Sentences with phrase «if society at large»

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The idea that companies and society at large would benefit if everybody knows what everybody else is earning has been gaining traction recently, helped along by the availability of such information on websites such as Glassdoor.com, PayScale.com, and Salary.com.

On the other hand, if directors primarily serve a broader constituency of stakeholders (or society at large), is it possible to determine which groups are being served and how directors can prioritize between divergent stakeholder interests?

If this movement spreads to society at large, perhaps the social propriety of social media could be called into question.

As Gertrude Himmelfarb has written, in place of the «confession (la Augustine) of one's own faults and sins, it is today «more often a «confession» of the faults and sins of others — of parents, lovers, friends, associates, or, if need be, of society at large.»

But if Spengler's quip has at least a kernal of truth to it, it suggests that reconsidering this relationship will be vital to any post-liberal political theory, especially ones interested in resisting late - liberal urges to globalize ever - larger swaths of society as a way of covering up for centralization's previous disappointments.

Furthermore, because of the need for markets for their surplus production, the refusal of youth to be cut off from the outside world, and the need to influence the surrounding world, it is important that these communities maintain some real, if variable, relation with society at large.

If by some strange set of circumstances, the roles became reversed and 95 % of the people were atheists and only 5 % were believers, we might see that the intelligence stratification within the population of atheists do not differ much from society at large but the intelligence stratification within the population of believers does differ from the society at large.

If, instead of gospel, what is proclaimed in the churches is nothing more than the kinds of «musts» and «shoulds» and «ought to's» that one can hear from many other quarters — along with the ubiquitous language of «rights» — then we can not expect church people to be any more receptive to such exhortations than are their counter parts in society at large.

And certainly this radical inclusiveness at the heart of the Gospel is part of what we must proclaim if we hope to reach out to the unchurched, the group that Jim Adams said is the largest growing religious group in our society.

This narrative says not that a tiny number of clergy, shamefully, have had their share in the paedophile guilt of society at large (though if anything, judging by the figures for the general male population, a somewhat lesser share) but that there is some essential connection between paedophilia and the Catholic priesthood.

If matters of ultimate religious and moral truth are declared to be essentially private — of concern only to individuals and not to society at large — then their claim of public truth is sharply undermined.

Though the amount of O2 metabolized by your frontal lobes is minuscule, It would be beneficial to society at large if you would cease consumption of this resource.

While the study focused on the judgment many women face from their own families and friends, society at large feels all - too - comfortable passing judgment: Moms are judged if they have children too early or too late in life.

Officials at AAAS, the world's largest general science society, said they are «encouraged and optimistic» about legislation that would help prohibit the misuse of genetic information, if it is approved by the U.S. Senate on Tuesday, 14 October.

To see if a president's speeches reflect egotism in American society at large, the team compared its results to studies of egotism in other cultural products, such as 20th - century books and songs.

It named circumstances under which human testing would be ethical: if information on health risks is not available by any other means, and it could «promise reasonable health benefits to the individual or society at large.»

So if you're trying to think about how technology can be beneficial for society at large, it's interesting to think about what we need to do to change the current situation.

If The King's Speech risks being too cute by half in its depiction of how this royal without a voice comes to find one in his nation's hour of need, Hooper and screenwriter David Seidler neatly avoid that trap by training their sights on a much bigger subject — namely, how the wireless waves of radio affected seismic changes to the nature of politics and society at large, turning public figures into performers, and narrowing the distance between classes.

While geo - specifically Canadian, and working within a coloniality of power that I often felt obliged to critique, I think my identity growing up in Canada was more mobile than nationalist, if not badly mangled, bleeding through the figurative membranes of its Canadian - ness, as something that was always already foreign to itself, as I really didn't have a sense of what it meant to be a Canadian but at the same time I tried to account for the people I met and the ideas I encountered in the context of living a life in the service of something larger than one's nation state, trying to understand what it meant to be of service to society.

This can be done, but paradoxically only if there are enough interludes in the onslaught of change for deep, mindful reflection about the larger dynamics at work in our societies and how they impact the students in our schools (Shirley & MacDonald, 2016).

If anything it's only becoming more apparent by the day just how brutally negative the impact of most connected tech is on society at large.

There are no guilds / industries where if you can't explain it to a bunch of average folks, there should be no cause for discipline from society at large.

If you have large newspapers or shredded papers, you can drop it off at the Guelph Humane Society!

Pit bulls pass the American Temperament Testing Society's test at a rate similar to, if not higher than, many other medium - to - large, powerful breeds.

All humane societies and SPCA's see education as a large part of their mission, but few if any have taken that to the heights of PetSpace, a newly opened center in Los Angeles that is finding new homes for dogs and increasing our understanding of them at the same time.

Kudo's work is a must - see, if for no reason other than a friendly reminder that artists frequently presage the concerns of society at large.

If such perception - events are more about ideas and concepts — our own, or those we glean through interactions with different communities or society at large — to what extent would notions such as popular visual tropes, specific cultural references, or language itself tend to be associated with physical sensations?

-- that the problems of society at large can be solved by channelling huge amounts of money not through the decision making processes of the individual whose problems you are trying to solve, but through a vast bureaucracy controlled by a de facto elite who are not necessarily acting in anyone's interests but their own, don't necessarily listen to the real problems of the individual, and even if they do, don't understand enough about the actual situation to make any difference at all?

What Article 28 (3) with its omission of public policy grounds seems to suggest in my view is that — to a certain extent — the mere fact of a 10 years residence has created a link between the EU citizen and the host Member State that is similar to the link between a national and its state; as a consequence expulsion can only be a valid means if this link is deliberately destroyed by the EU citizen; this would be the case of a serious security threat, i.e. an individual determined to engage in actions that jeopardize the security of the host Member State's society at large, which could indeed be the case of organized crime.

Perhaps police and society at large might want to thank the defence for making sure the real culprit is identified, subject of course to the Crown and trial Judge's opportunity to fully cross-examine the witness and, if necessary, conduct related investigations?

If so, offensive to whom: the copyright holders or the society at large?

If an issue can not be resolved without recourse to generalized and unverifiable opinions about society at large, then it should be returned to the legislative branch, which is better equipped institutionally to handle the matter.

This is a large and sensitive topic in Canada, and a fillip can't begin to do it justice: what if anything can society at large do to assist?

«If, as all agree, it is essential in the public interest to provide a family justice system, and it can not be fully self - financing, should the cost be found from society at large or from a charge, essentially by way of taxation, on those who need to bring claims in the civil courts?»

«Ontario is the largest province, and if they try something out and it's successful, why wouldn't other law societies also look at this and say, «Does this help address some of our needs and our concerns?

If you had an important role in a large society at the Student's Union, this displays you've had some experience in a leadership position.

If the children and families in our program are of the same cultural or ethnic group, I feel it is important to support an environment that reflects the cultural diversity within the society at large.

If there was ever anything threatening the American family, and society at large, this is it.

But if an association sells three large booths at $ 1,000 each, 10 premium booths at $ 850 each, and 30 standard booths at $ 500 each, that generates $ 18,600 above the $ 7,900 cost of the CyberSpace Society's program, which includes three national speaker presentations, registration, expo space, online promotional brochures, and an online association convention newsletter.