Sentences with phrase «deeper human concerns»

She has an intuitive awareness of the deeper human concerns - and not just the technical issues - at stake in so many problems facing society.

«We do so out of deep human concern that if enacted, this bill would have a serious detrimental effect on the wellbeing of individuals and on the nature and shape of our society.

Not exact matches

The United Nations human rights expert on Myanmar voiced deep concern on Tuesday at a sharply escalation in hostilities in Kachin state, citing reports of the army using aerial bombings, heavy weapons and artillery fire on civilian areas near China.

They had inculcated a deep sense of sin and a conscious need of personal salvation; they had overpassed national and racial lines and had made religious faith a matter of individual conviction; they had emphasized faith in immortality and the need of assurance concerning it; they had bound their devotees together in mystical societies of brethren fired with propagandist zeal; and they had accentuated the interior nature of religious experience in terms of an, indwelling Presence, through whom human life could be «deicized.»

This deeper concern is the question that will not leave them alone, the «incurable wound» that cuts close to the bone of human existence.

But not so when one is attempting to address matters that concern deep human consciousness of God; for one needs to exercise utmost caution and rigor in speaking as accurately as humanly possible.

Although many of those concerned for environmental protection are thinking about the natural world simply as it relates to human beings, the leaders of the environmental movement have been moved to perception and action by deeper changes.

But midway the mark of the kingdom is humaneness, loving service, a deep concern for human need.

But precisely at this point is the clue to the perennial freshness and vitality of the Bible; its concern is with the deepest issues of human life, issues which persist age after age and are new with each new generation.

His parishioners» expectations will demand deeper sensitivity about human concerns, and increased understanding and skill about pastoral care.

Lanzetta is not only concerned that the Mother of God not be denied due honour but also that an opportunity to shed light on an anthropological question was being neglected: the ability of humanity freely and actively, through grace to merit grace, resulting in «encouraging deep down a more pessimistic vision of human cooperation in salvation» (p. 399).

In her lovely chapter on «honoring the body» in Practicing Our Faith, Stephanie Paulsell writes about the deepest Christian beliefs concerning the human body.

In any event, of all the theories which we may evolve concerning the end of the Earth, it is the only one which affords a coherent prospect wherein, in the remote future, the deepest and most powerful currents of human consciousness may converge and culminate: intelligence and action, learning and religion.

We need partners who share our deep concerns about homelessness, hunger, environmental pollution and basic human rights.

Put simply, this has to mean that where there is deep and urgent concern for basic human needs, for food and clothing and health care and education, there can not be the requisite peace for the experience of world consciousness.

By this he indicates his respectful, indeed reverential, attitude towards his future wife; and the use of the words «with my body» suggests an even deeper truth, with which we shall be concerned presently — namely, that it is with the totality of human personality, including the body itself, that the act of worship is offered.

Religion responds to the deepest and most urgent of all human concerns.

Thus God would not seem to be devoid of deep moral concern as a source of satisfaction in human development.

But he could not leave his science untouched by his deep conviction that humans were truly free and that life made sense only in terms of commitment to concerns of ultimate worth.

But the truth is deeper than this... there's something about us, everything we touch as humans has the capacity to go very, very badly wrong and that's the real concern - if we are so great, why is the world such a mess?»

Hence, his deep concern for burying once and for all both God and church in order to align his loyalties fully with Christ — the symbol for the sacred at work in human history — as he is becoming present «in every human hand and face.»

The chicken flu caused such deep concern not just because it had never before infected humans, but also because the world is poised for another flu pandemic.

Geologic sequestration involves injecting would - be CO2 emissions deep underground into rock formations that trap this CO2 permanently (well, permanently as far as humans are concerned).

As sea ice melts, new findings add to concerns about the effects of ocean noise and increased human activity on deep - diving Arctic whales

A novel about a man's search for meaning that illuminates our deepest concerns: love and death, marriage and family, and the mysterious tug of beauty on the human heart.

A few artists chose the path led not by the whims of the market but the truth of their own conscience with a deep concern for the human condition.

According to scholar Richard Marshall, Basquiat «continually selected and injected into his works words which held charged references and meanings — particularly to his deep - rooted concerns about race, human rights, the creation of power and wealth.»

All three bodies of work demonstrate Purifoy's deep engagement with ideas about phenomenology, the human body's experience of space and time as negotiated through our interactions with objects, which has been a central concern of much 20th century art.

Her mostly small paintings of animals reenacting human activities (albeit some surreal) in scenic settings is more than just your «standard animal fare» however, as these delicately imagined works are also charged through with a deep concern for the world as the artists draws on her Indian roots to imagine a better place for all.

A scattered stack of books on Pozanti's studio floor — meditations on machines and the human mind and various innovations in between — is fodder for her upcoming exhibition at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, «Deep Learning,» concerned with what differentiates humans from artificial intelligence systems (AIs).

But the idea that the planet is nearing tipping points — thresholds at which change suddenly becomes unstoppable — has driven a wedge between scientists who otherwise share deep concerns about the implications of a human - warmed climate...

Union of Concerned Scientists: Human Fingerprints Science Daily: Deep - sea Sediments Could Safely Store Man - made Carbon Dioxide Discovery Channel: Global Warming

At the heart of both studies is a deeper concern about the response of the natural world to human - induced change, in the destruction of habitat, the loss of the plants, birds, insects, mammals, amphibians and reptiles that depend on habitat, and in the steady increase in atmospheric levels of greenhouse gases, as a consequence of profligate combustion of fossil fuels.

In his new book, Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future, McKibben is most concerned about our sense of self in a «hyper - individualized world,» a world in which we've been conditioned to deprioritize personal connections with other human beings in the pursuit of individual success, monetary or otherwise.

On December 18, 2013, the United Nations General Assembly adopted resolution 68/167 that expressed «deep concern» about the negative impact that surveillance and interception of communications may have on human rights.

There is deep concern, particularly in the absence of the protections of a Human Rights Act in Queensland, that 17 - year - old children are being imprisoned in adult prisons.