It's Manipulation
by society people called out call the past.
Not exact matches
Free - trade agreements benefit
society by giving
people access to the best stuff and at the cheapest prices.
«
By recognizing and rewarding entrepreneurial pursuits, we're encouraging young
people to use entrepreneurship as a means to a better future for themselves and all of
society.»
«We can not have a
society in which, if two
people wish to communicate, the only way that can happen is if it's financed
by a third
person who wishes to manipulate them.»
In fact, 40 % of retirees underestimate life expectancy of
people their age
by at least five years, according to a study
by the
Society of Actuaries.
At this point, the indications are that Aghdam's attack was the kind of event that has become all too familiar in American
society: an isolated act committed
by a
person with a shaky grip on reality.
He thinks that
people need to feel inspired
by something bigger than themselves in order for communities and entire
societies to function better.
Only 30 % of Americans think that what is good for business is good for
society generally, and 65 % of Americans think that most of the world's biggest businesses have taken unethical actions like dodging taxes; that view is widely shared
by people in the survey, which was conducted in September.
Rather than follow the Stalin model of turning an agrarian
society of Russia into a state - owned industrial superpower like the USSR - killing millions of your own
people in the process, incidentally - Myerson suggests that the government own all businesses
by buying the stocks and bonds of all businesses as an «investment» in the private sector.
People tend to underestimate how long they might live: 43 percent of retirees and 38 percent of pre-retirees fell short
by at least five years when asked to gauge the average life expectancy for someone of their age and gender, according to a 2011 survey from the
Society of Actuaries.
Behind all this banter lies a big idea: That
by de-emphasizing economic growth and considering other things that
people value,
societies could make much better decisions about how to use their scarce resources.
By the postwar period,
people in advanced
societies had long since shed the old, laborious ways to embrace a sedentary duo of desk work and television watching, hopping into private automobiles to shuttle between the two.
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.
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.
I think our
society is dominated
by people who are into denial or acceptance, and I prefer to fight it.»
The company's pharmacy technician training program, which focuses on young
people, is accredited
by the American
Society of Health System Pharmacists (ASHP).
«He's an egomaniac devoid of all moral sense» ---- said the
society woman dressing for a charity bazaar, who dared not contemplate what means of self - expression would be left to her and how she would impose her ostentation on her friends, if charity were not the all - excusing virtue ---- said the social worker who had found no aim in life and could generate no aim from within the sterility of his soul, but basked in virtue and held an unearned respect from all,
by grace of his fingers on the wounds of others ---- said the novelist who had nothing to say if the subject of service and sacrifice were to be taken away from him, who sobbed in the hearing of attentive thousands that he loved them and loved them and would they please love him a little in return ---- said the lady columnist who had just bought a country mansion because she wrote so tenderly about the little
people ---- said all the little
people who wanted to hear of love, the great love, the unfastidious love, the love that embraced everything, forgave everything, and permitted everything ---- said every second - hander who could not exist except as a leech on the souls of others.»
This is funny since he only thinks there was a god because like most
people that's what's been drummed into their heads
by preachers and
society as a whole....
That's the real truth, and that's why
people are fascinated
by other ways which have remained less disturbed
by the Gospel that really grips this
society, which is that there should be no constraint on individual consumer choice in goods or morals.
In fact, the Tanach is very clear to the Jews that the only covenant they have (and will ever have) is the one pounded out between G - d and the Jews on Mt. Sinai (which, if you read the fine print AND the NT is allowed to be understood / interpreted
by designated leaders in the Jewish
society; Jesus believed those
people to be the Pharisees and told his JEWISH followers to adhere to Pharisee teachings... the Pharisees were the honorable, compassionate end of the theology spectrum in the first century instead of the bad rap they get from a mis - reading of the NT (done generally with no comprehension of Jewish culture or history).
They permeate
society by deceiving
people.
The argument of The Good
Society is that Americans are
people determined
by a Lockean political culture» that is, one which emphasizes individual freedom and pursuit of individual influence» yet we are determined
by a most un-Lockean economy and government.
The reason I find that line of reasoning hard to believe is because
people don't willingly choose to be ousted from their families, jobs, local congregations, shamed
by society in general, hated and even killed for their lifestyle, live a life of denial, etc..
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.
That's why Jesus always ridiculed the self - righteous pompous
people like Fox news and the rich, but chose to be with the sick, the Gentiles and those who were put away
by society.
When, in 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr., declared his «dream» — that we Americans should one day become a
society where a citizen's race would be an irrelevancy, where black and white children would walk hand - in - hand, where
persons would be judged not
by the color of their skin but
by the content of their character — this seemed to many Americans both a noble and attainable goal.
The Church does not seek a direct role in politics; the Church forms the
people who can shape the culture that makes democratic self - governance work: «It is
by forming consciences that the Church makes her most specific and valuable contribution to
society.
I believe that man is,
by nature, an exile and will never be self - sufficient or complete on this earth; that his chances of happiness and virtue, here, remain more or less constant through the centuries and, generally speaking, are not much affected
by the political and economic conditions in which he lives; that the balance of good and ill tends to revert to a norm; that sudden changes of physical condition are usually ill, and are advocated
by the wrong
people for the wrong reasons; that the intellectual communists of today have personal, irrelevant grounds for their antagonism to
society, which they are trying to exploit.
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.»
I've been an African American «Mormon» for 22 years and if the Church was any more racist than average
society i would know
by now,
people that know history know that the main excuse to ex pulse the Mormons from Illinois and Ohio into the west was because they held slaves among them as regular
people.
I'm not inclined to argue with that judgment
by Adam Wolfson, executive editor of the Public Interest, who is reviewing To Empower
People: From State to Civil
Society (edited
by Michael Novak, AEIPress).
So, no, demonizing Bush is not going to work in this election, and» as demonstrated in the recent special election in New York's ninth congressional district» the seniors will no longer be swayed
by dark warnings that the GOP will end medicare and social security» these older
people realize that the programs of the New Deal and the Great
Society have become unsustainable and that» somehow» a real and drastic change must happen, soon.
Elsewhere, I have indicated how this field - approach to Whiteheadian
societies allows for a trinitarian understanding of God in which the three divine
persons of traditional Christian doctrine
by their dynamic interrelatedness from moment to moment constitute a structured field of activity for the whole of creation.6 Here I would only emphasize that thinking of Whiteheadian
societies as aggregates of mini-entities with one entity providing the necessary unity for the entire group is reductively much more impersonal and materialistic than the approach sketched in these pages.
The statement called for understanding, forgiveness and spiritual support of homosexual
persons; expressed opposition to «the unjust and unkind treatment given to homosexuals
by individuals,
society and the church»; and pledged to minister to homosexuals and «to help them to change their life style in a manner which brings glory to God.»
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people then changed according to
society and what benifitted them the most.
What we meant to model was the sending of one of our number to be a foreign missionary — to learn a new language, to understand a local culture, to sacrifice the amenities of affluence and to live knowing that he or she is always being watched
by seekers — while the rest of us stay here as lifetime local missionaries, learning to speak the language of the unchurched, understanding secular culture, sacrificing the amenities of affluence and living as a «watched»
person in a
society that is skeptical of Christian spirituality until it sees the real thing on display.
He'd been replaced
by a mature young
person who seemed to understand his place in wider
society.
My racist relatives in Mississippi used to talk about the moral decay brought
by integrating black
people into white
society... of cours, e they didn't complain about the cross burnings or lynchings being moral decay..
There are known connections and movements of
people involved in government policy, scientific
societies, and private industry, all with the common thread of influencing the outcome of a set of programs and investments underpinned
by the supposed threat of global warming.
When a
person is displaced into a radically different culture, he suffers acute distress, and when cultural patterns deteriorate through internal contradictions in a
society or
by external forces, the
persons concerned undergo disorientation and disintegration.
We habitually think of
persons, one
by one, as the constituent elements of
society, and we regard the social whole as made up of their enforced or voluntary blending.
Growing numbers of church
people, too, are thoroughly secularized and find their meanings in a technological pragmatic
society, and, while continuing to observe the traditional expressions of worship, teaching, and sacraments, these
people find their search for meaning more and more unmet
by the church's teaching.
My own way of explaining this phenomenon is that these young
people (who are most intelligent and can not be fooled
by so much sham in present
society) are really looking for a meaningful faith, for a satisfying form of transcendence.
It is passing strange that the same
people who describe ours as a
society driven
by selfishness and greed are, at the same time, so insouciant about giving
people permission to kill others whom they find burdensome.
We have reached a point in a
society were it has been determined
by enough
people to influence the government that we must now take better care of PEOPLE, so that's what the law
people to influence the government that we must now take better care of
PEOPLE, so that's what the law
PEOPLE, so that's what the law does.
-- All the beliefs held
by respected
persons or
by our
society are accurate and should not be questioned.
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.
Islamism's appeal, Pamuk suggests, lies rather in the balm of group solidarity that it provides for
people wounded
by shame at how their
society has fallen behind the West.
The decision in the Hobby Lobby case helps prevent progressives from achieving their goal of making religious
people into dhimmis, second - class citizens in a
society governed
by secular values.