Sentences with phrase «on societies around»

Scientific evidence indicates that the global climate is moving outside the bounds of past experience and can be expected to put new stresses on societies around the world, prompting examination of a variety of plausible scenarios through which climate change might pose or alter security risks for the United States.

It also paints a rare picture of the complexities of the HIV / AIDS crisis from a personal perspective — a disease which has been largely ignored in Hollywood, despite its devastating impact on societies around the world.

In both cases, individuals must become more proactive in their attempts to avoid a wholly nihilistic interpretation of their own facticity: in other words, individuals have to relearn to take charge of themselves, so as to avoid degenerating into complete physical and intellectual dependency on the society around them.

Not exact matches

Also, you may have to carry this thing around in polite society on occasion, so yeah, looks are important too.

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.

«Educating leaders for business and society puts an emphasis on both business but also on helping and building a better world around us.»

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.

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.

«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).

They built their whole society around the fictional fantasy capers on the show and glorified the heroes as divine.

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.

Not to teach it, critically examine it and it's impact on human society over the eons will doom us to have it around for another few hundred years.

Perhaps, through them, it will find the confidence to embark on a new era, in which it engages with society at all levels and cooperates with its friends around the world.

Perhaps by demonstrating greater love and care to those around us, particularly those within our own family and especially those who are unwell or marginalised within society; by reaching out to those who are struggling in life, in need of comfort or support — and by valuing them all as human beings — then we can all indeed be true disciples of Christ on earth.

The primitive Christian community was not a memorial society with its eyes fastened on a departed master; it was a dynamic community created around a living and present Lord.

God's covenant with Noah which asks fallen humanity to establish a society based on reverence for life and a legal justice that protects the innocent human beings from the murderer who is around; and God's call to Moses to liberate the Israelite people from Pharaoh's slavery; and God permitting monarchy with new perils of oligarchy to destroy the more human Tribal Federation to liberate the Israelites from the technically superior Philistines in Palestine; and Paul's doctrine that the Roman State, which he knew had its role in crucifying Jesus.

Elizabeth Henry, the national adviser on Minority Ethnic Anglican Concerns says that while Christians are called to go against the flow, churches inevitably act as a microcosm of society and will reflect some of the racist attitudes around them.

Hoping in an ultimate horizon of fulfillment beyond any we can adequately imagine on the basis of our interaction with society is capable of liberating us from the idolatrous tendency to demand an impossible acceptance from those around us.

Rather, «objective» claims made on us by God and by the poor on the margins of society turned us around.

In the end, it will, we may be sure, reassert itself: but only because of the many human casualties which will emerge as our deeply confused society blunders around, continuing to undermine the stability of the traditional family based on marriage between a man and a woman.

What's interesting is that though both these reports by independent and secular organisations (NSPCC and JJC) either state or imply that child sex abuse is part of a problem in society as a whole and not a particular problem for the Catholic Church, in other words that Catholic priests are no more likely than anyone else to be involved in it, Dr Pravin Thevathasan, the author of the third document on this subject published around the same time, «The Catholic Church & the Sex Abuse Crisis», published by the CTS, is not inclined to deploy this fact to get the Church off the hook.

The spins on a classic buffalo chicken wing are continuously becoming more and more creative around the web, so I make it my personal mission these days to come up with a at least one to contribute to society — and let's be serious, I'm a total convert and would gladly inhale ALL of the buffalo chicken recipes this world has to offer now.

It's pretty difficult being a young person surrounded by friends and family who do not understand food issues, but with the knowledge that is out there on the internet, people like us can live fairly functionally in a society based around wheat.

The new publication, SDG Target 12.3 on Food Loss and Waste: 2016 Progress Report, was released on behalf of Champions 12.3, a unique coalition of leaders from government, business and civil society around the world dedicated to inspiring ambition, mobilizing action, and accelerating progress toward achieving SDG Target 12.3.

We are also a peak body representing around 40 Australian «Member Society» groups for whom we provide campaign advice or representation on animal welfare committees and government advisory groups, such as the Australian Animal Welfare Advisory Committee.

In order to choose the winners for these prestigious awards, representatives from the NRA, NRAEF, and the Society for Foodservice and Hospitality Management travel with senior military officers to installations around the globe on a yearly basis to evaluate foodservice operations.

Kevin Mc Namara is rapporteur for an Australian Health Policy Collaboration working group, and a member of Standards Review Group Subcommittee F developing pharmacy practice standards around screening and risk assessment on behalf of the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia.

It's a structure built around us and the arduous, intensely personal process of escaping it is dependent less on strength of character and more on circumstances that are created by straight society.

You may find it strange, but sometimes the physician forgets to actually check the «clear» box on the version of the most commonly used preparticipation evaluation form - the one produced by the group of five medical organizations known as the «Five Society Monograph» - which is used in various versions around the country.

They observe what is happening around them, take in the marketing messages that are being sent to them, bow to the peer pressure that is being imposed on them, and they make choices about what they like and don't like, consciously or subconsciously, based on what society tells them they should like.

What's more impressive is their teaming up with Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) in developing the Endangered Species line, a line of premium strollers that focus attention on the plight of Endangered Species around the globe.

An advertising campaign criticised by health experts around the world for undermining breastfeeding was launched in Brazil by the Nestlé - sponsored Paediatric Society of Rio Grande do Sul (SPRS) at a press conference on Monday 21 September.

She goes into detail on being disappointed with a baby's sex (though she mistakenly uses «gender» but given the prevalence of this mistake in our society, I won't be too hard on her), a topic that can be very difficult to talk about as so often people feel immense guilt for having a preference or any negative feeling around a baby's sex.

Attorney General Dominic Grieve commenting on Monday's open letter sent by 60 British Humanist Association supporters is quoted in today's Telegraph as saying «As I go around and look at the way we make laws, and indeed many of the underlying ethics of society are Christian - based and the result of 1,500 years of Christian input into our national life.

So, as a human society, where so much of the emphasis has been on preparing and improving the productivity of the workforce, and people's lives center around the labor they contribute to economies, what do you do when you don't NEED everyone to work?

«For those who do not want to take on that task, can I suggest that they join a society in which they can enjoy sitting around having a philosophical debate about the meaning of socialism?

This is where I wish to call on all of us, especially our Chiefs and Queen Mothers, religious and opinion leaders, civil society organisations, private sector operators, to rise up to the challenge and help make a difference this time around,» President Akufo - Addo said at the launch of the event.

Drawing on the services of a professional society and identifying pertinent resources from other disciplines including work / family centers and think tanks (see sidebar), literature, and benchmark studies, may well serve to expand the knowledge base and enhance the leadership around work / family issues for postdoctoral associates in the workforce.

The 18th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for Developmental Neuroscience will highlight this mystery as neuroscientists from around the world gather to discuss their work on how the brain develops in the womb and throughout childhood.

As you can imagine, there's a lot of demand for this kind of person, given that our whole society seems centered around financial worth — we're all reliant on the stock market for our retirement, cures to diseases only happen if they increase shareholder value, and the latest murder has been replaced by the latest merger on the front page of every major newspaper on the planet.

In 33 hunter - gatherer societies around the world, parents typically take 1 - to 2 - year - olds on foraging expeditions and give the youngsters toy versions of tools to manipulate, reported psychologist Sheina Lew - Levy of the University of Cambridge and her colleagues in the December Human Nature.

He draws on past and recent archaeological studies indicating that the emergence of state - run societies around 6,000 years ago represented a cultural step backward in some important ways.

Instead of a society focused on dairy farming, and poorly adapted for the Arctic climate, as previously thought, the new findings imply a community centered instead around hunting and trading.

Outreach to policymakers and journalists is part of the association's ongoing Transformation Initiative, which calls on AAAS to ramp up advocacy around science - society issues, while also becoming more member - facing and focused on digital - first technologies, as well as innovation.

«What we have to do as a society is figure out how to move ourselves around in a way that is low - cost and has minimal effect on the environment,» he says.

The 2030 Agenda can be as important for supporting the development of knowledge - based and innovative societies around the world as for making near - term progress on the 17 SDGs.»

Today more than 20,000 scientific journals around the world are based on these two key principles and it is difficult to imagine a research process functioning without them,» Royal Society President Paul Nurse said in the statement.

Shermer's article is a shallow and tendentious treatment of a complex subject that does not take proper account of rebuttals to critical attacks on the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis, in which a comet strike more than 12,000 years ago caused the megafaunal extinction in North America, and misrepresents the state of the argument around my theory that this event wiped out an advanced human society as well.