Sentences with phrase «most early societies»

These societies were not necessarily full democracies in which citizens cast votes, but they were radically different from the autocratic, inherited rule found — or assumed — in most early societies.

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We invest much less in young children, and that stems largely from the fact that most other advanced economies view early childhood education, child care and other benefits targeted at parents with young children as «public goods,» meaning investments that, absent public support, would be insufficiently made from the perspective of society's well - being.

Still, she notes that, «In the early 19th century, the United States was one of the most egalitarian societies on the planet.

Some theologians in the Wesleyan tradition, especially those most under the influence of neo-evangelicalism, in the early years of the post-World War II Evangelical Theological Society attempted to work in the neo evangelical coalition.

Most generally, the term «conservative» means that I find myself more often than not appreciating the earliest Quakers» insights into the nature of faith, church, and society.

In most sections of Australian society in the early 1960s, the «White Australia Policy» was regarded as a success for white supremacy.

Jesus» teaching was not «social,» in our modern sense of sociological utopianism; but it was something vastly profounder, a religious ethic which involved a social as well as a personal application, but within the framework of the beloved society of the Kingdom of God; and in its relations to the pagan world outside it was determined wholly from within that beloved society — as the rest of the New Testament and most of the other early Christian literature takes for granted.

In his Presidential Address to the North American Patristic Society in 1994, Frederick W. Norris acknowledged that «some of the most interesting voices interpreting early Christian texts are Christian theologians from Africa, Asia, and Latin America,» and that some of them «make historical comments and acknowledge that their sense of what the texts mean is formed by their present commitments and their membership in specific communities.»

To some extent, this attitude of denial has come about because of changes in our society in this century: the marked decrease in the number of deaths at an early age; the development of specialized professions for the care of the dying and the dead; the emergence of geographical mobility, with the consequence that most of us live at some distance from aging and dying relatives, including parents; the growth of separate communities for the aging, not only nursing homes but retirement communities.

American society may soon embark upon the most important constitutional debate since the early nineteenth century.

Hers was the most self - consciously deconstructive American mind ever to apply itself to the study of early European society.

Trouble is that, even under the three concussion grading systems in most common use in the 1990's and early 2000's (Dr. Bob Cantu's 2001 so - called «evidence - based» guidelines, 1 the 1991 Colorado Medical Society (CMS) guidleines, 2 and the 1997 American Academy of Neurology (AAN) 3 guidelines)- all of which have long since gone the way of the dodo, by the way - and even if Smith's blurred vision had cleared up in less than 15 minutes, which, as it turned out, it didn't, he still would have been considered to have sustained a Grade 1 or mild concussion.

Respect for one's elders in such societies was one of the most important values instilled in children from a very early age.

Unlike parenting how - to manuals based on behavior modification, the Blueprint for Action is the most comprehensive document ever written on what is required for parents and society to create conditions that foster optimal human development from preconception through early childhood.

In a report published earlier this month, the Electoral Reform Society declares the 2015 general election «the most disproportional election to date in the UK».

The Iwanenkos are most deserving of the Citizen of the Month Award, Legislator Dixon added, noting they are also involved in Empire West Little Loop Football, Lackawanna Mayor's Economic Development Council, Lackawanna Housing Development Council, Erie County Early Intervention Program, Our Lady of Victory, the Lackawanna Food Pantry, the Chamber of Commerce and MS Society.

That question was debated this week at the Society for Neuroscience's annual meeting, Neuroscience 2011, in Washington, D.C. Speakers — most of them scientists in secure careers — addressed large crowds of early - career scientists eager to learn how successful neuroscientists found their jobs and to hear their advice for those just starting out.

There are a few early 19th - century museums based on the collections of the Literary and Philosophical Society, but most are Victorian Natural History Society creations.

Early in November, word came that Hawking was to receive the Copley Medal, the most venerable of the Royal Society's gifts.

«We found children at a very early age — from the most conservative to the most liberal societies — quickly internalize this myth that girls are vulnerable and boys are strong and independent,» said Robert Blum, director of the Global Early Adolescent Study based at Johns Hopkins Univerearly age — from the most conservative to the most liberal societies — quickly internalize this myth that girls are vulnerable and boys are strong and independent,» said Robert Blum, director of the Global Early Adolescent Study based at Johns Hopkins UniverEarly Adolescent Study based at Johns Hopkins University.

The most common and deadliest form of pancreatic cancer — pancreatic adenocarcinoma — has a five - year survival rate of 12 to 14 percent for early - stage disease and 1 to 3 percent for advanced disease, according to the American Cancer Society.

The trait most likely developed 4800 to 6600 years ago from an earlier variant differing at just two base pairs that these groups got from intermixing with tribes migrating from the Asian Steppes, the team reported here last week at the annual meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics.

At the American Chemical Society (ACS) meeting here earlier this month, he proposed that chemists rally around an initiative to synthesize most of the hundreds of thousands of known organic natural products: the diverse small molecules made by microbes, plants, and animals.

The intense competition for funding presents a growing challenge for scientific researchers — those who receive financial support are in a better position to bolster their early research efforts and are more likely to identify solutions to the most complex scientific questions and to some of society's most pressing problems.

Prostate cancer, for example, which is commonly diagnosed at age 66, according to the American Cancer Society, tends to be a cancer most men live with rather than die from, Kruse said, unless it occurs early.

At the International AIDS Society conference in Paris, scientists announced that in an early - stage clinical trial, a new HIV vaccine regimen generated antibody responses in 100 percent of volunteers in most arms of the study.

But the five - year - survival rate for early papillary cancer, the most common type of thyroid cancer, is about 100 %, according to the American Cancer Society.

While most societies prevent children from developing a coffee drinking habit at an early age, for us in Argentina, drinking Yerba Mate is part of our childhood diet.

The most obvious characteristic of the clothes worn by the high society during the early 1600s is the persistence and growth in size and ornateness of the ruff.

Historically, marriages online dating early 20s most societies were arranged by parents and older relatives with the goal not being love but legacy and economic stability and political alliances, according to anthropologists.

Except for a few supporting appearances in features and a series of Mack Sennett short subjects in the early 1930s, most of Pangborn's pre-1936 appearances were in bits or minor roles, but a brief turn as a snotty society scavenger - hunt scorekeeper in My Man Godfrey (1936) cemented his reputation as a surefire laugh - getter.

With a stellar cast that makes use of the most promising young actors, Cafe Society was received well by critics when it opened the 69th Cannes Film Festival earlier this year.

Most of the film's characters amount to a rogue's gallery of people who have been disenfranchised or sidelined from mainstream society in early 1960s America, many of whom might find themselves similarly on the fringes in 2017.

We're talking about some of the most vulnerable children in society who will have already experienced trauma and neglect in their early years.

Earlier, during an interview about his appointment with the Harvard Gazette, when asked what he most wanted incoming Ed School students to know about him, Ryan said, «I guess I would want them to know that I am here for one reason, which is that I care deeply about education and I believe that it's the most important and compelling issue facing society.

One re-analysis of the STAR data published in the American Journal of Public Health estimated that reducing class sizes is one of the most cost - effective public health measures society can take, with large savings in health care and almost two years of additional life for those students who were in smaller classes in the early grades.

The work concerns the structure of society and legitimate government, and is regarded as one of the earliest and most influential examples of social contract theory.

Aside from the stunning views, it's a fascinating glimpse into how the early American upper classes took on European ways yet simultaneously differentiated themselves from European society, and also into the psyche of one of America's most formidable leaders.

In the fall of 2010, the Asia Society presented Yoshitomo Nara: Nobody's Fool, the first major New York exhibition of his work, featuring more than one hundred works spanning from his early career in the 1980s to his most recent paintings, drawings, sculptures, ceramics, and large - scale installations.

Roberts was one of the most respected painters within this group, but as Borduas and Pellan rose to prominence in the early 1940s, the society's exhibitions were increasingly dominated by abstraction.

In selecting societies, Cape focused on nineteenth - century communities that shared a craft tradition — the earliest bench produced by the Ephrata Cloister, Pennsylvania, is dated to the mid-1700s, while the most recent bench is in continuous use by Camphill Village Kimberton Hills, also in Eastern Pennsylvania.

His most recent solo exhibitions include: «Song,» The Renaissance Society, Chicago (2017); «The Measure of Memory,» Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan (2017); Public Process, Sculpture Center, New York (2017); «Play,» Tanya Leighton Gallery, Berlin (2015), «Prescribe The Symptom,» Midway Contemporary Art, MN, (2015), «Loyalties and Betrayals,» Murray Guy, New York (2015), «Secondary Revision,» Frac Île - de - France / Le Plateau, Paris (2013), «A Portrait, A Story, And An Ending,» Kunsthalle Zürich, Switzerland (2013), «Alejandro Cesarco,» MuMOK, Vienna (2012), «Words Applied to Wounds,» Murray Guy (2012), «The Early Years,» Tanya Leighton (2012), «A Common Ground,» Uruguayan Pavilion, 54th Venice Biennial (2011), «One Without The Other,» Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico (2011), «Present Memory,» Tate Modern, London (2010).

All the major American artists and works from the seventeenth century to today are included, such as epic history paintings by Benjamin West and John Singleton Copley; sublime landscapes by Thomas Cole, Albert Bierstadt, and Frederick Church; society portraits by John Singer Sargent; groundbreaking abstract expressionist and pop art by Jackson Pollock, Barnett Newman, and Andy Warhol; and challenging sculptural, installation, and video works from more recent years by Robert Gober, Fred Wilson, and Matthew Barney In architecture, dozens of different building types are illustrated and discussed, from the earliest colonial houses and churches to the most spectacular modernist and postmodernist houses, stations, museums, and iconic skyscrapers.

Once that scale of measure has been established, the elite classes of society can no longer deny the populist cultural impact, refined intellectual value, and large economic rewards created by the influence of Graffiti and Street Art, which finally can be classified as the two most prevalent styles and art movements of the late twentieth and early twenty - first centuries.

Open to the public and free to attend, this unique exhibition on Old Brompton Road will showcase the diversity of contemporary sculptural practice with works by some of the Society's most exciting early career artists.

-- Journalists and bloggers who covered it early got jumps in views and heaps of Twitter action as the most engaged segments of society — those most worried about warming and most dismissive of it — dove in.

This was originally known as a rule 15 letter and, from some time in the early 1990s, the Law Society seems to have promulgated a precedent which most law firms have assiduously adopted and which somewhere contained the meaningless jargon:

As we thoroughly examined onstage at our Justice event earlier this year, state - sponsored surveillance disproportionately impacts the most vulnerable members of a society.

As reported earlier by ESR News, while most companies currently perform background screening on employees once at the pre-hire stage, «the new normal may call for continuous, post-hire monitoring» in the near future to avoid insider threats, according to a Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) article.

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