Sentences with phrase «bearing on society»

These principles matter most — and at the same time are most vulnerable to violation — precisely when science has its greatest bearing on society.

Not exact matches

Society needs to figure out «how many people are born incapable of taking care of themselves, just physically and mentally,» said McNealy, also co-founder of digital marketing firm Wayin and online education community Curriki, on «Squawk Box.»

Success stories like Harrison's are few and far between for social entrepreneurs, defined as «someone who targets an unfortunate but stable equilibrium that causes the neglect, marginalization, or suffering of a segment of humanity; who brings to bear on this situation his or her inspiration, direct action, creativity, courage, and fortitude; and who aims for and ultimately affects the establishment of a new stable equilibrium that secures permanent benefit for the targeted group and society at large,» by Roger L. Martin and Sally Osberg in a 2007 Stanford University report titled «Social Entrepreneurship: The Case for Definition.»

And maybe a man - made disaster far worse than any tornado, one of unknown economy - ruining and perhaps even society / regime - ruining power, is bearing down on your home, on everyone and everything you know.

The narrative an individual chooses to embrace is largely dependent on the culture and society in which he was born and in which he lives, and the beliefs of people in his life he's respected.

I also recognize the reality of what happens when unwanted babies are born; most become a burden on society, if their unwitting parents don't kill them (accidentally or deliberately) first.

They met those problems on the new level of an inter-racial, international fellowship entered by free personal choice, but all subsequent Christian history bears witness to the fact that the adjustment between society and the individual, both within the church and out of it, still remained one of the most crucial problems of mankind.

Among those who try to bring religious insights to bear on the problems of society, it is almost axiomatic that we experienced a moral failure.

This, however, is to impoverish attempts to bring spiritual and moral values to bear on both national and world society, because practical action needs to flow from the life of the spirit.

Biblical literalism is a powerful force today; it tends to imprison people in attitudes that were suitable enough when science and technology were little dreamt of but which fail to illuminate a society in which, for instance, it is desirable, because of the effects of modern hygiene on death rates, for women to bear, on the average, perhaps a third as many infants as were appropriate two or three thousand or even two hundred years ago, a society in which war might mean something like the end of the species, or at least vastly closer to that than any war of the past could be.

Meanwhile the tolls, levied substantially on a what - the - traffic - will - bear basis, have tended to eliminate some elements of society from the marketplace of ideas and to give dominance to others.

It is a vast society, the widest of all societies, which lays down the obligation on everything which is that it conform to its very general sort of social order; it socializes into its extensive mold all the individuals which arise within it, just as we in our culture «Americanize» all the children born into it.

You dream of society without christianity, that society will be a very wicked society, where kids are killed before they are born, murder and robbery will be on the rise because when people do not fear God, they certainly will not fear the law... and lets not forget the rise in diseases that result from such unnatural behaviours.

Colloquy, a magazine on education in church in society, was born in 1968.

The kingdom of God is the great society of liberty and freedom, where one's station in this world is to have no bearing on one's station in the kingdom — for we all one in Christ.

I have argued that theology and theological education must be conceived as a transformative discursive praxis that critically reflects on the concrete historical — political configurations and theological practices of Christian communities which have engendered and still engender the exclusion and dehumanization of «the others» of free born, educated and propertied men in Western society.

Yeah Right the pimple on the butt of society or maybe we should call him repost central nothing original always the same boring crap

In modern society we tend to accept truth only if it bears on reality — specifically scientific reality — which has become our ultimate truth.»

I agree it is Exponential: Just think of a person who was born in 1900 and die in 1980, This person was born in a society with no electricity and in his life time he saw a person walking on the moon.

Nevertheless, the early organization of society bore heavily on women.

One is born «neuter,» and it is society that imposes a male identity on each man because of his masculine sex and a female identity on each woman because of her feminine sex, with all the inequalities implied in this difference.

I venture to say that demonstrations contra and Vietnam war or pro Maoism are an absolute anachronism, totally unimportant and without any bearing whatever on the things that are basic in our society.

According to them, one is born «neuter,» and it is society that imposes a male identity on each man because of his masculine sex and a female identity on each woman because of her feminine sex, with all the inequalities implied in this difference.

Here is my evil plan — Create a fictional character, have him born into poverty in a part of the world full of strife with no recorded history, cast some doubts on his conception (that will keep them guessing), leave a decade or so gap in his life story, re-introduce him in the middle of nowhere and tell everyone he has all these amazing powers, he confounds and confuses all his followers and tells them not to tell anyone about what he does or where he is going and Oh yeah, they are all prostiitutes and tax cheats and lepers and the really lowlifes of society, deny them the chance to follow him, set him at odds with both the government and the church powers of his time, cast doubts on his seexuality and intelligence, make it so he refuses anyone to come to his aid and kill him in the most horrible way imaginable, then hide his body, make it so nothing he does can be historically proven.

• 8 out of 10 people (80 %) think fathers should feel as able as mothers to ask for flexible working • 8 out of 10 women (80 %) and more than 6 out of 10 men (62 %) agree that fathers are as good as mothers at caring for children • 7 out of 10 (70 %) agree, 42 % strongly, that society values a child's relationship with its mother more than it values a child's relationship with its father • Almost 6 out of 10 (59 %) agree with the statement that society assumes mothers are good for children, fathers have to prove it • 7 out of 10 (70 %) agree, 50 % strongly, that there should be a zero tolerance approach if fathers do not take on their parenting responsibilities • Almost 7 out of 10 (67 %) agree that dads should be encouraged to spend time in school reading with their child • 7 out of 10 (70 %) agree, 50 % strongly, that dads should be able to stay overnight with their partner in hospital when their baby is born.

They have bearing on the future of our children, and of our society as a whole.

She recommends going on with your life as you did before having your baby, doing grown - up stuff while wearing your baby so he can witness and begin learning what it will take to be a grown - up and contribute to the society he was born into.

On birth This article appears in the Sage Encyclopedia of Anthropology, Sage Publications, 2005 Until recently in human history, birth has been exclusively the work of the work of women as they labor and bear down with their uterine muscles to push their babies from the private inner world of their wombs into the larger world of society and culture.

The burdens and expectations society places on all of us are too much to bear.

It's cheaper to bear the costs of warehousing miscreants than to impose the costs of a non-functional educational system on society.

Although it ended before my generation was born, the war's effect was still being felt on British society.

Cuban society gives the impression of being «united» only in the sense that a spring gives the impression of being compact when it is coiled - i.e. because a great force is bearing down on it from above.

As a Bronx - born Puerto Rican, he said, he is also mindful that «there is a crisis of young men in our society... young people whose only existence is life on the streets.»

However, the Conservative and Liberal Democrat government is ultimately responsible because their economic policies have unnecessarily delayed economic recovery, and they have unfairly put the burden of austerity on the most vulnerable parts of society, and on those least able to bear it.

He has contributed opinions as an expert on vector - borne disease emergence for the European Food Safety Authority and the Global Strategic Alliances for the Coordination of Research on the Major Infectious Diseases of Animals and Zoonoses (STAR - IDAZ), is a member of the MACSUR European network on the impacts of climate change on food production via disease ecology, and is a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society.

Born in France on May 26, 1667, de Moivre moved as a young man to London where he did his best work, earning election to the Royal Society.

«We have demonstrated for the first time in an animal model that maternal use of a class of antidepressants called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs, resulted in increased fat accumulation and inflammation in the liver of the adult offspring, raising new concerns about the long - term metabolic complications in children born to women who take SSRI antidepressants during pregnancy,» says PhD student Nicole De Long, who presented this research on June 22nd at the joint meeting of the International Society of Endocrinology and The Endocrine Society.

Now, as astronomers will report in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, a star's chances of being born in a cluster depend on how close it is to the galaxy's center.

Prompted by the Wildlife Conservation Society, a young Kenyan - born biologist named Nick Georgiadis embarked on what he called «a long and wonderful hike» across 10 African countries, taking biopsy - dart samples from 600 elephants.

«This research illustrates the ever - changing world we live in and why we must sustain our nation's investment in research into these types of diseases that the majority of Americans will never hear of,» said David H. Walker, MD, president of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, whose research has included a focus on tick - borne diseases.

The ASPB Lawrence Bogorad Award for Excellence in Plant Biology Research was approved by the Society's executive committee in 2005 to honor Dr. Bogorad's many contributions to plant biology, including his influential efforts to bring the techniques of molecular biology to bear on problems in plant biology; his groundbreaking research on chloroplast genetics, biogenesis, structure, and function; and his inspired teaching and mentoring.

«The risk of incomplete personal protection coverage in vector - borne disease» by Ezer Miller et al. published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface on Wednesday 24 February 2016.

Canada enjoys one of the most multicultural societies on the planet, with recent projections showing that almost 30 % of the population will be foreign - born by 2031.

Rather than be downtrodden by the patriarchal society she was born into, she makes sure to be on the right side.

Focusing on the title girl's desperate, almost feral search for a job, Rosetta revealed how the desire for employment becomes a fight to find a place in the civilized world through claustrophobic, hand - held long takes that literally bore down on the anxious rituals and movements defining Rosetta's losing battle with a society that has no use for anyone on the margins.

Woody's noms: Crimes and Misdemeanors, best director (lost to Oliver Stone, Born on the Fourth of July), best screenplay (lost to Dead Poets Society)

When she fails to attain simpatico with her caustic roomie and boring classmates, Tracy and crush Tony (Matthew Shear) bond over rejection from the elitist literary society they both had their hearts set on.

Weird (no pun intended) early movie by Aussie director Peter Weir who later went on to mainstream Hollywood (and often boring) movies such as The Truman Show, Dead Poet's Society and Witness.

«FIELD OF DREAMS» 1990 Oscars Lost To: «Driving Miss Daisy» Also Nominated: «Born on the Fourth of July», «Dead Poets Society», «My Left Foot» (What a powerhouse lineup!)

The 62nd Awards were arguably the nadir for Oscar, with the twee Driving Miss Daisy beating a strong field including Born on the Forth of July, Dead Poet's Society, My Left Foot, and my pick, Field of Dreams to Best Picture.