Sentences with phrase «inflicted on society»

A preeminent scientist — and the world's most prominent atheist — asserts the irrationality of belief in God and the grievous harm religion has inflicted on society, from the Crusades to 9/11.

We don't want any more misery inflicted on society.

In this collection of angular images, the Russian photographer ambitiously challenges both the literal and figurative boundaries that urban buildings inflict on society in order to, as the Facebook event puts it, «break the walls which we come up against and to push the limits of perception.»

Not exact matches

In the same book Pope John Paul wrote that «a determination on the part of husband and wife to have as few children as possible, to make their own lives easy, is bound to inflict moral damage both on their family and on society at large.»

The suffering inflicted on some people by the social disapproval of homosexuality is so intense and so destructive that I believe the primary moral implication of examining the current situation is that society should become much more accepting.

Doctrine and Covenants 134:10 10 We believe that all religious societies have a right to deal with their members for disorderly conduct, according to the rules and regulations of such societies; provided that such dealings be for fellowship and good standing; but we do not believe that any religious society has authority to try men on the right of property or life, to take from them this world's goods, or to put them in jeopardy of either life or limb, or to inflict any physical punishment upon them.

Hate usually come about when one segment of society inflicts its moral codes on others..

In the materialist desire for heaven on earth, such societies anesthetize themselves to feeling, and are thus all the more capable of inflicting suffering.

In no small part because of Verlaine's own harrowing life, the meaning of maudit has come to include not only the troubles such poets suffer from society but also the troubles nature inflicts on them and the ones they inflict on themselves, body and soul.

We deplore the hostility in Ukraine that has already caused many victims, inflicted innumerable wounds on peaceful inhabitants and thrown society into a deep economic and humanitarian crisis.

«The authors have created a story that opens up and deals with the very real issues of food prejudice in today's society as well as the disturbing food culture that has been inflicted on our youth», said Jennifer Schell, food & wine writer / columnist.

Since then, I've realized that I don't need the added stress that comes along with rushing my son into being first or even 50 for something, and I definitely don't need the judgment our society inflicts on us as mothers if he's slower to do something than his peers.

«It is worth emphasizing that terrorists are continually changing tactics, building alliances, merging and generally getting more sophisticated, all in an attempt to build their capacity to inflict pain and misery on societies.

Dengue, in addition to inflicting pain and suffering, also extracts a significant social and economic toll on India,» said Alan Magill, MD, president of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, which publishes the journal.

But teachers can not undo the damage inflicted on youngsters by a society in which nearly half of all births are to unwed mothers and in which more than 20 % of children live below the poverty level (income below $ 23,000 for a family of 4).

The author's latest novel, about the abrasions on the soul inflicted by today's cell - phone society, is a brilliant paradigm of contemporary commercial crassness and sexual exhaustion, written in vibrant, metaphorically soaring language.

The harm that the breeding industry inflicts on dogs like Susie - Belle is a great disgrace in our society and since adopting her, I've had my eyes opened to the enormous scale of the tragedy that puppy farming represents.

«There is a huge environmental price that we are paying every single day that we turn our backs on our native wildlife in favor of protecting non-native predatory cats at all cost while ignoring the inconvenient truth about the mortality they inflict,» Michael Hutchins, CEO of The Wildlife Society, said in a statement released with the gray catbird study.

Through various mediums, the exhibiting artists in the show have used the female body and femininity as a way to subvert the dominance often inflicted on women in a patriarchal society.

Mona Hatoum focuses on ideas of conflict and confrontation, whether it is collective distress felt in war - torn societies or individual traumas inflicted on human bodies.

Humanity is increasingly endangered by the consequences of out - of - control patriarchal power as well as corporate and personal greed that has emerged from the «money - to - be-made» by inflicting misery on society.

It's a little bit not just complacent but dodging the issue of how do we create a better society rather than contemplate the damage that we are daily inflicting on the planet and on each other.

Friedman... would have viewed climate change as a negative externality associated with burning fossil fuels and would have believed that society was entitled to recover its losses from those who emit carbon to advance their economic interests... While there is a market for the products that are associated with greenhouse gas emissions — like electricity, fuel and steel — there is no market for the pollution inflicted by their manufacturers on the public.

That same «act of aggression», inflicted on someone who, we must assume, has enjoyed a «stable climate» (even though no such thing exists anywhere), but who existed in a society which could not extend such benefits to him, might cause him harm.

And it's downright deceitful to focus on this minucia while ignoring the bigger picture of a warming globe and increasingly stressful extreme weather events that will continue inflicting greater damage on a complex society that seems to be committed to ignoring the consequences of increasing our planet's atmosphere's insulating medium (GHGs) by a third.

«Mr. Berry explained clearly that industrialized agriculture has inflicted «a kind of cultural amnesia» on our society.

«While it threatens to inflict great damage on society, its potential benefit appears, overall, to be little.

But are the career motivations of benchers of Canadian law societies compatible with the unpopularity that inflicting such inconvenience on lawyers in private practice would bring them?

The ferocity of recent internet debate on this topic clouds the possibility that harm done by men to women should be understood as about all these things: the men who inflict it, the society in which it occurs and the lives of the women who live with the possibility of that threat.

(1) there is no proof that the law society can't deal with the problem «on its own,» it being a problem that LSUC itself inflicted on the residents of Ontario by decades of ignoring it (as have all law societies), and with no attempt to solve it or learn its cause, which might well be «a breach of trust by a public officer»; see s. 122 of the Criminal Code, and the definition of «public officer» provided by, R. v. Boulanger 2006 SCC 12.