Sentences with phrase «of learned societies»

«This is the first time such a wide spectrum of our learned societies have come together to highlight the urgent need to tackle climate change.»

«This communique highlights a unanimous agreement from a wide range of learned societies about the challenges that lie ahead.»

The boards and executive staffs of a number of learned societies across the Western world have embraced this cult against the wishes of the majority of their members...

It would have been pretty easy for him to look up the answers, in the works of learned societies, federal inter-agency committees, and the authoritative United Nations climate change panel.

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It consists of Scottish representatives of the learned societies that form the U.K. Life Science Committee, together with representatives of other organisations such as the Institute of Biology.

He thought the best talent of these learned societies should be applied to the relatively unstylish tasks of conceptual analysis, course design, and texts for secondary school and college undergraduate courses.3

Third, a sermon is neither an academic term paper nor a paper to be read at the annual meeting of some learned society.

Its founder was Count István Széchenyi who on 3 November, 1825, during the Pozsony (Bratislava) National Assembly bestowed a year's income of his estates towards the formation of a learned society.

Standardized tests, he notes, are often biased and do not measure the kind of learning society needs.

Not exact matches

When I first got involved in the American Society of Journalists and Authors, I quickly learned a few things about freelance writers.

I recently attended the International Society of Explosives Engineers conference, where I learned that success is never about being cool.

As the backbone of our society, construction impacts nearly every industry directly or indirectly — whether it's building new labs to foster scientific discoveries, hospitals to tend to our sick or injured, or modern classrooms to learn.

As IBMers, we have learned, through era after era, that the path forward — for innovation, for prosperity, and for civil society — is the path of engagement and openness to the world.

«I think the impact of machine learning on society will be larger than the impact of mobile on society,» Khosla said Tuesday, during a fireside chat with Vator CEO Bambi Francisco at the Post-Seed venture capital conference in San Francisco.

According to the American Society for Training and Development, 90 percent of what employees learn during training isn't retained.

In partnership with organizations like Microsoft, Dell Inc., IBM and National Geographic Society, ePals social learning network reaches millions of teachers, students and parents in 200 countries.

You might know Strauss already — the Rolling Stone writer is also the author of «The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists,» a book that's become something of a bible to awkward young men who would like to learn the curious arts of charming women.

Fire is part of ecosystems in much of the world, so societies must learn to live with it.

The work that I do on dark matter, I'm not sure it will have a lot of meaning if those kids don't have an opportunity to learn about it because society has been devastated by global warming.

Sherry received the Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence in 2003, the Commerce Undergraduate Society Award for Outstanding Teaching & Learning, Haskayne School of Business in 2002 and 2000, and the Superior Service Award, Academic Staff, Haskayne School of Business in 2001.

Weaver received the Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence in 2003, the Commerce Undergraduate Society Award for Outstanding Teaching & Learning, Haskayne School of Business in 2002 and 2000, and the Superior Service Award, Academic Staff, Haskayne School of Business in 2001.

And so I learned that we hadn't been paying payroll taxes for almost 3 years — a particularly painful thing given I believe in taxes as a means of giving back to society.

Outsourcing admin tasks could be worth your while, as we learn from the Society of Virtual Assistants.

The big picture here is that as a society we are in the process of learning how markets work.

Many of them absorb much of their host culture, learning the language and customs that make up part of the fabric of that society.

Scott Hannah, president of the Vancouver - based Credit Counselling Society, which helps consumers who are drowning in debt, says he's seen little evidence households have learned anything from the financial crisis.

Traditional Christians oppose torture based on their understanding of Divine Revelation and centuries of experience learning the corrosive effects torture has on the society that justifies its use.

They are stories about lessons learned, lessons we see in all sects of society.

Religions incorporated and codified these basic social values and skills, and quickly learned to take credit for them — as if, without the religion, we would be doomed to not have them — although we see them in every human society, including hunter - gather tribes with no sense of gods as we understand them After many centuries of religious domination, enforced through pain of death, ostracization or other social sanctions, allowing religion to take credit, as well as failing to question other religious claims — has become a cultural habit.

And: «The separation of learning from virtue creates a society that esteems people for their success in manipulating science, law, money, images, words, and so forth.»

Martyrs and Martyrologies edited by Diana Wood Blackwell, 497 pages, $ 64.95 The story of Christian martyrs of the twentieth century is yet to be told, and one of the merits of this collection of learned essays, consisting of papers read at the Summer 1992 and Winter 1993 meetings of the Ecclesiastical History Society, is that they not only deal with early, medieval, and early - modern martyrs (and ideas about martyrdom), but include several original essays on latter - day martyrs.

Fear mongering is a large part of religion unfortunately and until society learns to think for themselves and tell others that the only opinion that really matters is their own, we will continue to see the effects of that fear.

The principle of the basic reality of living in our society is what a student should learn — to succeed in life is the fundamental issue.

On the contrary, from 1912 to 1933, Whitehead persistently lectured to learned societies, calling their attention to the importance of the teaching of the relevant subject - matter.

What we meant to model was the sending of one of our number to be a foreign missionary — to learn a new language, to understand a local culture, to sacrifice the amenities of affluence and to live knowing that he or she is always being watched by seekers — while the rest of us stay here as lifetime local missionaries, learning to speak the language of the unchurched, understanding secular culture, sacrificing the amenities of affluence and living as a «watched» person in a society that is skeptical of Christian spirituality until it sees the real thing on display.

When Mortimer Lightwood goes out to discover Society's opinion of these happenings, he learns that Society can not comprehend it in the slightest.

We send criminals to jail instead to achieve social justice, and their sentences are deliberately measured in time behind bars: Offenders must be withdrawn from society for a period sufficient to allow them to realize the wrongness of their actions» and sufficient to protect society from them until they learn that lesson.

As David Novak puts it, «In this age of secularism both Christians and Jews must learn how to sing the song of the Lord God of Israel in the new exile (galut) in the strange land of contemporary society.

The American Academy of Religion, in its statement of purpose, calls itself «an inclusive learned society and professional association in the field of the study of religion.

Countries and societies especially the US are carried away with everything under the umbrella of freedom and rights your governments should learn from third world countries true values and laws.certain lines should never be crossed and such movements need to be exterminated for the sake of youngsters that must learn true values and acts in order to be a well being and not end up in jail and on the long run in hell.

In a linguistically flat technological society the church can return to the «mother tongue» of scriptural poetry and prayer, through which we learn to hear the cry of the needy and to understand that they must receive justice.

Although the amount of discretionary time available to the average American continues to grow every year, Americans are having difficulty learning, as a society, how to play meaningfully.

One of the most poignant experiences for young people growing up in our society is to espouse some cause such as civil rights or world peace — a cause they learned to love in their home or church — and then find that their parents are opposed to overt action on behalf of social justice.

The contemporary «learning society,» overwhelmed with information, knowledge and entertainment, requires discerning and constructive responses of an even greater order than those of the early church in the sophisticated rhetorical culture of the Roman Empire, or the early modern Western church faced with printing and transformations in scholarship, geographical horizons, sciences, nations and industries.

We learn to read the labels on medicines at the pharmacy, and follow the commonly - known health advice of society and culture.

Colleges and universities are meant to be centres of learning and the betterment of societies in general.

It is part of the record that the labor unions and the universities and learned societies bowed the knee to Baal, when Pastor Niemoeller and his kind stood up like men.

As he put it, we have to learn what it means to be a «church for others» in a multifaith and culturally diverse context beyond the privileges that were accorded us within the Constantinian framework of colonial and apartheid society.

society needs to stop protecting the rights of gays and lesbians and should focus on our mere extinction if we do nt repent, and hed to the words of CHRIST, we should not be spending even a minute talking about gays, bc the main story is how ignorant and stupid society has become, KNOW THIS, IF YOU REMOVE THE WORDS CHRIST FROM CHRISTMAS AND DECIDE THAT IS NO LONGER A STORY ABOUT A BABY FROM BETHLEHEN AND NOW ITS ABOUT SANTA CLAUS, AND PEOPLE ARE LEARNING TO ACCEPT OTHER RELIGIONS MOVING TO NY THEN YOU CAN EXPECT EVIL AND DISOBIENCE TO PROVAIL how can any group of people who blantenly marry in a church before GOD ALMIGHTY and demand that society accept them, have any place NEXT TO A HOLY GOD IN HEAVEN, WHO IS WITH OUT SIN, ACCEPT THEIR SIN.