Sentences with phrase «of social consensus»

If we want action to improve the environment, we will need some kind of social consensus.

The goal of full employment, which was one of the pillars of the social consensus that prevailed after the Second World War, has been jettisoned by nearly all governments.

Not exact matches

As word of mouth floods on social media, will general - audience consensus match how the critics feel, or will repeat viewings begin?

The three main areas where my direct advice went unheeded were the following: (1) the need for large - scale financial assistance [29] for Russia, which I deemed (and still deem) to have been essential to molding a political consensus around reforms, and to bolstering the financial situation enough to achieve a modicum of success in the fight against hyperinflation; (2) the need for strong monetary and fiscal policy to achieve a rapid end to inflation [30]; and (3) the urgency of establishing a social safety net [31], especially in health care and pensions, to ensure an adequate social and political base for societal transformation and democratization.

There is an increasing consensus about the value of intact two - parent families, together with an understanding of the social risks posed by increases in births outside of marriage.

Whether on social media or in our social circles, we often rise or fall based on consensus of the crowd.

For all the theological divisions that separated Protestants from each other in the «50s (and separated Protestants, Catholics and Jews), a fairly firm consensus existed about the substance of personal morality and the soundness of American social and political life.

The speakers had a variety of views, but the consensus on the panel was that an alliance is indeed forming on social and cultural issues, specifically gender and sexuality, and that this alliance will have a serious influence on domestic and global politics.

If the moral principles underpinning the democratic process are themselves determined by nothing more solid than social consensus, then the fragility of the process becomes all too evident — herein lies the real challenge for democracy.»

This overall agenda would not differ from those of most liberal Protestant or Jewish groups — except in the high level of consensus, and in the fact that the most important religious goal for UUs is «a community for shared values» (rather than theology or personal growth or social change or experiences of transcendence).

On a third crucial point we also found ourselves in genuine consensus: «evangelism,» in the Wesleyan spirit, must speak of justice as earnestly as of justification, of Christian nurture and discipline as emphatically as of conversion, of Christian social action as boldly as of personal salvation.

The 1960s ushered in many changes, one of which was the end of the broad social consensus, call it bourgeois morality, that held sway among white Americans of all classes, upper, lower, and middle.

Similarly, there are no means other than denominational journals, most of which have limited distribution, through which a consensus may be developed with respect to important moral, religious, social, political and economic questions.

Unlike the idea of culture as a consensus - forming social phenomenon that resists change, the postmodern spirit is more impressed by the lack of consensus in cultures and by the dynamics for social change that already exist in cultures.

Its appeal is complex, drawing on belief in anthropogenic global warming and trust in the «scientific consensus» behind it; the Great Recession and a protective reaction to rapid social change; a basic need for the concrete, local, and personal; the waning of religious observance; peer pressure, star power, money, and more.

Evangelism and social justice, political power and the power of servanthood, the individual and the community, love and justice, these are the polarities that the evangelical church must address as it moves toward a Biblically informed consensus regarding social ethics.

An attempt at consensus - building regarding social ethics is one of contemporary evangelicalism's most critical tasks, but it will not prove an easy one to accomplish.

The growing use of the internet, especially in social networking, meant that through the debates of the US Bishops» Conference (commendably held in public session) the general Catholic public became increasingly aware of just what thinking was behind what was coming to be known by consensus as the «lame - duck translation», an expression popularised by Fr Zuhlsdorf who has spent many years analysing «What does the prayer really say?»

17 Sept To Representatives of British Society in Westminster Hall: Allow me also to express my esteem for [your] Parliament... your common law tradition [etc., etc.]... Yet... if the moral principles underpinning the democratic process are themselves determined by nothing more solid than social consensus, then the fragility of the process becomes all too evident... [e.g. the credit crunch lacked] solid ethical foundations... [whereas the British - inspired] abolition of the slave trade [did not].

Some scholars interpret this general consensus on Social Security and Medicare and cognate programs as evidence that Catholic social teaching, through the influence of Msgr. Ryan, «The Right Reverend New Dealer,» poured into the bloodstream of American progressSocial Security and Medicare and cognate programs as evidence that Catholic social teaching, through the influence of Msgr. Ryan, «The Right Reverend New Dealer,» poured into the bloodstream of American progresssocial teaching, through the influence of Msgr. Ryan, «The Right Reverend New Dealer,» poured into the bloodstream of American progressivism.

«I think it shows that Christianity can easily become just a set of social protocols for being nice to each other that we agree by consensus and not at its heart submission to God and putting him first.»

The justice that comes through enforced sharing (found in the tax and benefit systems of welfare states) is higher - since it reflects a consensus of social solidarity - but still not enough.

For a summary of viewpoints and this consensus, see Robin Scroggs, «The Sociological Interpretation of the New Testament: The Present State of Research,» in The Bible and Liberation: Political and Social Hermeneutics, ed.

To ensure a viable future for the country, the new order would have to rest on a foundation of truly reasonable norms, about which a stable and healthy social consensus could cohere.

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They are the «subjective» products of private sensation, subjective caprice or social consensus.

And no, I don't just disregard science (nor the common consensus in matters of politics, social norms, alternative lifestyles, etc.)-- I understand the importance, but also the shortcomings of relying on man's own inferences about the nature of life, the universe, and the meaning of existence.

This process of secularization is deeply connected to the rise of a neo-liberal economic and social consensus, one not based on traditional norms but united by a search for ever - greater utility.

So as we mark the anniversary of the pill, we should spend more time trying to understand the social forces that caused us to react to the pill as we did, allowing us to discard a long - standing moral consensus, leaving only sexual chaos and uncertainty.

Now, as Childs points out, most of the elements in this consensus have been questioned from within and have been made to appear irrelevant by the social and cultural upheavals of the 1960s.

«We urgently appeal to those in positions of social and economic, as well as political and cultural, responsibility to hear the cry of the Earth and to attend to the needs of the marginalised, but above all to respond to the plea of millions and support the consensus of the world for the healing of our wounded creation,» they wrote.

Henry rejected liberal versions of the social gospel which tended to be all social and no gospel, but he appealed to an earlier evangelical consensus of cultural engagement that included the work of William Wilberforce in campaigning for the abolition of the slave trade in England, the revivalist impulses of Charles G. Finney against slavery in this country, as well as evangelical concerns for suffrage, temperance, child labor laws, fair wages for workers, and many other progressive issues to which many theologically conservative Christians were once committed» before what David Moberg has called «the great reversal,» an evangelical withdrawal from such concerns.

In this view, social change is gradual and evolutionary, and achieved on the basis of consensus.

The consensus was that sustainable agriculture also had a role to play in improving the environmental and social impact of food products.

But if our social media community is anything to go by, there was a rather overwhelming consensus of what our weaknesses and shortcomings were, and how they needed to be addressed.

This seemingly simple service of association and presence is a critical social need in the context of extraordinary experiences and rites of passage that depend a shared cultural consensus for their significance.

Throughout the last days of the street protests, social channels also helped people come to consensus quickly as the situation changed from hour to hour.

Some estimates place the social consensus in Catalonia for the right of self - determination around 80 %, in a Catalan society that is nevertheless clearly divided about issue of independence.

In the preceding years, a strong movement calling for this had built up in opposition to the ruling Conservative governments, which many opponents claimed had undermined the social and economic consensus that had prevailed until then - particularly in respect of labour rights.

The consensus has been found on the «common ground» of One Nation Conservatism, whether this is confronting the «age of anxiety» (David Davis); the mending of a «broken society» (Liam Fox); tackling the «coarsening and vulgarising of society» (David Cameron) or the need to reverse Britain's «social decay» (David Willetts).

This consensus was in reaction to comments by the Inspector General of Police (IGP), that his outfit will consider banning social media on Election Day, November 7.

The second edition of the «Y - Dialogues Vote on Issues» Campaign held in Kumasi ended with a general consensus by the teeming youth present to generate positive conversations on social media concerning the elections.

This democratic fight, must engage people with a social liberal vision for the future to replace the Thatcherite consensus and the broken ideas of the right.

There will be a few long term issues such as pensions or the funding of social care where a cross party consensus will need to be reached.

In Britain, the economic crisis saw the end of «Butskellism», the social democratic policy consensus between the parties.

Mr Cameron's hopes of securing an agreement on EU reform were dealt a blow this week when European Council president Donald Tusk warned there is «presently no consensus» on barring migrants from in - work benefits and social housing.

Mr Cameron's hopes of securing an agreement on limiting access to Britain's welfare state were dealt a blow yesterday when European Council president Donald Tusk warned there is «presently no consensus» on barring migrants from in - work benefits and social housing.

Mr Cameron's hopes of securing an agreement were dealt a blow this week when European Council president Donald Tusk warned there is «presently no consensus» on barring migrants from in - work benefits and social housing.

The term is associated with a social consensus (usually expressed through democratic elections) that certain services should be available to all, regardless of income.

«Adopting an R - SEA planning process is a way of building consensus around where, when, and in what form development is appropriate as opposed to our current processes that ask communities — social and ecological — to bear the long - term impacts of new development,» said Cheryl Chetkiewicz, Associate Conservation Scientist with WCS Canada.