Sentences with phrase «in the society in»

In a letter to CEOs this year, Fink announced that BlackRock will only do business with companies that have clearly defined long - term strategies that benefit in society in some way.

The reboot is touching, powerful, and culturally relevant in so many different ways, particularly in a society in which gay men are oftentimes barely tolerated, let alone celebrated.

There's no question that we live in a society in which information moves faster than ever before.

If we have come to accept gay Americans in the workplace and in society in general then it is time to apply the exact same standards to the military, no exceptions.

In other words, his proposal, if it could be executed at all, would produce an individual capable of using liberty well and responsibly, inevitably embedded in a society in which most people would be sorely tempted to abuse their liberty.

These studies showed that while 85 percent of non-believers had a favorable opinion of Christianity's role in society in 1996, those numbers have fallen sharply in recent years, to the point that 38 percent of young adults have a negative impression of present - day Christianity.

If atheists are so happy and confident with the choices they have made, why are they so apparently unhappy (judging on the venom in their posts)» Have you ever had the opportunity to live in a society in which 90 % of the populace believe in something that you find to be fanciful in the extreme?

The Christian life is not about tolerance... but truth... The Bible is quite specific about what sin is... we must love the sinner but not tolerate the sin... being a Christian requires us to know and speak the truth in love... tolerance means accepting everything without judgment... we can not do that in this society in the midst of moral decay.

A popular discussion of the nature and practice of life in a society in which love has disintegrated.

It reveals, as well, what we are to commend for the common good in every society in which we find ourselves, praying and working for its welfare (Jer 29:7).

«Many peasants and slum inhabitants need religion as a refuge in a society in permanent and progressive disintegration in order to deal with fear, threats, repression, hunger and death,» explained a report on the subject by Pro Mundi Vita, a Belgian - based Catholic think tank.

Moreover, in a society in which tolerance has been regarded as an adequate substitute for truth, we have no idea what it would mean to have an honest politics.

I know some did «back East» but many in society in the East were opposed to slavery.

This concept is one that set limits on the understanding of mission and its place in the society in which that mission had to be carded out.

Indeed, their churches constitute one of the few institutions in society in which they can be persons.

Public responsibility is that limit on my activity I am willing to negotiate with others in society in return for a mutual nonaggression pact among ourselves called the social contract.

At other times questions are pursued in a way that can be of only limited relevance in the society in question.

We shall not understand Marx unless we realize that when he became a revolutionary, he was carrying out the injunctions of his youthful essay, for he felt that he was choosing the position in society in which he could best serve humanity.

Who will speak truth to privilege in a society in which the disparities between the rich and poor grow more pronounced daily?

Such developments within academic disciplines are highly significant in a society in which the social sciences are viewed as instruments for the clarification, support and advancement of the government's philosophy and policies.

In societies in which violence is rampant on the street and in the media, the nursing Virgin can perhaps communicate God's love to people in a way that a violent image, the image of one more sacrificial victim, can not.

In a society in which a rational approach to social theory and the social sciences in general is increasingly dominant, the church must be able to take part in these discussions.

Indeed we find that understanding most strange, not only in the church, but also in the family and in society in general.

What has to be avoided at all costs, in other words, is a blueprint for social reform which in the end favors only one group in society in its quest for greater economic and political self - determination.

As Seyyed Hossein Nasr writes, «For traditional man, Muslim or otherwise, that is a man whose life and thought are molded by a set of principles of transcendent origin and who lives in a society in which these principles are manifested in every sphere does not have cause to question the teaching of his religion.

Following the Stephen Lawrence inquiry, Joel Edwards wrote in January 1999, «The name of Stephen Lawrence will go down as a sad indictment on racism in our society in general and the police force in particular.

As it explained, «For two decades of economic and social developments, people have organized their intimate relationships and made choices that define their views of themselves and their places in society in reliance on the availability of abortion in the event that contraception should fail....

As far as trusting their own kind over another, you'll find that in every minority in every society in the world.

In the society in which we live, those who have a good start in life, those who are influential and well educated, they get more.

Understand the appeal of this message in a society in which — to quote a recent journalistic study of poverty in Lagos — «the frustration of being alive... is excruciating.»

But if his thought is to offer any kind of basis for liberation theology, a more flexible interpretation will be needed in which the emergence of the state will take place in each society in its own tune.

«We've had enough of a history in our society in Northern Ireland of discrimination, mistrust and hatred,» said Neeson.

In a society in which a majority of adults not only use alcohol but attach considerable social significance to drinking, it is safe to assume that the majority of persons who are now children and youth will eventually decide to drink.

As might be expected in a society in which white Anglo - Saxon Protestants are slow to recognize their own ethnicity, the first, and still the best, ethnographies of congregations are Samuel Heilman's study of an orthodox synagogue and Melvin Williams's description of a black Pentecostal church.71 Heilman and Williams conclusively demonstrate the power of even small, marginal congregations to generate among themselves a rich symbolic communication that gives each its meaning and cohesion.

Newbigin places these first century Christians and their role in society in stark contrast to the role of churches in the Western world today.

Black leaders who stressed the importance of blacks» pride in their heritage and culture feared, plausibly, that true integration in a society in which blacks were a small minority would subordinate black distinctiveness.

The founder, Adam Smith, had a rather cheerful view of human economic activity, especially in societies in which strong moral foundations guide public behavior and free, competitive markets reward with better profits and higher wages those producers and workers who make good decisions.

To some extent, this attitude of denial has come about because of changes in our society in this century: the marked decrease in the number of deaths at an early age; the development of specialized professions for the care of the dying and the dead; the emergence of geographical mobility, with the consequence that most of us live at some distance from aging and dying relatives, including parents; the growth of separate communities for the aging, not only nursing homes but retirement communities.

The religious opposition to the Vietnam War was certainly more effective than the opposition of those who spelled America with a «k.» And if we have made some significant progress with respect to the place of racial minorities in our society in the last twenty years, it is due mostly to religious leadership.

Advanced capitalism functions in a society in which a sizeable majority of people are relatively content with their roles as producers, consumers, and citizens.

There is polyandry as well as polygamy in some societies in some parts of history, but it's always been male plus female.

The emergence of the new middle class and their wealth manifest themselves in the society in several ways.

The foreign debt continues to be an issue and new voices have began to sound the need to look for ways to face it; (ii) At the national level two questions are concentrating increasing attention: one is the reassessment of the necessary role of the state to correct the distortions of a runaway market (currently discussed in Europe and in the discussions about the role the initiatives of «an active state has played in the economic development of Asian countries); the other is the need for a «participative democracy over against a purely representative formal democracy: in this sense the need to strengthen civil society with its intermediate organizations becomes an important concern; (iii) the struggle for collective and personal identity in a society in which forced immigration, dehumanizing conditions in urban marginal situations, and foreign cultural aggression and massification in many forms produce a degrading type of poverty where communal, family and personal identity are eroded and even destroyed.

In fact, the religious view considers the secularist «mechanical materialist view of reality as too reductionist and as leaving out the «organic» and «spiritual» dimensions of human being and history and therefore as unable to renew the values of humanism and its reverence for life and the dignity of the human person in society in the name of which secularism started to protest against religious authoritarianism.

But we also have to carry on plugging away at the truth: which is that in a society in which child sex abuse is a major problem, our clergy have collectively become scapegoats.

Tom... you... are aware that the number of people who identify themselves as «atheist» VASTLY under represents the prison population compared to their numbers in society in general, yes?

Their exemption from military service is simply the compromise position that has developed in a society in which moral objection to war is not unanimously shared.

The visual element was strong in a society in which many less than half the people could read or write.

Anyone who try to minimize the escalation of evil in our society in past few decades, especially blunt, shameless, «in - your - face» type of evil that's celebrated in our today's culture, is blind and has no ability to think coherently..

But finally the ministers who, as Lyman Beecher said, were «chosen by the people who have been educated as free men,» and were «dependent on them for patronage and support, «88 achieved such status as their reputation for personal piety, character, and ability made possible in the society in which they lived.