Sentences with phrase «many social pressures»

«With organizations like Uber dealing with real financial damage, and the consequences of ignoring the importance of an inclusive and diverse workplace, social pressure is building,» Barker, at Qualtrics, observed.

You'd say social pressures did and point out many counterexamples — fit people with high grades.

This means female entrepreneurs face social pressures that men don't have to deal with.

In each case, a mix of social pressure and technological refinements helped tame a cruel new order, and reaffirmed human dignity over machines.

Applicants can point to several kinds of experiences to demonstrate the above, including denial of equal access to institutions of higher education; exclusion from social and professional associations; denial of educational honors; social pressures that discouraged the individual from pursuing education; and discrimination in efforts to secure employment or secure professional advancement.

And they're not just saving money on rent and commuting costs, Matt tells CNBC: «We also need less stuff to fill our place, and we feel less social pressure to buy more things to match our living situation.»

By booking her workout classes in advance, Dunnahoo - Kirsch is able to combine the commitment she makes with the social pressure from friends she works out with, into a powerful accountability hack for keeping her version of work - life balance in line.

In the paper, Wu, who is about to begin doctoral studies at Harvard, said the anonymous aspect of posts «eliminates any social pressure participants may feel to edit their speech.»

However, as he argued in his most recent book, The End of Energy Obesity, modern societies have at their disposal the technological tools, and possibly the social pressure, to consume less energy in absolute terms, not just per capita or per dollar of GDP.

«If you ask women what they like about a group fitness class, they'll tell you 15 things about the instructor, the environment, the social pressure, but they won't tell you about the bike,» Foley says.

He wasn't an angel, but he was a good kid on the right path who held up under the social pressures common in the Bronx.

That means there's cultural and social pressure to stay on the platforms that people are most likely to use to find you — for example, when, disaster strikes and you need to mark yourself safe.

The government - coalition will probably remain in power, even amid social pressure due to a high unemployment rate and increasing poverty.

• Cooperating with Beijing to develop social services in China as the country faces growing social pressures to bridge the rural - urban divide and appease a burgeoning middle class.

I have no problem with three or more people wanting to be in a relationship, provided none of them are participating because of social pressure or childhood indoctrination.

If the data were acquired by asking students about their own college, then especially at schools with strong denominational ties there are almost certainly social pressure on individual students to maintain the appearance of piety.

This is one reason — perhaps the most prevalent reason — why religion fares so lamely in high school groups and on the college campus, for where the atmosphere has become predominantly secular, as it has in most communities, social pressures have enormous power.

Or, since we are disciplined by social pressures to some measure of civility, the resentment may continue for years under an outward veneer of politeness.

Nobody is immune to the dangers lurking in bad personal attitudes or social pressures.

To Ross, I would reply that the American Psychiatric Association stopped listing homosexuality as a disease partly in response to political and social pressure but also to new scientific evidence.

The Boy Scouts spent much of their early history unsuccessfully trying to eliminate the Girl Scouts by legal attack and social pressure.

It is enforced by social pressure in much the same way.

Otherwise the only way to view those wars, is as all other wars — one group of thugs attempting to kill another group of thugs, both doing so in the name of their own ego, misappropriating whatever political, religious, and social pressure and propaganda they can, to their cause.

Most normal, sane people would * always * put their children before even their own lives, never mind social pressure groups like churches.

I think there is a lot of social pressure to «stay in the fold».

Thus, even those people whom social pressures and individual circumstances have not steered into homosexuality are now tempted by appeals to their animal natures, which are not differentiated from their spiritual natures in our contemporary society.

Most often, we do not even know that a battle for our mind is underway, but our minds are constantly bombarded from every direction, through our five senses, through the spiritual realm, through cultural and social pressure, through memories and imagination, and through a wide variety of other sources.

Very odd jump unless there is social pressure or some sort of goal in mind (in other words, disingenuous).

Methods of active non-violent social pressure need to be elaborated.

If they marry because of social pressure, the results lack many elements of the ideal marriage.

But I for one do not agree that the homosexual couples I know, who, despite all social pressures, have remained faithful to one another through thick and thin are behaving unnaturally or expressing idolatry.

So not unlike the picture of the girl, it leading to a head being lowered and sadness but perhaps this being masked by bravado in response to social pressure.

Social pressure, fairy tales, ignorance.

True, it goes without saying that if a man can not in conscience accept the doctrine of the Church as the norm of his faith, this must be respected by others, whether they think his view right or not; and the Church, too, must respect such a conviction and may not suppress it by social pressures or prevent its expression.

If Christianity were to produce religious reality or its counterfeit only through psychological indoctrination, social pressure etc., it would ignore its own nature and not create what it wanted, even if the outcome would be very successful.

It is not enough for him that somebody has a certain opinion, or performs a certain rite, which might be produced also without freedom by means of training, brainwashing, social pressures and so forth.

But even if they do not (and many do not) wish this, social pressures are sufficient to make them feel that it will be better for them not to burden others by their presence and demands.

The days of superstition and social pressure to have «the baby done» are all but over in Britain.

Pop «christianity» is losing popularity, and we're not really seeing a shrinkage of the number of Christians and a gain in the «nones» (% of atheists has remained quite stable) but instead just more accurate reporting, as people don't feel social pressure to check the «Christianity» box.

There are a lot of Arabs that are atheists but (out of fear and social pressure) lead a double life.

All over the world we are witnessing social pressure being brought to bear demanding democracy, which is increasingly seen as a methodological requirement which goes far beyond the simple electoral process.

As the creationists continue to press differently nuanced bills in 20 or so state legislatures, we can expect social pressure to continue to bear on the evolutionism issue.

Given such immense social pressure, and such emphatic calls - to - action, what right do my wife and I have to ignore this claim?

People only go for the ambivalence you state on the dominant local religion, due to the hidden social pressure of saying that is highly unlikely too.

This usually involved being smart and working hard at school and college so as to get a good, accurate view of the natural Universe and overcoming significant social pressure to dumb yourself down and conform.

On so many issues the Catholic community has been led to expect, even to hope, that today's «unchanging tradition» might change tomorrow and once «infallible» positions will eventually shift in the face of sufficient social pressure.

In any of those cases there would be social pressure to conform, and those who may have sincere reasons for absenting themselves would often be subject to prejudice or even scorn.

On the emergence of «laws of the marketplace,» which are regarded as detached from social pressures and values, see Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation (Boston: Beacon Press, 1957).

How essential such an attitude has become is evident in light of the massive apostasies that occurred in the 1970s and «80s (and continue in Western Europe) when the social pressure in support of religion suddenly seemed to have lifted.

All great Christian writers assign considerable significance to such experience, Luther and Calvin as well as Teresa or John of the Cross, and for good reason, for without some experience, however humble, few people would be religious, particularly today now that the social pressure for actively belonging to a religious body has become so much weaker.