Sentences with phrase «building our society on»

Maybe we're building our society on things which are not abundant enough to be sustainable.

«Hostiles» is a sincere effort from writer / director Scott Cooper at a Western that frankly grapples with the challenge of building a society on the unthinkable carnage and injustice of the past.

As for your arguments about how we have built our society on fossil fuel based energy: Well, that is the whole point.

Advising Nationwide Building Society on the contractual documentation for its business critical credit card processing system and provision of related services.

Not exact matches

In our 17th annual report on the richest people in Canada, we celebrate both the upper - crust establishment figures who dominate the society pages and the self - starters who built their empires from scratch (and are busily dismantling the ones that came before).

In 2000, Robert Putnam's best seller, «Bowling Alone,» reflected on the gradual decline of social interaction which had previously defined and built our society.

«I'm not exaggerating when I say AVs will have as big an impact on our cities and society as the arrival of the first cars over 100 years ago,» says Barrie Kirk, head of the Canadian Automated Vehicles Centre of Excellence (CAVCOE), which is striving to build an ecosystem of organizations to supply the market's needs.

After building a portfolio of startups over the past decade, the Fubu founder and «Shark Tank» investor Daymond John has found that his most successful investments have a positive impact on society.

«You can not build a good society solely on the basis of self - interest,» Mackey said.

We have a society built on the story of the American Dream: if you work hard and build a great business, you can succeed.

«Given developments in other parts of the world, I think what's been reaffirmed to me is the importance of building an inclusive innovation strategy for Canada, one that focuses both on economic and societal prosperity for all Canadians, and how fundamental that is to our long - term flourishing of our society.

«I don't believe this industry needs to be built on a system whereby the workers don't need to receive any of the protections that we have a society that workers need to receive,» she said.

«Educating leaders for business and society puts an emphasis on both business but also on helping and building a better world around us.»

February 16, 2017: Mark Zuckerberg writes a nearly 6,000 word manifesto, «Building Global Community,» on the future of Facebook and global civil society.

Companies can even build a profile of a person from birth based entirely on data - sharing choices made by others, said Salome Viljoen, a lawyer and fellow with the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard.

The bottom line is any new tool that helps Canadians build their retirement nest eggs through convenient and systematic savings through payroll deductions can have a powerful impact on the eventual levels of retirement income and importantly, the overall strength and stability of our economy and society in Canada.

«We believe there is an opportunity to act in the public interest and make a meaningful contribution to society by building sustainable technology that respects users and does not rely on the commoditization of personal data,» Acton wrote.

During the financial crisis, he advised the U.K. Treasury on the resolutions of several banks and building societies as well as the government's investments into RBS and the merged Lloyds / HBOS.

This excellent book on why unions and a strong labour movement are essential building blocks of a sound economy and of a just and democratic society deserves to be widely circulated.

And while the focus must be on building successful diversity practices within, companies need to remember that their desire for diversity is in essence an attempt to mirror the differences within society.

Put another way, in an open society where long - term corporate performance is built on trust among its various constituencies, it is difficult to defend hiding such direct corporate action (or forcing stakeholders to piece information together from myriad reports), even though a comprehensive report may cause stakeholder or media scrutiny and criticism.

The slow implementation of Putonghua (Mandarin) instead of Cantonese in Hong Kong schools, the controversial proposal for a «Moral and National Education'that focuses on building Chinese patriotism, and the perception that Hong Kong housing and other resources are being unequally allocated to Chinese visitors, are some of the sources of discontent expressed by certain segments of society.

He's on one side of a long - standing debate in the church about how to build a decent society.

Your involvement in the liberal «mainstream» media, and those like you, are a big reason there is a war on Christmas, and everything Christian, and undermining every traditional thing and value that American society was built on.

Our society was built on the concepts brought forth by Christ, and under that system we have a marvelous and previously unknown ability to do all these things without permanent harm.

Great societies build on dying men [The Non-Violent Cross (Macmillan, 1968), p. 285].

In a first approximation one would expect that in a human society built on class antagonism various aims at intensity would often be in conflict.

And yet, a just God will execute judgment on a society built on the exploitation of the labor of the poor, and he calls us now to join him in today's revolutionary task.

If marriage is a cornerstone of our society, aren't gay couples that want to be married affirming the value on monogamous commitment as the building block of healthy and sustainable families and communities?

Capitalism, in turn, creates the economic base on which may be built, with guidance from religion and democracy, a more humane society of the kind called for by both Christian and Jewish traditions.

People are slowly going mad, trying to push homosexuality as a positive, good thing and a means on which to build society.

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.

... The family understood in this way remains the first and principal building block of society and of an economy on a human scale.

As for the ideologists who claim to know the way to a perfectly just society and who «build a case against God in defense of man, on whom can they depend when human activity proves powerless?»

Rather than spending the majority of our income on buildings, salaries, and church programs, so that only what is left over goes to help the poor and needy, maybe churches could reverse this practice, so that a majority of the money that a church receives goes toward feeding the hungry, helping the poor, and serving those who are outcast and rejected in society.

By offering a standardized curriculum focused on math and science, we can give Wakandans a bedrock upon which they can build a more civilized society.

It is an essential resource in the transformation of consciousness on our planet, and it will be enormously beneficial in our attempts to build a new universal society.

They built their whole society around the fictional fantasy capers on the show and glorified the heroes as divine.

Although Whitehead seems to reject the Marxist idea of the class war (AI 35), he knew that society built on iniquity resulted either in its self - destruction or a correction built on the insertion of some new theory into the social structure (AI 14).

Try not to dwell on the fact that Theists have invented and built everything in society.

Each of these nations, as well as others, has rejected their past tyranny in favor of building a society based on the principles of liberty.

Some how it's felt that values, morals, virtues are not there in a secular world only faceless solid lifeless laws of men rather than what has been relayed by Holy books that calls for good deeds and reject bad deeds and to build a faithful societies, communities, nations since communications among nations or even among the nations of mixed cultures and beliefs... Laws or God and universe are to be prepared by some thing that is equivalent to UN but built on nations beliefs to achieve the code of understanding among nations but as can see now it is build on groundless bases if not of words of God to faiths... in addition to those non spiritual secular beliefs to make decisions of faith but at the moment the secular world make and take the decisions while the beliefs and faiths has to pay for it when it becomes a war between all faiths or religions outside your world, it would become back into your inside among the mixed culture and beliefs of the nation or nations under one country flag...!

A «society,» in Whitehead's cosmology, is built on this sort of derivation.

Significant accomplishments in building a just society have alternated with corruption and despair in America, as in other lands, because the struggle to institutionalize humane values is endless on this earth.

Or, if we are intelligent enough to recognize things that are wrong based on reason and self - interest (for building a civil society), then indefinite detention and torture are fundamentally wrong.

The church, like all other institutions of our society, has for 2000 years built its house of relationships between the sexes on a shaky foundation.

They imposed the idea of secular nationalism on the Indian peoples because they were convinced that it was the best basis for unity of pluralistic India and the best path towards building a new society based on the values of liberty, equality and justice.

But Henry himself has elsewhere lamented the intellectual sterility of the Evangelical Theological Society built on this doctrinal foundation (and requiring an annual subscription to inerrancy as its only qualification for membership).

The dominant society is built on a paradigm of dualism and polarity — us and them, good - guys and bad - guys, right and wrong, friend and foe, haves and have - nots.

While they amplify understandings of the structures of becoming that seem to be exemplified everywhere in history, and while they build general arguments based on those structures, they can not be said to be primarily interested in examining any particular historical society This is not to deny that, say, Whitehead or Charles Hartshorne made pungent and perceptive commentaries on the histories in which they lived — for they did.