Sentences with phrase «human terms for»

So how do we arrive at a comparative age in human terms for our dogs?

Not exact matches

NEW YORK — Facebook doesn't think hookups are meaningful and doesn't want you to date your friends — but it's known for a long time that its vast map of human connections could help people find long - term partners.

Face - to - face communication happens to be not only essential for human happiness but also could be the missing link to some of the most powerful, long - term health benefits.

The price will inevitably be a sticking point for many consumers, since it can be cheaper — at least over the short term — to hire human cleaners to do the vacuuming.

As I argue in a forthcoming paper in the Georgetown Law Journal, there are cases in which we should think not in terms of the rights the corporation should enjoy, but in terms of the appropriate limits to be placed on the corporation, understood as a tool for achieving human objectives.

«The issue is not that middle - class workers are doomed by automation and technology, but instead that human capital investment must be at the heart of any long - term strategy for producing skills that are complemented by rather than substituted for by technological change.»

For business leaders, increasingly this means balancing two very different perspectives: shareholders who expect executives to deliver better short - term financial performance and stakeholders who want more attention paid to the longer - term human and environmental consequences of business.

Human Resource Management (HRM) is the term used to describe formal systems devised for the management of people within an organization.

Hoffman credits Joi Ito, director of the MIT Media Lab, for the term «extended intelligence,» or «treating intelligence as a network phenomenon and using A.I. to enhance, rather than replace, human intelligence.»

In 2016, 26 percent of employers surveyed by industry nonprofit the Society for Human Resource Management offer paid maternity leave beyond what's covered by short - term disability or state law.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court opened its new term Monday with a high - stakes dispute between businesses and human rights groups over accountability for foreign atrocities.

As a long - serving UN high commissioner for human rights, she framed crimes against humanity in strikingly personal terms.

Take, for instance, the «Butt Brush,» effect, a term coined by InformeDesign, a website for design and human - behavior research.

The Department of Health and Human Services this week announced a new proposal that would expand the use of short - term health insurance plans, opening the door for more people to use the «skinny» coverage products while taking another swipe at the law known as Obamacare.

Exxon has argued against all the other shareholder proposals as well, including a «policy to explicitly prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity»; a policy articulating Exxon's «respect for and commitment to the human right to water»; «a report discussing possible long term risks to the company's finances and operations posed by the environmental, social and economic challenges associated with the oil sands»; a report of «known and potential environmental impacts» and «policy options» to address the impacts of the company's «fracturing operations»; a report of recommendations on how Exxon can become an «environmentally sustainable energy company»; and adoption of «quantitative goals... for reducing total greenhouse gas emissions.»

The Health and Human Services Secretary, Kathleen Sebelius, also plans to stay for a second term.

That's fascinating stuff for those looking for long - term tech trends (as well as pop psychologists interested in human motivation) but, according to VC Brad Feld, Dixon's idea is also useful to business owners looking to select a team.

Centaurs, a term for human - machine pairings taken from the mythological creature that was half - human - half - horse, have already proven more effective than humans or computers at chess (at least when given enough time, at least for now).

It's human nature for people to think it terms of «what's in it for me,» so start the conversation there.

In determining the compensation of our named executive officers other than our Chief Executive Officer, the compensation committee receives input from our Chief Executive Officer and Executive Vice President of Human Resources with respect to appropriate base salary levels and short - term and long - term incentive awards for such officers.

Unless Congress acts on a new plan that would subject anyone who kills those animals for human consumption to a jail term and up to a $ 2,500 fine.

A market for lunar services is already emerging and while some companies are focused on developing longer - term plans to return humans to the lunar surface, there are also many companies with nearer - term needs for lunar services.

The price we pay for fossil fuels does not include the long - term costs to the environment and to human health.

Take a listen to the 115th episode of the Social Zoom Factor podcast for a deep dive into this topic and hear case studies about brands that are putting up barriers and brands that are tearing them down and making the decision to be human, own their mistakes and put relationships and long term customer value and loyalty first.

Despite human rights concerns, Azerbaijan today is tolerant and secular and very much open for business — on its own terms.

Thank you for pointing out that our individual opinions regarding what may or may not have happened at some point in human history about two thousand years ago, that our individual opinions regarding the credibility (or lack thereof) of gospel accounts in terms of their accuracy and historicity, do not trump what actually happened (or didn't happen) in human history about two thousand years ago.

Regardless of which name she uses to spew her crap, I thank her for continuing to provide a fantastic example of the long term effects of ultra-belief on the human brain.

As for theology, the word means speaking - of - God, which in Christian terms means speaking of the One who is Truth — the Truth Who makes us free in the deepest meaning of human liberation.

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But you won't hear it in what the experts tell you about Gadamer's greatness» for instance (to sample recent tributes), that Gadamer has revealed «the structure of hermeneutic understanding» and «described the way in which human beings come to terms with themselves.»

I believe that human actors who fail to give pride of place to moral boundaries that must never be crossed, such as the direct killing of the innocent, and who instead are ready to see their obligations in terms of moving beyond them in favor of «good results,» will be harder put «to take seriously the role that divine authority plays in morality»; for they will to that extent lose a sense of the moral limits that remind us of our finitude and anticipate consideration of a law of our being that is not one of our making.

4 I use the term «matter of preference» to mean a situation of human choice in which there is finally no rational basis for an ethical distinction between the alternatives.

My assessment is that the wider disorientation of Western society, the decreasing respect for many institutions and the disdain for humans alongside what Christopher Lasch has termed a «culture of narcissism» has played out both among the «spiritual but not religious» identifiers as well as among many «new atheists.»

In terms of human love, on all levels and in general, we certainly all have this capacity for it and find it in many places.

I'd agree that the Bible is a reflection of «the human condition» (for want of a better term).

Whatever its origin — and I myself agree with Wellhausen and others in attributing the identification to the primitive Christian community, as their least inadequate and only possible term for one who was thus both human and divine and yet not God (which would have been unthinkable in their realm of ideas)-- whatever its origin, this first great step in the advance of Christology was of endless significance for the later development of Christian doctrine, and it was of paramount importance for the Gospel of Mark.

Indeed my basic position is that for the understanding of human behavior in society the whole controversy as to whether material conditions (appetites, interests, «drives,» or in Marxist terms, the «means of production» and the consequent «class struggle») cause men to act is at bottom pointless and unprofitable.

Political science analyzes human beings in terms of their striving for power and the need for its proper ordering.

First, its premisses concerning society and modern man are pseudoscientific: for example, the affirmation that man has become adult, that he no longer needs a Father, that the Father - God was invented when the human race was in its infancy, etc.; the affirmation that man has become rational and thinks scientifically, and that therefore he must get rid of the religious and mythological notions that were appropriate when his thought processes were primitive; the affirmation that the modern world has been secularized, laicized, and can no longer countenance religious people, but if they still want to preach the kerygma they must do it in laicized terms; the affirmation that the Bible is of value only as a cultural document, not as the channel of Revelation, etc. (I say «affirmation» because these are indeed simply affirmations, unrelated either to fact or to any scientific knowledge about modern man or present - day society.)

This is a broad term, but we shall use it to designate the expression of the human aesthetic impulse, in both the creation of works of beauty and a love for and appreciation of beauty.

It is a painful tale, burdened with an inexorable logic of defeat at the hands of a racist society — we «know» from the beginning that terrible things are in store — but illuminated by another logic, that of grace, by no means so certain, for it operates in secret with persons (Kumalo and the elder Jarvis) whose formation by it is in terms of the gradual and ambiguous growth of actual human development.

For example, a realistic interpretation of the sentence, «The stone is gray, is that there exists independent of human experience an entity called a «stone» qualified in a distinctive way such that the term «gray» is appropriate to it.

The author, for example, places a good deal of weight on undefined terms like «the international community,» and reposes many of his hopes for the future of human rights on?

Hominization is Pere Teilhard's term for what Sir Julian Huxley has called «progressive pyschosocial evolution», i.e. the process whereby mankind's potentialities are more and more fully realized in the world, and all the forces contained in the animal world are progressively spiritualized in human civilization.

This point of view fully respects the progressive experimental concentration of human thought in a more and more lively awareness of its unifying role; but in place of the undefined point of convergence required as term for this evolution it is the clearly defined personal reality of the incarnate Word that is made manifest to us and established for us as our objective, that Word «in whom all things subsist.»

Princeton bioethicist Peter Singer popularized «speciesism,» a derogatory term for the belief that it is acceptable to treat humans differently from animals based solely on species membership.

There are many un-asked for human conditions which limit our lives and our short term happiness.

Singer was more responsible than anyone else for making the term «speciesism» known, beginning in 1975 with his highly influential book Animal Liberation and continuing with his widely professed proposal that so - called human non-persons can be killed (infanticide or non-voluntary euthanasia) because of their «lower» moral status.

As early as 1932, Bonhoeffer insisted that human freedom be understood in strictly social terms as man's freedom for others.16 According to Bonhoeffer, freedom functions as a middle term between transcendence and acts of love.

Frustration is a term that has fairly recently taken its place in the popular vocabulary; yet it stands for an experience as old as the human race.