Sentences with phrase «on society overall»

There is mounting evidence that high quality early years provision can have lasting positive effects, not only on the children who participate but on society overall.

But a more important question is how we as a society feel about the impact of the entire online tsunami on society overall.

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«1) create a material positive impact on society and the environment, 2) expand fiduciary duty to require consideration of non-financial interests when making decisions, and 3) report on its overall social and environmental performance using recognized third party standards.»

The bottom line is any new tool that helps Canadians build their retirement nest eggs through convenient and systematic savings through payroll deductions can have a powerful impact on the eventual levels of retirement income and importantly, the overall strength and stability of our economy and society in Canada.

Flexible work hours, generous family leave policies, and yes, on - site day care make sense, and not just for the overall well - being of our society and our communities but because it can boost a company's bottom line.

CSV uses the power of the company's brand to inspire change and produce an overall beneficial impact on society.

(Mormons are much more likely than evangelicals or the U.S. population overall to see immigrants as making a positive contribution to society, said David Campbell of the University of Notre Dame, who helped advise the Pew Forum on the survey.)

Fourth, while the economic consequences of overall rates of population growth are often ambiguous or obscure, the impact of smaller groups within larger populations on the economic well - being of the whole society, or the impact of differential rates of growth within a national population on prospects for material advance, may be direct and important.

I'm concerned about the «spilling over» effect of this political climate and its overall impact in our society — on our children.

When a decision, that needs to be made, has broad implications on large parts of a society, the overall priorities of a society can only be reflected in a vote (even if some of those priorities are not identified by experts).

Even though only about 13 percent of rent - stabilized apartments turn over each year, a report released on Tuesday by the antipoverty group Community Service Society of New York argued that the vacancy allowance, which has been in place since 1969, is so high that it contributes more to the overall rise in stabilized rents than the annual increases.

It needs to expand this approach to present an overall progressive alternative on all the core issues confronting society.

The Conservatives are on course to secure an overall majority at the next general election, having extended their lead across nearly all sections of society.

The American Society of Civil Engineers issued gave New York's infrastructure and gave an overall grade of C - on its 2015 report card.

But the impacts - on health, economics, and overall quality of life - are far more acute on society's disadvantaged, the researchers found.

A decision on whether to fund a gain - of - function experiment would also turn on whether its overall potential risks «as compared to the potential benefits to society are justified.»

The orca's efforts were overall «recognizable» as attempted copies, comparative psychologist José Zamorano Abramson of Complutense University of Madrid and colleagues report January 31 in Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Just how close Wikie's imitations come to the originals depends on whether you're emphasizing the rhythm or other aspects of sound, Abramson says.

Social inequality refers to disparities in the distribution of economic assets and income as well as between the overall quality and luxury of each person's existence within a society, while economic inequality is caused by the unequal accumulation of wealth; social inequality exists because the lack of wealth in certain areas prohibits these people from obtaining the same housing, health care, etc. as the wealthy, in societies where access to these social goods depends on wealth.

Sci - fi author Allen Steele thinks the overall impact on society would be fairly tame.

Overall, 77 % say that science and technology have a positive influence on society.

They found that in this situation, even when people made their decisions based purely on self - interest, the overall result would be much closer to the optimum result for society as a whole.

The Society issues press releases based on a similar principle, but the organisations and scientists concerned have overall responsibility for their content.

Overall, these findings shed light on the role of ethnic and gender differences in the appraisal of nonverbal behaviors, and extend our understanding of factors that may lead to successful social interaction in the context of growing diversity in our society.

I can understand that approaching equilibrium takes a long, long time, while TCR gives a better measure of what will happen over the next few decades (and that technology and society may be very different in 200 years time); but on the other hand, I thought nations had agreed to try to limit global warming to less than 2 degrees C overall, and not just to limit it to less than 2 degrees C by 2100.

This episode's vicious, mean - spirited take on modern society renders several of its characters so inhumanly cruel and one - dimensionally self - serving that its overall story comes across as crude, rather than challenging.

Touching innumerable lives in direct and indirect ways, educators uniquely recognize that our future rests on the shoulders of young people and that investing in their education, health, and overall well - being benefits society as a whole, both now and into the future.

In the pages that follow, we explore other studies done on the relation between a strong middle class and support for a variety of public investments that benefit the overall strength and well - being of society.

The Senior Boiler Vet Camp welcomes rising 10th, 11th, and 12th grade students and focuses on the overall wellness care of dogs, especially those who have come from humane societies.

While here at our national headquarters in Richmond, California, we handle the overall needs of the organization - producing the J o u r n a l, keeping national statistics, maintaining the website, taking care of fi - nances, and keeping in touch with our members from around the world - as well as run our local shelter, most of the fostering and educational work of House Rabbit Society is handled «on the ground,» through our volunteer educators, fosterers and chapter managers around the world.

Overall, I have to say that I enjoyed my time in post Han Dynasty China where life was a daily struggle and making your name on the battlefield was a matter of life and death as well as what station in society you would occupy.

As a matter of fact, it got us mentally invested in checking out the past titles as Yakuza is an interesting blend of GTA, but with a chauvinistic focus on Japanese gang fiction and overall daily happenings of a society of people.

The project's overall goal is to comment on the economic status of artists and how our society values artistic labor, and at the same time bring Hess recognition as an artist.

Overall, the exhibit attests to the difficulty involved in reconciling society's ever expanding attitudes and perspectives on popular culture.

However, an overall theme of presence and absence connects the conversation, with its strong focus on how our society handles knowledge.

Overall though, the evidence for serious climatic impacts on societies is pretty strong and he swayed this member of the jury.

But it's also clear that more science clarifying overall trends in temperature over a mostly sub-zero continent will have little bearing on what societies choose to do, or not do, related to accumulating greenhouse gases, warming and the resulting rise in sea levels.

The decision by the editor of the quarterly newsletter of the APS Forum on Physics and Society to invite opposing (scientific) views on climate change does not change the overall consensus.

But focusing the debate within societies on overall frequency or intensity or degrees of this or that in this or that geographical basin as a way to evaluate the relationship between climate change and tropical storms is confusing the issue.

To me this would appear to be a worst case scenario, based on the least developed economies building up energy infrastructures largely using fossil fuels, in order to pull their populations out of poverty, as China and India are doing today (thereby reducing their rate of population growth as they become more affluent and improving their carbon efficiencies) and the remaining societies continuing to improve their overall carbon efficiencies as they have already been doing.

So if we don't know the answer as to whether we even have an «AGW» problem, or whether the AGW, if any, is on balance beneficial or detrimental to our society overall, don't you think that it is a bit premature to dictate massive cuts in our fossil fuel consumption absent cheap, reliable replacements for it?

An enabling majority in Congress amplifies the risk that these dangerous policies will emerge and that an electorate that has been at least somewhat disenfranchised by Gerrymandering, voter suppression on the part of republicans, and overall intimidation and abuse, will continue to generate harmful and worsening fractures in American society.

However climate change ultimately unfolds, it's reasonable to guesstimate, if not assume, that overall there will be high impact effects on societies regionally as well as globally.

There has been a bit of talk here at Climate.Etc.about the responsibility (or lack thereof) of scientific societies like the APS and ACS and their policy positions on global warming, and the repercussions on the overall science community as «the hiatus» goes on and on and the credibility of these organization necessarily and rightly sinks.

I can understand that approaching equilibrium takes a long, long time, while TCR gives a better measure of what will happen over the next few decades (and that technology and society may be very different in 200 years time); but on the other hand, I thought nations had agreed to try to limit global warming to less than 2 degrees C overall, and not just to limit it to less than 2 degrees C by 2100.

«While it threatens to inflict great damage on society, its potential benefit appears, overall, to be little.

In some decisions — such as Roden v Toronto Humane Society (2005), Oudin v Centre Francophone de Toronto (2016) and Cook v Hatch (2017)-- the courts have found that silence might mean an implied intent to comply with the Employment Standards Act (the «ESA») and / or that ambiguities in termination clauses can be resolved by focusing on the overall intention of the parties.

He feels that organizations such as Peacebuilders create a more civil society and by doing so lessen the overall burden on the society they operate in.

The amount of money saved in this process of de-funding civil society is so small compared to the overall federal budget that the argument for cutting funds can not rest on the idea of fiscal prudence.

The projected minimum annual running cost of the OLC is # 20.6 m, but this is based on two entirely unsafe assumptions: first, that there will be no overall increase in the number of complaints under the new system, and second, that the OLC will be 15 % more efficient than the present Law Society structure.

«Even if these safeguards are effective, the app's overall impact on families and society is likely to be negative, normalizing social media use among young children and creating peer pressure for kids to sign up for their first account,» the letter said.