Sentences with phrase «limited human terms»

If we think at all about life's underlying reality, we have to think in limited human terms.

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As I argue in a forthcoming paper in the Georgetown Law Journal, there are cases in which we should think not in terms of the rights the corporation should enjoy, but in terms of the appropriate limits to be placed on the corporation, understood as a tool for achieving human objectives.

I believe that human actors who fail to give pride of place to moral boundaries that must never be crossed, such as the direct killing of the innocent, and who instead are ready to see their obligations in terms of moving beyond them in favor of «good results,» will be harder put «to take seriously the role that divine authority plays in morality»; for they will to that extent lose a sense of the moral limits that remind us of our finitude and anticipate consideration of a law of our being that is not one of our making.

There are many un-asked for human conditions which limit our lives and our short term happiness.

Third, the context has shifted: in contrast to the traditional Catholic conception of the political community, and politics within such communities, as the means of achieving real if limited justice for human life in the world, and a corresponding theory of international relations, recent Catholic thought on war often treats the state as a locus of injustice and the goals of particular states as inherently at odds with the achievement of common human goals, while an internationalism defined in terms of the United Nations system is proposed as the best means to those common goals.

Although we have limited ourselves in this chapter to the discussion of dialogue within the Church, we must not forget that Vatican II also used the term «dialogue» to refer to communication with separated Christians, 10 with non-Christians and atheists, 11 with the entire human family, and with the world.12 This aspect deserves our attention even more than the use of the dialogue model for exchanges within the Church.

In broad terms it may be affirmed that the Human, having become aware of its uncompleted state, can not lend itself without reluctance, still less give itself with passion, to any course that may attract it unless there be some kind of discernible and definitive consummation to be looked for at the end, if only as a limit.

This is happening under conditions when the human race is approaching the biological limits of the earth, in terms of its capacity both to support the rapidly increasing numbers of people with food and materials and to absorb the polluting poisons we cast off into the land, the sea, and the air.

Allow me to put this in sociological terms (sociology provides a limited but useful «grammar» here): Every human society has its own corpus of officially accredited wisdom, the beliefs and values that most people take for granted as self - evidently true.

10 Certain recent discussions of environmental ethics, dealing with «respect for nature» (where nature is not necessarily limited to the realm of living things), reflect some affinities with Hall's ideas on «deference» and seem to pose a challenge to my suggestion that the pursuit of power over nature should be criticized primarily in terms of its negative effects on human values and experiences.

We may accept the writings of Augustine, Aquinas, Luther and Barth — and indeed, the Bible itself — as the expressions of limited human beings attempting to articulate for their own time and in their own terms their experience of ultimate truth.

[54] He was the mover of an amendment to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 in the 2005 — 2010 parliament, which sought to reduce the term - limit for abortions from 24 weeks to 16 weeks.

This might help answer a question that has long intrigued scientists: How can the human brain store a virtually unlimited number of long - term memories, yet remain severely limited in the information we can hold in our conscious minds at once?

Without that information or long - term use studies, consumers have limited information about the potential dangers for human health and the environment, he said.

This premature enthusiasm has more recently given way to caution as the technology has gradually been transferred to humans, with only limited short - term success.3 Finally, since HIV usually enters the body through mucosal surfaces — the vagina and rectum — augmenting an immune response at these portals of entry by using what scientists call mucosal AIDS vaccines might be an additional way to improve protection against infection.

Because at the end of the day, the majority of us humans don't have the flexibility — in terms of both our time availability and physical limits — to pop into a yoga pose in the middle of the day when things get rough.

«In terms of human research, studies suggesting a strong link between cruciferous vegetables and thyroid disease are limited... The vast majority of the research supports the consumption of cruciferous vegetables to prevent thyroid cancer.»

We humans have a limited short - term memory capacity.

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Because market share, not human population, is the real limiting factor for adoptions, shelters can control their own destiny in terms of adoptions.

Cage said that he wanted to push «Detroit Become Human» to its limits in terms of graphics and features.

It helps to consider Kant's term «thing - in - itself» as shorthand for the strict limits to the ongoing theater of everyday life humans produce, direct, and cast, so that they themselves can then serve as its main players.

Surely, fairly, respectfully, steadily and carefully we can and we will find reasonable and sensible ways to limit unbridled human overgrowth activities and to enable measured implementation of sustainable development activities that serve the long - term best interests of humanity, life as we know it, and Earth.

The aim is to get people doing the small things — planting trees, installing solar water heaters, fixing drafty buildings, calling elected officials — that can provide the foundation for a long - term shift in habits and plans related to limiting human - driven global warming.

Gore's call to «make peace with the planet» requires an integrated awareness and action against both global warming and global warring, simultaneously — Gore describes the problem as huge, but in limiting it to civilian activities, not including military madness and mayhem, it is not huge enough — if a patient has both diabetes and severe trauma, both conditions must be treated now — militization trumps civilization in the headlines of today and tomorrow — if the truth is that both global warming everywhere and global warring anywhere are linked in the human biosphere, and if that truth is inconvenient to Mr Gore and the civilian scope of his campaign against global warming, lethal consequences for both humans and other species will continue — in cinematic terms, the great «An Inconvenient Truth» must be blended and coordinated with the great «Why We Fight»

Framing the impacts of human - caused climate change in terms of «blame» is limiting.

«We have very limited capacity in terms of human resources and institutions and very limited finance and an almost lack of technology for adaptation and mitigation,» he says.

Weighing the social and economic benefits of fossil fuel consumption and other human activities against some of the environmental consequences, he asked «[i] s it now necessary, for the long - term future of our planet, to limit such development?»

1) We can not and never will know what caused the flooding in Pakistan; and 2) In light of 1) get on with helping the people of Pakistan in order to both limit short term human los and damage, but also long term human loss and damage from the Taliban.

«Environmentalists» who see no limits to human numbers have no business using that term.

Seeing, however, that the prior involvement procedure seems non-negotiable, she offers viable limits to its use in order to avoid such difficulties in the protection of human rights and to eventually come to terms with an «exhausting» mechanism which might «lead to undesired results» (p. 44).

Re: demand 12: My understanding is that corporations have the same rights as humans where laws use certain terms like «everyone» as opposed to other terms that limit personhood to humans like «every individual».

Not many of the top carriers are ready to move to a non-underwritten term life plan because there are hidden risks for the issuer based on the limited human element for reviewing approvals.

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The term «medical expense» or «medical records» shall include but not be limited to medical, dental, orthodontic, optical, surgical, hospital, major medical, psychological, psychiatric, outpatient, doctor, therapy, counseling, prosthetic, and / or all other expenses / records including preventative health care expenses / records related to the treatment of the human body and mind.