Sentences with phrase «influence on our society»

In short, they have to demonstrate they will be the positive influence on our society that they espouse to be,» said Galvin.

It does not have to be this way and through our mission we want to change the statistic of 99 % of businesses failing in the first 5 years to 99 % being successful and having an amazing positive influence on society and our communities.

Given their strong influence on society, these great minds do a great deal to also take care of their bodies.

I don't see that the gay influence on society is as powerful or as harmful as the straight influence.

Finally, Sullivan's thesis hinges on the claim that legalizing homosexual marriage would have a conservatizing influence on society as a whole.

Think of how you would view witchcraft as a retarding influence on society and how you would long for the day when the shining light of science and reason would illuminate your village and the majority of the population would abandon their belief in witches, pixies and elves.

Author John Charles Cooper, dean of academic affairs at Winebrenner Theological Seminary, sums up the situation: «People do feel that religion is losing its influence on society, and they may be right — but the majority of people do not wish this to be true, and so it is an important time to be publishing good religious books.

2,000 people were asked via a YouGov study to rank the three tomes they think have had the most influence on society from an original list of 30.

Without glamorizing the motives of youth, it is important to recognize that many young people have awakened to pro-people values and life - styles which can have a salutary influence on our society.

Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism, Shintoism and numerous smaller religions had their beginning on Asian soil and still exert a powerful influence on society To be Christian artist in such a setting means coming to terms with the art forms and images of other religions.

The latter two groups felt it was necessary to expound true doctrine and to be of influence on society through the State support of the Church.

This is necessary to counteract the phenomenon's negative influence on society, the authors said.

His theme is the range, spread and influence on our society of evolving worldwide information networks, and the artificial intelligence techniques that are being developed to manage and produce such systems.

Overall, 77 % say that science and technology have a positive influence on society.

My interests are many, perhaps too many, and include keeping fit; the history of computing and astronomy and their influences on society; reading and writing, mainly non-fiction; extensive travel; rock and classical music; and my two sons, who are both splendid young men.

This could give us some optimism that any epigenetic influence on our society's obesity and diabetes problem might also be limited and / or reversible.»

The 2016 Lasker ~ Koshland Award for Special Achievement in Medical Science honors a talented biochemist and visionary leader who has crusaded to enhance scientific education and bolster its influence on societies across the globe.

As a director, Russell proved he could create visually stylized action sequences, while still making a thoughtful film criticizing the agenda of the American government and the media's influence on a society's perception of events.

The panel aims to explore topics such as empathy's place in the sea - change in the production and distribution of films, how increasing the number of women at all levels of the film industry will effect this, and its impact on film criticism and influence on society as a whole.

This lesson is focussed on Humanism; the objectives of the lesson are: - To describe what Humanism is - To explain the main beliefs Humanists hold - To analyse and debate Humanist beliefs Implicit objectives include: - To identify common humanist objections to religious influences on society, law and politics - To draw out (through debate) the motivations Humanists have for rejecting religion and religious beliefs.

Looking at William Wilberforce and his influence on society - how Christianity influenced his actions.

But it doesn't matter what our intellectual or emotional stance is on the devices themselves, we can't ignore their influence on society.

The Bohemian artists of Murger's day who were lucky enough to gain a patron had tremendous influence on society.

Not without humor, DOUBLE TAKE invites the viewer to question today's hegemony of the image, the truth and lies of reality and its influence on our society, politics and culture.

And also like Haraway, she playfully and critically owns concerns around science and technology, along with the ethical issues that may arise out of their continuously shifting, influences on society; and, thus not owned by or weighed down by them.

The next chapters explore built space and architecture's influence on society.

The sculpture Autonomy Cube, an open Wi - Fi hotspot, illustrated together with «Eagle - Eye Photo Contest: Landscapes of Surveillance,» a photo competition created for the exhibition and open to the public, Paglen's new artistic approach: he would like his work to trigger actions that have an influence on society and that reach out beyond the institutional spaces of art into the real world.

Just as the Taliban arrested people in possession of music, televisions and radios for their corrupting influence on society's relationship with God, Juniper imagines engineered solutions to climate change to be corrupting our relationship with nature.

This is a relatively new phenomenon Business has incredible influence on our society — through giving campaign contributions, lobbying for legislation, ownership of the media, employing citizens as workers and selling to them as consumers.

Using this method, the speed of aging and it's influence on society is reduced by 80 %.

Richard Ting (@flytip), SVP & Executive Creative Director at R / GA writes at the Atlantic on mobile's cultural influence on our society.

Naked people have little or no influence on society.»

Because of Freud's pervasive influence on society's mainstream beliefs about the parent - child relationship, people often expect that any caregiver who regularly meets a baby's needs will become an attachment partner for that baby.

Not exact matches

A joint statement from the National Academy of Sciences and Royal Society in Britain said «human - induced increases in CO2 (carbon dioxide) concentrations have been the dominant influence on the long - term global surface temperature increase.»

«There was a clear pattern in the findings - the more literary fiction authors that participants recognized, the better they tended to perform on the emotional recognition test, and this association held even after statistically accounting for the influence of other factors that might be connected to both emotion skills and reading more literary fiction, such as past educational attainment, gender and age,» reports the British Psychological Society Research Digest blog, summing up the results.

Companies must consider how their core business practices influence society, and they also can't ignore the rise of ESG activism in their own boardrooms — in 2017, the nonprofit organization Ceres tracked more than 200 shareholder resolutions on ESG topics, up from 130 in 2013.

There's no doubt that teachers are an important part of society and have tremendous influence on our children.

Toby applies the prayer to the hopeful decline and eventual elimination of religion because of its obvious harmfulness to society: we can't change the harm religion has done in the past, so we must serenely move on; we must courageously overcome the dangerous influence of religion in our society; and we must know the difference between harm done and the harm that can be prevented from religion.

Yet even as conservatives in the last two decades have made notable strides in access to influential cultural institutions in entertainment and the media, the influence of civil society and nonpolitical leaders on public opinion is still underappreciated.

This should be done not, indeed, because these might be worthier of eternal life or even easier to influence, but because the salvation of all will depend on the acceptance of Christianity by the leaders of society.

The technological, social and power characteristics of the dominant media of communication in a society will have a strong influence on how the society organises, interacts & thinks about itself.

Jesus said let them come to me.Those children killed in these OT scriptures are saved from growing up in an evil society (God said they were were evil and a bad influence on His children) The book of Revelation is about God pleading with mankind to find Him.

Information, a vital element in the development of a society, is noticeably influenced on a daily basis by those who have the power to provide it.

The fact is, the Bible has been proven to be a historically - inaccurate account of «history» that is laced with fairy tales — an interesting novel but nothing credible enough to base one's life on much less push to influence society as a whole.

Whatever disciplining behavior may mean these days on the part of churches, there are no possible powers except exclusion from the particular group (which, in a heterogeneous society, is not being made a pariah) and possibly influencing public opinion.

We hold that the test for actuality is the ability to act, to exert power and influence on the coming to be of individual quantum events and larger societies of occasions.

Indeed, to ignore liberal theology's resources is to run the double risk of relinquishing any chance for Christian influence on the future direction of our society and of surrendering the uniqueness of the Christian witness itself.

Third, the Christian church has little access to or influence on the major policy making institutions of our society, in spite of the noisy presence of reactionary church voices and political campaign allusions to religious values.

They see the pervasive influence of hedonistic Western culture on their traditional societies.

Anglican and Nonconformist theologians, philosophers, and writers (Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin, Frederic Dennis Maurice, Charles Kingsley), especially the Christian Socialists, were interested in the normative aspect of the problems of religion and society.15 In the younger generation several of these trends are blended: William Temple, John MacMurray, Maurice B. Rickett, Vigo A. Demant.16 Max Weber's influence in England never reached as deep as in France or the United States; it remained limited to his theories on economics.