Sentences with phrase «imposed by the environment»

Therefore, a «need imposed by the environment» will be experienced by an occasion not merely as a «threat» to its own subjective fulfillment but also in terms of its capacity to disrupt the future which that occasion is able to affect by its aims.

Let us take Lamarck's notion of «adaptation to a need imposed by the environment» and ask how the analysis of actual occasions may help us find its meaning.

In this case, a «need imposed by the environment» is any influence in the actual world of an occasion which threatens to disrupt its achievement.

According to evolutionary theory, the way something exists in nature is simply a consequence of the constraints imposed by the environment and the organisms resources for adaptation - not some ideal or optimal design imagined by an intelligent creator.

Though other mathematical models are capable of simulating complex phenomena, only Darwin's approach shows how certain complex systems not only arise but also adapt over time to the constraints imposed by their environment, as living systems do.

On this episode, Rebecca and Jason review three new releases about women battling the identities being imposed by their environments.

It concerned an appeal by the Environment Agency relating to two applications by Mr Mott for Judicial Review of catch conditions imposed by the Environment Agency on the terms of his licence to catch Salmon in the Severn Estuary, using an ancient form of fishing known as a putcher rank.

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Both Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Environment Minister Catherine McKenna have long insisted Ottawa would collect no revenue from the carbon price the federal government is requiring the provinces and territories impose by 2018.

Instead, what began with Rousseau has become a fixed tendency, with the focus on travail imposed from outside, by parents, environment, and so on.

This perspective unmistakably reveals the unwholesomeness, not to put it more strongly, of our way of life: our obsession with sex, violence, and the pornography of «making it;» our addictive dependence on drugs, «entertainment,» and the evening news; our impatience with anything that limits our sovereign freedom of choice, especially with the constraints of marital and familial ties; our preference for «nonbinding commitments;» our third - rate educational system; our third - rate morality; our refusal to draw a distinction between right and wrong, lest we «impose» their morality on us; our reluctance to judge or be judged; our indifference to the needs of future generations, as evidence by our willingness to saddle them with a huge national debt, an overgrown arsenal of destruction, and a deteriorating environment; our unsated assumption, which underlies so much of the propaganda for unlimited abortion, that only those children born for success ought to be allowed to be born at all.

That religious principle embodied by Christians should be confined to their Church and not imposed on anybody in a secular environment.

Yahweh gives the productive environment in which his life is set with only the one condition (symbolized in the story in the forbidden tree) that men acknowledge his status as creature by observing this single restriction to his freedom imposed by the creator.

Redemption, consequently, states the fact that man need not slavishly move through life from occasion to occasion, merely creating each new synthesis from worldly data in pursuit of worldly satisfaction, but that he is freed to respond to the divine immanence within him and within the world, thus constantly striving, occasion by occasion, to maximize a realization of that divinity as best he can, within the limitations imposed by his history and his environment.

That and our «third - rate educational system, our third - rate morality, our refusal to draw a distinction between right and wrong lest we «impose» our morality on others and thus invite others to «impose» their morality onus, our reluctance to judge or be judged, our indifference to the needs of future generations as evidenced by our willingness to saddle them with a huge national debt, an overgrown arsenal of destruction, and a deteriorating environment; our inhospitable attitude to the newcomers born in our midst, our unstated assumption which underlies so much of the propaganda for unlimited abortion that only those children born for success ought to be allowed to be born at all.»

Likewise though SC Res 733 (1992) imposed a general and complete embargo on all arms to Somalia it was implicitly modified by SC Res 794 (1992) which authorised the use of all necessary means to establish a secure environment for humanitarian relief since the embargo was not interpreted as applying to arms brought in by those implementing that mandate.

The strike starts a six - week programme of protests by the union's members working in environment and forms part of a civil service - wide campaign over the government's imposed cuts to pay, pensions, jobs and working conditions.

The report was commissioned by India environment minister Jairam Ramesh, who earlier this year had imposed an indefinite moratorium on the release of brinjal engineered to make the Bt toxin that helps the plant resist insect pests.

The traditional environment imposes traditional rules of social hierarchy, he says, but «all that suddenly gets tossed on its head when you're in a bubbling dungeon» — which was the venue for the session 2 panel led by Williams.

Mimicking the adaptability of living biological cells, robot modules will reconfigure themselves toward a common purpose within the limits imposed by the local environment.

A healthy body is capable of eliminating the toxic substances generated by normal functioning as well as toxins imposed on it by our environment.

Taking all these results together, one implication stands out above all: That schools bring little influence to bear on a child's achievement that is independent of his background and general social context; and that this very lack of an independent effect means that the inequalities imposed on children by their home, neighborhood, and peer environment are carried along to become the inequalities with which they confront adult life at the end of school.

Raunkier (1934) plant life - forms were also extrapolated throughout the 7 environments, these plant characteristics show continually expressed distribution patterns which were summarized by imposing the boundaries of Rastrigin's function, Gaussian process model to give spectra, for the results of this standardized analysis see Furze et al., 2013d.

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The present environment is characterized by unusually overvalued, overbought, overbullish conditions, with rising 10 - year Treasury bond yields, heavy insider selling, valuations on «forward earnings» appearing reasonable only because profit margins are more than 70 % above historical norms (fully explained by the negative sum of government and personal savings as a share of GDP), with the S&P 500 at a 4 - year market high, in a mature market advance, with lagging employment indicators still positive but more than half of all OECD countries already in GDP contraction, Europe in recession, Britain on the cusp, and the EU imposing massive losses on depositors in order to protect lenders in an unstable banking system where Cyprus is the iceberg's tip.

Behavior problems arising from the limitations imposed by the modern urban environment can be complex and difficult to treat.

Pressure imposed on the environment by the drastic and constant increase of tourism in the Riviera Maya and Cancún — as well as the lack of sustainable planning and management in many of Mexico's towns and cities over the past forty years — has led to an environmental crisis and the industry is urgently required to seek greater harmony between economic needs and environmental sustainability.

These changes were imposed by the Chinese government in an attempt to «promote a healthy and harmonious online game environment» in World of Warcraft.

Generally, open world games still enforce many restrictions in the game environment, either because of absolute technical limitations or in - game limitations imposed by a game's linearity.

Each of the participating artists is pushing the boundaries, and braving the limitations set by their environment, limitations that are both real; in the form of the everyday obstacles an artist faces, and perceived; in the form of the restrictions imposed upon themselves in their imagination.

Working both in the studio and outdoors, Siqueland often lets the environment — changing weather conditions or restrictions imposed by architecture — actively participate in the creation of his work.

New Yorkers, businesses, and the environment can benefit from new bill being considered by New York City to impose 10 - cent fee on every disposable plastic and paper bag.

Washington, D.C. — Today, the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) released a video calling on Pres. Trump to withstand pressures by global elites to impose the devastating «climate» policies, and reverse his pledge to withdraw from the Paris Climate Treaty, as the world's global elites kick off the United Nation's Climate Change Conference in Bonn, Germany.

the idea of limitations imposed by the state of technology and social organisation on the environment's ability to meet present and future needs.

And that comes with the hapless inhabitants having to suffer a poisoned environment and the soul numbing oppression imposed on them by their thoroughly corrupt and filthy - rich overlords.

A «policy environment» of carbon pricing, robust regulations and compliance framework to vet projects would need to be imposed by governments.

Peter Lang They renamed it» climate change» because they know that» global warming»» is a lie — so: when they say climate change, they are not even wrong, because: from summer climate is gone into winter climate in OZ, soon will get into summer climate again b] where is wet climate, changes into dry climate for couple of months — even in desert climate get wet by occasionally rain — can be improved into better climate IF Bob Brown and Flannery didn't impose» water embargo on Australian environment» no dam has being built for 30 years, on the driest continent — to save stormwater and improve the climate; reason they lie that CO2 regulates the climate...?!

The Greek Environment and Energy Ministry is planning to impose an extraordinary levy on photovoltaic systems on rooftops used for the production of electricity as a result of pressure from the country's international creditors to bring the electricity market's deficit down to zero by 2014.

Climate change is expected to exacerbate these challenges through its direct effects on people and the environment, as well as by imposing the need for measures to keep greenhouse gas emissions low and adapt to climate impacts.

This model views disability as a social disadvantage imposed on a person by an unsupportive environment: Statistics Canada, Canadian Survey on Disability, 2012: Concepts and Methods Guide: online, Statistics Canada http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/89-654-x/89-654-x2014001-eng.htm; see also Law Commission of Ontario, A Framework for the Law as it Affects Persons with Disabilities - Advancing Substantive Equality for Persons with Disabilities through Law, Policy and Practice, Final Report (September 2012)[LCO Disabilities Report]: online, Law Commission of Ontario, http://www.lco-cdo.org/persons-disabilities-final-report.pdf.

While this article looks at the position in common law negligence it is, of course, the case that much of the workplace environment is now covered by statutory regulation which may impose even stricter obligations on employers.

I don't think there is a topic I have ranted and raved about more than the universal life insurance products with non guaranteed cash value features that are collapsing left and right due to the low interest environment imposed by the Fed over the last 15 years.

Now, Bitcoin is about to be tested by the new environment that futures trading will impose.

He said Lowitja's 2011 Overburden Report analysed the complex contractual environment for the Aboriginal community controlled health sector and found that highly fragmented funding from multiple sources imposed a heavy and onerous burden of reporting and acquittal that was not shared by equivalent mainstream metropolitan health providers.

The two-fold goal of the stop - gap model is to (a) interrupt the youth's downward spiral imposed by increasingly disruptive behavior and (b) prepare the post-discharge environment for the youth's timely re-integration.