Sentences with phrase «human standards of»

While picked up here and there by the U.S. media, the story of shaping purebred dogs to fit arbitrary human standards of beauty — despite the health ramifications — remains best told by the BBC documentary.

His God was judged by human standards of right and was found wanting.

He saw them as living evidence of God's curious indifference to human standards of importance.

«If the image of God and the law of God were completely obliterated from man's soul by sin, if no «faint outlines» of the original remained, men would have no conception of justice, righteousness, or peace to use as the foundation of the human standards of equity.

We took occasion to note that Amos» thought of the universality of God was in some way dependent on his sense of a common human standard of right and wrong.

Not exact matches

And yes, the shimmery, glimmery cranberry sauce I crave each November for precisely two meals a year — Thanksgiving dinner and the ritual post-Thanksgiving 10 p.m. white bread - turkey - cranberry sandwich — is composed of things that are almost surely antithetical to human health: Two of the four ingredients on most of the cans I've seen are high - fructose corn syrup and (plain old standard) corn syrup.

«It would not be a stretch to envision a uniform state law which requires that those who recover, distribute and use human bodies adhere to uniform standards of transparency, traceability and authorization.»

«Before retirement, bringing your standard of living down increases your savings,» says Malcolm Hamilton, who recently retired from Mercer Human Resource Consulting.

When university - based researchers conduct any kind of research on human beings, they are required to adhere to pretty strict standards for research ethics.

Washington said Thailand, a regional human trafficking hub, had not met the minimum standards for the elimination of the illicit trade.

«Our standard account of monetary history is precisely backwards,» he argues — humans were using credit systems long before the first coin was minted.

(If you expand your definition of «dirty» to include resources from countries that abuse human rights, disregard labour standards or fund terrorist organizations, as conservative commentator Ezra Levant does in his new tome, Ethical Oil: The Case for Canada's Oil Sands, the range of options shrinks even more.)

The organization said the men did not meet its standards of conduct, and added that it requires its members to «uphold the Academy's values of respect for human dignity.»

The Roundtables generated multiple policy recommendations on issues such as standard setting; monitoring and enforcement, expanding the role of women in trade policy and practice, and linking trade treaties with human rights protection.

Its board of governors «continues to encourage ethical standards that require members to uphold the Academy's values of respect for human dignity,» the group said in a statement.

When it comes to hiring employees for a standard home remodeling company with plans to have corporate clients all across major cities in the United States of America, then you should make plans to hire a competent Chief Executive Officer (you can occupy this role), Admin and Human Resources Manager, Project Manager, Company's Lawyer / Secretary, Head of Construction and Renovation, Business Developer / Sales and Marketing, Accountant, and Customer Service Executive / Front Desk Officer.

China's performance of international human rights standards has been conflicted.

At IIFL, we have laid the right foundation for excellence under our four pillars of Research, Technology, Human Capital and unflinching adherence to the strictest standards of Ethics and Compliance.

If large technology companies with huge financial and human resources determine the standard of reasonable care that all of those publishers must adhere to, that will place undue expectations on smaller publishers.

In our engagement with China in Canada, respecting Canada's sovereignty and traditions is no less essential and calls us to uphold principles of intellectual freedom, civil society, and human rights through enforcement of our legal and regulatory standards.

Whether through the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, labor and environmental standards, or other elements of the Canadian legal and regulatory system, we should ensure that human rights standards enshrined in our laws and regulations are respected by our PRC partners.

When it comes to hiring employees for a standard gutter cleaning services business with plans to have corporate clients all across major cities in the United States of America, you should make plans to hire a competent Chief Executive Officer (you can occupy this role), Admin and Human Resources Manager, Supervisors, Sales and Marketing Officer / Sales Girls and Sales Boys, Accounting Clerk, and Cleaners.

The National Association for Business Resources has over 20 years of experience conducting Best and Brightest Company competitions and has identified numerous best Human Resources practices that provide benchmarking for companies that continue to be leaders in employment standards.

Over the last few years Canadian HR Reporter webinars have been recognized as an industry standard and include partnerships with a number of leading organizations including the Human Resources Professionals Association, the Human Resources Institute of Alberta, the Human Resources Association of New Brunswick and the Canadian Human Rights Commission.

Most of the alleged human rights abuses, they say, follow the companies» refusal to abide by acceptable environmental standards.

Once we leave human values for the benefits of artificial intelligence, we've already lost the human standard by which we might set it right.

Although human - rights lawyers have been justified in criticizing gacaca courts for their low standards of due process and selectivity in prosecution, others have shown that acknowledgment, repentance, and forgiveness have taken place widely in the hearings, in good part due to the influence of churches.

This was premised on the notion that standards of morality are objective and unchanging (therefore, «hate the sin»), but that human beings are weak and often fail to live up to those standards (therefore, «love the sinner»).

But since you and I both know God is the ultimate authority and thus sets the standard, and God clearly is against abortion, and the atheists are erroneously calling very early human life nothing but «a bunch of cells,» isn't it up to us to fight for those lives?

What makes secular humanism bad is its insistence that human consciousness is the highest standard of truth, goodness, and beauty in the universe.

The Holocaust was not all about the Jews, it was about Nazi Germany's attempt to kill off ALL who did not comply with their standards of a human being.

The epistemologist in me says that the human mind has rather low standards of proof and always has, even the scientific rationalists.

He reminded the diplomats and dignitaries that the UDHR «was adopted as a «common standard of achievement» and can not be applied piecemeal, according to trends or selective choices that merely run the risk of contradicting the unity of the human person and thus the indivisibility of human rights.»

The state should be run in accordance with what is best to maintain human dignity and a standard of living that we as a people can all agree on.

With no objective moral standards, one can be most certain that even the worst of human atrocities can eventually be viewed with legal protection.

This reflects the inadequate information on which he relied, a certain hope about the human situation that kept him from assuming the worst, and a habitual skepticism about reports of priestly immorality» an inevitable reaction given what had been a standard practice of deception in Communist intelligence services.

Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth.

We, and our students, have written not only about God but also about the problem of evil, Christ, the church, Christian education, pastoral counseling, preaching, the nature of human beings, history, liberation and salvation, spirituality, religious diversity, interfaith dialogue, science and religion, and other standard theological topics.

THE GOLD STANDARD for all other experiences of being human.

They schooled me according to a black folk tradition that taught that trouble doesn't last always, that the weak can gain victory over the strong (given the right planning), that God is at the helm of human history and that the best standard of excellence is a spiritual relation to life obtained in one's prayerful relation to God.

For consider your call, brethren; not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth; but God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise, God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong, God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human being might boast in the presence of God.

Every people has its culture, whether primitive or advanced, and this culture is discerned in the folkways and moral standards, forms of family life, economic enterprises, laws and modes of dealing with lawbreakers, forms of recreation, religion, art, education, science, and philosophy that constitute the social aspects of human existence as contrasted with the bare biological fact of living.

nothing makes the atheist more ticked off more than when you bring up GOD... God gets all the blame for all the tragedy in the world... If there wasnt a god in the first place, humans would not know tragedy or injustice when we see it... it would be a non-issue to us... survival of the fittest would not permit the emotions of love, compassion, empathy... Darwininian theory could not allow any of those and many other of the best of people's capacity for caring to surface... You cant explain it away by synapse or neurons... without a Supreme Being, there would be no sense of justice or injustice, we would not call it anything because there is no Ultimate Moral Standard to compare it.

There is no doubt that work, an adequate standard of living, health care, food, clothing, housing, and education are all human goods that are, as the Declaration says, «indispensable for [a person's] dignity and the free development of his personality» (Article 22).

I have no problem saying that an intelligent person could believe, and this is because humans tend to compartmentalize their beliefs, and give special exceptions in terms of standards of evidence to the belief that they were either raised with, or feels most comfortable to them.

Rather than yielding to relativistic morality, Newman's conception of real assent fortifies objective standards while embracing human nature.

Much of human thought proves to be rationalization, that is, a means of justifying to oneself or to others conduct that does not measure up to accepted standards.

He neither denied the existing world nor despaired of its inhabitants, but by setting up an entirely different standard he showed the way of constructive human living.

Think of the standard theological debates in Western Christianity: Is conversion a matter of divine grace or human free will?

F or the better part of two centuries now, one of the standard tropes in western high culture has held that the - God - of - the - Bible - is - the - enemy - of - human - freedom.