Sentences with phrase «because as a society»

We don't do that because as society we believe that those people have values.

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.

Gone are the days when kids could safely amble a neighborhood for the vague hours between the school and dinner bells — both because our neighborhoods can be less safe, and because as a society we're not really leaving it up to parents to determine what «safe enough» means.

Now you may have noticed that so far that money hasn't entered into all of this... which is odd, because as a society we seem to have settled on that as a way of measuring worth.

Pacelle also went so far as sort of excuse Vick for his behavior because as a society we give a lot of «mixed signals» about our concern for animals — even going so far as to compare those who hunt and raise animals for food (you know, to help people survive), and to experiment on (you know, to cure diseases to kill people) to dog fighting (you know because torturing dogs for the fun of it is sort of similar to those others).

We allow individuals and corporations to file for bankruptcy because as a society, we value risk - taking.

Not exact matches

That's because China rocketed into its position as the world's second - largest economy in a matter of decades under a strict one - child policy, contributing to a rapidly aging society with rising medical needs.

The Japanese government added an extra day to what's typically a two - day summit to accommodate Trump, whom an aide of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe described this week as «one of the most remarkable people in the world because she is actively trying to support women entrepreneurs and improve women's participation in society,» according to The Washington Post.

«The researchers think pre-questions probably have this benefit because they act as an «orienting device», directing viewers to look out for specific information, and perhaps also because they reduce viewers» complacency and overconfidence in their knowledge, thus motivating them to pay more attention,» reports the British Psychological Society Research Digest's write - up of the findings.

Thurman says that as people in business, «we should take heart because, although a lot of people who consider themselves progressive and spiritual feel like business is something very lowly, that it's about just making money, the vocation of business can be extraordinarily honorable and has the ability to make a long - lasting positive impact on our society and world at large.»

Millennials have embraced self - deprecation as a great type of humor to have in a globalized society where people interact less in person because it adds an element of the ability to relate to the person with whom you are interacting.

Because while the ideas are grand, and the technology impressive, I'm concerned that we as a society simply aren't ready for always - on computers that pump information as close to our brains as possible.

So understanding how people perceive moral tipping points is important because it illuminates how we as a society create different thresholds for rewarding versus punishing others.

If we as a society turn away from enforcing the rules about coordination, corporate contributions, and disclosure simply because the particular facts of the Stormy Daniels case are tawdry, we will come to regret it.

Augmented reality because I see that as the next huge evolution of the way our society integrates and works with technology.

It was some time ago now that wearing activewear as your everyday casual wear became accepted in society and we are sure glad this happened because it gives us the chance to talk about one of Australia's fastest growing activewear retailers... Rockwear.

In his remarks to a standing room crowd at RJFS» national conference, RJFS Chair Dick Averitt is reported to have embraced the fiduciary standard because, in part, of its mandate to serve society at large, as attorneys and medical doctors are obliged to do.

«He's an egomaniac devoid of all moral sense» ---- said the society woman dressing for a charity bazaar, who dared not contemplate what means of self - expression would be left to her and how she would impose her ostentation on her friends, if charity were not the all - excusing virtue ---- said the social worker who had found no aim in life and could generate no aim from within the sterility of his soul, but basked in virtue and held an unearned respect from all, by grace of his fingers on the wounds of others ---- said the novelist who had nothing to say if the subject of service and sacrifice were to be taken away from him, who sobbed in the hearing of attentive thousands that he loved them and loved them and would they please love him a little in return ---- said the lady columnist who had just bought a country mansion because she wrote so tenderly about the little people ---- said all the little people who wanted to hear of love, the great love, the unfastidious love, the love that embraced everything, forgave everything, and permitted everything ---- said every second - hander who could not exist except as a leech on the souls of others.»

Knowledge of economic history is critical for good policy making because, as valuable as it is to understand models and theories, in real life policies have to be made in societies that are complex and have political and sociological considerations to take into account.

We all pay taxes, whether we like it or not, because we agree as citizens, as members of a democratic society, that mandatory taxation is for the common good.

I would assume it's because Chinese culture has strong social norms as the basis of the society, and people just collectively obey them.

This is funny since he only thinks there was a god because like most people that's what's been drummed into their heads by preachers and society as a whole....

Modern science is the cornerstone of your belief system, as ancient writings that I consider to be God given, holy inspired and very relevant to modern times (as well as every society that ever was and will be) is the cornerstone of my belief system, because everything about this book has been accurate in every way, unlike modern science.

``... as ancient writings that I consider to be God given, holy inspired and very relevant to modern times (as well as every society that ever was and will be) is the cornerstone of my belief system, because everything about this book has been accurate in every way, unlike modern science.»

This focus makes The Good Society a good deal less lively than Habits of the Heart precisely because institutions are not so readily narrated as are individual lives.

You have failed to show that atheists are creating «problems» simply because they don't believe as you do or that they contribute less to society's benefit than Christians.

We have chosen, as a nation, to have a society with secular laws, where said laws must be grounded in reason, not, «You can't do this because I'm superior to you,» or «because my holy book says so.»

I stand opposed to prostituion because it's also not an ethic 95 % — 98 % of the world accept as legal (or good / productive for their societies / communities).

Even now I will not put an atheist sticker on my car because I don't want to be killed or have my rights violated because of my risky behavior in a religiously oppressive society such as the one we have always had in this country.

Because if you ever truly read the Bible, there are passages that actually condone slavery, however as a civilized society, most of us with an endearment to our fellow human being decide that slavery is wrong, regardless or religious endorsement of any kind.

Because this article is about what we as a society deem is appropriate and inappropriate behavior.

The fact is that the issues you speak of are not because the people are members of the LDS church but in fact this is what happens in any society of humans living as close together as we do in large cities.

This is a very important topic, because elites provide political and cultural leadership, and in so doing set the direction for society as a whole.

I cartoon and comment on this issue often because it is a hot and current issue for me personally, having gays as friends and in our church who honestly struggle against overwhelming opposition, both latent and obvious, in society and the church.

Because girls are rarely involved and some think gay dudes can hide in society easier as a priest.

I've been an African American «Mormon» for 22 years and if the Church was any more racist than average society i would know by now, people that know history know that the main excuse to ex pulse the Mormons from Illinois and Ohio into the west was because they held slaves among them as regular people.

There are some issues that get all the attention because different societies view some behavior as wrong while other are ok with it (e.g. role of women in the society, same se.x relationships, etc.).

To sum up, then, Wolf's article is important because it represents a «halfway house» between the traditional conception of a society as an aggregate of actual occasions with the dominant occasion providing the unity for the group and my own contention that every society, whether it contains a presiding occasion or not, possesses an objective unity in virtue of the dynamic interrelatedness of its constituent occasions from moment to moment.

Now, realize that in today's society you are still just as hated, shunned and looked down upon for declaring that same differing belief... or even non-belief — just because people are still too hung up on their precious religious dogma to realize that, though the outcome is obviously less drastic than in the past, they are still doing the same thing that religious people did in the past?

Not because they are gay affirming (they aren't), but because they see the issue as a matter of civic respect and fairness within a democratic society.

Secondarily, there are «concentration effects,» a tendency for aberrant behaviors such as crime and illegitimacy to flourish in the ghetto because of its isolation from mainstream society.

Men tend to be more aggressive on the whole because their aggression is rewarded as confidence by society.

First, its premisses concerning society and modern man are pseudoscientific: for example, the affirmation that man has become adult, that he no longer needs a Father, that the Father - God was invented when the human race was in its infancy, etc.; the affirmation that man has become rational and thinks scientifically, and that therefore he must get rid of the religious and mythological notions that were appropriate when his thought processes were primitive; the affirmation that the modern world has been secularized, laicized, and can no longer countenance religious people, but if they still want to preach the kerygma they must do it in laicized terms; the affirmation that the Bible is of value only as a cultural document, not as the channel of Revelation, etc. (I say «affirmation» because these are indeed simply affirmations, unrelated either to fact or to any scientific knowledge about modern man or present - day society.)

We don't know much else because, as a society, we don't have a clear definition of love.

I brought up the idea that had he been a contemporary of Jesus, he probably would have viewed the Messiah as a failure because Jesus went from teaching leaders to having a mass following to being followed by what our society would deem «losers» (prostitutes, tax collectors, demon possessed, lepers, etc.) to having 12 by his side to 11 to 3 to none.

It is solely because they live in a society which views relief of the poor as one of its main concerns that Christians conform to its ideology.

We generally get fired up about religion because Evangelicals tend to use their dogma as a basis for ruling society.

We can see this self - preoccupied individualism in the greed that our society calls «opportunity,» in the demise of public health care because it is «too costly,» and in the decay of public institutions regarded as too expensive to maintain, as though taxation were a penalty rather than a necessary neighborly act.

Even crucifixion has nothing on what some societies in our not so distant past dished out as capital punishment.I don't wish to depict those methods here because if you desire you can look them up for yourself and be sick as a dog if you want.

Therefore, the Church, as a society, is a creative force in the environment, because its past is always the data for further becoming in faith.