Sentences with phrase «humans forced into»

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Adding to the challenges facing the advancing forces, retreating Islamic State fighters have forced women and children from outlying villages to march alongside them as human shields as they withdraw into the city, according to villagers who spoke to Reuters by telephone from Mosul.

«The job of assembly, which may come naturally to humans, has to be broken down into different steps, such as identifying where the different chair parts are, the force required to grip the parts, and making sure the robotic arms move without colliding into each other,» Assistant Professor Pham Quang Cuong said.

No, but you mean to tell me that we simply popped into existence out of nothing, simply from an involuntary shudder that magically happened in the middle of absolutely nothing and then slowly through the sheer force of will (or accident, or telepathy, science hasn't quiet made its mind up on that one yet) one little green gob of magic stuff morphed into humans.

To maintain its dependency scam, revenue flow, nd unearned privileges and tax dodges, religion tries to force itself into every aspect of life when dying is a time to bask in the glow of loving human, real relationships... and perhaps make a few apologies... like for wasting others; time with ignorant, self - servinge proselytizing.

Without ceasing to be itself charity enlarges its scope to become an upward - lifting force, a common essence, at the heart of every form of human endeavour, whose diversity tends in consequence to be drawn together in synthesis into the rich totality of a single operation.

For Christians exile has been not only a condition forced upon a small group of people but a state into which everyone was called by God for their human maturation — a place of formation, where attitudes and motivations were molded by a community without earthly roots.

In its contemporary form, it forces the majority of the human race into strategies for abject survival, denying tens of millions of people even the right to live.

The Commission realized that western culture and science could not destroy the traditional idols but has also introduced into India new gods like Rationalism, Scientism, Individualism and Materialism which had no sense of the sacredness of human persons and was converting technology into a force for exploitation of the industrial workers and dehumanization of peoples» lives in the cities of India.

This is the «objective aspect of human action» (n. 69), but its pervasiveness and force can transform it into the ideology of globalization.»

The United States sought to destroy Nicaragua's economy through U.S. and contra attacks against production sites and human services and by forcing the Nicaraguan government to shift scarce resources away from development and into defense.

They have also been known to force captive girls and women into marriage, to sell them to human traffickers and use them as human shields...

Since the beginning of last week, ISIS has taken thousands of people hostage from the outskirts of Mosul into the main parts of the city, and United Nations officials fear that the plan is «to use them as human shields against the Iraqi forces advance on Mosul.»

David Brooks has a column in today's NYT about how some evolutionary theorists try to force random evolution into a form that can explain human moral agency.

In our generation there is danger and hope — danger that these noncognitive accouterments will lose their aesthetic harmony and hypnotic power when integrated with the basic prehensions of science, and be reverted into impotent and empty symbols, jarring, ugly, and without force in final satisfactions: hope that the power of Jesus as lure will reassert itself in an aesthetic context devoid of supernaturalism, a context such that (the language now picks up echoes of van Buren) the vision of Jesus, the free man, free from authority, free from fear, «free to give himself to others, whoever they were «1 — such that this vision in its earthly, human purity will lure our aims to a harmonious concrescence, integrating scientific insight and moral vision and producing a modern, intensely fulfilling human satisfaction.

The theme of moral renewal of the nation was there as well, as Farsky spoke in words of an almost messianic sweep and force «of the importance of the God - enlightened human being in reshaping the present social order into a more perfect one.»

In an interview with the Church of Ireland Gazette, he also blamed negative attitudes towards the EU on recent European human rights judgments which he supported, saying: «The fact is, of course, we have absorbed the European Convention on Human Rights into British law anyway, so it is not as if there is some sinister global tyranny forcing us, he human rights judgments which he supported, saying: «The fact is, of course, we have absorbed the European Convention on Human Rights into British law anyway, so it is not as if there is some sinister global tyranny forcing us, he Human Rights into British law anyway, so it is not as if there is some sinister global tyranny forcing us, he said.

Today Christians in India are called upon to translate their Christian insights into secular insights and join forces with all those who work for justice and human dignity.

In the second volume, Unmasking the Powers, he delves deep into explaining several of the key forces behind human existence, and how they govern our lives.

Freddie has written a post that forces me into the odd position of defending Sam Harris; the crux of which is the claim that once we accept the human mind as being a contingent accident of evolution, we necessarily must abandon any faith in the intellectual edifices constructed by such minds:

Thus the present, including what we may call the visible and human future, is forced into the category of total darkness.

As psychologist Naomi Weisstein declares: «Women's liberation is part of a movement toward a just and humane society, a society in which no human being will be forced into a servant role.

For God to be loved by people for God's own sake, without being forced into it, requires a measure of human autonomy.

I don't believe any single line indoctrination is healthy for humans as it grows lopsided thinkers who can not see the world from any other angle than the one their head has been forced into.

Most basically, they force us to ask if human life will have any meaning once they have come into common use.

The human race had literally invited the demonic into our world and were then taken by force.

I was forced like everybody else into human life.

There isn't roomhere to do more than illustrate the case with a few examples, but an attempt will be made to show how rich Paul's view of ethics is, how his teaching on law is original and relevant, how his emphasis on love is important, and how he forces us to consider not only the human act that, as St Thomas says, is what moral theology is all about, but also the adjectival human agent transformed by the grace of the Holy Spirit into a friend, indeed a child of God.

All EU MS have also ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child, a Human Rights Treaty that came into force in 1990.

Records should be opened for those of us who were forced into a closed system that violated our humans rights in the first place.

I also have forthcoming articles, which discuss the classical debates around the role of ideas in social change in the tradition of the Left and sketch an alternative approach that is critical towards determinism — the idea that human agency can be predicted by external material forces — but avoids falling into the common idealist trap when one tries to rehabilitate human agency.

Moreover, it does not help those who are victims of human trafficking and have been forced into prostitution either, but instead decreases their visibility.

A speech by Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg last year suggested Downing Street might be planning to force the Human Rights Act wholesale into a British bill of rights.

Alex Balch has received funding from the Economic and Social Research Council, EU and Joseph Rowntree Foundation for research into policy on labour migration and efforts to tackle forced labour and human trafficking.

Recent partnership between the Armed Forces of Nigeria and the National Human Rights Commission (NHCR) to improve the mainstreaming of Human Rights and civilian protection into Counter Insurgency Operations in the north east is yielding positive results, as troops gathered together today at the reception hall of Dujima Hotel in Maiduguri to receive training on -LSB-...]

The NASUWT believes that the new Code of Conduct and Practice, due to come into force in October 2009, intrudes into teachers» personal lives and fundamentally undermines their basic human rights.

The subsequent Human Rights Act 1998 came into force on October 1 2000.

One prisoner decided that he needed to use the facilities and was allowed to alight from the bus, go into the cells, use the facilities and go back, voluntarily, and get back on the bus, because to have forced him to do otherwise would have been a breach of his human rights.

The Nigeria Police Force has received a backlash from a human rights activist over the alleged trifling manner the investigation into the killing of a Bayelsa State teenager, Innocent Kokorifa, is being handled.

«If the law had been brought into force, Kuwait would have been the first country in the world to require the compulsory collection of DNA samples from all citizens,» the European Society of Human Genetics said in a statement.

Much as NASA used simulators to test dogs and monkeys before launching them into space to gauge the physiological effects of g - forces and weightlessness, Bond sealed animals, and eventually human volunteers, in pressurized tanks to simulate a deep - sea habitat.

Begley and Doidge wade against this current with a strong message of hope: By recognizing neuroplasticity as a real and powerful force, we can tilt our theories of mind back into a realm where choice and free will are meaningful concepts, and where radical improvement to the human condition is possible using the right, scientifically proven techniques.

The strong nuclear force and the electrostatic force — which don't encounter each other at human scales — fight over the packed protons and neutrons and drive them into strange configurations, collectively dubbed «nuclear pasta ``.

In a statement sent to Nature, reproductive biologist Shoukhrat Mitalipov at the Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, who pioneered spindle transfer in primates and is currently seeking approval to perform human trials, said that the strict US regulations are forcing researchers to move trials into other countries.

Deforestation of the Amazon is forcing thousands of bats from their natural habitat and into close contact with humans.

As sea ice disappears, polar bears are being forced to hunt more on land, which brings them into conflict with humans and increases contact with brown bears.

It is possible to force human skin cells to turn back into embryonic stem cells in the lab, but this doesn't seem to be something we are able to achieve without intervention.

In Britain, the regulations governing genetically modified organisms came into force in 1992, before the implications for gene therapy were appreciated, and in practice the law has not been applied strictly to humans.

Forced aggregation of defined numbers of human embryonic stem cells into embryoid bodies fosters robust, reproducible hematopoietic differentiation.

Recently, mouse neural stem cells (NSCs) have been shown capable of reprogramming into a pluripotent state by forced expression of Oct3 / 4 and Klf4; however it has been unknown whether this same strategy could apply to human NSCs, which would result in more relevant pluripotent stem cells for modeling human disease.

On Earth, powerful political forces that oppose human spaceflight try to use the accident as proof that sending humans into space is too dangerous to continue.