Sentences with phrase «modern world as»

More generally, humanity and nature, the modern world as we know it, is adapted to the Holocene climate that has existed more than 10,000 years.

In that world, «we have no evidence whatsoever of being capable of supporting the modern world as we know it,» says Johan Rockstrom of Sweden's Stockholm Resilience Centre.

And it will happen unless people learn how much is at stake and take a strong stand against this special interest that wants to ruin the energy - using modern world as we now know it for no real purpose at all.

Around 1980 Morris returned to painting and drawing, with an apocalyptic vision of the modern world as displayed in his Firestorm series.

Titled «Memory as Medicine,» this near - two - decade survey (organized by Carol Thompson and Michael Rooks of the originating High Museum of Art in Atlanta) featured thirty - one works riffing on key chapters from the grand narrative of black history, with frequent allusions to tribal West Africa, aptly demonstrating the artist's inspired ability to present his modern world as a continuum with his genetic past.

Spent 1939 - 47 in the Argentine, working part of the time in a figurative style, but in 1946 helped to found the avant - garde Altainira Academy at Buenos Aires, his ideas about the need for new art to express the modern world as revealed by science leading to the publication of the Manifiesto Blanco.

Belize was described as the ultimate getaway for travelers seeking to unplug from the modern world as the country's prime attractions are its fantastic weather, the lush, natural scenery, an abundance of adventure activities, and its density of ancient Maya sites to explore.

And there's a reason they don't jump out at you: they are the everyday details of living in the modern world as experienced by a person living on the edge.

The whims of the gods, the mystical aspect of vengeance, are folded into this familiar modern world as if we were still psychologically rooted in Ancient Greece.

More generally, humanity and nature, the modern world as we know it, is adapted to the Holocene climate that has existed more than 10,000 years.

Young gypsies and travellers are on Facebook... they are as exposed to the modern world as any teenager — but they are also coming face to face with the prejudice, hatred and bigotry that dominates much of the public discourse.

Is it possible to affirm the value of the technological revolution, the legitimacy of the hopes and claims of the dispossessed, most of all, of the moral centrality of the Negro revolution in America today — is it possible to affirm all these values and still to live comfortably in the modern world as these writers portray it?

Silicon Valley is the Mesopotamia of the modern world as it has changed everything.

But if surgeons have just saved your child from cancer, it can be very hard to see the modern world as wounded or empty of meaning.

Vatican II's Constitution on the Church in the Modern World, a document the Pope helped write, offers a description of the Catholic attitude towards the modern world as one of solidarity with the whole human family.

And they all are to some extent still involved in adjusting their faith to the changing modern world as it increasingly impinges upon them.

I am forced therefore to look to secular categories of the modern world as the possible framework for theological reformulation.

Ford tells us that this is especially true of Process and Reality but that it applies to Science and the Modern World as well.

Second, religion generally is not fading away in the modern world as a whole.

At this point, most grandparents have learned to use such marvels of the modern world as laptops, smartphones and even social media, right?

Not exact matches

Another layer to this story is the fact no other country in the history of the modern world has accumulated as much debt as fast as China.

There are also awkward gaps in the history it archives, such as the dearth of footage documenting one of the largest massacres of civilian protesters in modern world history — the infamous assault on a Muslim Brotherhood — led sit - in shortly after the military coup of 2013, which killed more than 800 civilians.

For all their drawbacks, globalization and liberalized trade have been a force for peace in the modern world; as national economies become more interdependent, they have more to lose by alienating their trading partners, which aren't necessarily colonies or even allies.

Often regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders in modern history, Churchill would overcome immense obstacles to eventually lead the British people to victory over Hitler's Nazi Germany in World War II.

It's usually a knee - jerk reaction to some uncomfortable modern issue or in defense of one of the many historical myths children in the mainland are taught as unshakeable facts about the world.

In many cases, hackers simply take a tried - and - true method, such as Sality malware (which brute - forces networks to create easy - to - guess passwords), and make small tweaks to improve it for the modern world.

Dig Deeper: An Eye Bank Bets on Best Practices How to Become a Social Entrepreneur: Think of It As a Business «The modern non-profit must adopt many of the same strategies, policies and best practices employed by successful enterprises in the for - profit world, but not at the cost of its soul,» writes Scofield.

Items from the modern cabinet of wonders, such as GPS and radar and mobile - phone technology and flight - tracker apps that let you follow planes from your pocket, hand us an illusory sense of control - a notion that we have, through gadgetry, rendered the world finite.

Citing modern issues, such as monetization of data by tech giants — like Google and Facebook — as well as widespread fake news, Blank said that graduates are entering into a world of uncertainties, where computers might even start creating videos with fake information.

The reality is, Silicon Valley is regarded as the tech and innovation capital of the world, bar none; it's the modern day Rome of technology and innovation.

As Apple CEO Tim Cook said in a recent op - ed, discrimination has no place in the modern business world, or anywhere else.

Born out of N ot For Sale, a non-profit with the mission to eradicate modern - day slavery around the world, the organization built REBBL as a self - sustaining business that would source ingredients from the Peruvian Amazon to improve the local community.

That might just be seen as simple politeness, downplaying his own role in amassing the modern world's biggest fortune.

In our modern, tech - savvy world, why would you continue to count new leads as a success metric for your company?

What is interesting to see with this bitcoin hype is how uneducated writers still are when it comes to the question of what money actually is — especially the assumption that money, e.g. US Dollars, are tied to any real world values like gold is one of these modern fairytales that is repeated often — I can not understand that even after the big corporate crimes (aka as «financial crisis») that US Citizens cost millions of dollars there is still such a lack of understanding of what money actually is.

Apigee's mission has been to build a company that powers the APIs and delivers the know - how to help enterprises navigate a new kind of business reality and operate as modern digital businesses in a multi-cloud world.

As the world continues to become more digital, modern retail banks must develop not only a presence on social media but also strategies to drive traffic and engagement.

«In the modern marketing world where content has become the dominant way we communicate, empathy serves as a foundation to stand above the overdosing flood of information experienced by customers and buyers.

What we now know as being a part of buyer behavior in the modern world, we saw a glimpse of back then.

«The goal going forward is to be a true destination of choice around the world and reassert McDonald's as a modern, progressive burger company.»

The topics and texts include some esoteric items, such as the ranking of churches and discussion about a common calendar; but they also include problems that emerge from adapting an ancient faith to a modern reality — like precepts of fasting and, in particular, regulations of marriage in a multicultural and interreligious world.

As such voices as T.S. Eliot, Walker Percy, and Flannery O'Connor have reminded us, the modern world must look to Christians, who stand virtually alone in seeing the need for (or even believing in) firmly embedded nailAs such voices as T.S. Eliot, Walker Percy, and Flannery O'Connor have reminded us, the modern world must look to Christians, who stand virtually alone in seeing the need for (or even believing in) firmly embedded nailas T.S. Eliot, Walker Percy, and Flannery O'Connor have reminded us, the modern world must look to Christians, who stand virtually alone in seeing the need for (or even believing in) firmly embedded nails.

Modern humanity does not perceive the world as worth God's dying for.

[117] An important pioneer in this, Ibn Al - Haytham is regarded as the father of the modern scientific method and often referred to as the «world's first true scientist.»

I agree with your post, Mr. Stephens — insofar as I believe that a cobbled - together patchwork of Bronze Age myths that sanction slavery, genocide, human sacrifice, and child murder should not be arbitrarily invoked as the sole determinate for notions of morality in the modern world.

Ancient religions should welcome the political achievements of modernity while calling modernity to open its windows and doors to a world of transcendent truth and love: ``... the great achievements of the modern age» the recognition and guarantee of freedom of conscience, of human rights, of the freedom of science and hence of a free society» should be confirmed and developed while keeping reason and freedom open to their transcendent foundation, so as to ensure that these achievements are not undone....

As the architectural historian Walter C. Kidney once commented, «It was not that he was eccentric; indeed, confronted with Cram, the modern world probably seemed aberrant.»

And wherever this sort of life has tended to become predominant — as in the modern world — this recognition has become more acute.

In his later interview on the occasion of the Jefferson Lecture, he speaks of modern man as deranged, the literal sense of that term most appropriate to the Cartesian dislocation of intellect that has effected our displacement from the proper range of our being in the world.

It's a hidden system that disguises itself as «righteous», being a modern form of sacrificial violence that lurks within the dualistic world of religion.