Sentences with phrase «about economic life»

Steiner's visionary capacity brought to light a new imagination about economic life and money; that consciousness applied to the nature of transactions in the conduct of financial life would allow us to transform our relationships with each other and with money and provide a new basis for transforming the entire economic system.

In the closest thing he attempted at a rhetorical flourish, he asserted that government should be «a benign and silent partner» to Canadians going about their economic lives «and not an overbearing behemoth squeezing them at every turn.»

If the most important decisions about our lives, especially about our economic lives, are made by people who are not part of our community, then the community is weakened.

Not exact matches

Companies have been stingy about capital expenditures in recent years, but that trend may be poised to turn around, extending the life of this economic cycle — and offering potential surprise upside in the next.

Europe's top economic official has cautioned the U.S. and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin about talking down the dollar's exchange rate, which helps U.S. exporters but could make life harder for Europe and other trade partners.

If you live in Canada or Europe and are involved in global business, it's likely that you've already heard about the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) between Canada and the EU.

Chris Martenson, an economic researcher and futurist and co-founder of PeakProsperity.com talks about how to invest and live the best life possible.

It breaks down to living expenses on 1 check and debt on other with a little bit left over for my 401k, which has about 15k or so in it after the hit i took from being laid off and losing the unvested employer match in the middle of our economic implosion a couple years ago.

«It was absurd enough that Hulk Hogan claimed $ 100m for emotional distress and economic damage for a story about a sex life that he'd already made public,» the statement reads.

It seems that only in a community that has some control over its own economic life can there be freedom to decide about the respective roles of human labor and fossil energy.

The Jewish scholar Joseph Klausner, for example, holds that the Pharisees and Sadducees were justified in their attacks on Jesus because he imperiled Jewish culture at its foundations, and that by ignoring everything that belongs to wholesome social life he undercut the work of centuries.2 Others within the Christian tradition have felt considerable uneasiness lest the words of Jesus about nonresistance imperil the civil power of the State, or his words about having no anxiety for food or drink or other material possessions curtail an economic motivation essential to society.

In face of this strictly «pagan» materialism and naturalism it becomes a pressing duty to remind ourselves once again that, if the laws of biogenesis of their nature suppose and effectively bring about an economic improvement in human living - conditions, it is not any question of well - being, it is solely a thirst for greater being that by psychological necessity can save the thinking world from the taedium vitae.

So too, in every such location there are questions about the justice of the ways in which social, economic, and political power are distributed and how that distribution affects the people who live there.

For example, in the racial conflict, how idle it is to talk about «integration of hearts» so long as millions of blacks are not integrated into economic life.

’42 Indeed, women from all three continents, Africa, Asia and Latin America, say that «In the person and praxis of Jesus Christ, women of the three continents find the grounds of our liberation from all discrimination: sexual, racial, social, economic, political and religious... Christology is integrally linked with action on behalf of social justice and the defense of each person's right to life and to a more humane life.43 This means that Christology is about apartheid, sexual exploitation, poverty and oppression.

This critique of economic life is based on teaching about human rights.

Whatever doubts may exist about the sources of this democracy, there can be none about the chief source of the morality that gives it life and substance... [From the Hebrew tradition, via the Puritans, come] the contract and all its corollaries; the higher law as something more than a «brooding omnipresence in the sky»; the concept of the competent and responsible individual; certain key ingredients of economic individualism; the insistence on a citizenry educated to understand its rights and duties; and the middle - class virtues, that high plateau of moral stability on which, so Americans believe, successful democracy must always build [Seedtime of the Republic (Harcourt, Brace, 1953, p. 55)-RSB-.

Still others move from the new awareness of the intrinsic value of the world to reflection about how human beings can order their social, political, and economic lives so as to respect this value.

But neither do we have the reign of God for the redemption of society when Christians are unconcerned about the plight of their fellow men, or when such giant evils as war, race discrimination, alcoholism, economic injustice, hunger and homelessness, and the shattering of family life go unchallenged.

The result is that America is a nation deeply divided between people who are concerned about real - life issues — war and peace, social justice, the health and welfare of people — on one hand, and other people who are concerned, instead, about «values,» by which they mean adherence to ancient taboos, dependence on a magical God, enforcing acceptance of ancient creeds, requiring everyone to believe as they do, and finding safety in raw (though often hidden) social and economic power.

What form does pastoral care take in a parish bleeding from internal conflicts about life and ministry in a neighborhood undergoing rapid changes in matters of race, age, economic class and sexual orientation?

Economic security for all men means something about colonies, about tariffs, about the free access of goods to those people who must have raw materials and markets if they are to have in normal times a standard of living adequate to relieve hunger and permit the free development of body and spirit.

Also, let us not forget Justice O'Connor argument from Casey about liberating women from their baby making bodies so they can help boost the GDP: «The ability of women to participate equally in the economic and social life of the Nation has been facilitated by their ability to control their reproductive lives.»

«Hmm, oh look those planes are about to hit the building and start a huge backlash that will lead to massive islamaphobia, two worthless wars, loss of life, global economic backlash, and a whole shitload of other things.

The church needs to have a more critical conversation about which parts of economic life contribute to freedom and which do not.

How was this «new order of life,» this new economic system, to come about?

Even when we are thinking about the environment or socio - economic and political life — ta ano phroneite, we should focus our minds and wills on the higher realities (not the inner), which must be manifested in the earthly realities — now partially, but in the end, fully.

Psychology of learning; social analysis of the societies in which students will work; statistical methods applied to the economic facts of ministers» salaries and the cost of tuition, and the like; and many other relatively precise procedures applied to limited data can give guidance to perplexed administrators that no amount of hard thought about the large question of man's life before God will yield.

Such I take to be the true motivation for Christian concern about social, economic, political, national, and international problems; for example — that the path of life trodden by those who are brothers of God - made - man must be made a fit path for those who are God's brothers as well as God's sons.

Therefore in his recorded words there is less to be found about the structures of economic life than about the family.

In a stark warning about inequality between the world's rich and poor, a former Archbishop of Canterbury has accused business and political figures of wrongly linking economic growth to better living standards.

We can't become «all about» economic equality but we can care more about the lives of the people around us and reclaim the value Jesus placed on feeding, clothing, visiting and inviting in.

Beyond those examples, of course, one can talk about the way in which our present economic system negatively affects the lives of so many people.

«Jobs and the environment» is a good slogan, but in fact we can not have both economic opportunity and a sustainable environmental policy without a fundamental transformation in some of our ideas about how we are related to one another and what makes life worth living.

Since the 1980s, the country's leaders have been concerned about the quality of the educational system and its ability to prepare students for contemporary economic and social life.

And the reason is that the best economists spend their lives emphasizing that economic life is not about numbers, but about the triumph of the human mind when given the freedom to innovate and respond.

(And to think, Paul the apostle wrote those words about a pagan Roman dictatorship persecuting Christians, while we live in the comparative comfort of a democratic republic with civil liberties, social mobility and economic opportunity!)

WESTERN Australian farmers have launched a counter-offensive warning about the sharp economic consequences of banning live sheep exports.

They talked about how Masters week was an economy unto itself, that the high - rolling trip to Augusta had become central to American corporate life and was impervious to economic gyrations.

Little, if any, written history about family life in the Kongo Kingdom before invasion and occupation by competing ideological and economic interests exists.

Husbands whose wives make more money are 61 % less likely to say they're happy Wives who are primary breadwinners are also significantly less happy about their family lives than other women Men are 5 times more likely to cheat when they're financially dependent on their wives Divorce is 40 % more likely when a women makes over 60 % of the family's income Much of the discussion around this topic so far has focused on the broader business and economic consequences of this shift.

But, what has impressed me most of all is Richard Becker's resourcefulness and creativity evidenced by his role while a member of the Cortlandt Town Board in bringing about the innovative Cortlandt Heating Oil Plan (CHOP), which at the height of the economic crisis provided both heating oil discounts as well as conservation tips and energy audits to help local residents afford to heat their homes at a time when many were risking their health by living in homes that were too cold because they couldn't afford the high cost of heating oil.

Smith never retracted his earlier reflections about human sympathy and moral philosophy — he kept revising the Theory over the course of his life — and never saw man as motivated exclusively by economic motives narrowly conceived.

These results are consistent with the notion that Europeans, particularly less - skilled individuals living in Western European countries, are disproportionately concerned about the socio - economic impacts of immigration from poorer European countries.

As we theorize normatively about the organization of political life, and about the distribution of socio - economic assets, so we should also theorize about what general shape our economy ought to take and about how our states ought to combine in shaping international economic forces.

«The number crunchers were telling him that there was good evidence that the Tories» economic recovery was only going to work for a few people rather than for everyone — and that in an election about the cost of living, he would always have the upper hand.»

«How can we connect the canals better to the canal towns, and what kind of programming should we have so that we attract more tourists and recreation, better quality of life, access to the waterfront, economic development... «it's about tourism, it's about recreation, it's about irrigation for our farmers, it's about water usage for some of the manufacturing and process plants that we have along the canal system,» Quiniones told WXXI News.

Siena College Research Institute has extensively polled New Yorkers on political views and economic behavior, but one of the latest surveys trends a bit mundane: asking citizens about everyday life.

The mayor largely shirked questions about the gubernatorial race, but did comment on what he believed to be important issues for New Yorkers, including economic fairness, «ensuring people have a decent standard of living» and other progressive - leaning ideas.

«Whether you're living in Wyandach or Whitestone it's about strengthening the economic recovery and protecting Medicare for Seniors, and stabilizing taxes.»