Sentences with phrase «make change in society»

I'm here to fight that... A lot of our students want to make change in society.

We are entrusted with caring for humanity, and that includes making changes in our society that can ultimately empower true equality and diversity.

We can only make changes in society when those at the top in business and politics lead by example.»

«Creating work about power made me realize that a normal person like me is capable of making a change in society.

Scientists do not get to decide what to do about it, nor how to go about making any changes in society as a result of the Impacts of a changing climate.

Not exact matches

Stiglitz said that while CEOs aren't going to solve inequality on their own, the reason they exist in society is to grow the economy, and more are realizing they need to make changes.

Since ending his tenure as mayor in 2013, Bloomberg has been an environmental activist focused on climate change, and this has made him consider business strategy in its relation to society.

«There's a massive opportunity here to change the global financial structure, to change a lot of ways that society interacts with technology,» says Elizabeth Stark, the CEO of Lightning Labs, which, in March, released an early version of much anticipated software that is designed to make Bitcoin transactions faster, cheaper, and more private.

You are seeing interesting stories in society about people contributing, innovating and making changes that affect peoples» lives around the globe.»

China and Singapore, by the way, are nondemocratic capitalistic societies, and so it's actually easier for those types of governments to make wholesale change than it is in our case, so they can make the types of systems that we've been talking about, or they could decide to mirror Singapore or whatever, and everybody just kind of has to take it.

Society develops over time and changes in response to that development make sense.

Obviously, legislators who study government programs observe society behaviors and see that changes have to be made in many government programs.

That most theologians, even those whose social location in the white North American middle class, verbally support efforts to achieve the changes needed in our society to make some minimum of justice possible elsewhere, such as in Latin America, is already a testimony to the power of the gospel.

Were the church able to provide a vision of a unified planetary society organized both politically and technologically in such a way as to make available the full resources of the earth for the benefit of all the world's people, would it be effective in generating social change?

This is the great challenge to those of us who remain members of the affluent society, those of us who are unable or unwilling to make the sacrifices or the great change in lifestyle of the radical response: are we able to be serious about our faith?

(3) Third, if our society is to change for the better, this will come from a change in the people who influence our political policies and make our economic decisions.

Yet, both became the making of changes in the institutional structure was not his chief concern and because his human vista was limited by the conditions of a simple peasant society east of the Mediterranean in the first century A.D., he obviously could not foresee or make pronouncements upon the vast complex of particular problems that confront Christians in today's world.

The point the New Oxford Review is making in the ad is that liberals have consistently and successfully pressed for changes in our society that transform conduct that once caused women to be condemned as «whores» and «sluts» into behavior to be accepted and even encouraged as healthy.

(ENTIRE BOOK) A planetary society is emerging which makes requirements for human fulfillment that can not be met unless there are profound changes in the ideas, values, and power coalitions that now determine our priorities and shape our future.

This past summer, the religious powers - to - be changed some of the wording in the bible to make it more applicable to today's society.

People feel alienated and lost when fundamental changes in their society make the world strange and unrecognizable.

Among those who believe that fundamental changes in American society are essential for the fullest achievement of the good life, a distinction can be made between the cultural transformationists and the political reformers.

Currently the most influential version, of course, is associated with movements shaped by liberation theologies: We come to understand God as we are a part of a community that is united by a common history of oppression and struggles for liberation by radically changing the arrangements of economic and social power that have made the oppression systemic in our society.

I suggest that... we are not at the beginning of continually accelerating change, but that we are in the middle of a unique transition crisis, like adolescence, as we make the jump from an undeveloped scientific and technological society to a fully developed one....

The «Common Chest» was an actual piece of well - made furniture, and with its prescribed number of locks whose keys were held by specified officials representing various strata of society, it was to become a veritable symbol of the social and economic changes as it was set up in town after town in the coming decades.

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.

The age, of course, was one which had intensified personal problems and the changing pattern of society created many new situations in which people felt the need of guidance in making moral decisions.

There is a deep sense among feminist theologians that to seek changes in society requires making changes in our theological visions as well.

I confess that I have become somewhat blasé about the range of exciting — I think revolutionary is probably more accurate — technologies that we are rolling out today: our work in genomics and its translation into varieties that are reaching poor farmers today; our innovative integration of long — term and multilocation trials with crop models and modern IT and communications technology to reach farmers in ways we never even imagined five years ago; our vision to create a C4 rice and see to it that Golden Rice reaches poor and hungry children; maintaining productivity gains in the face of dynamic pests and pathogens; understanding the nature of the rice grain and what makes for good quality; our many efforts to change the way rice is grown to meet the challenges of changing rural economies, changing societies, and a changing climate; and, our extraordinary array of partnerships that has placed us at the forefront of the CGIAR change process through the Global Rice Science Partnership.

Fans have to make a choice btw personalities in kroenke and wenger and ARSENAL FC the club that will always be there long after we are all gone and the two tyrants gone... i thought pple in England as the world oldest democracy embrace change in society as critical but am surprised to learn that there are fans in this grt nation that are lovers with the status quo at this club present at the heart of london... we were once a big club but we're not a big club anymore!!!

I do think rather than criticize the government for making mothers feel guilty for feeding with artificial milk, society as a whole must make major changes in thinking and policy, so that more mothers and babies can actually avoid the use of artificial milk in the first place.

A society where pumping is the norm has serious problems, and breastfeeding advocates should seek allies in making broader social change.

To expand on Nicolas Holthaus» excellent comment: in a modern western society, if you're in a position to make your opinions on «populism» widely heard, you're close enough to the top of the social hierarchy that radical social change would be very much against your class interests!

In response to the question, I also made one other point, which is clearly articulated in the conclusion of my Fabian Society book The Change We Need, coming out a week on MondaIn response to the question, I also made one other point, which is clearly articulated in the conclusion of my Fabian Society book The Change We Need, coming out a week on Mondain the conclusion of my Fabian Society book The Change We Need, coming out a week on Monday.

However, as a slogan for global political change in the 21st century, it needs to be re-examined both in terms of its applicability to all forms of societies and for making current democratic societies more inclusive.

Policymaking also reflects current ideology and background structures power so if we focus too much on impact as government policy change then you make academics into people who service the dominant ideology and the powerful in society.

What they're saying: «Issoufou has been under pressure from the opposition and civil society to make changes to the voters» roll; he may want to use the pretext of a destabilization plot to avoid making changes that could be to his disadvantage in the election,» Francois Conradie, a political analyst for South Africa - based NKC African Economics.

I would change the laws on domestic violence so you couldn't retract statements and I would force through incredibly unpopular policies that would put a lot of money in to rehab and psychiatric care in prisons which would save society a fortune and make us all slightly safer.

I don't have the time or what to be a drifter - I entered politics because I want to make a real difference in society and in peoples» lives, therefore really making a change.

Such collapse in value, he explained, has made it difficult for policy makers to effect change in the society.

Amongst global healthcare systems, the NHS is almost uniquely well placed to deliver this transformation in the relationship between patients and clinicians: one of the most trusted organisations in British society, its doctors, nurses and staff recognised by everyone as a force for good in our country — and let me thank everyone who is working so hard to make these changes possible.

The best antidote to his claims is to go to the campaign websites of both Cooper and Corbyn and make up your own mind who has the best programme for economic revival, social change, a vibrant democracy, Britain's involvement in the world and reining in the hold of the very rich over the rest of society.

That is why social security has got to change so that we make the right to live as full citizens in a free society a reality for disabled people.

As the planet warms — and as that warming accelerates due to man - made climate change — «the cicada may yet reprise its role as climate indicator if its cycle is disrupted by a warming planet,» Wildlife Conservation Society entomologist Craig Gibbs wrote in an op - ed last week in The New York Times.

Many in the general public think scientific and technological innovations bring helpful change to society, but they are more concerned than excited when it comes to the potential use of emerging technologies to make people's minds sharper, their bodies stronger and healthier than ever before, according to a new Pew Research Center survey.

«If the natural concentration had been a factor of two or more lower, the climate impacts of fossil fuel carbon dioxide release would have occurred about 50 or more years sooner, making it much more challenging for the developing human society to scientifically understand the phenomenon of humanmade climate change in time to prevent it,» he says.

Troy, N.Y., - based Ecovative Design is testing the ability of its Greensulate — a sustainable building material made from mushroom fibers, rice hulls and recycled paper — to resist temperature change, stop fire and repel water in accordance with American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) International standards.

The findings, published Sept. 20 in the Journal of Virology published by the American Society for Microbiology, were publicly revealed almost simultaneously with those from China - based scientists who found a change of a single amino acid made the virus more dangerous to developing brain cells.

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The Society credits Merkel for boosting German research funding and for «the leadership she has provided on the European and world stages in promoting science - based policy making over issues such as climate change.»