Sentences with phrase «by open society»

The study, funded in large part by the Open Society Institute, shows that the overall rate of prejudicial error in the capital punishment system is 68 %.

It clearly states that we're funded in part by the Open Society Foundations, which was founded by Soros — as are hundreds of other human rights organisations including Human Rights Watch.

His residency is made possilble by Open Society Foundations, NY and the Arts Council of Mongolia.

Can you please confirm whether you have ever attended any events held by Open Society (even if they were only partly responsible for funding the event)?

A June 2010 conference sponsored by the Open Society Institute, a foundation founded by liberal investor George Soros, focused mainly on human rights law.

They will likely see the Harvard / MIT study data as confirming that belief — not to mention the fact that the study was financed by the Open Society Foundations.

Not exact matches

Created by Soros in 1979, Open Society is a grant - making foundation with branches and partners around the world and focuses on supporting democracies and combating issues of injustice and discrimination, among other causes.

A recent research report by the Society for Human Resource Management states that nearly 40 percent of hiring managers cite lack of technical skills among the reasons why they can't fill job openings.

However Katharine Jefferts Schori, of The Episcopal Church, said in a statement: «I rejoice that the Supreme Court has opened the way for the love of two people to be recognized by all the states of this Union, and that the Court has recognized that it is this enduring, humble love that extends beyond the grave that is to be treasured by society wherever it exists.

In Germany the discussion was intensified by the fact that the opening of the play coincided with a meeting of the Society for Christian - Jewish Co-operation, which issued statements criticizing the play and suggested that a committee consisting of a Catholic, a Protestant and a Jew be formed to advise on revisions of the text.

To break categorically with the present evil aeon is to cut the ground from under one's feet, to open oneself physically to death by breaking with the power structure of an evil society, and to open oneself spiritually to death by renouncing self - seeking as a motivation and giving oneself radically to the needs of one's neighbour, as one's real freedom and love.

«3 Whereas John Cobb recalled Whitehead's identification of molecules as «historic routes of actual occasions,» Donald Sherburne prefers the designation as «structured societies» — which leaves open the question of whether both a molecule and its constituent can be «enduring objects» (like a personal society).4 Enthused by Leclerc's reliance upon the Aristotelian distinction between actual and potential, Ford offered an option which might preserve the choice, in Whiteheadian terms.

For Solidarnosc showed in the most unlikely circumstances the power of freedom in the lives of men driven by their faith and its vision (per John Paul II) of a free and open society.

When a society is anomic, it will be open to be illuminated by the Torah.

The willingness of President Bush (in his better moments) to spend money to shore up civil society — making it perhaps less necessary to spend money down the road, as the promise of the «ownership society» was fulfilled — was taken as an opportunity by those not invested in that «limited» project (I have in mind here both the conventional Republicans in the Bush White House and the pork - barrelling Republicans in the House and Senate) to open the federal purse with relative abandon.

Though he presses the analogy of the religious body with the physical organism and though his concept of the «divine society» is open to criticism, de la Grasserie does offer helpful categories for the understanding of «external religious society,» and particularly of the «societies to the second power,» as created by prophets and saints.

Sir Karl's The Open Society and Its Enemies has become by...

Curtis Berger shocked his Columbia University Law School associates at a convocation for the opening of the school year by saying, «I do not assert that legal education makes our graduates evil, but I do believe that [it makes them] less feeling, less caring, less sensitive to the needs of others,... even less alarmed about the injustices of our society than they were when they entered law school.»

Stirred by the steady stream of feminist literature which has caused a revolution in Western society, and prodded by the more liberal wing of the church which opened up the discussion on the ordination of women twenty or more years ago, contemporary evangelicals have become increasingly interested in reevaluating the role of women.

The Church was, and is, supposed to continue the «open - table fellowship» that defined Jesus» ministry: engagement, acceptance, hospitality towards and friendship with those ostracised by society; not least those living with disability.

Because this type is open to society as a whole, it is best led by a «priest» who cares for the needs and encourages the growth of an ongoing community.

The event came after 808,172 people from 142 countries signed a petition, launched by Open Doors, asking the UK government and the United Nations to ensure that Middle Eastern Christians - and other minorities - enjoy the right to equal citizenship, dignified living conditions and a prominent role in reconciling and rebuilding their society.

The open society permits and fosters the growth of individualism; people enjoy greater personal freedom and, by the same token, more responsibility.

It opens by asking what role religion still «plays in today's American society.»

Globalization has also meant that we are moving from what may be called the closed society — that is, one surrounded by a clear boundary — to the open society.

The results echo faintly the stances taken by Puritans, Pietists and Wesleyans, who, in their own ways, were also in controversy with feudal societies and mystical speculations, and were simultaneously open to the dialogue between religion and science in an attempt to shape a new future.

However by the Reformation in the 16th century, Martin Luther not only translated the Gospels, but he interpreted them in printed sermons as well, and when John Calvin, Roger Williams and others broadly disagreed in print with Luther on such matters as what the scriptures said about the role of government in society, the whole matter of scriptural interpretation was opened to thousands of individuals who for the first time could read (or have read to them) the published documents.

No, religion desired by the Lord is a beautiful one where the lowest and loneliest members of society are welcomed into the open arms of the Church.

Rediscovery of this tradition by the Orthodox and by other Russian Christians may help Christianity sustain a role as teacher and reconciler in a more open and diverse society.

Some nations were better poised than others to take advantage of innovation — England in particular, because it had a relatively open society with more scope for entrepreneurship; strong institutions of political liberty; a commitment to the scientific method exemplified by Newton; lots of seaports and colonies; a relative isolation that reduced the risk of invasion; and lots and lots of coal.

And how can open societies themselves be saved from giving a posthumous victory to such relativists as Hitler and Mussolini, who began by stating that nothing in politics is right or wrong, that only power matters?

Considering the vast array of geopolitical issues with which a Supreme Pontiff is burdened in his solicitude for the whole of the universal Church, that Benedict should choose to close his pontificate (or Francis to open his own) with anencyclical on the theological virtue of faith indicates a very pointed discernment of the signs of the times made by the papacy in our age; namely, that what is most lacking in the century in which we live — what is most crucial to today's society and what this era of history most requires, therefore, from the Church — appears to be faith.

This confusion has left church leadership open to ideological distortion by its host culture as it «conforms to expectations established for it by a bourgeois society» (93).

Sir Karl's The Open Society and Its Enemies has become by now a classic argument for rationalism, as eloquent a defense of scientific tolerance as most believers in the law of noncontradiction are likely to want.

However, in spring 2005, when Raymond Bradley, an atheist in Editorial Board for The Open Society journal, wrote an open letter to Flew accusing him of not «check [ing] the veracity of [Schroeder's] claims before swallowing them whole,» Flew strongly responded to that charge in a letter published in the same journal in summer 2006, describing the content of Bradley's letter «extraordinary offensive» and the accusation made by him as an «egregiously offensive charge»; he also implied that Bradley was a «secularist bigot,» and suggested that he should follow Socrates's advice (as scripted in Plato's Republic) of «follow [ing] the argument wherever it leads.&raOpen Society journal, wrote an open letter to Flew accusing him of not «check [ing] the veracity of [Schroeder's] claims before swallowing them whole,» Flew strongly responded to that charge in a letter published in the same journal in summer 2006, describing the content of Bradley's letter «extraordinary offensive» and the accusation made by him as an «egregiously offensive charge»; he also implied that Bradley was a «secularist bigot,» and suggested that he should follow Socrates's advice (as scripted in Plato's Republic) of «follow [ing] the argument wherever it leads.&raopen letter to Flew accusing him of not «check [ing] the veracity of [Schroeder's] claims before swallowing them whole,» Flew strongly responded to that charge in a letter published in the same journal in summer 2006, describing the content of Bradley's letter «extraordinary offensive» and the accusation made by him as an «egregiously offensive charge»; he also implied that Bradley was a «secularist bigot,» and suggested that he should follow Socrates's advice (as scripted in Plato's Republic) of «follow [ing] the argument wherever it leads.»

Open to the public, sponsored by Big Poppa Smokers and sanctioned by the Kansas City Barbecue Society, the King of the Smoker invitational will feature hard - fought, old - school competition by legends of the smoker.

The exhibits along the path, which opened last month, include a boardwalk that zigzags over a wetland, a Native American wigwam, the foundation of a prairie sod home and a garden filled with flowers hybridized by a priest from the nearby Society of the Divine Word.

I am pleased that our society is becoming more open and aware of this fact, and this acceptance is shown by the availability of items such as special bras and nursing areas.

Florence Fisher organized The ALMA Society (Adoptees Liberation Movement Association) in 1972, Emma May Vilardi created International Soundex Reunion Registry (ISRR) in 1975, Lee Campbell and other birthmothers joined the fight for Open Records forming Concerned United Birthparents (CUB) in 1976, and by the spring of 1979 representatives of 32 organizations from 33 states, Canada and Mexico gathered together in DC to establish the American Adoption Congress (AAC).

The best hope we have of achieving an open, integrated, and tolerant society is by encouraging our children to reject the prejudice and ignorance that we have allowed to fester for too long.

The findings were reported in the Open Society Foundation's «Europe's White Working Class Community: Manchester», with research conducted by Amina Lone and Daniel Silver of the Social Action and Research Foundation (SARF)-- a social enterprise that produces policies to combat poverty.

Many recognizable civil society groups including, the Catholic Bishops Conference and the Christian Council of Ghana have condemned the decision by the Mahama - led administration to open Ghana's doors to them.

This will draw on unrivalled knowledge and resources to provide an open, independent and sharpened focus on contemporary China, informed by a deep engagement with China's history, culture, language and society.

If Russia can allegedly influence the American Presidential Election by spending $ 100,000 on facebook adverts, one must ask what influence the $ 18,000,000,000 given by George Soros to Open Society buys.

The forum, hosted by the Greater Astoria Historical Society, was attended by approximately a dozen individuals interested in open records requests and in the BQX project.

The new version of an open society should take into account the plurality, heterogeneity, and hybridity of a Europe shaped by globalization.

That is why Tony Blair will be looking for an early opening to show the media and money markets that he will crush left wing opposition — before the left is reinforced by extra-parliamentary movements in all these areas of society.

Attorney General Dominic Grieve commenting on Monday's open letter sent by 60 British Humanist Association supporters is quoted in today's Telegraph as saying «As I go around and look at the way we make laws, and indeed many of the underlying ethics of society are Christian - based and the result of 1,500 years of Christian input into our national life.

Now the 2015 election is just over a year away, we know the political context in which it can be deployed: the «good society» breaks the economic deadlock by opening up a way to spend money better, and fits in with Miliband's broader «One Nation» dialogue about helping the little people deal with the faceless monolithic institutions of the private — and now, the public — sectors.

The debate was jointly organised by two civil society organisations — Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) and Open Society Initiative for West Africa (society organisations — Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) and Open Society Initiative for West Africa (Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA).