Sentences with phrase «bear on public life»

These efforts gathered steam in the early years of the last century as the Progressive Movement sought at once to break the power of the old party bosses and to bring the insights of the social sciences to bear on public life.

Not exact matches

Have first hand experience living through different regimes and thoroughly understand the impact of public policy on the quality of life of citizens (i.e. I was born and raised in Communist China and flourished in the wonderful democratic Canada).

Uhlmann of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C., has put together a remarkable range of information and arguments bearing on continuing debates about the end, and ending, of life.

Can we reconceive theological education in such a way that (1) it clearly pertains to the totality of human life, in the public sphere as well as the private, because it bears on all of our powers; (2) it is adequate to genuine pluralism, both of the «Christian thing» and of the worlds in which the «Christian thing» is lived, by avoiding naiveté about historical and cultural conditioning without lapsing into relativism; (3) it can be the unifying overarching goal of theological education without requiring the tacit assumption that there is a universal structure or essence to education in general, or theological inquiry in particular, which inescapably denies genuine pluralism by claiming to be the universal common denominator to which everything may be reduced as variations on a theme; and (4) it can retrieve the strengths of both the «Athens» and the «Berlin» types of excellent schooling, without unintentionally subordinating one to the other?

More seriously, we saw, it is open to the objection that it fails to show how theology bears on the public dimensions of human life; in this view, theology seems confined to the private realm of the interiority of consciousness.

It is necessary in order to make credible that education in theology effectively bears on the totality of human life in the public realm as well as in the private.

A recent meta - analysis of 11 studies that investigated the association of bed - sharing and SIDS revealed a summary OR of 2.88 (95 % confidence interval [CI]: 1.99 — 4.18) with bed - sharing.158 Furthermore, bed - sharing in an adult bed not designed for infant safety exposes the infant to additional risks for accidental injury and death, such as suffocation, asphyxia, entrapment, falls, and strangulation.159, 160 Infants, particularly those in the first 3 months of life and those born prematurely and / or with low birth weight, are at highest risk, 161 possibly because immature motor skills and muscle strength make it difficult to escape potential threats.158 In recent years, the concern among public health officials about bed - sharing has increased, because there have been increased reports of SUIDs occurring in high - risk sleep environments, particularly bed - sharing and / or sleeping on a couch or armchair.162, — , 165

Stretching back to the Neil Hamilton cash for questions saga, the committee on standards in public life was established in 1994 and then in the wake of the expenses scandal, the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) was painfully born.

Although, for a time, Downey's stormy offscreen life and personal problems threatened to challenge his public image, he quickly bounced back and overcame these setbacks, with a continued array of impressive roles on the big and small screens that never sacrificed his audience appeal or affability.The son of underground filmmaker Robert Downey, Downey Jr. was born in New York City on April 4, 1965.

The former president, meanwhile, hopes to use the opportunity to return to public life among the East Coast elite: He's bored with retirement and feels humiliated droning on for banquet crowds for cash.

After a week of public voting, the winner was announced by True Bearing Chairman, George Critchley, live on air, on Monday 4th December.

Rucker Johnson, a professor of public policy at the University of California at Berkeley, has studied the life trajectories of students born between 1945 and 1970, focusing on the effects that exposure to court - ordered desegregation had on their lives.

Born in London to an American father and a British mother on the eve of the Revolutionary War, Louisa Catherine Johnson was raised in circumstances very different from the New England upbringing of the future president John Quincy Adams, whose life had been dedicated to public service from the earliest age.

Born Leonore Krasner in Brooklyn on October 27, 1908, she received academic training at the Cooper Union, National Academy of Design, and Art Students League (the basis for her confident life drawing) before joining the Public Works of Art Project in 1934.

The original marquetry floor in the main gallery (not on public display) was designed by artist and illustrator Walter Crane and bears the inscription «The source of art is in the life of a people».

Tiffany Besonen was born and currently resides in rural Northern Minnesota, where she works on her mixed - media art, teaches art in public schools, and lives on a farm with her family.

She speaks frequently in public on the subject of HIV / AIDS and is an advocate for under represented communities living HIV positive including: long term survivors, women, minorities and children born with the virus.

In the wake of a fall storm «Xavier» that struck Germany and claimed 7 lives, one of Germany's most popular TV Talkshows, Maischberger 1 on ARD German public television, recently featured climate change in discussion round bearing the title: «Xavier and the weather extremes: has our climate reached the tipping point?»

Standard of living, level of education, access to affordable medical care, levels of income equity, diet, climate, and other factors all have been shown to have a bearing on public health outcomes.

When designed infrastructure or, indeed, anything involving public space, do we not also bear an enormous responsibility on our shoulders for teaching about urban life and development?

I live in a designated «Drug trafficking corridor» and the only people that get busted are the super grows on public land, the folks with other warrants, and those doing something stupid / annoying enough to get their neighbor to blow them in, such as stealing the last drops of water from a salmon bearing stream at the height of summer.

The commercials have had no bearing on what we do for a living; they're not educating the public properly.