Sentences with phrase «directed at all human beings»

They believe that meowing directed at humans is a trait of domestication — a way for cats to communicate with their owners.

Not exact matches

I wasn't there at the time, but Kiva has always offered direct funding transfers to other human beings, period.

«Your letter states that the Public Service Agency's review is directed solely at «the human resources and investigation processes and procedures» that led to the termination of the employment of a number of Ministry of Health employees in 2012, rather than being a review of the decisions themselves,» Adams wrote on Whitmarsh's behalf.

For example, he is actively promoting AI and man - machine integration by founding the company «Neuralink» in March 2017 for the direct connection of the human brain with machines and artificial intelligence — but at the same time since 2014 is warning that humanity could face doom through the rise of robots equipped with artificial intelligence:

The first thing to know about Bitcoin is that it has no direct correlation to «value for work» — at least, not human work.

Here we find the pope's great worry: At precisely the moment for the world's great evangelization and the great manifestation of love, the devices by which the world has been prepared — economic and technological — are excluding the charity and denying the truth that «judge and direct» human development.

So it is god changes the DNA of microbes to become resistant to antibiotics, causing many needless deaths and painful afflictions upon the human race, directs the mud to flow to kill a hundred plus children at a school in Wales..

I agree with L.Nielsen's sentiment that you are «almost there» — close to realising that this is the only life you have and that all your effort should be directed at living it well for it's own sake, close to realising that you are strong enough as an individual to face the world without the psychological crutch you call god, close to realising that you are a good human being in your own right, close to realising that your own successes, failures, loves and fears are yours and yours alone, not attibutable to an imaginary creator.

Of course, we are engaging a Mystery in the deepest sense when we seek a direct encounter with God and existentialism has its serious limitations as do all human attempts at understanding; but I am drawn to Kierkegaard's insight into prayer:

At the peak of that unfolding equation, matter is gathered into ontological unity with directly created spirit to form human nature, which exists in direct and personal relationship to God who is the Living Environment of grace and providence for every human being and for mankind as a whole.

Upon careful analysis, at least ten such points become apparent: (1) Blake alone among Christian artists has created a whole mythology; (2) he was the first to discover the final loss of paradise, the first to acknowledge that innocence has been wholly swallowed up by experience; (3) no other Christian artist or seer has so fully directed his vision to history and experience; (4) to this day his is the only Christian vision that has openly or consistently accepted a totally fallen time and space as the paradoxical presence of eternity; (5) he stands alone among Christian artists in identifying the actual passion of sex as the most immediate epiphany of either a demonic or a redemptive «Energy,» just as he is the only Christian visionary who has envisioned the universal role of the female as both a redemptive and a destructive power; (6) his is the only Christian vision of the total kenotic movement of God or the Godhead; (7) he was the first Christian «atheist,» the first to unveil God as Satan; (8) he is the most Christocentric of Christian seers and artists; (9) only Blake has created a Christian vision of the full identity of Jesus with the individual human being (the «minute particular»); and (10) as the sole creator of a post-biblical Christian apocalypse, he has given Christendom its only vision of a total cosmic reversal of history.

Hence, a fundamental religious virtue is humility, born of the persuasion that no man and no human institution can rightly claim the authority of God himself, but that all are under an authority toward which each may at best help to direct his fellow seekers after truth.

No, the Mosaic text is at one and the same time God's Word and human words - divinely inspired and culturally directed.

That said, the reason many Old Catholic and Independent Catholic denominations have avoided the pedophilia scandals has more to do with the form of governance (synod - based decision making, laity inclusive or laity directed), recognition that clergy are mere humans with a special calling and ministry (as opposed to «always to be obeyed» representatives of the «monarchy» / Vatican and king / Pope), clergy are often members of the community at large (married or not, they have homes, careers, and lives outside a rectory), and the fact that clergy have not been brought up in seminary / parochial schools as young boys where they learned how to be abusers because they were abused themselves, but in homes.

According to Nina Shea, who directs the Center for Religious Freedom at the Hudson Institute, «They are facing genocide by ISIS... the worst human rights violation of all.

The first hundred and fifty or so pages of his Leviathan show forth his attempt to paint that portrait of human being, but by almost universal agreement, he failed — that is, he could not both present human being as a part of the new nature and at the same time do justice to our direct experience of what it is to be human.

Moreover, if «God» is correctly understood as in some sense referring to reality itself, its referent, if any, is evidently ubiquitous, and this implies that the experience of God is universal as well as direct — something unavoidably had not only by mystics or the religious but by every human being simply as such, indeed, by any experiencing being whatever, in each and every one of its experiences of anything at all.

But religious love is only man's natural emotion of love directed to a religious object; religious fear is only the ordinary fear of commerce, so to speak, the common quaking of the human breast, in so far as the notion of divine retribution may arouse it; religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge; only this time it comes over us at the thought of our supernatural relations; and similarly of all the various sentiments which may be called into play in the lives of religious persons.

The direct creation of each human soul at the moment of conception was also regarded as a theological difficulty - since the conference accepted that homo sapiens had evolved from non-rational animal precursors.

You r valuable as humans & have much love directed at you despite the ugliness.

If any part of the Human Genome Project is to be done at all, one might wish it were directed by someone who takes time off from scientific excitements to give careful thought to what it is that he and his colleagues are proposing to do.

By inerrant I mean, as the word suggests, without error; such that if God were interested in directing an inerrant account of the life of Andrea Yates it simply could not say «the woman heard God say that she should drown her children in the bathtub» but would have to qualify it with «the woman believed that she heard...» Without that qualifier, it would not be inerrant, it would not be «untrue but historically accurate» if God did not actually say it then saying that he intervened in human history at that point would be incorrect.

For example, if the coordinated form of human activity involved is more complex than driving on a particular side of the road, so that in order to achieve the desired goal, different individuals need to be doing different things at different times, then the authority directing them may need some specialized knowledge in order to arrange things properly to achieve the desired end.

Tangible proof can be found by studying vestigial features, ebryonic development, biogeography, DNA sequencing, pseudogenes, endogenous retroviruses, labratory direct examination of natural selection in action in E-Coli bacteria, lactose intolerance in humans, the peppered moth's colour change in reaction to industrial pollution, radiotrophic fungi at Chernobyl... all of these things add to the modern evolutionary synthesis.

The Franciscan spirit finds itself less at home in the world than ever before, less able to give a direct assurance that such faith in love is the key to human existence.

The impact of Wieman in the American scene has sometimes been compared with that of Barth upon Continental theology, 17 and a parallel does exist at the point at which both men direct attention away from humanity and human values to the work of God which is understood as prior to and sovereign over human endeavors.

We may mention the sudden disappearance of the bear from caves at a pre-historical time when its development was a direct threat to the existence of the human species.

A research community that has no moral standards for directing its investigations or judging the results, that has no way of knowing whether it really knows anything at all, and that saddles human beings with expectations and demands that they (being human and not divine) are constitutionally incapable of fulfilling is in desperate circumstances.

The desert weather in the winter although might not have snow it becomes so much colder than at yours since it is being open to the cold dry or humid winds that could break the bones of any human or animal if not well covered with wool and protected by some thing from direct blows... heat is there during sunrise and sunset but after that it is too much to bear.

It is a meeting specifically direct and intensely personal — but at once involving all of human history, all of human existence.

Hugh Montgomery is Professor of Intensive Care Medicine at UCL, where he also directs the UCL Institute for Human Health and Performance.

If «directs» includes a case where a US President «asks» (or directs someone else to «ask») a member of the Supreme Court to rule in a certain way while making it clear that it is in the best interest (financial, safety, privacy, etc) of the Supreme Court member to rule that way, then I'm sure it has at various times already happened... just part of politics and human nature.

Kennedy Agyapongâ $ ™ s latest hate speech on the Ewes came on the back of a similar attack by Kwabena Agyapong, an NPP stalwart and former NPP presidential aspirant, directed at Ewes and the people of Hohoe claiming that there are no human beings in Hohoe.

The Soil Association, which has long been at the head of the British organic movement, was founded in 1946, by a group of farmers, scientists and nutritionists who posited direct connections between farming practice and plant, animal, human and environmental health.

Our results provide strong evidence for complex communication directed at humans in a species that was domesticated primarily for agricultural production, and show similarities with animals bred to become pets or working animals, such as dogs and horses.»

As the infection was unlikely to have been caused by direct gorilla - to - human transmission, «it would be surprising if there aren't more human cases», says David Robertson, a bioinformaticist at the University of Manchester, UK, who was part of the team that analysed the virus (Nature Medicine, DOI: 10.1038 / nm.2016).

Both the KUDOS (Kansas DHA Outcome Study), directed by Carlson and Colombo, and the DOMinO (DHA to Optimize Mother Infant Outcome) study directed by Maria Makrides, professor of human nutrition and Healthy Mothers, Babies and Children theme leader for the South Australian Health & Medical Research Institute, and Robert Gibson, professor of functional food science at the University of Adelaide, saw a small overall increase in gestation length, but this increase was found to be related to a decrease in deliveries at higher risk for early preterm birth.

Sheng left a tenured position at MIT as a professor and Howard Hughes investigator, moving to Genentech last year in order to have «a more direct impact on human well - being.

This is a good example where the study is directed at a human condition — the Down's syndrome.

This cover story is a look at what information has been coming out of direct genetic comparisons of the chimpanzee genome and the human genome.

Roughly 25 % of respondents were contacted by direct email; the remaining 75 % of surveys were returned following promotion by 573 contacts in human resources at biotech and pharma companies (Science Careers database).

Presenting at a recent conference of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping in Toronto, Canada, the researchers hypothesized that the frontal lobes may be a «mastermind» that directs brain activity and allows us to do two things at once.

Although the new data are «fascinating,» they «remain very contrived in the sense that they don't bear a direct relationship to what we see in the human condition,» says Colin Masters, a neuroscientist at the University of Melbourne in Australia.

We are lucky at Canyonlands and Arches because we have areas, actually, that have never been grazed by livestock and are almost never visited by humans, so we have a pretty good idea of what is just regional change versus what is direct - visitation change.

Some of it is clearly directed at the prevention and relief of human suffering, but not all.

Consistent with the mission focus of NSF's Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences, SciSIP's two solicitations have been directed at underwriting the development of «fundamental knowledge,» including theories, data, tools and human capital.

Gregory Stock, who directs the program on medicine, technology, and society at the University of California at Los Angeles school of medicine, says in his new book, Redesigning Humans: Our Inevitable Genetic Future:» [T] he slippery slope has been used time and again to oppose all kinds of innovations.

According to Ruppert, the study comes at an opportune time — coral reefs are facing a number of pressures both from direct human activity, such as over-fishing, as well as from climate change.

In another study, we found dogs follow the gaze of a human if the human first establishes eye contact with the dog, so the dog knows the gaze - shift is directed at them.

Scientists at the University's Dog Cognition Centre are the first to find clear evidence dogs move their faces in direct response to human attention.