Sentences with phrase «social force in»

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters was a massive political and social force in the 1950s and 1960s.

«Gandhi was probably the first person in history to live the love ethic of Jesus above mere interaction between individuals to a powerful and effective social force in a large scale.

This is why the black church became a positive social force in the previous decade.

However powerless the woman may be in relation to other social forces in a patriarchal society, she is powerful in relation to the fetus.

The human imagination, unconditioned by the Christian faith, invariably reflects the dominant social forces in which the individual is interested.

While, individually, we have responsibility to improve our own wellness, most people are significantly influenced by social forces in the form of fitness trends, advertisements, food costs and availability and, of particular concern, physical, biochemical and mental - emotional stress brought on by life in modern society — life increasingly characterized by existence in Max Weber's steel shell.

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The social network's co-founder Dustin Moskovitz pledged to donate $ 20 million to help ensure a Clinton victory because, as he put it, Trump's «proposals are so implausible that the nation is forced to worry that his interest in the presidency might not even extend beyond winning a contest and promoting his personal brand.»

But the image of the First Lady in stiletto heels as she walked to Air Force One had already made the rounds on social media, with some opining about the optics of wearing expensive footwear to visit a state ravaged by the worst flooding in its history.

In the lightning - fast world of social media, brands are forced to react quickly.

For the study, the researchers split socially anxious volunteers into three groups — one was asked to perform random acts of kindness, one was told to follow the usual course of exposure therapy and force themselves to participate in more social situations, and another was a control group who did nothing special.

Women, meanwhile, now make up 33 percent of the social network's work force, up from 32 percent a year ago and 31 percent in 2014.

With other «sensitive» personal data — like Social Security numbers, children's info, financial info, health info, and location data — the FCC would've forced ISPs to give customers the chance of opting in before an ISP could collect the data.

On June 30, the last day the old provincial sales tax remained in effect, a coalition fronted by former Social Credit premier Bill Vander Zalm presented a petition of 557,383 valid signatures to the province's chief electoral officer, which forces a bill abolishing the HST to be either voted on in the legislature or put to a referendum.

It was a transparent attempt to boost interest in the social network, and Google's change of heart now proves that forcing people to use an inferior product is not much of a business strategy.

Elowitz thinks Google is «using its dominance in search to all but force brands to be social on its network.»

These are all cool and useful social tools that could help Google Plus establish itself as a major force in social networking, but perhaps that's not really the point.

Driving forces cited in the study include increasing life expectancy, elimination of pensions, economic uncertainy and re-visioning of later life towards purpose and social engagement.

As a result of their remarkable generosity, philanthropy in 2016 is poised to stand alongside government and business as one of the most powerful forces influencing social change.

For Republicans, the timing provides crucial leverage to force Democrats and the president to cut spending in Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, expensive benefit programs that Democrats have long protected, despite escalating costs.

Social media has limited Putin's ability to «simply crack heads,» says Lauren Goodrich, a Eurasia specialist with Stratfor, a geopolitical analysis company based in Texas, but few doubt his willingness to use force if he perceives a real threat.

I'm talking about expanding your online social circles, sharing your opinions, and forcing yourself to actively participate in conversations that will put you front and center in discussions with peers and influencers.

In a way, the interconnected world resulting from the openness of the internet has forced business to revert to these positive social norms of old.

If, instead, social networks force users to slow down and consider choices from a list of reaction options, they might be surprised by the results — not to mention how diversity might put a wrench in the popularity plans of those who default to like - ing everything.

Together, Verizon and AOL create a powerful force in mobile, video, social, and programmatic platforms — Verizon leads in mobile and mobile video, and AOL leads in video and programmatic advertising.

Anton Nossik, an Internet entrepreneur who pioneered some of the country's first digital news sites, said that the Russian government could be emboldened by successes in forcing social networks to censor content.

Create projects (and products) that accomplish social transformation, profitability, and cost reduction all at once Green your company in ways that save money and make money Gain enormous positive reputation as a visionary company worth supporting: your own employees recruit new qualified hires while your customers turn into fans, and then even become your unpaid sales force Expand successfully into totally new markets through strategic thinking, powerful partnerships, and commitment to core principles Turn marketing from a cost to a revenue stream Embrace abundance and transformation — and stop worrying about market share

Catalysed by courageous first person accounts of sexual harassment and assault, Harvey Weinstein — one of the biggest executives in filmmaking — was forced from his place of power in Hollywood while a wave of empathy and solidarity with those who spoke out swept across social media via the #MeToo campaign.

An irony that social dialogues have often revolved around competition regarding social models, US vis a vis EU vis a vis Japan, that these corporates, whose governance boards, even States in the case of Germany, include Union membership at the table, but when their hands were forced they chose Right to Work states in the US.

If the Canadian government begins FTA negotiations with China, it needs to take into account not only the political, economic, and social forces that are transforming the world we live in today, but also those that will shape the world we will live in tomorrow.

«The UK - based leader conversion expert», speaker, content marketer, and social media marketing influencer Lilach Bullock has been an unstoppable force in marketing for years.

Five armed services chiefs — of the Army, the Air Force, the Navy, the Marines and the National Guard Bureau — posted statements on social media condemning neo-Nazis and racism in uncompromising terms.

To help answer these and other questions, and to validate the role real estate investors are playing in the housing recovery, BiggerPockets.com, the nation's largest and most active real estate investing social network, and Memphis Invest, one of the nation's leading providers of single - family rental real estate investment services, joined forces to sponsor a national survey on investor s and their near - term intentions.

Instagram is increasingly becoming a force to be reckoned with in the world of social media.

April 3, 2018 Financial Advisors Broadly View Social Media as a Disruptive, But Positive Force in All Aspects of Their Business, According to New Putnam Investments Social Advisor Study

If not careful, B2B leaders can be caught in some sort of a slumber when it comes to reexamining their business models while new competitive forces arise with far more attractive business models to the social buyer.

The impact investing market in Canada is currently estimated at approximately $ 2 billion and is projected to grow to approximately $ 30 billion in the next decade, according to the 2010 report by the Canadian Task Force on Social Finance.

The economic and social upheaval stemming from both the Great Depression and World War II forced the United States to seek out a source of inexpensive labor to meet its manpower needs in both agriculture and railway maintenance.

The social networking giant was thrust into crisis this week following the Cambridge Analytica data misuse scandal, forcing the founder of the California - based website to address the allegation that 50 million profiles were harvested back in 2014.

There is a place for religion in this World trying to force disbelief on people is like flirting with social suicide.

This social transformation represents a remarkable, unparalleled experience; in barely the span of a generation, and with comparatively little violence, a despised and largely disenfranchised minority descendant from chattel slaves used the courts, the legislature, the press, and the rights of petition and assembly of the republic to force a redefinition of their citizenship.

The lack of a positive, high - priority response from a series of Republican administrations to what is now a long - standing, continuously worsening social problem has allowed politically marginal and intellectually moribund elements to retain a credibility and force in our political life far beyond what their accomplishments would otherwise support.

Now in America, where be has acquired social power, his distrust of the Christian community leads him to align himself with the secularizing forces whose dominance, he thinks, will afford him a security he has never known.

«A study in the United States, published in the Social Forces journal and conducted by Sociology researcher Lisa A. Keister while she was at the Ohio State University, found that adherents of Judaism attained the most wealth, believers of Catholicism and mainline Protestants were in the middle, while conservative Protestants accu - mulated the least wealth, while in general people who attend religious services achieved more wealth than those who do not (taking into account variations of education and other factors).

Law, in this positivist view, gains its force from contingent social factors, not from its moral merits or participation in right reason.

Mr Cox: «Quite rightly, we pray for those who work in health, in social care, in the police force [and] in education.

Orthodox Jews have been expelled from the military for wearing yarmulkes; a religious community in which all members worked for the church and believed that acceptance of wages would be an affront to God has been forced to yield to the minimum wage; religious colleges have been denied tax exemptions for enforcing what they regard to be religiously compelled moral regulations; Amish farmers who refuse Social Security benefits have been forced to pay Social Security taxes; and Muslim prisoners have been denied the right to challenge prison regulations that conflict with their worship schedule.

Traditionally, as groups in America have risen in social status, become better educated and more urbanized (and in recent years as more women have entered the work force), their birthrates have gone down.

This has been demonstrated in recent years, when a declining belief in etiquette as a legitimate force in regulating social conduct has prompted American society to try to get along without it.

It must have seemed unlikely, in the 1970s, that his modest achievements in Krakow - a vast annual Corpus Christi procession through the city, the great new church at Nowa Huta, a network of social care established for unmarried mothers and others in need, youth gatherings up in the Tatra mountains and in overflowing city churches — would in due course overwhelm official Marxism by sheer force of joyful hope and moral uplift.