Sentences with phrase «human beings in the long run»

Our culture lacks a way of talking effectively about the ultimate value of human life, or making large judgments about what is good for human beings in the long run.

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In an earlier computing era — not really so long ago — a beautiful hardware device with smartly tailored software to run it was a market - shaking innovation, and no one did that better than Apple: Its combined expertise in hardware design and human interface design were unmatcheIn an earlier computing era — not really so long ago — a beautiful hardware device with smartly tailored software to run it was a market - shaking innovation, and no one did that better than Apple: Its combined expertise in hardware design and human interface design were unmatchein hardware design and human interface design were unmatched.

But killing off their few fellow human inhabitants may not be the right answer for the characters in the long run in a world full of the undead.

Socially speaking, it is much more efficient and sophisticated in the long run to understand the intricacies of human behavior than to demand one's way.

In the long run this trend will actually push toward the re-localization and re-humanization of the economy, with the 19th - and 20th - century economies of scale exploited where they make sense (cheap, identical, disposable goods), and human - oriented techniques (both older and newer) increasingly accounting for goods and services that are valuable, customized, or long - lasting.»

Trade is a great driver of productivity, and so the risk of growing protectionism concerns me.15 More open trade with the United States and Mexico in the 1990s gave Canadian firms access to much bigger markets and therefore greater incentives to invest — in both physical and human capital.16 Disrupting supply chains and reducing incentives to compete will not create more jobs and income in the long run.

The outstanding example, of course, is the Chinese government's long - running «one - child policy,» replete with forced abortions, public trackings of menstrual cycles, family flight, increased female infanticide, sterilization, and other assaults too numerous even to begin cataloguing here — in fact, so numerous that they are now widely, if often grudgingly, acknowledged as wrongs even by international human - rights bureaucracies.

I had thought that the human state of falleness was a state that somehow through discipleship with Jesus would somehow in the long run work its way out and then the gate to the tree would be open.

In the long run, these ways of reducing our use of exhaustible resources and our contribution to pollution also save us money, and this can be used to meet human needs that are more urgent than our comfort.

To do this is to inhibit, in the long run, full human growth.

Perhaps pursuit of the maximal human creativity should be constrained by the following principle of environmental respect: A purpose that reduces natural creativity relative to some alternative for the decision in question is a violation of the maximal divine good unless the purpose is required in order to maximize human creativity in the long run.8 All implications considered, I expect that maximizing human creativity itself includes adherence to this principle.

Surely an unplanned blunder on Newsweek's part, but a blunder nonetheless (perhaps worse in the long run exactly because it was unconscious and indicates not deliberate discrimination but a naive lack of sensitivity) A balance of exceptional model elders with equal numbers of average everyday folk would provide a more accurate picture of the aging as they really are, with their very human combinations of merits and faults.

As humans we are able reason how setting standards for our social groups benefited our survival and thus aiding others helped us in the long run versus just some survival of the fittest flawed notion.

And, oh, when the hour - glass has run out, the hourglass of time, when the noise of worldliness is silenced, and the restless or the ineffectual busyness comes to an end, when everything is still about thee as it is in eternity — whether thou wast man or woman, rich or poor, dependent or independent, fortunate or unfortunate, whether thou didst bear the splendor of the crown in a lofty station, or didst bear only the labor and heat of the day in an inconspicuous lot; whether thy name shall be remembered as long as the world stands (and so was remembered as long as the world stood), or without a name thou didst cohere as nameless with the countless multitude; whether the glory which surrounded thee surpassed all human description, or the judgment passed upon thee was the most severe and dishonoring human judgement can pass — eternity asks of thee and of every individual among these million millions only one question, whether thou hast lived in despair or not, whether thou wast in despair in such a way that thou didst not know thou wast in despair, or in such a way that thou didst hiddenly carry this sickness in thine inward parts as thy gnawing secret, carry it under thy heart as the fruit of a sinful love, or in such a way that thou, a horror to others, didst rave in despair.

But it has become plain (in particular since the last war) that however urgent may be the planetary pressures driving us to unite, they can not operate effectively in the long run except under certain psychic conditions, some of which arise out of the human neo-mystique to be discussed in the next paragraph, but the rest of which merely recall and re-express, with a precise biological foundation, the broad lines of the empirical and traditional Ethics which has been evolved in some ten millennia of civilization.

Nicholas Berdyaev the Russian philosopher was most critical of the traditional Christian ethics which confined itself to the ethics of law and ethics of grace and ignored the ethics of creativity, while secular modernity to which Christian modernism succumbed, elevated the human vocation of creativity as supreme and as capable by itself of solving the problem of destructivity within it without the need of grace and even of law in the long run Anthropology got perverted on all sides by converting Creation into an order of static laws which are only to be obeyed and perfected by grace in Catholic thought and by getting validated for collective existence without criticism but to be rejected as totally irrelevant in the realm of existence in grace in Protestant thought.

Therefore, humanism denies the possibility of a permanent unity between man and nature; and it asserts that, in the long run, no human actions or values will make any difference whatever.9 And Hartshorne expostulates that such a creed is impossible for man to live by.

Corruption inevitably kicks in so that, in the long run, only the faces at the top have changed and the power of love has not replaced the love of power which is the ultimate transformational solution to the ills of human society that sacred activism always sought.

He is correct that we must hope in the very long run that human population will decline by such means.

Without immortality it is not simply true of individuals that, as another put it, life is «a blind, brief flicker between two oblivions»; in the long run that is also true of the whole human race.

Given the fact that innovation, especially in the area of human affairs, usually brings much immediate suffering even when its purpose is to eliminate suffering in the long run, it is easy to understand and even sympathize with the effort to associate God only with cosmic and ethical order.

It's the oldest, and longest running con in human history, and I'm not gullible enough to buy it.

There is in the long run no room in the solar system, or even in the known universe, for all human eggs — even all fertilized eggs, as things now stand — to become human persons.

As these are presently structured, they are all seen as obviously threatening to the human future in the long run and to the quality of life in the short run.

Such personal and family narcissism is, in the long run, self - defeating for myself and my family, because it denies our basic responsibility to the larger human family of which we all are members.

Gillian Weaver is an international human milk banking specialist who previously ran the longest continually operating milk bank in the world, based at Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital in London where she worked for over a quarter of a century.

«I believe that the human spaceflight program is in the long run possibly the most significant activity in which our nation is engaged.»

The finding potentially paves the way for scores of labs to generate new stem cell lines without cloned embryos, which had long been considered the only realistic way of making human stem cells in the short run.

This long, narrow muscle runs from the elbow to the wrist and is missing in 11 percent of modern humans.

Science weighs in: De Vany and other Paleos are in direct opposition to a growing number of scientists and athletes who believe that running long distances can be healthy, and that humans may have evolved doing just that.

According to Greg Downey, an anthropologist at Macquarie University in Australia, «long - range endurance running wouldn't have just been for hunting: Humans cover immense ranges, even when foraging and scavenging.»

He says that if air pollution is adding harmful mutations to the human gene pool, «in the long run for society, the expenses are huge.»

On 15 April, the court will hear arguments in a long - running lawsuit intended to answer one question: are human genes actually patentable?

In humans, individual nerves can be surprisingly long, with the longest running from your toes to your spine.

Humans were built for long - distance running, which allowed for hunting in hotter climates.

But this mentality can be harmful to children in the long run because it builds a greater aversion to foods like broccoli, sweet potatoes, and peas, according to research by Leann Birch, PhD, a professor of human development at Penn State University.

In a 45 minutes long run around Stockholm we managed to collect 17,5 kg = 38,6 pounds of trash laying around on the ground and in the water Humans consume so much of the earth's resources that Earth Overshoot Day happened 2nd of August this year ‼️ That means that we are living on borrowed resources from the upcoming year and from the generations to come after us We can not afford to just consume like obsessed and then carelessly throw away plastic, glass, metal and paper wherever we see fiIn a 45 minutes long run around Stockholm we managed to collect 17,5 kg = 38,6 pounds of trash laying around on the ground and in the water Humans consume so much of the earth's resources that Earth Overshoot Day happened 2nd of August this year ‼️ That means that we are living on borrowed resources from the upcoming year and from the generations to come after us We can not afford to just consume like obsessed and then carelessly throw away plastic, glass, metal and paper wherever we see fiin the water Humans consume so much of the earth's resources that Earth Overshoot Day happened 2nd of August this year ‼️ That means that we are living on borrowed resources from the upcoming year and from the generations to come after us We can not afford to just consume like obsessed and then carelessly throw away plastic, glass, metal and paper wherever we see fit.

With the help of UFC fighter Ronda Rousey, Reebok has kicked off a new arm to its long - running «Be more human» campaign: #NeverPerfect challenges women to embrace their imperfections and find strength in those less - than - stellar moments in life.

We therefore support human beings with dignity and respect, while offering a choice to the debilitating, «best practice» medical model, which in the long run too often creates disability through the injurious side effects of the mind - altering medications.

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In fact, humans are the only creatures in nature that attempt to do «endurance» type physical activities such as running long distances at the exact same speed the whole timIn fact, humans are the only creatures in nature that attempt to do «endurance» type physical activities such as running long distances at the exact same speed the whole timin nature that attempt to do «endurance» type physical activities such as running long distances at the exact same speed the whole time.

This paper suggested that the unique shape and size of the gluteus maximus in humans (its morphology is very different in other apes) was caused by our long history of running.

Gareth Edwards» new film is packed with breathtaking battle sequences, some compelling human drama, and respects the Gojira fan - base while also standing as a unique entry in the long - running franchise.

These economists, like Gregory Mankiw of Harvard, point out that long - run income in Robert Solow's growth model is determined by saving in the form of physical capital and by saving in the form of human capital.

Treating these comprehensively, along with the rule of law and human rights, which have already been mentioned, is a major undertaking, but may be the only way to really achieve something stable in the long run.

And that is that a focus on grit is taking a heavily impoverished view of human motivation; in the long run, most people do not persevere at things because they are good at persevering, they persevere because they find things that are worth investing in.

«A focus on grit is taking a heavily impoverished view of human motivation; in the long run, most people do not persevere at things because they are good at persevering, they persevere because they find things that are worth investing in.

Government can't in the long run prevent things that are economically successful, those things fill human needs.

It's like saying, in an example using oil, that I believe that even though oil becomes a rare resource in the long run, human workers will find an alternative to oil and will lead to better living standards for all of us.

Even if, in the long run, you plan to allow your dog to sleep with a human, you'll likely need a doggy bed until your dog is fully housetrained.