Sentences with phrase «great social institutions»

The great social institutions which have defended the weak against the strong — equality before the law, representative government, democratic accountability and the sovereignty of parliament — will be toppled.

The conflict between the public's belief in teaching and the academic belief in research makes the central problem of the university unique; there's no other great social institution afflicted by such a radical division between public expectations and professional goals.

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This means that social entrepreneurs, to make greater impact, must double down on the actions that create real, sustainable change: building stronger relationships with clients, partners, funders and institutions through empathy, listening, genuine understanding and the willingness to acknowledge failure.

When a well - run business applies its vast resources, expertise, and management talent to problems that it understands and in which it has a stake, it can have a greater impact on social good than any other institution or philanthropic organization.

But as Joseph Bottum has suggested, «the single most significant fact over the past few decades in America — the great explanatory event from which follows nearly everything in our social and political history — is the crumbling of the Mainline [Protestant] churches as central institutions in our national experience.»

This was followed by five subsequent phases of development in a regular pattern of succession: (1) the organization of home and foreign mission societies to channel new leadership into church planting or into the field; (2) the production and distribution of Christian literature; (3) the renewal and extension of Christian educational institutions; (4) attempts at «the reformation of manners» — i.e., the reassertion of Christian moral standards in a decadent society; and (5) the great humanitarian crusades against social evils like slavery, war and intemperance.

Progress and modernization of society imply a new division and organization of labor as well as greater complexity of social institutions.

The great state universities, particularly those that were established as agricultural and technical institutions, as well as the independent colleges and universities, are essential bulwarks of the social order.

There was much greater emphasis on the need to undermine religion by social and economic action rather than by direct confrontation with religious institutions and believers.

That is, while institutions are more powerful than individuals, exerting greater social force, their looser and intersubjective structures lend themselves to manipulation of that social force by individuals.

The reality is that «The greatest security will not come through armies or counterviolence, not through revenge or hatred, but through building a world of love and open - heartedness, a world in which the recognition of the sanctity of everyone on the planet shapes every economic, political, and social institution» [Lerner, 2001].

A great deal of our contemporary problem about «love perfectionism» centers in the attempt to ground ethics either in human nature or in the structure of social institutions.

Thus, while institutions create our information, it is also true that information creates our institutions) And whenever there are significant mutations in the information structure, great social changes can not be far behind.

Whatever their differences, the greatest of modern Italian novelists — Manzoni, Verga, Moravia, Silone, Lampedusa — share a fundamental pessimism about the human capacity to alter social institutions.

A second important result of the Seljuq rule was that the sultans paid great attention to the creation and elaboration of social institutions.

The increasingly manifest ambivalence of post-Christian social, political, economic and journalistic institutions can lead us to a greater confidence in our vision.

There the great issue was the institution of Christian discipline; i.e., the subjection of all phases of life, personal and social, private and public, to the moral - religious demands of the gospel.

Today, the Cheltenham meet is a national institution, held every March, the first of the great social sporting occasions of the year in England, on the scale of Royal Ascot, Wimbledon, Henley and the British Open.

The report finds makes a list of recommendations for business, industry, professional bodies and government, namely: Construction businesses · Focus on better human resource management · Introduce and / or expand mentoring schemes · Boost investment in training · Develop talent from the trades as potential managers and professionals · Engage with the community and local education establishments Industry · Rally around social mobility as a collective theme · Promote better human resource management and support the effort of businesses · Promote and develop the UK as an international hub of construction excellence · Support diversity and schemes that widen access to management and the professions · Emphasise and spread understanding of the built environment's impact on social mobility Professional bodies and institutions · Drive the aspirations of Professions for Good for promoting social mobility and diversity · Support wider access to the professions and support those from less - privileged backgrounds · Promote and develop the UK as an international hub of construction excellence · Emphasise and spread understanding of the built environment's impact on social mobility · Provide greater routes for degree - level learning among those working within construction Government · Produce with urgency a plan to boost the UK as an international hub of construction excellence, as a core part of the Industrial Strategy · Provide greater funding to support the travel costs of apprentices · Support wider access to the professions and support those from less - privileged backgrounds · Place greater weight in project appraisal on the impact the built environment has on social mobility The report is being formally launched at an event in the House of Commons later today.

The greatest danger arises when weak institutions are unable to absorb or mitigate... social tensions.

It is my hope that these two movements increasingly unite into a great social force that can transform public education and bring down the institutions of racism.

They are becoming a weapon capable of considerable social damage; a Faustian technology that seduces with convenience, particularly for those who consume a great many books, but offers little else while extracting a corrosive toll on our social institutions and norms.

Events such as Palette to Palate demonstrate the museum's rich connection to Laguna Beach's artistic community, and its greater role as a social and cultural institution.

The creation of the consumer economy — a complex, interconnected system of institutions, goals, rewards, and punishments — was one of the great social projects of the twentieth century, when energy was cheaply abundant and two of our chief economic problems were overproduction and unemployment.

There is a great deal to know about law — as there is about any social institution examined from the outside.

For one thing, prevailing research indicates that married men and women tend to have greater financial stability and wealth, which in turn supports local businesses and social institutions.