Sentences with phrase «on the society at»

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.»

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?

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.

Just as the boomers have had an impact on society at every stage of their lives (the hippies of the «60s became the yuppies of the «80s), they continue to change the way older people see themselves.

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.

After seeing the brutal Italian crime movie «Gomorrah,» my mental image of Naples was of a gray, dispiriting place where corruption has a stranglehold on society at every level.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

The original Triadic Ballet explored the impact that machine culture and the industrial revolution had on society at the time.

«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.

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.

Not exact matches

President Obama will take the stage at SXSW Interactive on March 11 to discuss civic engagement in today's tech - intense society.

The Wilderness Society is calling on the Commonwealth government to further delay the release of a key report on the proposed gas hub at James Price Point.

Summit at Sea, for example, is bringing together AOL co-founder Steve Case, National Geographic Society explorer in residence Sylvia Earle and Univision host Jorge Ramos on this year's voyage.

Canadian Business spoke to Pink, who will speak at the upcoming 2017 GREAT CEOs Speaker Series in Mississauga, ON about why he's ultimately optimistic that adoption of AI will be positive for society and the future of work.

They will talk to the person sitting next to them on the bus, having retained that natural inquisitiveness we all had as children, but which society is so good at beating out of us,» he writes.

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.

«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.

For too long and on too many reserves, unemployment has eaten away at the economic and social foundations of aboriginal society.

Society tells us we should work on our English, social sciences, history and math all at once.

Graham McReynolds, chief marketing and development officer at the National MS Society, told Fortune last year that per - transaction fees on online donations tend to be in the 3 - 5 % range.

A recent survey by the Society for Human Resource Management found that 60 percent of employers asked said they run credit checks on at least some job applicants.

«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.

It's bigger than the Industrial Revolution,» Draper said at Intelligence Squared U.S. debate presented in partnership with Manhattan Institute's Adam Smith Society on Saturday.

At this point, the indications are that Aghdam's attack was the kind of event that has become all too familiar in American society: an isolated act committed by a person with a shaky grip on reality.

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.»

Barbara van Schewick is an expert on net neutrality, a professor at Stanford Law School, and the director of the Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society.

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.»

In the U.S., today's public discourse on the sway of the Internet giants and their impact on society is at the level of a mere whisper.

It is among at least 4,000 signatories of the National Agreement on the Right to Decide and the Referendum Agreement, a group comprising of political parties and civil society organisations in favour of the independence vote.

Isaac Stone Fish, senior fellow at the Asia Society's Center on U.S. - China Relations, told CNBC via e-mail that the U.S. travel ban «comes as the Trump administration is looking for other ways to punish Pyongyang for the death of Warmbier and North Korea's frequent missile tests throughout 2017.»

The plan, made up of 60 measures, puts the accent on prevention, notably aimed at trying to catch danger signals within society.

So it's important that U.S. companies don't stop researching or innovating based on the limits of society's comfort levels at any given point.

The Always - On Society John Sculley, former CEO of both PepsiCo and Apple Computer, predicted that wireless devices and networks would be «at least as big as the PC.

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.

We need to look carefully, on a case - by - case basis, at what that individual contributes to the business they manage, and what that firm contributes to society.

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.

Matthew Goodwin, the professor of politics at the University of Kent who is the author of a book on UKIP's rise, pointed out that the elite had failed to appeal to many in U.K. society.

In their egalitarian society, too much too soon (or at all) can be frowned on; most are culturally attuned to prefer the small - scale.

Oktay, who has been involved with testing the procedure in a clinic in Turkey, reported the birth of a healthy baby girl at the European Society for Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) annual meeting on June 17.

Robert went on to win lifetime achievement awards, such as Winemaker of the Year by the American Wine Society, was inducted into the California Hall of Fame and even carried the Olympic torch in 1996 at age of 83.

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.

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.

On a conference call, Mr. Zuckerberg nodded at the controversy, saying that the company hopes to «keep moving forward» to make its products «good for people and good for society.»

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.

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