Sentences with phrase «about human hopes»

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By discovering more about their survival tricks, the researchers hope to learn more ways to protect human cells from damage.

Hoping to learn something about how the human body defends itself against cancer, he had zeroed in on a complex regiment of lymphocytes called T cells, common to the immune systems in both mouse and man.

Now we just have to hope that robots deem it nice to keep those humans around with their weak biological bodies and their brains that are about a trillion trillion times less powerful than theirs.

I've been retired about 6 months now — to see see the relative effect of saving and compounding over a human - scaled period of a few years check out this graph of my fund value over this period (hope the link works for people)

For instance, Hamid speculates about a future political order, based on pure democratic assemblies: «How this assembly would coexist with other preexisting bodies of government was as yet undecided... [U] nlike those other entities for which some humans were not human enough to exercise suffrage, this new assembly would speak from the will of all the people, and in the face of that will, it was hoped, greater justice might be less easily denied.»

The campaign hopes to raise awareness about gender - based violence as a human rights issue at the local, national, regional and international level.

This reflects the inadequate information on which he relied, a certain hope about the human situation that kept him from assuming the worst, and a habitual skepticism about reports of priestly immorality» an inevitable reaction given what had been a standard practice of deception in Communist intelligence services.

Because, my God, though I lack the soul - zeal and the sublime integrity of your saints, I yet have received from you an overwhelming sympathy for all that stirs within the dark mass of matter; because I know myself to be irremediably less a child of heaven than a son of earth; therefore I will this morning climb up in spirit to the high places, bearing with me the hopes and the miseries of my mother; and there — empowered by that priesthood which you alone (as I firmly believe) have bestowed on me — upon all that in the world of human flesh is now about to be born or to die beneath the rising sun I will call down the Fire.

We are human beings, and we relate to one another better when we stop expecting the other person to behave in a prescribed, programmed way but instead talk openly with one another about our actual desires, preferences, hopes, and expectations.

It is the discipline of honesty about the human plight — sin, evil, injustice, unfulfilled hope, unanswered questions.

I have faith in the human ability to grasp meaning out of chaos, to forge determination in the way of nihilism, to love, to hope, and to give a damn about the feelings of others.

One may hope that The Tipping Point is not likely to reach the tipping point of influencing many people in their thinking about the human condition.

The biblical hope is not based on human ability to sort out the problems of the world and order its future, but it is based on God's future, a future which God is bringing about in Jesus Christ.

My hope is ultimately Mr. Roddenberry ends up being correct about the human race.

I hope I would remember to turn sincerely and expectantly to God for guidance as to how to do more — intelligently — to meet the immediate human needs of the multitude, but to take practical inspired steps for healing the fears, hates, misunderstanding, and cruelties that bring suffering to humanity» («Some Questions and Answers about Christian Science,» Christian Science Sentinel, September 2, 1985, pp. 1508 - 09).

We hope that you find this a worthy cause and join the efforts in creating awareness about the struggle to have human rights defenders partake in the OIC's Independent Permanent Human Rights Commishuman rights defenders partake in the OIC's Independent Permanent Human Rights CommisHuman Rights Commission.

That makes our species feel better about ourselves, and we hope that when we are the ones going through the tragedy that our fellow humans will do the same for us.

And what about the hope and optimism still embodied in the areas of human creativity — science and its attendant technologies?

If ever a man is tempted, in a low mood, to give up hope about humanity, let him think upon the courage which human life on every side of him exhibits — the quiet, constant, sustained heroic courage in obscure and forgotten places where nobody sees!

But it is significant that an entire book could be written in 1977 about the practical meaning of a theology of hope without discussing the relevance to that practical meaning of the serious doubtfulness of human survival.

Too many people cared more about the quality of life based on human relationships than about the hoped for increase in income.

Rather, what is needed in Indianapolis and Atlanta and everywhere today, like what was needed in ancient Jerusalem, lies deep underneath such issues: the truth about human hurt and human hope.

Such a statement reflects not only Kristol's sense of humor but also the balance he sought between skepticism and hope: skepticism about the perfectibility of human nature, hope that it can sometimes be improved in real but incremental ways.

But the only thing that each of us can and should do is what we each must do ultimately alone, if we have vocations to be writers: Go off and write out of the very fullness of human experience about the very fullness of human experience and hope to find and affect contemporary readers and the greater world, and in the meantime leave the distracting and finally pointless diagnoses of who were the Catholic writers, and how much, and how well, how little, how importantly, to the critics and scholars.

Since the doctrine of sin is the only element known by some of his critics, a common conclusion is that Niebuhr was too pessimistic about human nature, that he saw only man's sin, and that he offered no proximate or ultimate hope.

The hope for a redeemed humanity, living in dignity, freedom, and brotherhood under God is an integral part of the Christian faith about the meaning of the human adventure.

How were the firstborns to die — tangible murder, or a disease brought about by poor birthing conditions engineered by the medical community of the time, or by a pulse from the Anananunki planet that could be attributed to a weak, ineffectual god assigned to this sector of the universe and passed off as omnipotent because He thought he was, or knew he had to pretend to be, to give humans Any Hope AT ALL?

The French dramatic theorist Antonin Artaud, in speaking about the French classical theater, which had become formal and aloof from the issues of human hope, wrote, «In the anguished, catastrophic period in which we live, we feel an urgent need for a theater in which events do not exceed, where resonance is deep within us, dominating the instability of the times.»

It is significant that an entire book could be written in 1970 about the practical meaning of a theology of hope without discussing the relevance to that practical meaning of the serious doubtfulness of human survival.

How can a civilization that fails to make provision for the next generation» or even to bring about the next generation at all» hope to give a compelling account of itself before a world of competing visions of the human future?

Therefore, we approach the discipline of being a community of moral conversation, not only with our natural human anxieties about conflict and change, but also with the hope we have in God's grace, our belief in the power of the Spirit to work through and among us.

Mirosal... you are not doing great with any answers... as a matter of fact you arent answering any questions... you are asking them... and why is it so important to claim that you are atheist... this is false pride... something that is evident in any unatural and foolish human group... its almost as if people hide behind this false pride to make them feel better for things they know in their own heart are foolish... and what need is there for order if there is no GOD... because if no one cared about their soul... then this might become the dog eat dog world that you people are hoping for

Jeremy good message and quite relevant for today God is still looking at our hearts and motives for serving him or are we serving our own agenda as Jonah was.He did nt feel compassionate towards his enemies and who could blame him they had cruelly killed many Jews it was a question of life or death to his own people.The Jewish nation was no more deserving of Gods grace than the other nations that is revealed by sending Jonah to preach a message of hope and life.Ultimately God calls all by faith in him and is willing to be merciful to all nations and peoples that do not not deserve it just like us it is by grace that we all are forgiven.I am pleased that God is sovereign and knows whats best he is merciful to us.Our human nature is that it is better to kill our enemies before they can kill us and that is essentially Jonahs message that is why he struggled to be obedient to Gods will.Gods message is to forgive those that trespass against us and show mercy.Its complicated and it is natural to protect ourselves and our families from those who would seek to destroy them but ultimately its about trusting God with everything easier said than done.If it comes to a choice we will have to trust God and ask for his strength because we cant do it in ours.As Christ laid down his life for us are we ready to lay our lives and the lives of our families as a sacrifice for him.To me that is where the story of Jonah is leading to we have the choice to fight our enemies or to love them as God loves them.brentnz

Nothing about the moral adequacy of theism seems as obvious to them as Taylor's bold statement makes it» and they are sufficiently mindful of the atrocities committed in the name of God to suggest that whatever moral hope there is for the human enterprise.

They prescind from undertaking judgments about human goods in the hope of attracting universal support for the regimes they propose.

They might take the preacher more seriously if he would be honest about what he has to offer, namely, that sometimes he has little to offer, and can only stand humbly before the human question with the hope that God will be able to speak and act out of his honest weakness.

Herbert Anaya, president of the Non-Governmental Human Rights Commission, spoke to me that June day about the U.S. war against the poor in his country, about low - intensity conflict, human rights, and human Human Rights Commission, spoke to me that June day about the U.S. war against the poor in his country, about low - intensity conflict, human rights, and human human rights, and human human hope.

One might have hoped that many of Thomas» own principles about the human person, liberty, conscience, and the indispensable freedom of faith would have led him to oppose the widespread legal consensus.

Likewise, the belief that humans have been wholly corrupted by the Fall has certain implications regarding what we hope for and how we expect it to come about.

... Since man enjoys the capacity for a free personal choice in truth... the right to religious freedom should be viewed as innate to the fundamental dignity of every human person... all people are «impelled by nature and also bound by our moral obligation to seek the truth, especially religious truth» (Second Vatican Council, Dignitatis Humanae, 2)... let me express my sincere hope that your expertise in the fields of law, political science, sociology and economics will converge in these days to bring about fresh insights on this important question andthus bear much fruit now and into the future.

The man who spent his early life as a worker behind the Iron Curtain became the instrument of the Holy Spirit in teaching the world about the true dignity of man, of human labour, and about the unfathomable power of Divine Mercy to transform evil into good, despair into hope, and oppression into freedom.

It is quite understandable, then, that whenever human hope fails and despair about the future grows, there is often a resurgence of attempts to find refuge in either hedonistic or ascetic flights from history.

It is by no means clear why this egalitarian Eden, which relies wholly on human will power, is less illusory — especially in this blood - soaked century when human capacity is unmasked — than the Jewish apocalyptic hope for the coming of God's kingdom.The value of these books is not in what they say about Jesus so much as in what their saying these things prompts one to think about.

Let me confess at the very outset that I think it is possible to reconcile the human hope for some cosmic purpose with what modern science has told us about nature.

That said, I'm really hoping the title of this recipe doesn't confuse more people into thinking my site is all about making food for pet birds OR even worse, humans eating bird seed.

As i wait for the arrival of a baby conceived after the death of my first baby when he was a month old, i worry about being able to offer him / her a life not completely shadowed by sadness and grief... I hold on to the hope that the love i already feel for this tiny human growing in me will allow me to give him the full life he / she deserves.

Despite all the problems plaguing organized sports there is plenty of good happening too that will be covered; and he'll talk about a renewed sense of hope for the future of these games we love and a new model for thinking about them: youth sport as a human right.

At this time, directly translating research findings to the delivery room is difficult, but I hope that this post will stimulate thought and conversations about the silent, invisible, yet important third member of human birth and life.

I hope shareholders will think carefully about the human cost of the policies you pursue and the damage to Nestlé's image when it comes to your re-election.

And for years, there have been accidents resulting in horse deaths and human injuries, the most recent occurring just last month when an SUV collided with a horse, which I hope you read about.