Sentences with phrase «in older societies»

In older societies this mode of response characterized almost the entire community; therefore, such communities were relatively stable.

No matter HOW reasonable the terms «ritual» and «ceremonial» and «temple» SOUND to us as laymen, please be aware that there were many very practical people living in those old societies — carpenters, farmers, metal workers, bricklayers, architects, etc. — and the archaeological view that the societies were run predominantly by priest castes is only one point of view.

Not exact matches

The Society of Actuaries reported in 2000 that there is an 81 % chance that one or both members of a 65 - year - old couple will live to age 85, and a 58 % chance that one or both will make it to age 90.

By the postwar period, people in advanced societies had long since shed the old, laborious ways to embrace a sedentary duo of desk work and television watching, hopping into private automobiles to shuttle between the two.

In 2014, the Society of Actuaries released a new mortality table in which the average lifespan of a 65 - year - old man jumped from 82 to 85 and that of a 65 - year - old woman from 85 to 8In 2014, the Society of Actuaries released a new mortality table in which the average lifespan of a 65 - year - old man jumped from 82 to 85 and that of a 65 - year - old woman from 85 to 8in which the average lifespan of a 65 - year - old man jumped from 82 to 85 and that of a 65 - year - old woman from 85 to 87.

All the old abuses in society, universal and particular, all unjust accumulations of property and power, are avenged in the same manner.

The Canadian Paediatric Society also expressed concern that no limits will be put in place to limit the concentration of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) in cannabis products available to 18 - to 25 - year - olds.

The umbrella crisis in Hong Kong further reveals that the old governance model crafted in 1984 and 1989 is too rigid and too slow to adapt to a fast changing young modern society.

That $ 10,000 is going to be invested in the securities or funds you select, compounding for you until retirement or you reach the age of 70.5 years old and the government forces you to begin drawing down the money so as not to take advantage of the tax benefits for too long, enriching your heirs beyond what society considers worth subsidizing.

Indeed, such accusations carry little weight in a society that has not forgotten that opposition to the old regime could mean death or imprisonment or the cutting off of one's livelihood.

Communism westernized the Russian political imagination in a perverse way, to be sure, but its triumph put a complete end to older, more traditional ways of understanding society as a hierarchical system underwritten by a sacred authority.

Again, sadly, the church is trailing far beyond society in equality for women, though we have come a long way from the women as property upheld in the Old Testament and still prevalent in many other parts of the world today.

But older participants were much more positive, with three of every four older participants saying that marriage still had an important place in society.

They created or enabled the Permissive Society that shattered millennia - old values leading to the decline of marriage, a level of narcotics - abuse never seen before in a developed country, an epidemic of sexually - transmitted diseases and the industrial - scale production of bastard children.

Supporters have praised the government for supporting the elderly, who are some of the most vulnerable in society, while critics have said increasing the state pension is a ploy to secure votes from older people, the majority of whom vote Conservative.

Among the Poles who saw it as a good step toward returning a frazzled and overworked society to a more traditional lifestyle was 76 - year - old Barbara Olszewska, who did some last - minute shopping Saturday evening in Warsaw.

Williams, who was 63 - years - old, had won an Oscar for his role in Good Will Hunting and moved audiences in his dramatic roles in Good Morning, Vietnam and The Dead Poets» Society.

So, no, demonizing Bush is not going to work in this election, and» as demonstrated in the recent special election in New York's ninth congressional district» the seniors will no longer be swayed by dark warnings that the GOP will end medicare and social security» these older people realize that the programs of the New Deal and the Great Society have become unsustainable and that» somehow» a real and drastic change must happen, soon.

Attempts to «green» industrial societies are now more than two hundred years old, many at a certain scale successful, but the environmentalist politics in which we are immersed today have their origins in the 1960s.

Monogamy is indeed older than the Bible, and exists in non-Christian societies throughout the world.

It happens in every under developed society because of old traditional rules and customs and everyone knows that, no need to further argue on that.

We want to dispel the old suspicion that the Christians in the East provide a way for Western interests to gain a toehold in Eastern societies.

I believe that forcing young children to swallow the indoctrination of religion before they are old enough to decide for themselves is symptomatic of the greater problem in society today; be it Christian, Muslim, Hindu, or any other recognized religion.

Inherited wealth doesn't yet play a big part in our society but given time - and the repeal of the estate tax - we will grow ourselves a hereditary elite just as set apart from the concerns of ordinary Americans as old Horace Havemeyer.

So far as I know there is no issue in our society today on which the old - line churches are giving effective leadership of the sort I have been outlining above.

Zechariah is told he is to be a father — a message that is unexpected but certainly not undesirable, for Zechariah and his wife Elizabeth are old and childless in a society that puts a high value on having children.

It seems that you can not otherwise control yourself nor think of any reasons to behave well in society without your old - time Middle Eastern Hebrew fantasy threats and promises.

They said (this is the New York Times» summary) «in some cases they [the Roma] were simply following age - old Roma traditions and generally operate outside the norms of society in «the style of the Middle Ages.

God started with a small party in a garden, moved on toward some pow - wows at alters in the desert, then moved into a moveable tabernacle (kind of like an Old Testament RV), then reigned in a temple (especially the God - cave of the Holy of Holies, then disappeared while giving the Jews the silent treatment for some 400 years, then came back to the temple, then traveled the highways and byways with anyone who wanted to join the fun and whooped it up with society's outcasts and wedding attenders, then moved on to some public forums, then into some clandestine home groups and a few jail cells, and eventually made his way into traditional church as we now know it.

The findings are supported by Bible Society's earlier «Pass it On» report, in which 43 % of eight to fifteen year olds indicated they had never read, seen or heard the story of the Crucifixion of Jesus.

The bitterness directed in our society against humanists, Muslims, homosexuals, communists and so forth is in the Old Testament addressed to the God from whom no secret can be kept.

Old explanations said women were less educated, or cited their nurturing tasks at home and secondary roles in society.

These essays make a large distinction between the place of the old in society and their place in the church.

That is a well bad way to view society and really makes you no different that old Bin Laden tapes calling those who do not follow Islam in the same manner and fashion as him..

I think anytime anyone challenges, confronts, or steps aside from old convictions or societies assumtions it can be extremely freeing yet terrifying but it leads to growth in areas you did not know existed.

Cuddihy showed how in civil society people had to let their old faith and behavior get ground up and refined.

The role of work is an old theological problem dressed up in new clothes in an industrial / technological society.

Bultmann incorporated what he regarded as the results of these previous inquiries, but his own scholarly interests took him in other directions, for he was not moved by the old fascination with historical research, the life of the church in society, or the life of Jesus.

Of course, some people will cling to this old paradigm for as long as possible, just like we have people who belong to the Flat Earth Society, who believe the creation story in Genesis is to be taken literally, and who believe the lunar landing is a hoax.

Moreover, it is arguable that the Whiteheadian analysis of the self is morally unacceptable; for insofar as each momentary self is held responsible for the actions of its predecessors in the personally ordered society of which it is a member, the Whiteheadian analysis involves the Old Testament practice of visiting the sins of the fathers on the sons.

This is a society in which money and power are more important than people, health is a negotiable commodity, old - age a curse, worker slavery a new form of more profitable production, the poor are disposable, and the earth's destruction an increasing reality.

Indeed, this age - old dilemma is at the heart of much contemporary political debate between democratic socialists and democratic capitalists in modern Western societies.

As a 17 year - old high school student, I simply wish this form of logic was more prevalent in society... maybe then we would stop praying to end world hunger, and start feeding those starving in the streets.

Part of the problem with Evangelical Christianity is that many wish to stay comfy in the dusty pews of centuries old Christianity rather than getting their toes wet by dipping their lives into today's uncertain post-modern society.

Even now initiates are preparing for their winter dancing rituals in the centuries - old secret Seyouwin societies that flourish on the western coasts of Oregon, Washington and British Columbia.

The problems that contribute to unrealistic images of aging must be addressed at both the personal and the systemic levels; healthy old age and its proper representation in society are a matter of public policy as well as of individual behavior.

Ask my 80 + / - year old inlaws in the UK what they were told about getting testing & treatment... too old, long waiting list full of younger, more productive members of society.

Can you show me a list or make me a list of moral guidelines from the Old Testament or New Testament that give us guidelines that we can not find in ANY other society.

They have oscillated in practice between radical centralization and tolerance of relative decentralization (in the form of producer Soviets and compulsory co-operatives when these served a political purpose), but they have never put the social principle above the political nor attempted to realize Marx's dictum that the new society will be gestated in the womb of the old.

She said: «The space in society for the weak, the old, and the sick shrinks.