It means the church has adopted a position which maintains a traditional view of marriage between a man and woman, but allows individual congregations to "opt out" if they wish to appoint a minister or a deacon in a same-sex civil partnership.
Locke thus rejected what we might call a substance-based view of identity, which maintains that persons at different times are identical to one another in virtue of their consisting in one and the same substance.
This, he says, may mean ditching parts of the national curriculum and having to train teachers in new skills.Quite how this will be viewed by the Department for Education and Employment, which maintains a tight grip on the national curriculum, Mr Fieldsend has not yet found out.
This view contradicts a common impression which maintains that Ieyasu was a ruthless leader who treated all the women in his life, and all of his offspring, as commodities to be used as needed to serve the clan or his own ambitions.
Thus the distributed control units can be replaced by a central controller, which maintains a global view of the radio access network (RAN).
It also divides system responsibilities into three parts: the model, which maintains program data and logic; the view, which provides a visual presentation of the model; and the controller, which processes user input and makes modifications to the model.
Lyondell has also hired a prominent Houston law and lobbying firm, Bracewell & Patterson, which maintains a large operation in Washington, to represent its views to Congress on the M.T.B.E.
She gained so much attention that the Energy Department, which maintains the nation's nuclear arsenal, helped pay for an oral history in which she described her upbringing and the development of her antinuclear views.
Although Chafe (1970) acknowledges Halliday's contribution to the theory of information structure, in his definition of New as "information he [the speaker] is introducing into the hearer's mind for the first time" (p.210), the emphasis on the first time clearly places this view of information within a theory of reference – a view which is maintained in more recent developments (e.g. Chafe 1995).
The divine law, on Heraclitus' view, is probably continuous with the laws governing the cosmos, which maintain justice through opposition (B80).
