Sentences with phrase «on human numbers»

Through concerted effort, the world's governments exterminated a virus that for millennia had played an important role in global ecology, serving as a check on human numbers.

Not exact matches

On a somber human note, the storm is already being cited for some 20 fatalities — 10 of them in New York City — and officials fear that number may rise.

Considering the large number of recording artists who will be in attendance at the Grammys, and the many thousands of photos and videos that will be taken during the event, the Recording Academy will be able to rely on the Watson artificial intelligence platform to sort through reams of content and «create unique fan experiences» with the type of speed and efficiency that would be impossible for humans to do manually.

«The more the number of climbers, the more human waste and garbage that are left on the mountain.

However, the sheer number of potential moves on any given turn means that Go is in fact one of the most complex games humans have developed and AI scientists have been unable to master it for decades.

Coming up with a number sounds clean and scientific but relying entirely on such a score and disregarding words entirely, means you lose the human voices behind the statistics, which have huge value, Marke insists.

An increasing number of biotech firms are focusing on bringing «human - like» therapies to the animal world.

We also take action on any accounts we find that violate our terms of service, including asking account owners to confirm a phone number so we can confirm a human is behind it.

«Your letter states that the Public Service Agency's review is directed solely at «the human resources and investigation processes and procedures» that led to the termination of the employment of a number of Ministry of Health employees in 2012, rather than being a review of the decisions themselves,» Adams wrote on Whitmarsh's behalf.

This could actually be a list of one, as most of the other items noted below relate to treating people like numbers on a spreadsheet instead of humans who have unique goals and needs.

The Hillary Step is the key bottleneck on the Everest summit climb and can often become a juncture where human life is lost dependent on two variables --(1) the number of climbers concentrated at the Step that either want to ascend or descend at any one time, and (2) the change in trend in the weather at the top of the mountain.

Prior to launching Pillar, Cindy worked on searches for a number of high profile clients including Santa Barbara International Film Festival, Emeril Lagasse Foundation, U.S. Naval War College, Nantucket Athenaeum, Kellogg School of Management, Institute of Human Virology, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and World Animal Protection.

Just make sure a live human being is on the other end of the phone number listed.

First, people often kill other human beings because they believe that the creator of the universe wants them to do it... Second, far greater numbers of people fall into conflict with one another because they define their moral com.munity on the basis of their religious affiliation...»

Additional reasons might be given for The United Methodist Church to rid itself of a commitment to abortion rights: the increasing numbers of African delegates (who are, in the main, pro-life) to General Conference; the horrifyingly high abortion rates (though the annual totals are continuing to decrease) in the United States; the pro-life drift of American public opinion (which United Methodism seems to follow); the uncommon clarity of ecumenical teaching on the dignity of the human person; and the providence of God.

These numbers compare with 69 % of all people surveyed who «believe there is solid evidence that the average temperature on Earth has been getting warmer over the past few decades» and 57 % who «believe humans and other living things evolved over time.»

People burned as witches, blacks lynched by Christians in this county, people killed in human sacrifices, servants killed to accompany pharaohs on their journeys to the afterlife, untold numbers of people killed in various cultures because they were deemed to have offended God in some way, and so on.

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.

The Church of course uses a number of different images or analogies to describe herself or different aspects of herself; a mother, a bride or spouse, a home, a human body and so on.

It is human arrogance at its finest to believe an omnipotent being has some stock in the outcome of the number of times a ball is on either side of a field.

It is not the will of God that children suffer from hunger and malnutrition and grow up in unsanitary slums with lack of proper education, that persons because of the color of their skin are debarred from schools, hospitals, employment, or housing projects; that persons are denied other basic human rights; that personalities and homes are broken through drink and that great numbers die on highways through drunken driving; that marriage vows are often taken lightly and that easy divorces shatter home after home and leave children the pawns of the parents» selfishness.

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.

Surely an unplanned blunder on Newsweek's part, but a blunder nonetheless (perhaps worse in the long run exactly because it was unconscious and indicates not deliberate discrimination but a naive lack of sensitivity) A balance of exceptional model elders with equal numbers of average everyday folk would provide a more accurate picture of the aging as they really are, with their very human combinations of merits and faults.

The study draws a number of important conclusions on the basis of careful analysis both of the research data and on the basis of the understanding of human nature that was unanimous until recently among Catholic philosophers.

... salvation only in Christ and that redemption is available to all ----- If it's «available to all», how do you explain the large number of human beings on earth at this very moment with no knowledge of Christ?

Based on its assumptions about human beings, it argues that the greatest good of the greatest number is served best when each person works aggressively for his or her own economic interest.

For instance, «such a crowd gathered that there was no room left even in front of the door» (Mk 2); «There would have been no hope left for any human creature, if the number of those days had not been cut short» (Mt 24); «These must stay on board, or there is no hope left for you» Acts 27; «if you can see your neighbour's faults, no excuse is left you» (Rom 2).

Dr. Wolf Wolfensberger has identified a number of the traditional concepts that our society has had of mentally retarded people (The Principle of Normalization in Human Services [National Institute on Mental Retardation, 1972]-RRB-.

Adam, to suggest your SUPER inflated numbers (most were killed due to conditionso f war, including by their own governments failure to to give two squirts of piss about them and using then as human shields) somehow makes my country's actions in the war on terror equivalent to terrorism itself is beyond offensive to me.

I'm an atheist when it comes to Christianity, but that doesn't mean I don't understand the golden rule or other ideas presented by Jesus as a human philosopher, but even if I agreed with Jesus on a number of philosophical issues, in no way would I be a Christian.

Just think if it were the opposite (and why not since we have about double the number of humans on this planet than we can feed in the next 50 years), just think if YOU were only allowed to marry someone of the opposite s3x..

In August of last year, President Bush approved the use of federal funds to support research on a limited number of existing human embryonic stem cell lines.

It is through human consciousness, genetically linked to a heavenly body whose days are ultimately numbered, that Evolution proclaims its challenge: either it must be irreversible, or it need not go on at all!

Uncountable numbers of women took to the streets worldwide to march in solidarity in what was formerly known as the Women's March on Washington for women's — and human — rights.

Human Cloning, containing a number of relatively short essays on cloning and including also a few statements from religious denominations and the recommendations of the NBAC, is therefore a useful addition to public reflection on the subject.

(1) to accept the ambiguity of such a high number of humans on the planet; (2) to stabilize that population as much as possible, and then (3) to find ways of allowing six to eleven billion people to live on the planet in ways that are ecologically wise.

In his regular column on the «13.7» blog (which number refers to the estimated age of the universe in billions of years), Frank describes his own response to the wonders of nature, the physical world, and of just «being human».

Because of the enormous number of physical variables on which it depends, and even more the growing predominance of the psychic (individual choice) over the purely statistical, it seems to be decidedly the case that human evolution goes beyond the bounds of exact calculation.

How small indeed seem individual distinctions when we look back on these overwhelming numbers of human beings panting and straining under the pressure of that vital want!

The human mass, because on the confined surface of this planet it is in a state of continuous additive growth, in numbers and interconnections, must automatically become more and more tightly concentrated upon itself.

For Holmes, the ruling majority based its claim to rule not on any principle affirming the rightness of ruling human beings with their consent and free elections; rather, the majority found its sufficient claim to rule in the brute fact that the majority, by force of numbers, could overpower the minority.

And yet there are vast numbers of Christians who believe that God commands people to slaughter others, that God drowned people in a flood, and that God is the one who killed His own Son on the cross to appease His own wrath and anger against human sin.

Yet if the Requiem can call large numbers of people, regardless of their religious views, to consider just for a second the human condition and what people have inflicted on one another, then I am truly happy to have «failed.»

Calhoun reasons that the ideal number of human beings on earth is about nine billion.

And on the subject of public health, it is worth exploding the number one myth of anti-GM lobbyists that the antibiotic resistance genes carried by some GM crops might lead to devastating human epidemics if transferred to bacteria.

There's some great research being done on the topic of evolution, especially the claim that there are only so many differences between other primates and humans genomes (I don't remember the exact number).

There have been lots of cell and animal research, which prove that turmeric has a good influence on a number of illnesses and also several human studies have shown positive results as well.

The number of potential combinations of substances, circumstances, and settings is mind - boggling, yet these synergies and their impacts on ecological and human health are essentially unknown!

Throughout our website, we strive to provide you with health benefit information that is based on human studies involving large numbers of people who consume foods in an everyday way.

The humans wear jogging gear and numbered racing bibs; the horses wear light saddles and have racing numbers painted large on their flanks.