Sentences with phrase «impact upon human beings»

Not exact matches

The crucifying impact of sin on the whole human race will inevitably have a devastating impact upon the sacred humanity of Christ precisely because he is - by right, vocation and very ontology - ourfinal and plenary union with God.

But even in an environmental - impact statement, it is the effect of the proposed activity only upon human welfare which has legal standing.

When I reflect on the infinite pains to which the human mind and heart will go in order to protect itself from the full impact of reality, when I recall the mordant analyses of religious belief which stem from the works of Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud and, furthermore, recognize the truth of so much of what these critics of religion have had to say, when I engage in a philosophical critique of the language of theology and am constrained to admit that it is a continual attempt to say what can not properly be said and am thereby led to wonder whether its claim to cognition can possibly be valid — when I ask these questions of myself and others like them (as I can not help asking and, what is more, feel obliged to ask), is not the conclusion forced upon me that my faith is a delusion?

It was in Jesus Himself and in His impact upon the situation that the Kingdom of God came upon men; that God was revealed in His power and glory, to shape human life to His will.

God so energized through this particular human life, which had been divinely purposed and intended, that those upon whom it made and continues to make its impact have been obliged to say that in this man Jesus, God lived and wrought.

Since human existence is a direction taken, rather than a point at which we have already arrived, further movement (together with an awareness of our human identity) will depend largely upon how we respond both to the past and to the impact of the present upon us.

It may be a human fact which does not seem to make an impact upon others but the determination to die on behalf of others is seen in the life of Kolbe.

The events in the nerves leading to the brain succeeded the events in the eye and were in turn followed by the events in the brain and finally by the impact upon the conscious human occasion of experience.

The impact of Wieman in the American scene has sometimes been compared with that of Barth upon Continental theology, 17 and a parallel does exist at the point at which both men direct attention away from humanity and human values to the work of God which is understood as prior to and sovereign over human endeavors.

What is the state of our planet, its health and the impact humans have had upon it?

«This is happening for the failure of the market economy to equally account for many of the negative human and environmental impacts that are imposed upon society and the life support system.»

This ability to adapt to shifting temperatures is particularly pertinent, with climate change currently threatening to impact upon human life once more.

Climate change is a pervasive source of risks to human systems, with potentially large impacts upon the economy, public health, and national security.

On show will be works from Kimber Berry's Plastic Garden series, which considers the human psyche and our impact upon the natural world.

Misrach chose the Mississippi River industrial corridor between Baton Rouge and New Orleans — a 150 mile span that has been exploited relentlessly by the oil industry since the 1960s and is known alternately as the River Road, Chemical Corridor, and Cancer Alley — to examine human impact upon the landscape, and the detrimental effects of industrial pollution upon the region's inhabitants.

If humans have any impact upon the process at all, they've been developing the situation for a few hundred years (since Western industrialization).

As with all human interventions, it is important to consider entire processes and their associated impacts rather than seeking simple criteria upon which to base our decisions.

My suspicion is that human activities have some impact upon that but I think the jury is out on a lot of the actual specific trends.

AAAS joined the leaders of 17 other leading organizations in signing a letter sent 21 October 2009 to the U.S. Senate, emphasizing based upon rigorous research that human - induced climate change is ongoing and will have broad impacts on society — including the global economy and the environment.

I find the yearly buildup of layer upon layer to be a particularly compelling way of visualizing how we humans are fundamentally altering the chemistry of the atmosphere — and thereby causing profound, continuing impacts on our planet's climate control system.

The Farm Bureau does not share the scientific opinion on climate change, with its official position being that «there is no generally agreed upon scientific assessment of the exact impact or extent of carbon emissions from human activities, their impact on past decades of warming or how they will affect future climate changes.»

Based on the interpretation of the data for all criteria, chemicals and materials will be «scored» for their impact upon human and environmental health.

-- which can be found here, draws upon the results of a series of UK Government - sponsored studies which employed the IPCC's emissions scenarios to project future climate change between 1990 and 2100 and its global impacts on various climate - sensitive determinants of human and environmental well - being (such as malaria, hunger, water shortage, coastal flooding, and habitat loss).

The Orwellian provisions proposed by ACTA of mandatory network - level filtering by ISPs will have a considerable impact upon the civil liberties of individuals and may well be incompatible with human rights legislation.

Failing to yield the right - of - way when required by law to do so can, sometimes, result in serious impact at speeds sufficient to cause major forces to be placed upon the human body to cause severe bodily harm and even death.

Yet, surprisingly, practical application of the law has been reticent and interpreted as impacting upon behaviour of humans to humans.

If an individual displays a degree of ambivalence towards the welfare of any sentient species, it is a small step to accept that behaviour must, subject to the particular facts of each case, impact upon how they relate to humans.

The key argument advanced in the petition was that the impacts in the Arctic of human - induced climate change infringe upon the environmental, subsistence, and other human rights of the Inuit people.

The key argument of the was that the impacts in the Arctic of human - induced climate change infringe upon the environment, subsistence, and other human rights of the Inuit people

For the purposes of this research we focussed on Indigenous women's access to public housing and emergency accommodation upon release, the types of support programs that may or may not be provided with housing, and how the accessibility of housing impacts on a woman being able to exercise her human right to housing.

From a human rights perspective, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people must be assured of the opportunity to participate effectively in all aspects of policy development and service delivery that impact upon them.

There are four aspects of the NTA that impact upon the human rights of Indigenous people and their relationship to sea country.