Sentences with phrase «even social institutions»

We can have lives filled with emotionally or financially unavailable partners or domestic abuse, demanding and demeaning employers, self - involved friends and family, and even social institutions filled with racism, homophobia, or systems of poverty that keep us feeling lost or trapped.

Nerves, muscles, machines, and even social institutions carry out the purposes of man because there is dependable efficient causation.

Not exact matches

In the last decade, the Bush Administration, seeking a Trojan Horse to privatize Social Security in the United States, applauded Chile's disastrous privatization of pension accounts (turning many over to US financial institutions) even as that nation's voters rejected the Pinochetistas largely out of anger at the vast pension rip - off by high finance.

People have the right to leave church and organized religion, they have a right to question an institution that will do anything to save face even if it means letting children be harmed (and trust me, there are Priests that have issues with girls - my mom when to an all girls» Catholic school in the 60s and talks about how many of the priests used to «hang out» with the young girls out and girls have been abused), churches that are not practicing social justice.

Social science needs more inquiry into poverty culture and institutions, even though they can not be studied as rigorously as social condiSocial science needs more inquiry into poverty culture and institutions, even though they can not be studied as rigorously as social condisocial conditions.

Furthermore, since its ultimate claim to existence is rooted more in the events of the past than in contemporary social problems, it has even a more conservative image than political and economic institutions.

In its absence, the deep and accelerating cultural trends toward individualism and autonomy have continued to erode trust in social institutions — business, government, church, and even the family.

Even large and solid social institutions like AMP, for example, identified this changing attitude towards institutions (in research by Hugh Mackay).

from both Britain and the Continent have often failed to become involved in the discussion, even misconstruing its significance because of their radically altered historical context.5 In a recent article on evangelical identity, Gerald Sheppard goes so far as to claim that «inerrancy» is for American evangelicals «the official language of social identification, over against other so - called «nonevangelical» institutions.»

The change is even clearer in other major social institutions than in government.

In 1986 Cardinal Ratzinger, long before he became Pope Benedict, echoed this view of Mary and the Church when he wrote: «The Church is not an apparatus; she is not merely an institution; she is not even one among many social entities — she is a person.

Struck by the contingency and organic relatedness of social institutions, practices, and actions, and dismayed by the Utopian ideologies to which so many modern minds are prone, paleoconservatives (as they now style themselves) such as Kirk are opposed to «ideological infatuation» or even to imagining social projects for the future at all.

No Christian writer of the New Testament, so far as our records reveal, ever faced the responsibility of applying high moral principles to preserving the institutions of society, administering governments, handling international relationships, prosecuting social reforms, or even mitigating by public measures the inequities of an economic system.1

It is too often assumed (even by many who no longer have any explicit allegiance to the Christian tradition) that the values and social institutions of our cultural past will continue into the future in much the same form.

The nature of the church is so different from the nature of any other social institution that it is hardly correct to think of it as having been established by any person or collection of persons, even the apostles themselves.

And even those who would regard all such concepts as mythical (cosmopolitans or libertarians who do not think that their passport or citizenship involves any social membership) would probably still acknowledge that existing institutions - the British government, the Monarchy, Parliament, Barclays Bank, Everton Football Club, etc - are inheritors not just of their history (good and bad) but indeed of the material consequences of that (eg assets belonging to the state, or the Royal family, or a business; or indeed debts).

It's in this give - and - take that the true value of health system social media is found: the ability for a huge institution to communicate its own message or accomplishments with followers on a more personal level, as well as the ability for users to communicate right back with said institution in myriad ways — even indirectly.

While formal attempts like diversity awareness training in the workplace and in learning institutions like colleges have had only mixed results, bringing two families of two or even more diverse culture through marriage may provide a more natural and effective way to end social segregation.

Even though NCATE has now dropped «social justice» as a disposition, the agency stands behind dispositions assessment and institutions» use of «social justice» as a curricular theme.

Teachers, instructional designers, educational institutions, companies, and even organizations have started to heavily rely on the use of social media in formal learning, to share practices, promote information and educational material, share opinions, views and comments, embodying them in training programs and individual courses.

Even in a single jurisdiction - a state, province or country - no one institution can bring together the scientific, social, technical, behavioral and organizational tools to provide a comprehensive solution at scale to this challenge.

The team reached out to many other city institutions, including health, mental health, social services, and homelessness organizations in addition to city government and even the fire department.

These institutions promote social justice and inclusivity as virtues of good character, and where public school attendance is determined by residence and highly segregated on socioeconomic lines, Catholic schools, especially those that participate in school choice programs, are diverse in terms of race, social class and even religion.

«With today's smartphones, people stand to risk losing much more than contact information when a device is lost or stolen — it's access to their email, social networking sites, financial institutions or even exposing personal photos or videos, as many celebrities have,» said Dave Cole, vice president, mobile products, Norton.

(Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110201/LA39884LOGO) «With today's smartphones, people stand to risk losing much more than contact information when a device is lost or stolen — it's access to their email, social networking sites, financial institutions or even exposing personal photos or videos, as many celebrities have,» said Dave Cole, vice president, mobile products, Norton.

No matter where you are, there's plenty to keep you busy until the end of the year: All around the world, from Alcatraz to Beijing, museums, galleries and other arts institutions are giving us good reason to fill our social calendars — even on the smaller scale (take the first ever showcase of all of artist Louise Bourgeois's famous hanging artworks, for example, or the limited - time, roving installation «You Belong Here,» currently afloat in neon on the Mississippi River in New Orleans).

«' The peculiar institution» of slavery and immigration during the 18th century created a city that, even in 1961, was a complex social arrangement, one that remains palpable today,» Artistic Director Franklin Sirmans expressed in a statement about New Orleans.

Originally, this was a small project space, relying upon a network of public institutions to generate selections for its program, but after a few years it evolved into a gallery in the hands of its two founders, the Australian curator and musician Dominic Eichler and the Austrian artist Michel Ziegler; eventually, it transitioned from its humble beginnings to the city's most affluent neighborhood, Charlottenburg — a counterintuitive move, but one the directors insist won't change its commitment to cutting - edge exhibitions, performances, screenings, talks, and social evenings.

«The objectives of democide include the disintegration of the political and social institutions of culture, language, national feelings, religion, and the economic existence of national groups; the destruction of the personal security, liberty, health, dignity; and even the lives of the individuals belonging to such groups.

But my sense is that voters will be even more strongly opposed to federal judges forcing on them a change to a fundamental social institution.