Sentences with phrase «of change in societies»

Technology produces many of the changes in society, but the effect of those changes depends on many things other than technology itself.

To some extent, this attitude of denial has come about because of changes in our society in this century: the marked decrease in the number of deaths at an early age; the development of specialized professions for the care of the dying and the dead; the emergence of geographical mobility, with the consequence that most of us live at some distance from aging and dying relatives, including parents; the growth of separate communities for the aging, not only nursing homes but retirement communities.

To this end we set up a ten - member «Commission of Strategy,» which did a notable piece of work in elaborating a complete plan for revising the church's structure and forms of expression in the light of the changes in society.

If you're sensible and moderate, perhaps even old - fashioned in your outlook, in favour of traditional marriage, say, or concerned about the pace of change in society, maybe disapproving of mass immigration and not particularly enthused by the growth of identity politics, then there's not really anywhere for you to go, politically, these days.

Although this work does not reach the level of classics such as Roger Penrose's The Emperor's New Mind or Joseph Weizenbaum's Computer Power and Human Reason, nevertheless, Talbott shows an impressive grasp of the breathless pace of change in our society that computers have wrought.

«This is proof that the big screen experience may arguably be the most powerful platform of change in our society,» said Paul Dergarabedian,» senior media analyst with comScore.

They are the ones considered to be the harbingers of change in society.

That would be very dangerous for helping make learning more accessible, affordable, personalized, and bite - sized such that it could be consumed flexibly and fluidly throughout one's life to continually skill up to match the pace of change in society.

The works presented within the art space are the stories of loss and hope, stories of changes in society's reaction towards people affected by HIV / AIDS, stories of how the need to survive shifted cultural boundaries of what was and what was not appropriate to discuss publicly.

In this focus installation, both the sign and the photo montage are presented with related works to portray the historic context more broadly and cast a sharper focus on the nature of the changes in society and art that have played out in Africa during the second half of the 20th century.

Not exact matches

She cites the fact that women are 57 % of today's college graduates, as well as the 4 million copies of Lean In sold, as indicators of how there have been major changes in terms of how women are perceived in American societIn sold, as indicators of how there have been major changes in terms of how women are perceived in American societin terms of how women are perceived in American societin American society.

«Our stance in support of the liberties of peaceful, personal expression afforded to all Americans will remains strong and we will continue to encourage our players to respectfully use their earned platform to inspire positive change in our nation and throughout society.»

He has personally participated in vision clinics for low income societies in the United States and South America, and doing so completely changed his perspective of the world.

When I talk to my mother, who is of that same generation, she speaks of the women who attended Seven Sisters» colleges as strong and independent, career - minded, and determined to change society — certainly not the idea I had in my head.

As economic tensions between Silicon Valley elites and the rest of society increase — affordable housing in California among the flash points — the approach to contract workers may need to change.

Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) officials tell Healthcare IT News that, while we can expect to see some major changes to health policy under President Trump (including rollbacks to the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare), health IT will continue to get «plenty of airtime in Congress» and could even become an important jobs priority for the incoming president.

The Internet of Things has the potential to bring great change to society — both in the office and in our personal lives.

If we are living in a time of with massive economic change or a big shift in society's preferences, someone who invests like Buffett will get caught off guard.

Something is off in our society when we spend more time worrying about the color of a dress as opposed to climate change.»

Last week, U.K. Home Secretary Theresa May gave a speech at the Conservative Party conference in which she said that, «When immigration is too high, when the pace of change is too fast, it's impossible to build a cohesive society.»

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Slower growth — a function of structural changes such as an aging society — means economic slack created in the last recession is being eroded at a sluggish pace.

Though BCE claimed it desperately needed the deal for its Bell Media division to compete in an ever - changing and increasingly international market (not to mention to bulk up its presence in Quebec), and altruistically promised to undertake a variety of tangible benefits for the greater good of Canadian society, Blais was having none of it.

The Ralph Review heralds a sea change in the way small business interacts with the tax system, according to the Australian Society of Certified Practising Accountants (ASCPA).

«There's a massive opportunity here to change the global financial structure, to change a lot of ways that society interacts with technology,» says Elizabeth Stark, the CEO of Lightning Labs, which, in March, released an early version of much anticipated software that is designed to make Bitcoin transactions faster, cheaper, and more private.

Other characteristics that are shared due to the common methodology include: (1) The estimates encompass both transfers and changes in society's real resources (the latter being benefits in the context of the 2016 RIA but costs in this RIA because gains are forgone); (2) the estimates have a tendency toward overestimation in that they reflect an assumption that the April 2016 Fiduciary Rule will eliminate (rather than just reduce) underperformance associated with the practice of incentivizing broker recommendations through variable front - end - load sharing; and (3) the estimates have a tendency toward underestimation in that they represented only one negative effect (poor mutual fund selection) of one source of conflict (load sharing), in one market segment (IRA investments in front - load mutual funds).

Titov, who is reportedly a friend of Putin's as well as a «part of the Kremlin establishment,» seconded the president's fervor and opined that there exists «a need for change in [Russian] society» that may be addressed, at least in part, through the «development of the blockchain, cryptocurrencies, IT spheres.»

In fact, the survey found that the business sector in general is one of the top advocates for sustainable change, almost on the level of civil societIn fact, the survey found that the business sector in general is one of the top advocates for sustainable change, almost on the level of civil societin general is one of the top advocates for sustainable change, almost on the level of civil society.

And it crosses over all these lines: local environmental impact, there's the climate argument, there's the First Nations rights argument, there's the stewardship argument, so it can really draw from a whole wide sector of civil society in the way that the faceless catastrophe of climate change can't.

«Growing concern about climate change — from society in general, and from long - term shareholders in particular — has forced oil companies to think about the implications of a transition to a low - carbon economy.

If the past two decades are any indication, the role of business in society has changed.

Yet an eclectic bunch of investors and iconoclasts in the Valley have also plummeted head long into worries over AI coming too soon, and changing human society too fast.

This greater level of understanding and awareness of the threats to growth that are beyond the control of business alone is an important aspect of the changing role of business in society.

It does not have to be this way and through our mission we want to change the statistic of 99 % of businesses failing in the first 5 years to 99 % being successful and having an amazing positive influence on society and our communities.

Do you think that there is a change in the mindset of society, and how should the big tech companies, how should Amazon deal with that?

With no concept of how civilized human society behaves in the developed world, they bring their crass ignorance to the party and ruin it for all the other tranquillity - seeking customers who've parted with the same chunk of change that they have.

China and Singapore, by the way, are nondemocratic capitalistic societies, and so it's actually easier for those types of governments to make wholesale change than it is in our case, so they can make the types of systems that we've been talking about, or they could decide to mirror Singapore or whatever, and everybody just kind of has to take it.

The role of women in families, businesses and society is in a greater state of change than ever before.

Efforts to find shared value in operating practices and in the social dimensions of competitive context have the potential not only to foster economic and social development but to change the way companies and society think about each other.

What we do know today is that traditional methods of structured customer, buyer, and market research that are quantitative based can not address the social and cultural changes taking place in our business society.

Sara Sutton Fell led a competency workshop on «Mobilizing Your Remote Workforce» as well as a discussion group on Digital Changes in Society focused on Employment to an international group of leaders from corporate, nonprofit, NGO, and educational organizations.

The future of bitcoin is uncertain, but with continuous positive gains over the past several years and an expanding interest in the development of blockchain, the technology is set to bring change to society in one way or another.

Here's what our anti-statist libertarian purists say in their most reasonable mode: We're going to have climate change and few babies; those are examples of the collateral damage of a society dedicated to individual liberty.

Most recently, Dr. Peter Lawler of Berry College in Georgia gave an informative, as well as provocative, presentation on trends occurring in society: «Change We Can Actually See (And....

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Jesus death and resurrection changed the world for the good forever so all of you liberals Christian haters should live with it or go live in societies that show no tolerance.

Perhaps it is now time to recognize that the third world - changing scientific achievement of the last century is not the unmitigated good that much of Western culture claims it is — and that treating the sexual revolution as a unambiguous, indeed undeniable, boon to humanity can lead to a lot of personal unhappiness, homicidal ghouls like Kermit Gosnell, and the deployment of coercive state power in ways that threaten civil society and democracy.

I believe that man is, by nature, an exile and will never be self - sufficient or complete on this earth; that his chances of happiness and virtue, here, remain more or less constant through the centuries and, generally speaking, are not much affected by the political and economic conditions in which he lives; that the balance of good and ill tends to revert to a norm; that sudden changes of physical condition are usually ill, and are advocated by the wrong people for the wrong reasons; that the intellectual communists of today have personal, irrelevant grounds for their antagonism to society, which they are trying to exploit.

These passages suggest that the biblical solution to injustice — racial or otherwise — is not just to pray that people have a change of heart but for people to take responsibility for the societies they have built — or in our case, inherited.

It would be nice to be able to concentrate on alleviating the fear / hate in secular society instead of in the church for a change.