Fleas love our cats and dogs and choose to live and feed on them because the cat and dog body temperature is
higher than that of humans.
The analysis found their PBDE concentration levels to be five to 10 times
higher than that of humans.
The rate of aging in a typical family pet is much
higher than that of a human.
Not exact matches
«Given there has been no let - up in the conflict since the end
of November, we can assume that more
than 60,000 people have been killed by the beginning
of 2013,» UN
High Commissioner for
Human Rights Navi Pillay said on Wednesday.
It usually requires an explanation on the order
of infinite retention («yes, our sales and marketing costs are really
high and our annual profit margins per user are thin, but we're going to keep the customer forever»), a massive reduction in costs («we're going to replace all our
human labor with robots»), a claim that eventually the company can stop buying users («we acquire users for more
than they're worth for now just to get the flywheel spinning»), or something even less plausible.
It gives savers
higher rates
than many
of the giant banks as well as branches where they can deposit cash, talk to a
human — and even enjoy a cup
of coffee.
Their faster metabolism reacted more quickly
than that
of humans to
higher levels
of carbon monoxide.
Instead, the technical and emotional guidance that only a trusted,
human advisor (as opposed to robo - advisors, for instance) can offer to investors who are attempting to undertake the complex job
of coordinating the accumulation, distribution and transfer
of their wealth, is invaluable — particularly in an environment that is likely to deliver lower returns and
higher volatility
than investors have grown accustomed to recently.
If
humans were not designed by a
higher authority, how can each individual's DNA be uniquely different among the
human species, especially different
than the other animals; how can the life sustaining elements be constantly available and exist in exact formulations: O, H, C etc. water is always 2 atoms
of Hydrogen and one atom
of Oxygen; sugar, fats, grains, and any bio-chemical products can be broken down to their simplest forms
of elements, but can be re-constructed with specific (not by chance) formula.
Because we don't know anything about the laws
of anything prior to this universe, we don't know about the attributes
of any possible being (
higher than human being or not) that may have existed before.
The holy book
of your respective religion is always true, always right, and always accurate, being inspired
of a
higher source
than human knowledge.
For example, in addition to having
higher levels
of genetic diversity, populations in Africa tend to have lower amounts
of linkage disequilibrium
than do populations outside Africa, partly because
of the larger size
of human populations in Africa over the course
of human history and partly because the number
of modern
humans who left Africa to colonize the rest
of the world appears to have been relatively low (Gabriel et al. 2002).
Lower beings exist for the sake
of the
higher — grass for cows, cows for hungry
humans — however, men and women exist for no other reason
than God's own delight.
Because, my God, though I lack the soul - zeal and the sublime integrity
of your saints, I yet have received from you an overwhelming sympathy for all that stirs within the dark mass
of matter; because I know myself to be irremediably less a child
of heaven
than a son
of earth; therefore I will this morning climb up in spirit to the
high places, bearing with me the hopes and the miseries
of my mother; and there — empowered by that priesthood which you alone (as I firmly believe) have bestowed on me — upon all that in the world
of human flesh is now about to be born or to die beneath the rising sun I will call down the Fire.
The futilities and frustrations
of human experience in any age are so many and so baffling that it is commonly easier to hold a
high faith about God, whom we have not seen,
than about man, whom we have.
What the early Christian believers and writers, for example Mark, tried to do was apply to him the
highest conceivable categories,
human and divine; but in the end these all proved inadequate, as the later church soon discovered; for Jesus means more, was more, and is more
than any
of these categories could convey.
Although precise figures are elusive and probably
higher than reports indicate, organizations — for example, Open Doors, the Catholic Bishops» Conference
of India, the All India Catholic Union, the Evangelical Fellowship
of India, and the recently founded United Christian Forum for
Human Rights — that monitor persecution in India testify to the general trend.
The
highest cause may be (1) in every sense or aspect «uncaused,» in no sense or aspect the effect
of anything else; or it may be (2) in some aspects uncaused, and in others causally influenced, but its manner
of both acting and receiving influences may be the
highest conceivable, hence absolutely «perfect,» although even so its whole being may not in every sense be perfect, because the influences as coming from other causes, say
human beings, may be less admirable
than they might be; or the supreme cause may be (3) in no sense or aspect uncaused, independent
of other powers, hence in no way wholly exempt from the imperfections
of the latter...
According to the
Human Rights Watch, people
of color are no more likely to use or sell illegal drugs
than whites, but they have
higher rate
of arrests.
Outside the rarified environs
of the
high academy and the fever swamps
of animal rights advocacy, most people in the West believe that the lives
of all
human beings — not just the «normal» ones — are worth more
than animals», simply because they are
human.
While we are on this subject, how is it that those who take a
high view
of the Scriptures are known to produce less by way
of creative biblical interpretation
than those who either bracket the question or treat the text as a
human document?
Better
than any other conservative theorist, Tocqueville appreciated both the comparative justice
of modern democracy as well as the threat it poses to the
higher excellences
of human nature.
For example, talk
of coming down from heaven may have been appropriate in a world that conceived the divine habitations as almost literally «above»; it will also be appropriate as a useful metaphorical way
of describing the presence among us
of that which (again in a symbolic sense) is
higher than human experience as such.
If the evidence required us to assume that the earliest beings we call
human did in fact embody this structure
of existence, then we would have to posit exceedingly
high levels
of mentality in our prehuman ancestors, assuming that for hundreds
of thousands
of years they must have far more closely approximated our contemporary existence
than does any now existing nonhuman member
of the simian family.
The
human mind that abstracts from the realism and intuition
of St. John, to theologise its own version
of the Jesus
of History as distinct from the Jesus
of Faith, must always end up with a supreme Prophet who is less
than the transcendent divine, who is not pre-existent to the Universe and Creation, and who at the very
highest is «divine» only as a supreme emanation
of a «holy and noble consciousness» at the root
of being itself, and identified with Creation itself.
From the Christian and Jewish point
of view, the Creator himself set before every single individual this inalienable choice and thus gave to every
human being a dignity
higher than that
of any other creature on this earth.
Our weapons
of mass destruction could kill all the billions
of humans, together with all life
higher than insects and grass, not once but a dozen times over.
How they empower women: For more
than ten years, Sudara has advocated on behalf
of and empowered women who have escaped from, or at the
highest risk
of,
human trafficking by providing dignified employment opportunities.
Many people, I am convinced, still regard the
higher morality which they look for and advocate as no more
than a sort
of compensation or external counter-balance, to be adroitly applied to the
human machine from outside in order to off - set the overflow
of Matter within it.
There dwells
of course within every
human heart a feeling
of something
higher than itself, a dim apprehension
of a Power ruling all that is, and giving His Law to all that lives.
If one believes that
humans are ultimately material creatures who find their happiness in this world, if one believes that there is no
higher intimacy
than that
of sex, then the logic
of radical inclusion can not help but allow — can not help but demand — that the disabled have sex.
The term Earthism may suggest that a
higher priority is placed on the natural systems
of the planet
than on its
human inhabitants.
Jesus saying, «He who loves father or mother more
than me is not worthy
of me» (Matthew 10: 37) may suggest that
human loves are not destroyed but transcended in the
higher loyalty.
We can pay our full respect to the tested structures
of authority in our common life, but all conventional
human authorities easily assume a finality beyond their competence, and this is nowhere more dangerously true
than in the
high forms
of spiritual authority which belong to religion and its institutions.
Organized religions have helped to keep moral values
high, to provide
high goals
of living, to create dissatisfaction with anything less
than almost a perfect
human being.
So in this view, the revelation from God can be drawn like a slope that moves
higher as
human history progresses, so that we are smarter and wiser and know more truth
than did the people
of 500 years ago, and especially the people
of 5000 years ago.
These marks and concerns painfully complicate the story
of man and woman, as Rousseau (more astute
than his
high - minded «student,» Kant) notes, addressing precisely this same transformation
of human love in his Second Discourse:
As to their presuming to set their destination, surely the editors can not complain about that, since they so strongly agree with the Supreme Court dictum in Casey that there is no
higher truth
than «the right to define one's own concept
of existence,
of meaning,
of the universe, and
of the mystery
of human life.»
One
of More's colleagues, a Swedish philosopher named Nick Bostrom, took to the podium at the same conference to predict «orgasms and aesthetic - contemplative pleasures whose blissfulness vastly exceeds what any
human has yet experienced,» as well as «love that is stronger, purer and more secure
than any
human has yet harbored» and «values that will strike us as being
of a far
higher order
than those we can realize as unenhanced biological
humans.»
We might, for instance, suggest, in imitation
of scientific terms, that there are «vibrations»
of the
human personality
higher up the spectrum
than our scientific humanists will allow.
If purpose is intrinsic to a hierarchical universe, then it would be located at a
higher level
than that
of human consciousness.
Clark Pinnock centers the issue even more pointedly as he asks, «How is it that those who take a
high view
of the Scriptures are known to produce less by way
of creative biblical interpretation
than those who either bracket the question or treat the text as a
human document?»
It is, therefore,
high time for Christianity to retire from the stage and yield the floor to a new religion which claims to have a better understanding
of human nature, and believes for that reason that it can produce results where Christianity has nothing more substantial to its credit
than a scrap - heap
of unfulfilled and unfulfillable ideals.
So likewise is the family more
than a temporary expression
of the maternal (and possibly paternal) instincts for the feeding and protection
of the young; it is also the matrix within which the
highest human qualities
of love and tenderness are experienced and nourished.
While the issue
of consciousness is
of great philosophical interest, the
high humanism at stake in such discussions is often more
of a problem for theology
than the denial that consciousness is necessary to sustain
human uniqueness.
I share Father Berrigan's repugnance toward those in
high intellectual and religious places who apologize for or ignore gross historical evil, and I have insisted that Auschwitz bears a commandment to Jews also not to destroy their fellow
human beings, that the necessity for Jewish survival, illuminated and commanded by the Holocaust, can not justify the principle that it is better to do
than to suffer injustice — that this goes completely counter to the spirit and teaching
of the Jewish religio - ethical tradition.
The heart
of all real religions is an affirmation that
human life on this planet is only part
of something very much greater; that «
human values» are determined by an authority
higher than human beings themselves; and that man neither finds happiness nor discovers his true self until his worship, his loyalty and his love are given to Someone infinitely greater
than any man or group
of men.
Paul said in Colossians 2 v 8 «don't let anyone capture you with empty philosophies and
high sounding nonsense that come from
human thinking and from spiritual powers
of this world rather
than from Christ.
Through movies, television, newspapers, magazines, and other mass media, they spread the hedonist gospel that there is no claim on
human beings
higher than the gratification
of the senses, and that «happiness» is the only thing that matters.
Should it be lifted
higher than an annual recognition
of Human Rights or
of the United Nations?