Sentences with phrase «as human issues»

It is addressing issues that we could simply classify as human issues.

Yet «work, as a human issue, is at the very center of the «social question,»» asserts the recent papal encyclical Laborem Exercens (On Performing Work) issued by John Paul II.

Not exact matches

The influential paper identified insects as playing a key role in solving global food security issues and urged for the diversification of human diets.

On top of this are regional health concerns, such as pollution and tropical diseases, and human rights issues.

The US Food and Drug Administration issued a «preliminary finding» that the genetically modified insects, produced by Oxitec at its labs in Oxford, England, and shipped as eggs to Florida, would have essentially «no significant impact» on human health, animal health, or the ecosystem.

Young people don't appear to be as saddled by this issue, though — a 2011 study found that humans are best at learning new names in our early 20s.

Around the world, humans are becoming divided on issues as mundane as brand loyalty, and as explosive as political process and ideology.

But based on appointments of ideological hardliners such as Tom Price (a staunch foe of Obamacare nominated to be the Secretary of Health and Human Services), Michael Flynn (Trump's national security adviser with a dim view of Islam) and Mike Pompeo (the incoming CIA Director who has fiercely opposed the Iran nuclear agreement) and many of his campaign pledges, the chances are high that Trump could squander his limited political capital on divisive ideological issues and neglect his most important priority — getting the American economy out of its low - growth rut.

Restoration of relations would be the latest phase in a normalization process, which is expected to move slowly because of lingering problems over issues such as Cuba's human rights record.

What it's like: Ron Owston, dean of the Faculty of Education at York University in Toronto, was initially surprised at how much time he spent on human resource issues, such as dealing with the concerns of faculty members and mapping out the academic year so professors can handle their course loads.

A government source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Harper intends to raise human rights concerns in a «frank dialogue» with the Chinese leadership — an issue the source described as a «delicate balance.»

Robert Frost delves on issues in funding, human resources, and changes in White House administrations as well as the advent of the Commercial Crew Program.

As Co-chair of the Business and Human Rights Group of Amnesty International USA, Simon Billenness helps manage Amnesty International USA's use of a portfolio of stocks for shareholder activism on issues of human riHuman Rights Group of Amnesty International USA, Simon Billenness helps manage Amnesty International USA's use of a portfolio of stocks for shareholder activism on issues of human rihuman rights.

Zakaria wasn't suggesting ceding Western values and beliefs — but rather recognizing that prevailing attitudes on such issues as the environment, human rights, and social affairs are different in many parts of Asia than those that hold sway in the West.

But she says the issue of sexual harassment as described in a Feb. 19 post by Fowler, who notified Uber's human resources about sexual advances from her boss but was told he could not be disciplined because he was too valued by the company, has not surfaced.

Hopefully, the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee will be more diligent in its review of the 2009 - 10 Public Accounts and press the Ministers of Finance and Human Resources and Skills Development Canada on this issue, as well as the directors of the CEIFB as to how they perceive their role in the setting of EI premium rates.

The Roundtables generated multiple policy recommendations on issues such as standard setting; monitoring and enforcement, expanding the role of women in trade policy and practice, and linking trade treaties with human rights protection.

Through forming a strategic partnership agreement similar to the one conceived on the margins of Canada - European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), Canada can pursue greater co-operation on issues such as international peace and security, counterterrorism, human rights, clean energy and climate change, migration, sustainable development, and innovation.

Specifically, the program will include: hosting of the entrepreneurial team in INTRASOFT premises, business and technology focused guidance and consulting compatible with the team's activities, offered by INTRASOFT staff, as well as business communication services and specialist consultancy services (on administration, legal and financial issues and human resources management).

Explaining to its shareholders how it is addressing strategic risks linked to major environmental and social policy issues, such as climate change and human rights, is an important dialogue every corporation needs to engage in with its shareholders.

We have learned a great deal of these leading executives and family members about such issues as Sustainability, Human Capital, Reporting, Security, and the use of Strategic Outsourcing for such services as the External CIO, Client Reporting, Concierge Medicine, Travel, and Household Staffing, among others.

By naming Amnesty International as a beneficiary, you will also avoid probate tax and ensure that funds are available to help address critical human rights issues as quickly as possible.

But it is one thing to state that all human beings have some access to God's law within and through human nature, quite another to expect natural law theories based on reason alone to persuade others about contested moral issues in a context where such theories are stripped of their foundations in God as creator, lawgiver, and judge.

How about people grow up and stop believing in these ridiculous, bigoted religions and treat this as a human rights issue.

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

The fact is that the issues you speak of are not because the people are members of the LDS church but in fact this is what happens in any society of humans living as close together as we do in large cities.

The HR officer who called Sheldon in was a black woman skilled, as Leonard would say, in handlIng human relations issues....

The more you grow to see them as an actual three - dimensional human being, the easier it will be to engage them on contentious issues without things blowing up in your face.

Michele, «Also a lot of atheists are very self righteous in there thinking as well, so its not just a religious issue its a human issue.»

Such fevered inanities, which would be dismissed as the ravings of a madman had they issued from the likes of the Reverend Jimmy Swaggart, suggest why O'Brien is a poor guide to understanding the millennium now closing, or to assaying the human and democratic prospect beyond the year 2000.»

Someone gay is just as much a human as I am — same feelings, hurts, joys, laughter, issues, problems, etc... I see no reason to exclude them from friendship.

The theological issues are far from resolved; but, judging from what has happened in Bloomington, even conservative Christians (though traditionally among those most opposed to gay civil rights) are learning that theological concerns need not blind any of us to the needs and rights of homosexuals as human beings.

The March 12, 2015 issue of Nature magazine contains an essay — not an original thesis, rather a summation — by two English geographers entitled «Defining the Anthropocene,» the subject of which is whether (and starting when) human activity has so altered the global environment as to constitute a new geologic age: the Anthropocene Age, as successor to the 11,000 - year Holocene Epoch that is itself part of the larger 2.6 million year - old Quaternary Period (or Great Ice Age).

In this way of conceiving evangelicalism the issues may be focused on questions of anthropology where the basic starting point is an Augustinian tradition of human inability (the «bondage of the will») leading as a necessary consequence to the classic Reformation articulations of election and predestination.

While glad to see the change of attitude among conservative Christians with respect to gay civil rights and acceptance of gays as human beings, some persons were troubled over other aspects of the issue.

By an obvious process of metonymy, the educational canon is usually taken as referring to those materials themselves rather than to the rules for their determination, and the subject at issue is taken to be human knowledge in general.

I wouldn't be surprised to learn that many of those who do in fact leave the Church over issues related to sexuality do so because they've been told over and over again that their value as a Christian, and as a human being, is wrapped up in their virginity, so they no longer feel welcomed or worthy.

It is unliveable at the level of society: hence, in Britain we have a government that lauds the freedom of the individual (and it should be noted in passing, but noted very well, that our present generation of politicians rarely talk of the «human person» or just of the «person», but usually of the «individual») but which has brought in some of the most draconian legislation in Europe designed to control what people say and do on certain issues so that society can proceed in its life as a unity and not just as a mere collection of individuals.

Biola then issued a «statement on human sexuality» saying, «God's design for marriage and sexuality is the foundational reason for viewing acts of sexual intimacy between a man and a woman outside of marriage, and any act of sexual intimacy between two person of the same sex, as illegitimate moral options for the confessing Christian.»

Without your proof, we can only assume that you, and groups with which you have affinity in addressing moral issues, obtain and adopt moral views subjectively in the same manner as atheists from within the human collective.

Now the relevance of Jesus to the issue of human rights, often missed as Christian religion, is touched upon by Durant quite interestingly:

While economics as a descriptive study is not concerned with moral issues, the facts of economic life inescapably point to the moral element in human nature.

What availed as the common wisdom of mankind until the day before yesterday — for example, that man, woman, mother, and father name natural realities as well as social roles, that children issue naturally from their union, that the marital union of man and woman is the foundation of human society and provides the optimal home for the flourishing of children — all this is now regarded by many as obsolete and even hopelessly bigoted, as court after court, demonstrating that this revolution has profoundly transformed even the meaning of reason itself, has declared that this bygone wisdom now fails even to pass the minimum legal threshold of rational cogency.

The first issue, which will go online sometime in March, deals with what it means to educate the person as a human being.

General human nature can always take some other issue to fill in the so called void, even a currently open issue that didn't get as much attention previously.

While guarding against a rush to judgment, we can easily think of ministries that are pushing all or many of the current success buttons: they are carried out by a professional elite; they utilize the best marketing and media techniques; they dispense a personal fulfillment strategy to essentially anonymous folk who are regarded as consumers and called to respond in carefully prescribed ways which do not implicate them or their leadership in the more complex and controversial human issues.

while I agree with parts of what you've stated such as: the bible is MOSTLY a book on God and human relationship, I would disagree with you as to whether it's a «good» book on the other issues.

This issue must be taken into consideration when exploring any topic (such as human cloning) that touches on infertility and artificial means of reproduction.

It had directed my attention away from the range of issues that now struck me as crucial for human survival.

Since the State considers them human babies as well... it is a human rights issue for the right for the baby to live.