Sentences with phrase «of social sanctions»

The more people are recipients of benefits, the less stigmatizing and costly in terms of social sanctions it is to apply for benefits.
These indicate that the inhibiting power of social sanctions is weakening as X withdraws from normal society.
However, ad hoc hangings of blacks under the auspices of the Ku Klux Klan and other white vigilante groups could not have taken place without benefit of social sanction.

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The sanctioned officials are Willian Antonio Contreras, the vice minister of internal commerce; Nelson Reinaldo Lepaje Salazar, who is acting as head of the office of the national treasury, according to the U.S.; Americo Alex Mata Garcia, an alternate director on the board of the National Bank of Housing and Habitat; and Carlos Alberto Rotondaro Cova, the former president of the board of directors of the Venezuela Institute of Social Security.
«Although it has acted swiftly on the latest UN sanctions, China is unlikely to go so far as to fully implement new sanctions that, in its judgment, would risk substantially undermining the economic well - being or social stability not just of North Korea, but also of the Chinese population near the North Korean border, which relies heavily on such trade,» she said.
Thursday's sanctions target Russians indicted last month as part of the special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russia's election meddling on charges of conspiracy to interfere in the election by waging a social - media influence operation to sow discord and sway public opinion in the US in favor of Trump.
Officious social engineers of both the right and the left abuse the public schools to promote parochial agendas, whether by sanctioning the recitation of prayers over the school loudspeaker or by the distribution of contraceptives despite parental objections, thereby undermining parental authority and impairing the ability of parents to form their own family values.
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.
He fought against the prevailing practices among the Muslims, such as the worship of saints and other social customs which had no religious sanction.
Modern ecclesiology, sanctioned by Vatican II, does not start its description of the nature of the Church, like Bellarmin, with its social organization, but with the people of God, the mystical Body of Christ, primarily constituted by the unity of the justified in the Holy Spirit, the community of the redeemed, as distinct from their organization in a «society».
Oftentimes those of us who are privileged and powerful want a God who sanctions our own complicity in unjust social orders or our exploitation of other forms of life.
Modernity's emphasis on secularism involves three elements - a) the desacralisation of nature which produced a nature devoid of spirits preparing the way for its scientific analysis and technological control and use; b) desacralisation of society and state by liberating them from the control of established authority and laws of religion which often gave spiritual sanction to social inequality and stifled freedom of reason and conscience of persons; it was necessary to affirm freedom and equality as fundamental rights of all persons and to enable common action in politics and society by adherents of all religions and none in a religiously pluralistic society; and c) an abandonment of an eternally fixed sacred order of human society enabling ordering of secular social affairs on the basis of rational discussion.
Non-compliance to the government dictates will result in sanctions against cultures that do not comply with the monolithic dictates of a centralized Social Order of Government.
Religion seemed to be a part of the «superstructure» which sanctioned the existing order, promised rewards in heaven for enduring the pain on earth, and therefore suppressed any attempt to change the real social condition of this world.
Yet such subservience to social sanctions is contrary to the essential purpose of liberal learning.
And while the social customs, civil laws, and authoritatively sanctioned principles of a society can be said to have determinative influence on the social practices and development of a society, still it is the case that these social customs, etc., have that efficacy only as enacted by individuals in daily social intercourse.
Recently the social form of this utilitarianism has been given high sanction in an official statement made by the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America.
The current efforts should be to reject models that sanction the undercutting of a plurality of religious, cultural, political, and social expressions and to imagine alternate models that legitimate and empower multiple religious, cultural, political, and social self - expressions of the various communities that make up the Indian nation.
And, as the prophets later saw, all this presented two focal points of peril to the best traditions that had come from the desert: it substituted for the old austerity the alluring licentiousness of baal worship, and it sanctioned the commercial inequalities and tyrannies, which the baals of sophisticated Canaan sponsored against the ancient ideas of social solidarity, equality, and justice for which Yahweh stood.
Therefore while keeping love as the essence of humanness and, therefore, the criterion and goal of all human endeavor, human society today has to eschew utopianism and organize itself as power - structures based on a sense of the moral law of structural justice and utilize even the coercive legal sanctions of the state to preserve social peace and protect the weaker sections of society in a balance of order, freedom and justice.
There Mill argues that the primary source of utilitarianism's strength as a guide to action (its «ultimate sanction») is to be found in «the social feelings of mankind — the desire to be in unity with our fellow creatures» (U 40).
There he says, one, that the shift from the concept of «the State's role as providers of equal opportunities to every citizen» to that of providing education, health and other social services «to those who can afford to pay» is a U-turn in public policy which «has been made surreptitiously by administrative action without public discussion and legislative sanction»; two, that the total commercialization of social sectors is «alien even to free market societies»; and three, that «the ready acceptance of self - financing concept in social sectors alien even to free - market societies is the end result of gradual disenchantment with the Kerala Model of Development», which has been emphasizing the social dimension rather than the economic, but that it is quite false to present the situation as calling for a choice between social development and economic growth.
State and society were integrated with the authority of one or other single «established» religion whose sanction determined the law of citizenship and social structure.
Therefore while keeping love as the essence of humanness and therefore the criterion and goal of all human endeavour, human society today has to eschew utopianism and organize itself as power - structures based on a sense of the moral law of structural justice and utilize even the coercive legal sanctions of the State to preserve social peace and protect the weaker sections of society in a balance of order.
If one lives in a culture or closely knit social group in which there are strong sanctions against heavy drinking and drunkenness, the chances of becoming an alcoholic are relatively small, even if one is markedly disturbed psychologically.
Free inquiry requires that we tolerate diversity of opinion and that we respect the right of individuals to express their beliefs, however unpopular they may be, without social or legal prohibition or fear of sanctions.
It is assumed that social mores have changed significantly on this subject and that the greater autonomy of women, as well as the availability of contraception, alters many of the earlier sanctions in this area.
Even the far - reaching Article 46, which empowers NFL commissioner Roger Goodell to punish players for «conduct detrimental to the integrity of, or public confidence in, the game of football», has not been used to sanction players over social media usage and fraternizing cheerleaders.
Article 11 (2) In order to prevent discrimination against women on the grounds of marriage or maternity and to ensure their effective right to work, States Parties shall take appropriate measures: (a) To prohibit, subject to the imposition of sanctions, dismissal on the grounds of pregnancy or maternity leave and discrimination in dismissals on the basis of marital status; (b) To introduce maternity leave with pay or with comparable social benefits without loss of former employment, seniority or social allowances; (c) To encourage the provision of necessary supporting social services to enable parents to combine family obligations with work responsibilities and participation in public life
9) applying or attempting to apply any kind of financial or social sanction against adherents who depart from the faith or fail to observe its obligations;
Democratic Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is scheduled to give the keynote address at an upcoming social justice conference at the Brooklyn Museum, funded by and featuring high profile supporters of the anti-Israel boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement.
Carrion has inexplicably retained the support of Gov. David Paterson despite her sanctioning of social events for youth in detention, including one event that turned into a sex party at the Goshen Secure facility last year involving an alleged prostitute and a 15 year - old girl.
Many Ghanaians and Social commentators including Kwesi Pratt, Abdul Malik Kweku Baako, Alhaji Bature Iddrisu among others have condemned the act and called for severe sanctioning of the duo.
The higher frequency of negative consequences is due in part to these social sanctions within the African American community.
But the diet proposed to accomplish their goal of character building and social piety is still with us, enshrined, in fact, in the government - sanctioned food pyramid based on grains, vegetables and fruits with the addition of small amounts of lowfat animal foods.
ORIGINAL PAPER Friendship After a Friends with Benefits Relationship: Deception, Psychological Functioning, and Social Connectedness Jesse Owen • Frank Facing sanctions from the West after the annexation of Crimea, Russia has reoriented its economy toward China.
If minority students today deliberately underachieve in order to avoid social sanctions, that by itself could explain why the academic performance of 17 - year - old African Americans, as measured by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), has deteriorated since the late 1980s, even while that of nine - year - olds has been improving.
When the Oakland, Calif., school board voted last spring to reject a set of social studies textbooks sanctioned by the state of California, most members probably knew they were taking a «road less traveled.»
From Chalkboard to Wall — Managing the Benefits of School - Sanctioned Social Media Use As more students, parents, teachers, and administrators tap into social networking sites, the lines between educational and personal networking are becoming more blSocial Media Use As more students, parents, teachers, and administrators tap into social networking sites, the lines between educational and personal networking are becoming more blsocial networking sites, the lines between educational and personal networking are becoming more blurred.
In a 1987 essay, «Norms as Social Capital,» Coleman noted that people act in accordance with norms to avoid social sanctions - a disapproving look, a raised eyebrow, the whispered label of «shirker» - as well as to earn appSocial Capital,» Coleman noted that people act in accordance with norms to avoid social sanctions - a disapproving look, a raised eyebrow, the whispered label of «shirker» - as well as to earn appsocial sanctions - a disapproving look, a raised eyebrow, the whispered label of «shirker» - as well as to earn approval.
Because movement conservatives of that time such as William F. Buckley Jr., and Barry Goldwater didn't view state - sanctioned racism as the great moral question that it was, because their fetish for preserving tradition led them to believe that the federal government didn't have the obligation to address segregation, because of their concerns about communism and the expansion of federal government, and because they viewed the civil disobedience by activists such as Martin Luther King (as well as their push to force social change) as an affront to the order they craved, they essentially gave succor to Jim Crow segregationists even if that wasn't their original intent.
Finnigan's current research focuses on social network analysis in low - performing schools and districts; school improvement under sanction; inter-district choice; district - wide reform; accountability policies; school closure; and the role of districts and states in school improvement.
In Marathi medium schools, sanctioned use of the regional language results in the language having high social capital though in English medium schools Marathi is used as an identity marker and as a socializing tool with negative connotations.
In another case, ECMC began garnishing the Social Security checks of a woman who had already proven in court six years earlier that their records were wrong and she had repaid her student loans in full, earning multiple sanctions from multiple judges.
The paintings are impossible to imagine without Social Realism, China's state - sanctioned style of painting, but its influence is no less oppressive than that of Gerhard Richter, say, or Sean Scully and Chuck Close.
Surveillance and state - sanctioned human - rights violations are, of course, connected — a continuation of Cold War political practices that have forever altered the relationship between citizen and state — but it is Cruz Azaceta's decision to ground this new work in the administration of social order and control that opens his oeuvre to novel interpretations.
The nation - state haunting here is the former East Germany, a state cornered by its political designation, one aligned to Cold War socialism and the social realism that became the sanctioned genre of that limited corner.
That entrenched psychological sickness is a VIRUS that has been spread via the media globally and especially since 2007 by Social Media Platforms and US GOVT THINK TANKS that setup other corrupt think tanks like the IPA in Australia and then they end up in Parliament making Laws about AGW / CC and Economics and placing SANCTIONS on anyone else in the worlds who's FREE SPEECH counters the garbage spewing forth from the USA and is then silenced by SANCTIONS — A NON-STOP Hypocritical Abuse of POWER.
This ever so charming Dr. Ravetz wants to replace science with a system where every action has its own «attributes of quality», and each of those «attributes of quality» has their own «criteria» and their own «standards», and these criteria and standards and attributes are upheld by a social system containing a recursive process which is repeated up to some supreme sanction of unknown nature... what on earth does that all mean?
«This ever so charming Dr. Ravetz wants to replace science with a system where every action has its own «attributes of quality», and each of those «attributes of quality» has their own «criteria» and their own «standards», and these criteria and standards and attributes are upheld by a social system containing a recursive process which is repeated up to some supreme sanction of unknown nature...»
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