Sentences with phrase «for human achievement»

In the Anthropocene, political analysis can no longer be grounded in an environment that can be taken for granted, a natural world that provides a mere backdrop for human achievement.»

This admiration for human achievement somewhat undermines Adam's intentions to kill himself with a wooden bullet obtained from his stoner human buddy Ian (Anton Yelchin in a Renfield - goes - Rock - n - Roll mode).

Not exact matches

When it comes to beliefs about human achievement, a fixed mindset is the belief that intelligence, for example, is almost entirely innate.

Mohamed Alabbar, chairman of Emaar Properties, espoused in a prepared statement that the building would be «a shining beacon of hope for the world, celebrating diversity and human achievements.»

His other professional acknowledgments include: Institute for Management Studies — Lifetime Achievement Award (one of only two ever awarded), American Management Association - 50 great thinkers and leaders who have influenced the field of management over the past 80 years, BusinessWeek — 50 great leaders in America, Wall Street Journal — top ten executive educators, Forbes — five most - respected executive coaches, Leadership Excellence — top five thinkers on leadership, Economic Times (India)-- top CEO coaches of America, Economist (UK)-- most credible executive advisors in the new era of business, National Academy of Human Resources — Fellow of the Academy (America's top HR award), World HRD Congress — 2011 global leader in HR thinking, Fast Company — America's preeminent executive coach, and Leader to Leader Institute — 2010 Leader of the Future Award.

Katherine High, Spark's president and chief scientific officer, expressed her enthusiasm for the early clinical data related to SPK - 8011: «The encouraging start of our SPK - 8011 clinical trial reinforces the strength of our gene therapy platform, delivers human proof - of - concept in a second liver - mediated disease — a significant achievement in the gene therapy field — and positions us well to potentially transform the current treatment approach for this life - altering disease with a one - time intervention.»

For too many people, it's simply better to just deny scientific fact and play ignorant than address logically some serious questions regarding the validity of human scientific achievement.

And yet, with the emergence of consciousness at the level of regnant human occasions, the struggle for justice becomes ingredient in the achievement of the richest harmony of experience attainable.

For this reason alone, I believe, there is no general justification for aristocratic principles, i.e., for subordination of one society of humans to the happiness of another, whether the basis be that of birth, education, technological achievement, or whatevFor this reason alone, I believe, there is no general justification for aristocratic principles, i.e., for subordination of one society of humans to the happiness of another, whether the basis be that of birth, education, technological achievement, or whatevfor aristocratic principles, i.e., for subordination of one society of humans to the happiness of another, whether the basis be that of birth, education, technological achievement, or whatevfor subordination of one society of humans to the happiness of another, whether the basis be that of birth, education, technological achievement, or whatever.

In line with the premise of continuity, if belief as an operative principle for the achievement of the future appeared in man as a «rational» or human act, it must somehow be already in the past, but in an irrational form.

For what exhilarates us human creatures more than freedom, more than the glory of achievement, is the joy of finding and surrendering to a Beauty greater than man, the rapture of being possessed.

If that central relationship is distorted, if we look to something less than God for our fulfillment, seeking affirmation on the level of status, wealth, social position, achievement, education, power, or whatever, then our human light will inevitably burn at a lower wattage; our being will be distorted.

The new creation beckons us beyond the bored images and achievements of what we already are; it is a promise for the human, not just for the human as male or female.

For they are disenchanted with a culture that neglects human problems while priding itself on its two achievements of technical efficiency and affluence.

No reference to God is necessary to account for the magnificence of «King Lear» — Plato's account of divine inspiration does not speak to our age, not only because nothing in our experience resonates to the vibration set up by Plato's account, but also because our experience finds the Platonic account demeaning, destructive of a sense of both human responsibility and the openendedness of human achievement.

Third, the context has shifted: in contrast to the traditional Catholic conception of the political community, and politics within such communities, as the means of achieving real if limited justice for human life in the world, and a corresponding theory of international relations, recent Catholic thought on war often treats the state as a locus of injustice and the goals of particular states as inherently at odds with the achievement of common human goals, while an internationalism defined in terms of the United Nations system is proposed as the best means to those common goals.

When the self is committed to the Second Good, its stock of memory, intelligence, relationships, health, and wealth becomes the instrument for the concrete achievement of security, justice, liberty, or fraternity within the domain of personal relations and in the larger world of human institutions.

God's receiving the world's achievements into his own everlasting life; God's remembering for ever that which is thus received; God's using for further good the achievements which have taken place in the created order — here are points which need to be emphasized when we begin to think of the worth or value of human existence.

Yet we share something with the Greeks every time we assemble for this great athletic contest: a desire to transcend the politics of the moment and reach beyond the ordinary limits of human achievement.

That potential will be fully actualized in the future; it is not reward for past meritorious human achievement.

«20 God could not become a man without thereby abandoning his divinity (as in Altizer's Sabellianism), but he becomes fully human in intimately incorporating into his own being peculiarly human experiences and sensitivities, thus accepting an inexhaustible concern for human purposes, achievements, and failures.

Nonetheless, the affirmation will not be evaded that the biblical influence has been, and is, of a more potent sort; for it strongly grips human emotions, the driving force in achievement, and sets them aflame with a supreme ideal which by its very loftiness thrills and mocks us.

The liberal vision sees God working in human history for a progressive achievement of a higher order of life for mankind.

And so it makes sense to sacrifice human persons today for the achievement of that future perfection.

The theater recently was honored by the Chicago Commission on Human Relations for its «achievements in promoting cross-cultural interaction.»

Tinder, however, has no patience with those who use this gap between human achievement and Christian hope as an excuse for inaction.

Few will deny, for example, that Paul's theology represents with something approaching adequacy the fact and meaning of sin in human life — the reality of moral evil, the universal blight it brings, man's hopeless entanglement with it, the perverse and rebellious pride, deep in our nature, which degrades us, distorts our efforts, mars even our best moral achievements, and from which we know God must save us if we are to be saved at all.

A third area of focus for continuing education that is relevant for the achievement of mental health is concerned with the meaning of religion in relation to the meanings of the other disciplines of human thought.

God treats us as sons and daughters, providing attractions from his or her circumambient love and usually under creaturely incognitos (including above all our fellow humans), which can save us from ourselves and set us on the path toward fuller shared existence here and now, with the promise that our achievements, when they are for good, will be received by God.

The rampant evil we see in the world today: ~ the corruption of human character so prevalent even in the young, ~ the disregard of everything that is pure, virtuous and godly, being replaced with apathy and indifference toward anything that stands for righteousness, ~ the boastfulness and pride in man's own achievements... ~ the inability to recognize the beauty and virtue in things that generations of the past naturally understood.

In Protestant circles especially plans were deliberately laid for giving an intelligible knowledge of the Christian message to every living human being, and efforts were made to enlist in the achievement of this goal all Protestant Christians.

Thus, it means that the total resources of the earth, our technological skills and scientific achievements, our sources of power including atomic energy, belong to God and should be used at his call for the increase of human good.

There are always at least minimal possibilities for the achievement of justice and a measure of brotherhood in human affairs.

For the Christian, human potentialities and achievements are to be measured in the light of the creating, redeeming love of God manifested in Jesus.

Indeed the correct derivation of such categories would appear to be no mean achievement for the finite human reason.

The italics are Teilhard's own; and the succeeding pages of the essay from which the quotation comes show that for him «what has gone wrong» was the failure of much traditional Christian teaching and preaching to see that the world — the whole created order in its materiality, along with man's grasp of the importance of secular effort and achievement — is an ongoing movement in which significance is given to human life.

Berrigan's complaint, in short, is that the reestablishment of a Jewish state (a justifiable goal) has come at a tremendous cost in human suffering, armed violence and moral decay; that the course of the new state has been a betrayal of everything the term «Israel» has stood for — justice, compassion, succoring the humiliated and injured; that a «settler state» was established through the expropriation of the people of the land, followed by an imperialist venture, based on the subjugation and exploitation of the conquered; and that, to add moral insult to physical and spiritual injury, the spokesmen of and for the state claim for it a special virtue and glorious achievement which may not be criticized.

The humanist movement in its turn gave him a confidence in human culture, a love of the classics and a connatural feeling for language, for beauty in the form of words, and for words in their natural setting of everyday language that eventually flowered in the German Bible, a whole language coming both to birth and to a first apotheosis — a miracle of the sixteenth century to set beside the achievement of Shakespeare in England at the end of the century.

Since all of us are filled with admiration for the achievements of science and since all of us desire to practice and propagate such human virtues as friendliness, tolerance, good humor, sympathy and courage, we unconsciously assent to scientific humanism as a working philosophy of life.

For the whole tale of man's struggles, discoveries, achievements, insights and aspirations ends automatically when this little planet becomes either too hot or too cold to support human life.

Working with Worms to Fight Climate Change Global studies show that water scarcity and water stress are increasing, and as much as 15 % to 35 % of human withdrawals of water for agriculture are considered unsustainable.1 Achievement of climate change - related commitments like those made at last year's Paris Climate Conference («COP21») will require that businesses strategically manage their water footprints for maximum efficacy while mitigating negative impacts.

Whereas, New York State is a leading voice for women's equality and has raised that voice in action through such significant achievements as passage of the historic «Women's Equality Agenda» in 2015 - eight laws that advance women's equality in New York State by helping to achieve pay equity, strengthen human trafficking laws and protections for domestic violence victims, and ending pregnancy discrimination in all workplaces; other measures further safeguard and promote women's interests and help improve their status in settings where they live and work; and

As Jesse Norman and Peter Oborne have noted in their pamphlet Churchill's Legacy: The Conservative Case for the Human Rights Act, the ECHR stands as a formidable political achievement, and it would send a terrible message both to our European allies and to the world if we withdrew from it.

An outspoken campaigner for human rights, Hughes describes his proudest achievement in parliament: «A young man called Jamie Robe was kicked to death in Rotherhithe in August 1998.

If anything the evidence indicates that the great cognitive achievement in human evolution was cortical plasticity, which allows for rapidly adaptive changes to the environment, both across evolutionary time and [across] individual lifetimes.

Choi, Christine Lippard, an assistant professor of human development and family studies at Iowa State; and Shinyoung Jeon, a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Oklahoma - Tulsa, analyzed data measuring inhibitory control (the ability to pay attention and control natural, but unnecessary thoughts or behaviors) and math achievement for low - income students in Head Start through kindergarten.

This group's achievement shows the possibility to clarify the mechanism of human tumor formation, especially the molecular mechanism responsible for in the initial stage of cell cancerization due to DNA damaged by radiation in the initial stage, by using the model of budding yeast, a primitive eukaryote.

Dawkins is the recipient of numerous honours and awards, including the 1987 Royal Society of Literature Award, 1990 Michael Faraday Award of the Royal Society, 1994 Nakayama prize, 1997 International Cosmos Prize for Achievement in Human Science, 2001 Kistler Prize, 2005 Shakespeare Prize, 2006 Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science, and was named Author of the Year at the 2007 Galaxy British Book Awards.

The results of the new study are notable because positive effects of an intervention, especially one that aims to improve self - regulation and academic achievement, can be difficult for researchers to find, said McClelland, the Katherine E. Smith Healthy Children and Families Professor in the College of Public Health and Human Sciences.

That is how he became more famous for deciphering the human genome than the international army of scientists who shared the achievement, how he hopes to understand every microbe in the ocean (through his Global Ocean Sampling Expedition), and how he plans to create artificial life.