Sentences with phrase «about human agency»

But more than that, thinking about human agency in terms of more than a few centuries just doesn't make a great deal of sense to me.

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If the next decade of human space transportation is about private companies finding and developing cheaper and more efficient ways into Earth orbit, the decade following will be all about space agencies learning how to operate farther and farther from home, with an eventual eye to orbiting and eventually landing humans on Mars in the mid-2030s (per NASA's timeline).

Looking ahead: The Environmental Protection Agency, under its new management, decided to issue new talking points to staffers instructing them to disperse doubt when talking about human activity being a cause of climate change.

Thus an economist at the Environmental Protection Agency, when asked «What about the theory that human life is priceless?»

This possibility challenges us to ask about the relationship between divine and human agency.

I don't know how I feel about that / human agency etc..

But while the former Democratic Congressman from Massachusetts is sharply critical of U.S. human rights policy (especially as conducted by Republican Administrations), he shows less concern about UN agencies, and none at all about the financing, motives, and agendas of the very mixed bag of interest groups known as NGOs.

David Brooks has a column in today's NYT about how some evolutionary theorists try to force random evolution into a form that can explain human moral agency.

But the biblical picture of God and humanity also includes real interaction: Adam and Eve sin, and God casts them out of the Garden; Abraham argues with God about the fate of Sodom and Gomorrah» and, in that interaction, God's agency is seen as distinct from human agency.

In the New Testament itself the universal fatherhood of God involves the universal brotherhood of man, and, so far as human agency is concerned, only moral forces are counted on to bring about the recognition of the one and the reformation of life to fit the other.

It is sad that we get bucket loads of information from agencies about the legal and paper work stuff, but not much on what actually birth / first moms want, the human side of it.

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A fact sheet from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), indicates that about 90 % of exposure for humans is due to eating contaminated food, since dioxins and furans typically accumulate in the fatty tissues of fish and animals that are exposed when these by - products are released into the water and air during manufacturing.2 Dioxin is not metabolized in our bodies, and is passed to our children through the placenta and breastfeeding.3 Sodium Polyacrylate - Super Absorbent Polymers While actual contact with disposable diapers does not contribute to dioxin accumulation in your baby, your baby's bottom does come in contact with chemicals used to increase the absorbency of the diapers.

That investigation will run at the same time as an Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) inquiry into UK Border Agency (UKBA) spot - checks at British tube stations, after fears were raised that officers were using racial profiling to select who to speak to about their immigration status.

The federal budget proposal would cut about $ 2.9 trillion to human services programs, including to 13 Suffolk agencies.

In an about - face, the agency agreed that global warming is happening; that humans, by pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, are responsible; and that the American environment is likely to change dramatically over the next century.

According to the European Space Agency, about a quarter of all human CO2 emissions are being taken in by the world's oceans.

Today, the European Medicines Agency (EMEA) has about 500 staff members, 40 % of whom are pharmacists, human and veterinary doctors, or life scientists.

On the human spaceflight side, which accounts for about half of the agency's budget, Congress continued to support both public and private approaches to getting humans into space.

In an unpublished report to the US Environmental Protection Agency, the researchers say they found no acute or immediate impacts on human health, though they warn that the samples were small and that they could not say anything about possible long - term effects.

In a 2012 paper Jacques Blamont, a founding director of the French space agency CNES, argued that people are losing interest in the human exploration of space «because spacefaring nations, and especially the USA, have clung on to outmoded cold war ways of thinking about it.

Regulators from various agencies disagree about the level of human threat that these products pose.

But he cautions that readers should keep in mind that in countries such as Burma / Myanmar and Zimbabwe, «political and human rights considerations limit both what we know about HIV and what a U.N. agency can say.»

The European Space Agency (ESA) w3 is Europe's gateway to space, organising programmes to find out more about Earth, its immediate space environment, our Solar System and the Universe, as well as to co-operate in the human exploration of space, to develop satellite - based technologies and services, and to promote European industries.

About the National Institutes of Health (NIH): NIH, the nation's medical research agency, includes 27 institutes and centers and is a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

The all - inclusive annual ASE Planetary Congress, held in a different host country each year, has a long history as the premier forum for astronauts and cosmonauts from all spacefaring nations to meet and exchange information about their respective space agencies, human spaceflight operations and future plans for exploration beyond low earth orbit.

About the National Institutes of Health (NIH): The Nation's Medical Research Agency includes 27 Institutes and Centers and is a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

The European Space Agency (ESA) w2 is Europe's gateway to space, organising programmes to find out more about Earth, its immediate space environment, our Solar System and the Universe, as well as to co-operate in the human exploration of space, develop satellite - based technologies and services, and to promote European industries.

We are talking about the scale of human agency.

The agency assures the public that so far, there are no human studies linking triclosan to health problems, but we wanted to warn you about the developments.

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Starring Craig Robinson (The Office, This Is the End) and Adam Scott (Parks and Recreation, Big Little Lies), Ghosted is a comedy about the partnership between two polar opposites — a cynical skeptic and a genius «true believer» in the paranormal — who are recruited by a secret government agency, known as The Bureau Underground, to save the human race from aliens.

In particular, these handouts cover the following specific content about tuberculosis in South Africa: Case study of one communicable disease, such as malaria or tuberculosis, at a country scale, either an LIDC or EDC, including: o environmental and human causes of the disease o prevalence, incidence and patterns of the disease o socio - economic impacts of the disease o direct and indirect strategies used by government and international agencies to mitigate against the disease and respond to outbreaks.

Only slightly more than a half - century ago, historians began to «revise» that narrative, examining sources previously ignored or unseen, informed by new ideas about race and human agency....

When asked specifically about this in a House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services and Education, and Related Agencies meeting in May, Education Secretary DeVos refused to guarantee that she would prohibit private schools from receiving federal dollars if they discriminate.35

It happened, for example, during her May appearance before the House subcommittee on labor, health and human services, education and related agencies to testify about the Trump administration's 2018 budget proposal.

«Somewhat anemic characters, a silly subplot involving the autobiography of a yeti, and a lack of trenchant observations about human nature may disappoint those expecting the high quality of Smith's No. 1 Ladies» Detective Agency series.»

According to «Maddie's Fund» president Richard Avanzino, in the 1970s, our country's animal control agencies were killing, on average, about 115 dogs and cats annually for every 1000 human residents.

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It argues and rethinks city space from established divisions of function / non-function, human / extra-human, built / empty and productive / non-productive, local / global, urban / rural to more hybrid, blurred and merged notions about contemporary city space and about the agencies that are forming it.

Many of the objects referenced have conveyed a sense of agency or empowerment, and compelled me throughout my life to learn more about how humans have shaped the world around them into objects, buildings, landscapes, spaces and networks.

Dr. Ghassem R. Asrar, NASA's associate administrator for earth science, said Aqua's data, combined with information gathered by the other satellites that are part of the agency's Earth Observing System, would help resolve scientific conflicts about global warming and how much of it could be attributed to human activity.

Mr. Dickson wrote passionately about several areas in climate science that troubled him, including: first, the idea that 97 percent of climate scientists agree that climate change is real, caused by humans, and a threat; second, the idea that government agencies had manipulated temperature records to fit a narrative of warming; and third, that China is developing its coal resources so fast that nothing short of radical population control will save us, if burning fossil fuels really does cause global warming.

All came about because of the failure of public agencies charged with protecting human health and the environment to respond in a timely manner and do their jobs.

Inhofe said that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was in the business of «brainwashing our kids» by releasing «propaganda» about climate change and the role that human beings are playing in the destruction of the planet.

As the scientific world was rocked the past few days by the fraud and lies perpetrated by IPCC climate scientists, it should not be forgotten that lying, and other non-scientific methodologies, have been employed by various UN agencies to make ludicrous claims about human CO2 and climate change.

Many EPA staff, he wrote to Administrator Pruitt, «are becoming increasing alarmed about the direction of EPA under your leadership,» citing Pruitt's blatant denial of established climate science, his frequent demonizing of the agency, his decision to bring in political appointees openly hostile to the EPA, his failure to grasp the role of EPA's 10 Regional Offices, and his recommended slashes to the budget that would eliminate important programs that protect major ecosystems and human health.

Scheduled speakers include some of the nation's best - known global warming skeptics, including Anthony Watts, a television weatherman; Timothy Ball, a former University of Winnipeg professor who has been sued for libel by Michael Mann, a prominent mainstream climate scientist; and Alan Carlin, a former Environmental Protection Agency analyst who claims he was muzzled when he raised questions about the agency's finding that atmospheric carbon dioxide is a threat to human health and the enviroAgency analyst who claims he was muzzled when he raised questions about the agency's finding that atmospheric carbon dioxide is a threat to human health and the enviroagency's finding that atmospheric carbon dioxide is a threat to human health and the environment.

They found that indigenous women are deeply skeptical about claims that human rights agencies are arm's - length and independent from governments.

In Solloway v Hampshire County Council (1981) 79 LGR 449, 258 Estates Gazette 858 Lord Justice Dunn said that, in Leakey v National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty [1980] QB 485, [1980] 1 All ER 17, Lord Justice Megaw had placed nuisance by tree roots and branches into the same category as any other nuisance not brought about by human agency, and had imported into tree root cases, as conditions of liability, the requirement of knowledge of the encroachment and the requirement of a reasonably foreseeable risk that the encroachment would cause damage.