Sentences with phrase «other social causes»

A proposed carbon tax also failed recently in a ballot initiative in Washington state, in part because it divided the left — with some liberals wanting to use any revenue to invest in clean energy and other social causes rather than to return it to the public.

The reason could be economic factors, cultural background, beliefs, maintaining identity, political factors, or other social causes.

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Similarly, social causes you take on are an important part of your «strategy picture» for your consumers, investors and other stakeholders.

Being nice, the researchers theorize, unsurprisingly causes others to be nice in return, which offers the shy positive social experiences that help to build their confidence and calm their nerves.

«Daily fantasy sports companies are engaged in illegal gambling under New York law, causing the same kinds of social and economic harms as other forms of illegal gambling, and misleading New York consumers... Daily fantasy sports is neither victimless nor harmless, and it is clear that DraftKings and FanDuel are the leaders of a massive, multi-billion-dollar scheme intended to evade the law and fleece sports fans across the country.

An Ohio State University study published in the scientific journal Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience found that acetaminophen, the painkilling ingredient in the Johnson & Johnson (johnson - johnson - 40) brand medicine, not only suppresses your own pain, but causes you to perceive other people's pain as being less severe.

Other common causes for drafting a warning letter include how employees treat their co-workers, inappropriate dress, and electronic communications the company deems inappropriate, such as visiting social media or pornographic websites.

Of course, it's possible that the cause - and - effect is actually the other way around — people who feel lonely may purposefully use more social media in an attempt to feel less isolated.

Similarly, other companies give and invest in social causes; hence the coining of «philanthrocapitalism.»

In one recent study, Choi and several colleagues wrote that smartphone addiction, like other impulse - control disorders, can «interfere with school or work; decrease real - life social interaction; decrease academic ability; and cause relationship problems.»

Authors Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms explore how power is won and lost now that anyone with a Facebook FB, -1.16 % Twitter TWTR, +0.39 % YouTube, Instagram or other social - media account can create a popular movement just by adding «#» to a cause or concern.

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When we give in to this need for self exaltation, and organize others around our cause, then we recognize it as the warped type of social engineering you describe, where the goal is uniformity, not unity — promoting our own agenda, rather than participating in God's mission.

Sometimes the cause is their own delinquencies, sometimes it is the delinquencies of others, sometimes it is misbegotten and, yes, unjust, social policies.

Religion has created more f-ing wars and social division than any other cause.

Otherwise the only way to view those wars, is as all other wars — one group of thugs attempting to kill another group of thugs, both doing so in the name of their own ego, misappropriating whatever political, religious, and social pressure and propaganda they can, to their cause.

This analogy, like all social application of evolutionism, is actually entirely a matter of the past and of static categories of cause and effect — in other words of the I - It, or subject - object, way of knowing.

abortion as a standard part of health - care provision, insisting on programmes of sex education that promoted a range of sexual activities and downgraded marriage... all this and more gave great cause for concern and brought together a group of doctors, teachers, social workers and others anxious to take some action.

Systemic suffering and social malfunctioning, therefore, are caused by human greed, self - centeredness, an illusion about power and control, racism, sexism, imperialism, ethnocentrism, and other factors.

Mr. Sullivan has no interest whatever in reconstructing a Catholic sexual ethic, or any other kind of ethic that might propose constraints or moral orderings on the satisfaction of sexual desires, apart from a few narrowly defined causes of possible «social harm.»

Tocqueville employs this insight to describe the emotional detachment that comes from the modern, democratic erosion of the social ties that have aristocratically or traditionally bound people to each other: Individualism, Tocqueville explains, is the «heart disease» that causes apathetic, asocial immersion in the present.

They may get together in the modern city to hold a bake sale for some charitable cause, to repair a playground, to clean up the environment, or for a million other purposes that their social imaginations might lead them to.

According to Chief Justice Rehnquist, Congress» 1981 decision to augment the role of religious and other organizations in tackling the social and economic problems caused by teenage pregnancy, sexuality, and parenthood reflected «the entirely appropriate aim of increasing broad - based community involvement...» He went on to say, with respect to religious organizations in particular:

One of the major causes of social conservatism is the fact that churches, schools, and other social institutions are so largely influenced by persons whose advantage it is to preserve the status quo and who are prone to regard any departure from it as an affront to Christian morality.

In 1985 the then Intelsat director general Richard R. Colino wrote «While deregulation and free - market competition are suitable in some business environments, in others they can cause ruinous failures with devastating social implications if not carefully and effectively managed».

Its general social and intellectual causes and its specific presence within Catholic education have been elucidated in this and other publications quite a bit.

They were killed because they supported the liberating theology and dignity of the base Christian communities; they named social injustice, not communism or outside subversive influence, as the root cause of the crisis (revolution in their view was inevitable unless issues of poverty and social inequality were adequately addressed); they promoted a negotiated settlement to Salvador's civil war, including a significant role for the FMLN and other popular organizations; and, they named U.S. policy as a fundamental obstacle to peace in El Salvador.

WORLD: Nothing if you include the study / formulations of philosophy and psychological benefits of religious ritual, along with other social sciences, as part of science... instead of classifying them as belonging to just a bunch of crazy loonies with no cause for their actions.

It also could provide a means whereby other influential factors could be investigated and addressed, such as differences in the social and economic purposes of broadcasting, the social sources of violence and how media portrayals interact with those causes, how the restraints and traditions of media production cause the media to pick up particular cultural images while ignoring others, and how particular audiences respond to and use media images.

Because of the complex interaction of religious broadcasting with other social characteristics such as broader religious and cultural movements, changing social uses of mass media, and changing historical circumstances, it is unlikely that a simple cause - effect relationship between the viewing of religious programs on television and individual faith and church interaction could ever be isolated.

Franck surveys the many ways in which proponents of gay marriage and other progressive social causes ignore the arguments made by conservatives, falling back on the assertion that resistance is based on «hate.»

In other words, [today] there are more defined issues, and more people who definitely believe, more social scientists who believe, there is no cause - and - effect relationship between televised violence and social behavior.

Yet its alienation from other radical movements, especially black liberation, and its recourse to a kind of «separatist» ideology — that talks about the oppression of women as more basic than any other form of oppression in a way that makes women a separate cause unrelated to other kinds of oppression — may be working its own kind of subtle social encapsulation.

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In addition to causing physical problems for children, thumbsucking can also impact a child's social acceptance and development if other children take note of it and tease a child at school and in other social settings.

«Talking negatively about the other parent can cause serious anxiety, stress and social problems,» Margherio says.

This seems to be particularly true for stressful social situations that cause strong effects, like ostracism, bullying, and other forms of relational aggression.

Now scientists are discovering that contact with others through social media or a phone call from a loved one also causes the release of oxytocin.

In other words instead of getting goods from a sweat shop their company is helping to boost the economy in an a developing nation in Africa, Asian or Latin America.Another way organic baby clothing companies can stand out is by supporting charitable or social causes that promote the health of children and the environment.

Vernon Hills police reported via social media Thursday morning that a «teenage prisoner» escaped from the custody of authorities after jumping out of a vehicle at Routes 21 and 60, causing a soft lockdown at nearby schools and searches around the Hawthorn Mall and other shopping centers in the...

Tools are not causes of social actions, but parts of socio - technical action, things that help us do some things, hinder others, and are integral to how we live, act, and see ourselves — this is also how I hope people will think of the role of social networking sites and other technologies in the popular uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt, not as causes, or as irrelevant, but as tools (for protesters, though sometimes also for security forces)-- in North Africa, even with a less than open internet, some of those involved in recent events certainly seemed to produce their own role as active citizens partially through the use of everyday tools and technologies.

Of course, the fact that the countries in your examples share a lot of common history (e.g. they became democracies a relatively short time ago) and other social aspects means that the correlation that you observe could be caused by one or several hidden variables.

While many hailed City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito's bizarre social - media confession that she has a potentially cancer - causing sexually transmitted disease, others were less enthusiastic.

«Don't underrate social media in this business, social media has driven revolutions in other countries, it is the cause of the Arab Spring, social media has been the basis of the Obama campaign.

Referencing the report, «Homelessness in Oneida County, NY: Understanding and Addressing a Hidden Social Problem,» written by Social Sciences Associates in support of the Mohawk Valley Housing and Homeless Assistance Coalition and funded by The Oneida County Department of Mental Health, Picente said that data makes it clear there is a problem with chronic homelessness, and that the problem of homelessness is intertwined with other social ills, including substance abuse and chemical dependency, status as an ex-offender, and the increasing number of family breakups caused by economic stress, domestic violence and even transitioning back to the community from military service.&Social Problem,» written by Social Sciences Associates in support of the Mohawk Valley Housing and Homeless Assistance Coalition and funded by The Oneida County Department of Mental Health, Picente said that data makes it clear there is a problem with chronic homelessness, and that the problem of homelessness is intertwined with other social ills, including substance abuse and chemical dependency, status as an ex-offender, and the increasing number of family breakups caused by economic stress, domestic violence and even transitioning back to the community from military service.&Social Sciences Associates in support of the Mohawk Valley Housing and Homeless Assistance Coalition and funded by The Oneida County Department of Mental Health, Picente said that data makes it clear there is a problem with chronic homelessness, and that the problem of homelessness is intertwined with other social ills, including substance abuse and chemical dependency, status as an ex-offender, and the increasing number of family breakups caused by economic stress, domestic violence and even transitioning back to the community from military service.&social ills, including substance abuse and chemical dependency, status as an ex-offender, and the increasing number of family breakups caused by economic stress, domestic violence and even transitioning back to the community from military service.»

For all the human misery they have caused, the household benefit cap is forecast to save just # 110m a year by the DWP, while the bedroom tax will raise just # 490m (and both, as analysts have warned, may end up costing more than they save by increasing homelessness and other social ills).

On the other hand, if you really wanted scientific explanations for the cause of social classes I'm not sure if political science is the right field.

Nassau County road and highway workers, parks employees, social workers, sewer plant mechanics, clerks, laborers and hundreds of other hard working CSEA members are not living extravagant lifestyles and did not cause the current crisis, Laricciuta said.

It may be advisable for the state to issue a statement from the surgeon general before the next corruption trial: «WARNING: Taking part on this jury may cause low self - esteem, chest pains, sprained ankles, feelings of passive - aggressiveness toward others, and hatred toward government, and may complicate your social life.»

In the new research, the UB scientists found they could reverse those social deficits with a very low dose of romidepsin, which, they found, restores gene expression and function using an epigenetic mechanism, where gene changes are caused by influences other than DNA sequences.