Sentences with phrase «on whether human»

On April 15, 2013 the United States Supreme Court heard submissions on whether human genes are patentable products of innovation or unpatentable products of nature.

There was no settled law on whether the Human Rights Act 1998 applied retrospectively and, therefore, if it altered the operation of s. 5 of Adoption of Children Act 1926 which specifically said that adoption did not confer inheritance rights for adopted children.

Benches of nine justices sat in five cases: Norris v Government of the USA [2010] UKHL 9, on extradition to the USA; R (Smith) v Oxfordshire Assistant Deputy Coroner [2010] UKHL 29, on whether the Human Rights Act applies to soldiers serving abroad; Granatino v Radamacher [2010] UKHL 42, on the validity of pre-nuptial agreements; Manchester CC v Pinnock [2010] UKHL 45, on the power of housing authorities to evict tenants; and R v Chaytor [2010] UKHL 52, on the immunity of MPs from prosecution.

But in all seriousness, if anyone knows the scoop on whether human food (or certain kinds of it) is good / bad for cats, I would love to hear it.

After casting doubt on whether human life begins at conception (see pg.

Indeed, members of the public who score the highest on a climate - science literacy test are the most politically polarized on whether human activity is causing global temperatures to rise.

Widely billed as a decision on whether human genes can be patented in the US, the ruling actually applies to all DNA, from whatever species.

The setup, put together by scientists at the International Potato Center, is a hermetically sealed container that mimics the day lengths, atmosphere, and temperature of Mars, fed by a «nutrient rich water» (no word on whether human waste was involved).

Widely billed as a decision on whether human genes can be patented in the US, the ruling actually applies to DNA from any species.

Patel stated that he had asked a Queen's Counsel for advice on whether his human rights were being abused by the Commission.

My thesis which was based on my help with studies on whether a human was capable of having an original thought and equating that to free will.

That so - called «hockey stick» diagram became a lightning rod in the debate on whether humans were influencing the climate.

With approximately 15 % of the world's population living in desert regions, Wright stresses the importance of his findings: «the implications for how we change ecological systems have a direct impact on whether humans will be able to survive indefinitely in arid environments.»

[ANDY REVKIN says: He was indeed expressing this view at the meeting, but got significant pushback from some participants, while others were clearly invited because they shared his skeptical views — mainly on the certainty of the conclusions, less on whether humans are exerting an influence on climate.

The answer to the question (in the headline post) ultimately depends on whether humans are at least reasonably smart or whether humans on average are not very intelligent after all.

His minister for Social Services, Kevin Andrews, has said the «jury is still out» on whether humans are causing climate change.

Fortunately, O'Keefe has not appeared on the networks in recent years, although he did publish an op - ed in the Wall Street Journal casting doubt on whether humans are the primary cause of global warming.

In an October 2005 op - ed article Dr Kurt M. Cuffey stated «Mounting evidence has forced an end to any serious scientific debate on whether humans are causing global warming».

«Mounting evidence has forced an end to any serious scientific debate on whether humans are causing global warming.

Not exact matches

(For the record, Agrafioti demurs about the potential automation of those positions, rightly noting that there is no industry consensus on whether AI can ever truly become as or more powerful than the human brain.)

And when we collectively move on, the people who create a lot of the content touting this technology never take a moment to reflect on our collective obsession with technology and whether any of it is actually making human beings happier, healthier, smarter, or better off.

The bigger risk is stymying our chances of ever discovering whether life existed on Mars before human beings and their grubby microbiomes get there.

Speaking of the blurry line between humans and AI, ethicists have explored questions such as whether it's OK to inflict violence on robots.

«I find myself drawn to documentaries, whether it's on the history of the human evolution or science related to astronomy or physics.

The human thing to do is bring it to work, whether on a subconscious or conscious level, and then sometimes work is the catalyst for that stress.

When leaders show that they care about their employees as human beings and support their employees» future career choices, it helps employees feel more confident in their position and career path, whether it means moving up or moving on.

The provincial government filed a reference case Thursday in the B.C. Court of Appeal asking whether amendments it is proposing to the Environmental Management Act are valid and if they give the province the authority to control the shipment of heavy oils based on the impact spills could have on the environment, human health or communities.

The UN Human Rights Committee, which regularly reviews whether states are living up to their obligations under the binding International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, today made more than a dozen recommendations for fundamental changes in Canadian law and policy in respect to the treatment of First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples.

Whether an economic variable is filtered down through a human trader or a computer trader, the movement that it creates in the market will be easily visible on a price chart.

The case would clarify whether the province has authority to prevent and manage releases into the environment of substances like diluted bitumen that could endanger human health, the environment or communities, even on federally regulated infrastructure like inter-provincial pipelines or railways.

Facebook's failure to quash hateful rhetoric, whether by enabling advertisers to reach «Jew haters» or neglecting to crack down on inflammatory posts that contributed to violence in Sri Lanka, led Bee compare it to a robot that eats human skin.

Whether it was answers to the body and movement of water, the mechanics of the human heart and body, the motion of the planets or to discover why birds fly, or how the human eye perceives light and distant images, or why fossils are found on mountains, his quest for knowledge was extraordinary.

CHARLIE MUNGER: Well, when you start to think about it, business quality usually counts on something more than whether you crossed the T in some old lease or something and the human quality of the management who are going to stay are very important.

Topping the list is tough living conditions triggering the question whether how successful will be human life on Mars.

But parents and childhood experts have been wondering what effects smart speakers may have on young kids, who may not quite understand whether Alexa is human and maybe learn from barking orders at her that barking orders is OK.

The Corporation for Social Security Claiming Strategies focuses exclusively on educating advisors, whether financial, legal, human resource or otherwise, as to the nuances of Social Security and Social Security claiming strategies.

To be sure, valid questions may be raised about whether Enlightenment justifications based on insecurity in the state of nature can truly ground human rights.

Marital indissolubility does not depend on human feelings, whether they are permanent or transitory.

From Big Bang to Big Mystery: Human Origins in the Light of Creation and Evolution by Brendan Purcell New City Press, 370 pages, $ 34.95 Benjamin Disraeli famously asked whether man is «an ape or an angel» and answered that he himself stood «on the side of the angels.»

The philosophical significance of his own attitude to transgenderism seems lost on him: Transgenderism raises fundamental questions about the nature of the human person — indeed, about whether one can even speak in terms of human nature anymore in any universal, meaningful sense.

It doesn't matter to me whether this is «correct» exegesis — either the Bible finds some way of adapting to the modern notions of morality, or it gets left by the wayside on the ever growing dung - heap of rejected holy texts of human history — in my opinion, that's the historical moment we are currently faced with.

To not only claim to know there is a God but to claim you know his name and how he wants all his slave humans to behave is beyond hubris, it is self deification, claiming to know the mind of God, regardless of whether you rely on some ancient book for that knowledge or not.

And to say that Biblical teachings are invalid because there are other similar beliefs that have older known written sources invalidates the Biblical teachings also should take into consideration that for certain Biblical believers that all those truths whether they are known to have been placed in the Bible first or known thus far to have been placed elsewhere that they believe that they all come via deity who at the beginning of human history on this world dispensed those truths to humanity and that to those who believe in the biblical teachings believe that through time they are more complete than those of other ancient beliefs due to God restoring those truths through revelations given to later prophets like say Moses and other later Old and New Testament prophets and apostles.

i think the basic belief is that killing another human is wrong, whether it is an unborn child, and abortion doctor, or a murderer on death row.

This essay focuses on the nature of self - interest, and that is a different question than whether self - interest is the only possible end of human action.

If abortion and related life issues are in fact the great civil - rights issues of our time» in that they test whether the state may arbitrarily deny the protection of the law to certain members of the human community» then Griswold eventually led to a situation in which the Democratic and Republican positions on civil rights flipped, with members of today's Democratic party playing the role that its Southern intransigents played during the glory days of the American civil - rights movement.

After receiving a 500 - page report on Eritrea's abuses last summer, the UN Human Rights Council extended its inquiry for another year, focusing on whether the «systematic, widespread, and gross violations of human rights» may add up to «crimes against humanity.&rHuman Rights Council extended its inquiry for another year, focusing on whether the «systematic, widespread, and gross violations of human rights» may add up to «crimes against humanity.&rhuman rights» may add up to «crimes against humanity.»

Clearly, selective breeding can cause dramatic changes in a creature like a dog, so what does it matter whether it's humans doing the selecting of traits, or nature preferring certain traits based on suitability to survive?

Whether the innocent suffer because of natural disasters (like earthquakes) or because the consequences of human folly and injustice (like wars and revolutions) do not fall only on the guilty, the burden of suffering is so heavy that praising God seems not only out of the question but also a violation of our moral sense.

Spanning the entire spectrum of creation, whether in terms of sex, politics, or religion, Christians affirm that God is speaking through the law written on human hearts, with individual consciences picking up the signals, either accusing or excusing them, until that day when God will finally judge all things by the criterion of Jesus Christ (Romans 1:15 — 16).