Sentences with phrase «of societies around»

Lastly, there are those that claim that all of this «we're not designed to eat grains» stuff is garbage — that plenty of societies around the world consume grains and aren't fat and unhealthy like us.

# 4) «But what about the books and people that say «we're not designed to eat grains» is garbage» — that plenty of societies around the world consume grains and aren't fat and unhealthy like us.

Just because some of our societies around the world have sexualized breasts does not change the fact that the reason we have them is to feed our children.

I guess I just feel like many American Christians are succumbing to the material, consumer - driven ways of the society around us and are forgetting the beauty of simplicity — to use the money that we might have spent on the latest CD or DVD from a Christian artist and give it to the food bank, use it to buy supper for the person you see out on the street or as a monthly payment to sponsor a missionary.

But those who lack the means or the will to look for honest answers often turn to the supernatural, to the detriment of the society around them.

«It would take a major change of society around the world to do it.

These dietary rules were adopted across Europe and applied to all segments of society around 1000 AD.»

In searching for a reason [for her father's suicide], she gains mature insights about her family, her neighbors, and the true nature of the society around them [in ex-GDR].

Jack Black is a bit of a reclusive smart - ass, distrusting of the society around him, but progressively gets friendlier as he learns that people aren't so bad with the new kid in town (along with his socially awkward new - found friend) helping him and his daughter attempt to right the wrongs by getting the monsters back in their books.

The film interweaves his own story with that of the society around him.

Kanae Hasegawa: Your paintings show a telescopic and microscopic view of the society around us.

Not exact matches

Franklin, then just shy of her 32nd birthday and working as a research chemist at King's College in London, had to rush off to a meeting at the Royal Society and so didn't wait around for the full image to come into focus.

Regardless of the label, the idea is centered around creating a shared value between the business and for society.

We can leverage these core tenets to solve for a number of organizational issues around trust, authentication, and verification that have challenged society for decades.

Once you've filled your plastic cup — this affair is more backyard barbecue than society event — there's the meet and greet, an opportunity to check out the credentials of those around you: an aerospace industry executive, the economic development chief for a western U.S. state, a dean of engineering for a prestigious American university, several D.C. think tankers, lobbyists, lawyers.

For the past 10 years, the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) has focused on bringing an end to the confinement of farm animals, mainly pigs and young cows (future veal) who are kept in crates without room to turn around, and the egg - laying hens kept in cages too small to spread their wings.

The real turning point for her career was her completion of a Graduate Certificate in Social Impact in 2012, which tapped into a long - held belief that helping those around her and contributing to society is important.

Consider, then: at a time when most of our peers are struggling, we're a prosperous society luring talent from around the globe and sitting on an unparalleled diversity of natural resources.

Created by Soros in 1979, Open Society is a grant - making foundation with branches and partners around the world and focuses on supporting democracies and combating issues of injustice and discrimination, among other causes.

Around 5,000 years ago, humans made the transition «from the anarchy of the hunting, gathering, and horticultural societies in which our species spent most of its evolutionary history to the first agricultural civilizations with cities and governments,» Pinker wrote.

It built a prosperous high - consumption society that hit a wall of stagnation around 1990.

The annual cost of dropouts for the Finnish society is around 100 Meur.

Strong economies and societies around the world help fuel the growth of our business, while integrity, trust and responsibility are essential to our continued success as a premier global investment management organization.

«America's strengths include [the fact it is a] society that attracts talent from around the world and assimilates them comfortably as Americans; and a language that is the equivalent of an open system that is clearly the lingua franca of the leaders in science, technology, invention, business, education, diplomacy and those who rise to the top of their own societies around the world.»

When the North American Free Trade Agreement was concluded there was concern about Mexican labour and environmental standards; side agreements were established around these topics, allowing civil society to raise complaints under the terms of the agreement.

We are a society of friends, a community gathered together around Jesus.

The rest of society lived because they were populated around the globe.

So we're cleaner but we're also doing so much more evil as a collective you could look at a society of apes and might actually find it more beautiful than some disgusting ones that are around now.

However, the point simply is Paul is warning them about certain actions they are either committing or they see in society around them being committed — to avoid such actions as a person of the Spirit... so obviously with the Spirit they could still make common mistakes.

I could care less what individual people believe or practice within their own segment of society, but the LDS church is organized around a very well - enforced «church first» principle.

What is possible for those who survive is to live locally and in community with others who have the same values rather than those of the self - destroying society around us.

What is now possible and will remain possible for those who survive is to live locally and in community with others from the values of God's Commonwealth rather than of the self - destroying society around us.

He expressed understanding for the protesters, saying: «There is still a powerful sense around - fair or not - of a whole society paying for the errors and irresponsibility of bankers.»

Given the attitudes of middle - class people, the economic structures of society, the way political power is exercised, and the despair of the adults around them.

Last week's storm centered around the role of women in the church, home, and society.

«The event, the fourth of its kind, seeks to raise global awareness and create a forum for collaboration around the wide array of powerful and promising cell therapies, gene therapies, and immunotherapies emerging from medical institutions around the world, as well as the impact new technology will have on humanity and society,» a press release by the Cure Foundation explains (h / t Christian Post).

Though some intellectuals might be able to order their lives around arbitrary moral principles, the great mass of society, Eliot thought, needed something more substantive.

We do well to remember that the freedoms we tend to take for granted are, in disputes all around the country, being defended daily by organizations such as the Rutherford Institute, the Christian Legal Society, the Catholic League for Civil and Religious Liberty, Dean Kelley of New York and William Ball of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (each of whose prodigious energy is tantamount to that of an organization).

Sociologists, anthropologists, and psychologists have noticed this «scapegoat mechanism» in various societies and cultures around the world and have attributed it to an evolutionary necessity for the survival of human society.

Many of us find ourselves estranged from others or the society around us, drifting rootlessly through life.

UN observer Lorne Gunter comments: «Rather than the People's Assembly being comprised of members or deputies from around the world, elected by and accountable to the people they represent [as is at least theoretically the case with the General Assembly], it would likely be made up of the heads of civil society NGOs, and, under most scenarios, only those NGOs accredited by the UN.

One draws upon the approaches of cultural anthropology in focusing on a society's value orientation around the issues of space and time.

The signs and portents indicating that we may be on our way to an Orwellian society cluster around our doctrine of national security.

And as long as people like you are around, it is threat to the peace of society.

Toby writes, speaks, and facilitates the formation of faith leaders around civic engagement over ever - present matters of injustice and inequality in our society.

The Social Crisis Girard maintains that a society which is organized around the principle of mimetic desire is inherently unstable.

He had long explored the complexities of human nature in history and society, but in this book he turned the problem around and looked at the subject which was involved, turning from the objective self which most analysts look at to the subjective self behind the object.

All of these considerations do not change the fact that for a long time American society has been organized around the image of the successful white Anglo - Saxon man, nor assuage the bitterness of those excluded from the central rewards of the society because of the fact of sex or race or age.22 Plato long ago pointed out that the tyrant who can gratify every whim is the greatest slave of all, because he is completely at the mercy of his own desires, but he did not mean that argument as an excuse for tyrants.

There is the deep and widespread oppression of women, along with the elderly and children dependent upon women, in all patriarchical societies around the globe whereby women and their dependents are dehumanized and depersonalized by the androcentric fears and aggressions of males (sexism).

It does not reflect prevailing patterns of human behavior... If you look around carefully, you will see that most people are not really maximizers, but instead what you might call «satisfiers»: they want to satisfy their needs, and that means being in equilibrium with oneself, with other people, with society and with nature.