Sentences with phrase «for civilisation»

It may have been the coup de grace for a civilisation that was already in severe decline.

-- the world has been warming up a bit — human activity probably has something to do with that — some models say this might influence the frequency of severe weather events — therefore, an expensive year for civilisation (and insurance companies) means that climate change is already happening — therefore, we need a global agreement to reduce carbon emissions

If power generator owners and governments had decreed that the most inefficient and most unreliable, most costly power generation systems that could be conceived to generate power for our modern civilisation were to be the norm then the so called renewable energy systems of wind and solar along with highly inefficient fossil fuel burning idling generators as standby's when the renewables fail to produce power then it is doubtful that a more hopelessly inefficient and unreliable system could be devised for a civilisation that depends so utterly on having dead steady, totally reliable, at call power every second of every day to run that civilisation's entire very sophisticated structures

The Bizarre World of Ancient Greece BBC doc on the lifestyles of the people who set the blueprint for civilisation as we know it...

Tate Britain Alison Black artseer.wordpress.com If you are looking for Civilisation in Tate Britain's Kenneth Clark: Looking for Civilisation, you will have to keep on looking until the sixth and final room of the exhibition.

Tate Britain presented «Kenneth Clark: Looking for Civilisation», an unusual exhibition for concentrating on the public life and the collecting of an individual.

* * * For a civilisation so fixated on achieving happiness, we seem remarkably incompetent at the task.

«That is enough to really cause problems for our civilisation,» Pierazzo says.

Once again in 1941, Miss Thelma Cazalet, a National Conservative MP asked the Prime Minister «whether he will introduce legislation to enable the Elgin Marbles to be restored to Greece at the end of hostilities as some recognition of the Greeks magnificent stand for civilisation».

If in the ruins of Rome, St. Augustine dreamed of a civilisation that should be the City of God on earth, and penned, even while weighted with despair and expectation of the end of the world, the noble outline of the Christian order which inspired so much of mediaeval thought, how much more reason have we today, with so much greater resources, to expect for our civilisation a resurrection out of our decay.

Mutual silence for prisoners is equivalent to mutual broadcasting for aliens, giving the best results for both civilisations.

Not exact matches

The general working theory for Christian missionaries was first formalized in St. Augustine's doctrine of «cognite intrare», or «compel them to enter», but was perhaps best summed up by J. C. Warner some 1500 years later: ``... the sword must first — not exterminate them, but — break them up as tribes, and destroy their political existence; after which, when thus set free from the shackles by which they are bound, civilisation and Christianity will no doubt make rapid progress among them.»

«I would suggest that the world of reason and the world of faith — the world of secular rationality and the world of religious belief — need one another and should not be afraid to enter into a profound and ongoing dialogue, for the good of our civilisation,» Benedict said.

They affect populations which are marginalised and excluded from satisfying their need for the basic necessities of life, and thus from the basis of civilisation given their incapacity to transform these pressing needs into effective demands, monetary demands.

How much the men and women of our time need to reappropriate this fundamental truth, which stands at the foundation of society, and how important is the witness of married couples for the formation of sound consciences and the building of a civilisation of love!»

Loss of respect for everyone and everything is a hallmark of a civilisation in ultimate decline.

They are all for discrimination against those who hold to the traditional view of marriage on which Western Civilisation has been based for the past 1,500 years.

«For the educated person can not play his full part in modern life unless he has a clear sense of the nature and achievements of Christian culture: how Western civilisation became Christian and how far it is Christian today and in what ways it has ceased to be Christian»

Its actions are having the opposite effect because -LSB-...] its lack of identity [and relativism] transforms Europe into terrain for conquest -LSB-... by a] terrorism and fundamentalism [which] attack the core values of our civilisation.»

1) Copenhagen demonstrated that global governance has overreached itself; 2) The crisis provokes a shift away from idealistic globalism, back to pragmatic concerns; 3) «Global consensus» established by «experts» is not and has never been genuine; 4) The institutions of global governance prove unable to resolve their identity crisis and to reform themselves; they are fragmented; 5) Global governance pays the bill for not taking into account non-western cultures and civilisations; 6) Displaying an incapacity to provide real leadership, produce a vision for the world, new ideas / ideologies, global governance opts for a survival approach.

Open to transcendence, searching for what is true and good, consensus - building could become genuine and lead humanity to a civilisation of love that no longer has anything to do with the «top - down» and doctrinaire paradigms of modernity.

In the wordsof the Holy Father at Westminster Hall, «The world of reason and the world of faith need one another and should not be afraid to enter into a profound and ongoing dialogue, for the good of our civilisation.»

Claiming that Christianity was responsible for the benefits of Western civilisation, he takes whole pages out of Dinesh D'Souza's playbook.

The time for the manifestation of Christ in the Incarnation was wisely chosen indeed in the plan of God, for it came at a period of expanding and settled civilisation under the aegis of the Roman Peace.

Our Self Respect Beyond all the wars and rumours of wars that so beset civilisation lies the desire for self - assertion, and self - promotion which is expressed in that very unpleasant phrase «me - time».

Melanie Philips, in The Daily Mail, pointed to the way in which «as so often, [the BBC] has given undue airtime to extremists, thus lending credence to the false impression of the Pope's remarks», and she criticised the way the BBC had claimed that the Pope had «apologised», rather than simply expressing regret for the misinterpretation of his comments, «thus helping Islamic extremists believe that the forces of intimidation had cowed the Pontiff and scored a notable victory in the war against Western civilisation».

Another effect that gives cause for alarm is that a man who grows accustomed to the use of contraceptive methods mayforget the reverence due to a woman, and, disregarding her physical and emotional equilibrium, reduce her to being a mere instrument for the satisfaction of his own desires, no longer considering her as his partner whom he should surround with care and affection... [So] In preserving intact the whole moral law of marriage, the Church is convinced that she is contributing to the creation of a truly human civilisation» (HV 17 - 18).

We can begin to answer this question by asking ourselves what is necessary in a civilisation for science to develop.

«For the Pope, Western intellectuals should be open to other civilisations and the societies who believe in God.

The famous (for liberals the notorious) article 80 of the Syllabus — which condemns as an error the proposition that «the Roman Pontiff may and ought to reconcile himself to, and to agree with, progress, liberalism and modern civilisation» — seems reasonable enough.

What is needed is a coherent and attractive vision for the cooperation of man and woman in the always exciting task of building a life together and fostering a civilisation.

As a scholar of medieval technical progress of that epoch illustrates, «it was the building, for the first time in history, of a complex civilisation which rested, not on the backs of sweating slaves or coolies, but primarily on non-human power.»

For the first time in history there was a civilisation permeated by the Catholic beliefs about the material world that are the essential presuppositions and foundations of science.

For this is what we are faced with: a dehumanised, devalued, civilisation where, having stupidly mortgaged our life's possibilities, sinking them in the acquisition of material things, we see society totter on the verge of bankruptcy.

They are those fellows who ended up in Selhurst Park by mistake and pleasantly asked a passer by for the quickest route back to civilisation.

That a couple should be willing to watch their lives go by from within the cosy cage of marriage, without acting on extra-mural sexual impulses, is a miracle of civilisation and kindness for which daily gratitude is in order.

We need to move towards an educational paradigm that promotes an «ocean model of civilisation»: a metaphor for human civilization conceived as a whole, like an ocean into which different rivers flow and add depth.

The Ocean Model of civilisation encourages this kind of understanding, thereby promoting the conditions required for further transcultural awareness and exchange.

In a future which will increasingly be characterized by mass migration and the shifting of political borders, the Ocean Model of Civilisation can serve as a constructive paradigm for greater global security — especially its transcultural dimension — by promoting better and more dignified treatment of human beings, tolerance of diversity and respect for differences.

His tolerance for dissent and his secularism, his commitment to the Oriental - Christian culture as part of a common larger Oriental - Islamic civilisation, and his «integrity as a Christian» member of it, as well as his scholarship, made him an eminent personality and also a contact person for Islamists and the secular, for pan-Arabists and nationalists as well as for the right and the left.

... not from discovering something new but rediscovering something which has underpinned our civilisations for centuries.

Their deaths are a crime against civilisation and rid of us of any notion that the EU might be a force for good, or that the UK could live up to the grossly inflated rhetoric it issues about its role in the world.

If we are to weather the coming storm of the Tory campaign, backed by hysterical newspaper threats of the «end of civilisation as we know it», then we need to start giving people some hope for their futures.

It teaches that entrepreneurs are primarily responsible for the development of civilisation, not the second - hand users of their intellectual property.

Appearing on his doorstep, he says he loves European culture and civilisation but there should be no confusion with that and a political project that is «basically being going on for decades, which I think is in real danger of getting out of proper democratic control».

For about 6 years now, tradition and youthfulness have been cohabiting in some notable Yoruba kingdoms, and the result of this is visible civilisation within these environs.

«We must expose the hatred that drives the extremist ideology; expose that this is not a clash of civilisations nor of cultures; expose that on the one side stands all civilised societies founded on the dignity of all people of all faiths and on the other an extremist violent ideology where murderers take innocent lives for notoriety,» he said.

The event, in honour of Obasanjo on his 80th birthday was hosted by the Centre for Black and African Arts and Civilisation of the Federal Ministry of Information and Culture at the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library, Abeokuta, on Friday.

An assessment of Earth's biodiversity predicts catastrophic losses within decades, with severe knock - on effects for human civilisation like shortages of food

The Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence investigation looks for messages in space that can not be explained naturally and that could potentially be originating from an alien civilisation.