Sentences with phrase «of societal concern»

We can no longer ignore the influence of climate change on a wide range of issues of societal concern, including peace and security.

SPARC themes and activities address areas of societal concern such as:

And to further contextualize these innovative new practices, Cassel Oliver will turn to the often overlooked, with the two - part show «Black in the Abstract,» focusing on the disintegration of figuration by black painters since the late 1960s in a salubrious introduction of societal concerns to the formal.

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Private and foreign investors could be forgiven for having concerns over investing in the country at a time of economic and societal change.

News of the planned expansion of the Amazon Go concept is sure to set off fresh concerns about the great societal challenges that come with the type of automation that Amazon is inventing.

While regional differences reveal a mix of threats that concern CEOs, they share a common increasing worry about broader societal developments — geopolitical uncertainty, terrorism, and climate change — rather than direct business risks such as changing consumer behaviour or new market entrants.

Standard Life Investments cited a recent poll of UK residents that showed that only 39 percent of 18 - to -24-year-olds and 35 percent of 25 - to -34-year-olds were «more concerned in investing in a company that provides high returns on investment than societal / environmental issues».

We offer them not only for their intrinsic worth but because women's concerns, as they are called, will undoubtedly come before the bishops again, and because the problems posed by «One in Christ Jesus» illustrate difficulties that all the churches have when it comes to making statements on questions of societal moment.

That is why the issue of Abortion runs much deeper and hinges upon strong societal concerns for humanity and its core values.

It treats all modes of human speaking as potentially aesthetic while holding to a concern with the historical, societal, and political forces that shape the preaching event.

Though they want to criticize government for the sake of reforming it, the editors deny any need for basic societal restructuring.27 It was this basic trust in the American system which caused Christianity Today to accept the president's word concerning Watergate - until Cox's firing and the tapes - and to back the president concerning his role in Vietnam as late as May 1972:

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.

As far as political activity is concerned, a variety of typologically different attitudes toward the state as the highest form of societal organization can be traced.

1) We're highly evolved primates 2) We have overactive imaginations 3) Our greatest evolutionary asset, our large and highly-folded brains, are also responsible for an insatiable curiosity 4) As a species, and a survival tactic, we make things up to comfort ourselves in difficult times 5) As a complex societal species, we create commonalities and «traditions» with others in our clan / tribe / community 6) These «traditions» result in security, trust, and strong relationships that make the collective more able to survive than the individual 7) These common beliefs also act as a means of numbing the brain to questions and concerns without legitimate or tangible answers 8) Religion is simply a survival mechanism 9) When we die, we simple «are not alive» anymore.

Congress identified the following purposes: the promotion of «self - discipline and other prudent approaches to the problem of adolescent premarital sexual relations,» the promotion of adoption as an alternative for adolescent parents, the development of new approaches to the delivery of care to pregnant teenage girls, and the support of research and demonstration projects «concerning the societal causes and consequences of adolescent premarital sexual relations, contraceptive use, pregnancy, and child rearing.»

However, it is also important to acknowledge the larger societal dimensions of our concern, for which we refer to the very different kind of work done by an anthropologist, C.D.F. Mosse in a study of a mixed Hindu - Christian village in Ramnad District of Tamilnadu.

Did not the needs for nurturing societal functionalities in matters of skin color become of racial concerns in such matters of wanting to lighten up one's skin tones?

As a result, courts have found that parental conflict related to divorce is a societal concern because children suffer potential short - term and long - term detrimental economic, emotional, and educational effects during times of family transition due to divorce.

As it has proved impossible to wholly separate political, economic, and social concerns in analysing the background to the riots, only a truly cross-disciplinary account — for instance, one rooted in a sociologically - informed theory of political economy — can hope to have the necessary tools to fully capture and interpret the societal phenomena from which the riots derive.

Entitled Social science and epigenetics: opportunities and challenges, the symposium will seek to examine how multidisciplinary research into epigenetics — the science of the lasting marks that modify the expression of the genes encoded in our DNA — might help provide answers to societal concerns including why deprivation has such a marked impact on child development and on health outcomes.

He is concerned about a host of side effects from cognitive enhancement — not only the physical kind but the financial and societal, too.

«The possibility of a continued decay in the strength of the magnetic field is a societal concern that merits continued study and monitoring.»

But the summit's organizers concluded that actually trying to produce a human pregnancy from such modified germ cells or embryos, either through in vitro fertilization (IVF) with the sperm or eggs or the implantation of an embryo, is currently «irresponsible» because of ongoing safety concerns and a lack of societal consensus.

The authors measured these from the perspective of casual observers — to gain a societal perspective — because patients who seek out reconstruction surgery for facial defects often do so over concern about what others will think of their defect.

But even if the form is improved and women have a better understanding of the policy, the researchers are still concerned about the effects of the waiting period and its societal cost.

A connection between innovators and policymakers will be more important within the next decade, he said, and it will require policy frameworks to ensure that potential risks are managed to reap societal benefits, particularly as it concerns the «Internet of Things» technologies and smart cities or even issues like smartphone encryption.

The consequences of this overall process, known as «ocean acidification», are raising concerns for the biological, ecological, and biogeochemical health of the world's oceans, as well as for the potential societal implications.

Social psychologists focus on societal concerns that have a powerful influence on individual wellbeing as well as the health of society as a whole, including problems such as substance use, crime, prejudice, domestic abuse, public health, bullying, and aggression.

It is our mandate (no pun) as men, our responsibility in this evolutionary stage to fearlessly act on love, without concern of rejection by women, or fellow males in their reaction to false societal rules.

Reducing the amount of dietary related diseases is utterly paramount and a huge (western) societal concern, with physical, social, economic, and environmental implications.

Oliver Lyttleton, The Playlist «There is a vein of dark humour running through Lanthimos» earlier films, but «The Lobster» embraces it wholeheartedly: the film's a blend of the works of Charlie Kaufman and Luis Buñuel, an uproarious yet deadpan satire concerning societal constructs, dating mores and power structures that also manages to be a surprisingly moving, gloriously weird love story.»

Jay Belsky, lead author of the federally financed NICHD study, expressed concern that there may be broad societal consequences from large numbers of young children spending many hours in center - based care.

In 1927, Holmes organized a restructuring of the School that addressed some of Lowell's concerns while still emphasizing the role education played in societal progress.

Some argue character does not exist; others claim character is the cardinal concern of central societal institutions such as schooling.

However, some gifted children differ in terms of their emotional and moral intensity, sensitivity to expectations and feelings, perfectionism, and deep concerns about societal problems.

However, monetary concerns and declining rates of teenage pregnancy are not the only reasons for the closing of many of these programs: changing societal norms also affect the demand for alternative schools for pregnant students.

Economic security is a societal concern dating as far back as ancient Greece and medieval Europe, with the ever present threats of unemployment, illness, disability, death, and old age.

The move by Cerberus is a rare instance of a Wall Street firm bending to concerns about an investment's societal impact rather than a profit - at - all - costs ethos.

He went on to develop a formal language all of his own, while concerned with the media and consumerism, also calls into question the role of the artist vis - à - vis specific societal and economic conditions.

The new works we are presenting in Hong Kong are a continuation of the themes Bradford has explored throughout his entire career, most prominently the concerns of marginalized people in an uncertain world and the distribution and representation of power within societal structures.

Lee's early work focused on depicting societal concerns through realism, such as his first major project in the United States in which he painted portraits of San Francisco's homeless community on found boxes.

Through her work she is able to speak a common language about cultural and personal associations reflecting upon concepts of environmental concerns and societal pressure.

Her work also confronts feminist concerns and societal conventions, paralleled by her use of techniques typically categorized as craft and associated with women, such as crochet and sewing.

Beginning as a dominant part of the East Village Art scene during the 80's, Bickerton resolutely stood as an opponent of consumerism and mechanization of the contemporary world, often making references to the societal concerns.

For the Scottish figurative painters Peter Howson and Jock McFadyen, their specific focus on marginalized characters reflects a concern with the brutal nature of societal order, manifested in their use of exaggerated physicality.

These performances show Pope.L working in a space between community organization and an artistic practice — mobilizing individuals while attempting to address societal concerns through an abstraction of imposing themes such as labor, identity politics, and basic civil and fundamental rights.

Alongside masterpieces by other artists concerned with societal generalizations and longstanding issues of identity, this specific Untitled work was included in the 2006 exhibition Into Me / Out of Me at MoMA P.S. 1.

This is particularly true given the «super wicked» nature of this issue, which is complicated by competing societal concerns, embedded special interests, huge gaps between human energy needs and clean - energy menus and other impediments to swift change.

The online climate wars — which seem so momentous to those deeply dug in on various fronts — are taking place on the sharp end of a needle buried in a haystack of other societal concerns.

, refers to the tendency of white males to be less concerned with a large variety of societal risks than are women and minorities.