Sentences with phrase «certain human individuals»

«Just as certain human individuals are predisposed to specific diseases, certain breeds of dog are too, and much of my research has looked at unravelling the link between many of the genetic conditions we share with our canine companions,» said Dr Sargan.

Not exact matches

It is unliveable at the level of society: hence, in Britain we have a government that lauds the freedom of the individual (and it should be noted in passing, but noted very well, that our present generation of politicians rarely talk of the «human person» or just of the «person», but usually of the «individual») but which has brought in some of the most draconian legislation in Europe designed to control what people say and do on certain issues so that society can proceed in its life as a unity and not just as a mere collection of individuals.

The same divine law which forbids the killing of a human being allows certain exceptions, as when God authorizes killing by a general law or when He gives an explicit commission to an individual for a limited time.

But the affirmation that all human individuals have certain substantive rights democratic communities should secure is one thing, and the assertion that these rights should be stipulated in a political constitution is something else.

He proposes that humanity is in a certain sense naturally religious, for the structure of the individual human person and of corporate human life is pervaded by religion., This is consistent with his view that one can expect to find the mark of the Creator in creation.

And even if we do consider individuals as isalated entities, Augustine's exposure of the moral ambiguity of every human initiative and intention — indeed, the impossibility of even knowing for certain our real motives — renders pure Pelagianism incomprehensible.

For classical philosophers law had an educational function; it was set up to structure individual and communal life in order to produce certain human virtues.

I maintained that, contrary to the commonly expressed or tacitly accepted view, the era of active evolution did not end with the appearance of the human zoological type: for by virtue of his acquirement of the gift of individual reflection Man displays the extraordinary quality of being able to totalize himself collectively upon himself, thus extending on a planetary scale the fundamental vital process which causes matter, under Certain conditions, to organize itself in elements which are ever more complex physically, and psychologically ever more centrated.

Drawing from the Islamic imperative that «God is one» and from the Qur» an's teaching about Adam and Eve, Rauf arrives at two essential principles: that all humans are equal «because we are born of one man and woman,» and that «because we are equal... we have certain inalienable liberties,» such as the freedom to accept or reject God, to think for ourselves (ijtihad) and to make individual choices without coercion.

That Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; that his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought and feeling, can preserve an individual life beyond the grave; that all the labours of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius, are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar system, and that the whole temple of Man's achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruins — all these things, if not quite beyond dispute, are yet so nearly certain, that no philosophy which rejects them can hope to stand.

Thus, that we can distinguish humans as a type from other types depends on the contingencies of our world, in particular that it came to be characterized by certain individuals and not others.

As elaborated in part II, it may be that certain examples of human greatness, historical or contemporary, can evoke an urge toward growth — if one is already the sort of individual who chooses to attend to and can recognize greatness.

That man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; that his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental concatenations of atoms; that no force, no heroism, no intensity of thought or feeling, can presume an individual life beyond the grave; that all the labors of the age, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noon - day brightness of human genius, are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar system, and that the whole temple of Man's achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruin... all these things, if not quite beyond dispute, are yet so nearly certain, that no philosophy which rejects them can hope to stand.

According to the Hebrew Scriptures, the now - fallen human race (of two) was left alone to sort out its own destiny, but we get an idea of where things were going, because the Creator did express approval of certain individuals and used his holy spirit to give them help, guidance, and power, if they had need of it, e.g. Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, David, Daniel, and the other ancient prophets.

By so doing, the investigation was able to develop a more complete, comprehensive and, therefore, accurate picture of the individual as a human being embedded in and shaped by certain social conventions and the larger contexts of his culture.

It is a therapeutic approach for human service professionals and as stated by Virginia Axline, «provides an opportunity for the child to «play out» his or her feelings and problems just as, in certain adult therapy, an individual «talks out» his or her difficulties».

Pesticide spraying may present some level of human health risk as well, particularly for certain sensitive individuals such as asthmatics.

Rather, the complexity of human behavior results from the interplay between general inherited instincts and factors contingent on our individual existences in certain sociocultural settings.

Under the new guidelines, researchers wishing to use medical information without seeking patient consent will have to ensure that certain additional procedures, such as safeguarding the confidentiality of human samples and destroying identifiers that could be used to trace individuals, are followed.

Fossil bones and stone tools can tell us a lot about human evolution, but certain dynamic behaviours of our fossil ancestors — things like how they moved and how individuals interacted with one another — are incredibly difficult to deduce from these traditional forms of paleoanthropological data.

This finding echoes the results of many other human epigenetic studies that show that the effects of certain experiences during childhood and adolescence are especially enduring in individuals and sometimes even across generations (right).

But the scientists can't be certain these cells are perfect matches for native human motor neurons since it's difficult to obtain samples of cultured motor neurons from adult individuals.

But by training Toxotes chatareus to direct those jets of spit at certain individuals, scientists have shown that the little guys have another impressive skill: They seem to be able to distinguish one human face from another, something never before witnessed in fish and spotted just a few times in non-human animals.

Stem cell researchers from UCLA used a high resolution technique to examine the genome, or total DNA content, of a pair of human embryonic stem cell lines and found that while both lines could form neurons, the lines had differences in the numbers of certain genes that could control such things as individual traits and disease susceptibility.

«Basically, this study shows that the genetic makeup of individual human embryonic stem cell lines is unique in the numbers of copies of certain genes that may control traits and things like disease susceptibility,» said Teitell, who also is an associate professor of pathology and laboratory medicine and a researcher at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center.

For example, the cluster to which the test feature vector is assigned may be a condition cluster, and the classification can be made that the individual human has the condition or a certain probability for having the condition.

Aldosterone reverses certain types of hearing loss inn experimental animals100, 101, 102, 103, and levels of serum aldosterone have been inversely correlated with degree of hearing in humans.104 Case studies at Tahoma Clinic, Renton, Washington, have found that a significant percentage of individuals with hearing loss and low levels of aldosterone recover some of their hearing when exogenous aldosterone is taken.105

They've also been linked to reproductive problems in both animals and humans, and human studies suggest that lifetime consumption of chlorine - treated water can more than double the risk of bladder and rectal cancers in certain individuals.

Technological advances could provide the ability to program responses and actions that, coupled with appropriate appearance, could lead to certain individuals consciously selecting a pleasant non-real partner to an unpredictable and volatile relationship with another human being, Dr. Driscoll points out.

Younger and his cast are able to create fully realized human beings who come across not as functions for the purpose of this movie or who are only present to further certain plot strands, but instead as individuals who have found themselves in the circumstances of this dour situation who are each trying to figure out how best to deal with it.

Forex trading success is very similar to success in human relationships, in that, the best relationships usually don't require a lot of work on behalf of either individual once a certain level of understanding has been achieved.

In certain situations, a cat purrs to signal to another party — feline or human — that it poses no threat to that individual.

Nonetheless, certain seemingly acrobatic arrangements of individual elements frequently suggest human postures and poses, which are at the same time astonishingly expressive embodiments of particular emotional states.

Superrealism Emerging out of Pop Art and Photorealism, this is an American - based figurative genre in which certain stereotypical individuals are re-created down to the last true - to - life detail, using polyester / fibreglass and other materials including human hair.

Re: demand 12: My understanding is that corporations have the same rights as humans where laws use certain terms like «everyone» as opposed to other terms that limit personhood to humans like «every individual».

Since there is difficulty for certain individuals that fall under enumerated grounds under the Charter and the Ontario Human Rights Code to get legal services, it falls upon the individual to be their own «lawyer».

Differential treatment of individuals who are actually or presumed to belong to a particular group of people receiving a certain source of income is contrary to human rights standards.

Policies may also provide that only a certain individual or individuals — often the person or persons in charge of the human resources function at a company — are permitted to give references, and any reference requests must be referred to the individuals specified in the policy.

permitting only a certain individual or individuals (e.g., the person or persons in charge of the human resources function at a company) to give references; and

That said, while there may be very real difficulties in establishing a legal basis (and even less an enforceable right) for continuing and / or future enjoyment of any right to reside (and / or work) in the UK (or at least to reside in the UK as a matter of right rather than discretion), international law and / or the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)(at the very least on the international plane and, in relation to the ECHR, at least as long as it remains part of English law) are almost certain to protect certain rights established in the past by virtue of the individual's presence in the UK.

The Human Rights Committee confirms that specific cultural rights held by a certain group are «conferred on individuals belonging to minority groups and [are]... distinct from, and additional to, all the other rights which, as individuals in common with everyone else, they are already entitled to enjoy under the Covenant [of Civil and Political Rights]», General Comment 23 The rights of minorities (8 April 1994) paragraph 1.

«measures taken for the sole purpose of securing adequate advancement of certain racial or ethnic groups or individuals requiring such protection as may be necessary in order to ensure equal enjoyment or exercise of human rights and fundamental freedom, provided that such measures do not lead to the maintenance of separate rights for different racial groups and that they shall not be continued after the objectives for which they were taken have been achieved».

States Parties shall, when the circumstances so warrant, take, in the social, economic, cultural and other fields, special and concrete measures to ensure the adequate development and protection of certain racial groups or individuals belonging to them, for the purpose of guaranteeing them the full and equal enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms.

Special measures taken for the sole purpose of securing adequate advancement of certain racial or ethnic groups or individuals requiring such protection as may be necessary in order to ensure such groups or individuals equal enjoyment or exercise of human rights or fundamental freedoms shall not be deemed racial discrimination, provided, however, that such measures do not, as a consequence, lead to the maintenance of separate rights for different racial groups and that they shall not be continued after the objectives for which they were taken have been achieved.

The Convention specifies in Article 1.4 that «special measures» taken for the sole purpose of securing adequate advancement of certain racial or ethnic groups or individuals «requiring such protection as may be necessary in order to ensure such groups or individuals equal enjoyment or exercise of human rights» shall not be deemed racial discrimination.