Sentences with phrase «open society did»

A representative from Open Society did not respond to a request for comment from Fortune.

People in our open society do not demand infallibility from their institutions, but it is difficult for them to accept what they are prohibited from observing.

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While it is clear that as a society, there is still a lot of work to do to advance respectful, open dialogues, the events over the weekend serve as a reminder of why we — as leaders — rallied behind the CEO Action for Diversity & InclusionTM in the first place, and how important it is to create candid, safe, and trusting environments for our employees and communities.

It's time to dust off the bike and hit the open road, but before you do find out how to stay safe this motorcycle season with the Alberta Motorcycle Safety Society.

It's just a shame that we haven't come to the point in society where it should be required that those who make decisions must meet certain, more highly regulated, fool proof, corruption resistant criteria proving their intellect and open mindedness as well as weeding out individuals with preconceived notions, racist, sexist or religiously or other discriminative views (even if they themselves don't believe they are discriminative in their beliefs... this happens more than many people realize) and overall ignorant minds.

To follow Jesus means to hope and pray for a world structured on principles that would turn present society upside down, create countercultural communities, nonviolently, and to do this while remaining open to ideas and ways of being of quite different sorts.

I cherish instead the notion that if we could understand not only the sociology and psychology of religion but also the religion of religion; if we could get at the roots of conviction in the lives of profound believers in the open society; if we could combine civility with devotion — if we could do these things, religious forces might retrieve some initiative and offer examples for coexistence in the world of the nations and the military powers.

Though he presses the analogy of the religious body with the physical organism and though his concept of the «divine society» is open to criticism, de la Grasserie does offer helpful categories for the understanding of «external religious society,» and particularly of the «societies to the second power,» as created by prophets and saints.

Curtis Berger shocked his Columbia University Law School associates at a convocation for the opening of the school year by saying, «I do not assert that legal education makes our graduates evil, but I do believe that [it makes them] less feeling, less caring, less sensitive to the needs of others,... even less alarmed about the injustices of our society than they were when they entered law school.»

It does mean that history is open to the power of God and through His power society can be transformed in the direction of the real good.

In his opening address to the World Conference on Church and Society, Visser» t Hooft, General Secretary of the World Council of Churches, said, «We do not speak because we want to have a say in the affairs of the world, but because we can not live with God, with other fellowmen, with ourselves, if we keep silent».

In our society, there still exist a lot of stereotypes about mental illness, and because people either don't want to deal with it or they've been hurt, they will choose to avoid opening up about it.

But it does open up the possibility that it may in fact be oriented toward religious patterns of behavior among societies and individuals.

Bergson, for instance, in his excellent discussion of The Two Sources of Morality and Religion notes that defensive religion is connected with closed societies, such as nations, but in relating the religion of aspiration to the open society of mankind as a whole he does not apparently note sufficiently that mankind as a whole is also finite.

«I do think we as a society we all need to come to together as a Church to say this is fundamentally a good thing, this should happen, we need to have an open discussion about it.»

Religions don't own the copyright or playbook on what it means to be kind, accepting, loving, good parents, brothers, sisters... The sooner people open their eyes to this, the sooner we can get beyond this relic of of pre-history and advance the world society as one in unity.

It is true that the patronage of the rulers contributed to a considerable flourishing of the arts and sciences, but this does not qualify the judgment that the vital creative forces of the community were divorced from or in open revolt against society.

We do not have the right to take justice into our own hands: this is Caesar's domain, and if Caesar's law is wrong, in an open society we must oppose that law, not those who partake of its liberties.

It also means that we can not address our theology to the questions and concerns of the «cultured despisers» of religion, since to converse mainly with them does nothing to crack open the dominant ideology we share with them or to change the society which that ideology helps perpetuate.

Cheating in and of itself is a narcissistic and destructive urge that our narcissistic society sadly nurtures and feeds, and yes, it would be far better to openly deal with issues of monogamy / nonmonogamy — and engage in open relationships if BOTH parties mutually agree — but this narcissistic and unjust DOUBLE - STANDARD has to go where supposedly «nonemotional» men get a pass on what actually constitutes cheating, not open relationships, but «emotional» women do not.

What does it say about our society, that we are so willing to welcome abusers into the spotlight with open arms?

«I pointed out, as we have seen with BBC Online, it did not open up the market but dominate it in a way that prevents others from being able to come in and have that sort of access,» she said at the Society of Editors» annual conference in London.

«Without branding all generals and statesmen as murderers or thieves... a portrait of war makers and state makers as coercive and self - seeking entrepreneurs bears a far greater resemblance to the facts than do its chief alternatives: the idea of a social contract, the idea of an open market... the idea of a society whose shared norms and expectations call forth a certain kind of government.»

«Measuring people's perception is not scientific... because a country that is open, has a vibrant media and people have free expression; the perception is likely to be higher than a close society that does not have free expression and so corruption is not discussed,» he stated.

Her position has «opened [her] eyes to the way that science gets done,» she said, and shown her the importance of science to our society.

These insects can «bend, wrinkle, buckle, twist, droop, and creep» their way through the environment, and they do it «without massively complex brains,» the researchers write December 7 in Royal Society Open...

«The process must be improved or we will do very serious long - term damage to the U.S. scientific enterprise and to our image as an open, welcoming society,» says Norman Neureiter, a former Texas Instruments Inc. executive who in September completed a three - year stint as science advisor to the U.S. secretary of state.

By the time the 7 - month course was done, however, participants in all classes had a smaller, and more similar, difference in closeness before and after class sessions, the researchers report online today in Royal Society Open Science.

Now, researchers report online today in the Royal Society Open Science that dogs do, too.

The team of researchers, composed of experts from various fields — from microbiology to nanotechnology, from ecology to biophysics — published their findings in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B: In the open environment, which can be compared to a bare open surface, E. coli did not stand a chance to survive.

We do not need to open our eyes too wide to see all the problems that science and society are facing; it is our responsibility to get involved to solve them.

When you can start to tune out the noise of doing what society says is normal or just doing what you've always known because it's comfortable, it's then you can open your eyes up to new possibilities and learn to hear what your body is really saying to you.

Jing Shen, the CEO and co-founder of Paktor said: «Society has become more accepting of dating apps and what we are doing here is opening the app up to more users.

Intelligent open minded, fun to be around 5/11 220pds in shape military man who is not a person who rolls with society as far as its views I always think outside of the box and I do nt like A salad eating woman (lol) I like a woman who is happy with who she is

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Not only does Gong hope to reach a wider audience, but she also hopes to be the reason society starts talking about sexuality and masturbation in a more comfortable and open way.

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Ward continued this hellish nightmare of a theory, explaining why other elements of the cars don't adhere to the rules of modern society: «You'll never see the doors open,» he explained.

The opening sequence has an impossibly large spacecraft, though not doing the exact same thing that the Millennium Falcon did in its first screen appearance, a scene in a cantina where many strata of society and species meet while music fills the air, and a sun (only one) that sets with the same desolate glow on a desert planet that we first saw on Tatooine when Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) lived there.

Kristen Stewart is in New York, doing promotion for her upcoming starring role in the new Woody Allen film Café Society, which opens this week.

Speakers actress Octavia Spencer (Hidden Figures), Megan Smith (Chief Technology Officer of the U.S. under Obama), producer Christine Vachon (Boys Don't Cry, many others), Patrick Gaspard (Open Society Foundations), and TV producer / writer Issa Rae (Insecure), was moderated by Sarah Ellison (Washington Post media writer), from left.

This year, I don't think there's been anything comparable — Woody Allen's «Café Society,» for instance, which was the opening - night film, is one of his suavely crafted but minor ersatz - romantic baubles.

Amazon, which didn't respond to queries Tuesday, also distributed Allen's «Cafe Society» in 2016 and «Wonder Wheel,» which opened December 1.

The Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP) is a growing alliance that brings together trade unions, INGOs, the women's and youth movements, community and faith groups and others to call for action from world leaders in the global North and South to meet their promises to end poverty and inequality.GCAP's main aim is to achieve policy and practice changes that will improve the lives of people living in poverty.GCAP adds to existing campaigning on poverty by forming diverse, inclusive national platforms that are able to open up civil society space and advocate more effectively than individual organisations would be able to do on their own.

But if we come to the conclusion that man is not a wolf to man, that man does not kill and does not overwhelm the other for pleasure or instinctive compulsion, the way will be open to the demand for other types of societies that allow humans live in a way different from what occurs nowadays.

The United States, for example, has more open and competitive markets and less intrusive government regulation than do the economies of many other industrialized societies.

Michigan must ensure that each and every child can read and do math, be a creative thinker and problem - solver, and be an informed, open - minded and engaged citizen in our society (Goals and Strategies, 2016).

Schools that pay attention to eye - opening statistics like these realize that students living in our knowledge - rich society learn differently than they did in past decades when knowledge was harder to obtain.

Despite the fact that Fifty Shades of Grey is old news — at least the book, the film doesn't release until Valentine's Day next year — and the door to free publishing of adult content has been thrown wide open since EL James» book took newsstands by storm, critics are still claiming the downfall of human society due to... [Read more...]

Despite the fact that Fifty Shades of Grey is old news — at least the book, the film doesn't release until Valentine's Day next year — and the door to free publishing of adult content has been thrown wide open since EL James» book took newsstands by storm, critics are still claiming the downfall of human society due to the abundance of explicit content.