Sentences with phrase «human communities there»

For more than a decade, I've been probing changes in Arctic climate and sea ice and their implications for the species that make up northern ecosystems and for human communities there.

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She points to a few issues on which there's a «clear path,» like stamping out tuberculosis in Inuit communities, which she says is a matter of putting in place «the X-ray machines and the human resources and the drugs and the housing.»

We are living in a society where there is a need for human connection and a sense of community.

There is no other way, in fact, for us to exist as true community... the ultimate community being the whole human race.

It seems that only in a community that has some control over its own economic life can there be freedom to decide about the respective roles of human labor and fossil energy.

If ethics is allowed to be controlled by the laws of any individual state there is a danger of returning to legal positivism, where the laws of a single state are allowed to contradict universal human rights, allowing residents of that state «legally» to carry out actions that are totally unacceptable to the international community and the Catholic Church.

Such examples could obviously be multiplied many times; there are many human occupations which exist in practical isolation from the rest of the community, and in the absence of a common faith there is today no effective meeting point.

Strange as it seems, there can be no doubt that it was to the very man whom they had known in intimate human association that the first Christian community offered a measure of devotion ordinarily reserved for a god.

There are in many ways and in many places obstacles and threats to the well - being of the human community.

Not only is there great promise in such programs for stimulating the poor to increase their own potential for dealing with their problems, (For stimulating discussions of how social action can help develop the human potential of those who participate, see the following articles: Peggy Way, «Community Organization and Pastoral Care: Drum Beat for Dialogue,» Pastoral Psychology, March, 1968 pp. 25 - 36; Rudolph M. Wittenberg, «Personality Adjustment Through Social Action,» in MHP, pp. 378 - 92.)

It was the announcement by Mukherji and D' Sousa that the Christian Community had decided to forgo special communal representation in the legislature and other communal safeguards so that there would not be political exploitation of increase of numbers through conversion that there was a spontaneous decision in the Constituent Assembly to include propagation of religion as a fundamental human right of the citizen.

But since the debacle of the Tower of Babel, there has been no universal human community — only the separate and distinct peoples in this world.

First, in declaring that the grace of reconciliation moves through the political order, however tenuous its hold there, we must avoid the error of identifying the political order with the whole of the human community.

The standards of decency and honor and human compassion which were valid and prized among individuals in the little communities of Palestine did not cease their high demands when one stepped over the boundary into Syria or Philistia; but there alike men were human, with human needs and, consequently, with human standards.

His consciousness is «the theoretical shape of that which the living shape is the real community «11 There is a mutual causality between the human person and society.

And there was action, when someone would begin something new in the human relationships of the plant community, would speak a word to stir trust or distrust, or issue a memo that raised or lowered the morale of others.

He ultimately argues that there was an original act of violence which ultimately led to the possibility of the destruction of all people in the community, and so to avoid the ever - increasing cycles of violence, the community selected a ritual victim (a human or an animal) that would both carry the guilt of the community as well as the violent tendencies into death, thus satisfying the demands for revenge and the blood lust that comes with it.

«There is a unity that underlies not only all mythologies and rituals but the whole of human culture, and this unity of unities depends upon a single mechanism, continually functioning because perpetually misunderstood the mechanism that assures the community's spontaneous and unanimous outburst of opposition to the surrogate victim» (pp. 299 300).

This leads Christian anthropology to a Moral Realism which recognizes the Human Community in the ultimate sense, like the human experience of friendship and love, is a gift of Divine Grace, and that therefore there is no final path towards it through technological, political or legal organizaHuman Community in the ultimate sense, like the human experience of friendship and love, is a gift of Divine Grace, and that therefore there is no final path towards it through technological, political or legal organizahuman experience of friendship and love, is a gift of Divine Grace, and that therefore there is no final path towards it through technological, political or legal organization.

There is an essential difference between a faith which recognizes responsibility for the universal human community but does not seek to dominate it, and master race theories such as Nazism, or the interesting new Japanese version of Nichiren Buddhism known as Sokka Gakkai (Value - Creating Society).

While it may well be tax dollars which support institutional and community care and all the other manifold responses to human need on the part of our society, the inherent motivation derives from Christian understanding, and the policy and guidelines reflect a basic Christian concern, Regrettably, there is no direct ratio any longer — the gears do not engage smoothly!

No human community can be as completely fulfilling as we wish, and moreover there are the threats to its existence both from within and from without.

Tony Perkins, Family Research Council president (chair) Ryan Anderson, Ph.D., Heritage Foundation fellow Tony Beam, North Greenville University vice president David Benham, entrepreneur Jason Benham, entrepreneur Ken Blackwell, former US Ambassador to the UN for Human Rights Teresa S. Collett, University of St. Thomas professor Jim Garlow, Skyline Church in San Diego, California Mark Harris, First Baptist Church in Charlotte, North Carolina Jack Hibbs, Calvary Chapel Chino Hills, California Harry Jackson, International Communion of Evangelical Churches Richard Lee, There's Hope America president Paige Patterson, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary president Everett Piper, Oklahoma Wesleyan University president Jay Richards, The Catholic University of America economics professor Dr. Steve Riggle, Grace Community Church in Houston Samuel Rodriguez, National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference president Kelly Shackelford, First Liberty Institute president Carol Swain, Vanderbilt University professor

But please don't ask me to be quiet about their ideas, because frankly, I think there are a mega-ton of «Christian» ideas out there that are actually harmful, damaging, abusive, and even cruel to the human being and to community.

In the United States today, there are relatively few who follow Kant himself closely, but there are many who emphasize how human languages construct and constitute the world in which human communities live.

Although there is a clear separation between the first three castes, which are ritually pure and socioeconomically dominant (referred to as the twice - born), and the fourth laboring caste, which is ritually suspect and socioeconomically dominated (referred to as the once - born), together they form the Hindu human community.

Morrison's message is clear: there are some personal demons and private neuroses that can be overpowered only by the collective strength of human community.

There is injustice and human need all around us; catastrophe for individuals, institutions and communities can happen here.

«There also needs to be more resources to enable the international community to document human rights abuses and bring people to justice.

There is a tendency towards monocultures threatening the mosaic of religious plurality and an open human community.

... that no matter how wide the perspectives which the human mind may reach, how broad the loyalties which the human imagination may conceive, how universal the community which human statecraft may organize or how pure the aspirations of the saintliest idealist may be, there is no level of human moral or social achievement in which there is not some corruption of inordinate self - love.

There is the temptation for my community identified as Rothesay Vineyard identifying with the principality called «Rothesay Vineyard», which is the composite of all human and angelic desires, wishes, agendas and expectations for Rothesay Vineyard.

Another claim made by Hasker is that if God were «routinely to intervene to prevent evil from being done, there would be far less incentive to form effective human communities, a large part of whose function is to encourage good behavior and to restrain evil.»

As we have said, the present position is an encounter.32 When persons or human communities meet, there arises a need to communicate.

It is a good thing that the ministry there has been exposed because it has motivated the larger human community to call it to account.

There can be a communalism (and I stress the last three letters of the word to show it to be a perversion of genuine community) that makes nonsense of personal and national characteristics: there can be an individualism with its turning of human life into a battle for supremacy, where the less powerful are beaten down, oppressed, and denied opportunity to express their selfhood while the more powerful secure the place of advanThere can be a communalism (and I stress the last three letters of the word to show it to be a perversion of genuine community) that makes nonsense of personal and national characteristics: there can be an individualism with its turning of human life into a battle for supremacy, where the less powerful are beaten down, oppressed, and denied opportunity to express their selfhood while the more powerful secure the place of advanthere can be an individualism with its turning of human life into a battle for supremacy, where the less powerful are beaten down, oppressed, and denied opportunity to express their selfhood while the more powerful secure the place of advantage.

[25] Marriage and celibacy do not «divide the human (and Christian) community into two camps [as if there were] those who are «perfect» because of continence and those who are imperfect or «less perfect because of the reality of married life.»

(p. 27 and cf. p67) It is not clear whether, in the dialectic between subject and «community with ecclesial character», when say papal teaching does not «speak to me», there is a place for Vatican II's call for the human subject to offer a «religious assent... of mind and will... according to (the Pope's) manifest mind and will» (Lumen Gentium, 25).

Our present concern, however, is not with this obvious and distressing manifestation of disharmony in social life but with the disharmony itself — that is, the failure on the part of men and women to discern that true community and sound relationships within it can be found only as each of us has his or her place in a wider grouping of humans, where there is vivid contrast because each is valued as being precisely this or that person while the community as a whole has goals or ends (what used to be called «ideals») that are worthy, upbuilding, and enriching.

But insofar as there is real discontinuity, insofar as the apprehension of the holy is direct and not mediated by the community, or insofar as the understanding of the human situation is the result of radically independent reflection, we have to do with a prophet, a seer, or a philosopher, rather than with a theologian.

And here too the content is theo - ethical; indeed, there is nothing here corresponding to what we have termed Yahweh's pentalogue, but a series in which every member has to do with the relationships of human community.

In addition, they are afraid of the vehicular and human traffic that would accompany the stadium, though there have been promises of jobs for the community and a youth academy.

There are currently eight standing, permanent committees in the Erie County Legislature: Community Enrichment, Economic Development, Energy & Environment, Finance & Management, Government Affairs, Health & Human Services, Minority & Women Business Enterprise, and Public Safety.

DS: There's broad consensus in the scientific community that climate change is real, that it's human - caused.

So there are these empty holes in the Congo basin where there are no great apes and it is thought, and there is evidence to suggest, that that's from hemorrhagic fevers that are being passed around among animals and also among human communities.

«Healthy gut bacterial communities are known to benefit immune regulation, metabolism and potentially even the nervous system, so if cholera or other diarrheal diseases permanently impact the microbiota, there could be long - term effects on human health,» explains Regina LaRocque, MD, MPH, of the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Division of Infectious Diseases, co-senior author of the paper.

But there's a gap between the scientific community and the public — about half of Americans said they do not believe humans are mostly responsible for climate change, according to a 2014 AAAS Pew Research survey.

«There was a need to develop a gay community identity and a human rights movement in order to organize an HIV response,» he says.

«There's a lot of grumbling, both in the general public and the scientific community, about how often we cure diseases in mice that never translates when we try those cures in humans,» says Felipe Sierra, director of the Division of Aging Biology at the National Institute on Aging.

«According to our study, there is more human — jaguar conflict in Darién National Park, probably because communities are near larger tracts of unbroken forest, which is much better jaguar habitat,» Moreno said.