Sentences with phrase «basic human longings»

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The «fair reading model» is driven, Souter concluded, by an understandable yet nonetheless naive «longing for a world without ambiguity» - by the «basic human hunger for certainty and control.»

The answer is pretty specific and pretty basic and it has to do with human sexuality, as that is how LGTQ, or current label differ from long - held teaching and tradition, and also what nature would seem to indicate.

Cultural anthropologists have long recognized how all human societies have similar basic norms of moral conduct.

Your final statement however is possibly the most chilling... You are in effect saying that should churches ever be banned world wide (like that will ever happen in America where the freedom of religion is a basic human right) then mankind no longer has a right to exist.

It must have been hell to thinking human beings back then... not knowing the basics of how our Solar System works... heck, we just figured out not that long ago that there is more to the universe than our galaxy.

Long ago Plato suggested that we consider it as divided into three parts — the appetitive, spirited, and rational — that correspond to the three basic kinds of human desires: the desire to satisfy physical appetites, the desire for recognition, and the desire for truth.

While it may well be tax dollars which support institutional and community care and all the other manifold responses to human need on the part of our society, the inherent motivation derives from Christian understanding, and the policy and guidelines reflect a basic Christian concern, Regrettably, there is no direct ratio any longer — the gears do not engage smoothly!

CH: It's not necessary to be a philosopher to be practical, in certain basic animal and human ways — and that is why the world got on for a long time without much of what we now think of as philosophy.

The collective right to peace demands such a basic approach — in fact and law — that we can no longer afford to regard it merely as a sentimental concept or to confine it to an intellectual category of human rights.

GK Chesterton rightly noted that all arguments are theological arguments, that is to say, eventually all political and moral disagreements, if pursued for long enough, get down to the brass tacks of our basic assumptions about the ultimate meaning and purpose of human individuals and human society.

But we must realize that we shall be building on sand so long as bodies of this kind are not agreed on the basic values and purpose underlying their projects and decisions — that is to say, on their attitude towards human totalization.

As Yves Simon and Heinrich Rommen long ago demonstrated, there is room for disagreement within the tradition of natural law about how one envisions the role played by God as the author of human nature, or about the tortuous problem of culpability when there is deeply rooted perversity of basic inclinations.

Feminists have long argued about whether the most basic human oppression is a function of gender, class or both.

War, however, can be viewed as relatively temporary, while tyranny may precipitate long - range bondage and the suppression of those freedoms basic to human dignity and welfare.

The opinion was of a kind we are used to seeing by now from Justice Kennedy: long on windy rhetoric about «dignity» and ad hominem attacks on the basic human decency of the law's defenders, and short on actual coherent legal reasoning from recognizable constitutional principles.

The same holds true for the world of today: as long as a system of law abides by the basic human rights that bear no exception, there is no reason for interference by the Church.

Such personal and family narcissism is, in the long run, self - defeating for myself and my family, because it denies our basic responsibility to the larger human family of which we all are members.

If they try to negate the culture completely, they find themselves without a genuine tradition with which to work, and they neglect those basic guidelines which the culture itself has developed through long experience in order to avoid the pathological dead ends of human psychology.

Once there is no longer a demand for tomatoes from farms that refuse to follow basic human rights laws, they will have no choice but to adhere to the new standards — fair wages and working conditions for all.

The most basic argument for a placental transfusion or a delayed cord clamping is if it were essentially injurious or detrimental to us, then humans would have become extinct long before the invention of the clamping of the cord.

And the most basic argument for cord clamping is essentially if it were injurous or detrimental to us, then humans would have become extinct long before the invention of clamping of the cord.

«Cities and counties all across the state have stepped up and recognized the importance of protecting transgender individuals from discrimination, and it is long overdue that the state guarantees these basic human rights for all transgender New Yorkers.»

UK Aid is helping to educate women and girls in parts of Asia where that most basic of human rights has been denied to them for so long.

«Words can not fully express hat today's historic Supreme Court's decision means for millions of Americans who have been wrongly denied their most basic human rights for far too long.

Every year Tryon teaches archaeology undergrads basic toolmaking; the students struggle to produce forms perfected long ago by human ancestors.

Bipedalism, one of the basic markers of humans, apparently developed long before other traits, such as stone - tool making.

In humans, stuttering has long been linked to a mutation in the «housekeeping» gene Gnptab, which maintains basic levels of cellular function.

After applying the model to human speech, researchers boiled the verbal impediment down to two basic characteristics — fewer vocalizations in a given period of time and longer gaps in between each vocalization.

The Society for Neuroscience and other organizations have long sponsored the website BrainFacts.org, which has basic information about how the human...

«Science lies at the heart of so much that is basic to our humanity, to our dignity as humans, and to our long - term viability as a human race on this Earth,» Wyndham said.

Scientists have long believed that humans» ability to form words — basic building blocks of language — emerged as a distinctive brain mechanism to support communication.

This made the group wonder: Has it really taken humans this long to reveal this basic behavior?

Those tests will answer basic questions about changes in cells and genes; they are not the elaborate, years - long studies exposing lab animals or examining humans that can answer most important health questions.

Although linguists have long believed that counting and having words for numbers are basic, if not innate, to human cognition, the Pirahã people in Brazil have no words to express numerical concepts such as «one,» «two,» or «many.»

His to - do list includes spending long hours studying the basic regeneration processes of the human immune system and reading Stephen King novels to hone his English - language skills.

More fundamental is the fact that education is a basic human right that has been systematically denied too many women for too long.

I don't buy extreme Paleo lifestyle as I said but there is a lot of truth to their basic claims andI think extreme claims on both sides are obviously invalidated by the evidence of the blue zone diet of longest lives humans who do neither.

The way screenwriter Luke Davies and first - time feature film director Garth Davis («Top of the Lake») have adapted «Lion» from the page (the 2013 memoir, A Long Way Home) to the screen is nothing short of fascinating, boldly combining all the basic human emotions — love, sadness, grief, anger, joy and hope to produce one of the year's best films.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights posits education as a fundamental human right essential for the exercise of all other rights, and today, education is no longer seen (at least by major humanitarian organizations and most governments) as a secondary consideration in stabilizing populations after disaster, but a basic emergency serHuman Rights posits education as a fundamental human right essential for the exercise of all other rights, and today, education is no longer seen (at least by major humanitarian organizations and most governments) as a secondary consideration in stabilizing populations after disaster, but a basic emergency serhuman right essential for the exercise of all other rights, and today, education is no longer seen (at least by major humanitarian organizations and most governments) as a secondary consideration in stabilizing populations after disaster, but a basic emergency service.

In the 19th century, strategies to cure the disease focused on balancing the body's humours - the long - standing theory that human illness was related to an imbalance in the four basic human temprements (indeed, cholera takes its name from one of these four: choleric - bad - tempered or irritable).

For this reason she is committed to using only the most modern and ethical positive reinforcement techniques that go beyond «basic obedience» to build life - long skills for dogs and their humans.

We utilize clicker training technology that goes beyond «basic obedience» to build life - long skills and create more joyful and rewarding relationships between dogs and their humans.

Canine Geriatric Basics is hypoallergenic and contains human - grade ingredients so that your best friend can live a long and healthy life.

we honor the human / animal bond by ensuring every cat, dog and rabbit has access to high - quality, affordable basic veterinary care so that they can live a long, healthy life with a family that cherishes them.

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Unfortunately for policymakers and the public, while the basic science pointing to a rising human influence on climate is clear, many of the most important questions will remain surrounded by deep complexity and uncertainty for a long time to come: the pace at which seas will rise, the extent of warming from a certain buildup of greenhouse gases (climate sensitivity), the impact on hurricanes, the particular effects in particular places (what global warming means for Addis Ababa or Atlanta).

Many of those promoting stasis in the face of a clear need for a global energy quest have used this saga as a kind of «blackwash» that will long linger like a cloud, tainting public appreciation of even the undisputed basics of science pointing to a rising human influence on climate.

While the basics of global warming science are now firmly established, climatologists immersed in «attribution» research, investigating the mix of factors shaping a particular heat wave, deluge or drought, are still arguing long and hard about whether there is a discernible contribution from human - driven warming.

-- A paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences attempted to sort hundreds of publishing climate scientists into two categories — those convinced and unconvinced of the basics on human - driven global warming — and found nearly all of those with long, heavily cited publishing records were convinced.

Pekka - I hope you noticed that I have in no way denied the basic point that humans are emitting large amounts of CO2 and that those emissions might possibly have an impact on the planets long term climate.