Sentences with phrase «numbers of human lives»

Trillions of dollars, and untold numbers of human lives depend on it.

Another is simply the mixing of naïve humans and risky wildlife; shark bite numbers relate to the number of humans living in Florida more than to any other factor.

Not exact matches

While we thrive thanks to lightning speed Internet connections, cell phones that are smarter than the average human being and other neat gadgets that make our lives feel and seem easier, we are exhausting a number of non-renewable resources.

The Hillary Step is the key bottleneck on the Everest summit climb and can often become a juncture where human life is lost dependent on two variables --(1) the number of climbers concentrated at the Step that either want to ascend or descend at any one time, and (2) the change in trend in the weather at the top of the mountain.

Just make sure a live human being is on the other end of the phone number listed.

These numbers compare with 69 % of all people surveyed who «believe there is solid evidence that the average temperature on Earth has been getting warmer over the past few decades» and 57 % who «believe humans and other living things evolved over time.»

Thus in dealing with the real human problems, such as the relief of suffering, the adjustment of personality, the release from fear and ignorance, the care of the physically or mentally defective or of the aged and infirm, there is nearly always a desperate shortage of living agents, and among their small number the cozily non-committed agnostic is very rarely to be found.

Introspective self - consciousness involves causal objectification by the dominant occasion of some of the unimaginably large number of concreta making up the human mind / brain, including what can be called the subordinate nonconscious living persons responsible for our habitual behavior, that is, sub-personalities (RHNB 148f).

It is significant that there are an increasing number of those who believe that God's life itself must be conceived as having an element of adventure and movement into an open future, else we can not conceive that He enters sympathetically into our human experience.23

Under the sway of this feeling, large numbers of Catholics lead a double or crippled life in practice; they have to step out of their human dress so as to have faith in themselves as Christians — and inferior Christians at that.8

Perhaps there are those who believe that it is a great medical step forward that we can indefinitely sustain the lives of those who have lost their human potential, or who believe that the sanctity of life is enhanced by large numbers of permanently unresponsive bodies being sustained through a network of feeding tubes at one end of those bodies and excretory tubes at the other.

(1) to accept the ambiguity of such a high number of humans on the planet; (2) to stabilize that population as much as possible, and then (3) to find ways of allowing six to eleven billion people to live on the planet in ways that are ecologically wise.

It suggests that, in addition to the contempt shown for human life in these practices, they are also very bad medicine: «One is struck by the fact that, in any other area of medicine, ordinary professional ethics would never allow a medical procedure which involved such a high number of failures and fatalities» (DP 15).

From the early days of human history we have seen one ideological movement after another rise, inspire, become corrupted by political and other power brokers, attract huge numbers of mindless followers who are trying to fill the empty hole in their pointless lives, and then ultimately disappear in a corrupt mess.

The point, and I make it a number of times in this book, is that there is an enormous gap between what natural science describes and what we know as living, sensing, experiencing human beings.

they are too into themselves to take care of another person... look out for number one... that's what they do... so sad when people reduce the human baby (ok fetus) to nothing but a pest and an annoyance to another persons life

When this belief was coupled with the notion of a last judgement which would not occur until God «had accomplished the number of his elect», in words from still another prayer, it said something about the corporate nature of human life, the equally corporate nature of whatever destiny men have, and the need for patient waiting until our fellowmen have found their capacity for fulfillment along with us.

If that occurrence as a whole represents a special divine act in human life and history, how can the possibility of any number of miracles within it be ruled out?

As the Eastern Seaboard begins cobbling back together some semblance of normalcy following the superstorm's landfall, sad numbers are being confirmed about the loss of human life.

In voting for someone who I think will help reduce the number of abortions, I vote for someone who does not share my conviction about the sanctity of human life.

My life is happy and fulfilled, and with the exception of a number of young nonbelievers who are the way they are because religion has somehow hurt them, most nonreligious people are good, upstanding people who want to further the human race.

For the first time in the history of creation, the life support systems of the Planet Earth are being destroyed by human activities... Throughout history humans have caused locally significant damage to the environment, but never before have human numbers and actions combined to threaten the integrity of the entire planet.

The argument against neo-Darwinism begins from the undoubted observation that many features of living beings, like the bacterial flagellum or the human eye, are the result of not one genetic mutation but of a large number of such mutations.

The right to life and equality is enshrined in a number of international human rights instruments.

And the reason is that the best economists spend their lives emphasizing that economic life is not about numbers, but about the triumph of the human mind when given the freedom to innovate and respond.

Volume XV, Number 2 The Inner Life and Work of the Teacher — Margaret Duberley The Human Body as a Resonance Organ: A Sketch of an Anthropology of the Senses — Christian Rittelmeyer Aesthetic Knowledge as a Source for the Main Lesson — Peter Guttenhöfer Knitting It All Together — Fonda Black The Work of Emmi Pikler — Susan Weber Seven Myths of Social Participation of Waldorf Graduates — Wanda Ribeiro and Juan Pablo de Jesus Pereira Volunteerism, Communication, Social Interaction: A Survey of Waldorf School Parents — Martin Novom A Timeline for the Association of Waldorf Schools of North America — David S. Mitchell Reports from the Research Fellows More Online!

Volume IV, Number 2 Human Biography and Its Genetic Instrument — Michaela Glöckler, M.D. Challenges and Opportunities in Evolution Education — James Henderson The High Stakes of Standardized Testing — Edward Miller Ecology: Coming into Being versus Eco-Data — Will Brinton Genes and Life: The Need for Quantitative Understanding — Craig Holdrege

My friend Lois Goodman, an amazing, loving human being and incredibly gifted Intuitive, has said to me a number of times over the last year or so, «Monica, you've got to let go of trying so hard to create the perfect life for your daughters.

Even though mothers» bodies are capable of miraculously growing a human being for nine months and bringing that precious new life into the world, those same life - giving bodies seem to be failing in ever - increasing numbers to provide life - giving nutrition to those precious babies because of issues with low milk supply.

which, according to the experts is when they get their first tooth, but according to actual human beings who are raising live children is probably closer to when the number of teeth nears the double digits,

Giving each candidates a number of delegates proportional to its share of the vote in the state, without rounding (I know, if we're talking of living human delegates, it will be very cruel and unusual to sends 2.34 delegates to Washington, but abstractly why not?)

Predictive technology is so named because it calls multiple numbers at once on the premise that only one out of every few calls will reach a real, live human, then connects that person with the waiting volunteer.

The task force, chaired by city Human Resources Administration commissioner Steve Banks, Housing Preservation and Development commissioner Vicki Been and Laura Mascuch, executive director of the Supportive Housing Network of New York, will help the city expedite the creation of the new housing units, de Blasio said, as it faces high numbers of homeless people living in city shelters and on the streets.

Arase reiterated that the Nigeria Police Force places a high value on the preservation of human life and believes that the prevention of crime is its number one operational priority and will therefore involve the community in the delivery of these services.

Analysing the ways that mitochondrial DNA sequences differ across a large number of living people has helped to establish prehistoric population trends, but this record stretches back only 200,000 years to the point where all humans alive today shared a common female ancestor.

While an increase in population from 6.8 billion today to closer to 10 billion by mid-century will make sustainable living on the planet a challenge, especially since the bulk of that growth will be among those living in poverty who have a moral claim to economic development, the real problem may not be human numbers so much as human behavior.

This reliance may explain why humans give less weight to human life as the number of potential victims goes up.

Moreover, whereas Saitou had «countless» numbers of live mouse embryos to dissect, the team has no access to human embryos.

If humans were to survive a long time and spread through the galaxy, then the total number of people who will ever live might number in the trillions.

The potential for epidemics to occur in parts of Africa and the Asia - Pacific region is particularly concerning given that the vast numbers of people who could be exposed to Zika virus are living in environments where health and human resources to prevent, detect, and respond to epidemics are limited.

In fact, it's a representation of the numbers 1 through 10; the atomic numbers of several elements important to life on Earth; information about DNA; a representation of the human form; a graphic of the solar system; and a graphic of the transmitting telescope.

That will eventually spawn inconceivable numbers of Boltzmann brains, far outnumbering every human who has ever, or will ever, live.

«Is there a limit to the number of stem cell divisions, and does that imply that there's a limit to human life?»

«When you're trying to reconstruct the diet of human ancestors, you want to look at a number of things, including the habitats they lived in, the potential foods that were available, how valuable those various food items would have been in relation to their energy content and how long it takes to handle a food item.»

The number of people with glaucoma is increasing all the time and so given how dependent humans are on vision to get around in our day - to - day lives, I think it's absolutely crucial.

He pointed out that living things have been evolving for billions of years, and that they use a great number of enzymes that potentially can be harnessed by human scientists to edit genes.

Growing human vulnerability (due to growing numbers of people living in exposed and marginal areas or due to the development of more high - value property in high - risk zones) is increasing the risk, while human endeavours (such as by local governments) try to mitigate possible effects.

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As Swarthmore College psychologist Barry Schwartz wrote in a 2000 article in American Psychologist, «I think it is only a slight exaggeration to say that for the first time in human history, in the contemporary United States large numbers of people can live exactly the kind of lives they want, unconstrained by material, economic, or cultural limitations.»

One of the challenges lies within science itself; scientific studies, by their very nature, attempt to isolate all of life's complexity down to two variables in order to study them while nutrition, as it's practised in the day to day lives of human beings, consists of an infinite number of important factors that are often not taken into account.