Sentences with phrase «in modern groups»

In modern groups, the willingness to sacrifice for the group would be expressed only under extreme conditions, the researchers surmised.

«In particular, we found a group called Laurasiatheria quickly increased their body size and ecological diversity, setting them on a path that would result in a modern group containing mammals as diverse as bats, cats, rhinos, whales, cows, pangolins, shrews and hedgehogs.»

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Not exact matches

Examining modern campaign politics, the open - source movement and some of the few recent bright spots in the traditional music business, Benkler isolates a handful of «design levers» — «elements of successful cooperative human systems that we can employ to motivate [people]... to contribute to the collective effort rather than exclusively pursue their own interests (at the expense of those of the group).»

While Bitcoin is often criticized because it's not backed by a physical commodity, that's not an issue for Michael Lee, an economist in the New York Fed's Research and Statistics Group, who says that neither is the dollar and most modern currencies.

The modern call centre was arguably born in the 1970s, when automatic - call - distributor devices enabled companies to route incoming calls to a specific group of agents.

This week, UnitedHealth Group, the country's biggest health insurer, said it would review and, if necessary, adjust «facility claims for the most severe and costly ED visits for patients enrolled in the company's commercial and Medicare Advantage plans,» the trade publication Modern Healthcare reported today.

A gunman pledging allegiance to the Islamic State militant group killed 49 people in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.

The group already produces electric motors, which turn the wheels, as well as battery cells in - house, and is investing heavily in software development, an increasingly important part of modern cars.

The modern Super Bowl halftime show as we know it started in 1991 with New Kids on the Block (previous shows featured a theme with marching bands and various performance groups), and it's stayed relatively consistent since: A pop star (or stars) takes over the field with props, backup dancers, probably pyrotechnics, and possibly even a live band, and goes through a rundown of their hits in a handful of minutes.

Burwood Group was recognized as one of Modern Healthcare's 2017 Best Places to Work in Healthcare for empowering employees to provide patients and customers with the best possible care, products and services.

Modern Woodmen of America continued in the second - ranked position and Global Atlantic Financial Group, Great American Insurance Group, and EquiTrust rounded - out the top five carriers in the market, respectively.

Netflix appears to finally be justifying its frequent comparison to tech monopolies like Facebook, Amazon and Google, which are often collectively grouped together as «FANG,» the same way modern monopolies like Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent are known as «BAT» in China.

Thankfully, in modern America, the K.K.K. and Nazis are small fringe groups that have never been welcome in the G.O.P.»

It is somewhat ironic that one of the strongest roots of the modern conservative movement in Canada stems from a small group of tenured professors teaching at a publicly funded post-secondary institution.

«Through the intense focus our 285,000 colleagues bring to helping people live healthier lives and helping make the health system work better for everyone, we have grown to serve more people in more ways than ever, including through innovative uses of advanced technologies, data analytics, and modern clinical approaches that improve quality, lower cost and advance consumer and care provider satisfaction,» David S. Wichmann, CEO of UnitedHealth Group, said in a conference call.

They would do much better to take this lesson and look into how they as a majority group have persecuted others than to create yet more imaginary stories of modern day persecution in the Christian dominated United States.

However, in modern America, racial discrimination is immoral and unethical which is why we have hate crime laws in place and groups like the NAACP, SPLC, HRC and the ADL to combat that sort of hate.

«Larry Martin, a paleontologist from the University of Kansas, said clearly in 1985 that the archaeopteryx is not an ancestor of any modern birds; instead, it's a member of a totally extinct group of birds.»»

Truthfollower: «Larry Martin, a paleontologist from the University of Kansas, said clearly in 1985 that the archaeopteryx is not an ancestor of any modern birds; instead, it's a member of a totally extinct group of birds.»»

The person has not fared especially well at the hands of modern attempts to write about history, which have generally sought to locate historical explanations in the workings of large structures, impersonal forces, and social groups rather than the vagaries and razor - edged contingencies of individual character and agency.

Despite the efforts of the Modern Church People's Union and «Sea of Faith» conferences and other theologically radical groups, many questioning followers of Jesus have drifted away from church life, or at least from participation in the church's decision - making forums, thus allowing undue influence to more traditional positions.

Peter L. Berger, The Sacred Canopy; Peter L. Berger, A Rumor of Angels: Modern Society and the Rediscovering of the Supernatural (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Co., 1969); Mircea Eliade, Myths, Dreams and Mysteries: The Encounter Between Contemporary Faiths and Archaic Reality (London: Harvill Press, 1960), 19; Clifford Geertz, The Interpretation of Cultures, 107; Wade Clark Roof, Community and Commitment, 156; Philip E. Slater, Microcosm: Structural, Pschological and Religious Evolution in Groups (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1966).

Until the modern period, Jewish peoplehood — the notion that the Jews are a distinct group based on both historical and biological criteria — was almost always embedded in the larger tapestry of Jewish ritual, ideas, texts, and history.

Modern organizations see many groups interconnect around tasks instead of in the old departmental arrangements.

The culture of Islamic countries has grown through the interaction of groups of Islamic peoples of widely varied ethnic and geographic backgrounds and through strong cultural influences from the non-Islamic civilizations of Greece, Persia, and India in the early days, and of western Europe in modern times.

A group of the Wahhabis who went to great lengths in enforcing these doctrines and in standing adamant against any innovation, even including useful contributions of modern civilization, were suppressed by King Abul Aziz Ibn Sa`ud who believed in a wise, moderate policy of modernization.

One group travelled through Europe and became the Neanderthals, while another group became Denisovans in Asia, and those that remained in Africa became Cro - Magnons (modern humans).

In the late summer, the group threatened violence should the school open, and, assuming that the generally quiet modern - Orthodox community would continue its pattern of political passivity, the mayor decided that the school should relocate.

While the United States bishops focused on nuclear war, a more general judgment about modern war as inherently unjust had been present in Catholic thought since at least 1870, the year when a group of bishops, in a Postulata addressed to Pope Pius XI and the First Vatican Council, excoriated the expense of «huge standing and conscript armies» and the prospect of «illegal and unjust wars, or rather hideous massacres spreading far and wide.»

The good news is that some of the modern «Pharisees» in the group will eventually slink away from the back of the group, circle around, and walk away as well.

@Bill I think that much of the «skewed hyper seexualization of the modern culture» is a backlash against the skewed, hyper demonization of s.ex by religious groups for hundreds of years, most especially by puritan groups in America.

* * * * * Modern Christians are not the only ones who met together in large groups to worship -LSB-...]

In his social group, rather than seek assistance from a group fueled by modern medicine, it is moral to adhere to their version of Christianity.

Some of our best knowledge of stages in the reconciling process has come through the modern study of small, face - to - face groups.

The Bible, however, still presents some problems to the modern reader as he faces the actual text, and so this book tries to meet those problems for the person — alone or in a group — who is willing to sit before the material and allow it to speak to him.

We are today called upon to be in solidarity with many other groups who are made helpless in modern society The needs of the handicapped should receive serious attention.

Whether we like it or not it would be blind not to admit that for most people in the modern world religion is first of all an identity, a label, a badge of allegiance of a group.

These tend to fall into two groups: those who follow Ratzinger's reading of the issue and those who continue to share the dream of the generation of 1968 of making the Catholic faith popular in the world, but who understand that to be popular today means being «post-modern» rather than «modern».

The co-operative effort in modern missions is significant precisely because it does bring together in common action groups which hold different doctrinal positions.

Groing up in the modern world where I have been exposed to many different religions and cultures it is evident that no one group has all the answers, all the truths.

Niebuhr said that modern culture too easily assumes that the level of sanctification in the life of the individual can be regarded as a simple possibility for social groups.

Besides, Sephardic Jews are a group who spent a long period of time in the Iberian peninsula (until getting kicked out 1500 - ish), so it's hard to say that modern Sephardic Jews can be used as a baseline when trying to determine the «whiteness» of a Jew who lived 2000 years ago in a totally different place.

«With man, thanks to the extraordinary agglutinative property of thought, she has at last been able to achieve, throughout an entire living group, a total synthesis of which the process is still clearly apparent, if we trouble to look, in the «scaled» structure of the modern human world.

A discussion of the positive solutions that are offered must concern itself first of all with that movement which claims to take the modern situation most seriously, i.e., with the group which, under the banner of Humanism, was in the limelight a short time ago.

These habits are all the more necessary in modern societies where a high degree of interdependence among strangers co-exists with an economic system that emphasizes individual profit maximization and a political system vulnerable to interest - group activity.

Walking out of the darkened theater, I left with the belief that whatever else may muddy the waters of modern worship, this group of Aussies really are fulfilling a divine appointment as hope dealers in a dark and grim world.

But take a look at the carnage in the Thirty Years War, a war between two groups of Christians who were horrified that anyone dared to believe other than the way they did, and tell me with a straight face that the religious zealots who waged that war wouldn't have used ANY technological advantage they might have gotten their hands on and didn't kill with modern bombs not because of self restraint but because of lack of availability.

The totalization in progress in the modern world is in fact nothing but the natural climax and paroxysm of a process of grouping which is fundamental to the elaboration of organized matter.

Individuals and groups can do this, even in the name of their Christian faith, without identifying their activity with the church as such, and without insisting that the church endorse this activity with some modern variant of the formula «Thus saith the Lord.»