Sentences with phrase «establish a society where»

We strive to establish a society where people and communities are empowered with the skills to overcome conflict and take charge of their destiny.

Not exact matches

Essentially, he wants Facebook to be a place where people come together to establish real community, accomplish great things together and let leaders emerge who can influence followers to impact culture and society.

Here, Wilson confronts the philosoher's dilemma, where even if we can establish the best order of society within his «traditional conservatism» we are still «burdened» with the imperfections of a citizenry beset by sundry diseases of the mind, not to mention the soul.

We misunderstand even the practical / pastoral thrust of the Bible whenever we compare or equate it with the pastoral concerns of an established religion - with the maintenance of the life of parish and clan in a society where there are no longer any challenges being addressed to the powers that be, no longer any new believers coming in across the boundaries of nation and culture, and no longer any new threatening issues needing to be wrestled with on the missionary frontier.

Our society is established on a system of reinforcement, yet we don't want to apply it where it is needed most: with young children.

Even in advanced Western societies like the United States, where the principle is well understood and established, the ability to buy more law than your neighbor is a ubiquitous source of inequality.

People keep thinking their beloved gun rights (in the way they interpret the Cont * itution) impact society the same way today as they did when people were doing a lot more hunting for food, defending themselves from animals, defending themselves in places where law had not yet been established.

God could have invited the native Palestinians into his covenant, given them the same laws he had given the Israelites, and established an egalitarian society where people of all races could live together in harmony.

While much of this discrepancy can be explained with reference to society's established power structures and imbalances, we'd like to see more of an effort made on the Committee side to bring about, where possible, a greater degree of gender and regional parity.

For Marx, Engels, and the Socialist Party of Great Britain (WSM) since 1904 Socialism / Communism mean the same thing: a global moneyless, classless, wageless, stateless society where production is for use and there is free access to all that's produced, a system of society that can not be established until the overwhelming majority of the worlds workers understand the concept of and want to organise for such a society.

Ignore all cases of autocratic or «personal rule», where it is difficult to distinguish between «anti-social», «criminal» and «treasonous»; limit answers to examples of societies which have an established governance and a mechanism by which to criminalize behavior.

Following the MPH program I'll work at NCI, where I will establish a research agenda that I hope will springboard me to a career as a different kind of translational scientist than I was exposed to in the lab: Whereas physician - scientists take discoveries from «the bench to the bedside,» I want to take my research from «the bench to society.»

Education is a field where value to society is not reflected in income, so it is important for HGSE to establish prestigious fellowships and abundant financial aid opportunities in order to enroll the highest caliber students — students who, as Hobbs says, might otherwise opt for business, law, or medical school.

The Navigation menu on the left margin establishes yet another link to a page where teachers are invited to express their desires for the Winston Society, concerns about NCLB, and ideas for fostering more progressive educational practices.

In our view, wikis and related Web 2.0 technologies may play an important role in constructing new spaces of teacher education where, in the spirit of the Winston Society, teachers can begin to «establish their own definitions and rules» and «collective working drafts» — and maybe even be a little «naughty.»

And while, eleven years later, new immigrants to Canada continue to be a fundamental part of our economic progress and success as a country, especially concerning major cities like Toronto or Vancouver where they're interwoven into the very fabric of society, it's also become quite difficult for newcomers to the country to establish a life for themselves here.

Specifically, the reality of lower earning - power across every level of education (a problem that by the way is also shared by all women in this society but particularly among women of color), the lack of assets from which one can draw upon in case of any type of disruption in earnings, and poor access to credible financial institutions within the neighborhoods where they live, make African Americans particularly vulnerable to falling behind, and staying behind, thus significantly hampering the possibility of establishing a positive credit history.

According to the Society's submission to the working group established after the Whistler massacre, «there is no difference between the needs of a companion dog and those of a working dog: sled dogs are entitled to the same standard of care as are companion animals who live in the city as valued and beloved members of their families... However, as impossible as this is to accomplish for dogs under any business model, it is more so where dozens, if not hundreds, of dogs find themselves under the oversight of a minimal number of caretakers.»

The first generation take the blue - collar jobs and establish a secure environment where subsequent generations can be free to pursue higher - education and become progressive, invaluable members of society.

Nesbitt's show arrives at a time where our society, the media, and government aim to establish a concrete line between fact and opinion, history and myth, evidence and conspiracy theory.

It is certainly understandable that the objective of general deterrence is «particularly applicable to public welfare offences where it is essential for the proper functioning of our society for citizens at large to expect that basic rules are established and enforced to protect the physical, economic and social welfare of the public.»

Legal principle must try «to keep the law abreast of the society in which [the judges] live and work»: «If the law should impose upon the process of «growing up» fixed limits where nature knows only a continuous process, the price would be artificiality and a lack of realism in an area where the law must be sensitive to human development and social change... Unless and until Parliament should think fit to intervene, the courts should establish a principle flexible enough to enable justice to be achieved by its application to the particular circumstances proved by the evidence placed before them.»

(1) where the previous decision does not reflect the values of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms; (2) where the previous decision is inconsistent with or «attenuated» by a later decision of the Court; (3) where the social, political, or economic assumptions underlying a previous decision are no longer valid in contemporary society; (4) where the previous state of law was uncertain or where a previous decision caused uncertainty; and, (5) in criminal cases, where the result of overruling a prior decision is to establish a rule favourable to the accused.

In Ontario, the Law Society has established a Task Force on Compliance - Based Entity Regulation, which is exploring a proactive, outcomes - focused approach where the regulator sets out expected outcomes and provides flexibility as to how they are achieved.

Although the mere fact that the impugned legislation takes into account the claimant's traits or circumstances will not necessarily be sufficient to defeat a s. 15 (1) claim, it will generally be more difficult to establish discrimination to the extent that the law takes into account the claimant's actual situation in a manner that respects his or her value as a human being or member of Canadian society, and less difficult to do so where the law fails to take into account the claimant's actual situation.

Whether we're fighting patent trolls in court; arguing in Congress for more balanced copyright laws; or urging governments, funders, and educational institutions to adopt open access policies, EFF is committed to building a society that supports creativity and innovation, where established players in the marketplace for technology and culture aren't allowed to silence the next generation of creators.

In school I studied at a leading university, where I was fortunate enough to be able to establish and coordinate a society that focused on education and professional experiences in this growing field.