Sentences with phrase «with issues of the past»

In dealing with issues of the past, present and the future, placed in the context of a broad societal discussion of the rights of Indigenous people, the churches have become major participants in the process of reconciliation.

Not exact matches

As a neutral observer with no stake in this issue either way, I can't say I particularly care whether Google or Apple is the more influential and important company of the past decade.

«Our company, in the past, has had plenty of these types of issues before, and it's not really presented us with any particular difficulties in running our business,» he said.

Rules for cars were scheduled to play a prominent role over the past week, but the top U.S. negotiator on the issue was hurriedly summoned back to Washington on the first day of the talks to meet with representatives from American auto companies.

«Companies that have sent high - level delegations to this conference in Wuzhen in the past have often done so because there is some type of significant issue with their access to the market,» said an industry source familiar with the event who declined to be identified due to the sensitivity of the matter.

Notley made the announcement on a stage packed with representatives of groups that have in the past often been at each other's throats over this issue.

The fine is an early test of new CEO Jes Staley, a U.S. citizen and veteran of JPMorgan Chase Inc., who was said last month he aimed to resolve past misconduct issues as quickly as possible and build a more constructive relationship with regulators.

The issue of bond market liquidity has been a consistent theme over the past years or so with financial executives such as JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon, Blackstone CEO Steve Schwarzman, and Oaktree Capital's Howard Marks weighing in on the issue and generally pointing the finger at a lack of liquidity exasperating moves in financial markets.

In the past year, Canadian securities regulators have raised the bar for exempt - market dealers, requiring them to be registered and bonded, issue an offering memorandum with every deal and provide audited financial statements to investors annually, says Sand, who supports this new layer of assurance.

The Bank of Canada issued a statement clarifying that Carney did not violate any conflict - of - interest rules, but even the appearance of politics mixing with monetary policy could damage the hard - won credibility and independence the central bank has established over the past couple of decades.

On the flip side, a separate study by the GT Nexus, a supply chain platform, found that 75 percent of U.S. adults have come across an unavailable product in stores over the past year, with 63 percent encountering that issue online.

With the launch of iOS 11.2.1 this past month, the issue reared its head again.

There are a lot of serious issues in the United States, and the inclination to try to stay serious and talk about guns, trade, Medicaid, or drug overdoses rather than reports of the president's alleged past affairs with porn actresses and Playboy playmates is understandable and, on some level, laudable.

Separately, Abe told reporters after a call on Sunday with Moon that the South Korean president had raised at the summit with Kim the issue of past abductions of Japanese citizens by North Korea.

Each weekend issue of that paper also features an interview, and this past weekend's interview was with economist Arthur Laffer.

We'd like to note that in the document, Hsieh seems to take issue with some of our reporting over this past week, such as our contention that he has stepped down as leader of the Project, and even the basic premise that he is the project's founder.

Michael, who had been with Uber since 2013, was rumored to be on the chopping block as board members discussed how to move past a series of controversies related to allegations of sexual harassment and other workplace issues.

During the past year, the Audit Committee met with management and reviewed matters that included the Company's risk assessment and compliance functions, information security, public policy expenditures, treasury and investment matters, accounting industry issues, the reappointment of our independent auditor, and pending litigation.

The social media giant has grappled with the criticism over the issue for much of the past year, and struggled to keep public opinion on its side.

Over the past year, Lund says he's met with 20 central banks exploring the potential benefits of issuing their own fiat cryptocurrency on a blockchain.

«We will demand that questions around the new Ombudsperson's connections to this issue in his past role at the Ministry of the Attorney General are dealt with so no perception of any conflict remains.

At last year's annual meeting, the company's advisory vote on executive compensation failed to receive majority support from shareholders, with approximately 29 % of shareholders supporting the proposal; however this was just one of the issues the company faced in the past year.

But the company has struggled with a number of issues over the past year, including the proliferation of «fake news,» live broadcasting of murders, and creating filter bubbles that have contributed to a divided nation.

Instead of spending the past six months educating the public over what is at issue with the Troika, Syriza focused on playing political rope - a-dope to demonstrate how firmly the ECB and EC were committed to austerity.

Furthermore, if so inclined, one could even study our free archive of past newsletter issues over the years to see that similar defensive action was taken at the right time with most other market tops as well.

The second data issue has emerged over the past couple of months and has worked in the other direction, with lenders reporting that some loans that were previously recorded as investor loans were really loans to owner - occupiers.

Longer term, the issue that investors must grapple with in 2017 and beyond is quantifying how much hidden credit risk is embedded in the portfolio of all US banks as a result of the Fed's aggressive manipulation of the credit markets over the past five years.

Barhydt went on to point out that these sorts of issues with decentralized governance have not necessarily existed on this scale in the past, using Linus Torvalds's benevolent dictatorship over Linux as an example of how things are usually operate in open - source software projects.

In the past two or so years, we have noticed a shift away from donor - advised funds at Single - Issue Charities, with fewer reporting overall, a decline in the amount of new contributions made in 2016, and a high growth in the amount of grantmaking, perhaps suggesting a «spend down» process may be underway at some of them.

That being said, legalism, absolutes beyond basic issues, problems with universalizing Bible historical times issues to today, misinterpretation of things past to things future (dispensationalism good example) all are rooted in being so locked into the Bible and one groups teaching of that Bible, over another.

I remember a cartoon in a magazine from decades past, might have been one of my father's Playboy issues, where the shepherd is approaching two sheep with a bouquet of flowers in his hand and one of the sheep says to the other, «He can just sod right off, I have a headache.»

In the past, she has worked with Republicans on legislation that reformed the foster care system and encouraged more adoptions, issues I know matter to many pro-life evangelicals who advocate on behalf of adoption and open their homes to children.

In the second part of the talk, I described a church that sometimes in the past has led in dealing with public issues and sometimes responsibly followed other leaders, but is now ineffective even when it makes occasional pronouncements that are good.

We need not do anything but acknowledge Him and be grateful I've been struggling with a lot of issues this past year — failing to trust in God with all my heart while falling back into old fearful patterns and trying too hard lean on my own understanding, mixing myself up along the way with, frankly, too many Bible verses and analysis of Bible verses.

I happen to agree with Maher that Christians have terrible answers to these sort of moral issues in Scripture, and it is past time we decide to have a better answer than the traditional trite explanations and pat answers of the past.

I've never really dealt with any kind of anxiety issues or anything up until, honestly, this past year.

I've been reflecting on this a lot recently, as I've been talking with loved ones about how to move past some of my «issues» (read — anger, obsession, deep - seated hatred) with some of the tenants of Reformed theology.

This past May, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), with the approval of the Holy Father, issued a communiqué indicating that the decision had been made «to invite» Father Marcial Maciel «to a reserved life of penitence and prayer, relinquishing any form of public ministry.»

Given the latest medical data concerning the distinct characteristics of the fetus and its ability to survive outside the womb at a startlingly early age, it is little wonder that in the past few years several of the denominations that once took a more open position on abortion have retreated somewhat: the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) is now studying the issue; in a 1980 statement on social principles, the UMC moved to a more qualified position; the Episcopal Church and the recently formed Evangelical Lutheran Church in America seem to be in the process of toning down their earlier positions (or those of a predecessor body) The Lutherans defeated a resolution in their 1989 Assembly which would have been consistent with the liberal position of the LCA predecessor body, and a 1988 Lutheran - Episcopal dialogue report refers to the fetus as «embryonic humanity» with claims on society.

As I have never been a christian or an adherent of any religion, past experience is not an issue with me.

This means that they often do not have the tools to deal with contemporary issues in the light of how Christians and the Church may have tackled similar matters in the past.

Tommy God has already forgiven you for your sin the moment you asked Jesus into your life and confessed him as Lord.From that point he paid for your sin in full past present future.It is not sin that stops us from being with the Lord so you are saved.The problem you are experiencing is the battle for your life in the here and now satan is out to destroy you and he knows our weaknesses.If you are honest there were already issues in your life that you struggled with and never got the victory over.So where do you go from here as i found myself in the same situation i was a christian but walking according to the flesh.God does nt change his mind he always loves us but because of our choices we distance ourselves from God.The issue is that we like sin thats our wicked hearts and to be fair we cant change our nature only Christ can do that our old nature must be crucified with Christ.The stumbling block is our pride we have to admit that we cant do it For me that was terribly difficult i was so independent thinking i could do anything but the truth was a made a real mess of things.I sense you are at a crossroads and are feeling desperate and confused.So as a brother in the Lord you need to confess your sin to God and tell him that you are weak -LCB- we all are -RCB- and that you cant do it in your strength -LCB- None of us can -RCB- but ask him to send the holy spirit to help you deal with the temptations and the sin that you struggle with and he will help you to change your life he will empower you as he did me.Rather than look at who you are look to Christ and walk in him and he will make you a new man and sin will not have dominion over you.Jesus came to set us free from bondage.Having once been a slave to sin i know what it is like to have been set free by the power of God and that is what Christ is offering you today.All it takes is a desire to change or repent and admit we cant do it and trust him to give you the strength to walk in him regards brentnz

Yet, for the past decade; the organized ecumenical movement has been viewed with indifference, if not suspicion, by Christians who have preferred to cultivate their personal spiritual gardens, to pursue various sorts of denominational consolidation and reorganization, or to wrestle with the relation of faith to social issues in abstraction from the struggle for the integrity of the social reality of the church.

There is this odd resistance to raising these issues because a lot of Christians seem willing to embrace solidarity with past Christians when it's good, but they seem less willing to embrace solidarity with Christians when things are bad.

So, while I disagree with Beck on many issues, and have taken great offense to some of his past comments, like that time he compared the camp that the 2011 Norway terror attacks occurred to a Hitler Youth camp, I am inclined to agree with Beck here.

I've actually agreed with Rachel a number of times in the past, at least in her conclusions, on various issues (like egalitarian vs complementarian views).

For the past 2 months I've been attending a class where we have been studying a book titled The Search for Significance by Robert S. McGee and I feel that it is a great book for anyone dealing with issues such as fear of rejection, failure, shame and the fear of punishment and how those issues can be overcome when you apply the truth of Jesus» work on the cross to everyday life.

Given that many of his posts seem to have targeted that root issue in a variety of ways, and given that this is the issue at the root of the scenarios that you propose that he * should * have been addressing in the past, I think it is safe to say that if you have been reading his blog, David actually has (indirectly) been dealing with those issues.

This past October, the Pope issued a new encyclical, Fides et Ratio (Faith and Reason), with this basic message: Be not afraid of human reason.

The authority of the past is never absolute, since the issues of the present day, upon which light is thrown by the accumulated experience of the human race, are what each of us must deal with.