Sentences with phrase «human capacities such»

His artworks are brought into existence through human capacities such as dance, speech and song, and are present during the entire opening hours of the show (from 12 October to 18 December).

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LOL: The Christian perspective is that God does indeed exist, and because of that, all human beings (including the ones who deny His very existence) are still endowed with some of the gifts He's given us — such as some capacity to reason, create, and love, though all imperfectly.

Jesus expresses no conception of a human ideal, no thought of a development of human capacities, no idea of something valuable in man as such, no conception of the spirit in the modern sense.

Arguments that ground our dignity as humans in our capacities exclude those human beings who have either never possessed such rationality, or who have lost it (for example, through degenerative conditions) and have no chance to acquire it again.

For in accepting such responsibility for the next generation, in allowing ourselves even to suppose that it could be a fitting role for human beings, we lose the fundamental human capacity to love — to say to our children, to the next generation, «It's good that you exist.»

Such forms of expression are subject to great variety in the course of history, for they are the product of the fertile human imagination, and their popularity depends upon the prevailing mood of an age, and upon the capacity of their symbolism to communicate with the «ring of truth».

«Intellectual intuition» and «reason» are strictly separated, and only human capacities for critical, disciplined, orderly problem solving in the framework of research agendas, or other situations approximating such research agendas, count as «rationality.»

I refer to those obscure and exceptional phenomena reported at all times throughout human history, which the «psychical - researchers,» with Mr. Frederic Myers at their head, are doing so much to rehabilitate; 7 such phenomena, namely, as religious conversions, providential leadings in answer to prayer, instantaneous healings, premonitions, apparitions at time of death, clairvoyant visions or impressions, and the whole range of mediumistic capacities, to say nothing of still more exceptional and incomprehensible things.

These liberal foundations of human rights law tend to neglect the reality of the widely differential capacity to such initiative.

But the truth is deeper than this... there's something about us, everything we touch as humans has the capacity to go very, very badly wrong and that's the real concern - if we are so great, why is the world such a mess?»

Africa is overpopulated because its soils and forests are rapidly being depleted such that its carrying capacity for humans in the future will be lower than now.

the Swedish government has linked the taking of such leave as improving skills and capacities that can then be transferred into the workplace: better interpersonal and communication skills and multi-tasking capacities, as well as their becoming «whole human beings»;

«The human capacity for guilt is such that people can always find ways to blame themselves.»

«Further, annual bleaching will greatly reduce the capacity of coral reefs to provide goods and services, such as fisheries and coastal protection, to human communities.»

Nor can such machines equal the human brain's capacity to learn from experience and make predictions based on memory.

This makes Pantheon similar to DataViva, in the sense that it is a datascope that visualizes data on human capacities, albeit instead of focusing on the capacities that are expressed in industries — such as motorcycle manufacturing — Pantheon focuses on the capacities expressed in human accomplishments, such as Newton's theories or the songs of Elvis Presley.

What critics like English linguist Geoffrey Sampson, author of Educating Eve: The «Language Instinct» Debate, seem to find most irksome is Pinker's wholehearted promotion of a linguistic model that views the human capacity for learning language as distinct from other abilities, such as building bridges or writing symphonies.

For some, such as Noam Chomsky, mathematical activity emerged in humans as a result of their capacity for language.

The capacity to engage in shared tasks such as hunting large game and building cities may be what separated modern humans from our primate cousins

These highly successful early bipedal hominins such as Ardipithecus ramidus or Australopithecus afarensis, were nevertheless relatively small - brained, with a cranial capacity of about 450cm3 compared with modern humans with over 1,500 cm3.

April 26, 2006 «Uniquely human» component of language found in gregarious birds Although linguists have argued that certain patterns of language organization are the exclusive province of humans — perhaps the only uniquely human component of language — researchers from the University of Chicago and the University of California San Diego have discovered the same capacity to recognize such patterns and distinguish between them in Sturnus vulgaris, the common European starling.

While the data answer many questions about such issues as Neanderthal language capacity and the genes they passed onto humans through interbreeding, we're still a long way from being able to resurrect one.

Stem cells have the capacity to differentiate into any of the different tissues making up the human body, thus holding the promise of treating or curing diseases such as multiple sclerosis or spinal - cord injury by replacing diseased cells with healthy cells.

Moving the Needle provides quarterly updates from PATH's Center for Vaccine Innovation and Access (CVIA) on our vaccine development efforts, as well as related supporting work, such as developing human challenge models, building capacity of developing - country vaccine manufacturers, and evaluating new adjuvants and other novel vaccine technologies.

In the proposed partnership between Addis Ababa University (AAU) and J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), the objective is to build genomics capacity at AAU and to apply newly developed skills towards understanding the relationships of active TB disease with Mtb strain type diversity and host components such as the human respiratory microbiome and protein - based analysis of immune responses in the respiratory tract.

As to the participation of New Member countries in the Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP), a general consensus has been established in Item 4 of Article 4 of the Statutes of the International Human Frontier Science Program Organization (HFSPO), as follows: «On the basis of the principle that the opportunity to become a Management Supporting Party (MSP) be open to all interested countries, the Board of Trustees (BOT) decides on the acceptance of new Management Supporting Parties after considering such factors as: 1) the country's scientific capacity in basic research in the research areas of the Program; and 2) the degree of support for the Program.»

Existing collaborations ranged from science topics, such as research on the African VLBI to efforts in human capacity development in astronomy.

A person is a being, such as a human, that has certain capacities or attributes constituting personhood, which in turn is defined differently by different authors in different disciplines, and by different cultures in di..

Wouldn't a human's capacity to improvise be useful in such a situation?

Sally Potter: An English filmmaker whose intelligent and sophisticated film style often explores the capacity of aesthetic, and human intimacy to transcend categories such as gender, sexuality, religion, culture and politics.

The IB is proud to contribute to the continuing development of such impressive human capacity.

Findings from studies of high quality early childhood education experiences illustrate that such services for our youngest learners, infants and toddlers, have long - lasting and positive impacts on their development, learning abilities, and capacity to regulate their emotions (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; NICHD, 2003).

Exam boards will now provide «contexts», such as: extending human capacity; improving living and working spaces; or securing the future, to which students will be encouraged to respond with freedom and creativity.

Human brain is structured in such a way that it has got the capacity to follow stories in a direct way and to act spontaneously in accordance with the thread of the story that is narrated.

As such, our innate capacity for empathy is the source of that most precious of all human qualities, which in Tibetan we call nying je.

Akitas are renowned for their capacity to form intense, devoted bonds to the members of their human family, and to separate such an affectionate dog from its loved ones is nothing short of cruel.

At the same time, the world is awash in data far exceeding the processing capacity of human beings, and in an increasingly complex and sophisticated environment where communication tools such as social media are developing rapidly, people appear to be banding together into small, disparate groups of «island universe» and communities.

Opie often wins praise for his ability to succinctly capture the intrinsic nature of human form in movement, and the addition of lenticular device only further demonstrates such capacity.

environmentalism to a more constructive vision that humans have amazing capacities (albeit with a big *) to respond to such immense challenges.

Despite a lot of new technology and intensive research, including flying sturdy aircraft in and around potent thunderstorms (I got to go on one such flight long ago), the mix of conditions that produce these monstrous funnels remain beyond human capacity to understand.

This acceleration was due to a strong El Niño event — which triggered droughts and reduced the capacity of forests, vegetation and the oceans to absorb CO2 — as well as human activities, such as the burning of fossil fuels.

Conversely, as atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, methane, chlorofluorocarbons, and other absorbing gases continue to increase, in large part owing to human activities, surface temperatures should rise because of the capacity of such gases to trap infrared radiation.

Human modifications of ecosystems and landscapes often increase their vulnerability to damage from extreme weather events, while simultaneously reducing their natural capacity to moderate the impacts of such events.

The most affected sectors, meanwhile, will be water (especially in the dry tropics), agriculture (particularly in low latitudes), human health in countries with low adaptive capacity, and ecosystems such as coral reefs, sea - ice biomes, mangrove swamps, salt - marshes, tundra, boreal and mountain systems.

This success has led to challenges, such as lack of human resource capacity suffered by third - party certifiers — the private entities that vet each project.

However, working at such a large scale often causes significant challenges in terms of mobilizing technical and human capacity.

Such activities go on all the time, increasingly so as the scale of human activity bumps into the ecological carrying capacity of the planet.

Allport also considered these qualities characteristic of mentally healthy individuals: capacity for self - extension; capacity for warm human interactions; demonstrated emotional security and self - acceptance; realistic perceptions of one's own talents and abilities; sense of humor, and a unifying philosophy of life such as religion.

Some of the major issues tackled by the Commission in recent years include workplace sexual harassment, pregnancy discrimination and maternity leave; disability rights in areas such as access to transport, captioning, access to electronic commerce for older Australians and people with a disability; race discrimination; Indigenous social justice issues such as mandatory sentencing, community capacity - building and native title; and human rights issues such as children in detention, education for rural and remote communities and age discrimination.

Where those practices result in the loss of rights, particularly the extinguishment of property rights or the loss of capacity to effectively participate in decisions regarding traditional lands, such practices breach human rights standards.