Sentences with phrase «on society when»

The impact on society when everyone has access to justice will be nothing less than the fulfillment of the promise of our constitution and equality for all.

This is why we often view the Church in a negative way, as always «coming down» on society when something bad is being done.

It is a sad judgement on our society when human lives are wasted because we do not care for them.

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«When I think of the perfect analogy for what we're suffering as a society, it's getting on an airplane,» Sutton said.

When the only people giving and receiving venture funding belong to a small, homogenous group, society misses out on all kinds of breakthrough ideas and financial opportunities.

«I'm not exaggerating when I say AVs will have as big an impact on our cities and society as the arrival of the first cars over 100 years ago,» says Barrie Kirk, head of the Canadian Automated Vehicles Centre of Excellence (CAVCOE), which is striving to build an ecosystem of organizations to supply the market's needs.

Although society has come a long way since a half - century ago, Buffett recalls a time when women were kept out of the workforce and predominantly told to depend on marriage as their path to livelihood.

«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.

When the research team used a specially designed computer program to evaluate the «brain age» of 50 meditators versus 50 non-meditators, it found «experienced meditators have brains that appear 7.5 years younger, on average, than non-meditators,» reports the British Psychological Society Research Digest blog.

«Our society is way over-indexed on rewarding people when they're successful,» he said, but neglects to help people who aren't successful yet try more and more things.

«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.»

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.

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.

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A recent study suggested Canada is fourth in the world when it comes to the internet having an impact on society — though the study does point out that Canada lags when it comes to internet infrastructure.

Lawyers are calling on the Law Society of Ontario to confirm whether it considers systemic factors when determining whether Indigenous candidates meet the «good character» requirement to become a lawyer.

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.

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.

I will leave a fuller defense of Edmund Burke to Yuval Levin, who is an expert on the subject, but Marr badly mischaracterizes Burke as a kind of Deweyan pragmatist and experimentalist, when in fact Burke believed in the authority of tradition and precedent, in a predisposition toward reverence for the past, in the notion of God - given rights, and in the necessity of transcendental beliefs and institutions as a grounding for political society.

Religion is a poison to civilized society, and we need to stop kissing people's butts constantly when they insist on shoving it in our faces at inappropriate times like these guys did on this flight.

You get to practice your silly religion all you like, it's just when you attempt to inject that into my school, my courthouse or my government that I will stand up and shout in your face, so don't act all surprised when it happens like «Oh, well, we just didn't know, we thought everyone wanted us to force our religion on the rest of society...»

It doesn't matter WHO you are, WHAT your religion is, WHAT your «sincere» intention was — when you put yourself on an airplane, in today's environment, with people of all nationalities, you are REQUIRED to show cognizance of and deference to the small bubble of society that ALL wish to make the trip and land safely.

While we feel the best interests of the child in question are paramount, the interests of society, including the other children who might have used this valuable resource, can not be ignored, especially when non-medically indicated painful and futile therapies are continued on children due to the expectation of miraculous intervention.

Posner observes that professions rely on mystique most heavily when they lack knowledge valuable to the rest of society.

The primary function of civil law is to limit freedom when an act impinges on the right of another individual or on the rights of society.

Why would Jews be surprised that they are viewed as outside society when many deliberately make this distinction on their own?

I am always amazed when i hear a right - winger say gays shouldn't be «forcing their agenda» on the rest of society.

And, you relentlessly campaign to foist your beliefs on the rest of society, when the rest of society isn't interested, doesn't want it, and can see the silliness of it.

I also recognize the reality of what happens when unwanted babies are born; most become a burden on society, if their unwitting parents don't kill them (accidentally or deliberately) first.

This will be more evident below when I analyze Whitehead's remarks on the nature and function of societies in Process and Reality.

Subordinate nexus, on the other hand, are groups of occasions whose character is derived exclusively from the role which they play in the structured society; hence, when and if that «level of social order» dissolves, they, too, go out of existence.

Hope amidst suffering, hope when men know only defeat and despair, hope when death seems to smother out the shoots of life springing from the hearts of men, hope for our society, our world, our city, our schools, courts, prisons, legislatures, hope for our children, for our elderly, hope for all the millions of men and women over the face of this globe who simply want to live out their lives as free human beings not trampled down and stepped on by the overlords of this world.

Furthermore, the idea that I am just an individual, owing little or nothing to anyone, that I need to be autonomous, seems absurd when we consider our own personal origins: we each owe our conception and birth to a mother and a father; our whole lives involve a series ofinterlocking relationships with parents, family, friends, teachers, society and so on.

When you live in a society where there is a high value placed on calling yourself Christian and going to church, and there are even promising career paths available, there's always going to be people who become Christians for the wrong reasons.

The cost is more than individual: when multiplied by the over 1.1 million divorces per year — which affect almost 1 million children annually — an enormous cost is piled on society every year.

@Dunk, Morality doesn't have meaning beyond how if effects people, the rules we agree on and accept as a society will mean nothing when catastrophic even or the sun expanding wipes us off the star map; but why isn't it's effect on mankind enough?

You said, «Considering the consistent treatment of this topic on this blog» The topic of abortion comes up on occasion when some religious lunatic tries to force his or her moronic beliefs on the sane part of society.

christ was beaten and cruxified on a cross bc he preached of being the SON OF MAN, the only what to get to heaven but gays who are living in sin and refuse to repent are accepted at work and everywhere they go and society cheers them on when they get married or when a state recongizes them, and anytime they are killed society comes to their defense, but i say to you, is will not be man that will judge them iw till

However, organizations like UN Women and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), among others, have reported on studies that show how much of a vital contribution — and even complete shift in society — women make when they are educated and empowered.

As for the ideologists who claim to know the way to a perfectly just society and who «build a case against God in defense of man, on whom can they depend when human activity proves powerless?»

But when, as in our situation, there is no such coincidence, the believers» vision of society must be imposed on the larger number of unbelievers through force, on the model of the inquisitors and the Hezbollah.

Rose may be happy to see her values of right and wrong imposed on society at present but what will it mean when she herself is deemed at some time to be wrong on a socially disputed issue?

When we invited my advisees socially to our home, we could count on Chip to entertain us with his stories, mostly true ones about his experiences as a black in a racist society.

I was present in Berlin on Christmas Eve, 1895, when Professor Roentgen presented to the German Physical Society his first X-ray photographs.

Congregational pastoral care occurs when members reach out through very concrete acts such as sitting by the bedside of someone who's ill, listening as parents describe their fears and grief when a teenager leaves home, offering hope to someone in despair, or praying for those who suffer on the margins of the church and society.

Mainline Protestant leaders appeared to take an important step toward joining this movement in November when Robert Edgar, general secretary of the Nation Council of Churches, signed a statement calling on churches to do a better job of articulating God's purposes for marriage, supporting married couples, and proclaiming the good news about marriage to the wider society.

Think of how you would view witchcraft as a retarding influence on society and how you would long for the day when the shining light of science and reason would illuminate your village and the majority of the population would abandon their belief in witches, pixies and elves.

Biblical literalism is a powerful force today; it tends to imprison people in attitudes that were suitable enough when science and technology were little dreamt of but which fail to illuminate a society in which, for instance, it is desirable, because of the effects of modern hygiene on death rates, for women to bear, on the average, perhaps a third as many infants as were appropriate two or three thousand or even two hundred years ago, a society in which war might mean something like the end of the species, or at least vastly closer to that than any war of the past could be.

It was an emblem of the central place of Jesus when, under the terms of the Geneva Convention of 1864 for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick of Armies in the Field, the international organization created to carry out that moral imperative took the name «Red Cross Society»; its symbol, based on a reversal of the colors of the Swiss flag, is a red cross on a white background.

Plenty of evidence is in on this point: when a ruling elite decides to destroy a group of people in a society, most of the people who are not targeted will not resist, whatever their religious affiliation.