Sentences with phrase «economic life means»

Not exact matches

«Our economic infrastructure lives in a digital space, which means leveraging big data to streamline financial services to keep information secure, while also well organized and transparent, making it accessible for regulatory bodies,» says Teijeiro.

That economic snafu postponed the retirements of more than a few Canadians, it lasted longer than other any other downturn in living memory, and it is by no means resolved.

«The implications tie back to the founding vision that we've had of turning cities into metro stops, changing the meaning of where you live and where you work, unlocking economic opportunity in areas that might be currently locked away by lack of infrastructure or lack of transportation solutions,» Hyperloop One co-founder Shervin Pishevar told the Verge.

The globalization and financialization of Chile's economy means that its economic surplus is remitted abroad rather than recycled into domestic investment to increase domestic production and living standards.

Africans have seized upon Bitcoin as a means of economic stability as well as opening doors for entrepreneurship and investing in order to realize a better life.

An economic process defines for millions of Americans what it is to be truly human, what the meaning of life is, how to avoid guilt.

Democracy means participation at every level of economic, political and cultural life.

With the definition of religion given, Marxism would have to be considered a religion, at least for those who do not use it as a means to some political or economic end, but who find «in the conception of the «dialectic of history» with its inevitability, its total relevance, its impersonal justice - making power, the object of supreme valuation and complete relevance to life....

’42 Indeed, women from all three continents, Africa, Asia and Latin America, say that «In the person and praxis of Jesus Christ, women of the three continents find the grounds of our liberation from all discrimination: sexual, racial, social, economic, political and religious... Christology is integrally linked with action on behalf of social justice and the defense of each person's right to life and to a more humane life.43 This means that Christology is about apartheid, sexual exploitation, poverty and oppression.

But he was more interested in the fact that each religion was presumed to possess the same «spiritual values» of «the American Way of Life,» by which he meant a soft - hearted faith in democracy (political, economic, and religious) combined with a more robust faith in idealism, activism, and moral conviction.

Now this doesn't mean that the Republicans should do NOTHING on immigration, but it does mean that their economic agenda should focus on issues that would help people in the two middle quartiles (and the last quartile) get what Reihan Salam called «the basics of a dignified middle - class life — affordable high - quality medical care, education, and housing» With that in mind, here is a partial (and I'm not sure totally compatible) list of policies that Republicans should be looking at:

The result is that America is a nation deeply divided between people who are concerned about real - life issues — war and peace, social justice, the health and welfare of people — on one hand, and other people who are concerned, instead, about «values,» by which they mean adherence to ancient taboos, dependence on a magical God, enforcing acceptance of ancient creeds, requiring everyone to believe as they do, and finding safety in raw (though often hidden) social and economic power.

There is a real danger that we might come to equate success in the economic system with a successful life, that we might come to identify the material rewards of the system as our goal in life and the source of meaning for us.

Economic security for all men means something about colonies, about tariffs, about the free access of goods to those people who must have raw materials and markets if they are to have in normal times a standard of living adequate to relieve hunger and permit the free development of body and spirit.

By this I mean that they have less control over their lives, less latitude in decision - making, and less influence over political, educational, and economic institutions which impinge upon their lives, than is the case with people in the middle classes.

Socialism, as they understand it, meant that society as a whole would order its economic life for the good of all.

Each one of us understands the world and interprets events from a particular perspective — and that perspective is profoundly shaped by our nonhuman and human environments, culture, socio - politico - economic location, and the myths and symbols that organize and give meaning and significance to our lives.

In time it came to involve art forms of all kinds, (heiroglyphics, drawings and carvings, images, tools, etc.) and for all purposes (ranging from what we would call economic (making a living) to what we could call religious (giving him a sense of meaning in life)-RRB-.

Jesus said repent which means you pay for your own sins, and as Jesus spoke of in the Parable of the Lost Coin, doing work like cleaning and seeking diligently is all a part of repentance... Also, note that correcting something as small as a lost coin shows Jesus's views on repentance and sins (devations from «the way, the truth, and the life — economic health of life for a lost coin).

The importance of the power problem for Christian ethics derives both from the fact that power, whether economic, political, military, or spiritual, means capacity to determine life for good or ill, and from the fact that some fundamental redistribution of power is necessary as a condition of the freedom and dignity of men in their social relations.

«Fullness of life» may mean many things; but what is meant here appears from the fact that it is something which other faiths also offer in an inferior or equal manner and that it is elsewhere declared that «our dedication... is to the progressive realization of the dignity and worth of man in every area of life — political, economic, social and religious.»

The goal was to integrate people at every level of the economy and society, giving average workers the means to participate in economic decisions that directly affected their lives.

Living ecologically in the present moment may mean investigating one's own watershed, learning where one's food is grown, understanding one's dependence on economic use of trees and oil.

It means, to begin with, that the man who rules over his wife has a deep economic interest in seeing that she lives well, is healthy and flourishes together with her children, being fruitful and multiplying.

«The Evangelistic Witness is directed towards all of the ktisis (creation) which groans and travails in search of adoption and redemption... The transfiguring power of the Holy Trinity is meant to reach into every nook and cranny of our national life... The Evangelistic Witness will also speak to the structures of this world; economic, political, and societal institutions... We must re-learn the patristic lesson that the Church is the mouth and voice of the poor and the oppressed in the presence of the powers that be.

899 The initiative of lay Christians is necessary especially when the matter involves discovering or inventing the means for permeating social, political, and economic realities with the demands of Christian doctrine and life.

If we pursue these eccesiological motives, the church will not be an organized closed community marked by rigid boundaries as at present, and competing with religious communities but a congregation of believers meeting for spiritual fellowship around the Word and the Sacraments, meant to equip them for Christian living, struggles of justicefor the people and evangelistic mission in religiously pluralistic or secular social economic and political institutions.

Liberals have long hoped for the moment when the Catholic Church stops being «anti-modern,» which doesn't mean engaged with science, philosophically sophisticated, and capable of formulating a vision for modern political and economic life — the Church does all that — but instead means adopting liberal attitudes toward moral truth.

In the economic dimension of life, liberation means the satisfaction of the material needs of men for health, nourishment, clothing and somewhere to live.

This inner poisoning of life... can not... be overcome simply by victory over economic need, political oppression, cultural alienation and the ecological crisis... The absence of meaning and the corresponding consequences of an ossified and absurd life are described in theological terms as godforsakenness... Faith becomes hope for significant fulfillment.

Joline Godfrey is the CEO of Independent Means and the author of Raising Financially Fit Kids; Our Wildest Dreams: Women Making Money, Having Fun, Doing Good; No More Frogs To Kiss: 99 Ways to Give Economic Power to Girls; andTwenty $ ecrets to Money and Independence: The DollarDiva's Guide to Life.

Personally, identifying as a radical doula means acknowledging the ways in which current socio - economic systems negatively affect the reproductive experiences of queer folks, women of color, and those living in poverty.

Cash transfer programs, for instance, are an important means of improving economic security and access to maternal and child health care for pregnant women and new mothers, particularly for women living in poverty.

The Thatcherite belief in limited government, in the economic sphere, favours a strong commitment to intermediary individuals in order that individuals can be formed and find meaning to their lives.

I will argue that the primary purpose of economic governance in a republican economy should be to promote the independence of economic actors as a means of preventing the abuse of economic power and the corruption of public life.

Our Bolga Depot was shut down for so many years, the pipeline from Buipe to Bolga was not operational, today we are pumping fuel from Buipe to Bolga and we are loading 40 trucks a day to Burkina Faso and Mali, I mean if that is not economic progress, I don't know what else anybody will call economic progress, yes we've been through a period of challenges and we've had to make sacrifices as citizens but I believe that in everyone's life, there are times when you have to make sacrifices in order that things get better for the future, we are working to ensure that we create a better future for not only our citizens of today but for our citizens of tomorrow.

Peter Kilfoyle thinks my co-authoring an evidence - rich policy paper on urban regeneration's failure to generate economic convergence in places such as Liverpool and Hull means that I live «in a parallel universe» (TP Debate, April).

:: Urgently pay Edo State pensioners over 42 months outstanding pension benefits and entitlements from the over N29bn Paris Club refunds received by your government and meant for the payment of pension arrears and gratuities;:: Adopt a human rights policy of guaranteeing regular payment of pension benefits and entitlements so that pensioners and their families can live decently;:: Recognize the human rights of Edo State pensioners and ensure their full and effective enjoyment of those rights, as well as provide them with information to enable them to claim their rights;:: Treat all pensioners in Edo State as individuals with humanity and dignity and respect and promote their higher standard of living and improve economic and social conditions for all pensioners;:: Provide Edo State pensioners with proper support and assistance to alleviate their plight, including by ensuring informal, community - based and recreation - oriented programs for pensioners to help develop their sense of self - reliance and independence;:: Reduce opportunities for corruption in the spending of the Paris Club refunds

After years of advocating for this new station, the MTA Board approval means we are yet one step closer to not only ensuring local residents have the transportation options they deserve but also making sure Elmhurst lives up to its full economic potential.»

Russia has unfavorable economic factors - the lack of inter-country navigation combined with out of date technological base combined with entrenched culture of corruption means far more relative expenses and greater friction in economic activity and far lower average standards of living (not exactly helped by 70 years of Socialism; but Russia was economically screwed over by the Czars for centuries before that; and by post-Soviet governments after that too).

The time Trump spends at Mar - a-Lago means clogged roads and strict security protocols that hurt local businesses and frustrate residents, though economic development officials are ecstatic over the free publicity provided by news reporters» live waterfront shots.

Oshiomhole, who said this during a courtesy visit of his Lagos State counterpart, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, noted that the All Progressives Congress inherited a federal treasury that was «completely bastardised» by persons whom he said had made statement to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission over the alleged diversion of funds meant to protect the lives of Nigerians against terrorists.

Osborne whose welfare reform plans were defeated in the House of Lords on Monday night said the bedrock of economic security was a «country that lives within its means».

Recognising that the country has to live within its means, that Labour should tackle the deficit fairly and that a Labour government inheriting a current account deficit in 2020 should pay it down without jeopardising sustainable economic growth is, again, good to hear.

«The gap in standards of living between Europe and Africa means there will always be millions of Africans with the economic motivation to try to get to Europe.

Economic upturns didn't always mean longer lives.

Rachel Watkins (pictured above), an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at American University in Washington, D.C., is a biocultural anthropologist, which means she studies how people's physiological conditions — their health and disease states — reflect the social, cultural, economic, and political environment in which they lived.

Can't we work full - time, live in urban apartments / houses, enjoy meals with our guests (even if we don't cook), and find ways to make our modern lifestyles work via creative means without feeling like social or economic failures?

I live beneath my means rather than within them in these crazy but temporary economic times.

But it certainly shouldn't require much imagination to know why people prefer a life away from economic hardship — by any means at their disposal.