Sentences with phrase «noble aspirations for»

Like Christianity, secular humanism has many noble aspirations for human society, such as peace, justice and equality.

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He identified the Church with the cause of the poor, with the longing for peace and decency between people of different beliefs and ideas, with large and noble aspirations, with sorrow for sin and with hope for the future.

In his recent book, Life, Liberty, and the Defense of Dignity, he offers «four benefits» of mortality: interest and engagement, suggesting that adding, say, twenty years to the human life span would not proportionately increase the pleasures of life; seriousness and aspiration, proposing that the knowledge that our life is limited is what leads us to take life seriously and passionately; beauty and love, presenting the idea that it is precisely their perishability that makes, for instance, flowers beautiful to us, just as the coming and going of spring makes that season all the more meaningful; and, finally, virtue and moral excellence, by which he means the virtuous and noble deeds that mortality makes possible, including the sacrifice of our own life for a worthy cause.

What this Devil needs to encourage is the human tendency to identify as liberating the reduction of any aspiration, however seemingly noble or virtuous, to bodily wastes, as if he were an ardent press agent for the scatological mysticism of the French writer Georges Bataille.

Cooking every meal from home is a noble aspiration, but it's not necessarily realistic for most busy people, myself included.

Her nose for a good scoop becomes somewhat difficult to maintain once she begins to have feelings of fondness for the down - and - out rodeo star, coming to enjoy his simple ambitions and noble aspirations.

For all the noble aspirations that fueled the decades - long drive toward greater federal involvement, the friction and frustration created as Fourteenth Amendment hopes crashed into Tenth Amendment realities paved the way for the Every Student Succeeds AFor all the noble aspirations that fueled the decades - long drive toward greater federal involvement, the friction and frustration created as Fourteenth Amendment hopes crashed into Tenth Amendment realities paved the way for the Every Student Succeeds Afor the Every Student Succeeds Act.

While NCLB established a noble new aspiration — raising achievement while closing achievement gaps among all groups of students — its goals were undermined by accountability requirements for schools to make «Adequate Yearly Progress» (AYP) that were generally onerous and, in the case of English learners, literally impossible to meet.