Sentences with phrase «human aspirations for»

The drama of the future of the Amazon basin is indeed playing out here in western Amazônia, in the tri-national region called by the acronym MAP — Madre de Dios in Peru, Acre in Brazil and Pando in Bolivia — where the biodiversity of nature's garden is connecting with human aspirations for economic development and a better life.

Communist dogma goes on to state that economic forces — not human aspirations for freedom, nor other political ideals — are the real shapers of history.

Not exact matches

«The system,» Freeland said, «had at its heart the core notions of territorial integrity, human rights, democracy, respect for the rule of law, and an aspiration to free and friendly trade.»

As for me, I am a master's student in Human Development and Psychology at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, currently reflecting on my professional aspirations.

Ultimately, a healthy society creates expanding demand for business, as more human needs are met and aspirations grow.

In human society this aspiration is expressed by a desire to find significances and uses for things which otherwise have none, assigning meaning to things by virtue of their affinity to other things or personalities available in the natural world.

Nor can it survive under a hostile polity contemptuous of truth, justice, law, and beauty: It will fall into lassitude and nihilism unless it maintains its longing for the transcendent, its upward thrust into the future, and the highest aspirations of the human heart.

But what is really needed here is a shift of perspective that recognizes antagonists (on both sides) as human beings with aspirations for their children and their children's children.

The metaphor of God's substitution is the only one of the familiar theories of atonement that provides for the full failed weight of human aspiration.

If this being is omnipotent, then every occurrence, including every human action, every human thought, and every human feeling and aspiration is also His work; how is it possible to think of holding men responsible for their deeds and thoughts before such an almighty Being?

For after all, in any faith which is genuinely theocentric or focused upon God, it is essential to make sure that it is God, not human desires or wishes or aspirations as they now stand, who is to be «given the glory»; and it is in God, and in God alone, that we may speak meaningfully of the significance of our own existence.

In his recent book, Life, Liberty, and the Defense of Dignity, he offers «four benefits» of mortality: interest and engagement, suggesting that adding, say, twenty years to the human life span would not proportionately increase the pleasures of life; seriousness and aspiration, proposing that the knowledge that our life is limited is what leads us to take life seriously and passionately; beauty and love, presenting the idea that it is precisely their perishability that makes, for instance, flowers beautiful to us, just as the coming and going of spring makes that season all the more meaningful; and, finally, virtue and moral excellence, by which he means the virtuous and noble deeds that mortality makes possible, including the sacrifice of our own life for a worthy cause.

Like Christianity, secular humanism has many noble aspirations for human society, such as peace, justice and equality.

In other words, the Greek temple helped the human observer to organize his world in terms of objective forms, rather than in terms of subconscious forces or aspiration for some superhuman state.

Or this, from a Cambridge lecture by Arthur Quiller - Couch: «Is it possible, gentlemen, that you can have read one, two, thee, or more of the acknowledged masterpieces of English literature without having it borne in on you that they are great because they are alive, and traffic not with cold celestial certainties, but with men's hopes, aspirations, doubts, loves, hates, breakings of the heart; the glory and the vanity of human endeavor, the transcience of beauty, the capricious uncertain lease on which you and I hold life, the dark coast to which we inevitably steer; all that amuses, or vexes, all that gladdens, saddens, maddens us men and women on this brief and mutable traject which yet must be home for a while, the anchorage of our hearts?»

With early Romanticism gradually fading away into the petit - bourgeois aesthetic cocoon known as Biedermeier (c. 1815 — 1848), German culture increasingly acquiesces to Romanticism's most worrisome features: its strident nationalist undertow; its messianic aspirations, which mutated into delusions of racial superiority; its Rousseauian attempt at recovering authentic, immediate Life (Leben); the variously violent and sexualized mythology in which its major representatives (Friedrich Schlegel, Heinrich von Kleist, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Novalis) ground their longing for human - engineered salvation.

That his concern is legitimate few will deny, and wholly apart from the theoretical issue noted above, this concern constitutes a strong practical argument for a liberal polity (which does no more than promote «some kind of equilibrium, necessarily unstable, between the different aspirations of different groups of human beings»).

Instead, if taken seriously as the basis for human life and thought, materialism would strangle any ethical aspiration.

What this Devil needs to encourage is the human tendency to identify as liberating the reduction of any aspiration, however seemingly noble or virtuous, to bodily wastes, as if he were an ardent press agent for the scatological mysticism of the French writer Georges Bataille.

As an infused grace, this hope perfects and elevates human aspirations and actions for divine union.

The other is social progress — the realization of civilization's maximum potential as a favorable environment for human aspirations.

For the whole tale of man's struggles, discoveries, achievements, insights and aspirations ends automatically when this little planet becomes either too hot or too cold to support human life.

It also welcomed the unveiling of the new Commission for Equality and Human Rights as an opportunity to ensure that the workplace and public services reflect the changing needs and aspirations of men as well as adding pressure to end pay and job discrimination against women.

The report finds makes a list of recommendations for business, industry, professional bodies and government, namely: Construction businesses · Focus on better human resource management · Introduce and / or expand mentoring schemes · Boost investment in training · Develop talent from the trades as potential managers and professionals · Engage with the community and local education establishments Industry · Rally around social mobility as a collective theme · Promote better human resource management and support the effort of businesses · Promote and develop the UK as an international hub of construction excellence · Support diversity and schemes that widen access to management and the professions · Emphasise and spread understanding of the built environment's impact on social mobility Professional bodies and institutions · Drive the aspirations of Professions for Good for promoting social mobility and diversity · Support wider access to the professions and support those from less - privileged backgrounds · Promote and develop the UK as an international hub of construction excellence · Emphasise and spread understanding of the built environment's impact on social mobility · Provide greater routes for degree - level learning among those working within construction Government · Produce with urgency a plan to boost the UK as an international hub of construction excellence, as a core part of the Industrial Strategy · Provide greater funding to support the travel costs of apprentices · Support wider access to the professions and support those from less - privileged backgrounds · Place greater weight in project appraisal on the impact the built environment has on social mobility The report is being formally launched at an event in the House of Commons later today.

Also, Aspiration 3 states it in a different way, «Africa shall have a universal culture of good governance, democratic values, gender equality, respect for human rights, justice and the rule of law».

International legal obligations and EU member states» proclaimed high aspirations for human rights aside, there are also good reasons to see international migration as an economically positive phenomenon.

Britain is sending a message to the whole Arab world: arms trade profits are more important than the Middle East's aspirations for human rights and democracy

According to him, such actions do not resonate with the country's aspiration to build a nation based on trust, respect for human rights and tolerance.

I'm concerned about a society in which people refuse to take responsibility for themselves, about a society in which human aspirations are short - circuited because achieving them is too difficult and too painful.

Such familiarity would have been crucial in designing the forgery, which catered to geologists» desire for confirmation of ideas about human evolution based on a small number of fossil remains, and would have validated Dawson's well - known scientific aspirations.

In the establishment, he meets and eventually befriends a cocky young prostitute named Elina (Chloë Grace Moretz, smeared with an uncomfortable amount of make - up), who eventually lets down her guard to reveal a human sensitivity and aspirations for something more.

She proved to be a bit of a handful, so much so that her human companion Judy Fridono disappointingly gave up on the career aspirations she had for Ricochet.

Is breeding for the competitive advantage for the human owners in the show ring a desirable aspiration?

BASIM MAGDY: THE STARS WERE ALIGNED FOR A CENTURY OF NEW BEGINNINGS The work of the Egyptian - born artist Basim Magdy ranges from paintings on paper and canvas to photography and film, all with a common devotion to color and an exploration of the gap between utopian aspirations and human failures.

Certainly, the aspiration for erotic imagery presented in an art setting is that it would stimulate reflections on desire, sexism and human rights.

In the 1960s Czechoslovakia's aspiration to a «socialism with a human face» and its accompanying cultural politics allowed for several African, Asian, and Latin American students to explore the world through film in Prague.

His works across media — which evoke a pop sensibility in contrast to their grim titles, such as They Endorsed Collective Failure as the Dawn of a New Renaissance and The Bitterness of What Could Have Happened and What Ended Up Happening — speak to our collective ambition for a utopian future and the inherent failure of this human aspiration.

Clyfford Still's career focused on human aspiration, the personal search for identity, and the liberation of the spirit.

To a large extent, we have to buckle up and hang on for the ride, even as efforts are made to mesh human aspirations with both the limits of known resources and our capacity to innovate.

Here are some end - of - year thoughts on ways to fit human aspirations on a finite planet, expressed during a recent short interview taped while I was participating in this years Business for Social Responsibility (aka BSR) conference (more interviews and talks are here).

The piece focused on Will Wright, the mind behind Spore and The Sims, and solicited questions for Wright as well as others» views on the notion that virtual experiences can help fit infinite human aspirations on a finite planet.

British architect Austin Williams — http://www.futurecities.org.uk — promotes a human - centred approach to nature; challenges risk - aversion and the precautionary principle; believes that environmentalism is driving down social aspirations; criticises the use of politicised solutions to technical problems; encourages debate, argument, critical dialogue and freedom of expression, and fights for development instead of sustainable development.

Now, three years later, Break Through delivers on the authors» promise to articulate a new politics for a new century, one focused on aspirations, not complaints, human possibility, not limits.

But for Science to be evidence and not worldview based is an ideal, an aspiration, that human scientists inevitably fall short of.

In this limited view of the future, the role that is cast for science is as an external force, above politics, and above the petty aspirations, interests and needs of mere humans, which tells us how we ought to live.

Such income redistribution would decrease the economic welfare of the developed countries and would have an uncertain effect on the recipient countries since they would presumably be asked to give up part or all of their aspirations for further development since it is strongly dependent on increased use of fossil fuels to increase human productivity.

This book draws on themes invoked by such thought leaders as architect / designer William McDonough, journalist Thomas Friedman and venture capitalist John Doerr about inspiring human creativity and finding hope in human aspirations and nature's abundance — and points us to a strategic vision for the next decades.

Make sure Human Resources are fully aware of your aspirations and get to know the people who are in charge of hiring for those roles.

7/2011 to Present Benchmark Human Services, Nantucket, MA Behavior Analyst • Interview patients regarding their present, past and future aspirations in a bid to understand their motivations • Take notes to refer to during the assessment period • Measure specific influences such as environment and family life to determine cause of behavioral problems • Create psychological profiles for each patient to determine extent of behavior problems • Devise and implement programs to address behavior problems • Act as part of a coordinated care team to provide oral medication to patients • Monitor patients» progress and note down any significant changes for better or worse • Assist patients with chemical dependency issues to come to terms with their addiction through counseling services • Provide a one - on - one to patients with criminal backgrounds • Assist crime investigations by creating psychological profiles of criminals to determine motive and mode of operation

My passion for Human Resources and my ability to tie it to the need of the business is what made the difference and I continue in my aspirations to grow and learn more, within this field.