Sentences with phrase «just as society»

Just as our society is no longer willing to abide by racial discrimination and gender inequality, we're also becoming far less tolerant of the mass killing of our best friends and family members.

Just as society frowns upon the practice of employing one solitary approach to medicine, investing money, or building a business, so it should with education.

Just as society stigmatizes a parent who fails to fasten a child's seat belt properly, for example, Hooke said, it could stigmatize «letting your kids go to sleep in a flood plain» without prudent protections.

Just as society is divided by class struggle, so the church and its theology are divided between an ideological use of religion to sanctify the ruling class and a prophetic tradition that denounces this misuse of religion.

The «new economy» spurred on by the new technology is still in a period of transition just as our society is groaning though a movement away from modernity and modern rationality into postmodernity and a postmodern rationality signified by its offspring technology that will continue to give it shape.

Just as society is founded on a prior community, so too the procedural questions of a secular state are secondary issues founded on a more transcendent culture.

«Just as society itself produces man as man, so is society produced by him.

That is, just as a Society is metaphysically a derivative type of existent inasmuch as its constituent actual entities are ontologically ultimate, so in an equivalent fashion, a civilized society is metaphysically secondary inasmuch as human beings are more real, ontologically speaking, than is the larger civilized society.

Just as no society exists in isolation from its environment, so also the Church always finds itself temporally and spatially in the wider context of the world and essentially inter-related with it.

In this sense men are a product of their societies, just as societies are a product of the beliefs and practices of their citizenry.

Just as societies had believed that motherhood elevated women to the status of goddess, people began to believe that fatherhood elevated men to the status of gods.

Not exact matches

Franklin, then just shy of her 32nd birthday and working as a research chemist at King's College in London, had to rush off to a meeting at the Royal Society and so didn't wait around for the full image to come into focus.

The Alaskans defend their prerogatives not simply as remediation for past mistreatment but as a tool to provide for an entire society, not just a single entrepreneur.

Government isn't working as well as it once did so «it does fall, I think, not just on business but on all other areas of society to step up,» he tells New York Times columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin.

But its effect on Ukrainian society may be just as significant.

Rather than criticizing leaders who are stepping up to help solve the most pressing problems of global society — devoting not just their money but their time as well — we should be venerating them.

Thurman says that as people in business, «we should take heart because, although a lot of people who consider themselves progressive and spiritual feel like business is something very lowly, that it's about just making money, the vocation of business can be extraordinarily honorable and has the ability to make a long - lasting positive impact on our society and world at large.»

Just as the social fabric of society is made up of many communities, each community is made of many groups of personal connections.

It's the oft - forgotten lesson that innovation depends not just on creative people and companies but also on permission and encouragement from society as a whole.

That probably seemed like a reasonable prediction, considering computers» limited uses at the time, just as we imagine flying cars to be a great innovation for our automobile - dependent and rush hour - suffering suburban society.

However, as he argued in his most recent book, The End of Energy Obesity, modern societies have at their disposal the technological tools, and possibly the social pressure, to consume less energy in absolute terms, not just per capita or per dollar of GDP.

New research out of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute presented at a meeting of the Acoustical Society of America suggests nature sounds might not just mask office chatter, but actually increase your team's productivity as well.

«One of the things we're trying to do is view the China threat as not just a whole - of - government threat, but a whole - of - society threat on their end,» Wray said.

As professors, we teach at business schools that encourage our students to transform not just the organizations they lead but also the broader societies in which they operate.

The Royal Society study also suggested the conditions of a spill — where and when it occurred, and the weather conditions — may be just an important, in terms of a spill response, as the type of crude spilled.

Providers of physical and spiritual care are just as indispensable to our society as providers of income.

For example, there are environmentally focused funds, funds that concentrate their efforts on finding companies who have sound corporate governance policies, others that look at the impact a business has on society as a whole, and this is just to name a few.

A portion of the authors net profits from the book launch was donated to Green America, a not - for - profit organization founded in 1982 (as Co-op America) with a mission to harness economic powerthe strength of consumers, investors, businesses, and the marketplaceto create a socially just and environmentally sustainable society.

I'm not saying it should be today — just that it's a reminder that clearly we as a society have run up against some of these wealth distribution outcomes before.

«He's an egomaniac devoid of all moral sense» ---- said the society woman dressing for a charity bazaar, who dared not contemplate what means of self - expression would be left to her and how she would impose her ostentation on her friends, if charity were not the all - excusing virtue ---- said the social worker who had found no aim in life and could generate no aim from within the sterility of his soul, but basked in virtue and held an unearned respect from all, by grace of his fingers on the wounds of others ---- said the novelist who had nothing to say if the subject of service and sacrifice were to be taken away from him, who sobbed in the hearing of attentive thousands that he loved them and loved them and would they please love him a little in return ---- said the lady columnist who had just bought a country mansion because she wrote so tenderly about the little people ---- said all the little people who wanted to hear of love, the great love, the unfastidious love, the love that embraced everything, forgave everything, and permitted everything ---- said every second - hander who could not exist except as a leech on the souls of others.»

I would assume it's because Chinese culture has strong social norms as the basis of the society, and people just collectively obey them.

But again, God is just, so questions as to «What about the baby that is born to a society that has never heard of Jesus?»

Just as you are in a long line of doubters the same can be said for the part of society that has Faith.

It's just a shame that we haven't come to the point in society where it should be required that those who make decisions must meet certain, more highly regulated, fool proof, corruption resistant criteria proving their intellect and open mindedness as well as weeding out individuals with preconceived notions, racist, sexist or religiously or other discriminative views (even if they themselves don't believe they are discriminative in their beliefs... this happens more than many people realize) and overall ignorant minds.

That's what Kaine did when he described our society as more just after Roe than before.

As a country and just as humans we need to respect one another regardless of the belief system, society would be a much better placAs a country and just as humans we need to respect one another regardless of the belief system, society would be a much better placas humans we need to respect one another regardless of the belief system, society would be a much better place.

Someday... hopefully with American Muslims just becoming another one of our diverse group of peoples and religions that make up «the great mixing pot» of what we know as American society.

In sum, although a few apologists such as Stephanie Coontz still insist otherwise, just about everyone else in possession of the evidence acknowledges that the sexual revolution has weakened family ties, and that family ties (the presence of a biologically related mother and father in the home) have turned out to be important indicators of child well - being — and more, that the broken home is not just a problem for individuals but also for society.

It is callous nonsense to insist that she does, just as it is mindlessness to insist that she can do nothing for herself and her children until «society» reforms.

and the disabled, poor, non white, ill educated... I just blogged about that today as I was at a conference where we were talking about how to reach unreached groups or sections of society, but we don't let anyone else in to play.

The vision of a grim and gray future is just as much a fantasy as that of a perfectly ordered society, but somehow it is the grim one that now captures our attention.

If you doubt that, just look at the startling speed with which ho.mose.xuality has gone from a crime worthy of committal into a psychiatric ward to being accepted, and now so - called ho.mose.xual marriage is now being legalized, and the outcasts of society are now the ones who still disaprove of this as being sinful.

Concepts such as «state» and «society» and «government» have no existence save as physically exemplified in the acts of self - responsible individuals, just as blame, guilt, responsibility etc. are matters taking place inside human beings singly and nowhere else.

Her's is an interesting perspective and while I'm not sure if I agree with it or not I have to admit that the way our society / legal system currently treats gay people doesn't strike me as just.

And to live in society and even just have friends one must prove he or she is a «moral» person, this morality is just a morality that lacks gods, such as a belief that what is good is what brings about the most happiness or freedom or whatever your ethical system supports.

Just the same as any thing in society.

I guess I just feel like many American Christians are succumbing to the material, consumer - driven ways of the society around us and are forgetting the beauty of simplicity — to use the money that we might have spent on the latest CD or DVD from a Christian artist and give it to the food bank, use it to buy supper for the person you see out on the street or as a monthly payment to sponsor a missionary.

So I'm just going to continue living as I do, as a useful, decent member of society.

Yet what is that raison d'être for a society precisely as a society and not just an assembly of similarly constituted actual occasions?

They say they are communist, yet their society is just as stratified with an internal caste system as it was before Mao came along.