Sentences with phrase «so as a society»

^ Shouldn't our government at least look to tackle this by legislation, the gap between the richest and poorest is growing so as a society we could stand up to those mega rich and just say no!

«So as a society, either we control the cost of housing or you spend the money on benefits.

So as a society we avoid the sun, even though we need sun exposure to help our bodies naturally produce Vitamin D.

The «presentation of ultra-thin female bodies is likely to reinforce inappropriate and unobtainable body ideals, so as a society we should be taking measures to stop this type of reinforcement,» Robinson added in a university news release.

Just as childless couples in Victorian times had to worry about who would look after them in their old age, so we as a society now have to worry about who will pay for the social programs we've promised ourselves.

Loyalty has waned over the past decade and a half or so as society has changed how it shops.

Not exact matches

Franklin, then just shy of her 32nd birthday and working as a research chemist at King's College in London, had to rush off to a meeting at the Royal Society and so didn't wait around for the full image to come into focus.

They will talk to the person sitting next to them on the bus, having retained that natural inquisitiveness we all had as children, but which society is so good at beating out of us,» he writes.

Society's «longevity risk,» as financial planners call it, has been a slow - developing crisis, more a rising tide than a sudden storm, so top investment minds have had some time to prepare for it.

Government isn't working as well as it once did so «it does fall, I think, not just on business but on all other areas of society to step up,» he tells New York Times columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin.

But as Virgin grew through the years, so did our ideas about how to treat employees well, and how to take environmental impact into account, and by 2004, I had come to realize that we at the Virgin Group had a chance to tackle the challenges our society faces in a new, entrepreneurial way.

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.

Zuckerberg carefully negotiated a clause that would allow him to take a leave from Facebook to serve in public office or government, so presumably he has some sort of political beliefs — if not outright political ambition — as well as some core ideas about what's good for society and what's not.

«Thousands of years of men innovating society and a single generation where women start to do better (in school and so forth) and rather than looking at the big picture, we're free to generalize, so long as those generalizations are harmful only to men.»

So companies are aiming higher: the product still needs to interest consumers, but in addition, the entire company needs to be perceived as making a positive contribution to society, or at least as trying to limit its negative impacts.

So understanding how people perceive moral tipping points is important because it illuminates how we as a society create different thresholds for rewarding versus punishing others.

As Satya Nadella said, we are pursuing AI so that we can empower every person and every organization with tools they can use to go solve the most pressing challenges of our society and our economy.

I treat the financial sector and debt as an economic overhead, so my focus is on how society can deal with the debt and to explain why society can not recover from the current depression until it writes down the debts to what can be paid.

In our corporation - loving society, it seems unlikely that the administration would go so far as to split up Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp — one of the few feasible ways to limit the company's power.

And so I learned that we hadn't been paying payroll taxes for almost 3 years — a particularly painful thing given I believe in taxes as a means of giving back to society.

Britain today, as the London Olympics in 2012 vividly illustrated, is a multicultural, multi-ethnic society, and for all the rantings of xenophobes and Brexiteers, it is likely to remain so.

So if the government accepts a certain type of money as a payment for taxes, that will speed its adoption in society.

So, it should come as no surprise that the hard work by our fundraising team paid off in a big way for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's...

So, it should come as no surprise that the hard work by our fundraising team paid off in a big way for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's Man & Woman of the Year annual campaign.

«He's an egomaniac devoid of all moral sense» ---- said the society woman dressing for a charity bazaar, who dared not contemplate what means of self - expression would be left to her and how she would impose her ostentation on her friends, if charity were not the all - excusing virtue ---- said the social worker who had found no aim in life and could generate no aim from within the sterility of his soul, but basked in virtue and held an unearned respect from all, by grace of his fingers on the wounds of others ---- said the novelist who had nothing to say if the subject of service and sacrifice were to be taken away from him, who sobbed in the hearing of attentive thousands that he loved them and loved them and would they please love him a little in return ---- said the lady columnist who had just bought a country mansion because she wrote so tenderly about the little people ---- said all the little people who wanted to hear of love, the great love, the unfastidious love, the love that embraced everything, forgave everything, and permitted everything ---- said every second - hander who could not exist except as a leech on the souls of others.»

Sadly a house is not so much a home anymore as it is a badge of honour, an ATM machine and a right of passage into a classist society.

This he says will be at no cost as it is his way of giving back to society which has given him so much through the Coffee Cash Cheat system.

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.

@Really - O «Yes, society should allow people to do whatever they want as long as they do not cause others to suffer AND no unprovoked force is involved (please not the AND... this is not to be confused with OR)» @Chad «so, then you are in favor of: — legalizing all forms of drugs (as long as they are not used when operating a vehicle, same as drinking and driving).

This focus makes The Good Society a good deal less lively than Habits of the Heart precisely because institutions are not so readily narrated as are individual lives.

But again, God is just, so questions as to «What about the baby that is born to a society that has never heard of Jesus?»

We have chosen, as a nation, to have a society with secular laws, where said laws must be grounded in reason, not, «You can't do this because I'm superior to you,» or «because my holy book says so.»

The assumptions and techniques of psychology and therapy have found their way into business, schools, families, popular entertainment, and even the courts» so much so that it has become common to speak of our society as a «therapeutic culture.»

We know the society in Syria Iraq or Afghanistan is likely to treat us as westerners unfavorable so we do nt go there and risk having our heads cut off.

As for the claim that some narcissism is healthy in a competitive society, the authors argue that «it would be better for everyone not to concentrate on self - feelings — positive or negative — quite so much.»

This is a very important topic, because elites provide political and cultural leadership, and in so doing set the direction for society as a whole.

The only question is whether a particular society has enough of the faithful to care for its poor so as not to have the charitable vocation usurped by the state, at which point it is no longer a Christian society.

But as it is, it has been in only a more recent history that we find these criminals are not healed by the standard procedures and so need to be taken out of society where they can not continue to harm children.

So if God understood Adam's lonliness maybe it makes sense he created Eve for partnership first and foremost, not for some sexual activity (as our society seems to want to think).

As long as money and the pursuit of material wealth is the basis of our society, neither government or business can be truly trusted to do the right thing... so it becomes a choice of which is worse.As long as money and the pursuit of material wealth is the basis of our society, neither government or business can be truly trusted to do the right thing... so it becomes a choice of which is worse.as money and the pursuit of material wealth is the basis of our society, neither government or business can be truly trusted to do the right thing... so it becomes a choice of which is worse...

Ancient religions should welcome the political achievements of modernity while calling modernity to open its windows and doors to a world of transcendent truth and love: ``... the great achievements of the modern age» the recognition and guarantee of freedom of conscience, of human rights, of the freedom of science and hence of a free society» should be confirmed and developed while keeping reason and freedom open to their transcendent foundation, so as to ensure that these achievements are not undone....

So Jim: Tell us about all about how the people of Sweden have become meaner and more selfish as they have removed god from their society.

We are nearly 2000 years out from the New Testament — nearly as so much of the NT was written SO long after the fact — and society has continued to changso much of the NT was written SO long after the fact — and society has continued to changSO long after the fact — and society has continued to change.

So how best can we live together as a society?

Kind of interesting how close we are becoming like other nations as we eliminate God from our society, so perhaps they had a point.

I believe in government; that men can not live together without rules but that they should be kept at the bare minimum of safety; that there is no form of government ordained from God as being better than any other; that the anarchic elements in society are so strong that it is a whole - time task to keep the peace.

As religion dwindles so does society moral obligations since we have no one to be obligated to but ourselves.

That aborted children are disposed of as so much medical garbage is of a piece with society's denial of their personhood.

So we're cleaner but we're also doing so much more evil as a collective you could look at a society of apes and might actually find it more beautiful than some disgusting ones that are around noSo we're cleaner but we're also doing so much more evil as a collective you could look at a society of apes and might actually find it more beautiful than some disgusting ones that are around noso much more evil as a collective you could look at a society of apes and might actually find it more beautiful than some disgusting ones that are around now.

We talk about the gains we've made as a society over the last half a century or so, but we still have a long way to go.