Sentences with phrase «more open society»

This blog explores the role of soccer at a time of transition of the Middle East from autocratic rule to a more open society.

First, the data is mostly from America because America is a more open society.

This blog explores the role of soccer at a time of transition of the Middle East from autocratic rule to a more open society.

While that remains somewhat true today, women live in a much more open society today.

And the more open our society becomes, the more comfortable my patients have become asking me personal and important questions about the changes in their bodies over time.

Human society almost everywhere is undergoing the transition from being a predominantly closed society to a more open society (as discussed in Chapter 8).

But I think it is wonderful that the Internet allows open discussion where many doubters to express their views here as we become a more open society.

If protests continue, tourism dollars are likely to drop severely and put even more pressure on the government to accommodate those who are calling for a more open society.

«The British government will support all those working to achieve more open societies in the Middle East,» he said.

Not exact matches

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It's just a shame that we haven't come to the point in society where it should be required that those who make decisions must meet certain, more highly regulated, fool proof, corruption resistant criteria proving their intellect and open mindedness as well as weeding out individuals with preconceived notions, racist, sexist or religiously or other discriminative views (even if they themselves don't believe they are discriminative in their beliefs... this happens more than many people realize) and overall ignorant minds.

Secondly, however, and more importantly for the purposes of this article, Ford's stipulation that natural compounds are larger or more complex actual entities rather than structured societies implicitly confirms the entitative or substantialist understanding of actual occasions criticized in the opening paragraphs of this article.

Given the latest medical data concerning the distinct characteristics of the fetus and its ability to survive outside the womb at a startlingly early age, it is little wonder that in the past few years several of the denominations that once took a more open position on abortion have retreated somewhat: the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) is now studying the issue; in a 1980 statement on social principles, the UMC moved to a more qualified position; the Episcopal Church and the recently formed Evangelical Lutheran Church in America seem to be in the process of toning down their earlier positions (or those of a predecessor body) The Lutherans defeated a resolution in their 1989 Assembly which would have been consistent with the liberal position of the LCA predecessor body, and a 1988 Lutheran - Episcopal dialogue report refers to the fetus as «embryonic humanity» with claims on society.

This is hardly to suggest that everyone must open a farm (although perhaps there's something to be said for the ever - more - visible urban gardening movement), or that our society had better embrace radical policy shifts all at once or else!

Contemporary societies are far more open than in the past» and more peaceful, too.

Stirred by the steady stream of feminist literature which has caused a revolution in Western society, and prodded by the more liberal wing of the church which opened up the discussion on the ordination of women twenty or more years ago, contemporary evangelicals have become increasingly interested in reevaluating the role of women.

Murphy argued that Republicans should embrace «a more secular and modernizing conservatism that eschews most social issues to focus on creating a wide - open opportunity society that promises greater economic freedom.»

If I were running the government, I would see to it that school districts that serve the poor would have a larger share of the tax revenue than school districts that serve the affluent, for in the poor districts there is far more ground to be made up to provide the open equality of opportunity, and equality of opportunity must be a part of every just society.

In the open society, where external authority is greatly reduced, much more responsibility rests with each individual to promote the welfare of the society.

The open society permits and fosters the growth of individualism; people enjoy greater personal freedom and, by the same token, more responsibility.

Whereas membership of a closed society helped to provide personal identity («I'm a Scotsman», for example, or «I'm a Presbyterian»), individuals in the open society are both freer and have more responsibility to establish their own identity.

In America, society is much more open.

Rediscovery of this tradition by the Orthodox and by other Russian Christians may help Christianity sustain a role as teacher and reconciler in a more open and diverse society.

Some nations were better poised than others to take advantage of innovation — England in particular, because it had a relatively open society with more scope for entrepreneurship; strong institutions of political liberty; a commitment to the scientific method exemplified by Newton; lots of seaports and colonies; a relative isolation that reduced the risk of invasion; and lots and lots of coal.

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The real struggle in all religious communities is for spiritual reformation opening themselves to enter into dialogue with other religions and with secular humanist ideologies regarding the nature and rights of the human person and the meaning of social justice enabling to build together a new spiritually - oriented humanism and a more humane society.

There is nothing essentially sinful in Hindu society any more than there is anything essentially pure in the Christian society - for that is what the church amounts to - so that one should hasten from the one to the other... So long as the believer's testimony for Christ is open and as long as his attitude towards Hindu society in general is critical, and towards social and religious practices inconsistent with the spirit of Christ is protestant and practically protestant, I would allow him to struggle his way to the light with failure here and failure there, but with progress and success on the whole.

Some Christians have enthusiastically embraced the prospect of democratic change and a more open civil society, but many have not.

We seem more open as a society to changes in the name of safety.

Perhaps even more serious, it opens up all of society's taboos and secrets, thus erasing the boundaries between childhood and adulthood, creating a homogenized culture rather than a hierarchical one.

As society becomes more open to respecting the role of fathers in the home with young children, many states and some individual companies are beginning to offer more generous paternity leave programs.

And the only way for society to get over it, is for more and more people to opening practice not only breastfeeding but extended breastfeeding.

Even though people today are growing up in more diverse families than ever before and are much more open to and accepting of broader views of gender and sexuality than generations past, society still tends to view non-monogamous relationships negatively.

I am pleased that our society is becoming more open and aware of this fact, and this acceptance is shown by the availability of items such as special bras and nursing areas.

Mr. Speaker, I have every confidence that with all of us working together under the President's leadership, we can march forward to a Ghana beyond aid in a new, more matured, and mutually beneficial relationship with our external partners, and advance towards our national vision of building: «An optimistic self - confident and prosperous nation, through the creative exploitation of our human and natural resources, and operating with a democratic, open and fair society, in which mutual trust and economic opportunities exist for all».

When it comes to bricks and windows, Labour used to build houses and open windows to a more tolerant society.»

He has focused on legislation and policy changes to support affordable housing, protect the environment, promote economic and social justice and a more humane society, prevent gun violence, create a fairer and more open political process, and provide for greater accountability in the ways government provides services and spends our tax dollars.

What is at stake here is her unique account of modernity — that, instead of making man more individualistic and society more open, the modern, social sphere has held sway to the point of trampling upon all other spaces that locals hold dear.

He added, «it aims at cultivating in the youth of Ghana improved civic participation, knowledge and attitudes, and the practice of critical and objective analysis of public issues as well as the effective use of freedom of expression and association to build more peaceful, tolerant and open societies in Ghana especially towards the 2016 elections.»

From 2010 to 2016, the proportion of adult mice with white fur patches more than doubled, the team reports today in Royal Society Open Science.

The non-profit AAAS—www.aaas.org — is open to all and fulfills its mission to «advance science and serve society» through initiatives in science policy, international programs, science education, and more.

«These new drugs are opening the door for more avenues of targeted therapy for the future,» says American Cancer Society president Ralph Vance, a professor of medicine at the University of Mississippi School of Medicine.

It is certainly the case that more career paths are open today, says Thomas Carew, president of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) and chair of the University of California, Irvine's Department of Neurobiology and Behavior.

Such pressure, in turn, encourages researchers to engage in «a host of biased practices [including] reinventing history to «predict» results that were, in fact, unexpected, or selectively reporting analyses that allow more publishable narratives,» continued Chambers, who is the editor in charge of handling Registered Reports at Royal Society Open Science, an online - only journal which covers all fields of science, engineering, and math.

They are using the simulation, detailed in a new paper in Royal Society Open Science, to determine how drought, warmer weather, more frequent wildfires and other climate - related changes will affect forests across North America.

Perhaps the ivory towers of education and research could open up more to allow more interactions across disciplines, as well as with the private sector and society at large, to constantly transfer, extend, and broaden new knowledge and technologies.

By the time the 7 - month course was done, however, participants in all classes had a smaller, and more similar, difference in closeness before and after class sessions, the researchers report online today in Royal Society Open Science.

The findings, which could lead to new treatments for a disease that kills more HIV / AIDS patients than tuberculosis, appear in mBio ®, the online open - access journal of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM.)

The basis for the new study, published in Royal Society Open Science, is a massive online repository of more than 2000 distinct tales from different Indo - European cultures known as the Aarne — Thompson — Uther Index, which was compiled in 2004.

For the society it marks a turning point: a chance to hire more women and more foreign researchers, and an opportunity to open up entirely new fields of research, because incoming directors can set their own course.