Sentences with phrase «life as a society»

Almost all Americans agree about the background practicalities we need to live as a society.

Learning how software is developed and how the ecosystem of computer technology really works helps us understand the new models through which we'll be working and living as a society.

I refuse to bow down to any woman or man or corporation in the morning or live as society tells me to as the real world is different from what they feed you in movies and songs.

Not exact matches

As an issue, environmentalism has pervaded our society on many levels, from our personal lives to the business sector.

Unless you're living in a society with arranged marriages, however, this is much more about your children's choices than anything you can do for them as a parent.

You are committed to making a difference not only in your own life, but in the lives of your associates and society as a whole.

The study looked at living standards, environmental sustainability and protection of future generations from further indebtedness as a way to determine if the economies were including every individual equally in their society.

The Index's authors define social progress as «the capacity of a society to meet the basic human needs of its citizens, establish the building blocks that allow citizens and communities to enhance and sustain the quality of their lives, and create the conditions for all individuals to reach their full potential.»

From a value perspective, if the young adults with leukemia who respond to therapy end up with more years of life — an outcome that is quite likely — then Kymriah will be cost - effective for society as well.

These technologies are driving profound changes impacting industries and business models as well as life, society, and the environment,» said Tim Zanni, Global and U.S. Technology Sector Leader at KPMG in the report.

Successful business leaders deeply believe in their mission in life: They view themselves and the services they offer as necessary and helpful to the whole of society.

Between finding a place to live, earning enough money to support themselves, and adjusting to a changing society, life as an ex-inmate can be overwhelming and stressful.

We are ordinary people, living our lives, and trying as civil - rights activist Dorothy Cotton said, to «fix what ain't right» in our society.»

He feared that he wouldn't live up to their intellectual height and yet soon found that he truly was a peer and his life's course had been permanently altered as society now accepted him as an elite member of the professional class.

Originalism's critics say judges should treat the Constitution as a living, breathing document that's able to encompass society's evolving values.

«As a society gets richer, its citizens» living standards should rise,» Lane Kenworthy, a sociology and political science professor at Harvard University, contends in a blog post.

It's about your life — your contributions to society, friends and being there for as long as you can for your loved ones.

According to Turkle, the result is a society that craves its technology at all times, regardless of whether it interferes with social lives or goals, such as getting a restful night's sleep.

«As technology jumps forward and people are changing preferences we have to think long and hard about what the public sector offers to people when it comes to money and how do we facilitate people living in society getting access to money in the forms and shapes they prefer them to be,» Skingsley said.

It leads to a more collaborative and less hierarchical society, since a CEO in civilian life may end up taking orders from a taxi driver in the service, as well as future business partnerships.

Autism Speaks, American Cancer Society and The Live Like Bella Foundation, as well as many schools and local charities, sell Are You Kidding socks, keeping 35 percent of the gross.

The study defined sustainability as the «commitment by organizations to balance financial performance with contributions to the quality of life of their employees, the society at large and environmentally sensitive initiatives.»

Or as Paul Shapiro, vice president of policy at the Humane Society of the United States and author of the forthcoming book Clean Meat, sums up: «It's possible that folks in this field might end up doing more good for animals than what I've done with my life.»

In this article, the style of social interaction known as hygge is analyzed as being related to cultural values that idealize the notion of «inner space» and to other egalitarian norms of everyday life in Scandinavian societies.

In today's society (the age of information overload), it's all too easy to rely on becoming a consumer of consensus datapoints as opposed to embracing a Life of Doing.

We need as a society to ensure people can overcome substance abuse, but at the same time, we must protect the quality of life and safety of our neighborhoods.

«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.»

Capitalism requires failure since that is what drives a better life for society as a whole.

Knowledge of economic history is critical for good policy making because, as valuable as it is to understand models and theories, in real life policies have to be made in societies that are complex and have political and sociological considerations to take into account.

Anyone who benefits from the services that government provides, meaning everyone living in the society, is obligated ot help the government provide those services as needed.

I tell you the truth, the purest souls of this life will not do good to avoid the punishment of Hell or gain the reward of Heaven, but for the sake of good as logic in society.

After all, we live in a society of spin doctors and slanted bias where a taking person at their word is not failsafe, where even longstanding institutions lose our trust as we uncover their darker activities.

This focus makes The Good Society a good deal less lively than Habits of the Heart precisely because institutions are not so readily narrated as are individual lives.

The fact is that the issues you speak of are not because the people are members of the LDS church but in fact this is what happens in any society of humans living as close together as we do in large cities.

By framing abortion as a nearly unqualified constitutional right, without fully considering the claims of fetal life, we have not taken a stride to a more virtuous society.

When we as a society wake up and finally realize that we've been living in never never land, THEN we may start to actually make this a better world to live in.

Leaders of the Christian community saw this as an extremely grave threat to the faith; and, for this reason they fled the comforts of society and chose to live in solitude and want in remote parts of the world (such as Syria and northern Africa).

Yet shortly after the council, the high culture of the West took a sharp turn toward an aggressive and hegemonic secularism that now manifests itself as Christophobia: a deep hostility to gospel truth (especially moral truth) and a determination to drive Christians who affirm those truths out of public life and into a privatized existence on the margins of society.

In later life he served for three years as acting secretary to the British embassy in Paris, where he much enjoyed literary society and was himself greatly appreciated, earning the sobriquet «le bon David.»

If 90 % of the country believed in the tooth fairy and thought we should all live by laws originating in the tooth fairy and run our country according to the tooth fairy's wisdom, you'd probably be on blogs dealing with the tooth fairy and arguing against the use of her existence as a basis for running society.

The balance is in determining how many life sustaining delusions it is fair to break for the better good of society as a whole.

So how best can we live together as a society?

They fought on the Maidan and now fight in the east for a dignified life and for the integrity of their country as a society united by a shared vision of the common good, not by blood or language or religion.

I believe in government; that men can not live together without rules but that they should be kept at the bare minimum of safety; that there is no form of government ordained from God as being better than any other; that the anarchic elements in society are so strong that it is a whole - time task to keep the peace.

In todays corporate society it is all about selling you something, but we should look at it as a time to be together with friends or family and celebrate our short little lives.

... Only until what we are told and instructed on how to live by others - parents - society... As if none of us have a consciousness thought on our own conclusion of life... Something to think about...

We can live without your «holy books» but we can not exist as the USA without our Constltution and the protections and framework it gives us as a society.

Chudacoff describes how the demands of single life promoted neighborhood services such as laundries, pawn shops, and drug stores with tobacco and soda services, but he dismisses society's apprehension that such neighborhood facilities could be sites of vice and dissipation, implying that they were simply products of the service economy single men required.

I think being raised in a society that teaches that American capitalism as an ideal way to live may have trouble understanding how we don't earn God's love.

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.