Sentences with phrase «in its natural state as»

The mission of this community is to keep the cave in its natural state as much as possible and preserve the area as an ecological reserve.

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The government acknowledges this, stating in a recent report that total methane emissions from natural gas sites have fallen 11 % since 2005, even as natural gas production has exploded.

His Iowa - based unit now runs several power companies in the United States, Canada and Britain, as well as natural gas pipelines and solar and wind farms.

As detailed in the first three installments of Power Shift, an NBC News / CNBC special report, the United States is experiencing an energy boom created by new drilling technologies that have unlocked vast domestic oil and natural gas reserves.

McClendon cofounded Chesapeake Energy in 1989 and turned it into the second - largest natural gas driller in the United States before he stepped down as chief executive in 2013.

Comparing the capital and operating costs of various forms of energy — even factoring in US$ 50 a tonne for carbon emissions (a higher rate than is currently levied by any North American state or province)-- natural gas comes out as a clear winner.

«As one of the four Gulf producing states, Alabama will use these funds wisely to protect, restore and provide public access to natural resources in our beautiful state.

This area covers the impact of regulatory and other policies, such as taxes and subsidies and competition policy, on specific economic sectors (except those covered by the Institute's natural resources or financial services research), on consumers, and on the overall state of competition in Canada.

The state also leads in limestone and natural gas production and produces many other mined products as well.

But even a small price increase could slow the industry's growth in states where solar already faces fierce competition from cheap natural gas, such as Florida, Georgia, South Carolina or Texas.

Volume / mix decreased 1.6 percentage points, primarily due to lower shipments across several categories, particularly nuts, natural cheese and cold cuts in the United States as well as cheese and coffee in Canada.

Provider of natural gas as an alternative fuel for vehicle fleets in the United States and Canada, based on the number of stations operated and the amount of gasoline gallon equivalents of CNG and LNG delivered.

«Market participants will look back on this municipal green bond issuance for Massachusetts, and see it as the gateway to further green bond issuances across the many states and many cities that are hoping to access less expensive funding to improve infrastructure, protect natural resources and offer renewable energy,» says Bill Daley, Managing Director in Public Finance.

With Asia's rapidly growing need for energy imports in the early 2000s, Canada hoped to reduce its almost 100 % reliance on the United States as an export market for oil and natural gas by expanding to Asia.

Canadian natural gas producers were also seeking new buyers as exports to the United States steadily fell with the rise in domestic U.S. shale gas production.

Natural gas, for instance, has been in protracted slump, due partly to the success of exploration and production companies in tapping new domestic supplies, such as the Marcellus Shale in Pennsylvania and surrounding states.

The state of the natural environment plays a critical role in defining human quality of life and serves as a production factor for economic development.

... «I like about Eric as he states in the beginning of this book is that link building starts with great content and is a natural progression from it.

Anadarko's the United States onshore properties include oil and natural - gas plays located in Colorado, Texas, Utah, Wyoming, Pennsylvania, Louisiana, and Kansas, where the Company operated approximately 12,700 wells and owned interests in approximately 3,500 nonoperated wells as of December 31, 2016.

In this article we'll use forest fire management policy as an analogy to discuss whether market forces should be allowed to burst speculative bubbles, «clean the forest floor,» and quickly return the market to a natural state, or if governments and central banks should try to «put fires out» in an effort to slowly deflate speculative bubbles which, if allowed to burst, might harm the broader economIn this article we'll use forest fire management policy as an analogy to discuss whether market forces should be allowed to burst speculative bubbles, «clean the forest floor,» and quickly return the market to a natural state, or if governments and central banks should try to «put fires out» in an effort to slowly deflate speculative bubbles which, if allowed to burst, might harm the broader economin an effort to slowly deflate speculative bubbles which, if allowed to burst, might harm the broader economy.

But it is one thing to state that all human beings have some access to God's law within and through human nature, quite another to expect natural law theories based on reason alone to persuade others about contested moral issues in a context where such theories are stripped of their foundations in God as creator, lawgiver, and judge.

instead of some earlier period or all brain functions throughout a person's life, you would still be required to copy the information to retain the data, as the data itself would be lost in the quantum foam in the «natural» state of things.

As seems Mr.Stephen Hawking had suffered a lot from early age and from age of 21 to 69 tied to a chair facing death every day, had no chance to live a natural loving life... towards which he had been in the state of denial towards God existence for not having his pleadings answered...?

One after another the state constitutions had declared that, as North Carolina's put it, «all men have a natural and unalienable right to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their own consciences» (V: 71) The state constitutions indicated that the right of «free exercise» was meant to be absolute, at least to the point of not «disturb [ing] the public peace or obstruct [ing] others in their religious worship» (Massachusetts, 1780, V: 77) Equally straightforward was the opposition to «an establishment of religion.»

(R. M. MacIver: The Modern State, pp. 103 - 104) It was the glory of Roman jurists in the early centuries A.D. that they first conceived the jus gentium, the natural law of all peoples, as incorporating the duties and rights which belonged to human beings everywhere.

These fears assumed a fever pitch in 1832 when Pope Gregory XVI de?nounced separation of church and state, prompting Tocqueville to remark that across America «the Catholic religion has erroneously been looked upon as the natural enemy of democracy.»

Sane people can disagree about whether there ought to be a right to privacy, i.e., about whether it is logically a natural right and if so perhaps ought to be put into the Constitution via amendment, or about whether we (usually at state - level) should pass particular laws, such as ones that legalize gay - marriage, that factually expand what might be called privacy, but no sane U.S. Citizen, gay, straight, liberal, or conservative, should be left ignorant about the Constitution - wounding judicial usurpations done in the name of this right, more of which are planned to be done soon enough.

since God made homosexuals, and all these heterosexuals keep producing gay kids and we have evidence of homosexuality occurring in another animals as well as neuroscience and social sciences since 1963 stating that being gay isn't a disease but a natural orientation and since the writers of the bible would have no clue that it could be an orientation (just as they could have no idea that the world isn't flat, not up on pillars, nor is it surrounded by water, nor was the earth created from a leviathan carcass) thus it is permissible and subject to the same statutes heterosexuals are.

This is from the Presbyterian Confession of Faith, and copied and pasted from spurgeon.org «Chapter 10, Section 3: «Man, by his fall into a state of sin, hath wholly lost all ability of will to any spiritual good accompanying salvation; so as a natural man being altogether averse from that good, and dead in sin, is not able, by his own strength, to convert himself, or to prepare himself thereunto.»

In Virginia, he had defended religious liberty both as a natural right and as the solemn guarantee of a state constitution that set the «metes and bounds» of public authority.

Many of these are left in a natural state, such as the debarked and clean - peeled tree trunks that serve as structural columns in the hall's great room.

Moments of spirit (i.e., total states of consciousness) are, for him, like natural moments inasmuch as they are fundamental units of existence in which essences are actualized in an intensive fashion.

I agree completely that it's natural - unfortunately, here in the United States, it is not always viewed as such; --LRB-

Under liberalism, human beings increasingly live in a condition of autonomy such as that first imagined by theorists of the state of nature, except that the anarchy that threatens to develop from that purportedly natural condition is controlled and suppressed through the imposition of laws and the corresponding growth of the state.

The platform planks for «32 embodied a number of Century concerns: U.S. adherence to the World Court protocol; U.S. entry into the League of Nations, provided that its covenant be amended to eliminate military sanctions; U.S. recognition of the Soviet Union (which was granted a year later); the safeguarding of the rights of conscientious objectors (including those denied citizenship, such as Canadian - born theologian D. C. Macintosh of Yale Divinity School); the abolition of compulsory military training in state - supported educational institutions other than military and naval academies; emergency measures for relief and public - works employment; the securing of constitutional rights for minorities; the reduction of gross inequality of income by steeply progressive rates of taxation on large incomes; «progressive socialization of the ownership and control of natural resources, public utilities and basic industries»; «the nationalization of our entire banking system»; and so on (June 8, 1932).

We have been told, till one is sick of hearing it, that sexual desire is in the same state as any of our other natural desires and that if only we abandon the silly Victorian idea of hushing it up, everything in the garden will be lovely....

In the present state of hominization, as we see it in progress today, the statistical influence of chance and the part played by natural selection continue to be enormouIn the present state of hominization, as we see it in progress today, the statistical influence of chance and the part played by natural selection continue to be enormouin progress today, the statistical influence of chance and the part played by natural selection continue to be enormous.

Sherman Jackson is an influential voice in the Muslim American community, and his endorsement of liberal - pluralist constitutionalism resists Islamic extremism that poses as religious integrity and helps Muslims in the United States to affirm our way of life, which their natural sympathies incline them to do.

It is especially well equipped to do this as A Natural Theology for Our Time (Hartshorne); 15 it will take much longer as A Christian Natural Theology (Cobb).16 Our hope lies in the general cosmic process Hartshorne described when he wrote, «God is the cosmic «adventure» (Whitehead) integrating all real adventures as they occur, without ever failing in readiness to realize new states out of the divine potency.

Since higher education was usually thought of as a religious enterprise as well as a public service, it seemed natural for church and state to work hand in hand, even after the formal disestablishment of the churches.

You stated: «As used in science, however, a theory is an explanation or model based on observation, experimentation, and reasoning, especially one that has been tested and confirmed as a general principle helping to explain and predict natural phenomena.&raquAs used in science, however, a theory is an explanation or model based on observation, experimentation, and reasoning, especially one that has been tested and confirmed as a general principle helping to explain and predict natural phenomena.&raquas a general principle helping to explain and predict natural phenomena.»

George uses an apt environmental metaphor to support his point: just as the state restricts apparently private activity in order to protect its natural ecology, so also may it legitimately enact laws to protect the «moral ecology.»

«The flood is described in natural terms as the effects of sins (of violence in particular) with no divine act of intervention; only with the subsiding of the waters is God's activity stated explicitly» (Fretheim, God and World, 80).

Even in this country all national or state legislation designed to protect human health, the rights of workers, family farmers, or the natural environment will be subject to being overruled as in restraint of trade.

Our whole civilization seems to act as though restoring things to their «natural» state would mean making them dead, and this crisis in our world has a lot to do with our ancestors» enjoyment in dealing with easy, clear, conscious meanings and their dislike in looking for that deeper «something.»

Furthermore, in the United States, for over a quarter of a century the writings of Professor Charles Hartshorne, including Beyond Humanism, The Vision of God, Reality as Social Process, The Divine Relativity, The Logic of Perfection, and A Natural Theology for Our Times, as well as many occasional articles and essays, have eloquently argued the case for «process - thought».

A word more about the inner character of the event - theoretical framework, which consists of (1) the usual quantificational theory of first order, extended to include the theory of virtual classes and relations, (2) the theory of identity, (3) Lesniewski's mereology or calculus of individuals, (4) logical syntax in its modern form, (5) a semantics or theory of reference both extensional and intentional, (6) variant renditions of systematic pragmatics as needed, (7) the theory of events, states, acts, and processes, and, finally, (8) a theory of structural or grammatical relations of the kind needed for the analysis of natural language.

Finally, two or three very recent books may be mentioned which are valuable as attempts to state Christian belief in terms of the conceptuality provided by process - thought: John B. Cobb's A Christian Natural Theology, Peter N. Hamilton's The Living God and the Modern World, and F. H. Peters» The Creative Advance.

Shipton suggests this principle of freedom of thought, often believed to be state policy first in Virginia, whence it entered the U.S. Constitution as a «natural right,» may have been borrowed from Puritan New England.

Virginia Declaration of Rights, 1776 XIII That a well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the proper, natural, and safe defense of a free state; that standing armies, in time of peace, should be avoided as dangerous to liberty; and that, in all cases, the military should be under strict subordination to, and be governed by, the civil power.