Sentences with phrase «of open society»

The concept of justice reinvestment came out of the Open Society Institute, a New York think - tank led by George Soros.

The practice area was developed through the generosity of The Open Society Institute and the law firm of Shearman & Sterling.

It was inevitable that the boundaries of what any individual could reasonably expect to remain confidential or private were necessarily influenced by the fact of an open society with a free press.

Disturbing ter see «doing science,» innovation of an open society, captured by the thinking of a tribal society, magical thinking and observing taboos that serve social cohesion but not truth.

BBD As far as any of us open society advocates are capable of being groupies, MANY of us here are Kim followers.

Take dare of yourself, Dr Judith Curry, Defender of the Open Society... Try physio, sports chiro, tai chi, what ever it takes, you need two strong arms in your fight for science and justice and the George Washington — American — Way... Then, once more into the fray!

He is a 2017 recipient of the Open Society Foundations» Soros Equality Fellowship, awarded to practitioners from a variety fields to support work that advances racial justice.

He is a 2017 recipient of the Open Society Foundations» Soros Equality Fellowship awarded to practitioners from a variety of fields to support work that advances racial justice.

Only if your definition of an open society is one ruled by the market.

I don't necessarily believe this aspect of our open society is all that great but I suppose we can choose to look away and not read things.

With the support of the Open Society Foundations, Professor Forman is currently writing a book about African - American attitudes towards crime and punishment in the age of mass incarceration.

Meanwhile, Mr. Soros announced that the Baltimore office of his Open Society Institute was awarding the district $ 229,000 to help draw up the restructuring plans.

The protesters acting under the aegis of Open Society Coalition also called for the immediate resignation of the Senate President.

The protesters acting under the aegis of Open Society Coalition also called for the immediate resignation -LSB-...]

Free expression, the free exchange of ideas and free debate are hallmarks of an open society; violence and the threat of violence should never be allowed to compromise that, especially in our universities.

The new version of an open society should take into account the plurality, heterogeneity, and hybridity of a Europe shaped by globalization.

John Stuart Mill is a prominent figure in the humanist tradition and his essay, On Liberty, is pivotal in thinking about the political values that underpin the humanist vision of an open society.

Liberalism will only bounce back if it appeals to young people, which means that the new vision of the open society ought to look forward rather than back.

In the first essay in our series, Anthony Barnett, co-founder of Charter 88 and a bold advocate of the open society, argues trenchantly that the best outcome of the forthcoming election would be a hung parliament.

Will you provide a list of the meetings you have had with representatives, or Brussels based lobbyists, who act on behalf of Open Society?

That free democracies are vibrant, with colourful political advertising, is something to be cherished as an essential component of an open society.

The very nature of an open society (country) creates the risk that attacks will occur.

Thus globalization and the advent of the open society, while bringing great benefit to the individual, can have serious consequences for human society.

They also embody increasingly the insights of the secular disciplines and reflect the author's increasing enthusiasm for the virtues of an open society which allows freedom to all religious traditions, and also the freedom to analyze and criticize all these traditions through the disciplines of an empirical and historical culture.92

Our responsibility, as technologists and as members of an open society is to make sure that the positives adequately outweigh the negatives.

It's time for the defenders of open societies and free markets to fight back.»

Not exact matches

«We are marrying the Internet's principles of open access to information with society's need for unfettered — and unfiltered — access to news,» said Jeremy Johnson, co-CEO of BitTorrent.

Free speech and the ability to tolerate offence are the hallmarks of a free and open society.

While it is clear that as a society, there is still a lot of work to do to advance respectful, open dialogues, the events over the weekend serve as a reminder of why we — as leaders — rallied behind the CEO Action for Diversity & InclusionTM in the first place, and how important it is to create candid, safe, and trusting environments for our employees and communities.

Farquharson's CV says he spent a summer as an intern with the Centre for Democracy and Peace Building in Northern Ireland, appeared in a rugby video played at the World Cup opening ceremony in 2015 (which Prince Harry also appeared in), and was a member of the Rugby School's chemistry club, the Blue Bunsen Society.

Billionaire investor George Soros has transferred «the bulk of his wealth» to the Open Society Foundations, the nonprofit organization said.

George Soros has transferred the bulk of his wealth to his Open Society Foundations.

Created by Soros in 1979, Open Society is a grant - making foundation with branches and partners around the world and focuses on supporting democracies and combating issues of injustice and discrimination, among other causes.

And while it's a cliche to say that we're now part of an information - based economy and society, «our future... is almost certain to be an intensification of our present reality: greater and greater information dependence in every matter of life and work,» all relying on an open Internet.

A recent research report by the Society for Human Resource Management states that nearly 40 percent of hiring managers cite lack of technical skills among the reasons why they can't fill job openings.

«America's strengths include [the fact it is a] society that attracts talent from around the world and assimilates them comfortably as Americans; and a language that is the equivalent of an open system that is clearly the lingua franca of the leaders in science, technology, invention, business, education, diplomacy and those who rise to the top of their own societies around the world.»

America's open society drives an entrepreneurial culture of risk taking, is accepting of failure, leading to creativity and innovation.

If you are one of them and genuinely want to contribute to society rather than only counting the profit, a good option can be to open a fresh fruit juice stall.

So, opening the gates of sodomy for one and all to become sodomizers of sensual Acts will make things better for a society that has been spiraling downward and soon to reach its» bottom?

But otherwise it is to wonder if the Prime Minister was a touch disappointment when he opened the budget book last Thursday and found that, not only hadn't the Finance Minister eliminated all taxes, but he'd seen fit to budget for several increases in the cost of civil society.

Consider Muslim society, which has permitted divorce from the start but whose tolerance of open homosexual behavior is obviously limited.

Ancient religions should welcome the political achievements of modernity while calling modernity to open its windows and doors to a world of transcendent truth and love: ``... the great achievements of the modern age» the recognition and guarantee of freedom of conscience, of human rights, of the freedom of science and hence of a free society» should be confirmed and developed while keeping reason and freedom open to their transcendent foundation, so as to ensure that these achievements are not undone....

However Katharine Jefferts Schori, of The Episcopal Church, said in a statement: «I rejoice that the Supreme Court has opened the way for the love of two people to be recognized by all the states of this Union, and that the Court has recognized that it is this enduring, humble love that extends beyond the grave that is to be treasured by society wherever it exists.

Secondly, however, and more importantly for the purposes of this article, Ford's stipulation that natural compounds are larger or more complex actual entities rather than structured societies implicitly confirms the entitative or substantialist understanding of actual occasions criticized in the opening paragraphs of this article.

In Germany the discussion was intensified by the fact that the opening of the play coincided with a meeting of the Society for Christian - Jewish Co-operation, which issued statements criticizing the play and suggested that a committee consisting of a Catholic, a Protestant and a Jew be formed to advise on revisions of the text.

Ref to your words... «As a Christian, this provokes a great deal of sadness in me and others who are committed to transforming Syria into an open, democratic, inclusive, secular and religiously tolerant society.»

The first is that all human societies contain a kind of opening toward transcendence; the relationship between the human person and God is constitutive and unavoidable.

To follow Jesus means to hope and pray for a world structured on principles that would turn present society upside down, create countercultural communities, nonviolently, and to do this while remaining open to ideas and ways of being of quite different sorts.

The dynamics of a free and open society, in which the individual has full range for creative capacities, have shown their superiority over tyranny built upon a 19th - century ideology.

In these times of stress - in a society pressured on all sides, moving toward its breaking point - play can purify our sensibility, make us open again to the gifts of God's goodness which surround us.