Sentences with phrase «benefits on our society»

«An active and vibrant railway system confers many benefits on the society.

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«Millennials want to leave their mark on the world by working for organizations that benefit society, encourage innovation, and provide them with the opportunity to expand their skills,» the Deloitte study noted.

... lawyers» work on behalf of clients positively requires — both for its justification and its successful functioning for the benefit of those same clients in the long run — that lawyers also help maintain and refresh the public sphere, the infrastructure of law and cultural convention that constitutes the cement of society.

Yellen gave a nod to the potential benefits a well - developed financial sector can bestow on a society, but she also cited research that shows that a bloated financial sector can harm the broader economy.

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.»

The idea that companies and society at large would benefit if everybody knows what everybody else is earning has been gaining traction recently, helped along by the availability of such information on websites such as Glassdoor.com, PayScale.com, and Salary.com.

«The patent system is based on a «bargain,» or quid pro quo: the inventor is granted exclusive rights in a new and useful invention for a limited period in exchange for disclosure of the invention so that society can benefit from this knowledge,» the court said.

The company claims (through its website) to focus on «environmentally safe solutions [that] benefit society and enhance the daily lives of the consumer,» with the goal «to establish a leading position in the E [lectric] V [ehicle] industry.»

For instance, Google (and Google - owned DeepMind), Amazon, IBM, Microsoft, and Facebook together created the Partnership on Artificial Intelligence to Benefit People and Society (PAI).

This fall, with the support of his investors and employees, he even reincorporated the company as a public benefit corporation, which legally requires it to prioritize its effects on society as much as its profitability.

Roos says he likes working on projects that benefit society.

All three opportunities related to soil depletion rate high on their benefit to society, yet are still rated low as business opportunities compared to the other opportunities.

«And by us becoming a public benefit corporation it legally requires us to put the company's impact on society on an equal footing with our own sustainability.

Society's focus on benefits over risk gave tech companies free rein — until the resulting abuses couldn't be overlooked.

Given your company's and society's impact on each other, how might you address social needs in ways that create shared value — a meaningful benefit for society that also adds to your company's bottom line?

If either a business or a society pursues policies that benefit its interests at the expense of the other, it will find itself on a dangerous path.

The billions of dollars already being spent on CSR and corporate philanthropy would generate far more benefit to both business and society if consistently invested using the principles we have outlined.

Life expectancies based on research and analysis by Fidelity Investments Benefits Consulting group and data from the Society of Actuaries, 2014.

We ran into one cyclical recession in the» 70's, and the Republicans seized on it as an excuse to rig government and society for the benefit of people who are already rich, while taking away opportunities from everyone else... then they crushed the unions so that workers would never be able to get back better pay and better job security, while investors make more and more and pay less and less in taxes.

We need to build appealing subcultures rather than advance our own version of the Great Society or spend all of our energy on roiling national debates that stand far apart from the everyday experience of those Americans who could most benefit from what we have to offer.

We need to say that it is possible for an individual to have faithful reasons for hanging on to substantial wealth: if, for instance, that person uses ownership in a business to pursue policies with important benefits to society, or is able to provide jobs for people that no one else would hire, or is able because of keeping their wealth to accomplish some unique and valuable good that at least equals the good that could be realized if this wealth were wisely given away.

In these cases, the ethics of justice make two demands: that the negative impact on the environment and on certain people will be offset by a clear benefit to the larger society, and that individuals and communities suffering adverse effects are offered a means of redress and are duly compensated.

Taking a page out of the First Things playbook, Jackson urges Muslim Americans to «articulate the practical benefits of the rules of Islamic law in terms that gain them recognition by society at large,» something that can be done by drawing on the Islamic tradition of practical reasoning that has family resemblances to the Catholic use of natural law and Protestant analysis of «common grace.»

Finally, it seems more than ever that modern American society is «an experience in dissatisfaction, a wager on the benefits of discontent».4 Consistent with the despair of chance, there is a new and growing hopelessness and a draining of American optimism.

It should be emphasized that to say this is not thereby to invalidate any particular claims made on behalf of the liberal agenda for the society — just as one does not invalidate a political program simply by pointing Out that it may benefit the business community.

The more his views are founded on truth the more his gifts will be a benefit to society.

I would recommend Boyd's website for a good read about the correlation between Christianity and nudity / nudism as well as the naturist-christians.org site and experiencegrace.com — there is an excellent article called «The Bible, Society & Nudity» on it which I think others could benefit from reading.

Privileged folks — whites, males, the educated / upwardly - mobile, and others who benefit from living in a society that accommodates rather than alienates them — continue to stand front and center in pulpits, on blogs and at conferences.

Looking at the Bible from a Academic perspective you can not dismiss its effect on helping an individual control selfishness to the benefit of society.

This cookbook starts with a history on coconut, how it has come and gone out of favour in western society over the years because of it's high saturated fat content, and some information on current research into it's health benefits.

The Vegan Society benefits from voluntary professional advisers who advise on specific issues and activities.

In addition, as part of the brand's unique culture, the restaurant will donate 10 percent of the restaurant's proceeds to benefit the Zoological Society of Florida, the support organization for Zoo Miami, on Tuesday, July 21.

By comparison, the private benefits captured by the farmers were calculated at US$ 16 billion but in their decision they were ignoring the costs of US$ 8.1 billion imposed on the rest of society.

US - based start - up Chirps Chips is on a mission to educate Western society on the benefits of insect protein in a corn snack.

This could be through culinary innovation, a commitment to social responsibility, sustainability or the economic development of their community; involvement in health or environmental campaigns, the promotion of pioneering cultural projects, or works that benefit society through their positive impact on the food industry.

Generations of coaches have spoken piously about the benefits of sport to society, but only now, perhaps, with the appearance of a new attitude, can their words take on a true meaning.

Somehow in English society the notion of the benefit of relaxing and focusing on positive emotions has never really caught on.

I often wonder what a huge benefit I could have been to society had I had good parenting rather than having to give up work periodically, leading to a broken career path and relationships and periods on sickness benefit.

If heterosexuals hadn't given themselves a thousand benefits and denied «perverts» equal rights, gay men, anyway, would never have demanded it — and declared war on society to get it.

-LSB-...] 27, 2009 This website has some great info on more reasons why breast is best, and how it would benefit society in general -LSB-...]

I wonder, too, what the long term benefits are for children whose mothers did make that sacrifice (when able) and how it impacts society on a much grander scale than cost of formula vs. cost of breastfeeding.

We live in a society of busy - ness, with so mich expected of parents and so much to get on and do and so much pressure, that a EC is an inconvenience of having to go against the perceived norm, having to pay much more intimate attention to our babies, having to deal with bodily functions, having to wake ourselves up a bit to what our culture has conditioned us to and having to go against the grain — all of which take effort and all of which take time and / or energy away from other mummy efforts that bring more obvious and societally rewarded benefits.

You go on to say, «Pediatricians play a critical role in their practices and communities as advocates of breastfeeding and thus should be knowledgeable about the health risks of not breastfeeding, the economic benefits to society of breastfeeding, and the techniques for managing and supporting the breastfeeding dyad.»

Society for Human Resource Management — 2017 Employee Benefits Report — 42 % employers report having onsite lactation room, 1 % pay to ship breastmilk while on business travel.

Emphasizing marriage clearly should fall within this area, since the decline of marriage imposes great costs on society, and marriage has many benefits for individual family members.72 To that extent, public school curricula should:

A politics of fairness and equality is about both (i) making an argument across the whole of society that a fairer and more equal society is in our collective enlightened self - interest, using the arguments of Richard Wilkinson, etc on issues like crime, general well - being, and that there are benefits of fairness for those at the top too.

Nevertheless, as a society we have pressed ahead with changes to the benefits system which put great pressure on sick and disabled people to get into jobs.

«So as a society, either we control the cost of housing or you spend the money on benefits.

«Governor Cuomo's Executive Order gives immigrants who have entered our beloved country illegally his blessing to disregard the rule of law and allows illegal immigrants to reap the benefits created by a society that is based on the rule of law.»

As a US citizen, I feel incredibly lucky to live in a society whose history is rooted in democratic ideals — a society that continues to benefit from the types of «elections with integrity» that the 2012 Report of the Global Commission on Elections, Democracy, and Security promotes.