Sentences with phrase «people play in society»

«The new figures released today put a spotlight on the important role older people play in society by providing informal care for partners and other relatives.

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«Irish society has a very unhealthy relationship with technology and it's playing a big part in how people are unsafe online.

One in 10 Christians think sport is «an idol that many people worship in society today» and more than half said it's okay to play sport on a Sunday, so long as they're engaged in their churches at other times during the week.

Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks has made a compelling case for the creative and culturally dynamic role that religious minorities can play, even in societies where the majority of people deeply oppose their religious inclinations, as was the case for much of the history of the Jewish people in....

That is why I often suggest that the most determinative moral formation most people have in our society is when they learn to play baseball, basketball, quilt, cook or learn to lay bricks.

[i] Regardless of how one sides on this issue, a plain reading of Romans 13, clearly indicates that the civil government plays a role in God's design for society and His people.

Not only do scientists — and especially social scientists — demonstrate radically low levels of religious commitment, but scientific and social scientific meaning systems appear to operate as functional alternatives to traditional theistic ideas for a number of people, and technical rationality plays an increasingly important legitimating function in the wider society.

With their thickshoulders (both played college football, Joe at New Mexico and Gavin atDivision III Trinity in San Antonio), hoarse, loud voices and a shared accentthat can not be traced back to any known people or society, they come acrosslike a couple of auto mechanics wiping their blackened hands on dirty rags asthey try to explain in plain English what they're doing to your car.

After generations of breastfeeding playing second fiddle to formula feeding (in most of our society), and because breastfeeding still happens largely «under cover» or at home, many people are unfamiliar with how it works or know what constitutes «normal» for breastfed babies.

This year, WHO is encouraging people to «Support mums to breastfeed anytime, anywhere,» as all of society has a role to play in making our communities more breastfeeding - friendly.

The vast majority of young people want to play a productive, not destructive role in society.

There's an occasional lesson, which many students and teachers see as a break from the main timetable, but it's not taught in a practical way that could give young people the knowledge and experience of playing an active role in society.

Such tactics «play into the hands of the terrorists to the extent you disrupt and divide and frighten people in this society,» Cuomo said.

Of course educating young people on the urgent need for affordable housing is essential, but let us not forget that it is equally imperative to enlighten young people on the importance and relevance that the natural world plays in the functioning of a healthy society.

She intimated that parents have a greater role to play in the training of young people for them to be responsible and useful to society.

Lord Mandelson said the unions have an important role to play in society and politics but added: «I am not happy with a Labour Party so clearly dependent on people who pay the piper and then in many cases can call the tune.

As result of cuts to local authority budgets, more and more disabled people are being denied the ability to even play a role in our society.

It's the spirit that, just today, has seen some of our leading social organisations come together to set up a new Citizen University, to help give people the skills they need to play a bigger part in society.

Humanists have long been excluded from Thought for the Day, the daily scripted slot on the Today programme on BBC Radio 4 that offers «reflections from a faith perspective on issues and people in the news», yet humanists and the non-religious have played an important role in shaping our laws, championing human rights and a fairer society for everyone.

Peter Alcock, Director of TSRC, said, «We want to help young people increase their understanding of the Third Sector and the role it plays in society.

Unite will play its part in the debate ahead and — unlike the politicians — will also be the first line of defence for millions of people in work and in the communities now facing an all - out onslaught on what remains of the welfare state and a decent society.

Interestingly, the flood of responses from Government Spokespersons and its party Communicators on Dr. Opuni's prosecution has given rise for people to question the role that the NPP's political persecution plays in an open and democratic society.

The mission and motivation of science outreach «is helping people understand science more effectively, helping them understand the role that science has got to play in society [and] in people's lives.»

Andrew Hickley, Bolderson's former boss who's now an independent consultant, says the mission and motivation of science outreach «is helping people understand science more effectively, helping them understand the role that science has got to play in society [and] in people's lives.»

The March «presents... a very real, high - profile opportunity to call on our elected leaders to remember the role science plays in our society and to support scientific innovation and discovery, and the people and programs that make it possible,» wrote AGU CEO Chris McEntee.

In one study, published in 2015 in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, linguists found that people who took breaks from learning new sounds performed just as well as those who took no breaks, as long as the sounds continued to play in the backgrounIn one study, published in 2015 in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, linguists found that people who took breaks from learning new sounds performed just as well as those who took no breaks, as long as the sounds continued to play in the backgrounin 2015 in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, linguists found that people who took breaks from learning new sounds performed just as well as those who took no breaks, as long as the sounds continued to play in the backgrounin the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, linguists found that people who took breaks from learning new sounds performed just as well as those who took no breaks, as long as the sounds continued to play in the backgrounin the background.

These beliefs play a key role in shaping people's opinions, and ultimately, their support for scientific advances, according to the study «Understanding Public Opinion in Debates Over Biomedical Research: Looking Beyond Partisanship to Focus on Beliefs about Science and Society,» by American University professor Matthew C. Nisbet, Ph.D., and Ezra Markowitz, Ph.D., a post-doctoral fellow at Columbia University.

No one person knows everything and yet naturopathic and holistic healing is consistently down played in western society as a whole.

On top of this, the BDSM community is a place where people can ignore the role they are expected to play in society (for example, you often hear about powerful business men who want to be dominated away from work) and — to some extent — be more true to themselves.

Well obviously not, as said people are played by Kyle Chandler and Cate Blanchett, the latter done up in full bourgeois hauteur to play a society wife in 1950s New York.

At the film's recent press day, Costner talked about the appeal of playing Coach White, Niki Caro's directing style, the bond that developed between all the actors during filming, the pivotal role a coach can play in a young person's life, the Jim White - type coaches who influenced Costner's life in a positive way, what he learned about Latino culture growing up in Visalia, why he waits for projects to come along that he can really respond to irrespective of genre, the biggest cultural gap he experienced on this film, and how sports movies allow us to address other issues within the wider society.

Outside the hotel, in the surrounding woods, roam Loners — unattached people who refuse to play along and defy society.

Peopled by flapper - era caricatures partaking in white - collar social orgies fuelled by selfish hedonism, Luhrmann's interpretation of Fitzgerald's oft - debated novel emerges as grotesque melodrama that plays more like a Mexican telenovela than a respectful reinterpretation of 1920's New York high society.

«This is a story that we've seen playing out throughout history, that we see playing out in the world today and will continue to see as long as we have a failure of government institutions and societies or people that feel like they're not being protected by their respective governments, or by the lack of a government,» the director says.

Workshops enable people to gain a practical understanding of the law and justice system and its related history, so that they can be inspired by their rights and responsibilities, to play an active role in society.

Dr. Benson talked with Education World about why he thinks society has failed to sufficiently nurture its youngest members and the roles educators can continue to play in helping young people become successful adults.

The Projectionist» is a new play by Laura fitzGerald, which aims to raise young people's awareness of the role and impact of engineering in society and on their lives by engaging them in an informed debate about privacy and surveillance.

Yet the epic events of the century play out in the lives of the two brothers — wars, political movements, technological advances — and even though they want nothing more than to shut out the world, history seems to pass through their cluttered house in the persons of immigrants, prostitutes, society women, government agents, gangsters, jazz musicians... and their housebound lives are fraught with odyssean peril as they struggle to survive and create meaning for themselves.

So, when I say that predation might play a role in a dog attack, people conjure up the idea that maybe a pit bull is similar to a human sexual predator, and then draw conclusions that they are somehow defective, and that society needs to be protected from them.

To celebrate these dogs and the patient and talented people who train them, and pay tribute to the important role they each play in our society, people across the world come together to partake in International Guide Dogs Day.

Language, music, ideas about what is bad and good, ways of working and playing, and the tools and other objects made and used by people in the society - all these are part of a societyâ $ ™ s culture.Cultures vary from society to society or country to country.

The former use of Uang Kepeng as a medium of exchange in Bali has played a central role in the vitality of Balinese culture, religion, society, governance and economy, and therefore should be re-issued as a complementary medium of exchange to meet present concerns about cultural degradation and demands for an increased supply of Uang Kepeng that is valuable to the people and supports the elements of Balinese culture.

[I] f young people are playing games that simply imitate the professional world, how will they learn to think in more advanced ways and move our society forward?

The 1920s: a decade when movies, music, and society as a whole underwent massive, pervasive change — and people played tennis in style

Parent, gameplayer and President of local indie games development company Hipster Whale, Clara Reeves says «Most people in our society interact with games now and I play a lot of games with my kids.

Gerard Gaskin's photographs feature cos - play people from the Latex Ball or the Evisu Ball; venues that welcome the Ballroom subculture, where queer identity revels in vogue dancing and high glamor fashion, yet this still hovers in the fringes of society.

By juxtaposing contemporary color images of ice cream next to historical photographs of people enjoying it, the exhibition examines the visual and social culture of ice cream, the role it plays in society and the playfulness of the human experience.

In a society that claims to provide access to culture to everybody but never ceases to indicate which are the models that we should follow, what is culturally and intellectually acceptable and what isn't, Jeremy Deller has broken free by starting to play with social stereotypes, by taking an interest in sub-cultures, folklores, people, all that is human as a matter of facIn a society that claims to provide access to culture to everybody but never ceases to indicate which are the models that we should follow, what is culturally and intellectually acceptable and what isn't, Jeremy Deller has broken free by starting to play with social stereotypes, by taking an interest in sub-cultures, folklores, people, all that is human as a matter of facin sub-cultures, folklores, people, all that is human as a matter of fact.

We play different roles in society, but our work impacts one another in that we both encourage education and the active participation — especially of young people — in democratic decision - making and governance.

Her work — which includes portraits of enslaved people painted on jugs, plates, newspapers, and other domestic objects, as well as full - size cutouts of figures in colorful historical costumes — not only examines the histories of colonialism and the slave trade, but also the way their effects continue to play out in society today.