Sentences with phrase «in societies like»

But breastfeeding absolutely does require preparation, learning, and practice, especially in societies like ours where bottle feeding is the norm, and where many functions of women's bodies, lactation included, are both stigmatized and poorly understood.

In societies like ours where extended breastfeeding is unusual, it is easy to assume it may be to blame for any problems we encounter along the way.

But in a society like ours that bombards kids with advertising and continuously pushes materialism and a narrow view of success, how can you encourage your children to stop wanting more things and start being thankful for the things they already have?

So how, in a society like the United States where the right of an individual to worship or not worship the God they choose is a fundamental and constitutional right, does a religious person reconcile the sense of preeminence with a pluralistic culture?

And as in all things there exist extremes, and in society like these they are called fundamentalists.

And in a society like ours with news outlets like this, that seems to be less & less the case.

In order to avoid misunderstandings it may be said in passing that such rules must be different in a society like the state of which one is a compulsory member, from those obtaining in a voluntary society like the Church, to which one need not belong.

Matters of belief should be discussed with care and an open view for the thoughts of others on all sides or someday we will live in a society like Pakistan where Ministers get shot for their belief and scharia is forced upon the people.

ok i've decided — after soul searching and observing my and other's reactions to these religious blog news on CNN learning more about religion from this alone and about the mideast than from anywhere else in my USA educated life i need to be more tolerant of others having religious based governments THAT is what is confusing me — that religion are governments are not seperated that is hard for much of USA population to understand perhaps it is for me i think you would have to actually live in a society like the mideast to truly understand it i mean — actually be part of the society the religious part is truly offputting — since most in USA seperate church and state like — church is for faith and imagination and celebration and family and community involvement and state is for protection and education and health and infrastructure, etc., for all it is hard to be serious about religion — when the serious side of society is state it is hard to see religion being the serious side of enforcement — and the state enforcing the faith based side of society egad — doesn't god get lost in all that?

A number of witnesses in the fifteenth century mention that they were a strong and well organized community, commanding respect among the Hindus and enjoying certain privileges in the society like that of higher castes among the Hindus.

They are only possible in a society like ours, with its ubiquitous broadband and constant access to (and obsession with) social media.

To stop the moral decay in our society like what happened to Sodom which is a lesson we should have learned

«In a society like we have, and a democacy, I think it's incumbent for leaders to stand up and say, «this is what we value, this is who we are.»

But in any society like this, there will inevitably be people who disagree about anything - and my fear is that the society may become paralysed on this issue.»

«We need to focus on addressing structural inequalities in society like poverty and discrimination that shape individual experience and health,» she said.

«The only way to be normal in a society like this is to be complicit with things that are inhuman.»

It does a brief review about the concept of volunteering like first point, introducing us in the aftermath that can have in a society like ours, which is walking to the destruction of the planet.

And schooling, as William Easterly emphasizes and I discuss below, is not sufficient to ensure growth, but it certainly plays a large role in a society like that of the United States, where the other preconditions for growth are in place.

If you are doing masters in literature your topic would be related to the issues present in the society like dowry system, LGBT rights, Feminism etc. on the other hand for business and management students, this topic will not work.

«Their performance was sweet, naive and admirable in a society like Russia, where even mild dissent is put down with an iron fist,» she told the IBTimes UK in an exclusive interview ahead of her November 2012 series of exhibitions and events in the UK.

Those choices are especially important in a society like ours, with a long history of both criminal violence and official racism.

Given that our clients» expectations are rapidly changing, we must adapt to better serve them and to play the role expected of the legal profession in a society like ours.

If Vargas wants to quit hiding in our society like a common criminal and actually complete his immigration here, I'd be the first to welcome him.

Not exact matches

And civil society groups in Myanmar have hit back at Zuckerberg's claim that the company is able to use monitoring to stop hate speech messages spreading like wildfire through its services — they say such messages spread for days, leading to violence.

«That set of rules and those thought processes are so ingrained in society today that it's hard to communicate exactly what the vision is, and I think «Reinventing Organizations» does a better job than any other book on communicating that vision and communicating that this is not just a hypothetical like, «Oh, wouldn't it be cool if we did this,»» Bunch said.

That helps you avoid the pitfalls of something that's particular to a society, like «Ghost in the Shell.»

When you can stroll over to a tap whenever you like and help yourself to a glass of clear, cool water, it is hard to believe that one of the biggest business opportunities of the 21st century — and one of the best opportunities for business to give back to society — lies in supplying fresh water.

The American Meteorological Society published research in 2011 that found current temperature has a bigger effect on our happiness than variables like wind speed and humidity, or even the average temperature over the course of a day.

This may come as a shock, but organizational constructs like tribes, societies, and companies are not the result of high - level intelligence but of primitive survival impulses reinforced by neurotransmitters in the brain's ancient limbic system.

Being able to study things like black hole mergers through gravity will shed light on some of the «darkest yet most energetic events in our universe,» said Albert Lazzarini, deputy director of the LIGO Laboratory, in an American Physical Society press release.

An uptick in invention can also bolster cornerstones of Canadian society like universities and the health - care system.

He added: «In the United States, President Trump would like to establish a mafia state, but he can't, because the Constitution, other institutions, and a vibrant civil society won't allow it.»

Success stories like Harrison's are few and far between for social entrepreneurs, defined as «someone who targets an unfortunate but stable equilibrium that causes the neglect, marginalization, or suffering of a segment of humanity; who brings to bear on this situation his or her inspiration, direct action, creativity, courage, and fortitude; and who aims for and ultimately affects the establishment of a new stable equilibrium that secures permanent benefit for the targeted group and society at large,» by Roger L. Martin and Sally Osberg in a 2007 Stanford University report titled «Social Entrepreneurship: The Case for Definition.»

«It's like a roadmap for your company,» says Victor Butcher, of Butcher Financial Services in Memphis, Tenn., a former president of the Tennessee Society of Certified Public Accountants» Memphis Chapter who advises small businesses.

The CRTC says that Canada's a world leader in access to the Internet, but Harvard's Berkman Centre for Internet and Society just updated its study on next generation connectivity — very high - speed Internet, 3G networks and the like.

It was not at all like that famous Twilight Zone episode where everyone «normal» in society looked disfigured, and the abnormal main character looked perfect in every way.

There are times when trolling seems like a troubling cultural trend, one that is causing decay in society, but there are times when trolling is totally warranted, valid, and maybe even a little helpful.

Unfortunately, society doesn't work like the justice system: In the eyes of many, you're guilty until proven innocent.

Several organizations like the National Geographic Society, PBS Education, HHMI Biointeractive, and Mission Blue partnered with Google (goog) to create the new education projects, wrote Google for Education marketing manager Melissa Horwitz in a blog post.

In partnership with organizations like Microsoft, Dell Inc., IBM and National Geographic Society, ePals social learning network reaches millions of teachers, students and parents in 200 countrieIn partnership with organizations like Microsoft, Dell Inc., IBM and National Geographic Society, ePals social learning network reaches millions of teachers, students and parents in 200 countriein 200 countries.

You want to look good in society's eyes, and seem like a success on the outside to gain validation.

If we are living in a time of with massive economic change or a big shift in society's preferences, someone who invests like Buffett will get caught off guard.

Thurman says that as people in business, «we should take heart because, although a lot of people who consider themselves progressive and spiritual feel like business is something very lowly, that it's about just making money, the vocation of business can be extraordinarily honorable and has the ability to make a long - lasting positive impact on our society and world at large.»

«It's quite normal for Americans and Western people to behave like this — they live in free sex societies where nobody cares about this sort of thing, so what do you expect?»

They want to feel like their work will have a beneficial impact on society, so highlight your social responsibility efforts on your website and in recruiting materials.

So I think as long as readers — whether they admit it publicly or not — as long as readers have a hunger for true, critical, funny stories about how the system works and about the concentration of money and power in modern society, as long as they have that appetite, then a site like Gawker.com is going to have a continued purpose.

«It's still one of these things that people in our society find incredibly important and interesting about other people,» he says, with what sounds like annoyance.

Only 30 % of Americans think that what is good for business is good for society generally, and 65 % of Americans think that most of the world's biggest businesses have taken unethical actions like dodging taxes; that view is widely shared by people in the survey, which was conducted in September.

Rather than follow the Stalin model of turning an agrarian society of Russia into a state - owned industrial superpower like the USSR - killing millions of your own people in the process, incidentally - Myerson suggests that the government own all businesses by buying the stocks and bonds of all businesses as an «investment» in the private sector.

In our social media driven society, where the more «likes» we get the more important we feel, it's easy to be paralyzed by your next decision.