Sentences with phrase «if society values»

If society values the absolute number of people who are happy, it also has a significant effect on the world's optimal peak temperature.

Not exact matches

From a value perspective, if the young adults with leukemia who respond to therapy end up with more years of life — an outcome that is quite likely — then Kymriah will be cost - effective for society as well.

If the majority of people fall further and further behind — while others in society become unbelievably rich — the notion that the most important value in a country is its citizens having the ability to select their leaders will lose sway.

Our society will reflect our collective values only if we engage in the civic process and participate in self - governance.

So, I guess all that matters is if the thing in question has value in our society.

But we can not be either environmentally sustainable or create shared value for shareholders and society if we fail to comply with our Business Principles.

Religions incorporated and codified these basic social values and skills, and quickly learned to take credit for them — as if, without the religion, we would be doomed to not have them — although we see them in every human society, including hunter - gather tribes with no sense of gods as we understand them After many centuries of religious domination, enforced through pain of death, ostracization or other social sanctions, allowing religion to take credit, as well as failing to question other religious claims — has become a cultural habit.

If marriage is a cornerstone of our society, aren't gay couples that want to be married affirming the value on monogamous commitment as the building block of healthy and sustainable families and communities?

First, its premisses concerning society and modern man are pseudoscientific: for example, the affirmation that man has become adult, that he no longer needs a Father, that the Father - God was invented when the human race was in its infancy, etc.; the affirmation that man has become rational and thinks scientifically, and that therefore he must get rid of the religious and mythological notions that were appropriate when his thought processes were primitive; the affirmation that the modern world has been secularized, laicized, and can no longer countenance religious people, but if they still want to preach the kerygma they must do it in laicized terms; the affirmation that the Bible is of value only as a cultural document, not as the channel of Revelation, etc. (I say «affirmation» because these are indeed simply affirmations, unrelated either to fact or to any scientific knowledge about modern man or present - day society.)

8) The sentence of death may be improper if it has serious negative effects on society, such as miscarriages of justice, the increase of vindictiveness, or disrespect for the value of innocent human life.

Some how it's felt that values, morals, virtues are not there in a secular world only faceless solid lifeless laws of men rather than what has been relayed by Holy books that calls for good deeds and reject bad deeds and to build a faithful societies, communities, nations since communications among nations or even among the nations of mixed cultures and beliefs... Laws or God and universe are to be prepared by some thing that is equivalent to UN but built on nations beliefs to achieve the code of understanding among nations but as can see now it is build on groundless bases if not of words of God to faiths... in addition to those non spiritual secular beliefs to make decisions of faith but at the moment the secular world make and take the decisions while the beliefs and faiths has to pay for it when it becomes a war between all faiths or religions outside your world, it would become back into your inside among the mixed culture and beliefs of the nation or nations under one country flag...!

What every society must have if it is to survive is commonality — common interests, language, tradition, institutions, values, ends.

And if our discussion is to have any value it must deal with issues that preoccupy us at this particular time in the universe «s and society's history.

If the market and its values extend into larger sections of society, as they now do in the United States, the market itself suffers.

Preston comments, «It is important to separate (the premises) from the concept of the market as a useful mechanism for solving some economic problems if it was set within a different value commitment and an extensive structural framework» (Church and Society in the late 20th Century.

This is the natural consequence of the logic of exchange as the foundation of worth and value: if worth is based upon what one has or knows or achieves, those who have little by society's standards become worthless and expendable, objects of scorn, neglect and abuse.

These characteristics of the mainstream of general television are significant, because for many years general television has been functioning as a powerful, if not the most powerful, cultivator of our society «s over-all values, attitudes, and behavior.

A society — and this is also true of our international society — needs values, but in a multi-faith society and world, if they are imposed by one faith community, even if it is the majority faith community, this will be resented and these values are likely to prove divisive.

William Glasser captured the sum and substance of the quest for our own day as early as 1969 when he stated that «certain moral values can be taught in school if the teaching is restricted to principles about which there is essentially no disagreement in our society» (emphasis added).

While it may very well be true that Heidegger sounds as if he is arguing for a pre-modern, pre-mechanized society, perhaps leaning toward a Luddite perspective, and while it also may appear that McLuhan is arguing for the continued evolution of technology that will enhance society, perhaps smacking of a full - blown techophilism, both theorists come together on the primary assertion that they make - technology has a profound and invisible shaping force on our epistemic values, perceptions of reality and truth, and cultural values and norms.

But for Whitehead, nature's «problem» can be solved only if two mutually - dependent kinds of emergences are occurring: (a) more complex societies of occasions must emerge if there is to be (b) the emergence of higher - grade individual occasions which then are the final loci of actuality and value.

If I interpret the prospectus of the CMC correctly, the objective of the CMC namely to «impart to men and women an education of the highest order in the art and science of medicine and to equip them in the spirit of Christ for service In the relief of suffering and promotion of health», that is, the idea of a combination of training in professional skills, moulding the technically trained in a culture of human values and motivation, equipping them to utilize technology to serve «with compassion and concern for the whole person», the people especially the weaker sections of society, and giving spiritual reinforcement of that culture by the «spirit of Christ» and the motto «Not to be Ministered unto but to Minister» derived from him, goes back in tradition to the founder herself (Prospectus MBBS Course p. 5).

I am a passionate Darwinian in explaining why we exist,... but if we lived our lives in a Darwinian way, that would be a very unpleasant society in which to live... One of the reasons for learning about Darwinian evolution is as an object lesson in how not to set up our values and our social lives».

This function, which is of important value to society, is made more difficult if counselees must always fear that what they admit to the counselor may be extracted from him by threat of imprisonment, or if the counselor takes the attitude, openly or impliedly, «Don't tell me anything that might get either of us in trouble.»

In a society that flaunts sex (its pleasures more than its serious hazards, problems and spiritual values) in all the media, makes it difficult for the young to avoid unwanted pregnancy, and does little to help them with the most difficult of all problems of self - discipline, we tell young persons that they are murderers if they resort to abortion.

This was paralleled by the concept that, if Buddhism were indeed of value to society, it should not only be regulated by the state but also supported by it as a sort of spiritual branch of the administration.

If you find my small Blog Society of value to you and wish to join in, I would truly feel honored.

• 8 out of 10 people (80 %) think fathers should feel as able as mothers to ask for flexible working • 8 out of 10 women (80 %) and more than 6 out of 10 men (62 %) agree that fathers are as good as mothers at caring for children • 7 out of 10 (70 %) agree, 42 % strongly, that society values a child's relationship with its mother more than it values a child's relationship with its father • Almost 6 out of 10 (59 %) agree with the statement that society assumes mothers are good for children, fathers have to prove it • 7 out of 10 (70 %) agree, 50 % strongly, that there should be a zero tolerance approach if fathers do not take on their parenting responsibilities • Almost 7 out of 10 (67 %) agree that dads should be encouraged to spend time in school reading with their child • 7 out of 10 (70 %) agree, 50 % strongly, that dads should be able to stay overnight with their partner in hospital when their baby is born.

If we, as a society, truly value mothers the way we claim we do, we should be doing whatever we can to support them, instead of judging them and shaming them and calling into question every choice they make.

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So it isn't an exact model: if domestic servants value productivity differs from (say) video game programmers, the price of the commodities they contribute to won't express the actual number of human hours of labour, but only the number of hours of human labour that our society (through market, production, class war) deems socially average.

If these values are neither present nor visible to society, the rule of law loses its legitimacy.

Even if I thought that same - sex marriage is «necessary to a democratic society» (and I'm not sure even I can stretch quite that far), I would have little hope that I could convince a court that that necessity trumped the equally important value of preserving freedom of religion.

And this is our message to the people of the UK: if you value parliamentary sovereignty, our legal system, public services or democratically made rules to protect society and the environment, tell your MEP and MP that they must stop this toxic trade deal before it's too late.

The Chairman, Plateau State Traditional Council and Gbong Gwom Jos, Da Jacob Buba, has requested President Muhammadu Buhari to consider the recommendations made at the National Conference organized by his predecessor, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, stressing that there are aspects of the report that would improve the lot of the citizens and add value to the society if implemented.

In a society that places higher value on oral traditions than on the written word, she won't write a story down if she doesn't have full permission.

As you can imagine, there's a lot of demand for this kind of person, given that our whole society seems centered around financial worth — we're all reliant on the stock market for our retirement, cures to diseases only happen if they increase shareholder value, and the latest murder has been replaced by the latest merger on the front page of every major newspaper on the planet.

We will see big changes if we can move towards a society that values health, where everything, from healthcare systems to architecture, education and transport infrastructure are focused on maintaining and promoting good health.»

If the services provided by nature for human well - being can be substituted for well with human - produced goods and services, then the economic value of nature for a society is higher, the more equally incomes are distributed within it.

Writing in the current special «peace psychology» issue of American Psychologist, lead author Bernhard Leidner, Linda Tropp and Brian Lickel of UMass Amherst's Psychology of Peace and Violence program say that if social psychology research focuses only on how to soften the negative consequences of war and violence, «it would fall far short of its potential and value for society.»

If the value of postdoctoral labor to society is high, there will be increased demand, which will result in improved pay.

If we ignore this basic value, we would revoke a fundamental consensus in society.

If society chooses not to value population size itself, then this would be another reason to implement these programs, in addition to the more well - known benefits like poverty alleviation, education for young girls and boys, and improved maternal and child health.

How can society claim to value the deaf, or those with other disabilities, if it requires that their children not resemble them in these respects?

If western societies had these values, women would also behave differently.

Bill, meanwhile, who, in an early scene, is saved by Sookie from «drainers» — rogue humans who steal vampires» blood for its notorious sensory - and libido - enhancing properties (and, naturally, its black - market value)-- is eager to settle down in sleepy Bon Temps, and may get the welcome mat if Sookie's kind grandmother (Lois Smith) can get her Civil War society to accept a real (if not technically «alive») veteran of that conflict speaking at one of their functions.

If, as Warren Buffett said, «Price is what you pay, value is what you get,» then exam schools are a good value, indeed a real bargain, not just for thousands of young Americans and their families, but also for the wider society.

«If we take seriously the notion that school buildings present students with powerful messages about what society values, then school architecture needs to be radically rethought,» she says.

«We must recognize that different colleges provide different experiences for students, and, if we as a society value equal opportunity as we say we do, it's critical that Colorado's low - income students have the same access to elite colleges as their wealthier peers,» said Van Schoales, CEO of A + Denver.

If you're looking for a town and a school system dedicated to teaching elementary school students the values that contribute to a positive, humane society, look to Franklin, Massachusetts.