Sentences with phrase «generations by inheritance»

As far as original sin is concerned Dawkins is right to say that if we simply ditch «Adam and Eve» then we can not credibly maintain the traditional doctrine of original sin as a wound introduced by a historical individual and passed on to all further generations by inheritance.

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This «social capital,» as the economist Herbert Simon once called it, was developed by many people over many generations and provides a collective inheritance that is now unequally and unfairly apportioned by markets in setting wages and salaries.

The state, and the republican school in particular, must play its role in transmitting this inheritance to each new generation and to immigrants by assuring mastery of French language, literature, and history, and socializing students into the French way of life.

«Looking to future generations,» he wrote, «there is no cause to fear that the social instincts will grow weaker, and we may expect that virtuous habits will grow stronger, becoming perhaps fixed by inheritance... [so that] virtue will be triumphant.»

Liberalism introduces a particular cast to its preliberal inheritance mainly by ceasing to account for the implications of choices made by individuals upon community, society, and future generations.

If we do possess in our racial and national inheritance institutions and ideas of priceless value, purchased by the sacrifice of past generations, we would better appreciate them and take care of them.

Lessen the impact of estate and generation - skipping taxes on a family's inheritance by naming Old Sturbridge Village as the beneficiary, thereby removing the asset from the donor's taxable estate.

Lessen the impact of income estate and generation - skipping taxes on a family's inheritance by naming Old Sturbridge Village as the beneficiary thereby removing the asset from the donor's taxable estate.

The inheritance bequeathed to Dugdale by previous generations of Scottish Labour politicians is already difficult enough without any such disunity further deepening it.

Biological form and function is created from and is passed on to the next generation by genes, which are the primary units of inheritance.

Epigenetics: The Ultimate Mystery of Inheritance By Richard C. Francis (W. W. Norton) Researchers once considered DNA to be the exclusive carrier of heredity, but recently they have discovered that certain life experiences — smoking before puberty, say, or a high - stress pregnancy — can trigger cellular changes that get passed along to future generations.

Gene drive works by tinkering with the rules of inheritance, increasing the likelihood a gene will be passed to the next generation.

«That a genetic property carried by protein shape can be responsible for inheritance from generation to generation or for an infection is a very powerful concept,» Lindquist said.

So, I return to my hypothesis stated at 11:27 yesterday, which is that future generations will not be happy to find that their inheritance has been squandered by the pursuit of expensive energy options, including wind and solar PV (or new hydro?)

H. Funding bequests of capital to children, grandchildren, or others without the erosion often caused by probate costs, inheritance taxes, income taxes, federal estate taxes, transfer fees, or the generation - skipping tax.

h. To fund bequests of capital to children, grandchildren, or others without the erosion often caused by probate costs, inheritance taxes, income taxes, federal estate taxes, transfer fees, or the generation - skipping transfer tax.