Sentences with phrase «because society in general»

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The reason I find that line of reasoning hard to believe is because people don't willingly choose to be ousted from their families, jobs, local congregations, shamed by society in general, hated and even killed for their lifestyle, live a life of denial, etc..

My black colleagues in NCBC and the Society for the Study of Black Religion (SSBR) helped me to realize more clearly that theology is not black merely because of its identification with a general concept of freedom.

The distinction arises because in some instances a group of occasions, such as, for example, a particular enduring entity, could have retained the dominant features of its defining characteristic in the general environment, apart from the structured society.

Particularly because Christianity in Asia has been closely associated with the Western powers, colonial and neo-colonial, and because Asian Christianity in general has tended to be associated with the powerful in Asian societies, this question is critically important.

In his opening address to the World Conference on Church and Society, Visser» t Hooft, General Secretary of the World Council of Churches, said, «We do not speak because we want to have a say in the affairs of the world, but because we can not live with God, with other fellowmen, with ourselves, if we keep silent»In his opening address to the World Conference on Church and Society, Visser» t Hooft, General Secretary of the World Council of Churches, said, «We do not speak because we want to have a say in the affairs of the world, but because we can not live with God, with other fellowmen, with ourselves, if we keep silent»in the affairs of the world, but because we can not live with God, with other fellowmen, with ourselves, if we keep silent».

At a time when delegates from all over the world are coming together in a variety of bodies for the purpose of attempting to sketch a first outline of future society, it seems to me essential to set forth the main constructive axes without which it is mere self - delusion to suppose that we can conceive or undertake any re-ordering or development of the Earth: general tendencies of advance and growth, that is to say, which in certain conditions — despite our freedom of choice, or better still, because of it — Mankind can not in any circumstances ignore, and must heed more and more as time goes on.

Beyond the question of change in religion in general, the issue of religion's changing public role in contemporary societies has been of particular interest, especially because of the political implications of these changes.

Because of the high and ever - increasing prevalance of food allergies in Canada (7 % among the general population, and > 10 % of one - year olds), the Canadian Paediatric Society (CPS) considers allergy prevention a key health goal.

Marriage is still considered to be a cohesive force in society, due to learned religious «values», so in general people encourage married couples within their social groups because that's what they've learned they're supposed to do.

Interestingly, the Americans lacked some of the strains of bacteria found in Malawians — and in gorillas and chimps — which fits with the general reduction in gut microbiome diversity that has been observed in people in industrialized societies, perhaps because of changes in diet and the use of antibiotics.

Because in general society — everybody wants to be number one.

«What the law society found — and was hoping to fix — is that this prohibited most lawyers from being able to take articling students because most lawyers don't work in large, general practice firms dealing with multiple areas.

I half agree with it, I can't let it go because I agree, I think that there are a lot of just changes in society in general and I don't know if we can necessarily attribute them to the millennials it could just be, I don't know, changes, right?

This is because a general power of regulation and discipline vests in the society (at least because this is assumed by Parliament in legislation).

And it is in our collective interest as a profession to do so because as the Governor General warned us in August, if we fail to meet our obligations under the social contract «Society will change the social contract, and redefine professionalism for us.

Because «business in society» issues pose so much risk (and in some cases opportunity), the general counsel is viewed in many companies as having the same stature as the chief financial officer.

«Amateurs» because the major problems, like self - represented litigants overwhelming court resources, and the unaffordable legal services problem in general, are beyond lawyers» expertise, and law societies do not retain that necessary expertise.

Or, because of the commercial producers of legal services» eating into the routine legal services market of the general practitioner (e.g., LegalZoom, LegalX, RocketLawyer), as a profession we will shrink in size, purpose, and importance, and our law societies proportionately diminished by all such measures.

As a result, they will use their employee lawyers in a much greater production of legal advice than can general practitioners, because law societies have long failed to provide the support services that would keep them competitive and the most populous kind of lawyers - the lawyers who determine the profession's reputation for the majority of society.

«One of the defining characteristics of the future — for our profession and for society in general — is that we are always willing to take a look at what we're doing and figure out how we can do it better, because everybody around us, everybody in the world, is trying to do the same thing,» Bentley says.