Sentences with phrase «athenian civic life»

In the thinking of Parker and CEO Matt Mahan, people's personal lives are covered by Facebook and their professional lives by LinkedIn, but that still leaves their civic lives.

Big Idea: How technology can improve civic life by simplifying and streamlining the delivery of municipal and state government services through open data, better procurement procedures and open - source apps.

Consequently, even «best practices» that fully enforce Title VII «are insufficient to realize a labor market responsive to the needs of low - income workers for adequate wages, safe work conditions, and work hours and schedules that allow for fulfilling family and civic lives.»

Thus does he pervert that populism at the heart of American civic life at its best.

For our constitutional heritage is one of limited powers, which is predicated on and was designed to ensure a civic life distinct from political life.

And that bleaching has not produced a more tolerant people, but a far more intolerant civic life, of which the recent awfulness in Charlottesville, Virginia, may stand as a vile symbol.

Question: Are families that choose private schools and home education for their children more likely than families involved in public schools to be socially isolated and withdrawn from participation in civic life?

In 2017, we need to restore stability and trustworthiness to marriage, social institutions such as universities, and civic life more broadly.

As the years went on, Richard seemed to grow ever more knowledgeable, poised, intellectually many - sided, and well informed about the vast array of conflicts, arguments, clashing ambitions, and hidden purposes that mark our national civic life.

It is quite clear from the current economic debacle that the flourishing of our civic life depends on faith as well.

What issues in culture and civic life is God asking you to carry in prayer?

Smith and Sikkink's study suggests that there is little reason to worry that home schooling diverts people from civic life.

Any immigration reform should involve integrating this population fully into American civic life.

«It is a generous gesture which seems to recognise that Catholics are valued participants in the civic life of contemporary Scotland, where we seek to work with others in advancing the common good.»

Now it says «For medieval Christians, the Eucharist (the sacrament of Communion) was not only at the heart of the Mass — but its presence and symbolism also wielded enormous influence over cultural and civic life.»

In the larger social community, in the affairs of business, and in civic life the notion of the infinite value of personality is a noble abstraction more than a living reality.

The research university would contribute to civic life by unleashing scholarly creativity in a way that drove scientific and technological advancement.

By focusing on the well - being of students after graduation in relation to their undergraduate program, the report returned to a basic premise of a liberal - arts education: moral formation for civic life.

Studies show that the Americans most obsessed with the lives of celebrities are particularly unlikely to participate in civic life, but that may be because they're the Americans who are particularly unlikely to have easy access to significant forms of political participation.

The adoption of comprehensive population policy marks an eventful change in the conception of the role of government in civic life.

It is not irrational or irrelevant to consider the elimination of public acknowledgment of religion a likely contribution to the loss of moral seriousness in our civic life.

Intensely aware of, but disturbed by, the pattern of self - segregation among young Korean American evangelicals, Ecklund is less interested in understanding the roots of their religious behavior than in analyzing its consequences for American civic life.

How much better to be a member of a church that, following a different «model of civic life,» has to confront its internal diversity.

To ferret out what the ethnic church means for civic life, Ecklund knew that she needed a point of comparison.

It also spoke powerfully to the transformation of Roman civic life, for Christians decided that they were unwilling to pay the cultural price of admission into the global economy at the time.

At some level, integralism surely raises questions about the ability of Jews and nonbelievers to participate fully in civic life.

Nor do we want to live in the political equivalent of the New York Stock Exchange where every dimension of civic life has a selling price.

Her model for applying the animating ethos of mothering to civic life is Addams (1860 - 1935), founder of Hull House, a settlement house in Chicago.

Ideology grown in denominational hothouses is really unhelpful, both to Christians and American civic life, and especially» from a Lutheran view» to a theology of the priesthood of all believers, believers called to exercise part of their priesthood in the voting booth.

The situation in Europe, including Britain, is more nuanced than that in North America, largely because Europe's Muslim populations have a longer and more established social and political history in nations where Muslims (of the theological left, right and center) are represented by sophisticated networks of» mosques and political NGOs that defend the rights of Muslims and shape their participation in civic life, including the introduction of Islamic law for civil cases.

Christian observances were part of our street life and part of the civic life of our communities.

One of UCLA's own faculty members has written a historical study of civic life in early modern Philadelphia that is directly germane to my own analysis of his and others» academic lives at UCLA.

Ethnically cohesive bodies such as the various Lutheran churches were not fully engaged in the civic life of the society.

On the other hand, he realized that competition among religious groups of strong conviction could have disastrous consequences for civic life.

Shouldn't our civic life be a sign of distinction, a proclamation of the transformative power of Christ?

It serves as our most intimate and reliable experience of «home,» and thus provides us with the metaphysical ballast needed to endure the greater fluidity, heterogeneity, and change in modern civic life governed by the social norms we rightly seek to protect and preserve.

In its political structures one finds the embodiment of the common good, and in its polity of equality and redistributive justice one finds the ideal of civic life.

But they do bring into play an important element, heretofore lacking in the civic life of Latin America.

their own type of work and inclination for recreation, their own degree and kind of social and civic life.

Therefore the adherents of all religions and no religion have the same status and rights of citizenship including freedom of religion / belief and freedom from discrimination in civic life on the basis of religion / belief.

We are social animals, and our civic lives remain integral to who we are, no matter how far we advance in the Christian life.

Lasch supports his periodization by reminding us that the period from 1890 to 1920 was a time of intense participation by middle - class women in civic life.

I came away from it with an appreciation both for the deep beauty of Puritan English and for the Puritans themselves, people who found morality and civic life serious enough matters that they dedicated great care to them.

In his reading of Weber, Lawrence locates the cause of a confusion that plagues both university and civic life: «The realm of nature investigated by science and exploited by technology becomes the value - free domain of fact.»

«By virtually every measure, today's Americans are more disconnected from one another and from the institutions of civic life than at any time since statistics have been kept.

Pew works to protect our shared environment, encourage responsive government, support scientific research, and improve civic life.

We are particularly committed to improving the civic life of Philadelphia, our founders» home town, and to producing timely research on major issues and trends in Philadelphia for the benefit of decision - makers, the news media, and the public.

Then, as the year drew to an end, the horrific attacks on Paris, and in particular the Bataclan, brought a new wave of horror and revulsion to French civic life.

Marchione in her statement gave no indication of anything amiss, and also said she plans to remain active in civic life, though she didn't mention any specific plans.

According to political scientist Larry Diamond, democracy consists of four key elements: (a) A political system for choosing and replacing the government through free and fair elections; (b) The active participation of the people, as citizens, in politics and civic life; (c) Protection of the human rights of all citizens, and (d) A rule of law, in which the laws and procedures apply equally to all citizens