Sentences with phrase «of social possibilities»

And, as then, I marvel at the huge world Balzac creates, the puerile pageantry of Paris, from garret to opera box; the cold - eyed observations and sly sarcasm; the wonderfully didactic asides as he explains the intricacies and theater of the printer's trade («The italic was invented by the Alid of Venice; hence its name»); the vast human energies unlocked in a new and daunting world of social possibility.

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Urbane Apartments is the quintessential example of a small business that has maximized the possibilities of social media to champion its brand online, eschewing conventional advertising and search engine optimization solutions in favor of word - of - mouth buzz.

Inflation has been so low that Social Security payments were not increased for 2016, and the Federal Reserve has even raised the possibility of negative interest rates.

You've got 30 minutes to spend on social media, and a whole plate of possibilities to choose from.

It progresses from such a dynamic field to newer forms, and the advent of social media has opened doors of possibilities for marketers to target a new audience in ways never thought of before.

For example, if you write a blog post on «How to Pick an SEO Company,» there is a possibility it will rank for some of the keywords you use in the title and in the body post, especially if the post gets linked to from other websites or shared a lot on social media.

The possibility of intergenerational fracturing and social discord are real threats; just consider the rise of the Quebec student protests or Occupy.

Retirees need to be prepared for the possibility that their projected benefit will shrink because of major political, social or economic events.

Devaluation would boost manufacturers and exporters, but — as last year's experience proved — also cause domestic economic upheaval and heighten the possibility of social unrest.

32:19 Shel's ability to see possibilities and respond to them in ways that help businesses get ahead of potential issues, take action, and create solutions that help the environment and create social change.

He invested in Facebook at a time when few envisioned the possibilities of social media.

has all sorts of negative possibilities,» says Jonathan Hsu, Social Capital's head of quantitative investing.

«We should have short - term measures addressing some of the most pressing social needs and indeed addressing some of possibilities to have, let's call them, «quick wins» in terms of growth,» Mr Barroso said.

There is a real possibility you can pay more in taxes in retirement than when working due to a loss of deductions like college loans and mortgage interests, as well as if you have a healthy nest egg due to minimum required distributions and social security combined.

While I expect $ s, and perhaps the possibility of getting sued, are big factors, I suspect the biggest reason RL backed off is that he has embarrassed the GOP, keeping social issues front and center, making it very difficult for them to get back to talking about the economy.

«Well, then you are an Atheist because the possibility is so small...» What is interesting is how people, social primates, morph a perception of what we say so they may include us as fellows in their «clan.»

The hope one might have once placed in comparative advantage global capitalism and the internet / cell - phone wiring of all, began to look increasingly hollow, as Walmarts filled with cheap Chinese goods, real jobs went missing, real skills became rare, and the internet became known not so much for an Army of Davids shoring up our common commitment to liberty, but for mobbish comment swarms, porn, The Social Network, diversion all - the - more addictive for being personally tailored (see: the fictional fat - slobs of Wall - E, or the perpetually downward phone - gaze of our «dumb» millennials), and unprecedented possibilities for spying, defamation, and demagogic manipulation for those with access to big data.

The authors» apparent dismissal of this possibility is puzzling, and it prevents them from raising questions about social and cultural factors that may contribute to the negative experience of pastors.

We therefore end up legitimating a new religious polytheism and a new social apartheid, and we deny the possibility of a universally valid theology or ethic.

Finally, we can learn from the Old Testament to proclaim the God who creates new social possibilities beyond the shrunken horizons of defeat and submissive docility.

Standing behind that claim is the claim that we, the people, have an ability to know what justice requires that is not so completely dependent upon any social institution as to place that institution beyond the possibility of our reforming it.

But play serves this purpose only incidentally and ex post facto, presenting by its very existence the possibility of a different social order.

Many of the authors take seriously Francis Fukuyama's claim that, with the elimination of communism as a social and political possibility, human history has reached a sort of terminus.

If you choose, for example, to be an educator or a social worker or an artist, realism demands that you prepare for the possibility that a shrunken job market or the impossibility of making a decent living will force you to abandon your career aspirations in favor of something more «practical.»

It carried to fulfillment a long development of thought, disentangling persons from submergence in the social mass and giving to each one status, meaning, and rights of his own; it concentrated attention on the spiritual value of personality and its possibilities; it created a religion to be entered by free personal choice, regardless of race or nation; it set persons to building a social fellowship for the redemption of souls; and it proclaimed as the ultimate goal of divine creation and human hope the kingdom of God in «new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.»

And it can express new social possibilities, rooted in the truth of God's good news.

It assumes the possibility of free action for the change of social institutions and awakens and directs that freedom.

When he or she grasps the difference between a richly textured communal spirit and mere social togetherness that is the result of sharing the same street address, the possibilities for that congregation's service to the world rise exponentially.

The orders of creation are the common structures of human existence, the indispensable conditions of the possibility of social life.

Only when personality has emerged from the social mass into a high status of its own, as possessing spiritual value and possibility, can the sense of failure, in falling short of personality's promise, become acute.

... viewing morality not simply as individual perfection but as part of a social context... tile concept of universal human values which are valid through history and across national, cultural lines respecting different political and cultural possibilities, but at the same time acknowledge some common goals.

However, as a social being man lives necessarily in community, and though he is the subject of radical freedom, he is yet not its abstract subject, confronted, as it were, with the variety of its indifferent possibilities.

Whatever the possibilities given to an individual by some morally valid social action of which she or he is a recipient, the possibility of accepting those effects because they are morally valid is always consistent with them — and the absence of this freedom lessens emancipation.

No social action can be morally valid if it treats another individual in a manner that denies the possibility of contestation and, therefore, of moral discourse.

Stillman is alive to the orgiastic possibilities of the disco — in one scene that «your body, my body, everybody» song is playing, and it's clear that not a few of the Club's patrons gay and straight would regard the more intense dance clubs of today as an improvement, but his own Club makes the more social pleasures available alongside the more primal ones.

In challenging process theology to state explicitly that God sides with the oppressed, and to do so in a way that does not rule out the possibility of righteous counterviolence, I understand Jones to be challenging process theology to explicate the social - ethical consequences of accepting certain metaphysical truths in order that black theology might measure its ethical content against the needs of the struggle for liberation.

The merging of Pentecostal power and enthusiasm with social concern is an exciting possibility, repeatedly promised but not often achieved.

A.: This may be the case, though I tend to discount the possibility of such a conscious predication in the minds of the proponents of social triage.

Black churches must begin to examine the economic realities of their existence, not in the light of their individual or denominational budgets alone, but in view of their tremendous possibilities to effect social change by utilizing the considerable resources that pass through their hands.

He is interested not in promoting himself but in inviting others to live in a way that acknowledges Jesus as the «bearer of a new possibility of human, social, and.

Such a miracle would involve the suspension of the laws of nature at the level of primitive actual occasions, but if we accept the principle that God «speaks» to a given actual occasion in its own «language,» and if the «language» of primitive actual occasions in nature is such that the character of the data available for aesthetic synthesis in the concrescence of such occasions admits only of absolutely miniscule contrasts with the givenness of the character of the past, then God has no leverage via subjective aims to introduce shifts in the social structures conditioning the possibilities available for aesthetic synthesis in the concrescences of such primitive actual occasions.

Can we find new words, seek new ways, create new possibilities out of the material and human spirit to transform the existing exploitative social order and discern the great human potential?

It is of course true that careful observation requires the use of controls, the elimination of the possibility of social cuing, guarding against uncritical projection of the observer's prejudices and presuppositions, etc. (MA 83 - 98).

Survival of the fittest, the law of instincts and habits, social process, dialectical materialism, cultural cycles — all work together to form a more tenacious and oppressive belief in fate than has ever before existed, a fate which leaves man no possibility of liberation but only rebellious or submissive slavery.

This possibility of creation from nothing further weakened the possibility of social accountability over transnational capital.

Securing solidarity and cooperation for this agenda, however, requires extending reason's mastery and control over social relations of distribution as well, so as to ensure that the possibilities of self - transcendence are widely shared by «humanity.»

The opening of the church to the world calls for a whole series of fundamental debates on the limits of the possibilities of the Church for coping with secular situations of a private and social character.

Most legislators, jurists, politicians, journalists, and businessmen today draw heavily on the social sciences for a better understanding of social structures, processes, and possibilities.

By comparison both with it and with other possibilities of social hierarchy, class appears relatively benign.

Theology has not given adequate attention to the social idealizations of evil... The new thing in the social gospel is the clearness and insistence with which it sets forth the necessity and the possibility of redeeming the historical life of humanity from the social wrongs which now pervade it... The social gospel seeks to bring men under repentance for their collective sins and to create a more sensitive and more modern conscience.