Sentences with phrase «established the society for»

[7][8] Edward Rowe Mores established the Society for Equitable Assurances on Lives and Survivorship in 1762.

His disciple, Edward Rowe Mores, was able to establish the Society for Equitable Assurances on Lives and Survivorship in 1762.

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The Index's authors define social progress as «the capacity of a society to meet the basic human needs of its citizens, establish the building blocks that allow citizens and communities to enhance and sustain the quality of their lives, and create the conditions for all individuals to reach their full potential.»

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On May 9, Putin signed the Strategy for the Development of an Information Society for 2017 — 2030.91 Based on the Russian government's desire to establish «sovereignty» over the Russian portion of the internet, the strategy postulates that Russia must have the capacity to produce its own software and hardware independently, with all core information infrastructure ultimately under state control.

Morals come from an evolved social construct, or set of rules established by society in order for a group of a species to work together in harmony for the greater good of the group and therefore the individual.

Call upon the educated, artistic, and creative members of our societies, as well as organizations of civil society, to establish a broad movement for the just treatment of religious minorites in Muslim countries and to raise awareness as to their rights, and to work together to ensure the success of these efforts.

While many Christianists fought one another in order to control and shape the correct Christian society, many Christians were revolted by the resulting slaughter and sought for a way to establish peace and tolerance among Christian groups.

«The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilization».

It is clear then that a state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange.

The Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge established 1,500 charity schools for such students, and George Whitefield and the Wesleys preached to them.

There are hopeful signs of an attempt to bridge the differences between the sects by means similar to those encouraged by the Society for the Reconciliation of Muslim Sects which was established a few years ago in Cairo.

believing that the same, very personal, means by which his own life had been soundly established should work for all, and ignoring the need for structural changes in society.

Neither system is invoked by name, but in their complete violation, the novel presents not a world in which evil has triumphed, but one in which the basic obligations of humans as social beings — to establish civil society and recourse for its governance — are ignored.

Since the gospel is always received and appropriated in a specific cultural form, and since the church is established and functions as a social institution, the changes that are taking place in global societies have profound implications for churches (as profound, some have suggested, as our initial transition from a regional Jewish Jesus movement into a global Gentile church).

Small but growing numbers of Christian theologians in Europe and North America have begun to meet regularly with Buddhists to foster mutual understanding and growth, one result of which is the recently established international Society for Buddhist - Christian Studies.4 In addition, following the lead of the late Trappist monk, Thomas Merton, many Roman Catholic monastics have begun to use meditative practices as an adjunct to their own spiritual disciplines (Walker).

Thus we have social contract theory, which allows each side to argue for their moral position until one side establishes a majority, and society accepts the position.

For instance, the American Bible Society's laudable desire to furnish every home with a Bible established the book as the most accessible and influential among nineteenth «century readers.

While helping to establish a moral foundation for society, it was just as often abused by the powers that be to keep the populace under control.

There is a temptation for members of a cultural elite to see their values as the only respectable virtues, a tendency that blinds the group to both cultural innovation and aesthetic dissent, especially from people deemed marginal to established intellectual society.

Modernity's emphasis on secularism involves three elements - a) the desacralisation of nature which produced a nature devoid of spirits preparing the way for its scientific analysis and technological control and use; b) desacralisation of society and state by liberating them from the control of established authority and laws of religion which often gave spiritual sanction to social inequality and stifled freedom of reason and conscience of persons; it was necessary to affirm freedom and equality as fundamental rights of all persons and to enable common action in politics and society by adherents of all religions and none in a religiously pluralistic society; and c) an abandonment of an eternally fixed sacred order of human society enabling ordering of secular social affairs on the basis of rational discussion.

William Penn of the Society of Friends first established religious liberty in the colonies and supplied the Christian rationale for it.

Hobbes and Locke, certainly, might be criticized (even excoriated, be my guest) for attempting to sever the right from the good, for proposing to «enlighten» society with the proposition that rights can be established without any reference to a common Good, that freedom can produce order from itself, without acknowledging any power not only outside by above itself.

In the space of a single generation Christian communities were established in most of the eastern provinces of the Roman empire, and as far west as Italy: a remarkable achievement for a society which started with a handful of humble folk from the small towns of a petty «native state».

And even though for Whitehead human social interrelationships are primarily instinctive (owing to the «sympathetic» nature of human experience), nonetheless it requires the repetitive occurrence of inherited social activity to establish a social order stable enough to secure the continued social interaction of individuals, and therein the endurance of society as a whole.

In the first paragraph of the first essay of The Federalist Papers, Alexander Hamilton introduced the basic theme: «It seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend for their political constitutions on accident and force.»

And as a result, women and female characteristics were downgraded, and a superior place for men was established in society.

Whereas membership of a closed society helped to provide personal identity («I'm a Scotsman», for example, or «I'm a Presbyterian»), individuals in the open society are both freer and have more responsibility to establish their own identity.

God's covenant with Noah which asks fallen humanity to establish a society based on reverence for life and a legal justice that protects the innocent human beings from the murderer who is around; and God's call to Moses to liberate the Israelite people from Pharaoh's slavery; and God permitting monarchy with new perils of oligarchy to destroy the more human Tribal Federation to liberate the Israelites from the technically superior Philistines in Palestine; and Paul's doctrine that the Roman State, which he knew had its role in crucifying Jesus.

For the last decade, some social scientists have been arguing that «happiness measurements» should replace or supplement established economic standards to judge a society's «success.»

George Mason, a member of the Con - sti - tu - tion - al Convention and recognized as The Father of the Bill of Rights submitted this proposal for the wording of the First Amendment All men have an equal, natural and unalienable right to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience and that no particular sect or society of Christians ought to be favored or established by law in preference to others.

Jesus reveals to us the innocence of the victim, and in some respects modem society has learned this lesson well, for we are inclined to establish our own innocence by presenting ourselves as victims.

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.

However, there seems to be a general consensus among Christians that the civil government has a general duty and obligation to establish order within society for the purpose of protecting its citizenry from physical harm intentionally inflicted by others.

On his mind may also have been the awareness that a substantial number of distinguished theologians have been making plans to establish a new theological society for scholars more attuned to the Magisterium.

This meant for the earliest disciples a basic renunciation of the struggle for existence, implemented by a complete break with the power structure of society: the automatic prerogatives of the chosen people, the security of the holy tradition, the comfort of established religious organization and clergy — all such props, controlled by man and as a result constantly available to him for securing his existence, were in principle eliminated.

That is, it is necessary to affirm the socially established and accepted norms for the sake of social order, social responsibility, and / or the advancement of one's interests and welfare within the society, with respect both to oneself and to the groups one is loyal to.

A European Society for Process Thought was formed in 1978, and in Leuven a Center for Process Thought was established.

The church can reorient society through the redirection of men's values, enabling them to be sensitive to the worth of persons, to respond with concern for their needs, and to establish corporate structures of justice.

All of these movements share a very negative image of established society as sunk in materiialism and heading for disaster.

Of course it is one thing for individuals and groups having faith in a philosophy of Secularism that denies the transcendent ultimate, but it is a another to make it the established faith of the whole society or State.

Perusing the index of Origins, the weekly publication of representative documents and speeches compiled by Catholic News Service, our imaginary historian will note, for example, the following initiatives undertaken at the national, diocesan and parish levels in 1994 - 95: providing alternatives to abortion; staffing adoption agencies; conducting adult education courses; addressing African American Catholics» pastoral needs; funding programs to prevent alcohol abuse; implementing a new policy on altar servers and guidelines for the Anointing of the Sick; lobbying for arms control; eliminating asbestos in public housing; supporting the activities of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (227 strong); challenging atheism in American society; establishing base communities (also known as small faith communities); providing aid to war victims in Bosnia; conducting Catholic research in bioethics; publicizing the new Catechism of the Catholic Church; battling child abuse; strengthening the relationship between church and labor unions; and deepening the structures and expressions of collegiality in the local and diocesan church.

Pope John Paul was emphatic in teaching that» [t] he use of the infertile periods for conjugal union can be an abuse if the couple, for unworthy reasons, seeks in this way to avoid having children, thus lowering the number of births in their family below the morally correct level.This morally correct level must be established by taking into account not only the good of one's own family, and even the state of health and the means of the couple themselves, but also the good of the society to which they belong, of the Church, and even of the whole of mankind.

Value judgments and ethical preoccupations motivate societal planning, and it is under the guise of the search for order and «the good» that societies with their political and economic components are established.

It is also to be noted that in 1895 the University of Chicago established the Haskell (annual) and Barrows (triennial) lectureships, and in 1897 the American Oriental Society formed a section for the historical study of religions.

I long for a society in which the extraordinary dynamic that is at work in the encounter between a man and a woman continues to be established, under a specific name.

This confusion has left church leadership open to ideological distortion by its host culture as it «conforms to expectations established for it by a bourgeois society» (93).

As a result of the missionary activity of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel throughout the colonies and particularly in New England, and with the introduction of the Church of England worship in Boston, the very heart of New England, clergy and laity alike began to fear a vast plot to overthrow the liberties of their churches and to establish the Church of England.

As Carol mentioned above, the issue is not simply the differences between «men» and «women» as occupants of different categories of personhood but the cultural assumption that such differences exist and that they should be a reason to establish and maintain immutable categories for those differences — e.g., men = alphas, women = betas — the violation of which categories is somehow at least questionable, if not punishable by society.

Missing from this, or perhaps purposely excised, is the Christian understanding of marriage as an institution established by God, a sacramental reality in the Church, ordered to the happiness and spiritual growth of the spouses and to the procreation of children for the good of society.