This boy has a dream of doing something great one day and has his eyes set
on the high society golden haired Charity (Michelle Willams).
Not exact matches
The CRTC says that Canada's a world leader in access to the Internet, but Harvard's Berkman Centre for Internet and
Society just updated its study
on next generation connectivity — very
high - speed Internet, 3G networks and the like.
«Your success in a knowledge
society depends
on mastery of soft skills and practical intelligence — and yet they don't show up in college or
high school curriculums.
All three opportunities related to soil depletion rate
high on their benefit to
society, yet are still rated low as business opportunities compared to the other opportunities.
Our tax
on society is going to get
higher.»
«It's
high - tech eugenics,» said Marcy Darnovsky, director of the Center for Genetics and
Society, a Berkeley, Calif. nonprofit focused
on reproductive technologies.
Yet shortly after the council, the
high culture of the West took a sharp turn toward an aggressive and hegemonic secularism that now manifests itself as Christophobia: a deep hostility to gospel truth (especially moral truth) and a determination to drive Christians who affirm those truths out of public life and into a privatized existence
on the margins of
society.
«In
societies where there is a greater disparity between the richest and the poorest, that causes lower levels of economic wellbeing amongst the whole childhood population, both those
on lower incomes and those
on higher incomes.
Common sense would dictate that if the people of a large
society wanted to pay less to house criminals, wanted fewer abortions, and more people working — they would put their resources towards educating their youth
on how to not get pregnant, providing contraception to those women who do not want children until they are equipped to raise them, and towards making sure all children obtain the
highest possible education they can achieve.
Latter - day Saints place great emphasis
on families, believing that through them — and not alone — people can find a place in the
highest level of heavenly
society.
On the contrary, given the presumption of a collective agency for the cell as a unified field of activity, it makes excellent sense to account for the stability of the field in terms of
societies of inanimate actual occasions with their ongoing transmission of fixed patterns and for the vitality of the field in terms of the nexus of living occasions with their
higher degree of novelty and originality.
The
high school senior and Boy Scout participated in the annual Iftar dinner - or «breaking of the fast» meal - hosted by the All Dulles Area Muslim
Society Scout program
on Saturday night.
Duddington also provides discussion of the issue of conscience in contemporary
society, citing a number of
high - proile cases in which the state has intervened
on issues of religious conscience and human rights.
Zechariah is told he is to be a father — a message that is unexpected but certainly not undesirable, for Zechariah and his wife Elizabeth are old and childless in a
society that puts a
high value
on having children.
When you live in a
society where there is a
high value placed
on calling yourself Christian and going to church, and there are even promising career paths available, there's always going to be people who become Christians for the wrong reasons.
A young scholastic tells me that he and others were hit
on by superiors and decided to lodge a complaint with
higher - ups in the
society, only to discover that «the
higher up we went, the deeper in we were to the lavender regime.»
Consider a partial list of developments since just World War II: a broad national decline in denominational loyalty, changes in ethnic identity as hyphenated Americans enter the third and subsequent generations after immigration, the great explosion in the number of competing secular colleges and universities, the professionalization of academic disciplines with concomitant professional formation of faculty members during graduate education, the dramatic rise in the percentage of the population who seek
higher education, the sharp trend toward seeing education largely in vocational and economic terms, the rise in government regulation and financing, the great increase in the complexity and cost of
higher education, the development of a more litigious
society, the legal end of in loco parentis, an exponential and accelerating growth in human knowledge, and so
on.
The survival of recognizably Protestant colleges therefore seems to depend
on the survival within the larger
society of Protestant enclaves whose members believe passionately in a way of life radically different from that of the majority, and who are both willing and able to pay for a brand of
higher education that embodies their vision.
Frances Young, SPCKModern
society places a
high value
on success, learning and competence.
Modern
society places a
high value
on success, learning and competence.
A review article analyzing new books
on the problems confronting American
higher education: While
higher education is obliged to resist the pernicious forces of the larger
society, to expect it to be immune to their pervasive effects is unrealistic.
Like this: «Truly honoring God and the
highest and best of all that is, is found in simple acts of kindness and human decency, such as taking care of orphans, widows, and those
on the fringes of your
society.»
The deterioration of neighborhoods in our inner cities, the decline of elemental safety — never mind education — in many of our schools, the burgeoning of jail populations (to the point that we have the
highest percentage of incarcerated citizens of any country in the industrial world), the great strains
on the family, the general slackening of discipline, which a consumerist and media - driven
society relentlessly encourages, and a huge transfer of wealth In the 1980s and «90s (during this period, the upper 1 percent of Americans more than doubled its wealth, while the lowest 20 percent suffered an actual decline)-- all these changes signal a community at risk.
Drawing together Ukrainians of all ages and backgrounds — old women
on puny state pensions and tech - savvy teenagers still in
high school, university intellectuals and street-wise factory workers, Ukrainian - speakers and Russian - speakers — the Maidan soon became a self - organizing civil
society.
The local church is, further, because it speaks an idiom of human language, an instance of human
society that distinguishes itself from many other kinds of
societies by the
high proportion of language it spends
on struggle and grace.
The least religious countries
on the planet are the ones with the happiest and healthiest citizens, lowest levels of corruption, low crime rates, low STD rates, low abortion rates, low teen pregnancy rates,
high levels of education, the most egalitarian
societies, etc..
Although AA is mindful that dependence can be dangerous in therapeutic relations, it is their experience that dependence
on an AA group or
on a
higher «Power» has not produced any disastrous results (Morris E. Chafetz and Harold W. Demone, Jr., Alcoholism &
Society [NY: Oxford University Press, 1962], p. 150; bold face added).
Thus when we ascribe mass to an entity, we are asserting a kind of limit
on its dynamics.12 Bringing this back to the preprojective, we are saying that insofar as a
high - grade
society objectifies a given nexus by virtue of the Category of Transmutation in the flattened form that is mass, the dynamics of that nexus are bounded, at least with regard to its extensive relations with the world.
The American Bible
Society has partnered with The Barna Group to identify America's most «Bible - minded» cities, based
on «
highest combined levels of regular Bible reading and belief in the Bible's accuracy.»
This was illustrated a few years ago when President Harry S. Truman appointed a Commission
on Higher Education which later issued its report under the title
Higher Education for American Democracy and began its discussion with definitions of the dogmas and the goals of democratic
society.
Characterizing world consciousness as «a very
high level abstraction which has affected the thought patterns of an individual or of a
society» (p. 5), Regan goes
on to show how for Whitehead the approximation to world consciousness and the development of religion are parallel.
The quality of young men joining the
Society is as
high as ever, but the number of new recruits is dramatically down, and the decline is bound to have a negative impact
on traditionally Jesuit apostolates.
Several highly publicized cases in the late 1980s (such as access to computer systems in Canada from New York or access to NATO information systems in Norway from the USA) have shown that «the prevention of computer crime is of great significance as business, administration and
society depend to a
high degree
on the efficiency and security of modern information technology».
Hanging
on to this concept would thus include recourse to such ultimate microcosmic event - units, so that in the end even the
higher totalities could only be conceived as «
societies» of such «entities.»
For those
societies,
on the other hand, that make up the
higher forms of life, and in particular for the human being, Whitehead thinks of this «defining characteristic» or common form as a ground of unity that dominates the occasions.
The
High - level group
on the information
society - chaired by European Commissioner Martin Bangemann - reported in June 1994 to the European Summit at Corfu that the information
society is coming, whether we like or not.
What Whitehead denotes as the «social order» of the
higher living beings can no longer be understood
on the model of a
society with its emphasis
on multiplicity, but only
on that of an organism focusing
on unity.
The effects of
higher education
on religious orientations can be interpreted entirely at the social - psychological level or within the context of American
society by itself.
For example, I think there should be a
higher tax
on cars with unnecessarily large horsepower, because the whole
society has to pay to clean up the polluted environment which they cause.
Nonetheless, there is an expectation
on the part of
society that the law will speak from
on high as well as in the people's midst, and that it will make straight what would otherwise remain twisted, crooked lines; it will establish order in the stead of anarchy and chaos; it will retain a semblance of purity amid vile motives and human deceits; it will speak with godlike authority and power in a godless age.
Building
on his previous work, he continued to describe modern
society as a product of evolutionary development, but he also suggested that a fundamental characteristic of modern
society is its inevitable and enduring confrontation with paradox At one level, the basic paradox confronting modern
society can be seen in the fact that there must be closure for communication to occur, yet there must also be openness in order to cope with the
high degree of complexity and change in modern
society.
Everything in
society is now viewed through that very instrumentalized lens and unlike a lot of other people who hold the kind of job that I do, it's totally understandable that that would be the orientation, because
higher education has done a spectacularly poor job of delivering
on its promises: It has racked up over $ 1.4 trillion in student loan debt, putting an immense burden upon the next generation, not only financially, but dampening their ability to innovate and create.
In a
society based
on kinship, especially under circumstances of severe inter-tribal rivalry for the means of subsistence, one finds
high ideals of just conduct within the group combined with the absence of the sense of moral obligation beyond the group.
And of the
highest importance have been my conversations, oral and written, with my American colleagues in the parables seminar of the
Society of Biblical Literature and those with whom I have been associated in the founding of Semeia, a new journal established specifically to do biblical studies experimentally, drawing
on tools from other disciplines.
However, he went
on to state that he estimated that it was likely that Christians had a
higher representation in Parliament than the
society at large.
Accordingly, the common life of a theological school that educates those who lead and nurture communities of Christians in that life must in
high moral seriousness focus above all
on the nature and demands of that activity and
on analysis of the
society in which it must be lived.
As Schreiter has pointed out in his reflections
on the sociology of theology, [13] such a picture of what it is to understand God tends to predominate in cultural situations marked by
high specialization and differentiation, like urban
societies and their economies, and marked by a plurality of competing worldviews.
On 13 June Luther unexpectedly and without informing any of his friends in advance... married Bora... You might be amazed that at this unfortunate time... he turns to self - indulgence and diminishes his reputation, just when Germany has special need of his judgement and authority... The man is certainly pliable; and the nuns have used their arts...
society with the nuns has softened or even titillated this honourable,
high - spirited man... the rumour that he had previously dishonoured her is clearly a lie... Now that the deed is done, we must not take it too hard, or reproach him; for I think, indeed, that he was compelled by nature to marry.
In
societies which have a low degree of acceptance of large daily amounts of alcohol, mainly those will be exposed to the risk of addiction who
on account of
high psychological vulnerability have an inducement to go against the social standards.
Here is the culmination of Israel's thought about natural law: a glorious day should dawn when man's jungle impulses would atrophy, when right would triumph deep in human nature, and
society would pursue its happy course in a state of «anarchy,» of «no law,» because everyone would do the
high and noble thing through his love for it, in obedience to the unwritten law inscribed
on his heart!