Sentences with phrase «who left the family»

Aren't you discounting the work of missionaries who left family and forsook more lucrative futures, traveled to distant continents, braved hostile societies, climates and disease to build churches, schools, hospitals and other infrastructure, all while sharing the Gospel?

Fathers who leave families to make civil rights marches, politicians who sacrifice family life to the exigencies of political campaigns, wives who have to decide between a significant life in a public vocation and the demands of housekeeping, all should know the impossibility of any clear solution of this ethical problem.

Her father, John, was an alcoholic who left the family and disappeared; her mother, Frances, tried to raise Patty and her two siblings by herself.

There were no social security numbers, no FBI, no computers, no effective way to track down someone who left a family in Cincinnati and took off for Walla Walla.

In Matthew 19 Jesus declares marriage as the union of one man and one woman, who leave their families and are joined as one to create a new family unit.

We think of Abraham, or Abram, as this man of great faith who left his family, his home, his possession, and just picked up and left one day when God told him to go.

His father, David Johnson, born in South Korea to an American father and Korean mother, was an alcoholic who left the family before his son was old enough to remember him, Mr. Johnson said.

Tetro (Vincent Gallo) is that specter — the older brother who left the family years before and now lives an unassuming life below the equator.

The coming - of - age drama is based on the novel by Philip Roth about the son of a kosher butcher who leaves his family in New Jersey to attend college in Ohio.

The Arrival Shaun Tan's wordless 2007 graphic novel aims to tell a universal immigration story, following a protagonist who leaves his family behind to travel to a new world.

Jennine Capó Crucet's sharp, authentic debut is the coming - of - age tale of Cuban - American Lizet, who leaves her family in Miami for a prestigious Northeastern university, only to return home to an immigration battle inspired by the true story of Elián González.

This book got me riveted in the tragic story of Chris McCandless, a young man who left his family and friends, abandoned most of his material possessions, went to the Alaska wilderness and perished there.

Dad is a driven man who left his family to pursue the life he feels he is missing, Mom lives in a Zoloft cocoon, and big brother Charlie is fresh from Afghanistan, with a PSTD he is trying to face down.

His father is an alcoholic who left his family.

The man who left his family to partake in the holy wars of far - off lands no longer exists, all that's left is a man who knows only the feeling of the hatred of zealotry, the sound of the cry of a thousand soldiers, and the smell of the thousand rotting, bloodied bodies felled by his sword.

Another potential reason that boys might get in trouble more than girls is that it is often the father who leaves the family, and boys might be missing their fathers, according to Provider - Parent Partnerships.

The case in question concerned a mother of two, JM, who left the family home after a divorce from her husband.

«I couldn't tell the difference between it and a site - built home,» says Mills, who left a family construction business for his current vocation.

Not exact matches

Nearly 70 percent of Americans who voted for President - elect Donald Trump and 89 percent of Hillary Clinton voters support mandatory paid family and medical leave, according to a post-election poll of 2,000 voters by the Center for American Progress.

During the financial crisis, layoffs forced foreclosures, leaving families homeless, and many who lost their jobs then still struggle amid dim job prospects.

Apple's 2013 Christmas commercial for the iPhone tells the story of a young boy who used his iPhone to capture candid video clips of his family on Christmas day and then puts together a short video that leaves his mother in tears.

Parents who previously left children behind with grandparents or other extended family to have their children join them.

Rupert's son James, however, who is CEO of family holding company 21st Century Fox, argued that it was long past time for O'Reilly to leave, in order to try and mitigate some of the longer - term damage done by the allegations and the advertising exodus.

Mr. Meister, who took a 7 a.m. flight to Washington every Monday for three years, said he was leaving to spend more time with his family in New York.

But for some employees — especially those who left to pursue other career goals, like a business or graduate degree, or due to a change in family circumstances (like a spouse being relocated)-- re-hiring makes sense for everyone involved.

The proposed «reasonableness» tests on the labour and financial contributions by adult family members leave too much discretion with the CRA, who will be able to change the tax attributes on these earnings.

«I, myself, was born in a family of migrants; my father, my grandparents, like many other Italians, left for Argentina and met the fate of those who are left with nothing.

It needs a complete overhaul, because, as do many family relationships, it creates a blueprint for systemwide dysfunction, characterized by poor social skills, unprofessional behavior, bullying colleagues and inferiors until they become successful enough to bully others — or, if they decide to leave, cutting them off completely, disowning them like a son or daughter who's married the wrong person.

Things like, «I would like a connection to the HR Director at xyz company» or «Do you know a health - conscious mom who has a baby under one year of age and has left her corporate job to be at home with her family?»

At Fortune Magazine's «Most Powerful Women» dinner in Palo Alto, Calif., businesswoman Marissa Mayer, who was criticized for juggling a short maternity leave and her new role as Yahoo's CEO, says she has found balance by «ruthlessly prioritizing» God, family and then Yahoo, citing legendary Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lombardi.

I was so fortunate — a wonderful nanny who brought the babies so I could nurse, a home close to my office and the freedom to work from home, leave early, or take a chunk of time off when my family needed me.

And the great worry is that young people, who traditionally provide the bulk of demand for single - family homes, are taking longer to leave their parents» basement or bid goodbye to their roommates and buy a place of their own.

More than one - third of private - sector workers do not have a single paid sick day, and only 13 percent of private - sector workers have paid family and medical leave.7 Furthermore, it is often the workers who can least afford unpaid time off from work who do not have access to these policies.

No sooner than you leave the family business to the kids, it's likely they'll end up fighting over who got the larger share, who does or doesn't deserve the ownership they got, and who gets the final word.

China is detaining or interrogating family members of Muslim Uighurs who have left for the U.S., as those who managed to flee a web of surveillance and detention in northwestern China discover they can't truly escape Beijing's reach.

(UK, 20 May 2014) A.S. Watson Group (ASW) today announces management change in its UK Superdrug and Savers operations, with the appointment of Peter Macnab as Managing Director of A.S. Watson Health & Beauty UK, replacing Joey Wat who has decided to leave the company for family reasons later this year.

Donors Trust grew out of the fear among right - leaning donors that their family foundations might end up in the hands of those who would fund centrist or, even worse, left - of - center causes.

Horn said that voluntary paid family leave is the better option because it allows employers, who «are closer to their employees than the government is,» to create programs that work for them.

The 17 who were lost in the senseless shooting on February 14 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, leave behind heartbroken family, friends, classmates and communities.

We have had so many new citizens who come to make a better life for themselves and their families, leaving all else they know and love, to do so.

Sunsets more generous medical expense deduction after 2018; delays certain alcohol excise taxes until 2019; provides a tax credit for employers who offer family and medical leave that expires in 2020

To repay him for this service, the Commission gave Colombo what was left of the Profaci crime family (Profaci was a Sicilian - born gangster who had an olive oil export business in New York who died of natural causes, but that was about the closest he comes to being a Vito Corleone stand - in).

Winter's Bone is the highlight of Netflix's independent films section, telling the story of a young woman from the Ozarks of America who must find her meth - cooking father to avoid eviction after dad skips bail, leaving the family on the brink of homelessness.

I am happy that the writer had the choices that she did... She is also free to decide whether or not she is a Catholic... She however, took an available medication for a health problem... most Catholic facilities recognize such health problems and allow for that treatment... I am completly puzzled, though, that she would not want other Catholics to be able to choose differently than she did... for those people who wish to use contraceptive services and medication, options are open to them... I am not Catholic, did not grow up in a faith based family, and don't know whether a God exists or not... However, to leave a relgious group with no option but to contradict its own tenets is an attempt by those who don't believe in those tenents to mock them, certainly, but more to erode them... this seems the aim of many and when those folks operate from inside the government... that intrusion is an overreach of the govenrment...

Now, Job after his bought with «pride» he ask YHWH for his forgiveness, and was later blessed with more sons and daughters who did the law, who were good children and an even better wife, and he lived for four generations of his children and their children, and died a very happy and fulfilled life, knowing that all of his family was left with love, and peace and togetherness among each other, now this is true life, living righteously and wholesome by ourselves and by others around us is what we are all suppose to live like, caring for your neighbors faithfully, and all be as one now not after it is too late but now we need the law of righteousness from YHWH, the 10 commandments, the sabbath, a day of rest, and the passover to remember the ones who died innocently, and to remember the freedom of our lives given by YHWH and do good by one another and not let each other fall, right now is what we need in this world today people.

Leaving aside the manifold ways in which stay - at - home moms are utterly crucial to their families (some of which — to be sure — can be replaced, however imperfectly, with paid labor of one sort or another), there is this: could the many institutions of our civil society continue to function without the tireless efforts of women who don't regularly participate in the working world?

Physicians called my family, who lived thousands of miles away, because people in my situation in ICU never left alive.

My grandfather di ed with Jesus» name on his lips, and I can tell you it leaves no sense of «extra» satisfaction with those who miss him today that his final thoughts... however comforting they were to him... were not about his family.

«We trust in God's love and mercy for those who've died but for the families left behind this is the most terrible time from which many of them may never recover.»

I served this country, volunteered for war, and now am left to deal with idiots like you who want to see stories like this, read some kind of republicanized twist into everything, blame Israel and Obama for your own personal failures (to include turkey farms - which I abhor unless free range), then go ahead: you're embarrassing yourself, your family, and every good person, Jews included, that you know.