Sentences with phrase «of societal actions»

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It's the action before our conscious filters the data because of bias or societal responsibility (think of Malcolm Gladwell's Blink).

The inchoate, messy anger of the film mirrors the free - floating frustration of our cultural moment, and I'm stunned to see activists all over the world latch onto the film's central concept by erecting billboards meant to shame politicians into action on a variety of societal issues.

Education of Freedom and its elements — Responsibility, Accountability, and Prudence of choice and action — is an absolute necessitation to individual and societal prosperity.

Morality is a process whereby the beneficial or harmful outcomes of an action are compared and the choices made are labelled either good or bad depending on societal or cultural norms.

On the one hand, attention to the widespread presence of societal forces obscures the reality of autonomous individuality; on the other hand, a concern for the fact of idiosyncratic action beclouds awareness of the reality of social wholes.

«They place stress on the individual as the foundational societal unit, with a stress on the need for the individual to take action in the form of being born again and supporting the program.

Furthermore he does not emphasize the wholesale diminishing of potentializing (for both women and men) caused by institutional - societal sexism or the therapeutic necessity of empowering persons to work together to eradicate systemic growth oppression through social - political action.

Because this kind of thinking sees the individual in relation to society, keeping the independence of the actual entity and yet seeing reality as societal and organic, religious beliefs lead to faith, worship and action.

even when he suffered a serious knee injury, instead of accepting the fact that he would never stick his legs into the spaces that were crucial for someone with straight ahead speed to succeed, the club actually contemplated giving him a chance to play up top where his lack of physicality, size and holding up play talents would been on display for all to see... these are not the actions of a club that really cares about winning at the highest levels, but they are the actions of a club that wasn't interested in spending the necessary resources to purchases a world - class striker, which is usually the most expensive position on the pitch... instead we adopted the horrible phrase «like a new signing» and proceeded to allow this ridiculous experiment to carry on, which ultimately caused some discomfort on the training pitch and inside the locker room as players battled for a position that shouldn't have been theirs for the taking in the first place... don't get me wrong, I believe that Walcott is a talented player, who can help a team reach their goals, if their goals are relatively modest... just look at the teams who supposedly expressed interest in his services and they weren't the kind of clubs who aspire to win at the highest levels... as for the reasons why he hasn't been bitching and moaning about moving on just look at the wage benefits he receives from our club and his obvious desire to enjoy the societal advantages that come with playing in North London for a club with worldwide appeal... so instead of continuing to try to fix a coat with a broken zipper simply move on and buy a new and better coat

Fifth grade students are asked to examine in depth a societal issue of their choice, and also take an «action» to help ameliorate the problem.

The committee that conducted the study and wrote the report recommended actions the FDA, other federal agencies, state and local governments, and health - related organizations should take — which include promoting more judicious prescribing of opioids, expanding access to treatment for opioid use disorder, preventing more overdose deaths, weighing societal impacts in opioid - related regulatory decisions, and investing in research to better understand the nature of pain and develop non-addictive alternatives.

Similarly, the Earth Liberation Front argues that «dependence on the substances in the natural environment» justifies «more and more step [ping] outside of this societal law to enforce natural law» and boasts that since late 1997 «there have been over two dozen major actions performed by the ELF in North America alone resulting in nearly $ 40 million in damage.»

Both the young people themselves and their accompanying staff recognise the importance of the experience in getting to know each other in a different light, the day to day action of living providing a means of breaking down some of the societal barriers that can exist in school.

In this webinar, join California Secretary of Education Dave Long and a pair of leading environmental experts for an examination of effective green policies and actions you can take today to deliver a positive economic, ecological, and societal impact for your students and schools.

In such a forum, balancing can play a key role and they argue that the proper method for assessing the new counter-terrorism laws, from a human rights perspective, is to adopt a «balancing approach» according to which the importance of the relevant human right is weighed against the importance of the societal or community interest in deciding whether to take legislative action (or, from the position of a judge, in deciding whether a certain law is valid).

Works to build a strong philanthropic community that reflects the diversity of the Northwest, connects people to each other so they can achieve more with their giving, and inspires action to address critical societal problems.

Whether it be the horror of school shootings, the anxiety many children feel about the threat to their families» through the proposed changes in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA), or violence, children are deeply affected by these societal pressures.

Much like the tower is molded by «the action of the wind,» the characters are molded by the rules and restrictions of their places in a rigid societal structure.

This can be a beginning point for a discussion of how justice on a societal scale evolves — and how our individual actions can contribute to the problem or to the solution.

As the quantity of people increased both the specific quantity and the route of the action of separate causes of the race genesis varied although the function of societal influences enlarged.

While solving the complex societal issue of poverty is beyond the ken of the animal welfare field, we absolutely can solve some of the obstacles to pet retention by committing to the following principles and actions.

Survive the cyberspace gauntlet of the Project - K network and reawaken Eden to save a world on the verge of societal collapse in this action - packed arcade shooter.

E.g. the Scandinavian countries, perhaps the Netherlands, maybe New Zealand, should long ago have taken action, knowing that their future citizens would be content to pay any accrued debt, because of societal and ethical progression.

Hence action, too, can only have an impact when larger units, societal systems, transform their practices on a scale larger than the one of the individual.

Such a bold and humanitarian action by the world's religions acting in unison is certain to catalyze a public debate over how we can integrate societal choices, as prioritized under UN's sustainable development goals, into sustainable economic development pathways for the 21st century, with projected population of 10 billion or more.

But asserting that the bad quality of some fraction of 1.5 percent of media coverage is the key impediment to societal and congressional action on energy and emissions seems utterly silly.

Science has a tremendously important role to play in guiding environmental management, not as a decider, but as a resource for deliberative, evidence - based decision making by the public, policy makers, and interest groups on the challenges, trade - offs and possible courses of action in negotiating the environmental challenges of societal development (DeFries et al 2012).

Humans at the societal / national level can cooperatively engage in the making of laws and other actions that will press these changes even further.

Furthermore, the implementation of REDD + activities can maintain and enhance ecosystem services that can support societal adaptation, and REDD + actions may also influence aspects of adaptive capacity.

In his testimony before the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee in July 2009, OSTP Director John Holdren took note of the National Research Council recommendation to restructure the (USGCRP) around «`... the end - to - end climate change problem, from understanding causes and processes to supporting actions needed to cope with the impending societal problems of climate change.

I wrote the Climate Shift report to inform the decision making of environmental leaders, philanthropists, scientists, scholars and others as they consider next steps in the effort to mobilize societal action on the undeniable, human causes of climate change.

«The potential scale of such a deep transformation will require a wide societal debate in Europe,» says the document, which was jointly prepared by the European commission and its foreign office, the European external action service.

Other researchers say the chances of success are so low, unless something breaks the societal impasse, that any technology quest should also include work on increasing the resilience to climate extremes — through actions like developing more drought - tolerant crops — as well as last - ditch climate fixes, like testing ways to block some incoming sunlight to counter warming.

These actions, alongside the support of science in tackling the major challenges in projecting the impacts of ocean warming and climate change more generally, will help the insurance industry to avoid market failures and increase societal resilience.

... [O] ngoing political debate about global energy policy should not stand in the way of common sense action to reduce societal and environmental vulnerabilities to climate variability and change.»

... you'd actually be admitting that your supposed concerns about the science is actually supposed concerns about the perceived potential societal impact of actions to reduce AGW.

Responsibility for climate change lies at the heart of societal debate over actions to address it.

Of equal or perhaps more importance, I also believe that there is societal work to be done to sensitize people to the continued existence of workplace sexual harassment and the need to report, investigate and take decisive action against offenders to ensure it stops immediatelOf equal or perhaps more importance, I also believe that there is societal work to be done to sensitize people to the continued existence of workplace sexual harassment and the need to report, investigate and take decisive action against offenders to ensure it stops immediatelof workplace sexual harassment and the need to report, investigate and take decisive action against offenders to ensure it stops immediately.

Counter-terrorism law as formulated both at the level of the UN and the EU is remarkably value - laden and is said to reflect a legal and societal condemnation of actions that have violated core constitutional principles of the rule of law and an understanding that political violence is unjustified.

The final result of this Congressional action was a fair use statute that vested the trier of fact with broad discretion over the circumstances under which an author's exclusive rights must give way to other societal interests.

Employers need to recognise the commercial and societal benefits of a more gender diverse workforce and prioritise actions that will improve gender diversity, not just for their own advantage but for the benefit of their community and country going forward.

Whether it be the horror of school shootings, the anxiety many children feel about the threat to their families» through the proposed changes in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA), or violence, children are deeply affected by these societal pressures.

An effective child welfare system works to ensure that children grow up in safe, permanent, and loving homes while strengthening families and minimizing trauma through timely and appropriate action.45 Researchers believe that societal attitudes and lack of knowledge regarding children with disabilities place them at greater risk for abuse and neglect.

First, having been a member of what I considered to be a militant (most seem to be militant in my estimation) trade union (United Association of Steamfitters and Plumbers of America, Local 46, Toronto) for approximately ten years, I would concur with you vis a vis your apparent assumption that said unions have worn out their societal usefulness, and now serve only the purposes of their membership, and to hell with the public interest economically speaking, not to mention the absolute chaos the actions of powerful public sector unions create when they cause their entire membership to go on strike, for eg., the Toronto garbage workers» strike, the Toronto transit workers» strike etc..