Sentences with phrase «as society ages»

As society ages and people live longer, more disputes and litigation will inevitably and regrettably arise (and already do).

As society ages, these numbers will increase further.

We believe this has been a critical factor behind the multi-decade drop in global yields, beyond the more familiar decline in potential growth as societies age, productivity softens and central bank inflation targeting keeps price volatility in check.

Not exact matches

«When communities enable aging adults to work, learn, volunteer, and participate socially and economically, the benefits accrue to younger people and the broader society as well,» the report reads.

That's because China rocketed into its position as the world's second - largest economy in a matter of decades under a strict one - child policy, contributing to a rapidly aging society with rising medical needs.

The term can sound a little woo - woo at first, but as Li, a doctor and chairman of the Japanese Society for Forest Medicine, explains, the idea is anything but New Age nonsense.

«There was a clear pattern in the findings - the more literary fiction authors that participants recognized, the better they tended to perform on the emotional recognition test, and this association held even after statistically accounting for the influence of other factors that might be connected to both emotion skills and reading more literary fiction, such as past educational attainment, gender and age,» reports the British Psychological Society Research Digest blog, summing up the results.

Slower growth — a function of structural changes such as an aging society — means economic slack created in the last recession is being eroded at a sluggish pace.

The main reason is that working populations are shrinking as Western societies age, limiting both potential output and demand.

Robert went on to win lifetime achievement awards, such as Winemaker of the Year by the American Wine Society, was inducted into the California Hall of Fame and even carried the Olympic torch in 1996 at age of 83.

In today's society (the age of information overload), it's all too easy to rely on becoming a consumer of consensus datapoints as opposed to embracing a Life of Doing.

We know that the Canadian population is aging, which means that health needs are increasing and that more and more costs are being imposed on society as a whole.

During his time with Ad Age, he has been recognized with the Jesse H. Neal National Business Journalism Award for best range of work by a single author, as well as a Best in Business award for a feature story from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers.

As society has embraced the digital age, EK's business model has fallen out of favor.

That $ 10,000 is going to be invested in the securities or funds you select, compounding for you until retirement or you reach the age of 70.5 years old and the government forces you to begin drawing down the money so as not to take advantage of the tax benefits for too long, enriching your heirs beyond what society considers worth subsidizing.

• A sudden collapse in fertility produces a slow - motion train wreck in a third - world society, as the age cohorts collapse in accordion fashion.

Ancient religions should welcome the political achievements of modernity while calling modernity to open its windows and doors to a world of transcendent truth and love: ``... the great achievements of the modern age» the recognition and guarantee of freedom of conscience, of human rights, of the freedom of science and hence of a free society» should be confirmed and developed while keeping reason and freedom open to their transcendent foundation, so as to ensure that these achievements are not undone....

In our globalized and technocratic age, we're often told, «we need expert management of monetary, trade, and tax policy, not collective deliberation about how, as a society, we are to order our common life.»

you guys have to understand, we as followers of christ (not christians) it is our job to tell you (society) that god exist and that he loves us and is willing to forgive us for the f @ # $ up things we do to each other daily, not prove he exist, b / c he sent prophets through out the ages to do that, some listen (hebrews, muslims) some didn't (pagans, atheis, new agers), then you have those who have had their souls violated (gays) who feel lost and confused.

Pulling solely on the oar of capitalist individualism results in nihilism, as it did in the Gilded Age and in the 1920s and «80s, and is no more satisfactory than trying to steer society by the oar of Christian communitarianism.

As David Novak puts it, «In this age of secularism both Christians and Jews must learn how to sing the song of the Lord God of Israel in the new exile (galut) in the strange land of contemporary society.

It could now be seen, in every detail as his followers remembered it, as the life of the one whom they now encountered as a living Presence in the witnessing and worshipping life of the Christian society: the Jesus who was no longer with them as «the prophet from Nazareth», but who was for ever contemporary as the Lord to whom «all authority in heaven and earth» had been given, who was «with them always, to the close of the age».

As feminists lifted to consciousness the age - old pattern of male domination and destroyed its self - evidence, they could call for a post-patriarchal society.

In our post-Nietzschean age of AIDS and rampant venereal disease, the remark now carries with it a certain unintentional irony, but one finishes reading Bloom's book not entirely sure why erotic relations nowadays are so dreary: Is it because of the relentless reductionism of Freud and Kinsey or because, as Nietzsche held, Eros and Institution will always be at war — and Christianity, with its rigorous stress on monogamy, now symbolizes for modern society the institution of marriage par excellence?

Our society is not the same as that of first century Palestine, where families were close - knit and stable and elders were respected and those few who lived to a ripe old age could count on living out their years as an honored member of an extended family.

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.

There is also a practical benefit to Reno's ecumenism, in that anyone speaking of «Christian society» in this day and age invites being tarred with words like «theocracy» and «inquisition,» as if Christian society necessitated those forms.

The problems that contribute to unrealistic images of aging must be addressed at both the personal and the systemic levels; healthy old age and its proper representation in society are a matter of public policy as well as of individual behavior.

Can someone please explain then, how Leviticus, basically a book of iron age rules for their society (many of which call for stoning to death as punishment), could possibly be meant in any other way than literally?

All of these considerations do not change the fact that for a long time American society has been organized around the image of the successful white Anglo - Saxon man, nor assuage the bitterness of those excluded from the central rewards of the society because of the fact of sex or race or age.22 Plato long ago pointed out that the tyrant who can gratify every whim is the greatest slave of all, because he is completely at the mercy of his own desires, but he did not mean that argument as an excuse for tyrants.

Although his prescriptions were regarded as odd, his descriptions of the new age as informed with secular beliefs in progress through the rational, scientific organization of societies, for the purpose of ever increasing industrialization and ever new technologies of control, was very typical of modernity.

Every few years, beginning in 1967 with Death at an Early Age, Kozol has brought forth another book exposing what he regards as some grave injustice of American society.

It would have been better, easier and best to for them if to read the most recognized holy books of the Three dominant religions and choose out a faith out of them taking the positive for life and society and leave out the negative for life and society rather than having it shoveled down your throat to take it as it is a be extreme on some thing that is mystic unexplainable or meant for different ages and unsuitable or scientifically disapproven.

The most urgent immediate task, therefore, is the development of education on the basis of the sciences, both natural and social, for only with their help can society as a whole be taught to construct a life completely in accordance with that knowledge which has become the factor by which our age is distinguished from all preceding periods of history.

We have our images of this age and they are all virtual fleeting moments of a disconnected society as we drift without purpose and without God.

How long can a society remain free when the lives of entire classes of human beings are, because of age or frailty, deemed by law to be Lebensunwertes Leben, just as they once were so deemed because of race or creed?

In an age when society was headed by kings and emperors it was natural to address God as king of kings and Lord of lords.

It is not necessary for certain ideas to have evolved, as is evidenced by other cultures (not to say in any way that they are wrong, however, there are practices that oppose the morals ingrained in us by the society we live in) so could a parent raise perfectly good children without the bible, in this day in age, probably yes, but you must recognize, that much of what they will be teaching will come from their society, adn quite honestly I'm not sure honoring your parents, and not killing are such a bad thing.

In a society that has moved from horse and buggy to space flight in a single life - span, more and more people regard as archaic any church which seems to locate the golden age or complete revelation somewhere in the past.

Nonetheless, there is an expectation on the part of society that the law will speak from on high as well as in the people's midst, and that it will make straight what would otherwise remain twisted, crooked lines; it will establish order in the stead of anarchy and chaos; it will retain a semblance of purity amid vile motives and human deceits; it will speak with godlike authority and power in a godless age.

Rollo May, writing in The Cry for Myth, notes that the 20th century was once heralded as the age in which education would enable society to embrace a «religion cleansed of all superstition,» by which he meant any belief that went beyond rationality.

Now, they say, we have had another media revolution — television has taken over as the primary communication locus in society — and once again the church must come aboard and reinterpret the tradition of the Christian religion, this time in television, the medium of the age.

The Supreme Court has taken the position that society has the obligation to make a judgment as to what speech is appropriate for children, just as persons under a certain age are not allowed to drink, drive, or vote.

I would be more tolerent, but my understanding of history and society demonstrates that people who live their lives by stone age fairytales are screwing up the present as well.

In our society we all are concerned about high blood pressure (hypertension), as it is one of the serious health problems by which humans are suffering in this age.

Today we in the West have lost this, we live as children eternally, there's no coming of age ritual in the same way, society has watered down the issue to having a beer with your dad and his mates when you're 16.

As a society we tend to be skeptical whenever a couple's ages are so far apart, but I'm not sure why; there are certainly enough relationships in which the couples are about the same age that don't last, either.

The problems of sports specialization at too young an age, over training, playing through injuries, and a society that feeds off of «there is no such thing as enough» attitude can not be solved with better shoulder pads or education on hydration in hot weather.

If we lived in a society of meerkats every mother that is able to help raise your pups would be celebrated, but we do not live in a society of meerkats and raising kids is no longer the responsibility of the community as it was ages ago.

In societies where children are allowed to nurse as long as they wish, they usually self - wean, without emotional trauma, between 3 and 4 years of age.