The grace of gratitude, however, ought to extend itself to
the whole social background of our lives, for the obvious reason that we all have two kinds of possessions: some we worked for, won for ourselves by our own creative skill; others were given us to start with.
Not exact matches
Azariah who later became Bishop of Dornakal argued that the church in accepting the position of a communal political minority with special protection would become a static community and it would negate its self - understanding as standing for mission and service to the
whole national community, that in any case the Indian church is not a single
social or cultural community since it consists of people of diverse
background, each of whom would have its own political struggle to wage in cooperation with the people of similar
background in other religions; and therefore theologically and politically Christians should ask only for religious freedom for its mission and service to all people, not as a minority right, but as a human right (ref.
The over-representation of some kinds of
social experiences (that of being a 50 year old white male from a privileged
social background) is a problem in an institution whose members are elected to represent the People as a
whole.
Respondents came from the
whole range of disciplines: 57 % had a natural science, mathematics, or engineering
background, with the remainder drawn from
social sciences (5 %), language and cultural studies (16.3 %), economics (9.2 %), and law (4.5 %).
I've had a bit of
background anxiety — well, ok, more than a bit — about the
whole social media thing.
However, even with a yard, they won't want to spend the
whole day alone because their Corgi
background makes them a very
social breed.
Behind the scenes he's our Digital Content Manager; which means that, among other things, he takes care of most of the
social, looks after the guest writers, is the (unofficial) Editor whenever Kevin J isn't around, and does a
whole bunch of things that keeps VRFocus going in the
background.
What I'm trying to say is that there is a
whole spectrum of people with different cultural,
social and economical
backgrounds.