualification; ---- seek justice as healing and rehabilitation and restoration; ---- seek universal reconciliation and inclusion and participation; ---- in healthy partnership, compassionately serve all who are hurt or lost or oppressed; ---- be generous and hospitable to all; ---- live non-violently without vengeance and with a cheerful fearlessness of death and worldly powers; and ---- be — here and now — the Kingdom of God.

Churches which have tried a variety of marriage enrichment retreats report that participation by couples in the first ten years is generally more enthusiastic than that of couples in any other marriage stage.

Thus the world which «has some real existence of its own, an infinity in it own degree, by virtue of its participation in Gods actus purus» «can achieve in [God] an eternal existence» (pp23 ‑ 4).

Unfortunately, this renaissance of the past century and a half has been seriously restricted because most of the Islamic countries have been held down by alien political and economic controls which did not permit the creative participation in cultural activities which had been characteristic of Muslims in their glorious days in the past.

By means of his participation in the ultimate, unmoving, unchanging reality, he is assured of that which is permanent in the midst of change.

Apart from the social services run by the state in which, after all, Christians have as much a share as every one else, it must be said that the participations of «humanists» in private charitable enterprises for the poor, the sick, neurotics, lepers, etc., is relatively modest.

If, therefore, we discuss future human structures and institutions of the Church which would make possible a more active participation of the laity in the decisions of ecclesiastical authorities, such efforts should not be discredited in advance by saying that they would remain in any case subject to the good pleasure of the hierarchy.

The immediate awareness of the Holy, the mysterium tremendum, ecstatic participation in the Sacred: this is language he can understand and with which he can identify, as is evidenced by his first book, Oriental Mysticism and Biblical Eschatology.

Seven years ago, after the first International Conference on the Unity of the Sciences, which then was sponsored by Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church as covertly as it is overtly sponsored today, I asked a colleague whether he did not fear that his enthusiastic participation might be used chiefly to give plausibility to a potential new Messiah and a possibly dangerous group.

Applying Royce's understanding of community to the doctrine of the Trinity, one could say that the three divine persons are one God by reason of their common participation in an ongoing process of interpretation which is their life in community.

Too great an attachment to the datum self as a methodological starting point commits one unwittingly to solipsism, Hartshorne holds, since one could never achieve a sound epistemological basis for inferring the existence of anything beyond the datum self by this method.31 Further, if it is true that human beings are social all the way down, resistance to a literal participation in the being of a person by others (including their literal purposes) is also a form of impersonalism, according to Hartshorne's analysis — a charge from which Brightman would have reeled, had he realized that this was Hartshorne's implication.

Both saw government as resting on law, which, in its positive form, was created by the active participation of those subject to it, yet ultimately derives from some higher source, either God or Nature.

What is important is universal participation, not the amount one gives (which is, by they way, known only to the giver and the treasurer of his or her community.

Holiness is also participation in the life of the Church, which is the holy people called into being by God's saving work in Christ.

Whether we conceive of religion as a quest for original participation, or as a repetition of an unfallen Beginning which abolishes the opposites by negating the reality of the profane, it is clear that Christianity can not be judged in this sense to be a religion, or at the very least that the Christian faith is finally directed to a non-religious goal.

Highly personal, however, as this authority is the experiences out of which it grows can also be affected by the participation of the lonely individual in the life of the whole Church, including its life of prayer.

The basic identity of thought and king, the unity of subject and object, and the possibility of immediate awareness by participation, which are assumptions of Western idealism from Plato to Hegel, are all fundamental to Tillich's viewpoint.

But there is a work of God in the midst of this dark reality which brings forth matured, self - reliant, free persons whose freedom has been nurtured by their participation in that friction of will against will which makes up so much of life.

I hold that in feeling pain I am intuiting feelings in my bodily constituents, feelings which are not initially mine and only become mine by participation.

«When both the logic of the market and the logic of the State come to an agreement that each will continue to exercise a monopoly over its respective area of influence, in the long term much is lost: solidarity in relations between citizens, participation and adherence, actions of gratuitousness, all of which stand in contrast with giving in order to acquire (the logic of exchange) and giving through duty (the logic of public obligation, imposed by State law).

Yet nothing can have a more deadening effect on real participation by the citizens than if government, instead of merely providing the essential framework of spontaneous growth, becomes monolithic and takes charge of the provision for all needs, which can be provided for only by the common effort of many.

In critical times, the demand for relevance becomes so strong that the sole canon by which a ministry is measured is the degree of its participation in the skirmish of the day.

One problem with this passage is that although Cobb clearly asserts that persons who respond to Jesus are able to share in the «final and unsurpassable structure of existence» which he opens up for them, nowhere does he expand upon what might constitute the criteria for a response sufficiently satisfactory to assure participation for these persons within the structure of existence introduced by Jesus.