Sentences with phrase «as society moved»

As society moved further away from post war life it became a popular dog among households worldwide and prompted the formation of a variety of breed recognition clubs.

And, the Chinese conclude, there will be more cultural revolutions in the future as their society moves along a socialist direction.»

And as society moves away from conventional petroleum made plastics, plant based plastics and recycled content will form the bulk of plastic packaging.

Adoptive breastfeeding is becoming increasingly common as the society moves towards embracing this new idea.

May 1, 2017 - As society moves toward an increasingly connected world, keeping the nation's electrical grid reliable and safe from hackers and other potential security threats has perhaps never been more crucial.

As society moves more and more from a conservative one into a more liberal society, people are starting to...

In addition, while the oil and gas industry provides needed employment in low economic, rural and minority community areas and also finances significant percentages of state funds such as education, responsible resource extraction is vital as society moves toward greater conservation, energy efficiency and renewable energy.

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As a society, we're moving towards norms revolved around transparency and sustainability.

«If you can move people from city to city at 1,200 (745 miles per hour) to 1,300 kilometers per hour, you have a system that can reshape society,» he explained, suggesting that as distances shrink, economic productivity could increase as traffic disappears.

After a seasonal stint as Editor of popular society blog «Guest of a Guest» in East Hampton, NY, Britta moved back to Minnesota and started working full - time as a Business Analyst for Target Corporation, while quickly adopting Minneapolis's thriving fitness culture.

While the 20th century will be remembered as the era of failed social humanism, with the fall of communism and a move away from socialistic values, liberal humanism seems to be taking hold in our society.

«We have a long way to go as a government and as a society to show that we have moved beyond the legacy of racism and colonialism that long defined our relationship with B.C.'s First Nations peoples,» said New Democrat aboriginal relations critic Doug Donaldson.

They should be for mandating (and not at the Homeland Security Secretary's «discretion») border and (especially) internal enforcement, and then move to integrate those who would get amnesty into American society as quickly and as completely as possible.

We, as a society, need more discussions like this as we move to a post-religious world.

Fortunately, as a society, we eventually moved beyond that with slavery and it is now also fulfilled in the practical sense.

Frogist I think the author is implying that we as a society are moving steadily and slowly in the direction of pragmatism.

God started with a small party in a garden, moved on toward some pow - wows at alters in the desert, then moved into a moveable tabernacle (kind of like an Old Testament RV), then reigned in a temple (especially the God - cave of the Holy of Holies, then disappeared while giving the Jews the silent treatment for some 400 years, then came back to the temple, then traveled the highways and byways with anyone who wanted to join the fun and whooped it up with society's outcasts and wedding attenders, then moved on to some public forums, then into some clandestine home groups and a few jail cells, and eventually made his way into traditional church as we now know it.

Stress was on education and persuasion with the principles only as the ends toward which society was moving.

Those of us who believe same - sex marriage to be a moral impossibility now face a very daunting challenge — how to live in a society that is moving so rapidly against our moral worldview, even as the society shared that worldview for over 2,000 years.

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.

At any stage of development, man as a person in community and also the community of persons who are moving towards «civilization», may be deflected from following the main «aim», and hence may become either a backwater in the ongoing movement or be victims of maladjustment so serious that damage is done not only to the whole dynamic process but also to the smaller organisms or societies, including man himself as such an organic entity.

Bultmann incorporated what he regarded as the results of these previous inquiries, but his own scholarly interests took him in other directions, for he was not moved by the old fascination with historical research, the life of the church in society, or the life of Jesus.

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.

Sadly in the end religion one of the biggest crutches we need to grow out of so we can move forward as a society.

(3) A society preoccupied with conquest, or enhancing its own power and position, may be classified as possessing a «moving - space» orientation.

People move away from God because they want to decide what is right and wrong, as if they were God or the end all wise authority of what society should do.

It may be that the culture war is better thought of as an effort to move forward, to a yet - to - really - arrive fourth stage, one in which real effort to practice postmodern conservatism will be made by society, doing its best to partially revive lost things, informed by many decades of experiencing the awful consequences of full modernity.

Rather than viewing each society as a separate entity moving along a track from less modern to more modern, the critics of modernization theory argue that societies interact with one another as parts of a larger system.

As time goes on, society, including those religious, secular, atheists, nationalistic, patriotic, tyranny rulerships, etc., are all moving away from the peaceful messages and rules provided in the bible.

Our Western culture has moved so rapidly in the past half century, our ways of thinking have been so affected by the scientific, technological, and secular advances, that our situation seems divorced almost completely from society as presupposed in biblical and traditional theological thinking.

Neville i liked what you wrote some really good points and churchs today are still making a difference in society though society is becoming more secular.My thinking is as the world gets darker and as it moves away from christian principles the light of Christ in believers will grow proportionately brighter.We are here to make a difference we are in the the world but not of the world.In Christ we have been given life and light to share with those in darkness so that they might have there freedom.brentnz

Two other examples were Matteo Ricci (1552 - 1610), who adopted the opposite path to de Nobili by assimilating into upper - class Chinese society during the Ming dynasty, coming to China in 1580, eventually undergoing a profound cultural transformation as a Confucian scholar; and Charles de Foucauld, who served in the French army in the Algerian war where he witnessed moving scenes of Muslim personal piety, leading him to regain his own Christian faith, and becoming in everything a Tuareg Bedouin nomad.

As events have developed since the waning of both the older liberalism and of neo-orthodoxy, the state of society has moved in opposite directions.

When labeling unfortunate results as «social injustices» leads to an attack upon the free society, with the aim of moving it toward a command society, Hayek strenuously opposes the term.

When the Worcester Area Mission Society in Worcester, Massachusetts, cosponsored a program to help women move from welfare to work, the program included training for jobs as practical nurses and legal secretaries.

In the years after World War II, as development workers moved into the Third World, they complained about the impediments to growth deeply entrenched in traditional societies.

The sooner you deprogram yourself from the brainwashing, the sooner we can move forward as a society.

One of the reasons Madeleine L'Engle's [book]... had that strong Christian element to it wasn't just because she was Christian, but because she was frustrated with things that needed to be said to her in the world and she wasn't finding a way to say it and she wanted to stay true to her faith... In a good way, I think there are a lot of elements of what she wrote that we have progressed as a society and we can move onto the other elements.

It is the essence of God to move the world toward new possibilities, and his being is «complete» only as an infinite series of creative acts, each of which enriches, modifies, and shapes the whole society of being.

This process of development is seen in all parts of the world, as for example in India and in China, so very different one from the other yet moving toward compassion as the key to life (in India) or family affection and mutual concern in an ordered society as that key (as in China).

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.

In this representational sense the Church is that part of human society, and that element in each particular society, which moves toward God, which as the priest acting for all men worships Him, which believes and trusts in Him on behalf of all, which is first to obey Him when it becomes aware of a new aspect of His will.

But today, we reaffirm our faith in God, and ask him to guide us as we discern how to move forward to establish a just society, with laws that reflect human nature and promote the common good.

Bishop Azariah of Dornakal, in theologically justifying the rejection of the reserved minority communal electorate offered by Britain to the Christian community in India, spoke of how the acceptance of it would be «a direct blow to the nature of the church of Christ» at two points — one, it would force the church to function «like a religious sect, a community which seeks self - protection for the sake of its own loaves and fishes» which would prevent the fruitful exercise of the calling of the church to permeate the entire society across boundaries of caste, class, language and race, a calling which can be fulfilled only through its members living alongside fellow - Indians sharing in public life with a concern for Christian principles in it; and two, it would put the church's evangelistic programme in a bad light as «a direct move to transfer so many thousands of voters from the Hindu group to the Indian Christian group» (recorded by John Webster, Dalit Christians - A History).

In contemplating the revolution needed to move toward an ecologically sustainable society, global modelers speak of information as the key to the transformation.

His point is that we are moving from a civilized to a post-civilized society, and that since civilized society is so disagreeable for so many, no tears should be lost as a result.

In general yes but as you know, it takes very little to move societies to do what others would deem as evil.

The way a society evolves as it moves into the future is a complicated affair.

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

Life and law in a pluralistic society such as ours do not move in a rigidly logical progression.