Sentences with phrase «better human being while»

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Or, as Christine Bader describes in her book The Evolution of a Corporate Idealist: When Girl Meets Oil, corporations including her former employers at BP may well be «advancing human rights in some ways while compromising them in others.»

While both Spotify and Apple use algorithms to generate playlists and recommendations, Thomas argues that humans are better equipped for the job.

While these technologies can carry out specific tasks extremely well, they're nowhere near the level of human intelligence, says Ruslan Salakhutdinov, assistant professor of computer science and statistics at the University of Toronto.

The Internet, by his estimation, «is the best tool we've ever developed as humans,» and while most for - profit startups realize this, «the nonprofits that are solving some of the most important problems in the world — that are trying to save lives and provide education — are not adopting it fast enough.

Economists tell us that quitting is actually often the smart move and that while humans have a natural tendency to avoid losing sunk costs (otherwise known «throwing good money after bad»), cutting your losses is frequently the better course of action.

In addition, while consumers may be buying well - known products online, they will still want to speak to a human for newer products they are less familiar with.

Here's research into how music can affect collaboration at work (short answer: it's great for it), family interactions at home, and even the workings of the human body, as well as findings that suggest you should tailor your playlist to the type of work you're hoping to accomplish while listening.

While in August Trump told the online publication Circa that he would like to see «a carve - out of sorts for our small - business owners,» that may be too late for entrepreneurs who were already well down the road raising salaries or switching workers to hourly non-exempt, says Jacqueline Breslin, director of human capital services at TriNet, an HR outsourcing company.

Humans are good at pattern recognition, Fahlman says, so if you can present data in simple charts and graphs while it's happening employees are going to be better prepared to respond.

While I have tried my best to provide accurate information, I am subject to human error.

«RPA is the first technology to allow humans and machines to work this closely, while taking advantage of each other's best attributes,» says Christopher Hodges, Accenture's Nordic robotics market director.

It aims to lift up in witness a recognition that while the war and events leading up to it clearly revealed the worst of human potential, among some ordinary people it also brought forth the very best of which men and women are capable.

And while conversion may not be looked upon as evil to one who is already converted, it is most definitely evil to those who are told they must convert before they are considered good human beings.

Yes — and I think there is something in our human nature that is about survival that while a good and necessary thing to have can when mixed with none of us being perfect lead us to perceptions and magical thinking which may or may not be in touch with reality.

I don't follow religion, but it seems to me, WD, that you spend a lot of time condemning religious people while thinking you're actually helping the human race yourself... and yet, I don't see how your anger is doing anything good...

It would be better, we think, to use the new means at hand to reduce human suffering as much as we can while protecting human freedom and dignity.

Our first hopeful objectives as humans is to decide that Good id better than Evil and that we want to be part of one over the other (while humanity is making strides in this regard through the help of God, we're still not there yet).

But if, as the doctrine of the Catholic Church has it, human nature is wounded but not totally corrupt, then these human realities of reason, affection and sexuality, while they are affected by the wound in our nature and so must be redeemed, remain essentially good.

While arriving at what is true, good, and beautiful occurs through the particularity of human constructs, those transcendentals are not reducible to such constructs.

And while we need human teachers, the best bible teacher is Christ in you (Col 1:27).

While the dawning of the universally democratic age promises many goods?among them, peace, economic prosperity, and political freedom for millions, if not billions, of human beings?it may not be altogether good.

While we do not claim that human beings are enslaved by sin, we are aware of the great capacity that humans have for evil as well as for good.

Whatever is self - aware or able to value its own life (for example) is designated as a «person,» even if it is an animal, while people lacking these attributes are denigrated as human «non-persons» — an invidious category that includes all of the unborn, as well as (for many bioethics practitioners) infants and those with profound cognitive disabilities.

Economists should also recognise that while we always aim for the good in economic, as in all human, activity, we are also morally weak.

While guarding against a rush to judgment, we can easily think of ministries that are pushing all or many of the current success buttons: they are carried out by a professional elite; they utilize the best marketing and media techniques; they dispense a personal fulfillment strategy to essentially anonymous folk who are regarded as consumers and called to respond in carefully prescribed ways which do not implicate them or their leadership in the more complex and controversial human issues.

while I agree with parts of what you've stated such as: the bible is MOSTLY a book on God and human relationship, I would disagree with you as to whether it's a «good» book on the other issues.

Schwartz has convinced me that while we can't be fully human without the capacity to exercise choice, we have better things to do than ponder alternatives.

In other words, while demon possession may be the best description for some human suffering, and exorcism may be the appropriate cure, the New Testament writers, as well as some modern writers and theologians, urge caution: we should pay as little attention to the demonic as is pastorally possible.

Long lists of human rights, while they may sometimes be well intended, only obfuscate the question and distract us from the work at hand.

Third, the context has shifted: in contrast to the traditional Catholic conception of the political community, and politics within such communities, as the means of achieving real if limited justice for human life in the world, and a corresponding theory of international relations, recent Catholic thought on war often treats the state as a locus of injustice and the goals of particular states as inherently at odds with the achievement of common human goals, while an internationalism defined in terms of the United Nations system is proposed as the best means to those common goals.

Too bad we are now extinct and we are unable to help save hundreds of thousands of human lives each year... but we sure tatsed good while we lasted!!

Getting back to children and humans — yes, I agree while religion is a way towards spirituality and helps in moral development, does this automatically mean that non-religion will lead to absence of spirituality and morality??? I can be good even if I do nt pray.

If human consciousness survives the evaporation of brain tissue then perhaps the «spirit» of St. Nicholas is alive and well and knows I care about who he was, and what he did while he was here.

We do not know what effect such prayers will have, but we do know that all generous prayer is valued by God, and while God always does the best that can be done in every circumstance, we may cherish the thought that God also can use prayer of that kind for furthering the divine purposes for good, though it may be in a way past human comprehension.

But we also need to understand that while we can — and indeed, have an obligation to — mitigate suffering and work to increase human well - being, we can not make heaven on earth, not even partially.

The activities of corporations can increase the GNP or Gross World Product while leaving human beings on the whole no better off economically.

Thus, while the two world wars may appear from a human point of view to have been evil, from the point of view of God's plan for restoration they were good and necessary.

and your other comment, about being a member of a community while critical of it... well, IMO, that's just being human and sane, isn't it?

Furthermore, while we need to recognize the gravity of our human propensity to sin, we need to balance this with the recognition (demonstrated so vividly by Jesus of Nazareth) that each and every human being has the ability to turn to God and to do good, that each and every human being is intrinsically worthy of love.

While sometimes church involvement in education has seemed to be self - interested and seen as a way of propagating the faith, at its best it represents a Christian concern for the full dignity of the human being.

While it may well be tax dollars which support institutional and community care and all the other manifold responses to human need on the part of our society, the inherent motivation derives from Christian understanding, and the policy and guidelines reflect a basic Christian concern, Regrettably, there is no direct ratio any longer — the gears do not engage smoothly!

From the Bible's point of view, the human response to sexual awareness, while perfectly intelligible and humanizing, is at best partial, at worst distorting.

In the name of nation - building, they boosted «good human material» and deplored its opposite: Agricultural settlement was progressive, petit - bourgeois occupations were not; European Jews were good, while Jews from Muslim countries were «primitive.»

Moltmann sees the church at its best when it contradicts the natural groupings of human beings, while Wagner sees the church as at its best when it conforms to such groupings.

But what chiefly I wish to suggest is that while I for one welcome the disappearance or «muting» of the traditional teaching about the last things, I also think that they did point to important truths about human life as well as about Christian faith.

So while it is all well and good to imagine that each of us has managers, exiles, and firefighters struggling to get along within ourselves, the transfer of those metaphors back again to the actual human population from which the metaphorical functions were borrowed in the first place only distorts reality rather than helping to explain it.

At several points he touches upon the paradoxes of modern urbanism and the tragic ironies of our cultural attitude toward cities: although we now have more individual freedom, technical ability, and, arguably, social equity, we do not live in places as hospitable to human beings as were our cities of the past; we are pragmatists who build shoddily; our current obsession with historic preservation is the flip side of our utter lack of confidence in our ability to build well; while cultures with shared ascetic ideals and transcendent orientation built great cities and produced great landscapes, modern culture's expressive ideals, dogmatic public secularism, and privatized religiosity produce for us, even with our vast wealth, only private luxury, a spoiled countryside, and a public realm that is both venal and incoherent; above all, we simultaneously idolize nature and ruin it.

Yet, in light of the gospel and of our current human situation, we might better say that while responsible love and sexual expression can not be sundered, procreation and sex can not be irrevocably joined.

Of course now we are beginning to understand that, while human sexuality is complex and is perhaps best understood as existing along a continuum, many people report having fixed same - sex orientations that do not change.

I was not always happy with the revisions of old readings - they sometimes seem to excuse human responsibility - but in the end evil is called evil and good is called good while an overly simple generalizations are avoided.