Sentences with phrase «most human activity»

Of course, while most human activity combines expressive and physical elements, some human activity is purely physical and does not convey or attempt to convey meaning.

The country's rugged interior has meant that, throughout its history of colonization, most human activity has focused on the coastal areas, leaving the inland mountains and forests relatively untouched by logging -LSB-...]

Frankly, most industries, indeed most human activities, are harmful to the environment, so the question for the public is what are we willing to condone for our own comfort and well being.

As with most human activities, as our knowledge of evolution and genetics increased, dog breeding improved and exploded in the 1900s.

Artificial illumination is necessary for most human activities at night.

And like most human activities, the ability to do it well improves with practice.

As with most human activities, as our knowledge increased, dog breeding improved and exploded in the 1900s, with the current 600 or so breeds of dogs all descendent from the original wolf.

But this doesn't match the timescale of most human activities,» said MIT professor Ju Li.

Competition is the normal way of things in science as in most human activities.

Not exact matches

The executive who started his business selling books said activities that require the most energy should be performed in space, in order to leave Earth clean and habitable for humans.

Stanford Graduate School of Business Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer wrote in the journal, Academy of Management Perspectives, that, «Although most of the research and public pressure concerning sustainability has been focused on the effects of business and organizational activity on the physical environment, companies and their management practices profoundly affect the human and social environment as well.»

These tools are most useful for traders because they allow us to look at price activity in an objective way (without the human error that is associated with other types of forecasts).

«In handling common stocks, as in most other fields of human activity, success depends on a combination of hard work, intelligence and honesty» Phil Fisher

Reflecting on the mystery of teachers one never meets or on the practical uselessness of philosophy, Schall here reminds increasingly busy people that human beings are most fully human when they are engaging in such unserious and impractical activities.

I am trying to find out more of what we can do too, but since there is so much criminal activity involved in human trafficking, most of what can be done is reserved for law enforcement.

Eating is the most communal of all human activities.

Far from being an act of rebellion or an open attempt outwardly to overthrow abused power, it was a quiet, constrained, symbolic act that ironically caught the person of highest power in the midst of a most ordinary human activity.

Human trafficking is the third most profitable criminal activity, second after drugs and arms trafficking

However, the continuity of structure and function from nonliving matter to living and from the simplest forms of life to the most complicated strongly suggests that even the most characteristic human activities such as thought and consciousness have an explanation, as yet only partly known, in chemical and physical phenomena.

Grief is a challenge, and though confronting it is slow and painstaking, doing so is among the most creative of human activities.

This is because the degradation of our environment is the most comprehensive form of unsustainable human activity.

Its two revolutions — its anthropological individualism and the voluntarist conception of choice, and its insistence on the human separation from and opposition to nature — created its distinctive and new understanding of liberty as the most extensive possible expansion of the human sphere of autonomous activity in the service of the fulfillment of the self.

On the contrary, it was rooted in his understanding that politics is not the most important sphere of human activity.

``... a number of scientific studies indicate that most global warming... is due to the great concentration of greenhouse gases released mainly as a result of human activity... these gases do not allow the warmth of the sun's rays reflected by the earth to be dispersed in space.

In any of the activities of men which are most vital to their deepest human interests, such conservatism is generally found.

Most of his book is a history of the unavailing efforts of philosophers, since the time of Descartes, to find certainty, to discover a set of sensations («raw feels» or clear and distinct ideas) or terms (analytical truths, the symbols of mathematical logic) that would provide a secure foundation for all human inquiries and activities.

... A number of scientific studies indicate that most global warming in recent decades is due to the great concentration of greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide, methane, nitrogen oxides and others) released mainly as a result of human activity... Doomsday predictions can no longer be met with irony or disdain.

Even though legitimate sexual activity can not be limited to marriage, Russell thinks that under certain conditions marriage can be the «best and most important relation that can exist between two human beings» (p. 143).

When technological reason has organized all human activities and found absolutely the most efficient way to do everything, then people will indeed have become things.

I should, however, also remark that the more subtle developments of Whitehead's thought seem to have been the inspiration for one of the most thorough and impressive discussions of the evolution of human mentality and language in its relation to cognate activities in earlier evolutionary forms, namely Suzanne Langer's impressive work, Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling, of which two volumes have so far appeared and a third is promised human mentality and language in its relation to cognate activities in earlier evolutionary forms, namely Suzanne Langer's impressive work, Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling, of which two volumes have so far appeared and a third is promised Human Feeling, of which two volumes have so far appeared and a third is promised soon.

Throughout most of human history, growth in economic activity has been very low.

We can lay aside differences as we join in one of the most basic of human activities.

And such a man could and would do good works and make good use of spiritual advice — Luther proceeded to run through the Judaic «Ten Commandments» from the Old Testament and to pour out advice inherited from a long tradition, salted by his own experience covering most spheres of human activity from insufficient discipline for instance in sexual matters, to excess of discipline in, for instance, diet.

Humans evolved doing some sort of physical «shopping», even if for most of history the similarity of that activity and a trip to the supermarket has been fleeting.

Watching the latest, entirely hapless, efforts of Theresa May to seem like a normal human person by attempting to participate in that most regrettable of group activities, a Mexican wave, your columnist was struck by how apt a metaphor it was for the ineptitude shown by Liverpool FC in their transfer strategy so far this summer.

Post-its, Outlook, and Doodle have become indispensable tools in the perpetual ball balancing act, which most moms would agree is both exhausting and largely oriented towards serving others — counseling clients, shuffling kids to various activities, warding off household disarray, perpetuating human existence.

Most scientists and climatologists agree that weird weather is at least in part the result of global warming — a steady increase in the average temperature of the surface of the Earth thought to be caused by increased concentrations of greenhouse gasses produced by human activity.

Mass Audubon generally opposes most nuisance control practices, including spraying of pesticides to kill adult mosquitoes when there is a relatively low risk of mosquito - borne disease, because of the human health risks of pesticide exposures, harmful environmental effects, and unproven effectiveness of these activities.

But plenty of smaller earthquakes, most not even felt by humans, occur across the world every day due to detonations, such as nuclear weapons testing or mining, or rising magma linked to volcanic activity.

(No errors have been found in the first, and most often quoted, report, which says that the evidence is incontrovertible that human activity is causing the atmosphere to warm and the seas to rise.)

The MWA is located in Western Australia's remote Murchison region, one of the most radio - quiet areas on the planet and far from human activity and radio interference caused by technology.

They agreed with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that human activity had caused most of Earth's warming over the second half of the 20th century.

«I believe that the human spaceflight program is in the long run possibly the most significant activity in which our nation is engaged.»

«Our research so far has shown pretty clearly that although most farmers believe that climate change is occurring, a minority attribute it to human activity,» said Arbuckle, an associate sociology professor at Iowa State University.

Most carbon emissions linked to human activity are in the form of carbon dioxide gas (CO2), but other forms of carbon include the methane gas (CH4) and the particles generated by such fires — the tiny bits of soot, called black carbon, and motes of associated substances known as brown carbon.

Many agree that his research on ice caps across the world was some of the first, most convincing evidence that current climate change is due to human activity.

Yet, despite this decline, Arctic temperatures have soared and the most likely culprit is the build - up of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere from fossil fuel burning, forest clearing and other human activity, Kaufmann and his colleagues wrote.

More than 85 percent of those happened during a time when there were no storms or lightning, meaning that most of the fires originated from human activities.

«The 1997 - 98 El Niño was one of the most important fire years, and put fire on everyone's map for the potential impacts of deforestation and tropical forest degradation from human activities,» said Morton.

Further experimentation in vitro with human osteoclasts and in vivo in mice identified a portion of the Del - 1 protein that was particularly important for containing osteoclast activity, though additional parts of the molecule were needed to have the most potent inhibition of inflammation and bone loss.