Sentences with phrase «present generations totreasure»

Football commentator Eddie McGuire said it didn't matter that present generations were not responsible for the acts.

though it can be made lower by increasing the discount rate (placing a relatively higher value on the wellbeing of present generations than future ones).

1974: SCIENCE DOCUMENTARY: «A new ice age could grip the world within the lifetime of present generations, Britons were warned»

«Let's get on board with this campaign and try to salvage something for future and present generations.»

The authors acknowledge that, if we place nearly as high a value on the wellbeing of future generations as we do on present generations, the social cost of carbon emissions is very large.

Inaction in reality costs nothing (with potential for higher costs for future generations) but costs of un-necessary pro-action can be big bucks for present generations indeed

They both stem from the traditionalist conservative notion that present generations are obligated to protect the interests of future generations.

Going down this path, you'll quickly find yourself in a debate on discounting and the time value of action / resources, which will take you deep into discussions of subjects such as environmental ethics, future / present generations, the foundational assumtions of the discipline of economics, etc. — all very important and interesting subjects, but ones on which there is unlikely to be forged a new consensus on meaningful time scales related to climate change.

One of the reasons why the present generations are less secure than prior generations with respect retirement is that the forebears who originally set up defined - benefit pensions and Social Security system set up in such a way that they gave benefits that were too generous to early participants, defrauding those who would come later.

Present generations are impacted by future population growth, too.

The odor is believed to be protective and cleansing, linking present generations to their ancestors.

In present generations it is more common to have children at an older age.

Indeed in para. 12 he says, «A new vision is needed to inspire future and present generations totreasure the gift of our faith.»

I just threw a few out all of which have excellent lessons for past and present generations.

These trends are antithetical to the traditionalist view, whether secular or religious, which sees present generations as stewards of the future.

And second, the propensity under Keynesian Economics to over-consume in the present generation at a cost of creating massive debt or future debt for future generations to essentially somehow deal with, we're sort of seeing that today in all developed parts of the world.

And second of all, the propensity under Keynesian Economics to over-consume in the present generation at a cost of creating massive debt or future debt for future generations to essentially somehow deal with, we're sort of seeing that today in all developed parts of the world.

We have no right to continue our present behavior, as if we were the only species on earth and, moreover, as if the present generation were the last.

I certainly do not want to be party to proposing the sacrifice of the present generation of the poor for the supposed benefit of future generations.

It is unliveable at the level of society: hence, in Britain we have a government that lauds the freedom of the individual (and it should be noted in passing, but noted very well, that our present generation of politicians rarely talk of the «human person» or just of the «person», but usually of the «individual») but which has brought in some of the most draconian legislation in Europe designed to control what people say and do on certain issues so that society can proceed in its life as a unity and not just as a mere collection of individuals.

Even for the present generation of the poor a sustainable use of forests is preferable to their quick elimination.

It is the task of the present generation to provide training in the essentials of Islam, to know Islam deeply, for out of that knowledge of the straight path of Islam will come the unity of belief and practice which has been revealed to mankind in the Qur» an and the Sunnah.

The problem is, no doubt, further amplified by the obviousness and banality of most of the television programming on which the present generation has been weaned and reared.

Second, it contracts only with the present generation and ignores the future.

A member of African society has a moral responsibility in regards to past generations to venerate the ancestors; a moral responsibility in regards to the present generation to consider the well - being of his / her contemporaries throughout the community; and a moral responsibility in regards to future generations to create conditions which serve the well - being of those who are called «the beautiful ones» by Ayi Kwei Armah in his classical novel — The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born.

The ethical implication is that moral responsibility is not confined to consequences which obtain for only our contemporaries in the present generation.

Perhaps the greatest symbol of this trend for the present generation has been Timothy Smith, who in addition to his work at Johns Hopkins University has continued to pastor Nazarene churches and on occasion to preach «special meetings.»

«The last generation's intoxication with freedom has been followed by the present generation's craze for bondage; the untruth of intoxication has been followed by the untruth of hysteria.»

This is one of the worst examples of the way some clergymen, who supposedly care about communicating the gospel to the present generation, fail to do so because they insist on using an obsolete and confusing vocabulary.

Rabbi Maurice Davis of White Plains, New York, points out that the present generation of Jewish young people, those born here in the «60s, is the first one that can not reasonably expect to surpass its parents» achievements, as those parents did their parents».

Rapid population growth is a pervasive fact of life in less - developed countries today — a form of social change so typical, and at the same time so profound, that it may spuriously be associated with almost any other social phenomenon of the present generation.

We [evangelicals] wait until there is general consensus in society before we speak on controversial issues in a pattern of «me - too - ism» that makes us almost like contemporary ancestors of the present generation.

To Bultmann, this is a cause for rejoicing, for he wants the gospel to speak to the present generation.

For the present generation there is the aim of transforming the environment so as to mold the future closer to the heart's desire; for the rising generation there is the aim of embodying that perfection.

Through the mediation of a commonly envisioned and valued ideal, characteristics qualifying the present generation come to qualify its successors.

Wilson observes that it is not the «rational Lewis» who has continuing appeal; rather, «it is the Lewis who plumbed the irrational depths of childhood and religion who speaks to the present generation.»

Nevertheless, the present generation of hemophiliacs with AIDS has tough issues to face.

The present generation will not die before this happens.

At this point it must be recognized that the interdependence of all life in relationship to the planetary environment places special obligations and limitations on the present generation.

The present generation is passing away.

John Platt contends that «the present generation is the hinge of history,» sentiments echoed by a burgeoning chorus of voices.

This way of putting it sets in dramatic perspective the enormity and rapidity of change that the present generation is undergoing.

The task of the present generation appears to lie in the liberation of the church from its bondage to a corrupt civilization.

kermit4jc Jesus thought that his present generation were living in the end times.

Others deny that there is any work left for the present generation to do; they believe that any problems are just imaginary and any wounds self - inflicted.

Even such extensive works as the Gifford Lectures have been found wanting by the present generation of theological students, who may be put off by the dogmatic flavor of them, preferring works less overtly theistic and christological.

The level of risk approaches the unacceptable because there is the very real possibility of irreversible damage to the biosphere itself; further, many of the social costs of such high - risk technologies are postponed to future generations while the benefits accrue to the present generation.

The present generation should make three commitments.

Nearly a hundred years ago, at the end of the 19th century, John R. Mott, one of the «fathers» of the modern ecumenical movement, looked at the world and of the coming 20th century and confidently spoke of the «evangelization of the world in the present generation».

These are challenges to the present generation of youth looking towards making their contribution to the shaping of the future of humanity.