Sentences with phrase «points of high society»

When Mandie Shaw is thrust into Miss Heathwood's School for Girls, she struggles to grasp the school's new rules and the finer points of high society.

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He pointed to low rates of marriages and high rates of divorce among trends that undermine «the well - being of society and the health of the family».

The scholars who study Islamic culture today point out that the chief factors which have influenced contemporary Arab Muslim society are: the Western ideas which penetrated Arab society through education and increased contact with the West, socialist concepts which have spread throughout the world, communist doctrines which challenge religion in general, the expansion of university education, the admission of Muslim women to higher education, the study of ancient and modern philosophy in the universities, and the modern Muslim movements which have been so influential.

The unity movement, a vocally accepted way of life in the 1950s, reached its high point in the early 1960s, at a time when society had a sense of working together.

The deterioration of neighborhoods in our inner cities, the decline of elemental safety — never mind education — in many of our schools, the burgeoning of jail populations (to the point that we have the highest percentage of incarcerated citizens of any country in the industrial world), the great strains on the family, the general slackening of discipline, which a consumerist and media - driven society relentlessly encourages, and a huge transfer of wealth In the 1980s and «90s (during this period, the upper 1 percent of Americans more than doubled its wealth, while the lowest 20 percent suffered an actual decline)-- all these changes signal a community at risk.

If the point of religion is to bring peace and guide a culture toward certain specific behaviors, primarily for order and the preservation of the good qualities of society, then how can one say that one religion is better than another or that a «religion-less» person who STILL acts the SAME way (i.e. does right unto their neighbors, lives according to the thing the bible suggests) but is more tolerant is not as high quality a citizen as another who is associated with a Major League Religious Team?

Perhaps the Occupy Movement will bring us to the point where we once again as a society decide we want to uphold the rule of law, not just for the petty crimes of the poor, but also the high crimes of the rich and their politician puppets like Blair.

As Schreiter has pointed out in his reflections on the sociology of theology, [13] such a picture of what it is to understand God tends to predominate in cultural situations marked by high specialization and differentiation, like urban societies and their economies, and marked by a plurality of competing worldviews.

As Wenger said in response to the protests: «We live in a society of total opinion but we live off not what we say but what we do — and what we do is on the pitch,» Tomorrow night, Arsenal desperately need to «do what they do» and take all three points from high - flying Southampton to take some pressure off the manager and the players....

Smalley and other officials have pointed out that the Art Institute of Chicago, the Field Museum and other major cultural facilities routinely appoint directors from the highest ranks of industry and society whose sole function is to produce donations.

The definition Engels provides at the end of the book is useful, chiefly for denoting some of the high points of the most commonly used definition of communism: the society that results from common democratic ownership of the industrially productive tools of society by society.

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Robert Hooke outlined a scheme for signalling between a chain of high points in a lecture to the Royal Society in 1684 titled «On showing a way how to communicate one's mind at great distances».

A study published in the Royal Society of Chemistry's Journal of Materials Chemistry A shows that the technique produces high - quality crystalline films with precise control over thickness across large areas, and could point the way toward mass production methods for perovskite cells.

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It is told from the point - of - view of a mixed - race protagonist, Dido, born into a privileged high - society family.

Instead, any senior with a grade point average higher than 3.6 will be inducted into the newly minted Indian Prairie Scholars — a society district officials created to replace the national organization they found to be too much of a headache.

In her introduction to Minow, Casey pointed out that in helping to smuggle Jews out of Europe during World War II, Kohlberg himself was one of the «limited number» of people — along with such legendary figures as Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King — who reach the final plateau, developing and acting on higher principles rather than merely conforming to society's norms.

The Tipping Point Foundation investment will help Greenhill Humane Society provide a higher level of care for the animals while at the same time improving access to Greenhill's programs and services for people in the community.

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Strauss's effervescent send - up of Viennese high society is considered a high point of the operetta genre.

Sold for just over two million dollars, the highest amount ever paid for a Rosenquist work at auction up to that point, F - 111 is subsequently installed in the lobby of the Society Bank tower in downtown Cleveland.

Emanuel's main point was that just focusing on the most likely outcome (i.e. the centre of the pdf) ignores information on low probability / high impact events that may be highly relevant to society.

He also pointed out the importance of informing our society of IPCC findings, and to invest in infrastructure and systems that would allow societies to adapt to higher frequencies and intensities of extreme events.

Law Society president Joe Egan said «At this point we only have a high - level outline of the SQE — the devil is in the detail.

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