Sentences with phrase «because society views»

# 1 Losing weight is hard because society views it as a «get fit quick» type thing.

Is it because our society views breasts as primarily sexual in nature?

Not exact matches

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.).

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.

I am a gay woman and refuse to attend church because of how society views my lifestlye.

Personally, I have had enough of these groups who insist in setting themselves apart from society with their clothes and their views, and then complain because they are treated like outsiders.

Not because society's views have changed, but because, for instance, women 2000 or 3000 years ago were just as much people as they are today, completely independent of whatever people decide in Switzerland.

It's easier for me to be tolerant of other views living in an accepting society because I don't feel constantly belittled, devalued, judged, and persecuted.

According to Cobb's dialectical view of history, «economism» will bring about its own ideological and institutional demise because of its inherent inability to meet the needs of society.

Such views could blend with those of liberal Protestantism because they too promised to liberate American society through science.

Unspecialized societies are better at adapting to their environments because they are more flexible, but they are «apt to be deficient in structural pattern, when viewed as a whole» (PR 100/153).

Everything in society is now viewed through that very instrumentalized lens and unlike a lot of other people who hold the kind of job that I do, it's totally understandable that that would be the orientation, because higher education has done a spectacularly poor job of delivering on its promises: It has racked up over $ 1.4 trillion in student loan debt, putting an immense burden upon the next generation, not only financially, but dampening their ability to innovate and create.

Because symbolic reference is often not recognized as an interpretative synthesis but mistakenly viewed as a pure perception, a society can fail to recognize the need for critical evaluation of the ways it understands experience.

The committee heard testimony from Dr. Patricia Greenfield of UCLA that heavy viewing of music video may significantly increase violence in our society because it closely links erotic relationships with violence performed not by villains but by teenage idols.

Society seems to understand marriage but not other arrangements, such as cohabiting partners, and because of that we treat married couples differently and they view themselves differently.

Mainly for this reason: «it never stops surprising me how society can view an intact marriage in which there is contempt and criticism and all sorts of bad behavior as a «success» because they are keeping their commitment, and a couple that splits as a «failure.»

He suggested trade unionists were facing a return to the attacks seen in the 1970s and 1980s because only the unions are capable of offering the «only real organised challenge in society to the values and views of our bankrupt establishment».

«Today we are in the midst of something all - too familiar to those of us who remember the 1970s and 1980s — a hysterical smear campaign directed against trade unions because we represent the only real organised challenge in society to the values and views of our bankrupt establishment.

certain segments of society are given special rights because they feel that they can not handle others views yet want their views shoved into our faces.

A little later, famed economist and director of the Eugenics Society John Maynard Keynes held the view that contraception was vital because the working class was too «drunken and ignorant».

However, the five main UK disability rights groups all oppose change, because 70 per cent of disabled people believe that such a change would «lead to pressure being placed on them to end their lives prematurely», and over half that it would be «detrimental to the way that disabled people are viewed by society as a whole».

«It sticks in our throat when David Cameron tries to claim he's the man for the big society because he has an old fashioned view about the big society.

But the Virginia case created a stir precisely because the public has so much confidence in DNA evidence — so much that it's often viewed as infallible, says William C. Thompson, a professor of criminology, law, and society at the University of California at Irvine.

In some countries, scholars are also subject to violence not specifically for their individual views or actions but simply because of their connection to a higher education institution, which may be viewed as an easy target with predictable schedules, «a proxy for state authority or... a symbol of a modern, education - based society,» the report says.

Jeanson: In some cases, it is because of the previously mentioned unequal views society carries about men and women's sexual expression.

Since time turns so for all of us due to technological advancement, many singles welcome the approach to online dating which in the beginning was viewed in a negative way in society because of safety reasons.

School choice is «bad for our society» in her view because it supposedly «undermines the sense of collective responsibility for collective needs.»

The authors of the new report note that it would be a mistake to dismiss these views as belonging to a small segment of society because, in fact, the ideas they are espousing are themselves spreading into the mainstream as misinformation and outright lies about the Core are spread.

Dayle M. Bethel wrote of Makiguchi: «Out of his battles with Japanese educational structures of his time and his association with a few like - minded colleagues there emerged pedagogical views and ideas that are worthy of study by English - speaking scholars, worthy in their own right and also because these views and ideas seem likely to have significant impact on Japanese society during the years ahead.»

Rather than take a jaded view of the situation, it is far better to assume that the bookstores would have been damaged by looters just for the thrill of it and the police were standing blockade because books — in any form — are a vital part of society.

He suggested that Duchamp proved a better role model for you earlier in life, but that for Jeff Koons at age 60, Picasso becomes more attractive because he's seen as being so active in his studio and even sexually as an older man, whereas Duchamp was viewed as receding from society.

I view this as a major weakness of the critics because such policies are what society should be talking about.

Democratic societies have been so successful in my view because it's extremely difficult for either conservatism or liberalism to get and retain power for extended periods.

Surely if the prevailing view of establishment / consensus scientists is not to rock the boat, how will they answer the criticism that the reason society provides the tenure, the benefits is because it wants academics to be defenders of «the truth wherever it leads».

One that takes a very dim view of humanity; that thinks it's better to criminalise Everything We Don't Like because it saves them the trouble of reasoning with other people about The Best Way Forward For Society.

Extreme weather — for example, heatwaves, hurricanes and floods — offers, perhaps, one of the most tangible ways to view loss and damage because of their often devastating impact on society.

It strikes me that climate catastrophism is used in the service of political arguments, because the exhaustion of those who attach themselves to a particular view of how society should be organised leaves them unable to articulate a compelling argument for such change, be it left or right.

She went on to say that, in her view, those who ventured into a public space must be tolerant of the «expressive behaviour of others» because of the value our society places on freedom of expression.

It does not take much to think of times we might ourselves have expressed views with which the majority disagrees (views that today are considered mainstream — I would like to think because they are supportive of those other values, such as equality, that signal the nature of Canadian society in its ideal); or that we have tolerated the expression of views with which we vigorously disagreed and to which we may have responded in ongoing debate.

Gender identity and gender expression may, at first, be confusing because society is accustomed to viewing gender as «a clear - cut characteristic».

Because «business in society» issues pose so much risk (and in some cases opportunity), the general counsel is viewed in many companies as having the same stature as the chief financial officer.

we must be valued for [the] contributions we make to this society on our own terms, and on our own points of view because we're not exotic and romantic or remnants of people.

That's because the «biological hunger» view of sex is deeply rooted in society.

Factors contributing to our disadvantage are more than phantoms haunting us, they are very much alive today in the form of everyday and structural racism — the discrimination, marginalisation and substantive inequality faced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people due to our ethnicity — the colour of our skin, and the view, implicit or explicit, that somehow our relative disadvantage in society is because of our own failure or weakness as individuals, or a result of practicing our culture.

This impatience manifests as frustration at the perceived lack of achievement, or in the suggestion that Indigenous people must somehow be at fault because of the persistence of the disadvantage (the lack of progress being blamed on «waste» and perceived lack of accountability of Indigenous organizations), [63] a growing intolerance to commitments being made at the highest levels to concrete measures to redress such disadvantage, and in more extreme cases, a return to discredited views which suggest that the only way to improve the situation of Indigenous peoples is for them to assimilate into mainstream society.

Factors contributing to our disadvantage are more than phantoms haunting us, they are very much alive today in the form of everyday and structural racism - the discrimination, marginalisation and substantive inequality faced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people due to our ethnicity — the colour of our skin, and the view, implicit or explicit, that somehow our relative disadvantage in society is because of our own failure or weakness as individuals, or a result of practicing our culture.