Present society with its reliance of electricity and electromagnetic effects (e.g. radio, satellite communications) may be vulnerable to technological diruptions in the event of a full field reversal.
Not exact matches
A culture of anti-Semitism is a fertile ground for breeding extremism and terrorist sympathizers, while a
society with no tolerance for anti-Semitism
presents a unified front against their agenda.
It's bigger than the Industrial Revolution,» Draper said at Intelligence Squared U.S. debate
presented in partnership
with Manhattan Institute's Adam Smith
Society on Saturday.
In 2008, the
Society of Plastics Engineers
presented Cascade
with a Greener Environment Award for its EcoCart, a heavy - duty recycling container
with up to 50 percent recycled content, more than any similarly sized container on the market.
Guy Spier and I
presented and did a joint Q&A
with the UK CFA
Society, and then the next day we flew... Keep Reading
Action for Children says it's joined
with Barnardo's, The Children's
Society, NSPCC and Save the Children to
present a united front.
Traditional industrial
society, as we know, has not really
presented us
with this possibility.
Sources familiar
with the account manager's maddeningly rigid beliefs said that no matter how patiently and logically they
present the extensive evidence demonstrating that gays and lesbians are systematically destroying
society, the narrow - minded Dunham simply tunes them out.
In the fall of 2009 a petition, organized by Fellow of the American Physical
Society, Roger Cohen, and containing the signatures of hundreds of distinguished APS members was
presented to the APS management
with a request that at least the truly embarrassing word «incontrovertible» be taken out of the statement.
Of course it would be naïve to assume that sitting down
with ISIS terrorists would produce a quick change of heart, but a fearless, coherent defence of orthodox Christian belief about the human person, human love and thus human
society is essential and is, at
present, generally lacking even among church leaders.
From its early days, therefore, until the
present, Christianity never has been able completely to reduce itself to a circle
with one center, the soul; always the great tradition has called it back to be an ellipse around two foci, the individual and
society.
However, the realism indicated above means that, along
with dreamers, we need doers who seek power in the real world of the
present to free the oppressed from the tyranny of the dominating idols of our
society.
To break categorically
with the
present evil aeon is to cut the ground from under one's feet, to open oneself physically to death by breaking
with the power structure of an evil
society, and to open oneself spiritually to death by renouncing self - seeking as a motivation and giving oneself radically to the needs of one's neighbour, as one's real freedom and love.
All the same I
present these
with the hope that we who have gathered to talk about peace initiatives for a just
society may perhaps find these thoughts useful:
He had become fascinated
with the Navaho ideal of harmony
with nature and man and the contrast to that ideal that American
society presented.
Or talk to Roy Brown of Puerto Rico, whose band, Aires Bucaneros, plays songs that seek to make a statement about
present - day
society and are associated
with the Puerto Rican movement for independence.
Archbishop Justin Welby has said of the scheme: «The full community sponsorship scheme
presents churches and other civil
society groups
with the opportunity to provide sanctuary to those fleeing war - torn places.»
Note, however, that: «Beyond these
societies there is disorder» (92); and that, in accordance
with Plato's Timaeus, «the origin of the
present cosmic epoch is traced back to an aboriginal disorder» (95).
Leviticus
presents us
with a unique and detailed view into the mental world of a particular segment of biblical
society.
In our pluralistic
society, constituted of people
with all kinds and shades of religious belief and disbelief, the advocacy of religiously oriented education
presents serious difficulties.
If ecclesial unity were something yet to be achieved, how can we profess belief in «the one, holy, Catholic, and apostolic Church,» which» as a
society in the
present world» «subsists in the Catholic Church, which is governed by the Successor of Peter and by the bishops in communion
with him» (Lumen Gentium, 8)?
If Kirk is right that
society is a community of persons spanning past,
present, and future, we have a responsibility to keep in touch
with those who are dead as well as those who are not yet born — by imaginative, if not supernatural, means.
A similar difficulty is
presented by John Macmurray's attempt to combine a Christian - Augustinian doctrine of God's sovereignty
with a Marxist interpretation of the structure of historical development as leading inevitably toward the fulfillment of the good
society.
The question is being asked whether the price for the
present pattern is not too high, whether we could not, without losing me many good things in our
society, have a freer impulse life, a richer imaginative consciousness, be less alienated from our bodies, be capable of more profound intimacy
with a few and more community
with many others.
Apocalyptic expectation has been used to sustain a hold over people, and to validate accommodation
with the
present empires of human
society.
I don't understand what is going on
with society when you are no longer able to
present your point of view without someone calling for your firing or resignation or whatever.
Everything proves it: its style, its contents, the extraordinary events by which it was revealed, taught, and written down; its constant conformity
with past,
present, and future truth; its transcendent character which never shows a trace of a particular man, of any one
society or epoch of history or specific region of the globe.
It seems Christianity is more a product of the Apostle Paul than the beautifully simple stories
presented by Jesus: the samaritan helping someone who had been assaulted and abused, the prodigal son, the many examples of caring, Jesus seen as someone loving life and associating
with all strata of
society.
In the first place such education, now as always, is concerned
with the nurture of men and women whose business in life it will be to help men to see their immediate perplexities, joys and sufferings in the light of an ultimate meaning, to live as citizens of the inclusive
society of being, and to relate their
present choices to first and last decisions made about them in the totality of human history by Sovereign Power.
You discuss looking at burial rituals to consider new ways to
present the symbolism of baptism, but regardless of how a
society buries it's dead you will never find a
society on earth that isn't familiar
with the concept of drowning; thus death by water has a universal power not limited to any culture.
The primitive Christian community was not a memorial
society with its eyes fastened on a departed master; it was a dynamic community created around a living and
present Lord.
With the sense of the special responsibility which religion imposes upon man, they devote themselves more than any other group of past or
present Christian history to the cause of a holy
society.
Readers who were
present at the creation will remember that this project was originally the Center on Religion and
Society and was affiliated
with the Rockford Institute in Rockford, Illinois.
Its author, the Uruguayan Jesuit Juan Luis Segundo (1925 — 96), was particularly concerned
with rejecting North American death - of - God theology, but already
present were the beginnings of an awareness that the church needs to lend its resources not to the reinforcement of
society and its
present (repressive) values but to its liberation.16
Because Whitehead conceives the human psyche not to be a single actuality, but a temporally - ordered
society of occasions of experience, and further believes all actual entities to be occasions of experience, he is able to use «the direct evidence as to the connectedness of one's immediate
present occasion of experience
with one's immediately past occasions... to suggest categories applying to the connectedness of all occasions in nature» (AI 284).
The
present state of American
society is not encouraging
with respect to the outcome of that experiment.
Children simply do not start off
with an equal chance in
present society.
What I propose in the
present analysis is to emphasize three major sets of forces to which the leadership of emerging universities and their constituencies were responding: first, those having to do
with the demands of technological
society; second, those having to do
with ideological conflicts; and third, those having to do
with pluralism and related cultural change.
When he discusses «the hierarchy of
societies composing our
present epoch,» he says he is «deserting metaphysical generality» and only «considering the more special possibilities of explanation consistent
with our general cosmological doctrine, but not necessitated by it» (PR 147).
My break
with American values, when it came, was quite radical, and I went through a period of almost total rejection of my own
society.2 That experience too must influence my
present views.
As I assess the confusion of our
present condition, this is precisely the task
with which we must challenge our students, our religious communions, our
society, and ourselves.
The freedoms of expression
present democratic
societies with the unwelcome news that they are in trouble, hut because all
societies, like most individuals, are always in some kind of trouble, the news doesn't drive them onto the reefs of destruction.
Though the problem is so rooted in the nature of both Church and secular
society that it is always
present, yet it has a peculiar urgency for the modern church which is confronted
with unusual evidences of misery in the life of human communities and of weakness within itself.
Nevertheless the Christian doctrine of the relation between the ethics of Law and Grace, the Hindu concept of paramarthika and vyavaharika realms, the Islamic concept of shariat law versus the transcendent law, and the equivalent ones in secular ideologies like the Marxist idea of the
present morality of class - war leading to the necessary love of the class-less
society of the future need to be brought into the inter-faith dialogue to build up a common democratic political ethic for maintaining order and freedom
with the continued struggle for social justice, and also a common civil morality within which diverse peoples may renew their different traditions of civil codes.
Our concern has been simply to indicate what process - thought in a general way has to tell us about God, the world, the nature of man and
society, coupled
with some discussion of its references to the historical figure of Jesus and its way of envisaging the destiny of man both in and beyond his
present mortal existence.
The future that most people seem to expect and that the futurologists describe
with their projections is very much like the
present society but more so..
There he says, one, that the shift from the concept of «the State's role as providers of equal opportunities to every citizen» to that of providing education, health and other social services «to those who can afford to pay» is a U-turn in public policy which «has been made surreptitiously by administrative action without public discussion and legislative sanction»; two, that the total commercialization of social sectors is «alien even to free market
societies»; and three, that «the ready acceptance of self - financing concept in social sectors alien even to free - market
societies is the end result of gradual disenchantment
with the Kerala Model of Development», which has been emphasizing the social dimension rather than the economic, but that it is quite false to
present the situation as calling for a choice between social development and economic growth.
Television in this regard blends complementarily
with the
present economic structures and sociological dynamics of Western technological and industrial
society.
Having made observations about the fabric of our
society, of the lack of a supportive culture and the threats which these pose to family life, we are
presented on page 42
with a recipe for building family life based on the Rule, concerning external and internal dispositions of mind and heart.
Nevertheless the analysis makes several broad assumptions: regarding the time order of variables, regarding the meaning of «social complexity» (soon to be specified) found among
present - day developing
societies, and regarding the equating of contemporary nation - states
with what in theory are «
societies.»