Sentences with phrase «who spoke to the group»

Lori and Rob work with climate activists in the health field who speak to groups on climate and health, and who work with hospital systems to endorse carbon pricing to encourage medical organizations nationwide to pass resolutions regarding the need for climate action.

Not exact matches

Sidenote: Chew is also one of the few biopharma execs I've ever spoken to who voluntarily brought up the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER), a tough drug pricing critic organization which insists on proven outcomes (and has consequently become a major biopharma gadfly), because the group actually validated the cost - effectiveness of Omada's tech.

At the first meeting of the I.S.O. blockchain group, the Russian delegation led a study group on security and privacy issues, which caused discomfort among some delegates from other countries, according to the two delegates who spoke to The New York Times.

We spoke with Naeem Zafar, who teaches entrepreneurship at the University of California, Berkeley, and serves as CEO of startup Bitzer Mobile, to walk us through the steps you should take to assemble a group that will start you on the road to profitability.

She was referring to the reaction of a group of employees she spoke to who were apprehensive about the outcome of the election.

Of six real estate agents who Brownstoner talked to, four said they had spoken with investor groups looking to buy houses, including groups from Europe and Israel.

Speaking of Novartis — the company's experimental CTL019, which is expected to be the first approved drug in a revolutionary new cancer treatment space that turns the body's own immune cells into cancer - killers, is already facing some apprehension from doctors and patient groups who are worried about its eventual pricing.

The reason that all this matters is that it shows that malaria can be eliminated from ountries and eventually hopefully eradicated from the world, said Brandling - Bennett, who recently spoke at the Gates Foundation to a group of reporters participating in a fellowship program on malaria.

There is also a member of hacking group Lizard Squad who uses the name «Antichrist,» but we know of no relation between the two, and the «The Antichrist» we spoke to denies they are connected.)

I made the decision after speaking with representatives from patient groups in 2017, who clarified what the reports could tell me and what I might want to do before looking at them.

The company was nearing a deal to sell itself to an investor group for roughly $ 275 million, plus the assumption of $ 225 million in debt, according to two people briefed on the deal who spoke on condition of anonymity because the negotiations are private.

Mr. Trump also spoke at length about the standoff with armed protesters who last Saturday seized the headquarters at a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon, suggesting that he would have called the leader of the group to try to make a deal to end it — and would have acted against them if negotiations failed because «you can not let people take over federal property.»

The 2016 presidential candidate addressed a group of a few hundred well - coiffed young women, many costumed in bright pantsuits, who waited for hours in the rain in New York City for a chance to gain entry into the coveted powder - pink female - only clubhouse known as The Wing, pay $ 12 for a glass of champagne, and see Clinton speak.

Niek de Goeij is speaking as separatist and Islamist terrorists continue to cause violence in the north African country, despite a peace agreement in June between the Mali government and rebel groups who wanted to form a separate state.

As a pastor I've been getting help for years, from a psychiatrist, from a clinical pastoral course I took years ago, from small groups over the years, from dear friends who are honest enough to speak into my life, from my medical doctor, from the elders in my church, from my wife (mostly) from an adult children for alcoholics group I started only because there was nothing in place in my community.

In the tense atmosphere of the city council meeting the night of the vote, Presbyterian minister Paul Miller acknowledged that emotions were running high but told the overflow crowd he spoke from «deep pastoral concern»; he then read a prepared statement signed by 18 members of the clergy who decried «the recent efforts to single out a given group... and to seek to castigate them as being unworthy and unfit to belong to our community.»

The poll basically breaks white Americans down into three categories: white people who believe they face discrimination and have personally experienced it (NPR spoke with an individual who fell into this category, although he struggled to think of specific examples for some reason); white people who believe they face discrimination but have not personally experienced it (NPR also spoke with a man who fell into this group, who hastened to say he believed other racial and ethnic groups faced discrimination as well), and white people who don't believe they face any discrimination at all.

What is possible for us is to take seriously what is said by those who speak from the side of oppressed groups, to do what we can to make sure their voices are heard, and to try to adjust our own living and thinking to make them more appropriate to what we have learned.

It sounds like you are speaking to a specific group of people, those who are looking for demons everywhere.

If you want to have further understanding of why a (large) group of people choose to follow this religion talk to the people who are actively part of it and find some missionaries to speak with.

The group that he led included people with considerable formal education (trainee ministers), who were used to working with the written and spoken word, as well as people with little education — unemployed men from the most depressed parts of Glasgow who were manually skilled and practically minded.

I can understand the idea of a party as a unifier and people can group together, but the way parties are set up now, it just fuels fringe elements who don't speak for the moderates who are forced to affiliate with one of two parties in order to feel at least sort of relevant.

Durant himself is not nostalgic for the murderous days or groups, but it is not rare to hear intellectuals speak in envious terms of the young who have found something to believe in, or to hear them deride mainline religious groups for seeing their young drift, such churches having failed to demand absolutism and conformity and fanaticism.

Traditional India had been a land in which peoples and communal groups who followed different religions, lived according to different cultural values and social patterns and spoke different languages, coexisted.

A few months ago, a man who had lost both his wife and son to cancer spoke up in a Bible study group: «I remember hearing a preacher say that we would recognize our families in heaven but we would not have any family relations.

Islam is 1.8 billion and growing, there are people who will take a peaceful religion and twist it to their own ideology, but they are a very small group, who should not be associated with Islam, they do not speak for us either.

He claimed he was commanded to kill by a demon who spoke to him through his neighbour's dog and that he was part of a satanic group.

The FCC has allowed licenses to go to religious groups who have no intention of ever broadcasting in ways that speaks to the diversity within their community, but only to use their monopoly as a tool to further their own narrow ideology.

The Bible, however, still presents some problems to the modern reader as he faces the actual text, and so this book tries to meet those problems for the person — alone or in a group — who is willing to sit before the material and allow it to speak to him.

He was speaking at a meeting of a cross party group of MPs who were trying to find a way to cut down on the trafficking of art work.

While speaking to a group of Muslim families who had lost all that they had in recent riots in Bangalore, they told us that the fault was not that they were Muslims or Hindus but they were born poor.

How in the world are we supposed to understand any people of another part of the world if we can't do more to understand a group right here in the USA who speak our language and who are open for dialog.

But Romney, who has both led a Mormon congregation as a bishop and a regional group of churches as stake president, will speak to specific practices of his church and his experiences.

A friend who was a counselor before she retired and who knew from work one of the main problems in that church, sat me down one day and talked to me about what it had been like to work with that woman and how everyone saw that woman, and then my friend gave me this article to read that she had learned and used while she was still in practice before she retired: https://glynissherwood.com/12-steps-to-breaking-free-from-being-the-family-scapegoat/ This article speaks about family, but my friend told me it can be applied to any dysfunctional group of people.

In fact, the only group he ever spoke negatively about were the holier than thous of his day, who desired to look clean and righteous, but were just the opposite.

In Built on Love we re-live some of the earlier battles, and become uncomfortably aware of how any group or individual who tried to speak up for marriage and for parental rights experienced being marginalised, ignored, or openly insulted both by officialdom and in the media.

If the group to be identified as the recipients of reparations payments is simply to be «African - Americans,» then there will be a surprising number of claimants eligible for reparations payments who have, so to speak, been «white» for several generations.

Premier spoke to Simon Calvert from the Christian Institute, who were specifically referenced by Spielman as a group with «conservative» views.

Further, he «made an appeal for prayer based on the Scriptures,» because he was speaking to a group of men «who were predominantly Christians.»

Narrative ministry, so to speak, finds no more receptive audience than a group of young people, particularly a group of high - powered, pressured children and adolescents who have not frequently experienced the joy and luxury of having stories told to them.

From Rachel: Jodie, I spoke with a youth pastor once who said there were girls in his youth group who, when asked what they wanted to do for a career, said they wanted to be pastors wives when they grew up.

That the pope would say this to a group of charismatic ministers in the United States is significant, all the more so since a pope who identifies so much with Il Poverello, Francis of Assisi, was speaking to a branch of the charismatic movement that emphasizes prosperity.

Speaking of those who have already «crossed over,» those who even now inhabit the kingdom of God, the first part of each beatitude identifies who is blessed and the second part names that group's relationship to God.

Premier spoke to Natalie Collins, who started Spark - a group that equips churches to prevent violence against women.

• From its beginnings in 1992, Evangelicals and Catholics Together (ECT) has been very deliberately an unofficial project composed of a continuing working group of participants who speak from and to their several ecclesial communities.

The Sikh Coalition, a civil rights advocacy group, on Monday released a mobile application on iPhones and Android phones giving passengers who feel they've been racially or religiously profiled a way to speak out against screeners with the Transportation Security Administration.

After touring the many stalls, chatting to shoppers, meeting traders and sampling their goods, from cheese to nuts, the trio spoke to a group of people who experienced the attack or whose staff helped clients to safety.

For those who think that it is wrong for women to preach in church, I would ask them this: «Is it wrong for women to speak in Sunday school or home group Bible studies?»

This is not Gays VS Christians (or any religion - How fox news of CNN to go there) and it is NOT about what a CEO speaks — this is about people protesting a chain because they do not want the money they pay for a sandwich to go to extreme groups who hate GAYS and work very hard to make sure the gay people do not have the same rights as straight people.

I mentioned my experiment to a small group at my church, and as I spoke I remembered that there were three women in the room who were recovering from anorexia.