Sentences with phrase «new societies defined»

The «running down» of the physical universe is interpreted as a general decay of the patterns of prehensions now dominant; new societies defined by new types of order, now perhaps sporadically foreshadowed, will arise in another cosmic epoch.

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Success stories like Harrison's are few and far between for social entrepreneurs, defined as «someone who targets an unfortunate but stable equilibrium that causes the neglect, marginalization, or suffering of a segment of humanity; who brings to bear on this situation his or her inspiration, direct action, creativity, courage, and fortitude; and who aims for and ultimately affects the establishment of a new stable equilibrium that secures permanent benefit for the targeted group and society at large,» by Roger L. Martin and Sally Osberg in a 2007 Stanford University report titled «Social Entrepreneurship: The Case for Definition.»

In his new book A World of Three Cultures: Honor, Achievement and Joy, Basáñez defines and explains the history and significance of each of the three major world cultures in the areas of economics, politics, and society.

«We have a long way to go as a government and as a society to show that we have moved beyond the legacy of racism and colonialism that long defined our relationship with B.C.'s First Nations peoples,» said New Democrat aboriginal relations critic Doug Donaldson.

What makes this novel a powerful description of the dawning new age is the fact that Jim can ward off the power of society to define him, and he does so not by way of a heroic loyalty to conscience (Rousseau, Emerson) or will to power (Nietzsche), but with the inchoate sense of the socially constructed contingency of society's imprisoning walls of honor and shame.

It is imperative that we define a new generation of public patrimonial rights covering goods and services considered indispensable for survival and the fair and efficient functioning of society and the earth's ecosystem.

Although Marxist theory teaches the establishment of a classless society through the expropriation of the bourgeoisie and the dictatorship of the proletariat, in actual practice the self - styled «Peoples» Democracies» contain well - defined new classes.

It at once becomes clear, when we adopt this altered standpoint, that the purpose of a new Declaration of the Rights of Man can not be, as formerly, to ensure the highest possible degree of independence for the individual in society, but to define the conditions under which the inevitable totalization of Mankind may be effected, not only without impairing but so as to enhance, I will not say the autonomy of each of us but (a quite different thing) the incommunicable singularity of being which each of us possesses.

And I feel it is the responsibility of us gay people not to want to have «marriage» because we feel we need this to be equal but to really imagine how a gay relationship can become a blessing not only to the partners but also to the greater society and define it as something new and leave marriage as what it is — a holy union between a man and a woman.

The» - Christian» side of the hyphen, which would draw on the New Testament, is not of much help in defining laws for civil society.

The transforming power of Pentecostalism resides not in the coherence of its doctrine, but in its flexibility and its capacity to give expression to new social practices in the defining moments of a society in transition.

For a view that applies the technical Whiteheadian view of society to human societies, the theological notion that the Jesus - event is the common element of form that is the defining characteristic of the society called the church, see Lee, Bernard, SM., The Becoming of the Church: A Process Theology of the Structures of Christian Experience (New York: Paulist Press, 1974), pp. 55 - 207.

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) in Ghana believes in the principles that democratic societies provide individuals with the best conditions for political liberty, personal freedom, equality of opportunity and economic development under the rule of law; and therefore being committed to advancing the social and political values on which democratic societies are founded, including the basic personal freedoms and human rights, as defined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; in particular, the right of free speech, organization, assembly and non-violent dissent; the right to free elections and the freedom to organize effective parliamentary opposition to government; the right to a free and independent media; the right to religious belief; equality before the law; and individual opportunity and prosperity.

Second, the «flattening down» of society by social media, tweets, and the overwhelming impact of the internet, and especially its capacity to influence by «post-truth» assertions and statements, can, when combined with a populist, single issue vote, give rise to an entirely new form and interpretation of what the National Interest — still poorly defined — should now mean.

«The New York State Defense of Marriage Act» will acknowledge marriage as being the bedrock of our civil society and defined as being between one man and one woman,» the bill's memo says.

Harassment «damages the scientific enterprise, and that's why we went the step of defining [it] as scientific misconduct,» says Michael McPhaden, a former AGU president and chair of the society's ethics committee, which has drafted the society's new guidelines.

Tendencies that have come to define modern Western societies include the existence of political pluralism, prominent subcultures or countercultures (such as New Age movements), and increasing cultural syncretism — resulting from globalization and human migration.

A gothic «Men in Black» set in 1920s - era New York, «Fantastic Beasts» scales back the dense set of events that defined «Harry Potter» movies and focuses on a narrower strata of magical circumstances in the middle of a human society.

Kristen Stewart and Jesse Eisenberg star in a sparkling new romantic comedy from Woody Allen about a movie - industry hopeful who arrives in 1930s Hollywood, falls in love, and finds himself swept up in the vibrant café society that defined the age.

Restraint is what defines the society at the center of Sebastián Lelio's new film Disobedience: When Ronit absentmindedly moves to hug a man in one scene, he flinches in horror, forcing her to stop short.

Instead of focusing primarily on a narrative of political or diplomatic events, with an occasional new philosophy or artistic style thrown in, the discipline has come to emphasize changes in the behavior and outlook of ordinary people and the way groups and societies define activities such as work, lovemaking, or crime.

A new social consensus must be forged about race and the role of race in defining the basic structure of our society, if we ever hope to abolish the New Jim Crnew social consensus must be forged about race and the role of race in defining the basic structure of our society, if we ever hope to abolish the New Jim CrNew Jim Crow.

Fed up with the way society has formed around her, Brooklyn quite literally pulls away from New York — its bridges breaking and tunnels flooding — and proposes thathumanity return back to days of old where things and people were defined by their ethics, values and contributions; where skills and art could be bartered and traded; where land could be farmed to sustain life and spawn beauty.

Indeed, they worked at a moment in American history when the role of women in society was changing, and each of the artists in O'Keeffe, Stettheimer, Torr, Zorach: Women Modernists in New York was conflicted about having her work categorized and defined according to gender.

As an internationally recognized artist whose work spanned five decades, Allan D'Arcangelo began painting at a pivotal moment when artists, critics, and dealers were challenging the dominance of abstract expressionism and other modernist doctrines and hotly contesting new criteria in defining the creation and interpretation of art in society.

From the studio as a site of labor, to one that blurs production, performance, and spectacle, to a concept that defines the artist's own identity, the exhibition features artists who, in response to changing socio - economic influences, represented new modes of working and living that would subsequently spread across society.

By attempting to understand characteristics of different life systems and their associations with our own entity as my subject matter, I intend to introduce new visual dialogue and meanings for ephemera in life to define conflict associated with contradictions inherent in nature and society, such as physical fragility and danger, ephemeral and perpetual, creation and extinction.

The premise might not be new, but it echoes a growing anxiety in contemporary society, that the Sound like... organisers define as «the inescapibility of gazing and being gazed upon... the vulnerability of being imaged».

Do the Guerrilla Girls themselves have an idea of commissioning, or themselves creating serious histories of either the position of women in the art world, or more broadly, in society in the U.S. or in New York, or however you define that?

From the studio as a site of labor; to one that blurs production, performance, and spectacle; to a concept that defines the artist's own identity; the exhibition examines the work of artists who, in response to changing socioeconomic influences, represented new modes of working and living that would subsequently spread across society.

Close Encounters is international in scope but includes many figures who lived and worked in New York and who helped define it as a cultural capital in the decades following World War II, including Langston Hughes, George Balanchine and the Ballet Society, Saul Steinberg, Truman Capote, Woody Allen, Louise Bourgeois, and Rudolf Nureyev.

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«Two years ago, when I was first elected, the goal I set was to define a new role for the law society in improving access to justice,» says Conway.

The Nova Scotia Barristers» Society currently defines the «legal entities» envisioned to be part of its new model of legal services regulation to include «government lawyer and department / team».

There can be no blurring of the lines between a society whose identity is defined by traditional, pre-British sovereign laws, and a society whose identity is defined by the laws of the new sovereign power.

Unlike Indigenous societies in other nations, such as Canada and New Zealand, the presumption of terra nullius by the colonizer meant that the sources and pretexts of Indigenous law and custom were not sought, which compounds the difficulty of defining the authority of customary law in the contemporary context.

The term innovation can be defined as something original and more effective and, as a consequence, new, that «breaks into» the market or society».