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The story of St. Clement's parish is the story of a dedicated group of lay-people who essentially created their own parish from scratch.
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The main eulogy was delivered by Charlotte Eulette, the international director of the Celebrant Foundation & Institute, a New Jersey-based company that trains lay-people to lead funeral services and write personable eulogies.
The Last Laugh Katherine Rosman 2011
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In this work, called the Longitudinal Study of Aging Danish Twins LSADT, they found that for 1,826 twins, the perceived age from a facial photograph -- as determined by three groups of raters including doctors, nurses and lay-people -- was a "robust predictor of mortality" during the next seven years.
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The Tibetan lay-people started rushing to get out of the temple.
Boing Boing 2008
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Graham has also given great energy and imagination to deepening and strengthening the ministry of lay-people in our church, and I suppose that is particularly been evident in his work as chair of the Central Readers 'Council, and that's a cause that has needed championing in our church and Graham, you've championed it very, very effectively, very powerfully.
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You've constantly emphasised the need to seek out the gifts of lay-people and let them loose in the church in the best way possible.
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Obviously experts can be better-informed than lay-people; comparative advantage and all that.
Sowell's A Conflict of Visions, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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In March this year, Tibetans from the whole of Tibet known as Cholka-Sum (U-Tsang, Kham and Amdo), regardless of whether they were young or old, male or female, monastic or lay-people, believers or non-believers, including students, risked their lives by courageously expressing their long-felt dissatisfaction with PRC policies in a peaceful and lawful way.
Special Message for Tibetans Living In and Outside of Tibet 2008
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I joined with pastors and lay-people to deal with communities that had been ravaged by plant closings.
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Most people know that various unidentified carcasses of mysterious creatures have been washed ashore over the years, and identified by lay-people as the remains of surviving prehistoric monsters.
Archive 2006-02-01 Darren Naish 2006
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