Sentences with phrase «who claim the practice»

There are authors who claim the practice began during the colonial period as an early «mens» / «ladies» designation for an illiterate populace (the sun and moon being popular symbols for the sexes during those times).

The class action suit, initiated by three California students who claimed the practice was discriminatory, snowballed to include nearly 40 claimants.

Not exact matches

She noted that that any company or person who has suffered damages due to the company's practices can make claims to national courts.

While many viewers complain about NBC's tape - delay tradition, the network maintains that the practice is better for ratings as NBC claims female viewers (who actually make up the bulk of the Olympics» audience) watch sports differently than men do, with women investing more in coverage showing athletes» journeys to the games than in the actual results.

Well, instead of having to claim all their practice's income in a given fiscal year, they can leave it in the corporation, pay less tax, and then either reinvest it or dividend it out to shareholders — particularly those who are in lower income tax brackets.

You people are killing small business in this country and there are MANY, MANY legitimate small business owners that do the right things and practice ethical white hat SEO who are severely impacted by this Bull Sh ## t that you people claim is in efforts to stop SPAM... who are you kidding man?

However, despite Wylie's dramatic claims that he and Cambridge «broke Facebook,» the harvesting of such data, even from users» friends who didn't clearly consent, does seem to have been clearly allowed by Facebook at the time, and many app developers had similar practices.

Employment practices liability insurance, or EPLI as you may have heard it called, provides protection to companies who have employees against claims by current or former employees for things like discrimination, wrongful termination, or sexual harassment.

From the first of the speech, Cicero seeks to establish his own claim to be the one who upholds and practices what is morally and properly Roman.

Well it is true that some people seek sorcerers to implement Jinn that are satanic demons into mankind or his house or his business to finish him or make his life miserable or to stop flow of his business income... In such case it is either you are religious enough and say your prayers often then it becomes hard for this to harm you or otherwise you need to find some one who practice exorcism to remove this evil... But many are just pretending to be good at it and help you not but squeeze money out of you with tales and stories... There is another type of possessions and that is not through a sorcerer but directly by coincidence what man is at his weakest moments and those weakest moments for a possessions are when you come through a great fear or when cry or laugh loudly in hysteria, or during a certain moment of mating... or even when sneezing loudly... That's why there are prayers to be said on daily basis to guard you from such things and specially if passing haunted places such as deserted houses but most evil ones are residents of public toilets and market places... Some of them even would claim that you have made a wrong action by which you have killed a dear one to them and for that they have possessed you and that is mostly night time such as throwing a cigaret butt to a dark place or stepping killing an insect or even an animal at night which could have been one of them or possessed by one of them... So this is true thing happening to many who suffer unexplainable illnesses or sufferings which could look like mental illness that comes and goes as pleased...

So instead we should let the «self - appointed» people who claim to be too smart to practice religion or believe in God tell us what to do?

If it's true that Osama bin Laden was just a criminal who hijacked the religion of Islam and not a true Muslim as some Muslim apologists claim, then why is is then so important that his remains be taken care of in accordance to standard Islamic burial practice?

They've done this before, he claims: Think of «their predecessors who opposed legalizing divorce but lost,» and who then «accepted divorce» in practice if not in theory — for example, by hiring divorcées.

«Gary, I never claimed to be a scholar, but I truly believe anyone who honestly reads the Bible will have to come to the conclusion that it is saying that these practices are sinful.»

The problem with the sin of homosexuality is that those who practice it claim it as an identity of who they are.

«The cult - like behaviour of those who claim «once - gay, always - gay», saying that gay - identified and practicing folk never change and may not try to do so - even punishing those who do - is intrusive and bullying.»

But we need to remember that homosexual practice and orientation are conflated by the government so that not supporting a homosexual lifestyle is not to support the person who claims to be homosexual.

The Palm Beach bishop who was forced to resign used the claim that he was practicing therapy as an excuse for sex with young men.

In those cases the court deferred to the judgment of the Air Force that the free - exercise claim of a Jewish officer who wore his yarmulke on duty could not be accommodated; it deferred to the judgment of correctional authorities that the free - exercise claim of a Black Muslim to attend Friday afternoon religious services could not be accommodated; it deferred to the judgment of the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service that building a logging road through a national forest was necessary despite the damage to religious practices of Native American tribes in that area; it deferred to the Internal Revenue Service's ruling that Bob Jones University was not entitled to tax exemption because of its religiously motivated rule against interracial dating and marriage on campus; it deferred to the judgment of the secretary of labor that a religious community must pay its members the minimum wage for work they performed in the group's business although the members said they had religious objections to being paid for their work.

Most people who claim to be Christian in fact do not practice Christianity at all.

And similar observations can be made about those who claim to be practicing the Jewish religion, or following any other spiritual path.

The practice claims support from Paul, who explicitly bans its prohibition (I Cor.

The problem does not lie in the religion, in most cases, it lies in the imperfect people who claim to practice that faith.

I don't know anyone who claims that homosexual practice is the worst of all sins.

There are many who claim to be Christians who do not use or practice faith therefore their belief in God is useless.

Those who work in theological education are also aware, however, that we must also avoid intellectual or spiritual tourism — the tendency to explore the range and quaintness of the world's wondrous variety without asking about the truth - claims of various cultures, without attempting to discern the relative justice of alternative social practices, or without seeking commonalities that may overarch multiple lands and religions.

So a person who claims to be a Christian away from the Christian homeland and with little more than a nodding at, or at best a rather limited acquaintance with, Christian ideas and practices is not, perhaps, a ludicrous but rather a pathetic spectacle.

The claim of the Christian Church to make its voice heard in matters of politics and economics is very widely resented, even by those who are Christian in personal belief and in devotional practice.

There are cultures without the written Bible that practice a higher degree of morality than those who claim to have the written Bible.

Eighty - seven percent of Evangelical Christians, 61 percent of practicing Christians, 21 percent of people of another faith and 7 percent who claim no faith strongly agree that supernatural healing is possible.

This claim, in theory and practice, is as exclusive as any made by certain religions in history, and has the same tragic consequences on the life of other people who refuse to accept such claims.

I am going to weigh in, being a catholic and the whole shabang... First of all this is not infringing on anyone's right to practice their religion... Requiring insurance companies to provide contraception for women does not mean the woman has to use it or purchase it... Catholic hospitals take federal funds for their patients, therefore they are not exempt from employment laws... If the Catholic Diocese doesn't want to provide the insurance claiming religious beliefs, then they can no longer accept federal funded patients... They also know that they will be subjected to discrimination lawsuits based hiring and religious discrimination — non-catholics work there, and therefore are being denied healthcare due to catholic beliefs... Majority if not all Catholic women do, have, or had used contraception in their lifetime... God does not nor does the bible say anything about contraception, since it had not been invented yet — so this is a man - made law, made by a bunch of men, who have never had a menstrual cycle — and the pain that comes with it....

As a scholar who has written books and articles on the Bible and homosexual practice, I can say that the reality is the opposite of her claim.

He joined the Society for Human and Spiritual Understanding, a pseudo-church that met on Sunday mornings in a small sanctuary - style room to practice meditation and listen to the pronouncements of a trance medium through whom, it was claimed, spoke the voice of an Egyptian priest who had lived 3,500 years be-fore.

Although Isabel reads widely in philosophy, and although she lives in a country where» however much territory secularization has claimed» there are still abundant vestiges of Christian belief, not to mention people who continue to practice that ancient faith, she seems almost never to think about such matters.

Problem is, I don't know a SINGLE person who claims to be a «Christian» who actually puts those things into practice.

During his two seasons at UCLA, Davis played dozens of pickup games with Jones, who likes to claim that Davis would never have made it to the NBA without him, which is accurate only in that Jones drove the rookie to his first Hornets practice.

Eduardo, for instance, got a penalty which allowed his side to take the lead when he did it and a smattering of foreign players who have been pilloried for diving have claimed there are certain situations when the practice is acceptale.

Gowing Law Solicitors are a personal injury practice who specialise in no win no fee personal injury claims.

The current legal challenges have already stopped UEFA from implementing the $ 30 loss rule and when the challenge moves to European restrictive practice areas of EU law, the whole thing will collapse and UEFA will face massive compensation claim from all clubs who were restricted by the unlawful practice.

The Illusionary Treatment Option» by Gary Reinl, a former personal trainer and the developer of an electronic stimulation device, in which he argues that ice delays healing from a sports injury, quoting no less an authority than Dr. Gabe Mirkin, who, it says, is credited with developing the rehabilitation acronym RICE (rest, ice, compression, and elevation), as now being against the practice because, he claims, icing «decreases circulation, so it slows healing.»

Proponents argue that sleeping with an infant is a time - honored custom, practiced in other cultures for centuries, and claim many benefits, including healthier self - esteem for children who sleep with their parents as babies.

So I asked them 17 questions on issues like breastfeeding support, compliance with the WHO International Code of Marketing of Breast - Milk Substitutes, health claims on their packaging, free formula samples, audits of their marketing practices, the history of the boycott, chocolate and slave labour, sodium in processed foods and more...

Around once a year I get someone who either claims she didn't know of her pregnancy, or who left it too late to travel, so I still have to do an emergency delivery with no current experience or practice, but what can one do in that situation?

To prevent infant formula manufacturers from making extreme claims about the benefits of formula, organizations like UNICEF and WHO worked together to create regulations for the marketing of breast milk alternatives, and in 1979, the International Baby Food Network was formed, advocating for safe feeding practices and the ethical marketing of formula worldwide.

The International Formula Council (IFC) «confuses» US law and the WHO Code when defending the practice of supplying free infant formula samples for hospital discharge bags, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and UNICEF claim.

For many years it defended the practice of providing free supplies to hospitals, claiming they were intended to babies who are not breastfed, which meant any child whose mother could be persuaded to bottle feed.

Earlier this month, IFC dismissed claims made in a Public Citizen petition - delivered in May to Mead Johnson Nutrition, Abbott Laboratories, and Nestlé USA - that the US practice of providing free hospital discharge bags containing infant formula samples is a violation of the WHO Code.

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The move adds to the steadily mounting pressure on Andy Coulson, who at the time of the original police investigation, when he was editor of the News of the World, claimed he had no knowledge whatsoever of the practice which saw the paper's royal editor jailed in 2007.