Sentences with phrase «at a human cost»

We must keep in mind, if our clothing doesn't come at a financial cost, it comes at a human cost.

But as one of those anti-war, «let's all just get along» hippy types, i'll always have a soft spot for games that look at the human cost of armed combat.

Not exact matches

That's similar to human health care, but at least here in Canada, people aren't exposed to those costs thanks to a good state insurance system.

There's at least one relatively recent example the entrepreneurial set can cite: In the late 1980s the federal government said that mapping the first human genome was going to take 15 years and cost $ 3 billion.

A 2011 World Health Organization review, however, did not find that analogue insulins had any advantage over human insulins, and at about twice the cost, the WHO said they're not worth the price.

«Is it absolutely necessary to drive every last penny out of it at the cost of human livelihoods?»

You then have the option of hiriing human translators to edit the machine translation at a reduced cost.

The company has moved from research on rats to the cusp of human trials in less than five years at a cost of less than $ 5 million, a process that can often take twice that long and cost many times more.

The Watsonized app can answer more than 10,000 questions, more efficiently and at lower cost than humans.

«For decades, the failed War on Drugs has locked up millions of nonviolent drug offenders — especially for marijuana - related offenses — at an incredible cost of lost human potential, torn apart families and communities, and taxpayer dollars,» Booker wrote in a Facebook post.

The human tendency to hope for the best and try to avoid failure at all costs gets in the way, and organizational hierarchies exacerbate it.

In 2002, before the sale of PayPal even went through, Musk started voraciously reading about rocket technology, and later that year, with $ 100 million, he started one of the most unthinkable and ill - advised ventures of all time: a rocket company called SpaceX, whose stated purpose was to revolutionize the cost of space travel in order to make humans a multi-planetary species by colonizing Mars with at least a million people over the next century.

Pamela O. Kimmet Director Since: 2016 Pamela Kimmet is the Chief Human Resources Officer at Cardinal Health, Inc., a health care services company which distributes pharmaceuticals and medical products, manufactures medical and surgical products and provides logistics and other services designed to improve the cost - effectiveness of healthcare.

Considering that 70 percent of people turning 65 will need some form of long - term care in retirement, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, you will need at least $ 100,000 a year to cover your costs, says Armstrong.

Unless you really need or especially value the human touch that those services provide, you're probably better off simply choosing low - cost index fund options at a fraction of the bank cost through robo - advisers, which use algorithms to provide automated investment advice, or investment companies (examples of which include Charles Schwab or Vanguard).

Our mission is to create intuitive, and accessible technologies that make it simple for every human to have total control over his or her money and transact safely and securely with the entire world instantly at little or no cost.

At most organizations, human costs represent around 70 % of total operating expenses.

«Robotic automation, despite its benefits, is arriving at a great human cost,» Gannon said.

The values to care the human and the natural life are destroyed by the logics of the profit and survival at all costs.

But I would like to highlight one crucial aspect of Nat's body of work that obituary writers in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Associated Press, and other mainstream media outlets (though not First Things) woefully downplayed: Nat stood steadfastly — sometimes at great professional and personal cost — for the sanctity and equality of human life from conception to natural death.

The Department of Health and Human Services has mandated that most large employers include in their health plans, at no cost, pharmaceutical contraceptives, sterilization procedures, and certain forms of so - called «emergency contraception.»

«In short, under his leadership US IRF policy can advance human rights and, at the same time, make substantial contributions to the national security of the United States at very low cost.»

It says «Damn the torpedoes» of logic and human decency... the bible MUST be right at any cost.

Seen from the viewpoint of our human experience and drawn to our human scale, the world appears as an immense groping in the dark, an immense searching, an immense onslaught, wherein there can be no advance save at the cost of many setbacks and many wounds.

They see many around them whose lives are misdirected toward the accumulation of earthly goods even at the cost of human relationships.

I'm down for some sci - fi philosophizing — gim me some Blade Runner, Moon or WALL - E any time — but on Westworld it comes at the cost of human stories.

it comes at the cost of human stories.

The lawsuit is the most recent challenge to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) mandate that employers provide insurance coverage of contraceptives, including emergency contraceptives such as Plan B and ella, at no cost to employees.

God in His will through history had into reality seemingly illogical or cruel events to happen in our world, but no one is spared if the purpose is for the good of humanity, wars pestilence even the holocust has a reason and purpose beyond our comprehension at our times but will be reveald in the future, The Phillipine catasthrophy for example is viewed by some as Gods punishment, we experienced the brunt of natures punishing power but it also unveiled the true feelings and concern of the whole world in helping us materially and spiiritually by aiding and consoling us that was unprecedented in history, The whole world had demostrated, to me, a kind of humanitarian concern and love that trancends races and culture, A kind of demonstration by higher being the we humans is one with Him.The cost of human lives and misery is nothing in history compared to its positve historical consequences

Much like Enoch Emery in Flannery O Connor's Wise Blood, Clete craves human contact, at any cost.

The Nazi doctors had learned the ethic of their profession: that a physician may not relieve one human being's affliction at the cost of another fellow human's suffering.

When I see the tremendous support the Global March has received, it becomes certain that the 21st century is not going to flourish at the cost of the sweat and blood of children, said Mr. Kailash Satyarthi, of India, the international coordinator of the Global March, who had originally conceived the idea and proposed it to NGOs worldwide working on children's human rights.

I didn't start globalization, I can't stop it — except at a huge cost to human development — and I'm not going to waste my time trying.

He certainly devoted himself to saving human life at the cost of many microbes.

If he delivered the clothes, they often were at cost and accompanied by a plea to the master to divest himself of his human property.

In the eyes of nostalgic Russians, Cuba is almost home territory, a last outpost of a lost Soviet empire that Putin is explicitly trying to reconstruct at great political expense and human cost.

I long for a society in which modernity would have its full place but without implying the denial of elementary principles of human and familial ecology; for a society in which the diversity of ways of being, of living, and of desiring is accepted as fortunate, without allowing this diversity to be diluted in the reduction to the lowest common denominator, which effaces all differentiation; for a society in which, despite the technological deployment of virtual realities and the free play of critical intelligence, the simplest words — father, mother, spouse, parents — retain their meaning, at once symbolic and embodied; for a society in which children are welcomed and find their place, their whole place, without becoming objects that must be possessed at all costs, or pawns in a power struggle.

At about the same time, the Washington Post carried an article by Daniel Southerland entitled «The Staggering Human Cost of Mao's Vision.»

My basis for flatly opposing reproductive and research cloning is that it offers too little human benefit at the cost of too much likely harm, not that it is an offense against human dignity.

God invades human history at the cost of suffering.

The Human Genome Project, not long ago completed at a cost of $ 3 billion, was often presented by its promoters as opening the way to discovering the ultimate genetic causes of all diseases, thus setting the stage for their cure.

Consequently, «salvation» becomes equivalent either with the prolongation of biological human life at all costs or with individual control over the way a particular life ends.

The human capacity for reason and freedom, embraced in the «transgressive» rise to humanhood and embodied in the enlarged cranium, comes at heavy bodily cost to the woman, indeed, often, with risk to her very life.

And I'm begging you, especially, to avoid it at all costs for the good of the human race.

If the law of the Sabbath stood in the way of human service, it was to be suspended; he ate with publicans and sinners to win them to the Kingdom even at the cost of ceremonial uncleanness.

Wesley J. Smith is a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute's Center on Human Exceptionalism and author of A Rat, is a Pig, is a Dog, is a Boy: The Human Cost of the Animal Rights Movement.

At the same time, in view of the damage and destruction wreaked by human sin, he bore the awful cost of restoring and reconciling all things in his own body and soul.

Berrigan's complaint, in short, is that the reestablishment of a Jewish state (a justifiable goal) has come at a tremendous cost in human suffering, armed violence and moral decay; that the course of the new state has been a betrayal of everything the term «Israel» has stood for — justice, compassion, succoring the humiliated and injured; that a «settler state» was established through the expropriation of the people of the land, followed by an imperialist venture, based on the subjugation and exploitation of the conquered; and that, to add moral insult to physical and spiritual injury, the spokesmen of and for the state claim for it a special virtue and glorious achievement which may not be criticized.

I long for a society in which modernity would have its full place, without implying the denial of elementary principles of human and familial ecology; for a society in which the diversity of ways of being, of living and of desiring is accepted as fortunate, without allowing this diversity to be diluted in the reduction to the lowest common denominator, which effaces all differentiation; for a society in which, despite the technological deployment of virtual realities and the free play of critical intelligence, the simplest words» father, mother, spouse, parents» retain their meaning, at once symbolic and embodied; for a society in which children are welcomed and find their place, their whole place, without becoming objects that must be possessed at all costs or a pawns in a power struggle.

The church has not been able to live with the results of such extreme formulations; so it has kept reintroducing human responsibility, but often at the cost of allowing for the self - righteousness the theologians were trying to exclude.