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He has been Patron of Baptist World Aid, a member of the Australian Earth Charter Committee, a council member of the Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture, a spokesperson for the Interchurch Gambling Taskforce, a member of the National Advisory Body on Gambling and a member of the Alcohol Education and Rehabilitation Foundation.
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As it is, they consider that the North is now reaping the fruits of excess egalitarianism, that in spite of its high standard of living the `` American way '' has been proved inferior to the English and Scandinavian ways, although they disapprove of the socialistic features of the latter.
In what has aptly been called a `` constitutional revolution '', the basic nature of government was transformed from one essentially negative in nature ( the `` night-watchman state '' ) to one with affirmative duties to perform.
For lawyers, reflecting perhaps their parochial preferences, there has been a special fascination since then in the role played by the Supreme Court in that transformation -- the manner in which its decisions altered in `` the switch in time that saved nine '', President Roosevelt's ill-starred but in effect victorious `` Court-packing plan '', the imprimatur of judicial approval that was finally placed upon social legislation.
Labor relations have been transformed, income security has become a standardized feature of political platforms, and all the many facets of the American version of the welfare state have become part of the conventional wisdom.
Historically, however, the concept is one that has been of marked benefit to the people of the Western civilizational group.
In recent weeks, as a result of a sweeping defense policy reappraisal by the Kennedy Administration, basic United States strategy has been modified -- and large new sums allocated -- to meet the accidental-war danger and to reduce it as quickly as possible.
Even though in most cases the completion of the definitive editions of their writings is still years off, enough documentation has already been assembled to warrant drawing a new composite profile of the leadership which performed the heroic dual feats of winning American independence and founding a new nation.
Madison once remarked: `` My life has been so much a public one '', a comment which fits the careers of the other six.
Thus we are compelled to face the urbanization of the South -- an urbanization which, despite its dramatic and overwhelming effects upon the Southern culture, has been utterly ignored by the bulk of Southern writers.
But the South is, and has been for the past century, engaged in a wide-sweeping urbanization which, oddly enough, is not reflected in its literature.
An example of the changes which have crept over the Southern region may be seen in the Southern Negro's quest for a position in the white-dominated society, a problem that has been reflected in regional fiction especially since 1865.
In the meantime, while the South has been undergoing this phenomenal modernization that is so disappointing to the curious Yankee, Southern writers have certainly done little to reflect and promote their region's progress.
Faulkner culminates the Southern legend perhaps more masterfully than it has ever been, or could ever be, done.
The `` approximate '' is important, because even after the order of the work has been established by the chance method, the result is not inviolable.
But it has been during the last two centuries, during the scientific revolution, that our independence from the physical environment has made the most rapid strides.
In the life sciences, there has been an enormous increase in our understanding of disease, in the mechanisms of heredity, and in bio- and physiological chemistry.
Even in domains where detailed and predictive understanding is still lacking, but where some explanations are possible, as with lightning and weather and earthquakes, the appropriate kind of human action has been more adequately indicated.
The persistent horror of having a malformed child has, I believe, been reduced, not because we have gained any control over this misfortune, but precisely because we have learned that we have so little control over it.
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Williams has been the Patron of the children's charity the Donna Louise Trust based in his home town of Stoke-on-Trent, for the last 8 years.
Legend has it that Alexius, Metropolitan of Moscow, later Patron Saint of Samara, visited the site of the city in 1357 and predicted that a great town would be erected there, and that the town would never be ravaged.
Oya has been syncretized in Santería with the Catholic images of the Our Lady Of Candelaria ( Saint Patron of the Canary Islands in Spain ) and St. Therese of Lisieux.
He had the honour of being Captain of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews between 2003 and 2004 during the club's 250th anniversary season is Patron of a number of royal golf clubs, and has been elected as an honorary member of many others.
Over the past three decades, has helped establish numerous bodies, among them the Irish Architectural Archive ( with Edward McParland ), the Birr Scientific and Heritage Foundation, the Irish Landmark Trust ( of which he a Trustee, ex-officio President & Patron ) and ( with his wife Mary ) the Irish Centre for European Law at Trinity College .< ref >
He has upheld over the years his duties as a Patron to a number of charitable organisations including, a North East Charity which has built schools and care centres for mentally and physically handicapped children and Convoy, a charity which Lord Stevens set up to improve the quality of life of Romanian orphans, Aids sufferers and disabled children and for which he was awarded the Star of Romania, by the President of Romania.
Lady Thatcher has since been named Patron of the Heritage Foundation, her only official association with any U. S .- based group.
Since 1990 Sabine Bergmann-Pohl has been the Patron of the General Disabled Persons in Germany ( ABID eV ) and since 2003 President of the Berlin Red Cross.
She has been awarded with over 21 honorary Doctor of Laws degrees and is the Honorary Patron of the Institute of Parliamentary and Political Law.
He is Patron of Freedom from Torture ( formerly the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture ), and has been awarded an Honorary D. Litt from his alma mater, the University of Hull where a Students ' Union bar is named after him.
She has since become the Patron of the Nancy Blackett Trust which owns and operates Ransome's yacht, Nancy Blackett.
The Church has officially designated Mother General of the Missionaries of Charity, Teresa of Calcutta and Pope, John Paul II as the Patron Saints of the event.
The shortfall in funding was plugged by Margaret Thatcher, who has since become the European Foundation's Patron.
The Edinburgh Gazette of 17 November 1896 announces " INTIMATION is hereby given that the Reverend THOMAS ANGUS MORRISON, Minister of the Parish of Kirkintilloch, in the Presbytery of Glasgow and County of Dumbarton, has, under and by virtue of " The Glebe Lands ( Scotland ) Act, 1866 ," presented a ; Petition to the Lords of Council and Session, Commissioners for the Plantation of Kirks and Valuation of Teinds, for authority to Feu the GLEBE OF KIRKINTILLOCH ; and that an Interlocutor has been pronounced therein in the following terms ...." After depositing £ 400 with the " Lord of the Manor " or " Patron " T Angus Morrison becomes Minister of St Mary's.
He has also served as a Director of the Aitkin Bicentennial Exhibition Centre, Special Olympics Canada, Canadian Cancer Society National Public Relations, the Board of Advisors of the International Association for Students of Economic and Commerce, the National Committee on Lobbyists for the Canadian Bar Association ( CBA ), Life President and class Valedictorian of Dalhousie University, Friends of the London School of Economics and Goodenough College Trust, Board of Governors and Secretary, Patron of Lester B. Pearson College of the Pacific, Victoria B. C.
The London Library has a Corporate Patron scheme offering many benefits including exclusive hire of the Library for private events.
He has been a lifelong supporter, and was during his time in Australian government a Special Patron, of the Hawthorn Football Club.
The current Patron is former All Blacks captain Sir Wilson Whineray, who has held the title since 2003 and was last re-elected for a three-year term starting in 2007.
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