Sentences with phrase «on society at large»

It's clear that the Daku Group is about more than returns: «Whilst we are very clear of our investment reward in developments, I strongly believe in creating developments that have an impact on society at large.

«Unearthing the country's recent history and its past and the source of all these problems and positions could potentially have an impact on society at large,» he said.

His work speaks to attitudes that show concern and investment with greater issues — questioning the shaping of personal perception and the impact of a person's decisions on society at large.

It is precisely discussions such as these that moved the Retune Festival from an algo - filled party for the hipster geeks to a multidisciplinary open forum for debate, collaboration and meditation on the effect of the latest technologies not just on individual artistic practice, but on the society at large.

The presentation was very interesting and informative, engaging the students to reflect on the decisions they make as consumers and forcing them to consider the impact that their decisions have on animals and on society at large.

If anything it's only becoming more apparent by the day just how brutally negative the impact of most connected tech is on society at large.

The cultural pull the Star Wars franchise has on society at large is staggering.

Like talk radio, besides a couple of laughs against one's better judgment, movies like this offer a communal outlet for aggressions that might otherwise be visited on society at large.

For an atheist, there is the additional complication that one of the very things being objected to is the overreaching application of the «Great Commission» — that compels Christians to impose their teachings on society at large.

In the same book Pope John Paul wrote that «a determination on the part of husband and wife to have as few children as possible, to make their own lives easy, is bound to inflict moral damage both on their family and on society at large.»

Not exact matches

To a large extent, society pats men on the back for holding down big jobs, but grimaces at women who do the same, implying that they're lousy parents.

«I think the impact of machine learning on society will be larger than the impact of mobile on society,» Khosla said Tuesday, during a fireside chat with Vator CEO Bambi Francisco at the Post-Seed venture capital conference in San Francisco.

Success stories like Harrison's are few and far between for social entrepreneurs, defined as «someone who targets an unfortunate but stable equilibrium that causes the neglect, marginalization, or suffering of a segment of humanity; who brings to bear on this situation his or her inspiration, direct action, creativity, courage, and fortitude; and who aims for and ultimately affects the establishment of a new stable equilibrium that secures permanent benefit for the targeted group and society at large,» by Roger L. Martin and Sally Osberg in a 2007 Stanford University report titled «Social Entrepreneurship: The Case for Definition.»

The idea that companies and society at large would benefit if everybody knows what everybody else is earning has been gaining traction recently, helped along by the availability of such information on websites such as Glassdoor.com, PayScale.com, and Salary.com.

Thurman says that as people in business, «we should take heart because, although a lot of people who consider themselves progressive and spiritual feel like business is something very lowly, that it's about just making money, the vocation of business can be extraordinarily honorable and has the ability to make a long - lasting positive impact on our society and world at large.»

As I've argued frequently on this blog, we ought to reserve the term «corporate social responsibility» to refer to obligations that a company owes to society at large, in some sense, rather than responsibilities it owes to particular individuals.

«It is clear that technologies like artificial intelligence and machine learning will have a huge impact on future mobility and society at large.

On the other hand, if directors primarily serve a broader constituency of stakeholders (or society at large), is it possible to determine which groups are being served and how directors can prioritize between divergent stakeholder interests?

Critics accused her of focusing on strategies individual women could take to get ahead at large corporations, at the expense of acknowledging sexism throughout society.

The U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs meets November 18 in order «to explore potential promises and risks related to virtual currency for the federal government and society at large.»

In the end, society must choose whether to save the economy at large, or to save bondholder and banking claims on the economy.

Such a society depends on the willingness of large numbers of people to undertake tedious and unrewarding work at low pay and in very poor conditions.

But people seem to want Timberlake to make things right in a more public way, a way that challenges his own privileges as a white male and thus — at least symbolically — contends with those power imbalances in society at large: perhaps by bringing Jackson on stage to perform with him as a special guest at this year's Super Bowl.

Judge Andrew Napolitano, a distinguished jurist and professor of law, will speak on the importance of Catholic schools for the Church and society - at - large in a secular culture.

Methodologically speaking, however, systematics is a dialogue with a different public than those of philosophical and practical theology, theirs being the academy on the one hand, and society at large on the other.

Taking a page out of the First Things playbook, Jackson urges Muslim Americans to «articulate the practical benefits of the rules of Islamic law in terms that gain them recognition by society at large,» something that can be done by drawing on the Islamic tradition of practical reasoning that has family resemblances to the Catholic use of natural law and Protestant analysis of «common grace.»

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.

Not one word in it begins tosuggest that this is a problem which exists in society at large: on the contrary, child abuse appears to be considered as a specifically Catholic problem.

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.

Your Sophia picture illustrates this so well, but also speaks deeply on another level, of the bondage of women by various means, withing relationships, within organized religion, but also within society at large.

The organismic view of society on the part of process thought has much in common with systems theory, which holds that human societies are systems, at times sub-systems intertwined in complex ways and parts of a larger system.

On the other hand, the health insurance companies and society - at - large profit from the financial savings of exclusive and long - term breastfeeding.

While the study focused on the judgment many women face from their own families and friends, society at large feels all - too - comfortable passing judgment: Moms are judged if they have children too early or too late in life.

Yet again, Bob Marley assured us on «So Much Things to Say» that a likely windfall from social justice, equality and fairness, patriotism, truth, and exertion of spiritual fortitude against «spiritual wickedness in high and low places» accrues to society or community at large.

on the face of it the American left are socially liberal but the bottom line is the more control they take over the economy and the redistribution of wealth, the more power they will gain over society at large and the more power they will have to implement social engineering projects.

The reasoning behind this - that the most successful rely heavily on those below them for their success - is very aptly applied to society at large, as The Spirit Level attempts to show.

This means seeing the net not as a purely private domain of sociability and consumption, to be kept free from state snooping; but rather as a terrain of political struggle with a profound impact on the character of society at large.

One of the charges read, «That you, Jules Suinner, on or about the 13th day of July 2015, in Abuja, within the jurisdiction of this honourable court, with intent to obtain money under false pretences, conspired with ICT Aid Foundation Cooperative Society (still at large) and others (still at large) to fraudulently impersonate officials of Greenview Development Nigeria Limited.»

Commenting after the NUT's motion at TUC Congress on youth unemployment, which was seconded by ASLEF, Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers» union, said: «Youth unemployment is a blight on society.

Parents have been charged on the need to always instill in their children the good moral values so as to be useful for them and the society at large

Said state Senate Minority Leader John McKinney, R - Fairfield: «I have had the privilege of representing Newtown, Conn., in the state Senate for the past 14 years and the tragic events that occurred there on Dec. 14 require a response from our government and our society at large.

Building on AAAS's long - standing commitment to relate scientific knowledge and technological development to the purposes and concerns of society at large, the Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion (DoSER) facilitates communication between scientific and religious communities.

DoSER builds on AAAS's long - standing commitment to relate scientific knowledge and technological development to the purposes and concerns of society at large.

The course demonstrated to Evans «the connections and collaboration engineers can pursue within academe, or society at large, on issues not typically considered the province of engineering.»

Whether the newcomer will fill the dorado's ecological role or prey on different fish and thus skew species assemblages is unclear, says Carlos Cañas, a river ecologist at the Wildlife Conservation Society here, who plans to monitor the migration of large catfish in the watershed.

At the Society for Neuroscience meeting in Chicago last October, Michael Häusser of University College London reported on an optogenetics experiment that showed how 100 neurons could trigger a memory stored in a much larger ensemble of about 100,000 neurons, suggesting how the technique may be used to understand memory formation.

Months of warning signs from Mauna Loa, on Hawaii's Big Island, prompted the U.S. Geological Society to recently start releasing weekly updates on activity at the world's largest active volcano.

«I take what the models tell us may happen to our climate at large scales and try to understand what impacts these changes could have on society.

Although the research it funds may reach into the details of organizational behavior, the foundation expects the findings to have broader implications for understanding the nature of businesses and their impact on workers, investors, and society at large.

Officials at AAAS, the world's largest general science society, said they are «encouraged and optimistic» about legislation that would help prohibit the misuse of genetic information, if it is approved by the U.S. Senate on Tuesday, 14 October.