Sentences with phrase «civic life of the society»

Ethnically cohesive bodies such as the various Lutheran churches were not fully engaged in the civic life of the society.

We seek a workforce prepared for lifelong learning, and active engagement in the civic life of our society.

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Francis Campbell sees Benedict XVI's message — especially as delivered to a gathering of MPs and leaders of civic society in Westminster Hall, a highlight of the State Visit — as central for today's Catholics, striving to make a positive contribution to national and community life in the 21st century.

First, since human society always employs violence to enforce some set of standards, Christians» whom Christ called to live out a radically different form of community, one in which it is the crucified rather than his judges who is vindicated as God's Word» should simply take up the burden of civic order and abandon the Gospel where prudentially necessary because, you know, someone absolutely has to kill heretics, and so we should make sure the right heretics get killed.

We now live in a society where haranguing a smoker is almost a civic duty, and certainly an act of love if said smoker is a relative or dear friend.

Conservatives have always resisted such gross rationalization of society, however, and insisted that local knowledge channeled by evolved social institutions — from families and civic and fraternal groups to traditional religious establishments, charitable enterprises, private companies, and complex markets — will make for better material outcomes and a better common life.

Note: Live streaming of this event will begin May 9 at 5 p.m. Educators today face the task of teaching children a new set of social, academic, and civic competencies to navigate a growing global economy and ever - changing society.

The National Endowment for the Arts document «Preparing 21st Century Students for a Global Society» states: «Collaboration is essential in our classrooms because it is inherent in the nature of how work is accomplished in our civic and workforce lives.

Schools are critical public sites for nurturing the hope of democracy by preparing students to participate fully in civic life and in the building of a better society.

«The return of the asymmetrical Saturday was one of those small events that were interior, local, almost civic and which, in tranquil lives and closed societies, create a sort of national bond and become the favorite theme of conversation, of jokes and of stories exaggerated with pleasure: it would have been a ready - made seed for a legendary cycle, had any of us leanings toward the epic.»

While adaptive civic - political perceptions and behaviors help individuals make optimal daily life decisions to securely attach to other relationships in society (Hays & Kogl, 2007; Lewis et al., 2000; Perrier et al., 2010; Waters et al., 2000; Weber & Frederico, 2007), maladaptive civic - political perceptions and behaviors cause deficits in civic - political attachment relationships and perceptions of self that can result in disengagement from social systems if not disengaging or violent behaviors (Fonagy, 1997; Sroufe & Waters, 1977).