Sentences with phrase «in human conflict»

But the role that animals play in human conflict — both as victims and as currency — is also in our hands.

The tours to the battlefields of the Somme may include a visit to the Thiepval Visitor Centre, which focuses on the events during the actual Battle of the Somme - one of the biggest battles of the entire war, which lasted 141 days and, with over 1,000,000 men killed or wounded, was the bloodiest battle in human conflict.

The nonpacifist is more likely than the pacifist to believe that God participates in human conflict, using stern measures and even if necessary the awful destructiveness of war, to protect a State against its enemies and to enable a State to protect the helpless against aggression.

The other truth is that in all human conflict there is probably an element of sinful misuse of freedom and of self - assertion at the expense of the real good.

If the pacifist position were correct, it would seem logical that throughout history God would either prevent war, or at least not take sides in human conflicts, but that is not the case.

Not exact matches

Yet Saudi Arabia is not without its critics, who lament its poor record on human rights, draconian executions of political prisoners and military intervention in the civil war in Yemen, a conflict that has caused a humanitarian disaster in the country and one which is seen as a proxy war between the kingdom and its regional rival, Iran.

Plank also promised in the letter that Under Armour will take «other public positions on legislation around the country in support of the interests of our teammates whenever policy conflicts with human rights.»

Instability will lead to global conflict, and that in turn may lead to what in a 2007 essay he referred to as» secular apocalypse» — total extinction of the human race through either thermonuclear war, biological contagion, unchecked climate change, or an array of competing Armageddon scenarios.

«Given there has been no let - up in the conflict since the end of November, we can assume that more than 60,000 people have been killed by the beginning of 2013,» UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said on Wednesday.

The Human Resource Department of a company performs a number of core tasks such as posting job ads, sourcing candidates, conducting interviews and screening applicants, resolving conflict among employees, coordinating with managers, and most of all, taking charge in organizing the payroll system of the company.

The CORE will investigate allegations of human rights abuses linked to Canadian corporate activity abroad, and will seek to assist wherever possible in collaboratively resolving disputes or conflicts between impacted communities and Canadian companies.

Oxfam works to protect people from disasters and conflict because every human being has a right to live in safety.

The outcome of a war will not only lead to a sharp escalation in human casualties and displaced families, who have yet to come to terms with the death and destruction from the conflicts in Iraq, Yemen and Syria, but the region itself may no longer be the landscape it currently is as most countries in the area will struggle to recuperate from the large - scale devastation caused by a war.

Robots have been vital in saving lives and identifying IEDs in military conflicts across the globe — and should something happen, fewer human lives would be harmed.

Belloc believed, with Cardinal Manning, that all human conflicts were ultimately theological, and that the conflict between Protestantism and Catholicism in particular was a disagreement about the importance of definition.

Ms Rudd said the conflict in Syria has caused «unparalleled suffering, destruction and disregard for human life» and driven thousands of refugees and migrants towards Europe.

We are in the midst of a Copernican shift in human consciousness [thought patterns] which is why there is so much conflict between people of good will.

All human beings face contradictions and sharp differences within their souls, but few have the conflicts in their souls put on display as a national tragedy no less than a personal contradiction.

In a first approximation one would expect that in a human society built on class antagonism various aims at intensity would often be in conflicIn a first approximation one would expect that in a human society built on class antagonism various aims at intensity would often be in conflicin a human society built on class antagonism various aims at intensity would often be in conflicin conflict.

It covers over the conflicted ambivalent character of human personality with a seamless robe, and gives us authentic security in the encounter with God.

One can see recent standoffs in Geneva on so - called traditional values resolutions as manifestations of a conflict between two rival conceptions of human dignity: one, supported by most Western advocates, that focuses on individual autonomy; and the other, proposed by voices from the global East and South, that focuses on traditional understandings of human nature.

It is no exaggeration to say that human beings today experience life in terms of disruption, conflict, self - destruction, meaninglessness and despair in all realms of life.

Estrangement is implied in Paul's classical description of the human predicament of «man against himself» because of his conflicting desires.

In that gray area debate rages, choices are complicated, and human beings wrestle with a conflict between a search for wholeness and a reality of guilt.

Indeed, no such abbreviated statement as we here are making, with a few quotations from the Hebrew Psalms, can begin to do justice to the Psalter as a compendium of all the moods and attitudes, conflicts, desires, and aspirations of the human soul in its relationships with God.

He argued that the phenomenon of globalization is bringing new pressures of such magnitude that they could easily result in disastrous human conflicts, and that a global war of civilizations can be avoided only if world leaders accept the multi-civilizational character of global politics, and learn to co-operate.

The capacity for candor, confrontation, and encounter may be grossly truncated in one who has an inordinate fear and avoidance of human conflicts.24 It is fitting to learn to provide resistance and critical negation to that which stands in enmity to the peace of God (Ps.

Along with Erich Fromm (with whom she was associated at the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute and later in New York City) and with Adler, Rank, and Sullivan, she rejected Freud's compartmentalized conflict - centered, biologically reductionistic model of human personality in favor of an emphasis on the functioning of the self as whole in its relational context.

In human and spiritual terms the focus on the family for any struggle between conflicting worldviews is obvious since it is here that cultural and religious values are primarily passed on.

The moral conflicts in the various texts shine a bright light on the human origins of these works.

This impending civilizational conflict indicates the fact that tribalism is so deeply entrenched in human behavioral patterns that it not only refuses to wither away but, in times of mounting tension in the face of threatening world crises, it is likely to intensify.

Recent history shows quite clearly that when the conflict becomes acute in a totalitarian society it is the Christian Church which alone can successfully stand up for human liberty and conscience.

Is it really likely that when the Romans heard Paul's words about creation being «subjected to futility» in 8:20 they «could well have thought about how imperial ambitions, military conflicts, and economic exploitation had led to the erosion of the natural environment throughout the Mediterranean world, leaving ruined cities, depleted fields, deforested mountains, and polluted streams as evidence of this universal human vanity»?

Others — a larger number — conclude that reason and religion occupy different «spheres» of human activity and hence may never be in conflict.

In the end it probably won't matter, we are humans first and we have been in conflict with other humans for all of historIn the end it probably won't matter, we are humans first and we have been in conflict with other humans for all of historin conflict with other humans for all of history.

We are certain that there can be no conflict between true science and true theology since God is the source of all truth; conflicts only arise from discrepancies in human knowledge, understanding, and interpretation.»

Perhaps Percy's Christianity and his humanism remain in conflict precisely because transcendent grace and the human quest for it are not the two halves of a perfect equilibrium.

The preoccupation with human power will likely continue, both for reasons of the enhanced impacts of human power in a shrinking world, and growing social conflict.

So when they experience this universal, timeless yearning, they are likely to envision the therapeutic ideals of deep consolation and genuine human flourishing — two worthy goals that the forces of this world and the conflicts in our hearts do not seem to allow.

The third and most important cause of confusion and conflict in the moral enterprise is the human tendency toward self - centeredness.

Today, as in the eighth century before Christ, we find greed, exploitation, callous indifference to human need, and vast amounts of conflict and strife between nations and social groups.

The tension that Israel knew throughout her life as a nation between faith in an electing, acting, covenanting God on the one hand, and on the other the rational improbability, if not absurdity, of the divine promises implicit in her faith; the conflict between the divine demand to trust and the human doubt; the incongruity between divine promise for the nation and the incredible historical odds against fulfillment — all of this Israel is mindful of in the shaping of the stories, and in the reading and cherishing of the stories.

From belief in idealism or confidence in material progress to the questioning of pervasive ideologies of conflict, from militarism to pacifism, from empire to anticolonialism, or from multiculturalism to the supposed clash of civilizations, the Crusades have appeared as witnesses for all parties in some cosmic lawsuit with human nature in the dock.

The position taken in this book is that such a democracy is inherently self - defeating, in part because the unrestrained pursuit of satisfaction tends to breed conflict rather than harmony, but more importantly because human nature is such that persons and cultures do not grow in beauty, strength, and virtue when people strive only to get what they want.

In a world shrunk by travel and communications technologies, one which can no longer afford conflict arising from ethnocentric prejudice, the appreciation of other religious and cultural views is necessary for the survival of the human species.

To fulfill this mission it was necessary that God the word should become perfect human being in possessing a rational soul capable of exercising a real choice between good and evil and entering into conflict with the passions of the human soul.

Humans, because of their addiction to drama, suffering and conflict must realize they are all swimming in a limitless soup of energy and all are worthy of this, all humans must work to get rid of their addiction to drama, suffering and conflict and love and respect each other and help each other achieve happiness and live in peace.&Humans, because of their addiction to drama, suffering and conflict must realize they are all swimming in a limitless soup of energy and all are worthy of this, all humans must work to get rid of their addiction to drama, suffering and conflict and love and respect each other and help each other achieve happiness and live in peace.&humans must work to get rid of their addiction to drama, suffering and conflict and love and respect each other and help each other achieve happiness and live in peace.»

A final cleavage is necessary to separate absolutely, in a pure state, the conflicting spiritual tendencies which are confusedly intermingled in the present world, at the heart of human freedom.

You say our values are in conflict and yet I believe murder to be wrong and bad for human society as is any violence against other humans and I would bet you likely feel the same way.

In this latter form of state the compulsive order that persisted would not be based on the exploitation of human conflicts but would represent the stage of development which had been reached.