Sentences with phrase «of society we live in»

The very pluralism and agnosticism of the society they live in makes modern children keen and earnest questioners when they pass into the middle and senior schools.

You can be a person who does not believe in God and still behave according to major ethical and moral values of the society you live in, but to follow a faith requires a belief in God.

Let's just think about that for a moment; business as one of the organs of the society we live in.

I also want to make sure that the parliamentary Labour party is more reflective of the society we live in.

They are the mirror of us, the mirror of their environment, the mirror of the society they live in.

I feel a Catch - 22 with this concept as it showcases the kind of society we live in where becoming a viral sensation is the norm in 2016.

First off, how does a filmmaker even begin to envision J.G. Ballard's dystopian tale of a society living in a building totally closed off from the outside world?

Set in 1950s New York, Carol sees a young photographer fall for an older woman stuck in a loveless marriage and chronicles their relationship as their connection deepens and they face the reality of the society they live in.

«No man is unaffected by the patterns of the society he lives in, least of all students in an educational institution.»

When Sara Wiborg and Gerald Murphy met and married, they set forth to create a beautiful world together - one that they couldn't find within the confines of society life in New York City.

How we balance these costs and benefits will determine the type of society we live in.

Join the first MMO where the race you belong to has an actual impact on game mechanics, from the type of society you live in to the ways you can interact with other players.

Race Is More Than Cosmetic — The race you belong to has an actual impact on game mechanics, from the type of society you live in to the ways you can interact with other players.

While striving to remain contemporary, Tillmans's work presents us with the reality of the society we live in.

It is about the kind of society we live in, about its justice and fairness.

Not exact matches

We live in a society that has become immune to traditional forms of advertising so be on the lookout for new and creative ways to market your brand.

On the other hand, members of the middle class take jobs they don't enjoy «because they need the money, and they've been trained in school and conditioned by society to live in a linear thinking world that equates earning money with physical or mental effort.»

However, we live in a society where far more people understand stories in terms of visual images rather than text, especially on the internet (YouTube, Pinterest, Tumblr, etc.).

You are committed to making a difference not only in your own life, but in the lives of your associates and society as a whole.

The study looked at living standards, environmental sustainability and protection of future generations from further indebtedness as a way to determine if the economies were including every individual equally in their society.

Until our country makes a distinction between money and governance, power and business, we will have an unjust society that preys upon itself and the world in the name of freedom, democracy, and the American way of life.»

The Society of Actuaries reported in 2000 that there is an 81 % chance that one or both members of a 65 - year - old couple will live to age 85, and a 58 % chance that one or both will make it to age 90.

In fact, 40 % of retirees underestimate life expectancy of people their age by at least five years, according to a study by the Society of Actuaries.

Successful business leaders deeply believe in their mission in life: They view themselves and the services they offer as necessary and helpful to the whole of society.

The Internet of Things has the potential to bring great change to society — both in the office and in our personal lives.

If we are living in a time of with massive economic change or a big shift in society's preferences, someone who invests like Buffett will get caught off guard.

He believed that the «frenzy» of modern life was stressing us out, creating an almost structural unhappiness in North American society.

«It's quite normal for Americans and Western people to behave like this — they live in free sex societies where nobody cares about this sort of thing, so what do you expect?»

Shunned by mainstream society, transgender individuals in the country of 190 million are often forced into begging, prostitution or dancing to earn a living.

The company claims (through its website) to focus on «environmentally safe solutions [that] benefit society and enhance the daily lives of the consumer,» with the goal «to establish a leading position in the E [lectric] V [ehicle] industry.»

While obesity isn't a major cause of death — that would be cardiovascular disease and cancer — it contributes to shortened life - spans in contemporary society.

Instead of getting her relational needs met by her husband, she tried to find them in her son — which, Strauss realized, gave him the idea that monogamy was a smothering, soul - crushing artifact of society, and clearly not the way that he was meant to live.

And while it's a cliche to say that we're now part of an information - based economy and society, «our future... is almost certain to be an intensification of our present reality: greater and greater information dependence in every matter of life and work,» all relying on an open Internet.

After successfully silencing the tug boats whose tooting tormented her on the porch of her Riverside Avenue mansion, Mrs. Julia Barnett Rice, the wife of venture capitalist Isaac Rice, founded the Society for the Suppression of Unnecessary Noise in New York in order to combat what she called «one of the greatest banes of city life.»

Fire is part of ecosystems in much of the world, so societies must learn to live with it.

We knew we wanted to produce ethically made clothing and work with a foundation that improves the lives of women in a society where they are often forgotten and left behind.

Or as Paul Shapiro, vice president of policy at the Humane Society of the United States and author of the forthcoming book Clean Meat, sums up: «It's possible that folks in this field might end up doing more good for animals than what I've done with my life.»

We live in a society where there is a lot of abundance, and it goes to people with good minds who have been well trained and who work hard.

Like any of number of fictional futures, from Metropolis to Altered Carbon, it is a society where the wealthy in live in glistening towers in the clouds, surrounded by technologies of luxury and convenience, looking down on an underclass that can not afford basic necessities.

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In today's society (the age of information overload), it's all too easy to rely on becoming a consumer of consensus datapoints as opposed to embracing a Life of Doing.

Luckily for me, I was living in Stanford's Ujamaa dorm — the de facto home of Stanford's Society of Black Scientist and Engineers (SBSE).

He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2007 New Year Honours and is a Life Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA).

For example, in March, Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States sold Growers Square, a 191,000 - sf, three - building office complex in Walnut Creek, California, to Invesco Realty Advisors for $ 41 million.

Part of living in a free society means being bombarded by messages we don't like.

Leslie was instrumental in the founding of the Vancouver Friends for Life Society's Diamond Centre for Living and is an honorary Board member of the Centre.

We are living in a world where the financial sector is waging class war against al the rest of society.

We are living in a society where there is a need for human connection and a sense of community.

But many American practices go against the grain of the more comfortable and communitarian cultural systems of their own societies - the Japanese with life - long employment for their workers, the Germans with their unions having a say in management under co-determination, and the French with their government supporting the right of unions to pressure business from retrenching, by requiring large compensation to be paid to laid - off workers.»