«We need to
impress upon society the importance of supporting families in their care of newborns,» Alexander said.
Its heightened, often ironic attention to the past has served to
impress upon society the importance of having a retrospective view of things.
Not exact matches
In our pluralistic and morally confused
society, this fact
impresses upon us the importance of clearly identifying our loyalties.
The metaphor is Adam Smith's, who went on to observe in The Theory of Moral Sentiments that «the pieces
upon the chess - board have no other principle of motion besides that which the hand
impresses upon them,» whereas «in the great chess - board of human
society, every single piece has a principle of motion of its own, altogether different from that with the legislature might choose to
impress upon it.»
This is what the experiences in our Third World
societies continue to
impress upon us.
This means that
society impresses upon them what is «appropriate,» something that parents often can't entirely control.
When something is told, shown, or
impressed upon you by an outside source — that of course has no true knowledge of what they're
impressing upon, ie, men throughout time telling women how to rear a child — then for some reason as a
society (and sex, meaning women) we believe it.
«For me the march is an opportunity to reach out to both members of the
society as well as policymakers, to
impress upon them the need to strengthen our scientific base,» says Soumitro Banerjee of the Indian Institute of Science and Research in Kolkata, who participated in the New Delhi march.
«Your ability to teach the basics, the constitutional principles to your students and
impress upon them to be an informed member of our
society is invaluable,» she said.