Sentences with phrase «by human societies»

As such, there is much less than meets the eye to the EF claim that it documents a substantial overshoot of the Earth's biocapacity by human societies.

According to some analysts, more square footage of structures will be built in the next few decades than has been built by human societies in all previous history.

The civilizational survival challenge is thus being increased across the entire technological spectrum occupied by human societies.

«The enormous extent of this population is paralleled only by human society,» the researchers write in the journal Insect Sociaux, in which they report their findings.

Clearly, this planet - wide domination by human society will have implications for biological diversity.

Not exact matches

A 2006 study by the Society for Human Resource Management found that «as many as 40 % of workers have had an office romance.

In a study by the Society for Human Resource Management, 40 % of employees reported having dated co-workers sometime in their career.

A recent survey by the Society for Human Resource Management found that 60 percent of employers asked said they run credit checks on at least some job applicants.

In 2016, 26 percent of employers surveyed by industry nonprofit the Society for Human Resource Management offer paid maternity leave beyond what's covered by short - term disability or state law.

Airbnb this and Uber that; these companies are evolving the way business is conducted by reorganizing human potential in a way that is manageable, cohesive and (let us not forget) helpful to the remainder of society.

If we judge a civilization's success by its endurance over time, then the Bushmen are the most successful society in human history.

Seventy - five percent of HR professionals say employee absences have a large impact on revenue and productivity, a 2014 study of more than 1,000 respondents worldwide by Kronos and the Society for Human Resource Management revealed.

Technology by Cellectis allows cellular engineering, and a human trial of the company's work in editing blood cells will be presented at the upcoming American Society of Hematology.

According to survey results collected by the Society for Human Resource Management, only 2 percent of organizations conduct ongoing reviews.

Roughly three - quarters of human resources professionals say their workplaces discourage political activity in the office, according to a recent survey by the Society of Human Resource Management (Shuman resources professionals say their workplaces discourage political activity in the office, according to a recent survey by the Society of Human Resource Management (SHuman Resource Management (SHRM).

If 50,000 years ago the human race was motivated by simple survival, the emergence of more complex societies have bred a drive within human beings to, broadly speaking, seek reward and avoid punishment.

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.

Forty - three percent of HR professionals say human capital is the largest «investment challenge» for employers, according to a survey by the Society for Human Resource Managehuman capital is the largest «investment challenge» for employers, according to a survey by the Society for Human Resource ManageHuman Resource Management.

An iPass Mobile Workforce Report, also cited by the Society for Human Resources Management, found that 12 percent of the 3,100 employees it surveyed worked 20 more hours per week when they worked from home.

Perhaps most importantly, great company cultures are like great societies — they can expand human potential by empowering people to do exceptional things.

The last widespread survey (i.e., not the barrage of fickle online polls that appear every Valentine's Day) was by the Society for Human Resource Management in 2005, in which 40 % of people claimed they had dated colleagues at some point during their career.

There are some discreditable reasons: like Victorians offended by the suggestion that they were descended from apes, some humanists imagine that their dignity is threatened when human society is represented as the moral equivalent of a dish on a turntable.

JOBS top - level domain on the Internet sponsored by the Society for Human Resource Management.

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

In human society this aspiration is expressed by a desire to find significances and uses for things which otherwise have none, assigning meaning to things by virtue of their affinity to other things or personalities available in the natural world.

Not for the communist atrocities those were caused by attempts to engineer society, based on a flawed understanding of innate human nature and a fallacious belief in humans beings as blank slates.

Contact with reality» which is to say, the actual operation of the legal system and its impact on society» is more likely to confront academics with the immutable truths of human nature than endless theorizing restrained only by the politically correct predilections of one's colleagues.

The establishment of justice and acts of compassion should be done at the lowest, most human levels of society, instead of by distant, centralized bureaus - a perspective fully consistent with the designs of America's founders.

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.

Forasmuch as each man is a part of the human race, and human nature is something social, and has for a great and natural good, the power also of friendship; on this account God willed to create all men out of one, in order that they might be held in their society not only by likeness of kind, but also by bond of kindred.

Right and wrong are human constructs and also determined by society.

He starts off the treatise by stating that marriage is an unequivocally good thing, that God willed to create man and woman in friendship, and that the first natural bond of human society is man and wife:

And their instinct is perfectly sound, for the food - crank is by definition a person willing to cut himself off from human society in hopes of adding five years on to the life of his carcase; that is, a person out of touch with common humanity.»

It is Jesus who stirs in you the desire to do something great with your lives, the will to follow an ideal, the refusal to allow yourselves to be ground down by mediocrity, the courage to commit yourselves humbly and patiently to improving yourselves and society, makng the world more human and more fraternal.»

Hope amidst suffering, hope when men know only defeat and despair, hope when death seems to smother out the shoots of life springing from the hearts of men, hope for our society, our world, our city, our schools, courts, prisons, legislatures, hope for our children, for our elderly, hope for all the millions of men and women over the face of this globe who simply want to live out their lives as free human beings not trampled down and stepped on by the overlords of this world.

In the case of microbes which feed on humans, a society with limited potential for intensity of experience may achieve a measure of endurance by destroying societies of occasions which form the necessary environment for dominant human occasions of greater potential intensity of experience.

Rather, specifically human existence is, in Whitehead's term, a «personal society,» i.e., a temporal sequence of occasions which share, by virtue of inheritance from the earlier to the later, a defining characteristic that makes the man or woman in question just this individual and not some other.

The universe achieves its happiness by reason of coordination into societies of subhuman societies that contribute to human communication that contributes to happiness.

Thus, when we speak of a rise in social tension in society, we tend to forget that this nervous energy is generated by concrete human souls.

Whitehead provided us with a model of occasions of human experience that makes clear that their content is provided by the societies out of which they come into being.

Consequently one feels less inclined to reject as unscientific the idea that the critical point of planetary reflective consciousness which is the result of the forming of humanity into an organized society, far from being a mere spark in the darkness, corresponds on the contrary to our passage (by a movement of reversal or dematerialization) to another face of the universe: not an ending of the ultra-human but its arrival at something trans - human at the very heart of reality.

His range of experience was restricted by the kind of man he was; and this in itself raises certain difficulties if he is held up as an example to all human beings everywhere and at all times, for it is at least in some measure unreal to present a first - century Galilean as a model for the conduct of Western or African or Asian men in a twentieth - century industrial society.

It is a painful tale, burdened with an inexorable logic of defeat at the hands of a racist society — we «know» from the beginning that terrible things are in store — but illuminated by another logic, that of grace, by no means so certain, for it operates in secret with persons (Kumalo and the elder Jarvis) whose formation by it is in terms of the gradual and ambiguous growth of actual human development.

In the case of human mentality, we maintain that the requisite order is supplied by a vast reservoir of unconscious temporal societies, which sustain its higher initiatives.

We have reached that point in the evolution of the human species where traditional tribalism must be superseded by the acceptance of the essential unity of all human society.

Human imagination as a whole provides the particular idiomatic and narrative construction of a congregation; its members communicate by a code derived from the totality of forms and stories by which societies cohere.

The Intangible does not exist, but the Inquisition happened because of it, Galileo was thwarted, and human development set back therein, because of it, and how many other childrens» lives destroyed by this perversion of society because of it?

What availed as the common wisdom of mankind until the day before yesterday — for example, that man, woman, mother, and father name natural realities as well as social roles, that children issue naturally from their union, that the marital union of man and woman is the foundation of human society and provides the optimal home for the flourishing of children — all this is now regarded by many as obsolete and even hopelessly bigoted, as court after court, demonstrating that this revolution has profoundly transformed even the meaning of reason itself, has declared that this bygone wisdom now fails even to pass the minimum legal threshold of rational cogency.

De Rougemont pays little attention to the social arrangements in feudal society which brutalized human marriage by founding it on political and economic convenience.

In redefining marriage and the family, the state not only embarks on an unprecedented expansion of its powers into realms heretofore considered prior to or outside its reach, and not only does it usurp functions and prerogatives once performed by intermediary associations within civil society, it also exercises these powers by tacitly redefining what the human being is and committing the nation to a decidedly post-Christian (and ultimately post-human) anthropology and philosophy of nature.