Sentences with phrase «by human decisions»

The duo emphasized that the rate of change will ultimately by determined by human decisions and innovations regarding greenhouse gas emissions.

The ultimate rise of CO2 is driven by human decisions on levels of fossil fuel use, principally.

As photographs circulate in online realms — on social media and through digital platforms, where they are shaped and affected both by human decisions and algorithms — can we discern a feminist approach?

«At the same time, the severity of flood impacts is not only determined by environmental factors, but also to a significant extent by human decisions: flood defense measures can counteract the increasing flood risk,» says Boettle.

If this radical change could be implemented by human decisions, other decisions could effect other changes.

An enduring and progressive democracy rests on common loyalty to a law of truth and right which is found and given, not constructed by human decision; and for the propagation and health of such democracy an educational system centered around this religious principle is required.

Not exact matches

The suit was brought against the Department of Health and Human Services by March for Life, a group that holds annual marches in Washington, D.C. opposing the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision that legalized abortions in the U.S..

What that ignores, of course, is that algorithms are programmed by human beings, and in the process of doing so a million decisions are made that are journalistic decisions, including how to rank different news sources and what kinds of news to exclude.

«I would hope both camps will read this and, I hope, see a deeply flawed human surrounded by other flawed humans trying to make decisions with an eye, not on politics, but on those higher values.»

How the Liberals are navigating the two sides in the debate is laid out in more than 150 pages of documents obtained by The Canadian Press under the access to information law that outline how the issue is complicated by existing human rights decisions, the requirement to accommodate workers whose addictions constitute a disability, workers» privacy rights and actually proving impairment, particularly from cannabis.

Intrade was a predictions market, something originally developed by academics to gain better insight into human decision - making, but operated as a business.

He rationalized his decision by pointing out that science has surprisingly little to say on the question of why humans need sleep.

Guzman's lawyers cited the a decision by the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, Human Rights Watch, and congressional testimony to underscore the dangers of solitary confinement and bolster their argument to release him from it.

«By improving the human decision process in challenging situations.

A report issued in June by the Health and Human Services Department illustrates how the extent of the coverage gains in individual states were closely linked to their Medicaid expansion decisions.

We don't just work to protect the environment — we tap into the universal human desire for self - determination, and work to change how decisions are made in B.C. by answering questions like: Who gets to decide?

By clarifying the legal test and strengthening the obligation on employers to accommodate their workers, the Meiorin ruling has become the most influential workplace human rights decision over the past 20 years.

With respect to the Named Executive Officers other than the CEO, the Committee's compensation decisions involve the review of recommendations made by our CEO and Executive Vice President of Human Resources («EVP — HR»).

This survey was conducted online within the U.S. by Harris Poll on behalf of CareerBuilder among 374 HR professionals (employed full - time, work in Human Resources and use, have primary or shared decision - making about the Human Resource system at their company) and 319 job seekers (unemployed, employed full - time or part - time and have applied for a job in the past six months) ages 18 and over between June 2 and June 25, 2014 (percentages for some questions are based on a subset, based on their responses to certain questions).

Though many reading this article may believe that writing about human psychology is a strange topic when it comes to investing, wealth building, and wealth preservation, if we can not identify the psychological manipulations to which we fall victim, then we will not be able to prevent and avoid being manipulated into bad decisions or a state of inertia by the world's financial leaders.

VICTORIA — New Democrat spokesperson for aboriginal relations and reconciliation, Scott Fraser, and New Democrat children and families spokesperson, Doug Donaldson, welcomed this week's decision by the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal that the federal government discriminates against First Nation children...

With a robo advisor executing a passively managed program, there is no chance of active management decision - making being affected by human emotional reaction to markets.

In a statement, Pope Francis said: «At a time when our human family is beset by grave humanitarian crises demanding far - sighted and united political responses, I pray that your decisions will be guided by the rich spiritual and ethical values that have shaped the history of the American people and your nation's commitment to the advancement of human dignity and freedom worldwide.

FREE WILL: 1: voluntary choice or decision 2: freedom of humans to make choices that are not determined by prior causes or by divine intervention

Yet a mistaken judgment by scientists, that OAR works in mice, could lead authorities in the Catholic Church to the decision to approve creating crippled human embryos for research.

Camus» «middle position,» while not carefully developed, suggests the following stance: neither natural beauty nor the human decisions that constitute history are unaffected by change.

The particular mechanisms employed depend on circumstances of history, geography, and culture, and decisions about them can be made responsibly only by taking account of man's acquisitive propensities, his need for rational order, his longing for freedom, and his sense of justice — in short, by relying on an integral rather than a truncated conception of human nature.

If you need a government contract, sanctioned by the government and granted by the government to make sure you are not discriminated against — for rights to make decisions in a hospital or to pass on your SS benefits or for other human rights — work towards that kind of thing.

The result of that decision has been explained by St. Thomas as a collective sin of «the whole human race in Adam, as one body of one man» (De Malo 4,1), following on St Paul's teaching that in Adam all die (1 Cor.

By way of contrast, the worth of a man for Jesus is not determined by his human quality or the character of his spiritual life, but simply by the decision the man makes in the here - and - now of his present lifBy way of contrast, the worth of a man for Jesus is not determined by his human quality or the character of his spiritual life, but simply by the decision the man makes in the here - and - now of his present lifby his human quality or the character of his spiritual life, but simply by the decision the man makes in the here - and - now of his present lifby the decision the man makes in the here - and - now of his present life.

God's dealings with the human race were not — and are not — a series of human mistakes rectified by God with a sort of «tut tutting» at our irritating inability to fall in with his arrangements, and a sighing decision to make the necessary amendments.

If there are still different possible futures for planetary life in general, and for human existence in particular, those futures have come to depend increasingly on decisions made by the human species.

If, therefore, we discuss future human structures and institutions of the Church which would make possible a more active participation of the laity in the decisions of ecclesiastical authorities, such efforts should not be discredited in advance by saying that they would remain in any case subject to the good pleasure of the hierarchy.

But if to use such weapons is wrong, it must also be wrong to possess them, since possession tempts powerfully toward use — whether by deliberate decision, technological accident or human error.

For as well as theoretical reflection on the moral significance of a decision, there are other ways and means by which a human being can either become clear about the rightness and conformity to God's will of a decision, or at least improve the conditions for its correct formation: the general cultivation of courage, unselfishness, self - denial, the practice of the art of making vital particular decisions which can not be deduced by purely theoretical consideration as this art is taught by the masters of the spiritual life.

Our denominations are built on views and decisions made by human beings and we cling to those decisions claiming we're clinging to Scripture.

Certainly, similar to secular society the Church, too, rests on certain presuppositions which are not produced by the free decision of her members and their free association as such, but are the very conditions of her existence, namely human nature, the saving will of God, redemption through Jesus Christ, the general call of all men to the Church and the resulting «duty» to belong to her.

The Christian people suspect, and not always without reason, that because the Church's human law must be established by the authorities it is actually subject to the arbitrariness of the ministry and hence not really a law that would give the people a well - established position over against the decisions of the Pope or the entire episcopate.

The story could be heard and understood by anyone who had experienced the depth of love in a family with its dilemmas and decisions, and Jesus uses it as a lesson about God which is reflected in the human situation.

Perhaps pursuit of the maximal human creativity should be constrained by the following principle of environmental respect: A purpose that reduces natural creativity relative to some alternative for the decision in question is a violation of the maximal divine good unless the purpose is required in order to maximize human creativity in the long run.8 All implications considered, I expect that maximizing human creativity itself includes adherence to this principle.

It will insist that any version of Christian faith that does not grapple with war and peace, human equality, hunger, civil liberties, the hard decisions posed by medical technology, and a host of other social challenges is not a version of faith worth the time of either pulpit or pew.

A story sustains the precariousness and openness of the situation until it reaches its end, and does so by virtue of that power of imagination, or what I called memory that penetrates the future, to envisage a stretch of time as both sequentially related and also developing through human opportunity, intention, decision, and being acted upon.

Maybe I'm too cynical, but the best sense I can make of the administrations decisions requires me to presuppose the predominance of (1) dreamy human rights internationalism, and (2) cynical efforts to keep the Middle East out of domestic politics by doing whatever it takes to kick the various cans down the road.

Theo Determinism is the philosophical proposition that every event, including human cognition, decision and action, is casually determined by an unbroken chain of prior occurrences.

Thus, if decision is something carried on by actual entities, human decision takes on a Pickwickian sense: we can at best only reconstruct human decision as a derivative of decision.

In a two to one decision, a panel of appeals judges affirmed an earlier decision by Judge James Ishmael, who reversed the Lexington Human Rights Commission's 2014 decision that the company violated the city's fairness ordinance.

«Determinism is the philosophical proposition that every event, including human cognition, decision and action, is casually determined by an unbroken chain of prior occurrences» ----------- Sure, I'll buy that.

We would need to place greater importance on our role as bringers of life or death in the human order by the decisions we make.

Some prophetic voices tell us that we have only a few years to make vital and far - reaching decisions — or else human existence on this planet will come to a tragic end long before the earth is swallowed by a dying sun.

This decision is prompted not only by cowardice, but also by the conviction that the Thomistic conception, excluding any sort of divine process or becoming, does run into trouble with divine - human interaction.