Sentences with phrase «as society begins»

Women are at risk of subconsciously adopting a more submissive role in cross-sex friendships, he said, although that is slowly changing as society begins to treat both genders more equally.

First there is a period of adjustment, as society begins to alter its behaviour and infrastructure in response to the higher prices.

As society begins to value the aesthetics of information, the advantages of a well - designed user interface become clear.

As society begins to place a greater value on the importance of the father's role in healthy child development, research will reflect those changing societal priorities.

As societies began to rely on bread as a major foodstuff, they were also forced to expend more effort on agriculture (and vice versa).

Not exact matches

He will first cite Microsoft's mission to «empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more» and acknowledge his own beginnings in India as a sign of the power of technology to democratize society.

By the Civil War's end, the United States had begun its shift from a disjointed agrarian society to an industrialized one knit together by corporate and financial organizations as much as by democratic ones.

As the third round of NAFTA negotiations are set to begin in Ottawa, civil society groups will be holding their own meetings.

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.

The answer is we can't, this is why the people who founded the United States used the Bible to base the rules that they would follow as an absolute with regard to morality... it's only as society has begun to drift from these standards that we are getting worse...

It was the Burkean conservatives, such as Daniel Webster, who retorted that slavery was far too deeply embedded in society's fabric to uproot» hadn't it existed since the beginning of civilization?

Although compassionate in its intent to allow those who came to the United States unlawfully as children and through no fault of their own to begin the process of integrating legally into United States society, it contributes to the current crisis at the border by further signaling United States policy not to enforce its immigration laws against low priority targets.

I began with a mind unfavorable to it... but more recently I found myself brought into contact with the Book of Acts as an authority for the topography, antiquities, and society of Asia Minor.

As the philosopher Roger Scruton puts it, «A society based on agape [selfless love] alone is all very well, but it will not reproduce itself: nor will it produce the crucial relation — that between parent and child — which is the basis on which we can begin to understand our relation to God.

What kind of society will emerge if we begin eyeing each other's children as we do each other's cars, clothing and houses, mentally calculating «what that one must cost»?

They were spawned several years after Waldo and his Poor People of Lyons began to impact French society as the «Jesus People» of the twelfth century.

This month he began work as chief executive officer for the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children Scotland.

For example, Christianity began as a fringe group in society.

As a kid, once you realize that society will rally around a lie, and support it (Santa)-- you begin to wonder what other things are lied about and supported.

Now we're beginning to think that their salvation depends on some changes elsewhere in society as well.

Alcoholics Anonymous began as a way for members of society to discuss their addiction and maintain sobriety without the scrutiny of society or the risk of personal or professional ruin.

We will not be able to move beyond our current impasse until individual communities begin to work together with government agencies while sharing a vision of the good of society as a whole.

For such strategies are but glosses on the liberal society and do not begin to suggest the virtues we should ask of ourselves and others as citizens of a polis.

Small but growing numbers of Christian theologians in Europe and North America have begun to meet regularly with Buddhists to foster mutual understanding and growth, one result of which is the recently established international Society for Buddhist - Christian Studies.4 In addition, following the lead of the late Trappist monk, Thomas Merton, many Roman Catholic monastics have begun to use meditative practices as an adjunct to their own spiritual disciplines (Walker).

As children grow and achieve greater levels of maturity and self - sufficiency, it is generally society's expectation that they become less selfish and begin to develop more altruistic traits.

Changes in behavior are not new, but the way in which we as a society are now beginning to think about that behavior is quite new.

We can not begin to comprehend that society, yet there are those who cling to these rules as if they have meaning outside the societal context within which they were created.

Some early black congregations began as benevolent societies, and all of them were concerned for the welfare of the sick, the widowed and the orphaned.

As Hannah Arendt says, «What saves the act of beginning from its own arbitrariness is that it carries its own principle within itself, or, to be more precise, that beginning and principle, principium and principle, are not only related to each other, but are coeval,» 2 We will want to consider the act of conscious meaning - creation, or conscious taking responsibility for oneself and one's society, as a central aspect of America's myth of origin, an act that, by the very radicalness of its beginning, a beginning ex nihilo as it were, is redolent of the sacreAs Hannah Arendt says, «What saves the act of beginning from its own arbitrariness is that it carries its own principle within itself, or, to be more precise, that beginning and principle, principium and principle, are not only related to each other, but are coeval,» 2 We will want to consider the act of conscious meaning - creation, or conscious taking responsibility for oneself and one's society, as a central aspect of America's myth of origin, an act that, by the very radicalness of its beginning, a beginning ex nihilo as it were, is redolent of the sacreas a central aspect of America's myth of origin, an act that, by the very radicalness of its beginning, a beginning ex nihilo as it were, is redolent of the sacreas it were, is redolent of the sacred.

Because of Percy's explicit engagement with Kierkegaard, we may justifiably interpret the ending as a representation of the ethical / aesthetic choice... Binx, that is, begins the novel in the aesthetic mode, but by the end, he has given up moviegoing and committed to society by becoming a doctor and getting engaged.

But even before they had freed themselves from the bonds of English society they had undertaken an «Agreement» in Cambridge, England, the year before and bound themselves to a new covenant with obligations both to God and one another.16 The «Agreement» of the Massachusetts Bay Colony was a beginning that contained its own principle, just as, as we have seen, the acts establishing the new republic did.

This is a tiny hamlet of nineteenth - century settlement, much reduced from its ancient prosperity, yet the house is there, newly built from the ashes of its fiery ruin, Piety Hill, an Italianate pile, which began as a lumber baron's residence, sank to a refuge for impoverished gentry, and became the seat of a literary man — a history suggestive of larger changes in American society since 1918.

The report begins by asking: «What helps us the most to thrive, as individuals and as a society?

Japanese imperial rule (beginning in 1910) and the burdens of World War II disturbed these efforts, but when China «fell» to the communists in 1949, many groups, such as the Oriental Missionary Society, pivoted towards Korea.

His main argument is as follows: «The word Hindu which had essentially geographic and cultural meaning began to acquire religious connotations» and communal overtones when missionary religious began converting the untouchables and lower castes of Hindu society with promise of their liberation from caste indignities.

Jesus» ministry, though, began as a renewal movement within Judaism, 61 went beyond theological issues, «addressing problems endemic to agrarian, indeed all class, societies.

In the Jewish society of his time Jesus found his place, to begin with, as a teacher of religion and morals.

As growing numbers of ministers and teachers began to speak a word of judgment against the society of their day, a movement arose at Grinnell College, in Iowa, crying for the complete reconstruction of society on the basis of the New Testament teachings.

As women have begun to get in touch with their feelings about being women in our society and as men begin to notice changes in the women they know best, and in the collective consciousness of women, relationships between women and men are beginning to change dramaticallAs women have begun to get in touch with their feelings about being women in our society and as men begin to notice changes in the women they know best, and in the collective consciousness of women, relationships between women and men are beginning to change dramaticallas men begin to notice changes in the women they know best, and in the collective consciousness of women, relationships between women and men are beginning to change dramatically.

However, if he remains true to his Divine Will as reflected in the Law, it will not be sufficient for him to raise up religious truth in a sporadic fashion without any line of direction or fulfilment: «if God is the Environer of the soul of man, then from the very beginning of man there must be, within his personality and within the complex of human society a God - evoked and God directed line of spiritual truth, and good, and spiritual authority».

Rock music began as a musical expression of thoughts and feelings that society deemed subversive.

But as the Maidan protests intensified, it recognized that the political tide had decisively shifted and began to ask Ukrainians to listen to all sides of society and reject violence.

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.

Yet the change that began with David, confined as it was first to Jerusalem and then to other cities and royal residences, in course of time transformed Hebrew society, leaving only vestiges of the old institutions.

When society began to treat justice as a simple historical possibility, as many American Protestants did during the Social Gospel era, the prophetic task of the next generation of «Christian realists» was to insist that there are things that society can not do, goals that must remain «impossible possibilities.»

As Fred D. Wentzel put it: «The church must continue to be weak and self - defeating in its efforts to create the brotherly society until it begins to represent in its own attitude and practice an all - inclusive fellowship.

As Christians find themselves more and more on the margins in American society, people are beginning to count the cost.

By the early 1830s, through the persuasive evangelism of Walter Scott and through union with Barton Stone's Christian movement, what had begun as a voluntary society became a rapidly expanding association of churches.

The idea that there must be a perfect society, some form of the «good life» binding on all of us» the myth of an ideal world» only really begins to lose its hold on us in the thought of men such as Vico and Herder.

Instead of disintegrating the human person into a swarm of entities that are then reunited into the — dubious — unity of a bare «society,» the simpler and more realistic solution ought to lie in conceiving the person, steadfastly and from the beginning, as one entity, even though a complex one, as befits Whitehead's starting point.