Sentences with phrase «by human agencies»

Should the end be precipitated by human agencies in defiance of the will of God, it would obviously need to come in a realm beyond human existence on this earth.

So you wouldn't see God and Jesus able to predict exactly the kind of suffering that was dished out by human agency?

A sense of salvation by human agency begins to permeate the global whole, and the world at large becomes the true church.

Again, you avoid the real issue — invasive species imposed on once - stable ecosystems by human agency.

Trend scepticism would be disbelieving of evidence that suggested a change in climate was occurring, whereas attribution scepticism would be doubtful that such trends were predominantly caused by human agency.

It might be worth emphasising that whether or not there has been an acceleration of sea level rise during recent decades, mean sea level rise as such is a long term fixture which is unstoppable by any human agency and to which adaptation will perforce be necessary.

The line of interest here is that ecocide is caused «by human agency or by other causes», but it's only ecocide that is»cause d by human agency» which is pertinent.

Higgins suggests the following definition for ecocide: The extensive destruction, damage to or loss of ecosystem (s) of a given territory, whether by human agency or by other causes, to such an extent that peaceful enjoyment by the inhabitants of the that territory has been severely diminished.

In Solloway v Hampshire County Council (1981) 79 LGR 449, 258 Estates Gazette 858 Lord Justice Dunn said that, in Leakey v National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty [1980] QB 485, [1980] 1 All ER 17, Lord Justice Megaw had placed nuisance by tree roots and branches into the same category as any other nuisance not brought about by human agency, and had imported into tree root cases, as conditions of liability, the requirement of knowledge of the encroachment and the requirement of a reasonably foreseeable risk that the encroachment would cause damage.

Not exact matches

FRANKFURT, April 17 - More than 100 parts for U.S. space agency NASA's deep - space capsule Orion will be made by 3 D printers, using technology that experts say will eventually become key to efforts to send humans to Mars.

The Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Health and Human Services are also impacted by the orders, which were reportedly handed down this week, and include a prohibition against some of the agencies posting on social media.

That led us to go deeper into the report — by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, an agency within the federal Department of Health and Human Services — to see what other states are near the top of the list for marijuana users, who leads in cocaine abuse, and which states» residents most abuse alcohol and other drugs.

FRANKFURT, April 17 (Reuters)- More than 100 parts for U.S. space agency NASA's deep - space capsule Orion will be made by 3D printers, using technology that experts say will eventually become key to efforts to send humans to Mars.

In March, the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) adopted a positive opinion to include a new indication for adults with established atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (myocardial infarction, stroke or peripheral arterial disease) to reduce cardiovascular risk by lowering LDL - C levels.

We stopped by a human - resources staffing agency where many of the employees worked on the move at treadmill desks — a creation of Dr. Levine's, later sold by a company called Steelcase.

the negation of ideology, the political secularization of the doctrine of original sin, the cautious sentiment tempered by prudence, the product of organic, local human organization observing and reforming its customs, the distaste for a priori principle disassociated from historical experience, the partaking of the mysteries of free will, divine guidance, and human agency by existing in but not of the confusions of modern society, no framework of action, no tenet, no theory, and no article of faith, a distrust of the systems and processes of the idol of self and of the lust for power and status, scorn to all approaches of ideology and meta - narrative.

«Motivated in large part by their religious traditions of protecting the vulnerable and serving «the least of these,» as Jesus instructed his followers to do in the Gospel of Matthew,» writes Eric Marrapodi, «World Relief and other Christian agencies like the Salvation Army are stepping up efforts and working with law enforcement to stem the flow of human trafficking, which includes sex trafficking and labor trafficking.»

But while the former Democratic Congressman from Massachusetts is sharply critical of U.S. human rights policy (especially as conducted by Republican Administrations), he shows less concern about UN agencies, and none at all about the financing, motives, and agendas of the very mixed bag of interest groups known as NGOs.

Isn't that something done through post-Christ human agency, by Popes and councils and other committees?

I want to say that the human organism is like the agency in that there is both the unified togetherness of experience enjoyed by the director and fragmentary bits and pieces of structure which may be at odds with, out of tune with, the agency as a whole.

To talk in that fashion is not to speak of a kind of meaningless re-enactment of what went on in the creation; it is to speak of a vital, living, and ongoing movement, where God knows and experiences (if that word is, as I believe, appropriate to the divine life) that which has taken place, but knows it and experiences it with a continuing freshness and delight — and, if what has taken place has been evil, with a continuing tinge of sadness and regret — such as must be proper to the chief creative and chief receptive agency who is worshiped and served by God's human children.

To hold that the evil of this world will be redeemed by an agency beyond the human person and time is to destroy the motive for secular transformation.

As I said earlier, everything that is done by an institution is done through human agency.

If, as we shall be arguing in a moment, we may be sure of «objective immortality», the taking into God's life of every good that has been achieved in the creative process; and if, as that understanding of the world order implies, one of the goods is the agency by which these given goods have been achieved, including at this point the human agent as a peculiarly significant focus — may it not be the case that not only the good which has been achieved but the agent who has achieved it (himself good, despite defect and the instances of his failure in this mortal existence) will be preserved beyond the «perishing of occasions»?

(b) Of the spiritual and eternal salvation granted immediately by God to those who believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, e.g., Acts 2:47, 16:31; Rom 8:24; Eph 2:5, 8; 1 Tim 2:4; 2 Tim 1:9; Titus 3:5; of human agency in this, Rom 11:4; 1 Cor 7:16; 9:22

The immediacy and intimacy of communication by television and the host's presence in the viewer's home has meant that Christian television programs have been able to tap human needs and concerns which would otherwise go untouched by the church or other social agencies.

President Lagos appointed her to the Commission on Torture and Political Prisoners, which is headed by Sergio Valech, a retired bishop and the last director of the Vicariate of Solidarity, the Catholic Church's human rights agency, founded during the darkest years of the Pinochet era.

I have argued that human identity can only be unearthed by taking seriously the socioeconomic locatedness and the agency of any person.

As churchmen we should rejoice that the mental health movement is a growing, concerted effort by person - serving agencies and professions to give human values greater priority.

America's exceptional history as the only nation in the world with two centuries of political continuity stems from its people's love for individual rights, which they hold to be inalienable because they are granted by a power that no human agency dare oppose.

The totality in Marxism is achieved by society's reconstitution of Christianity; in Teilhard the same alienation of the secular from the sacred is overcome, and the same totality is erected — but by extending the influence of Christianity into all sciences, social movements (including communism) and other agencies of human perfection.

In order to offer human milk to you today, and for the milk to be given the status of food, the milk has been screened, pasteurized and tested, and is being offered by Mothers Milk Bank — a donor human milk agency...

Formaldehyde has been recognized as a probable human carcinogen by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and as a known human carcinogen by the Int» l Agency for Research on Cancer.

A fact sheet from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), indicates that about 90 % of exposure for humans is due to eating contaminated food, since dioxins and furans typically accumulate in the fatty tissues of fish and animals that are exposed when these by - products are released into the water and air during manufacturing.2 Dioxin is not metabolized in our bodies, and is passed to our children through the placenta and breastfeeding.3 Sodium Polyacrylate - Super Absorbent Polymers While actual contact with disposable diapers does not contribute to dioxin accumulation in your baby, your baby's bottom does come in contact with chemicals used to increase the absorbency of the diapers.

The weight of the evidence is best summarized by the Lamaze International's position paper «Breastfeeding is Priceless: No Substitute for Human Milk» when they conclude that «[t] he World Health Organization, health care associations, and government health agencies affirm the scientific evidence of the clear superiority of human milk and of the hazards of artificial milk products.&rHuman Milk» when they conclude that «[t] he World Health Organization, health care associations, and government health agencies affirm the scientific evidence of the clear superiority of human milk and of the hazards of artificial milk products.&rhuman milk and of the hazards of artificial milk products.»

Mass Audubon, the University of Rhode Island's Coastal Resources Center, and the Natural Capital Project recently received a $ 560,636 grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to develop information on the human benefits provided by the Narragansett Bay watershed.

I also have forthcoming articles, which discuss the classical debates around the role of ideas in social change in the tradition of the Left and sketch an alternative approach that is critical towards determinism — the idea that human agency can be predicted by external material forces — but avoids falling into the common idealist trap when one tries to rehabilitate human agency.

This has been confirmed time and again: most recently by Europe's preeminent group of regulatory assessors at the European Medicines Agency Committee for Medicinal Products for Veterinary Use (CVMP), which says in its draft strategy on antimicrobials that: «it is recognized that the biggest driver of AMR in people is the use of antimicrobials in humans or human health.»

For «state - oriented» newspapers the inclusion of a human rights story was determined by which politician or agency was the target of the accusation.

Yesterday the UK Border Agency's policy of detention of torture victims was described as «inhumane» by a UN human rights council representative to Britain.

«Borough presidents play an extremely important role in the civic life of each of our boroughs by providing an invaluable human interface between our constituents and our behemoth city service agencies,» Mr. Díaz said.

Delivering judgment on Tuesday, Justice John Tsoho, in giving the EFCC a go - ahead to continue and conclude its ongoing investigations, struck out the fundamental human rights enforcement suit filed by the former First Lady against the anti-graft agency.

The Legislature also determines that recent findings by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) make clear that ETS, or as it is more commonly known, «secondhand smoke», is a human carcinogen belonging in the category of Group A (known human) carcinogens.

The Campaign for Democracy and the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights has described the self defence call by governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State as an indication of the failure of the Federal Government, the state government and security agencies.

Human services groups are pushing back against a proposal by Assemblyman Dov Hikind and Sen. Terrence Murphy that would have resettlement agencies monitor the activities of people brought into New York as refugees.

Former EPA Region 2 Administrator Judith Enck, who was featured in the Politico article and is also a regular voice on WAMC, called the actions by EPA and the Department of Defense «scientific censorship» of the report being compiled by the Department of Health and Human Services» Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.

Among other points of contention, health department employees dismissed an advisory limit for human consumption of PFOA set by the federal Environmental Protection Agency, and argued that their differences with the federal authorities were a matter of «philosophy» and not just science, according to a senior EPA official's handwritten notes from a phone conference with state officials.

A coalition of advocacy groups led by the Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies, the Fiscal Policy Institute, and the Human Services Council are leading an effort to have state - funded nonprofits pay workers at least $ 15 / hour.

Speaking at the hearing conducted by the Senate's Joint Committee on INEC; and Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters, Saraki stated that the National Assembly had powers to legislate over the electoral body and other agencies of government.

While the debate on Oteh's saga was yet to subside, a coalition of youths, led by human rights activist and President of Civil Rights Congress, Shehu Sani, queried the rationale behind the appointment of a new Chairman for the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) when a northerner, Kabir Mashi was already in the position and improving the revenue base of the agency, especially VAT collection for the Federation Account.