* continue to recognize each other ’ s Baptism and authorize and encourage the sharing of the Lord ’ s Supper among their members ; recognize each other's various ministries and make provision for the orderly exchange of ordained ministers of Word and Sacrament ;

Baden-Powell wanted the training to be as practical as possible to encourage other adults to take leadership roles, so the Wood Badge course was developed to recognize adult leadership training.

All these fields recognize some factors that encourage centralised authority and other factors that encourage decentralised " democracy "— balances between which are the major focus of group dynamics.

The Alexander Rutherford scholarship is to recognize and reward exceptional academic achievement at the senior high school level and to encourage students to continue their studies.

The competition intended to recognize and encourage an international community of graphic artists from over 50, 000, 000 registered Corel users.

The medal is called the Brockhouse Medal and is awarded to recognize and encourage outstanding experimental or theoretical contributions to condensed matter and materials physics.

Time Dollars thus recognize and encourage reciprocal community service, resist inflation without encouraging hoarding, and are in sufficient supply, which enables trade and cooperation among participants.

The AOU presents annual awards to recognize achievements and service, support research, and encourage student participation.

Proper design techniques ( e. g. Karnaugh maps ) encourage designers to recognize and eliminate race conditions before they cause problems.

The proposal that altruists who support other altruists who are not their kin will encourage the evolution of altruism requires that altruists recognize and choose to support others predisposed toward altruism whom they have detected by their past altruistic behavior, not on the observation of some temporarily correlated characteristic ( e. g., altruists have green beards ).

ABG is an international business honor society established in 1970 to recognize and encourage scholarship among two-year college students in business curricula.

A variety of religious emblems programs are used by the Boy Scouts of America ( BSA ) to encourage youth to learn about their faith and to recognize adults who provide significant service to youth in a religious environment.

According to the Foundation, " The Prize is not only intended to recognize and advance the efforts of the recipient organization, but also to call attention to the worldwide need for humanitarian aid and encourage others to expand their support.

* To recognize those fraternity men and women who have attained a high standard of leadership in interfraternity activities, to encourage them to continue along this line, and to inspire others to strive for similar conspicuous attainment ;

FRIENDS has also established the Dalton Camp Award-an essay writing contest to encourage and recognize excellence in essay-writing on the link between democratic values and the quality of the media in Canada.

The BBVA Foundation runs the annual BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge and Culture Awards in order to recognize and encourage world-class research and artistic creation, prizing contributions of broad impact for their originality and theoretical significance.

In the early 1980s the Washington Theatre Awards Society was founded to recognize and encourage excellence in professional theatre in the Washington region through the presentation of The Helen Hayes Awards.

The main purpose is to recognize the needs and wants of Latvian youth and to encourage self development.

PEN American Center has an extensive program of annual awards and fellowships that serve to recognize recent outstanding endeavours in various literary fields and to encourage different forms of literary production.

Ceremonies have been held to specifically honor the achievements of Tlingit students at the school, as part of an effort to recognize and encourage achievement by Tlingit students.

The Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics is an annual $ 10, 000 prize given to recognize and encourage outstanding achievements in experimental particle physics, and is open to scientists of any nation.

Aim of the European Museum of the Year Award is to recognize excellence in the European museum scene and to encourage and promote innovative processes in the international museum landscape.

It approved the state's blue law restricting commercial activities on Sunday, noting that while such laws originated to encourage attendance at Christian churches, the contemporary Maryland laws were intended to serve " to provide a uniform day of rest for all citizens " on a secular basis and to promote the secular values of " health, safety, recreation, and general well-being " through a common day of rest.

It spawned dozens of programs, among them the Job Corps, whose purpose was to help disadvantaged youth develop marketable skills ; the Neighborhood Youth Corps, established to give poor urban youths work experience and to encourage them to stay in school ; Volunteers in Service to America ( VISTA ), a domestic version of the Peace Corps, which placed concerned citizens with community-based agencies to work towards empowerment of the poor ; the Model Cities Program for urban redevelopment ; Upward Bound, which assisted poor high school students entering college ; legal services for the poor ; the Food Stamp Act of 1964 ( which expanded the federal food stamp program ); the Community Action Program, which initiated local Community Action Agencies charged with helping the poor become self-sufficient ; and Project Head Start, which offered preschool education for poor children.

* In July 2008, the NRDC and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. launched a direct mail campaign to encourage citizens to voice opposition to Shell Oil's exploration for oil off the Alaska coast.

On October 14, 1901, local citizens formed a company for the purpose of selling vacant lots in the town to encourage settlement.

Organizations like the United Nations and the World Bank have started to create programs like Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation ( REDD ) that works especially with developing countries to use subsidies or other incentives to encourage citizens to use the forest in a more sustainable way.

This campaign will encourage the North American Jewish community to examine the risks and rewards of peace for Israel and the Palestinians, and to undertake critical, constructive public dialogue on the most pressing social issues facing Israel today — including the status of Arab citizens of Israel and other minorities, as well as other issues of inequality and discrimination.

The political philosopher Charles Blattberg has criticized deliberative democracy on four grounds: ( i ) the rules for deliberation that deliberative theorists affirm interfere with, rather than facilitate, good practical reasoning ; ( ii ) deliberative democracy is ideologically biased in favor of liberalism as well as republican over parliamentary democratic systems ; ( iii ) deliberative democrats assert a too-sharp division between just and rational deliberation on the one hand and self-interested and coercive bargaining or negotiation on the other ; and ( iv ) deliberative democrats encourage an adversarial relationship between state and society, one that undermines solidarity between citizens.

# SGI shall, through its constituent organizations, encourage its members to contribute toward the prosperity of their respective societies as good citizens.

* General strain theory in sociology, which states that social structures within society may encourage citizens to commit crime

Since its inception more than 60 years ago, the program has used activities to build, encourage, and strengthen the character traits that will help high school youth become involved, responsible adults who are respected citizens.

To encourage involvement from community groups, interested citizens, and the general public, ATSDR developed a community toolkit to assist community leaders in holding discussions to solicit feedback and ideas for the National Conversation.

* Your Vote, Your Choice – the aim of the program is to make the citizens interested in the problems of their communities and encourage them to get involved in public life, including local elections, as well as build a sense of shared responsibility of both the voters and the elected authorities for the decisions made during the election.

At some point in the late fifth century, pay was instituted for those serving in the boule ; this may have been a way to encourage poorer citizens to volunteer, who would otherwise be reluctant to serve.

Yang made laws forcing citizens to marry at a young age and passed tax laws to encourage raising multiple children.

Washington Liaison and Advocacy Programs: Representing UNA-USA in the nation's capital, the Washington office engages American citizens, Congress, the administration and a diverse network of policy institutions and nongovernmental organizations in an effort to secure and encourage constructive US leadership in the UN.

During the early stages of World War I, he authored a bill to encourage American citizens not to travel aboard merchant vessels of countries participating in the war.

The organizers encourage everybody to gather messages from children, senior citizens, and the illiterate so that every culture and demographic on Earth is represented.

This was part of a promotional tour with Peace One Day Ambassador Jude Law, to encourage all citizens of Afghanistan to celebrate Peace Day.

In 2006, for example, the winning Persuasion topics at the American Forensics Association ( AFA ) and National Forensics Association ( NFA ) concerned ways to improve teacher retention and to encourage citizens to correspond with their Congresspersons, respectively.

Today, the People's Open University seeks to satisfy the diverse cultural needs of Velika Gorica's citizens through its theatre, gallery, concerts, publishing, cinema and other activities that encourage people to meet and exchange ideas.

The Nazis and Joseph Goebbels were ecstatic at the revelations, using the Morgenthau Plan as a propaganda coup to encourage their troops and citizens to fight on and to nullify emerging German criticism of the war and arguments for a separate peace with Western governments.

Various states have intercultural policies which seek to encourage the socialization of citizens of different origins.

The intention of the legislation was to encourage greater access to voter registration for the citizens who needed further assistance registering to vote.

Individual citizens, they claim, have the right to express their concerns and encourage principles which they support or believe are right, although Exclusive Brethren do not-as a matter of principle-vote.