Sentences with phrase «relatively small communities»

A world organized on the basis of relatively small communities capable of autonomous survival would be far less fragile than the present one.

For example, for most of human history people lived most or all of their lives in relatively small communities where everyone knew everyone and your livelihood and welfare depended on your reputation.

The New Testament is the work of a relatively small community with highly selective interests, whereas the Old is the product of a whole nation's wider issues and situations.

With a year - round population of about 25,000 and a geographic area of only four by two miles, the island of Key West, Fla., is a relatively small community, figuratively and literally.

Vegans comprised a relatively small community, and vegan diets were not getting any attention from -LSB-...]

«For now, we are a relatively small community,» she explains, «which means we are quite flexible and can adapt and respond more quickly to new situations or ideas.»

There have only been around 50 in that time in the entire nation, so three happening in one relatively small community is pretty amazing.

Extra characters, maps, etc... This stuff in a Season Pass splits the already relatively small community, and only seeks to strengthen the divide by adding more content to SP holders.

Ask Patents has a committed, but relatively small community.

Metafilter (which charges users $ 5 to become members) has many fans, but it is also a relatively small community.

Until one year ago the prospect of fully autonomous weapons was being hotly debated by a relatively small community of specialists, including military personnel, scientists, roboticists, ethicists, philosophers, and lawyers.

In recent years, the benefits and dangers of fully autonomous weapons have been hotly debated by a relatively small community of specialists, including military personnel, scientists, roboticists, ethicists, philosophers, and lawyers.

The problem with a relatively small community, coupled with huge opportunities to turn a quick profit, has made this a hotbed for scammers and fraudulent activity.

Not exact matches

In actuality, social media enables the formation and maintenance of an almost limitless number of smaller communities, each organized around a relatively narrow theme.

The startup community is relatively small.

Like many small - scale entrepreneurs in established industries, he found networking and getting the word out about his business relatively easy thanks to the size of the community.

New decisions start off in small, relatively specialized groups that spring up informally within the community as needed.

However, the relatively low difficulty of Litecoin for much of the last year combined with what had been a smaller mining community means that some early miners may hold large concentrations of Litecoin.

Crypto Printing: Because there are so many possibilities with 3D printing, and because the Bitcoin community is relatively small, each new request is pretty unique — we've not come anywhere close to exploring the range of possible designs which can be made.

On November 21st, a relatively small biotech company named Gilead Sciences (GILD) made headline news in the pharmaceutical investment community when it acquired a little - known hepatitis C drug developer named Pharmasset Inc. (VRUS), for $ 10.8 billion, in an all - cash deal.

While hedge funds have proliferated overseas, the Australian hedge fund community has remained a relatively small part of the funds management landscape.

Climate change is an important issue to the long - term health of our community and the world, however policies in our relatively small jurisdiction which are not aligned with the realities in other Canadian provinces and the United States put us at a competitive disadvantage.

Israel is still not sure that it can trust the world community to provide its security in this relatively small strip of land between Jerusalem and the Mediterranean Sea.

Since local communities can have no sustainable economic well - being without considerable control over their own lives, this would require relative economic self - sufficiency in relatively small regions.

Because ours was a relatively small congregation made up of German immigrants who often shared my grandfather's story, I knew everyone in it and they knew me, Together we formed a community that tried — we did not succeed nearly enough — to mirror in this life what God's love for everyone means practically.

In such societies, this picture of what it is to understand God tends to be best sustained in relatively small Christian communities that can retain a degree of communal identity in the midst of these social changes without moving to the margins of social turmoil and withdrawing from active participation in the reformist or revolutionary movements that cause the changes.

There is a greater chance of achieving a sense of caring and community — i.e., becoming a true group — if the number of relational bridges which must be built is relatively small.

Indeed the infinitely active and inexhaustible nature of the subjects of theology reduces to relatively small significance the distance between the more and less mature members of the community of inquiry.

The home education community is relatively small.

A related point: a relatively small percentage of the community generally puts out the bulk of the content on Twitter, especially the content that gets spread widely, so pay attention to the people who are active on the issues you care about.

Governor Andrew Cuomo recognizes that these relatively modest investments from the State can be put to work to help small businesses realize their potential for growth — expanding their footprint in a community, their workforce and their reach.

I appreciate that cost and down - time are important factors in bridge building, but spread over generations relatively small investments in superstructure can have a positive effect on community pride, maybe even tourism.

The relatively small physics research community in Latin America has a lot to deal with.

There's no way the relatively small corps of American science journalists could adequately track goings - on in the much larger research community without input from those of us who can more closely monitor individual studies at individual institutions.

Drought underscores the problem These communities had relatively high poverty rates — one more than 20 percent — so residents appreciated the boost to the local economy, however small.

This investigation will not only be beneficial for space exploration, but it will also show how communities on Earth with little to no agricultural land and sunlight can grow edible plants in small spaces at relatively low costs.

«Dramatic shifts in species distributions, community composition, forest diversity and ecosystem functioning have to be expected,» Engelbrecht says, «even with relatively small changes in dry season lengths of only about one month.»

Whatever the reason, these differences in colonization from one wood fall to another created a wide variety of habitats and animal communities over a relatively small patch of seafloor.

It takes a ton of effort to raise this kind of money in our relatively small, but growing communities.

Even though Iyengar yoga was popular back in my early days of practice, it was still a small and relatively tight - knit community.

It's so interesting - because I live in such a big city, and a relatively impersonal one full of expats, things like fall fairs don't really happen and I never think of them as being something we could look at doing anymore, whereas growing up in a smaller community, they (and all the associated fair food) were a regular part of life.

Talking to other singles who have similar interests A Ukranian dating Web site has been set up to address a specific issue: In a country where the Jewish community is relatively small and sometimes scattered

The HFPA voters — a relatively small group as far as major awards bodies go — typically make some oddball selections, and while not all of their film choices were favorites among the film critic community, the voters seemed to avoid any laughably bad selections this year.

Joe (Cage) is a hard - drinking small - business owner who, by the standards of the community, is relatively successful.

«Americans chose,» she once wrote, «to be both one great nation and many relatively quite small, local communities.»

This design — and the relatively small number of private schools in rural communities — has greatly contributed to this socio - economic segregation.64 Such policies, if adopted nationally in the United States, could have similar consequences for economic and racial segregation considering the strong correlation between race and income in many places.

Malloy's proposal does little more than redirect a relatively small amount of existing funds from wealthier and middle income towns to Connecticut's poorest communities.

Because our analysis included only a relatively small sample of districts, it may not reflect the testing experience of students or districts in other communities.

Students will explore characteristics of the shtetl and the advantages and disadvantages of living in these small, relatively homogenous communities.

One could reasonably argue there were TOO MANY publishers at the Bookfair when you think about the relatively small markets they cater to for literary fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction, as well as the often myopic focus on a single magazine, ignoring or discounting other ways they could serve their community while ensuring a sustainable future.