Sentences with phrase «greater social freedoms»

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In other words, plan fiduciaries now will have greater freedom to expend portfolio resources to effect liberal social goals simply by claiming that they think doing so will have long - term benefits without having to quantify those benefits.

And the great thing is that with our religious freedom, they don't have to wait to find the right church to take on social justice issues.

Then, too, the fall of Eastern European communism has occurred in those forty years, again marking a great (if unstable) improvement in freedom and social conditions.

Furthermore, social trends such as greater freedom of choice and the tendency of pastors» spouses to be working outside the home have made the itinerant model increasingly difficult to implement.

The greater freedom we enjoy in Western society has created an environment where the misuses of freedom have produced social disintegration.

They created greater freedom for the middle class but on the whole, at least initially, undercut the social structures that gave some security to the poor.

We only presuppose it to be that form of society which grants its members the greatest possible freedom and participation in its life and decisions, in accordance with their intellectual, cultural and social condition.

Some societies may not have high sense of selfhood and the right of self - determination, but may show a great measure of social virtues; and others may have high sense of self and its freedom but may show greater perversity in human relations.

He highlighted Britain's achievements as a «pluralist democracy which places great value on freedom of speech, freedom of political affiliation and respect for the rule of law, with a strong sense of the individual's rights and duties, and of the equality of all citizens before the law and noted that there was much in common here with Catholic social teaching.

Murphy argued that Republicans should embrace «a more secular and modernizing conservatism that eschews most social issues to focus on creating a wide - open opportunity society that promises greater economic freedom.»

The field of imagination at any rate is broad, ranging from automatic, instinctual, or reflex actions (in which the problem of meaning is virtually, but not entirely, non-existent), to more or less habitual modes of response to «natural signs,» and rising ultimately to sophisticated conceptual activity and various poetic or secondary forms of meaning — making in cultural and social significations.19 In the higher reaches of semiotic activity an increase in imaginative freedom is accompanied by a greater risk of error.

At several points he touches upon the paradoxes of modern urbanism and the tragic ironies of our cultural attitude toward cities: although we now have more individual freedom, technical ability, and, arguably, social equity, we do not live in places as hospitable to human beings as were our cities of the past; we are pragmatists who build shoddily; our current obsession with historic preservation is the flip side of our utter lack of confidence in our ability to build well; while cultures with shared ascetic ideals and transcendent orientation built great cities and produced great landscapes, modern culture's expressive ideals, dogmatic public secularism, and privatized religiosity produce for us, even with our vast wealth, only private luxury, a spoiled countryside, and a public realm that is both venal and incoherent; above all, we simultaneously idolize nature and ruin it.

This gift of theological freedom comes at a high price, because human beings can use it to violate the social, political, and economic freedom of other human beings, inflict great suffering on other animals, and destroy the planet in general.

(3) The preacher who undertakes reflective and critical self - analysis may well be on the way to the greatest freedom he or she has ever experienced: freedom to preach; freedom to challenge theologies that would claim God's love is limited to the rich and the powerful while excluding the poor and the powerless; freedom to act tout a commitment to social justice; freedom to envision new faith communities and new ways of being faithful to God, to God's people, and to self.

In his article Roy sets out to make three arguments: that policy needs to be built on a consistent and coherent idea; that the only tenable ideological position for Labour is a social democratic commitment to greater equality and the freedom that is its product; and that Labour should eschew «news value» in favour of ideology.

For example, in research involving over 300,000 people, the stronger an individual's social network, the greater the freedom from death.

It gives you complete freedom and actually allows you get and remain in great shape while still having a social life.

Researchers and leaders for social justice, then, seek to define the theories and practices of leadership that are vital to creating greater freedom, opportunity, and justice for all citizens — citizens who, through public education, are better able to participate in and sustain a free, civil, multicultural, and democratic society.

While all of these functions are vitally important in helping a person obtain greater freedom, perhaps the most impressive gift our dogs provide is social, rather than physical, in nature.

This exhibition looks at artists whose work is aware of the conceptual tradition and processes and follows it in a way that things are communicated in a social and sensible way hand in hand with great imagination and freedom, while creating new languages, new channels of looking at things.

Hopefully our great friend, Wang Suya (# 12), who is not blinded by wealth accumulation, power, social status, endless possessions, and the freedom to live idolatrously without accepting personal responsibility, can help us see what is before our eyes: God's Creation and the requirements imposed upon Earth's stewards for its preservation.

Well, 1.3 million people move every week............... from the countryside to cities, and they do so for many reasons but towards greater freedom, opportunity, healthcare, social mobility, affordable energy, food and life expectancy.