Sentences with phrase «as society increasingly»

And that includes recognizing the longterm ramifications (and the impact on the choices people are often forced to make) when as a society we increasingly individualize and download the cost of things like education onto graduates and their families.

«We as a society increasingly have woken up and realized this isn't good for us,» says Shaich, when referencing the additives and artificial preservatives that have become a mainstay in U.S. food production in the past half century.

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As a result, society increasingly is turning to the private sector and asking that companies respond to broader societal challenges.

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.

Silicon Valley is facing an identity crisis — once the poster child for futuristic innovation, it's increasingly seen as a bunch of rich white guys chasing money at the expense of everybody else, including their employees and society at large.

During the past three decades, a vision of the federal judiciary as the moral tutor appointed for a recalcitrant society has become dominant in the American legal academy and increasingly within the courts themselves.

In the Enlightenment view of the world, ethical issues regularly get reduced to issues of civil liberties, which is increasingly being shown to be a far too simplistic category to guide society in dealing with such complex moral problems as incest, abortion, divorce, and substance abuse.

For a certain sector of society, religion has been replaced by the aesthetic, by culture understood as high culture (and, increasingly, as deviant culture).

People are increasingly recognized that the economy itself is far too important to be left to those who deal with it in such abstract ways and that society as a whole is too rich to be placed in the service of the market.

One final point that follows from this line of thought, which is also common to both Holloway and Pope Benedict, is that just as the Incarnation has already unified the family of man in a new way, society needs structures of government that reflect its increasingly globalised unity.

The widespread promotion of the products of western capitalism, coupled with increased availability of goods and the sustained cultivation of desire through commercial media, has led to a profound influence of the philosophy of consumerism in western societies and increasingly in developing countries as well.

As society relies more and more heavily on science and technology on ever more fundamental levels, it becomes increasingly more important that all citizens receive a proper grounding in science and the scientific method.

From what has been said thus far, it is obvious that the liberty of individuals to pursue private good is the major moral concern of the new reformers and for this reason their ethical views can fairly be seen as a variety of the contractarian social ethic now increasingly characteristic of political society.

It's difficult to hide in a full police uniform from a society that increasingly views you as a violent, racist thug.

But that was not as bad as the week before, when a seminarian — addressing a congregation where at least a dozen of us were sitting in wheelchairs — exhorted us to stand up for Christ in an increasingly secular society!

It may also display the common tradition about authority to a society increasingly in need of its resources and thereby make a contribution to the health of society that is as welcome as it is unexpected.

If the churches could manage such a reclamation, they might manage as well both to reconstitute their common life and to offer to all a view of authority now increasingly rare in the general life of society.

Through Christian education the fellowship of believers (the church) seeks to help persons become aware of God's seeking love as shown especially in Jesus Christ and to respond in faith and love to the end that they may develop self - understanding, sell - acceptance, and self - fulfillment under God; increasingly identify themselves as sons of God and members of the Christian community; live as Christian disciples in all relations in human society; and abide in the Christian hope.

Thus implicitly and explicitly the denominations in their concern for the education of ministers, and the schools entrusted with the task, make it evident that they think of themselves increasingly as branches or members of a single community, as orders and institutions with special duties or assignments to be carried out in partnership with other branches of one society.

Writing in the Baylor Law Review before the Romer decision, David Smolin of Samford University Law School argues that the present Court» rejecting «religiously based» claims as inherently particularistic» is increasingly dismissing «traditional theists» as too absolutist to join in public debate in a pluralistic society.

It was, in any case, increasingly unrealistic to hope, as some Catholics did well into the twentieth century, for a return to traditional Catholic societies in Europe, under the leadership of Catholic princes.

In the next few years, as our society descends deeper into the abyss, we shall find this question of legitimacy to be increasingly urgent.

Are you so stupid to not see that as society goes down the tubes that those that follow Jesus will be increasingly out of step?

This kind of broad association is of particular value to a society like ours, one in which people are increasingly tribalized and segregated and even a laudable value like diversity can be trivialized, as when a mother brags about how her child attends such a «wonderfully diverse» prep school, what with the boy from Senegal whose dad is a UN diplomat and the girl from Sri Lanka whose mom is an officer with the World Bank.

The basic institutional pattern of modern societies was laid down, in his view, between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries with the emergence of a relatively autonomous political system which was accompanied by increasingly autonomous systems in other realms as well, such as science, law, education, and art.

Like Habermas, he has immersed himself in the growing literature on language, discourse, and communication, coming increasingly to conceive of society itself as a vast system of communicative action, and this perspective has given him a number of novel ideas about the nature of religion.

It has created an increasingly complex - society in which the individual has found himself as part of a multiplicity rather than a unity, associated with many different groups and institutions of which the church is merely one.

Not only do scientists — and especially social scientists — demonstrate radically low levels of religious commitment, but scientific and social scientific meaning systems appear to operate as functional alternatives to traditional theistic ideas for a number of people, and technical rationality plays an increasingly important legitimating function in the wider society.

As American society has become increasingly institutionalized, the churches have sent more and more ministers into institutions of various types.

In «Abortion in the Tides of Culture» (December 2002), Frederica Mathewes «Green considers mainstream society's increasingly intolerant attitude toward drunkenness and speculates that our society may analogously reject abortion and the other aspects of the sexual revolution eventually as well, not so much as a result of our preaching, but simply because people may eventually realize that the assumptions and lifestyle of the sexual revolution do not in fact lead to happiness.

But from the fall of the Bastille in 1789 until his death in 1797, Burke's writings seem to reveal an increasingly intransigent critic of almost everything we have come to understand as modern in politics, religion, and society.

I came to London as a young Catholic in the early 1980s — when belief in God was coming under attack not only from the secular establishment, which has always been philosophically materialist, but from the «fittest» members (in a Darwinian sense) of an increasingly materialistic and self - satisfied society.

«More than ever, as our society becomes increasingly multicultural and religious extremism continues to dominate the news agenda, we need young people to be religiously literate.

His intervention comes weeks after a social attitudes survey found that Britain is becoming an increasingly godless society, with more than half of the population now describing themselves as having «no religion».

• Revising how subsidies are allotted to producers, and how different practices are taxed across the value chain; • Influence the evolution of production standards so that they guide producers toward increasingly sustainable practices; • Refining public education regarding what are best practices of production systems (and accounting for them), and how to make them more widespread; • Studying the effects different practices and production systems have on society - wide challenges such as public health (and health insurance, whether it is publicly or privately provided), climate change mitigation, job creation and family income, etc..

«It's increasingly a trend, especially as society becomes less judgmental of men who want to step into that role,» Joanna Coles, the magazine's then - editor - in - chief, told the Today show.

The «extras» at Linden show up as positive traits, common in our graduates, but increasingly uncommon in today's fast - paced society.

As a society, we're getting increasingly pickier about what we consider «good nutrition.»

I believe these are exciting times for craft because as a society we are getting increasingly sick of mass - produced disposable items, where everything looks the same.

Adoptive breastfeeding is becoming increasingly common as the society moves towards embracing this new idea.

Moreover, fin - de-siècle Americans turned increasingly to science as the most credible authority, particularly in matters of health and the human life cycle.24 An effect of this was the increased stature in society, whether self - generated or not, of the medical community.

Beginning this week, Attachment Parenting International (API) will be publishing weekly Editor's Pick posts — through which we'll be highlighting an article or blog post that takes a look at attachment science as it increasingly becomes commonplace in our society.

As we work out solutions to the new tensions of living in an increasingly diverse society, we need to take an approach that balances everyone's rights fairly and we are pleased that the European Court of Justice has today appeared to reinforce that principle.»

«As a result, the project of a national society of citizens, especially liberalism's twentieth - century version, appears increasingly exhausted and discredited.»

But it is difficult to understand how saying the government has a special focus on religious believers and describing our diverse and increasingly non-religious society as «Christian» would help to bring people together rather than divide.»

The Group continued into the 1960s and although it was never formally wound up it became increasingly a debating society as the mainstream of the party endorsed Grimond's political strategy and the economic liberals gradually lost influence or left the party.

Today we inhabit a society in which prejudice, fear and hatred of foreigners increasingly erodes logic, morality and even national self - interest; where MPs are targeted; where judges are described as enemies of the people, where a foreign woman who insists on the primacy of parliament is subject to racist abuse and rape and death threats, where you can be verbally and physically attacked if you speak a foreign language in the street or simply happen to look foreign.

«As opposed to advocating for a more level playing field for those off all religions and none by stating thatChristian Churches have a unique position in British society and a particularly strong claim to be heard, he is supporting the increasingly strident lobbying of a minority of Christians for more influence in our public life and greater privilege for those with Christian beliefs.

Mr Copson spoke about how, increasingly, advocates of Bishops have also built their case on the position of the Church of England as our largest NGO — a civil society group with a branch in every community.

The contribution these grandparents are making to society can not be underestimated, yet many are part of the baby - boomer generation increasingly labelled as «selfish».