Sentences with phrase «about changes in society»

Pascale Lagesse, Co-Chair of the IBA GEI, commented: «Without doubt AI, robotics and increased automation will bring about changes in society at every level, in every sector and in every nation.

Develop a set of stories you like to tell about changes in society and the 4C's (see Step 1).

Jacinda Ardern and Justin Trudeau take questions from young Londoners on gender equality and how to bring about change in society

When we talk about change in society, we talk about access, and how much people of color are given access.

Not exact matches

Equally passionate about gender equality and the arts, AlHusseini supports several NGOs advancing social and cultural change in societies that adversely impact women and girls.

As increasingly fast - paced change grips our economy and society, it's clear that it's time for unions to think about doing things in a new way.

Something is off in our society when we spend more time worrying about the color of a dress as opposed to climate change.»

«As technology jumps forward and people are changing preferences we have to think long and hard about what the public sector offers to people when it comes to money and how do we facilitate people living in society getting access to money in the forms and shapes they prefer them to be,» Skingsley said.

The current #MeToo moment is a rare inflection point for women in society, as we find ourselves in a broad and potentially game - changing conversation about how women are faring in the workplace and beyond.

«Growing concern about climate change — from society in general, and from long - term shareholders in particular — has forced oil companies to think about the implications of a transition to a low - carbon economy.

You are seeing interesting stories in society about people contributing, innovating and making changes that affect peoples» lives around the globe.»

China and Singapore, by the way, are nondemocratic capitalistic societies, and so it's actually easier for those types of governments to make wholesale change than it is in our case, so they can make the types of systems that we've been talking about, or they could decide to mirror Singapore or whatever, and everybody just kind of has to take it.

Efforts to find shared value in operating practices and in the social dimensions of competitive context have the potential not only to foster economic and social development but to change the way companies and society think about each other.

The early»60s were also an optimistic time at home when it seemed that the civil rights movement was bringing about long overdue changes in our society and a new phase of democratization seemed possible.

Many observers believe that we must change our thinking about the very nature of our rights and responsibilities in business and society.

This is the great challenge to those of us who remain members of the affluent society, those of us who are unable or unwilling to make the sacrifices or the great change in lifestyle of the radical response: are we able to be serious about our faith?

No church I've ever been in has ever said 1 thing about «cheap grace» nor have the changes in society EVER been linked by ONE historian or social scientist to «cheap grace».

Changes in behavior are not new, but the way in which we as a society are now beginning to think about that behavior is quite new.

There was quite a noticeable shift in the eighties when hymns suddenly started going on about power and glory and it seemed that was the church reflecting the changes in society's outlook then.

As women have begun to get in touch with their feelings about being women in our society and as men begin to notice changes in the women they know best, and in the collective consciousness of women, relationships between women and men are beginning to change dramatically.

Journalism, he concluded, «has been asleep at the switches,» because the Net is «not simply a story about technology, but it's a revolutionary change in the society and culture.»

New orders sprang into being, bearing resemblances to monasticism but, like the Franciscans and Dominicans, products of the preceding revival, more actively missionary and more aggressive in changing the society about them than had been the earlier orders.

When I wrote The Capitalist Revolution five years ago, the word revolution was, of course, intended to denote the fundamental changes, the radical transformation, that capitalism brings about in a society.

They do not deny the value of tradition or social order, but they are searching for a new strategy by which to bring about basic changes in society without too much delay.

Christianity brought about amazing changes in Western Society, values we often take for granted today.

A sense of apprehension about a rapidly changing society with little knowledge and understanding of the dynamics, structures, and uses of power in that society produce in clergy a crippling anxiety.

Linking such changes to arguments about world order provides a way of thinking about their place in longer - term historical patterns and their relation to trends in the wider system of societies.

To some extent, this attitude of denial has come about because of changes in our society in this century: the marked decrease in the number of deaths at an early age; the development of specialized professions for the care of the dying and the dead; the emergence of geographical mobility, with the consequence that most of us live at some distance from aging and dying relatives, including parents; the growth of separate communities for the aging, not only nursing homes but retirement communities.

I have said little about how changes in our society, the church and my own life have forced me to think about things differently or to think about matters I had not imagined when I began.

The process theory of sequential societies of actualities, each of which is created and then persists thereafter as an objectified datum of prehension in later actualities, seems calculated to take the complexities into account more definitely and naturally than any talk about a rigorous continuity of action defining a single, identical, yet changing individual.

One purpose of this chapter has been to provide tools and techniques for helping people to become aware of and deal constructively with their anger — not so that it will go away, but so that it can be used to bring about constructive changes in a dehumanizing society.

In fact the fundamental rights of the citizen require that all traditional communities change, breaking traditional hierarchies and patriarchies, to bring about social justice by giving the dalits, the tribals and the women who were excluded from the traditional power - structures of society, fuller participation in the power - structures; and the State is called upon to assist it by suitable legislation and other meanIn fact the fundamental rights of the citizen require that all traditional communities change, breaking traditional hierarchies and patriarchies, to bring about social justice by giving the dalits, the tribals and the women who were excluded from the traditional power - structures of society, fuller participation in the power - structures; and the State is called upon to assist it by suitable legislation and other meanin the power - structures; and the State is called upon to assist it by suitable legislation and other means.

While Whitehead admits that changes in the basic symbols result in radical transformation and even disruption of society, he is very clear about how a society's failure to revise its symbols affects that society.

I confess that I have become somewhat blasé about the range of exciting — I think revolutionary is probably more accurate — technologies that we are rolling out today: our work in genomics and its translation into varieties that are reaching poor farmers today; our innovative integration of long — term and multilocation trials with crop models and modern IT and communications technology to reach farmers in ways we never even imagined five years ago; our vision to create a C4 rice and see to it that Golden Rice reaches poor and hungry children; maintaining productivity gains in the face of dynamic pests and pathogens; understanding the nature of the rice grain and what makes for good quality; our many efforts to change the way rice is grown to meet the challenges of changing rural economies, changing societies, and a changing climate; and, our extraordinary array of partnerships that has placed us at the forefront of the CGIAR change process through the Global Rice Science Partnership.

As often is the case with issues rooted deep in our society's history, it's tough to change people's opinions about cheese on a fried chicken sandwich.

«Explaining complex brain science in a clear - cut manner, Steinberg offers parents and educators practical advice, as well as innovative ideas about how society can better support its youth and adapt to the times... This is a convincing and eloquent call for change.»

My thought is that until society changes, it will be a up - hill battle to convince children that the healthful choices they see at school cafeterias are great when outside of school many are seeing and eating the less - than - healthful choices in many of the ways we've talked about here before: classrooms, athletic practices, homes because parents are busy, don't have access to fresh foods and more.

LINCOLN, MA — Mass Audubon, in partnership with the Connecticut Audubon Society and the Audubon Society of Rhode Island, has been awarded a $ 69,632 Environmental Education grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to inform their members and the public about climate change and its impacts on local ecosystems.

In my current work with the Centre on Migration, Policy, and Society (COMPAS), I focus on the ways that British newspapers talk about migration issues and relate these narratives to public perceptions and migration policy changes.

Lord Selborne concluded: «Long term developments in CAVs have the potential to bring about transformational change to society but these changes will only take place if society is willing to both pay for and to adapt its behaviour to fit the technology.»

What's shocking is how much our political culture has changed in just 60 years — the producers of this film lived in a country that had just seen REAL despotism in the form of Nazi Germany and a military - ruled Japan (note the brownshirt - style uniforms, and also the lack of any of any depiction of their Soviet equivalents), and they pull few punches about what leads a society away from freedom.

«Change does not happen without an honest conversation in our communities, in our courthouses, at City Hall about how we have real reform in the criminal justice system, real reform in our communities and real relationships between NYPD and the people they serve,» Tina Luongo, attorney - in - chief for Legal Aid Society Criminal Practice, the plaintiff in the court case, said.

The country needs a «revolution in responsibility», Mr Cameron claimed, alongside a «massive change» in how we think about government and society.

There are clear necessities for electoral reform, improving local democracy, tackling climate change, and re-balancing the inequalities in society which will require more than the Labour party to bring about.

If you're sensible and moderate, perhaps even old - fashioned in your outlook, in favour of traditional marriage, say, or concerned about the pace of change in society, maybe disapproving of mass immigration and not particularly enthused by the growth of identity politics, then there's not really anywhere for you to go, politically, these days.

In other changes, another former NEC chair and former general secretary of the Fabian Society, Baroness Hayter, joins the Cabinet Office team and, with Lord Tunnicliffe, the team covering business, innovation and skills, where Labour said it would focus work on its concerns about jobs and growth in the economIn other changes, another former NEC chair and former general secretary of the Fabian Society, Baroness Hayter, joins the Cabinet Office team and, with Lord Tunnicliffe, the team covering business, innovation and skills, where Labour said it would focus work on its concerns about jobs and growth in the economin the economy.

We need to change the way we think about ourselves, and our role in society.

«There is no gainsaying the fact that the world is looking up to us (women) to bring about a positive change in the society.

I don't think it involved a wholesale strategic change because in my leadership election I spoke about the importance of a strong society, of a dynamic economy and those two things remain.»

Adds Andrew Rasiej, founder of Personal Democracy Forum, an online hub of how politics and technology intersect: «Obama's success online is as much about how our society has changed, how our media ecology has changed, just in the past four years.»