Sentences with phrase «of accident of birth»
All children should have access to excellent facilities and these sorts of enrichment activities without it being a matter of an accident of birth (as Michael Gove used to put it)
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We want what philosophers call «luck egalitarianism»; a society in which inequalities that are as a result of luck, of accident of birth, should be rectified, but not those that are due to individual choices.
What is needed is a message of unity that includes all citizens, in the true sense of the word, regardless of accident of birth.
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Excellence may require a mountain of hard work, according to Gladwell, but it's not mostly an accident of birth.
They rejected, as Paine wrote, «the savage idea of man considering his species as his enemy, because the accident of birth gave the individuals existence in countries distinguished by different names.»
Each of these individuals embarked on an essentially Jewish quest brought about by the accident or providence of his birth.
Science and the scientific method is universal and consistent all over the World whereas religion is regional and a person's religious conviction, no matter how deeply held, is clearly nothing more than an accident of birth
According to the myth, «God» knows at the instant (and even before) that he created you what the cause of your demise would be - whether by stillborn birth, cancer, suicide, accident or old age.
My birth would appear to be the result of pure accident.
Difficult circumstances such as prolonged illness, the birth of a handicapped child, a divorce, an accident, or a death are a part of nearly everyone's experience.
Most Christians get heaven on accident of birth, just as accident of birth condemns many if not most people.
Status should be determined by function rather than by accident of birth or fortune or by success in the struggle for prestige.
I will not let the accident of birth [which God allowed] dicates the rest of my life.
Thousands of people were interviewed about their brushes with death in every kind of situation — being in a car accident, giving birth, attempting suicide, et cetera — and many described the same odd thing: love.
Would he really condemn some children to eternal suffering just for the accident of a heathen birth?
Furthermore, angry rhetoric — especially directed these days against human beings who by the accidents of birth happen to be Americans, white and male — never solves any of the problems.
No, my dream for America is for an aristocracy based on achievement, rather than an aristocracy based on the accident of birth, or the color of skin, or whether you are a Wasp or a southern European in ancestry.
Either we are autonomous individuals who transcend the accidents of birth or we are members of whatever identity groups we happened to be born into.
But, these people have no access to the bible or christianity, based solely on accident of birth, where they live and where God placed them.
As they grow, children encounter many large and small crises both expected and unexpected: birth itself, weaning, toilet training, separation from parents, illness, accidents, the birth of a brother or sister, bad dreams, starting school, learning to read, making friends, adolescence — these and many other experiences provide the potential for problems of varying intensity.
Our very Constitution binds us, that is to say, the very breath of our political nostrils binds us, to disown all distinctions among men, to disregard persons, to disallow privilege the most established and sacred, to legislate only for the common good, no longer for those accidents of birth or wealth or culture which spiritually individualize man from his kind, but only for those great common features of social want and dependence which naturally unite him with his kind, and inexorably demand the organization of such unity....
It is an odd fate for a seventeenth - century Dutch philosopher who adopted an impersonal more geometrico style in his writing, one determined by the accident of his Jewish birth and his exodus, as a young man, from the Jewish community of Amsterdam.
(c) Science and the scientific method is universal and consistent all over the World whereas religion is regional and a person's religious conviction, no matter how deeply held, is clearly nothing more than an accident of birth; or
Family - of - origin, Religion - of - Origin, Politics - of - Origin, Sex - of - Origin, Country - of - Origin: We should be free to think if we owe any allegiance to accidents of birth.
It is not moral culpability or choice that divides law - abiding citizens from criminals — so Clarence Darrow argued eloquently — but the accident of birth or social circumstances.
You believe in the Bible from the accident of birth, and the Turks believe in the Koran from the same accident, and each calls the other infidel.
What I don't get about religious people is that the reason that they believe what they believe in is all an accident of birth and of human history.
Sustaining food, sweet water, days without illness, births without accident and parental love without frustration, and satisfying length of days (23:25 - 26)-- abundant life in these terms is offered in a covenant relationship in which Yahweh creates a people and a people serve him in faithfulness.
I am (a) A victim of child molestation (b) A r.ape victim trying to recover (c) A mental patient with paranoid delusions (d) A Christian The only discipline known to often cause people to kill others they have never met and / or to commit suicide in its furtherance is: (a) Architecture; (b) Philosophy; (c) Archeology; or (d) Religion What is it that most differentiates science and all other intellectual disciplines from religion: (a) Religion tells people not only what they should believe, but what they are morally obliged to believe on pain of divine retribution, whereas science, economics, medicine etc. has no «sacred cows» in terms of doctrine and go where the evidence leads them; (b) Religion can make a statement, such as «there is a composite god comprised of God the Father, Jesus and the Holy Spirit», and be totally immune from experimentation and challenge, whereas science can only make factual assertions when supported by considerable evidence; (c) Science and the scientific method is universal and consistent all over the World whereas religion is regional and a person's religious conviction, no matter how deeply held, is clearly nothing more than an accident of birth; or (d) All of the above.
People may still hold the same beliefs and values that were held by their predecessors in more uniform situations, but they will hold them in a different manner: what before was given through the accident of birth now becomes a matter of choice.
Yet, sadly, it seems not to occur to many such persons that had they, by accident of birth, been reared in a different faith culture they might well believe just as passionately in a different «one true faith» that today is totally alien to them.
The birth of the cookie was actually a happy accident, as small batches of cake dough were dropped into the oven to test the temperature.
By a different accident of birth, my kids were born into traumatic situations, and now fight mightily to function with neurological wiring that tells them every minute of every day that they are unsafe and everything they know and love could at any minute be taken away from them.
But having well - behaved kids is also in part an accident of birth.
Women run 5 to 7 times the risk of death with cesarean section compared with vaginal birth.14, 29 Complications during and after the surgery include surgical injury to the bladder, uterus and blood vessels (2 per 100), 30 hemorrhage (1 to 6 women per 100 require a blood transfusion), 30 anesthesia accidents, blood clots in the legs (6 to 20 per 1000), 30 pulmonary embolism (1 to 2 per 1000), 30 paralyzed bowel (10 to 20 per 100 mild cases, 1 in 100 severe), 30 and infection (up to 50 times morecommon).1 One in ten women report difficulties with normal activities two months after the birth, 23 and one in four report pain at the incision site as a major problem.9 One in fourteen still report incisional pain six months or more after delivery.9 Twice as many women require rehospitalization as women having normal vaginal birth.18 Especially with unplanned cesarean section, women are more likely to experience negative emotions, including lower self - esteem, a sense of failure, loss of control, and disappointment.
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Infant mortality includes all deaths up to 1 year of age (such as accidents, illnesses etc) and so tells us nothing about the care provided to women and fetuses / babies during pregnancy and birth.
She had a cord accident and as it happened out of hospital (precip birth, not planned HB) her not breathing was totally unexpected — who expects that?
The probability of a baby dying from a home birth is approximately twice the probability of a child dying in a car accident at any point from birth to age 25, and ten times as high as the risk of dying in a car accident between birth and age 10.
To guard against accidents, and maybe to slow the trickle of rising home births, the AMA issued a resolution in June, saying that «the safest setting for labor and delivery is a hospital.»
I have friends who lost their babies to preventable home birth accidents, attended by negligent midwives, and yet other friends who have lost babies because they refused induction of labor against the advice of their medical provider.
Before the days of readily available c - section, it was common for perfectly developed babies to die due to accidents during labor and birth.
Someone who earns a lot of money can generally be trusted to be competent to manage and invest it well, but we have no similar assurances that the recipient of the property will be particularly qualified to manage it in the case of «dumb money» received by lottery or accident of birth.
And every time you reward someone in the economy for the accident of their birth, you are simultaneously not providing an incentive for someone who has economic merit.
But there is an English nation, with or without political structures, and it consists of those who sprang from its soil and grew here, an accident of birth like every other nationality.
Whether it's Shankill Road or Bradford, many peoples» fate is arguably determined by the accident of birth.
These are people who are simply seeking refuge from cruelty and suffering they want to make a contribution and, but for accident of birth, it could be any of us.
True, the difference may have nothing to do with anything other than accidents of birth, or random variation in nature, but they will do different things.
With a moratorium on new life peers, 46 new directly elected «senators» would represent barely 6 % of the House, merely a quarter of the number appointed in this parliament and exactly half those there by accident of birth.
The Lords used to contain mostly hereditary peers, people who inherited their seats by an accident of birth.