Sentences with phrase «on changes in society»

They can also be used to explore the ways climate - change impacts depend on changes in society, such as economic or population growth or progress in controlling diseases.

By reflecting on the changes in society and developing your own list of student outcomes required in the 21st century, you are now prepared to begin the conversation with your community.

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Stiglitz said that while CEOs aren't going to solve inequality on their own, the reason they exist in society is to grow the economy, and more are realizing they need to make changes.

This will further entrench the on - demand economy in society, as large companies change the ways in which they conduct business, looking to on - demand providers for services that traditionally took place in - house.

Gilbert, who holds the Presidential Endowed Chair in Computing, is conducting his own study on whether society could change how youths view computer science.

Since ending his tenure as mayor in 2013, Bloomberg has been an environmental activist focused on climate change, and this has made him consider business strategy in its relation to society.

Important factors that could cause our actual results and financial condition to differ materially from those indicated in the forward - looking statements include, among others, the following: our ability to successfully and profitably market our products and services; the acceptance of our products and services by patients and healthcare providers; our ability to meet demand for our products and services; the willingness of health insurance companies and other payers to cover Cologuard and adequately reimburse us for our performance of the Cologuard test; the amount and nature of competition from other cancer screening and diagnostic products and services; the effects of the adoption, modification or repeal of any healthcare reform law, rule, order, interpretation or policy; the effects of changes in pricing, coverage and reimbursement for our products and services, including without limitation as a result of the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014; recommendations, guidelines and quality metrics issued by various organizations such as the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, the American Cancer Society, and the National Committee for Quality Assurance regarding cancer screening or our products and services; our ability to successfully develop new products and services; our success establishing and maintaining collaborative, licensing and supplier arrangements; our ability to maintain regulatory approvals and comply with applicable regulations; and the other risks and uncertainties described in the Risk Factors and in Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations sections of our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and our subsequently filed Quarterly Reports on Form 10 - Q.

«Automated, accurate, and cheap personality assessment tools could affect society in many ways: marketing messages could be tailored to users» personalities; recruiters could better match candidates with jobs based on their personality; products and services could adjust their behavior to best match their users» characters and changing moods; and scientists could collect personality data without burdening participants with lengthy questionnaires.

These risk represent a pressure on societies to start wide ranging changes in many areas from the way we transport ourselves to the diets we eat.

In fact, the survey found that the business sector in general is one of the top advocates for sustainable change, almost on the level of civil societIn fact, the survey found that the business sector in general is one of the top advocates for sustainable change, almost on the level of civil societin general is one of the top advocates for sustainable change, almost on the level of civil society.

Identifying the areas where stakeholders can work together on the needed systemic changes will be vital in speeding up the transition to a more sustainable society», she says.

It does not have to be this way and through our mission we want to change the statistic of 99 % of businesses failing in the first 5 years to 99 % being successful and having an amazing positive influence on society and our communities.

Sara Sutton Fell led a competency workshop on «Mobilizing Your Remote Workforce» as well as a discussion group on Digital Changes in Society focused on Employment to an international group of leaders from corporate, nonprofit, NGO, and educational organizations.

Jacinda Ardern and Justin Trudeau take questions from young Londoners on gender equality and how to bring about change in society

Most recently, Dr. Peter Lawler of Berry College in Georgia gave an informative, as well as provocative, presentation on trends occurring in society: «Change We Can Actually See (And....

Most recently, Dr. Peter Lawler of Berry College in Georgia gave an informative, as well as provocative, presentation on trends occurring in society: «Change We Can Actually See (And Half - Believe In).&raquin Georgia gave an informative, as well as provocative, presentation on trends occurring in society: «Change We Can Actually See (And Half - Believe In).&raquin society: «Change We Can Actually See (And Half - Believe In).&raquIn).»

I believe that man is, by nature, an exile and will never be self - sufficient or complete on this earth; that his chances of happiness and virtue, here, remain more or less constant through the centuries and, generally speaking, are not much affected by the political and economic conditions in which he lives; that the balance of good and ill tends to revert to a norm; that sudden changes of physical condition are usually ill, and are advocated by the wrong people for the wrong reasons; that the intellectual communists of today have personal, irrelevant grounds for their antagonism to society, which they are trying to exploit.

It would be nice to be able to concentrate on alleviating the fear / hate in secular society instead of in the church for a change.

Toby applies the prayer to the hopeful decline and eventual elimination of religion because of its obvious harmfulness to society: we can't change the harm religion has done in the past, so we must serenely move on; we must courageously overcome the dangerous influence of religion in our society; and we must know the difference between harm done and the harm that can be prevented from religion.

After studying a series of Western societies from ancient Greece and Iran through the history of Israel, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and on into the twentieth centuries, Polak concludes that the most important single factor involved in the generation of change is the image of the future held by a given group.

Now we're beginning to think that their salvation depends on some changes elsewhere in society as well.

In a pluralistic and rapidly changing society, there are strong pressures on all institutions - especially churches - to maintain a broad common denominator on practical issues.

This framework is helpful for an analysis of changes in human societies based on changes in the major communication system.

Remember, morals change in society; look at the abolitionist, women's suffrage, and civil rights movement, all of them originally didn't have «morality» on their side, but as society changed, the morals changed.

The former focuses on changing the structures of injustice in society through social action; the latter on changing individuals through counseling, nurturing, and educative relationships.

In Resurrecting the Idea of a Christian Society, Rusty Reno offers a brilliant, accessible and modestly optimistic take on the possibilities for positive change in our current cultural climate, upon which I offer some modestly pessimistic thoughtIn Resurrecting the Idea of a Christian Society, Rusty Reno offers a brilliant, accessible and modestly optimistic take on the possibilities for positive change in our current cultural climate, upon which I offer some modestly pessimistic thoughtin our current cultural climate, upon which I offer some modestly pessimistic thoughts.

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 development of modern machine technology in industrial society has wrought profound changes in the relationship between work and leisure, with correspondingly far - reaching effects on the values of civilization.

It is simply not true in such a case that «changed hearts will change society» unless those «changed hearts» concentrate on the need for structural change.

Attention is focused on the disparities in rank and privilege among various classes in traditional societies and upon the changes necessary to secure a larger share for the disadvantaged.

Nor has the Anabaptist emphasis on the reconstruction of the church been effective in changing society.

There was quite a noticeable shift in the eighties when hymns suddenly started going on about power and glory and it seemed that was the church reflecting the changes in society's outlook then.

Of course, even in ancient society there was a small amount of change and development going on all the time, but it was so slow that to man himself it was almost imperceptible.

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 risin 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 risin 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 risin 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 risIn 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.

Tuesday, September 5 Russell Moore, president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, will speak at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, on how a gospel - resurgent evangelicalism can refine itself to speak to our changing society with neither perpetual outrage nor doctrinal capitulation.

A weakness in gestalt is an underemphasis on the responsibility of truly liberated persons to strive to change the oppressive structures of society.

The anthropologist Anthony F. C. Wallace, in a little known classic on social change and culture, teaches that major transformations of thought and behavior happen in a society when a society discovers that a once common set of religious understandings has become impossible to sustain.

We are aware of the shadow; but to obsess over it rather than focus on the opening ourselves to the Good is not going to affect any transformative change in either indivdiuals or societies.

Especially at Vatican I and in the pontificate of Leo XIII (1878 — 1903), the Catholic Church embraced this epochal change, and began to work out in earnest a new, genuinely post-Constantinian teaching on the relation of Church, state, and civil society, a teaching above all concerned to secure the freedom and independence of the Church from the modern state.

Each life stage and each major change in our relationships and in society feels strangely as if someone pushed the ejection button on the cocoon we constructed

Technology produces many of the changes in society, but the effect of those changes depends on many things other than technology itself.

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.

In the pages of the Times of Trenton on January 20, a psychologist named Ronald J. Coughlin published an op - ed titled «Fundamental Changes Would Better American Society.»

Modernity is represented by three forces - first, the revolution in the relation of humanity to nature, signified by science and technology; second, the revolutionary changes in the concept of justice in the social relations between fellow human beings indicated by the self - awakening of all oppressed and suppressed humans to their fundamental human rights of personhood and peoplehood, especially to the values of liberty and equality of participation in power and society; thirdly, the break - up of the traditional integration of state and society with religion, in response to religious pluralism on the one hand and the affirmation of the autonomy of the secular realm from the control of religion on the other».

On a grand scale societies have responded to change in major ways, but large cultural changes require a deliberate reorientation in consciousness at the grassroots level.

Present - day society is locked into four positive feedback loops which need to be broken: economic growth which feeds on itself, population growth which feeds on itself, technological change which feeds on itself, and a pattern of income inequality which seems to be self - sustaining and which tends to spur growth in the other three areas.

On a grand scale societies have responded to change in major ways.

As history shows, actual sweeping change in our society comes slowly and not quickly on average.

The Wittenberg Luther found on leaving his refuge disturbed him deeply and led him to voice caution to the forces of change in both church and secular life, and to produce a flow of pastoral writings on all manner of subjects intended to restore order to Germanic society.

Such is the first, superficial impression: our schools, like our churches and our ministers, have no clear conception of what they are doing but are carrying on traditional actions, making separate responses to various pressures exerted by churches and society, contriving uneasy compromises among many values, engaging in little quarrels symptomatic of undefined issues, trying to improve their work by adjusting minor parts of the academic machine or by changing the specifications of the raw material to be treated.