Sentences with phrase «of human pressures»

Ironically these are the effective ways of mitigating the broad range of human pressures on the climate system — sequestering carbon dioxide in the landscape, reducing methane, nitrous oxide, tropospheric ozone, black carbon and CFC emissions.

That's the conclusion of a new study that used measurements of an array of human pressures on the ocean — from acidification to overfishing — to make a map of where those factors combined into stressed - out hotspots, as well as how the combinations of stressors had changed over time.

Not exact matches

The associate professor of human resources and management at McMaster University's DeGroote School of Business studies the demands that high - pressure workplaces make on people's time, and how they respond.

In each case, a mix of social pressure and technological refinements helped tame a cruel new order, and reaffirmed human dignity over machines.

That bill is now facing pressure from the Human Rights Campaign with backing from companies including IBM and Bank of America.

Without minimizing the human - rights struggles of the LGBT community, being CEO of Apple puts you under a tremendous amount of scrutiny, criticism, abuse, threats and pressure.

The research was conducted by dozens of international health and environmental experts and incorporates data from the ambitious Global Burden of Disease project, which highlighted how smoking, blood pressure, poor diet, and environmental factors affect human health earlier this year.

The reactors — six - foot - tall metal and glass boxes that glow seafoam green when at work — mimic what happens to carbon after millennia of pressure, but faster, with less human labor and a carbon - neutral footprint.

Stanford Graduate School of Business Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer wrote in the journal, Academy of Management Perspectives, that, «Although most of the research and public pressure concerning sustainability has been focused on the effects of business and organizational activity on the physical environment, companies and their management practices profoundly affect the human and social environment as well.»

Biotechnology has been one of the hottest areas for investors over the last five years due to the advent of multiple game - changing new medicines, and the ever - expanding human population that's putting a tremendous amount of pressure on healthcare systems worldwide.

By the time Pope Benedict XVI addressed the U.N. General Assembly on the sixtieth anniversary of the UDHR in 2008, opportunistic uses of human rights were in full swing, prompting the pope to announce, «Efforts need to be redoubled in the face of pressure to reinterpret the foundations of the Declaration and to compromise its inner unity so as to facilitate a move away from the protection of human dignity towards the satisfaction of simple interests, often particular interests.»

The United Nations Declaration on Human Rights of 1949 Articles 18 and 19 says that «every person should have the freedom to adhere to and practice the religion he or she chooses, and to change religion without coming under pressure as a result».

While this relativity can be interpreted to mean that values are wholly defined by the circumstances of culture and are merely expressions of cultural exigencies, the insistent pressures of the human conscience, oftentimes in contradiction to accepted cultural norms, render this interpretation doubtful.

He argued that the phenomenon of globalization is bringing new pressures of such magnitude that they could easily result in disastrous human conflicts, and that a global war of civilizations can be avoided only if world leaders accept the multi-civilizational character of global politics, and learn to co-operate.

Nowadays, it is they, the pupils, who take over the pace and the direction of every human discussion and question, from the pressures of their need, and the vitality of their keen young minds.

[T] he exposure of persistent human rights violations by the contras has led the Administration not to pressure contra leaders to enforce international codes of conduct,» the Americas Watch Report cited earlier states, «but to drown U.S. public opinion with praise for the «freedom fighters,» and to attempt to discredit all reports of their violations as inspired by communist or Sandinista propaganda.

The debunking frame of mind is one which, first of all, recognizes that any human choice is composed of a complex mixture of motives and pressures; such is the nature of human motivation and activity.

This was in fact a form of selective pressure for humans to have to deal with.

Rather, I argue that the profound and seemingly unmanageable pressures which marriage faces are a spiritual and not a psychosocial matter, one having to do with questions of human destiny: are we to live for ourselves, or for others, or for both in some yet undiscovered dialectic of being?

What is needed, now as ever, are forms of asceticism, forms of discipline that protect human beings from these pressures and help to preserve the manifestations of human dignity and the forms of community that dignity makes possible.

Muslims in general if left alone with out your intervention might end up fighting each other due differences of views in their faith, but if west keep on applying pressure causing starvation, harassment and confrontation against Muslims and against their faith, this will only lead them to leave behind their differences and jointly or individually confront their enemies, those who wants to deprive them from their rights of faith and belief and the more they are pressed the more they would complain by reacting and not by words and cries since words and cries seem does not reach, heard or work out now a days since being their judges and executors are all of non religious such as atheists, infidels, polytheists who consider their vast interests above all humanity and faith issues such as mercy, leniency, compassion, pity, sympathy, kindness all that of human mutual heavenly code of conduct.!?

The pressure of the church in a society should help reduce the tension between spiritual freedom and social morality and therefore the influence of the church in society should produce a larger community which also may be spoken as a first fruits of the Future, God intends for human beings.

To act unfreely, i.e., out of mere habit or control or pressure, is to generate a less than fully human experience.

Economics should be just one part of the good life; instead, powerful economic forces now create pressures on individuals and families to pursue material gain at the expense of other important human ends.

Better than many churchmen, he understood that human rights pressures on the Soviet Union served the broader cause of freedom and gave a measure of protection to human rights activists and dissidents.

Then it began to go sour: the targets came increasingly to dominate everything else, corners had to be cut, any spirit of service gave way to pressure to get profits: the human side of things seemed to vanish.

However, the pressure of the conceptuality remained, and we find down to our own time the view that if not the soul or will, then the ultimate «I» of Jesus was not human but divine.

Our biologists have catalogued the species of life on Earth and found no monsters or kraken, our doctors and psychiatrists have penetrated the human mind and found no evil spirits in the heads of the mentally infirm, our meteorologists now explain the whether in terms of barometric pressure, not angry sky - gods, our geologists understand earthquakes in terms of plate tectonics and continental drift — no angry deity is shaking the ground.

It has maintained a continuous moral pressure against the evils which it has regarded as blocking the fulfillment of human life.

The problem is so to order matters as to ensure that human totalization is brought about, not by the pressure of external forces, but through the internal workings of harmonization and sympathy.

Essentially, in the twofold irresistible embrace of a planet that is visibly shrinking, and Thought that is more and more rapidly coiling in upon itself; the dust of human units finds itself subjected to a formidable pressure of coalescence, far stronger than the individual or national repulsions that so alarm us.

If the problem of sustaining this human impetus does not trouble the theorists I have referred to, it is, I suppose, because they assume that cases of revulsion will be as exceptional in the future as they have been in the past — that a sufficient degree of physical health or euphoria will maintain vital pressure at a positive level, moderate but adequate, within the human mass.

But it has become plain (in particular since the last war) that however urgent may be the planetary pressures driving us to unite, they can not operate effectively in the long run except under certain psychic conditions, some of which arise out of the human neo-mystique to be discussed in the next paragraph, but the rest of which merely recall and re-express, with a precise biological foundation, the broad lines of the empirical and traditional Ethics which has been evolved in some ten millennia of civilization.

Just as in human existence the pressure of structure has always to be imposed upon energy, so too, any ultimate to which we respond will embody both the elements which are traditionally known as justice and love.

Population pressures and human technology are together adversely affecting the natural conditions of the surface of the planet in the following ways:

To me this appears the most satisfactory interpretation of the present state of Life on the surface of the earth; despite a regrettable recrudescence of racialism and nationalism which, impressive though it may be, and disastrous in its effect upon our private post-war lives, seems to have no scientific importance in the overall process: for the reason that any human tendency to fragmentation, regardless of its extent and origin, is clearly of an order of magnitude inferior to the planetary forces (geographic, demographic, economic and psychic) whose constantly and naturally growing pressure must sooner or later compel us willy - nilly to unite in some form of human whole organized on the basis of human solidarity.

Breaking free of pressure to conform either from any dominant parent or demanding human movement in order to enter into a more fulfilling life takes courage and risks alienation.

We must assume that under the rapidly mounting pressures forcing them upon one another the human molecules will ultimately succeed in finding their way through the critical barrier of mutual repulsion to enter the inner zone of attraction (This is an old idea which I advanced nearly twenty years ago in an unpublished essay entitled, The Spirit of Earth.)

The first essential is that the human units involved in the process shall draw closer together, not merely under the pressure of external forces, or solely by the performance of material acts, but directly, center to center, through internal attraction.

Whatever concessions they have made to economistic pressures, they continue to define themselves in terms of broader human values.

This demand is a moral pressure that human nature should be fulfilled, that human effort should be capable of attaining the good, and that the attainment of this good should be accompanied by happiness.

In any kind of hard work (especially work that takes place in public and often under considerable pressure), it is our natural human tendency to attend primarily to our own performance, to our own action, to what we ourselves are doing, to how well we are performing — and, perhaps especially, to how other people think we are doing.

How small indeed seem individual distinctions when we look back on these overwhelming numbers of human beings panting and straining under the pressure of that vital want!

There is no particular point in producing pressures of evil against a man or woman who moves harmlessly and respectably with the normal currents of contemporary human living.

As in Becket, the Roman Catholic saint emerged as a problematic hero, but the panel decided that it was a statement «about a man who cared more for honesty and integrity than for his life... and is therefore a profound statement of the possibilities of human existence under the pressure of faith to oneself and to God.»

The joint declaration also asks for international pressure on the UN Human Rights Council — of which Nigeria is a member — to form a commission of inquiry «to investigate the atrocities committed against civilians in general, and against Christians in particular in northern Nigeria, including bringing the perpetrators of violence to justice.»

Until recently, half of the human race died from infectious causes before adulthood, providing strong selective pressure for genetic alleles that enhance host defence but why are the genetic alleles that are most frequently associated with depression so common in the modern gene pool?

Rockström went on to say, «Increased human pressure threatens the natural resources that humanity depends upon, increasing the risk of water and food insecurity and competition over natural resources.»

The Alliance has nonetheless seen a need to continue its work to gather together the Reformed family, to bring the witness of its theological tradition to the ecumenical movement, to represent the Reformed family in international ecumenical dialogue, to work for human rights and religious freedom, to be the advocate of Reformed churches under pressure in daunting situations, and to facilitate mutual assistance among the members of the Reformed family.

The Adam theory says man was made perfect and would not have died if not for the eating of the fruit, so according to the bible Adam would be alive today if he hadn't given in to Eve's pressure, as would all following humans had sin not entered into our DNA and passed death on to Adams children.