Sentences with phrase «century world of work»

We led a national task force convened by the Council of Chief State School Officers that developed a set of far - reaching policy recommendations to improve students» readiness for the 21st century world of work.

Think back to the original premise — a congruence between human development skills needed in the 21st century world of work.

Not exact matches

«Since we began working ten years ago to pass effective tobacco measures around the world, global sales of cigarettes have declined after a century of steadily increasing.»

God is working out His will through people all over the world and the mass migration of people from now to centuries past is not an accident.

For fellow Christians to implicate one of the beacons for Christian thought in the 21st century as a bigoted, senseless, reactionary institution, is equivalent to denying the ultimate conclusions and results of Wheaton's work in the 21st century up until this point, which as a graduate living in a secular world, has been mostly of incredible benefit not only to our world, but the kingdom beyond.

... The reality is that the adherents of this view of Islam are numbered in many millions, have in some countries, elements of official support, and are systematically teaching it to millions of young people across the world... even in its more moderate and non-violent form it has a way of thinking that is still inconsistent with the pluralist and open - minded view of the world that defines the only way it can work peacefully in the 21st century.

Beginning with the latter part of the fourth century invasion after invasion penetrated the weakened defenses and wrought havoc in the crumbling world.

The past half century or more has been a period of both confusion and daring innovation in the world of academic theology, with various great thinkers trying to work out new theological systems.

In the second half of the second century, bishops and theologians all over the Christian world, from Gaul in the west to Edessa in the east, worked energetically to expose him as a false teacher and discredit the simple idea now attached to his name.

What we have had in British political life under British common law is a procrustean class system, one of the most fixed in the world, confirming aristocratic and plutocratic class rule, rigidly preventing the overwhelming numbers of the lower class from gaining equality, representation in government, decent working conditions, the right to union organization, suffrage, and acceptable living standards until the end of the nineteenth century.

Christian infatuation with «roots» is, I fear, a first - world luxury, one that mis - positions the Church for the work of the twenty - first century.

Early in the century «day nurseries» were provided for immigrant children, and day - care centers sprang up during both world wars to accommodate the children of women working to support the war efforts.

They've been improved on by centuries of work and changed man's understanding of the world.

My chief concern here is not to repristinate Luther's 16th - century work for the 21st century, but rather to appropriate it — fairly and responsibly — in order to respond more faithfully to some of the urgent problems facing our societies and our world.

... Dawson thought it strange that 16th - century men should read so many pagan classics and, philosophy and theology aside, so little of the great Christian works that had subsequently appeared, especially works of the imagination like the Cid or Parzival that were built around the question of what it means to live the Christian life in the world.»

But he never asks what social, economic, political and ideological forces were at work in the creation of the modern scientific world view, any more than he looks at the role of those forces in the eighteenth century celebration of it, the romantic reaction against it, or the nineteenth and twentieth century codification of positive science.

The platform planks for «32 embodied a number of Century concerns: U.S. adherence to the World Court protocol; U.S. entry into the League of Nations, provided that its covenant be amended to eliminate military sanctions; U.S. recognition of the Soviet Union (which was granted a year later); the safeguarding of the rights of conscientious objectors (including those denied citizenship, such as Canadian - born theologian D. C. Macintosh of Yale Divinity School); the abolition of compulsory military training in state - supported educational institutions other than military and naval academies; emergency measures for relief and public - works employment; the securing of constitutional rights for minorities; the reduction of gross inequality of income by steeply progressive rates of taxation on large incomes; «progressive socialization of the ownership and control of natural resources, public utilities and basic industries»; «the nationalization of our entire banking system»; and so on (June 8, 1932).

Russian religious thought of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was also very sensitive about the crisis of classical philosophy; quite strong in the criticism of its errors, but aspiring to work out its own organic vision of the world, it was not inclined to unite science with philosophy and theology.

Luther in these instances was anticipating our contemporary biblical scholarship, which was a later German gift to the Christian world through the Graf Welhausen School in the 19th century and through the work of Rudolf Bultmann in the 20th.

Over the centuries ancient man learned to express his thinking about the world in the form of myths, or stories of the gods, in whom were personified the unseen forces he presumed to be at work in the phenomena he observed.

While it is absolutely true that previous generations did not have the same technologies or understanding of «how things work» in their world, is there such a vast difference between 21st century people and those of previous centuries?

Process theologians believe that this revolution in our world view must be incorporated in Christian doctrine and that it brings us closer to the biblical view of the creative and redemptive working of God than theology has been since the first century.

People have been doing all kinds of religions, christianity, and islam for over 2000 years, praying to strange gods, not known to Abraham, Isaac, nor Jacob, all from the first generation of Adam, and of the covenant of the 10 commandments, and statues, ordinances, and judgments that are perpetual by YHWH, and the world has not gotten any better, since before the 8th century, this has happened, and at some point one must realize that this religion thing obviously is not working for us, the reality check is to «awaken'to the truth, and righteousness, of YHWH Our Righteousness, in Jeremiah 23:1 - 8, and not pagan religions, man - made, and all controlled for selfish gain.

The pope's encyclical, putting the issue of work in a modern context, states, «We are on the eve of new developments in technological, economic and political conditions... which will influence the world of work and production no less than the industrial revolution of the last century.»

The work of Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, a perennial Nobel Prize candidate for the past two decades, has been acclaimed by many scholars and critics as classic 20th - century world literature.

Although they cite the Baptist theologian Timothy George in a way that shows his awareness of the ground - breaking work of the World Conference on Faith and Order at Montreal in 1963 on «Scripture, Tradition, and traditions,» Noll and Nystrom make no systematic use of his insights; they also neglect to note the phraseology of Pope John Paul II when he called for further study on «the relationship between Sacred Scripture as the highest authority in matters of faith and Sacred Tradition as indispensable to the interpretation of the Word of God» (Ut Unum Sint, 79)» a formulation that I think may hold the best promise of resolving the question since the sixteenth century.

Set aside your hypocrisy for one damn minute and understand that regardless of what you may think the posters here are excercising a right that you would like to see taken from them - their right to freedom of speech - if it doesn't meld with what you believe, you see it as wrong... it's not the way the world works... get your head out of your buybull huney and live in the 21st century!

Fierrabras composed by franz schubert performed at the 2014 salzburg festival In the world of opera today, the standard repertoire is being performed to death, while works of enormous interest from the seventeenth century onward lie moldering in obscurity.

The evangelism boom of the 20th century came primarily from the work done among African tribal groups that had no ties to the world's major religions.

He illustrated his words with the great examples from Catholic history of priest - scientists whose work was revolutionary in terms of a scientific understanding of the world, such as the 16th - century Pole, Copernicus, whose astronomical observations demonstrated that the earth orbited the sun, and the 20th - century Belgian, Georges Lemaître, who was the first to propose a «Big Bang» startto the universe.

Our education system is quickly becoming the laughing stock of the first world countries because we are too busy trying to convince school children that evolution isn't real, thus trying to negate centuries of hard work in multiple fields of science.

Yet if, so understood, Bradley's work can be seen as the axis which, in the Anglo - Saxon world, turns nineteenth - century German Idealism and empiricist sensationalism into the twentieth century, it is Whitehead who firmly inhabits the new age, establishing the structural model of the process of feeling in the place of any attempt to provide an original or final Real, or a center or privileged locus for the nature of things.

John Paul II took Catholic social doctrine in a new direction by teaching that, in the post-industrial world of the twenty - first century, Adam Smith's «wealth of nations» resides, not so much in stuff (as in natural resources or land) as in human creativity: in ideas, skills, work - habits and entrepreneurial instincts.

Absolutely crucial to Fish's interpretation of Milton's work is a document discovered among Milton's papers in the nineteenth century called De Doctrina Christiana, basically a tract arguing on behalf of a number of heresies, especially these three openly avowed heterodoxies: that the Son was not coeternal with the Father, that the soul dies and is only later resurrected with the body, and that God created the world not out of nothing but out of the divine substance (interestingly enough, Isaac Newton's Christology was similarly Arian).

But essential ecumenicity inheres, if in quietness and subtlety, in the Decalogue; and it receives its first emphatic description of meaning in the Yahwist's work in the tenth century B.C., a work which proclaims the central thesis of God's impingement on Israel, to be sure, but at the same time — such is the historical form of Israel and the meaning of her life — on the world, the whole household of God.

Christians themselves, at work in the world of the twentieth century, saying their «yes» to it as vigorously as possible, provide the dynamic evidence for the truth or falsity of their message.

The paradigmatic fictional works of the twentieth century either present accounts that make dramatic sense in themselves, but tell of events or sequences that could not occur in the world outside the storytelling; or they meticulously describe events that could occur or perhaps actually have occurred in «the real world,» but in such fashion as to display precisely their lack of dramatic coherence.

Camp is full of fun and excitement, but it is so much more — developing children who are better equipped to lead in the twenty - first century with skills such as independence, empathy, the ability to work as part of a team, and a broader world view.

As we move from an age of information and technology to one of ideas and innovation, modern think tanks emphasize the importance of creativity, empathy, and critical thinking for the work world of the 21st century... all hallmarks of Waldorf education.

Gillian Weaver is an international human milk banking specialist who previously ran the longest continually operating milk bank in the world, based at Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital in London where she worked for over a quarter of a century.

As an accompaniment to the cultural coming - together of the 2012 Olympics, Tate Britain is presenting a collection of the work of some of the most revered photographers in the world, who were drawn to London at various points in the 20th century.

The French Huguenots who built the London silk market from scratch in the eighteenth century, the likes of Mary Seacole who nursed our troops in the Crimean War, the Afro - Caribbeans who came in the First World War to work in the munitions factories of the North West, or as part of the Windrush Generation to fill gaps in the post-war Labour market, the Poles or the Indians who fought with us in the forties, the Italians who came to work in our mines in the nineteenth century, the Indians who work today in our burgeoning IT and gaming industries, the eastern Europeans who have picked our crops or kept our hotels running, have all played a part in building modern Britain.

State Agriculture Commissioner Richard A. Ball said, «For centuries, hemp was a mainstay of American farms and with our natural resources and proximity to the largest marketplace in the world, New York is in a unique position to lead its revival in the U.S. I thank Governor Cuomo and the State Legislature for their leadership in bringing industrial hemp research to New York and working hard to expand the opportunities for our farmers, researchers and businesses.»

The Science Book: Everything You Need to Know About the World and How It Works encapsulates centuries of scientific thought in one volume.

That's not the way our grown - up, classical world seems to work, and physicists have been scrabbling around for the best part of a century to explain the puzzling mismatch.

With 82 tenured / tenure - track and 40 additional full - time faculty, 1,300 undergraduate students, 700 graduate students and more than 23,000 alumni, we are working to leverage our partnerships with academic and industry partners — across disciplines and across the world — to contribute to solving the greatest global challenges of the 21st century.

I'm as much a fan of Mr. E = mc2 as anybody, but consider this: I'd be willing to bet that, when viewed from centuries hence, Einstein's most significant contribution to civilization will not be as arguably the greatest physicist of the modern world but rather as an inspirational role model whose life and work ignited the lives of countless other great young thinkers.

After the Geneva meeting, he claimed that Pearce's work shows that a doubling of carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere by the middle of the next century would cause damage from climate change valued at between 1.5 and 2 per cent of «gross world product».

Alhazen is just one of a multitude of scientists working in the Muslim world in centuries past who made significant contributions to the advancement of science.

Like Newman's, Principe's immersion in the labyrinthine world of alchemy began in college, in his case in the early 1980s, after he read The Twelve Keys, an allegorical work written in the 15th century by an influential alchemist and supposed Benedictine monk, Basil Valentine.