Sentences with phrase «learned society for»

Hammersmith, London, UK About Blog The Nutrition Society is the largest learned society for nutrition in Europe.

Now we are getting one or two a month,» says Bernard Rous, director of publications at the Association for Computing Machinery in New York, the world's biggest learned society for scientific computing, which is in the early stages of implementing CrossCheck.

We assist Community Learning Centres and are supporting the definition of the future learning citizen and learning society for Viet Nam.

This policy brief examines how education for sustainable development policies may be advanced to support the implementation and achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, and ultimately help empower a learning society for sustainability.

Former Director, Can Learn Society for Persons with Learning Difficulties; 2005 to 2013 (Chairmans of the Baord 2010 to 2012)

Director, Can Learn Society for Persons with Learning Difficulties; 2005 to present (Chairman of the Board 2010 to 2012)

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As IBMers, we have learned, through era after era, that the path forward — for innovation, for prosperity, and for civil society — is the path of engagement and openness to the world.

According to the American Society for Training and Development, 90 percent of what employees learn during training isn't retained.

Sherry received the Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence in 2003, the Commerce Undergraduate Society Award for Outstanding Teaching & Learning, Haskayne School of Business in 2002 and 2000, and the Superior Service Award, Academic Staff, Haskayne School of Business in 2001.

Weaver received the Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence in 2003, the Commerce Undergraduate Society Award for Outstanding Teaching & Learning, Haskayne School of Business in 2002 and 2000, and the Superior Service Award, Academic Staff, Haskayne School of Business in 2001.

Wide ranged efforts to promote deeper learning in the STEM subjects will also help ensure that all students are ready for college or for the workforce when they graduate from high school and that they are prepared to take their place as productive, full participants in society.

And so I learned that we hadn't been paying payroll taxes for almost 3 years — a particularly painful thing given I believe in taxes as a means of giving back to society.

The Third Door is required reading for anyone in today's dynamic society who wants to learn success from the best.»

Religions incorporated and codified these basic social values and skills, and quickly learned to take credit for them — as if, without the religion, we would be doomed to not have them — although we see them in every human society, including hunter - gather tribes with no sense of gods as we understand them After many centuries of religious domination, enforced through pain of death, ostracization or other social sanctions, allowing religion to take credit, as well as failing to question other religious claims — has become a cultural habit.

And: «The separation of learning from virtue creates a society that esteems people for their success in manipulating science, law, money, images, words, and so forth.»

Fear mongering is a large part of religion unfortunately and until society learns to think for themselves and tell others that the only opinion that really matters is their own, we will continue to see the effects of that fear.

He thought the best talent of these learned societies should be applied to the relatively unstylish tasks of conceptual analysis, course design, and texts for secondary school and college undergraduate courses.3

We send criminals to jail instead to achieve social justice, and their sentences are deliberately measured in time behind bars: Offenders must be withdrawn from society for a period sufficient to allow them to realize the wrongness of their actions» and sufficient to protect society from them until they learn that lesson.

Countries and societies especially the US are carried away with everything under the umbrella of freedom and rights your governments should learn from third world countries true values and laws.certain lines should never be crossed and such movements need to be exterminated for the sake of youngsters that must learn true values and acts in order to be a well being and not end up in jail and on the long run in hell.

We should hope not for a colorblind society but instead for a world in which we can see each other fully, learn from each other, and do what we can to respond to each other with love.»

One of the most poignant experiences for young people growing up in our society is to espouse some cause such as civil rights or world peace — a cause they learned to love in their home or church — and then find that their parents are opposed to overt action on behalf of social justice.

As he put it, we have to learn what it means to be a «church for others» in a multifaith and culturally diverse context beyond the privileges that were accorded us within the Constantinian framework of colonial and apartheid society.

In the Abbasid period Muslim culture became society - oriented, with emphasis on such subjects as the sciences and engineering and architecture; but no contradiction was felt between these fields and religion, for all scholars combined religious knowledge with mastery of other fields of learning.

angelis If the kids won't encounter these words in school (where they are supposed to get basic learning / guidance on society & culture), I wonder how it'll be like for them someday if they hear / read these «banned» words elsewhere?

One example would be Aimee Dorr Leifer's essay entitled «Teaching with Television and Film,» (TTF) published in N. L. Gage's The Psychology of Teaching Methods, a widely read Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education.1 Even in this essay, however, Leifer reviews what has been learned from various psychological studies of television and film narratives, and the limited range of the studies limits the vision of narrative teaching that she puts forth.

But I came to see that it is far easier to create this society for yourself than to find it in institutions of higher learning.

She has formed her own theology as she has learned from a long tradition of Chinese Christian women who struggled «not only for their own liberation, but also for justice in church and society

Today's Christian finds it a bitter pill to swallow to be told that he must learn a lesson from the Communist and his secular hope for society, but long ago a prophet of Israel ventured to speak of the arch-enemy, Assyria, as an instrument in the hand of God, and another dared to name a foreign emperor as the very Messiah sent by YHWH.

ok i've decided — after soul searching and observing my and other's reactions to these religious blog news on CNN learning more about religion from this alone and about the mideast than from anywhere else in my USA educated life i need to be more tolerant of others having religious based governments THAT is what is confusing me — that religion are governments are not seperated that is hard for much of USA population to understand perhaps it is for me i think you would have to actually live in a society like the mideast to truly understand it i mean — actually be part of the society the religious part is truly offputting — since most in USA seperate church and state like — church is for faith and imagination and celebration and family and community involvement and state is for protection and education and health and infrastructure, etc., for all it is hard to be serious about religion — when the serious side of society is state it is hard to see religion being the serious side of enforcement — and the state enforcing the faith based side of society egad — doesn't god get lost in all that?

I might be ecelectic, but what makes me consistent is my belief is something that combines the belief of Scripture with that of Englightenment philosophy: nurturing life is goodness, simply, and helping others to see a model that thinking for ourselves can help heal the world of all past injustices - so that we all learn to WANT to be good... within reason and by our own choice...: you have a society like that, you'll have less injustices, less violence, less money - grubbing by people who hold themselves as representatives of «authority» -(which side are you on, by the way, if you see the world as so divided in such a bipolar reality...?)

The opportunity for learning about the church's responsibility in society can be structured into the dynamics of congregational life.

Maybe if they put down their forties and gats for a second and learn how to read and write at a third grade level society would not fear them.

learned peaceful people have been saying for many years that most muslims and what they are taught is aganist Proper Moral Values and a peaceful society, and what they have done is prove these people to be correct.

Jesus reveals to us the innocence of the victim, and in some respects modem society has learned this lesson well, for we are inclined to establish our own innocence by presenting ourselves as victims.

Yet I can think of no more conformist message in liberal societies than the idea that students should learn to think for themselves.

The Holy Father set in motion these past two years of contention and, one hopes, constructive dialogue in the Church because he knows that marriage and the family are in deep trouble throughout the world, just as he knows that marriage, rightly understood, and the family, rightly understood, are the basic building blocks of a humane society: the family is the first school of freedom, because it is there that we first learn that freedom is not mere willfulness; marriage, for its part, is the lifelong school in which we learn the full, challenging meaning of the law of self - giving built into the human heart.

If Christians accept that God has ordained our democracy, we then desire to possess a character of civic engagement that reflects this fact, driving us to learn about our society and to consider in prayer the best course for our nation.

For example, in dealing with our educational problems, we might very well ask about the effect of the rampant anti-intellectualism of our society on the education process and institutions of learning.

The liberal readiness to see the world (with Calvin) as «the theater of God's glory» has its own tortuous history, and modem evangelicals have something to learn from that history for example, how «success» in secular society often demands compromise with that society.

American missionary Jay Smith, who has worked among Muslims in the UK for over 30 years (head to Speaker's Corner in Hyde Park on a Sunday afternoon and you'll probably find him) says many of the Muslim societies in UK universities send their keenest off to spend a week, usually in a local mosque, learning how to engage in polemic with Christians.

The basis for our society and government, the Greeks and Romans, had no problem with any persons bedroom behaviors or preferences perhaps we still have much to learn before we claim to be the «light» of the first - world nations.

Dear friends, much still needs to be learned about the form in which the Church takes her place in the world, helping society to understand that the proclamation of truth is a service which she offers to society, and opening new horizons for the future, horizons of grandeur and dignity....

It is to ask that economists learn ecology and that ecologists learn economics; that science meets religion and both learn from each other; that our innermost human problems are seen, not simply as some personal aberration, but as intimately linked with the sort of society we create for ourselves.

I am a passionate Darwinian in explaining why we exist,... but if we lived our lives in a Darwinian way, that would be a very unpleasant society in which to live... One of the reasons for learning about Darwinian evolution is as an object lesson in how not to set up our values and our social lives».

What's coming is an administration in which the U.S. Agency for International Development, which dispenses billions of dollars of foreign aid, will continue to condition that aid on recipient nations» bowing to the LGBT agenda — thus making enemies for America in traditional societies and cultures that will learn to equate «democracy» with libertine bullying.

What makes abortion «awful» is the shame and guilt caused by two heavily ideological notions that all women in the society still learn to some degree: (1) the association of fetus with «baby» and the aborting woman with «bad mother,» and (2) the assumption that sex for pleasure is «wrong» (for women) and that women who indulge in it have to pay a price.

When I think, for example, how my own children, born in Britain and bred in the U.S., have their routine dictated by school and by violin, piano and ballet lessons, and how they move fluently from babysitting for hire to videos for rent and then to microwave popcorn and hotpockets, I realize how our society has learned to dispense with child - inspired patterns of living.

The programs they offer, from anger management to addiction recovery, provide important opportunities for the inmates to learn skills that will help them reenter society.

This is at least partially because people have spent their whole lives learning about how the society in which they live functions — including the church — and how to find a place for themselves in it.

Most important, a time limit poses the crucial question for experiencing the people dynamic in our kind of society: «Can I learn to relate quickly and in mutually - satisfying depth with these fellow human beings?»