Sentences with phrase «for widespread suffering»

The American theologian Paul Knitter has said that «concern for the widespread suffering that grips humanity and threatens the planet can and must be the «common cause» for all religions».10

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Once you fully let go of that delusion and see us for what we are, just another specie vying for survival and dominance based on instincts that evolved before we had the ability to inflict widespread death, suffering, and destruction on other people, there is less cause for cynicism.

Paul Knitter in his One Earth, Many Religions emphasizes the priority of «the dialogue of action» in response «to the widespread human and ecological suffering and injustice that are threatening our species and our planet» but he recognizes that «unless the voices of the mystic and the scholar are also heard, the conversation will lose its religious content or it will be turned into a tool for purposes that can only discredit all the participants.»

They have been responsible for widespread human suffering around the world while at the same time they have come to pose a serious threat to democracy in the United States.

They can give up their treasured belief that widespread gun ownership is not dangerous, or — easier and more comfortable — they can pretend that gun massacres didn't happen, blame the suffers as faking their suffering, or, worst of all, insist that the survivors are somehow responsible for their own suffering.

And since last month's vote, for which he campaigned vigorously, Johnson had suffered widespread criticism and ridicule for failing to present a clear Brexit plan and swiftly dropping out of the leadership race.

The fact that he is willing to suffer widespread public ridicule for the next four months rather than spend a mere one hour debating the two men suggests that he is nowhere near as confident in his own abilities as his supporters pretend to be.

Nana Akufo - Addo criticized the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) for, what he said was its poor handling of the economy, which had led to widespread suffering and growing unemployment among the youth and gave the assurance that the NPP would fix things.

«Order - of - magnitude calculations suggest that implementing a low - amperage backup service appears to be more cost effective than having each homeowner buy a portable generator and storing diesel or gasoline for fueling, especially if a region is expected to suffer more frequent and longer widespread outages,» says Sunhee Baik, lead author and doctoral student in engineering and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University.

«College attendance drops after widespread job loss: After states suffer job loss, college attendance drops for poor students.»

In 1955, 13 years too late for Edgerton, the United States began the widespread use of a new polio vaccine that would eventually prevent millions of children from contracting polio and suffering its consequences.

They also both suffer from a limitation that has inhibited their widespread adoption: Each is a cumbersome protein complex that needs to be individually engineered for every new DNA target.

They eat plates of this stuff, they rely on them for protein and calories, and sure enough, cultures whose diets are based on (improperly prepared) grains and legumes often suffer the symptoms of widespread mineral deficiencies, like nutritional rickets.

There is also a widespread public misconception about the dogs bred for meat — the myth that these dogs are somehow different from «normal dogs» has fostered a societal indifference to their suffering.

I could tell Guatemala was a comer on the international tourism scene, but who knew how many people would share our taste for out - of - the - way accommodations in a country still suffering widespread poverty and pockets of high crime?

This news comes on the heels of EA suffering widespread backlash for infusing loot boxes with progression in DICE's Star Wars: Battlefront II.

The 2007 amendments suffered a tortuous journey from the widespread calls for change in 2000, to government approval in 2006.

«As desirable as the long - awaited improvement may be, the unusually low level of homes for sale is creating widespread problems for buyers and sellers alike, leading to bidding wars and bubble - like price jumps in places that not long ago were suffering from major declines.»