Sentences with phrase «little value our society»

Our failure to provide this care shows «how little value our society puts on saving the lives of those who are in such despair as to want to end them.»

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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.

The fact that there is relatively so little concern for manners in modern American society is not a consequence of democratic commitment but a sign of uncertainty and indecision concerning our values.

This is the natural consequence of the logic of exchange as the foundation of worth and value: if worth is based upon what one has or knows or achieves, those who have little by society's standards become worthless and expendable, objects of scorn, neglect and abuse.

What precious little is left of Christian belief and values in our society is rapidly being eroded.

In Calvin there is the zeal to improve society; but there is a much too complacent view of the righteousness of Christians, and too little awareness of the elements of value and relative progress in the life of purely secular society.

In a society that flaunts sex (its pleasures more than its serious hazards, problems and spiritual values) in all the media, makes it difficult for the young to avoid unwanted pregnancy, and does little to help them with the most difficult of all problems of self - discipline, we tell young persons that they are murderers if they resort to abortion.

Such is the first, superficial impression: our schools, like our churches and our ministers, have no clear conception of what they are doing but are carrying on traditional actions, making separate responses to various pressures exerted by churches and society, contriving uneasy compromises among many values, engaging in little quarrels symptomatic of undefined issues, trying to improve their work by adjusting minor parts of the academic machine or by changing the specifications of the raw material to be treated.

Speaking at the 7th European edition of the Sustainable Foods Summit in Amsterdam (June 4 - 5), organized by Organic Monitor, de Dios said consumers think companies are getting all the benefits, and little value goes back to people and society.

We live in a society that pays infinite lip service to the value of children, but invests little time, energy, and resources into developing strong and healthy kids.

Get used to hearing it, because it seems that society values looks over anything else when it comes to judging our little girls.

«A Prescription for the NHS: Recognising the value of clinical pharmacology and therapeutics» was developed by the British Pharmacological Society because of increasing demand on the NHS and well - documented evidence that CPT is able to meet these challenges, despite being a little - known specialty outside the medical establishment.

Even if I thought that same - sex marriage is «necessary to a democratic society» (and I'm not sure even I can stretch quite that far), I would have little hope that I could convince a court that that necessity trumped the equally important value of preserving freedom of religion.

moment our society values so little, is there for the taking in small incremental steps

Not good art because they seldom have anything to say about the society that spawned them (and because the directors of these messes are generally assclowns) and not good travelogues, either, what these little straight - to - home penny dreadfuls tend to be are tired variations on the same quasi-Christian mythos, tarted up with surprisingly good production values and the kind of cheap thrills that kept EC Comics, then Hammer Films, then Italian giallos, in business.

While in Korea studying the country's education system on my Eisenhower Fellowship, I observed how little Korean society values educational software.

Ferguson added: «This research may help society focus on issues that really matter and avoid devoting unnecessary resources to the pursuit of moral agendas with little practical value.»

They're not the typical fare that you might expect at other conferences - slides full of graphs, statistics, sales numbers and market value - but instead they're about the industry, the community, this little slice of society that everyone adores.

Little can be accomplished without it, given that society values women's bodies most as decorative objects and least as active agents of consciousness.

According to the Ontario Society of Professional Engineers, wind power has «relatively little economic value» and because of its intermittent nature it needs back - up from natural gas, which means more fossil fuel use for power, not less.

The idea is to examine why so many women and girls have shared the fate of Tina — cast away by a society that puts little value on their lives.

We unfortunately live in a society where little or no economic value is ascribed to hours spent on mothering or family life or personal aspirations — we are required to pay for those hours rather than get paid for them.

Information that is accessible to a single person only has little value for the society.

I have little doubt that many Australians were deeply disturbed by the histories of abuse and the damage done to so many lives, so counterproductive to our collective interests and to the view of our society as staunch in its foundation on the values of fairness, decency and respect for the human rights of all its members.

And yet — perhaps due to the high value our society places on the capacity to delay gratification and inhibit public displays of destructive emotions and impulses — problems linked with OC have received little attention or been misunderstood.