Sentences with phrase «on society from»

Nonrenewable electricity sources may also impose costs on society from water use or pollution and may justify subsidies for some renewable alternatives.

July marks the opening of a new photography exhibition in London, highlighting the positive impact of refugees on society from the award - winning photographer and journalist Caroline Irby and Pulitzer nominee Veronique Mistiaen.

Women tended to anticipate greater negative impacts on society from human enhancements, and were more wary than men of embracing the three technologies proposed by the survey.

Culture ceases to bubble up in its myriad forms from below and becomes imposed on society from above through big business, mass marketing, and governments.

2,000 people were asked via a YouGov study to rank the three tomes they think have had the most influence on society from an original list of 30.

And here are the prime points in the section projecting impacts on societies from greenhouse heating in coming decades:

Not exact matches

In our 17th annual report on the richest people in Canada, we celebrate both the upper - crust establishment figures who dominate the society pages and the self - starters who built their empires from scratch (and are busily dismantling the ones that came before).

A joint statement from the National Academy of Sciences and Royal Society in Britain said «human - induced increases in CO2 (carbon dioxide) concentrations have been the dominant influence on the long - term global surface temperature increase.»

Some good news in the war on breast cancer: «From 1989 to 2015, breast cancer death rates decreased by 39 %, which translates to 322,600 averted breast cancer deaths in the United States,» according to a new report published by the American Cancer Society.

A new study from the Air Transport Research Society ranked 206 airports on productivity and cost competitiveness.

As an issue, environmentalism has pervaded our society on many levels, from our personal lives to the business sector.

«There have been times when I've had a really busy week and a lot has been going on and I'll sit down on the cushion and then I'll just start crying and I'll realize that I'm so sad about this one thing, but I had no space to grieve, no space to think about it; I was zipping from one thing to the other all week,» says Pennell, who has studied at Insight Meditation Society, one of the top meditation centers in the country.

How much sleep one needs depends on the individual, but Huffington cites experts from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and the Sleep Research Society who say that people between 18 and 60 years usually need seven to nine hours of sleep.

As a society, we don't agree on how to define the problem, we don't agree on who is responsible, and we don't agree on a set of values from which to seek answers.

«The patent system is based on a «bargain,» or quid pro quo: the inventor is granted exclusive rights in a new and useful invention for a limited period in exchange for disclosure of the invention so that society can benefit from this knowledge,» the court said.

«This new policy is further testament that consumers and companies are aligned in shifting the egg and pork industries away from confining animals in cages,» said Josh Balk, senior food policy director of the Humane Society of the United States, who has partnered with Dunkin' Donuts (DNKN) on the initiative.

It's the oft - forgotten lesson that innovation depends not just on creative people and companies but also on permission and encouragement from society as a whole.

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.

A Ted Talk by British researcher Richard Wilkinson, for example, focuses on the harm to society that results from economic inequality — notably the gaps within (not between) societies, which includes life expectancy, literacy, infant mortality, crime, teenage births, obesity and mental illness.

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.

In our blaring, always - on society, there's plenty to distract us from the body's silent signal that it's time to shut down and recharge.

On Monday, Zuckerberg cited two important reasons to pursue diversity: Because it's good for society, and it's beneficial for companies from a commercial perspective too.

The book, part of a series of primers from the publisher on complex issues deemed impactful to society, is what it sounds like from its title: An overview of what people are talking about when they talk about artificial intelligence and concerns stemming from proliferation of technology that falls into the category.

When this happens, a lot of times the person is then criticized for «not growing up» or «mooching» when in fact they are doing this solely to improve their financial situation in the long term and prevent themselves from being a leech on society long term.

Consider shadowing at an established training facility to find out more about the process, and check out this article from the Animal Humane Society on becoming a dog trainer.

Like any of number of fictional futures, from Metropolis to Altered Carbon, it is a society where the wealthy in live in glistening towers in the clouds, surrounded by technologies of luxury and convenience, looking down on an underclass that can not afford basic necessities.

«This combination creates a compelling new blueprint for the future, positioning us to capitalize on important trends in society, from the emphasis on health, wellness and nutrition, to the imperatives of value and convenience.»

But a few key words and phrases from Stocky's statement stand out, as Zeynep Tufekci, a University of North Carolina professor who often writes about technology and society, highlighted on Twitter Tuesday.

Companies can even build a profile of a person from birth based entirely on data - sharing choices made by others, said Salome Viljoen, a lawyer and fellow with the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard.

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.

Eight Opportunity Panels with thought leaders from business, civil society and government will point to opportunities that can put societies on a path towards a more sustainable future.

Therefore, whether current households suffer from inter-generational inequity depends on whether one believes that the average size of houses is a free individual choice or, at least to some extent, is being imposed by the construction industry and society more generally.

There are some discreditable reasons: like Victorians offended by the suggestion that they were descended from apes, some humanists imagine that their dignity is threatened when human society is represented as the moral equivalent of a dish on a turntable.

I treat the financial sector and debt as an economic overhead, so my focus is on how society can deal with the debt and to explain why society can not recover from the current depression until it writes down the debts to what can be paid.

«We're also sensitive of society's tendency to villianize corporations, and as we grow, we wanted to be proactive and deter individuals and the media from condemning an innocent, ethical company as unethical,» Wilson went on to say in a press release

After all, the Cambridge Analytica debacle is far from the first time corporations and government institutions have used Facebook and other social media platforms to spy on the most vulnerable in our society.

Brian Graff, CEO of the American Society of Pension Professionals and Actuaries, stated that the White House on Monday «launched an attack on advisors and so - called «hidden fees» and «backdoor payments» by moving forward with a regulation that has its own hidden backdoor effect — keeping many Americans from working with the trusted advisor of their choice, even in the critical decision regarding rollovers from their 401 (k) and 403 (b) plans.»

Research Grant ($ 10,000) from the Society of Management Accountants of Canada for a monograph on «Outsourcing of Information Systems».

Research Grant ($ 10,000) from the Society of Management Accountants of Canada for a monograph on «Design of Executive Incentive Compensation Plans»

Put another way, in an open society where long - term corporate performance is built on trust among its various constituencies, it is difficult to defend hiding such direct corporate action (or forcing stakeholders to piece information together from myriad reports), even though a comprehensive report may cause stakeholder or media scrutiny and criticism.

Ability of one class of society to insulate themselves from the immediate effects of bad outcomes and pass it on to others is a core cause of long term societal collapse.

The overhaul came in response to increasing pressure Facebook endures over its potentially negative impact on society, from sharing violent videos to letting fake news run unchecked to its late acknowledgement that Russian operatives had used to platform to target U.S. voters.

The report was prepared by a task force of specialists who drew on input from stakeholders in Canada's business community, civil society and government.

In its drive to make the abrupt shift from a society predominantly focused on services, Make in India turns the spotlight on goods from 25 industries, from clothing to railways, paper to renewable energy, and pharmaceuticals to submarines.

There are so many lessons we can take from his legendary life and impact on society.

II § 5, Mill described rent - yielding properties as enabling their holders to demand payment from society «without any exertion or sacrifice on the part of the owners... Landlords... grow richer, as it were in their sleep, without working, risking, or economizing.

«He's an egomaniac devoid of all moral sense» ---- said the society woman dressing for a charity bazaar, who dared not contemplate what means of self - expression would be left to her and how she would impose her ostentation on her friends, if charity were not the all - excusing virtue ---- said the social worker who had found no aim in life and could generate no aim from within the sterility of his soul, but basked in virtue and held an unearned respect from all, by grace of his fingers on the wounds of others ---- said the novelist who had nothing to say if the subject of service and sacrifice were to be taken away from him, who sobbed in the hearing of attentive thousands that he loved them and loved them and would they please love him a little in return ---- said the lady columnist who had just bought a country mansion because she wrote so tenderly about the little people ---- said all the little people who wanted to hear of love, the great love, the unfastidious love, the love that embraced everything, forgave everything, and permitted everything ---- said every second - hander who could not exist except as a leech on the souls of others.»

Companies must consider how their core business practices influence society, and they also can't ignore the rise of ESG activism in their own boardrooms — in 2017, the nonprofit organization Ceres tracked more than 200 shareholder resolutions on ESG topics, up from 130 in 2013.

The pan-Canadian coalition, which emerged from the North American civil society gathering on NAFTA in Mexico City in May 2017, is made up of labour, environmental, farmer, social justice and other civil society groups across English - speaking Canada and Quebec.

The idea of debt amnesties was to prevent debt from tearing society apart — to prevent the kind of crisis that the United States has been in since 2008, when President Obama didn't cancel the junk - bond debts, or the debts that tore the Greek economy apart — when the IMF and Europe imposed them on Greece instead of letting it default on debts owed to French and German bondholders.