Sentences with phrase «in fragmented world»

Readers will want to read the books that «everyone is reading» to stay connected in a fragmented world.

Such concerted action is impossible in a fragmented world where each writer pursues individual success.

As stated in a report Deepening Democracy in Fragmented World: «Empowering people to influence decisions that affect their lives and hold their rulers accountable is no longer just a national issue.

United Nations Development Agency, report «Deepening Democracy in Fragmented World», 2002.

intention in a fragmented world.

In Living Faithfully in a Fragmented World: Lessons for the Church from MacIntyre's «After Virtue» (1998), Wilson responds to moral philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre, who concludes his celebrated 1991 critique of modernity by calling for «the construction of local forms of community within which civility and the intellectual and moral life can be sustained through the new dark ages which are already upon us....

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While it's incredibly easy to be lonely in our fragmented, tech - obsessed world, finding actual solitude is incredibly difficult.

It may seem like an exorbitant amount, in today's fragmented and distracted world, but if we break it down you will realize it's actually not enough.

Ludwin: They'll converge in the following way — we have different payment networks and financial markets all around the world quite fragmented; there's very little mesh or interoperability between networks.

Even in an increasingly fragmented online world, you can still build customer loyalty and encourage more people to buy from you and keep buying from you.

This new world of stock trading, in which volume is fragmented among dozens of electronic trading networks instead of concentrated on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, has both benefits and drawbacks.

This fragmented management and trading environment is in sharp contrast to that of the modern financial world, and often presents a barrier for entry for a large percentage of the population.

The church also convened an international conference in Crete, but as Patriarch Bartholomew says, «our efforts will be meaningless if they remain fragmented».19 The demands of the world call upon Christians not only to act ecumenically but together with all people of faith and good will.

Like other products of evolutionary change, we only notice what is likely to matter to us: We experience only a fragment of what is happening in the world.

When Plato acted it was probably in the belief that his freedom to act could only affect a small fragment of the world, narrowly circumscribed in space and time; but the man of today acts in the knowledge that the choice he makes will have its repercussions through countless centuries and upon countless human beings.

Of course as Lohia sees clearly in his Fragments of a World Mind, the messianic historical spirituality has produced more «strife» in society than the mystic, while the latter has produced «stagnation».

In the visible world the Milky Way is a tiny fragment.

To Lohia, the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi was not an episode of Hindu - Muslim fight as of the war between the Liberal and the Fanatical in Hinduism («Hinduism» in Fragments of a World Mind).

On a more mundane level, we know that Jesus spoke Aramaic (the spoken dialect of biblical Hebrew), since fragments of his speech are embedded in the Greek Gospels (see Mark 5:41; 15:34), while St. Paul proclaimed that same evangel to the world in Greek, though he seems to have been equally at home in Hebrew.

Gerard and his friends in the «Brotherhood» respond to these charges by reaffirming the value of individual moral struggle and the need for tolerance and sympathy in a fragmented, pluralistic world.

To love is to discover and complete one's self in someone other than oneself; an act impossible of general realisation on earth so long as each man can see in his neighbor no more than a closed fragment following its own course through the world.

Either American democracy is living on social capital inherited from an earlier time when Americans shared a common perspective on life's questions, in which case we face a slow descent into the fragmented and violent world Hauerwas sees; or else the enthusiastic, individualistic and yet genuinely loving piety of Emerson, Whitman and Ellison has a better grasp of our human nature, and it really is possible to be both democratic and virtuous.

We find ourselves in quite another world when we turn from Calvin to the notorious Wolfenbuettel Fragments, which G. E. Lessing (1729 - 81) began to publish in 1774, thereby launching the so - called quest for the historical Jesus.

Man has a fragment of the divine life in him, but he is imprisoned in the evil world of matter, and redemption is a movement away from the body and this world, away from the fear and determinism that bind him.

In 2012, another drama played out in headlines across the world: a fragment of ancient manuscript in which Jesus purportedly refers to his «wife» was trumpeted as evidence that Jesus had been a married maIn 2012, another drama played out in headlines across the world: a fragment of ancient manuscript in which Jesus purportedly refers to his «wife» was trumpeted as evidence that Jesus had been a married main headlines across the world: a fragment of ancient manuscript in which Jesus purportedly refers to his «wife» was trumpeted as evidence that Jesus had been a married main which Jesus purportedly refers to his «wife» was trumpeted as evidence that Jesus had been a married man.

... just as some fragments of the past are taken up vividly into our new human experiences, so all things in the world are taken up into God's experience.

Or is the term «Baptist» so flexible that it designates only a loosely defined collection of heterogeneous fragments clustered haphazardly in one vaguely outlined section of the world Christian landscape?»

Like precious family heirlooms, from time to time I reverently unpack the memories of your daddy gently swinging you on his arm during fussy periods of the day, how one of your big sisters would interact with you, the way you calmed when I held you, the seriousness with which you would watch light dancing on the wall, and other fragments of the time when you were the smallest big thing in my world.

But unless we are all vigilant, whether we face democratic or authoritarian regimes, in demanding our right to that free expression, our digital world risks being a partially censored, monitored and fragmented one.

And the narrative not only resonated with journalists but also citizens who suddenly started googling for fake news (see Fig. 1) and found dozens of news articles that were painting a dark picture: not only are we living in a post-truth world, but our society is also fragmented into numerous echo chambers in which fake news is shared freely, thus eroding our society's basis.

Meanwhile, Brazil has the most fragmented Congress in the world: twenty - eight political parties won seats in the lower house in the 2014 elections.

«Although only little research has been carried out in this area, the results to date are concerning: fragments of plastic are present practically all over the world and can trigger many kinds of adverse effects.

«Not only the oldest known human fragment from Africa,» Leakey proclaimed, «but the most ancient fragment of true Homo yet discovered anywhere in the world.»

Landfills have altered animal behavior, distribution and abundance around the world in a variety of ways, from increasing abundance of storks to fragmenting populations of bears.

Less than half a dozen meteorite fragments have been found intact in rock layers the world over.

But the collection is more than just a dookie archive; researchers from around the world can pull DNA fragments from the material, use plant matter stuck in the poo to re-create ancient diets («Look!

And there must be something common to the creative act, whatever its discipline, in James's assertion that from one evocative fragment of conversation overheard by the writer a entire novel can be written, that from the slightest bit of material a whole novelistic world is created.

Radiocarbon dating of minute leaf and wood fragments preserved in the cave's ice indicates that its glacier is at least 10,500 years old, making it the oldest cave glacier in the world and one of the oldest glaciers on Earth outside the polar regions.

This photograph, showing plastic fragments collected in just an hour at a cove near Gloucester, Mass., hints at a lesser - known but equally disturbing story: much smaller bits of plastic that are accumulating in oceans all over the world can potentially harm marine life and possibly even human health.

The Antarctic Peninsula is among the fastest warming locations in the world and, according to the European Space Agency, the enormous Wilkins Ice Shelf is in imminent danger of collapse, much like the Larsen ice shelf fragmented a few years back.

The fragment shared ∼ 86 % nucleotide identity with its closest phylogenetic relatives in GenBank, SAdV - 18, an Old World vervet monkey adenovirus, and the human species D adenoviruses.

So much of our world seems to be in fragments, in disjointed pieces.

Although the smallpox virus in the sample was highly fragmented and deteriorated, the lab still had to gain permission from the World Health Organization to get permission to continue with their work.

Yoga provides a great counter-pose to a lot of the societal pressures girls face and offers ways to sustain or heal the mind - body connection in a world that works to fragment us from our bodies.

Claire's design philosophy had us reevaluating our own spaces: «Taking the time to re-center ourselves and find a personal sanctuary is more important than ever in today's fragmented and fast - paced world.

The real world was even more heavily fragmented: work and mutual friends accounted for 20 percent each of the introductions; school and social gatherings came in at around 10 percent each.

The story begins when Thomas (Dylan O'Brien) wakes up trapped in a massive maze with a group of other boys, he has no memory of the outside world other than strange dreams about a mysterious organization known as W.C.K.D. Only by piecing together fragments of his past with clues he discovers in the maze can Thomas hope to uncover his true purpose and a way to escape.

The boisterousness of the film's finale, with its sieges and rescues, its lightning bolts and flash floods, relieves what would otherwise be an almost unbearably sad evocation of what is least preservable about youthful experience: not so much the loss of that «innocence» that is such a hackneyed motif of modern American culture (and for which summer camps have always been a favored location) but the awakening of the first radiance of mature intelligence in a world liable to be indifferent or hostile to it, an intelligence that can conceive everything and realize only the tiniest fragment of it.

In the end, Dragon Quest VII: Fragments of the Forgotten Past is a very sturdy Japanese RPG on the Nintendo 3DS that offers a massive world for you to explore.

«Each week, Minhaj will bring his unique comedic voice and storytelling skill to investigate the larger trends shaping our fragmented world,» the streaming service said in a statement.