Sentences with phrase «social forces at»

A Christianity without Christian formation is no match for the powerful social forces at work within our society.

I have no disagreements with Cobb on these broad matters, but something seems to be missing in his account of the social forces at work behind the oldline's reduced vitality.

Not exact matches

And with today's work force filled with millennials armed with smartphones and social media savvy, any company's public perception can be flipped upside down at the touch of the «publish» button.

To effectively restrict communication, governments would need to dominate technologies whose forced control is a double - edged sword — when social instability spikes, internet shutdowns work at best sporadically and risk leading to greater discontent and violence.

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

David Meerman Scott delivered a keynote presentation to more than 300 senior Air Force Public Affairs professionals at the Air Force's Professional Development Conference and since then, social media is catching on like wildfire.

I don't think we should be forced to pay into Social Security at all.

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.

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.

«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).

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.

The person has not fared especially well at the hands of modern attempts to write about history, which have generally sought to locate historical explanations in the workings of large structures, impersonal forces, and social groups rather than the vagaries and razor - edged contingencies of individual character and agency.

And this regime was, naturally, a fixed hierarchy of social power, atop which stood the gods, a little lower kings and nobles, and at the bottom slaves; the order of society, both divine and natural in provenance, was a fixed and yet somehow fragile «hierarchy within totality» that had to be preserved against the forces that surrounded it, while yet drawing on those forces for its spiritual sustenance.

The thing of it is, if you really, really investigate what Yeshua said, and not just what's in the latest translation of the white man's western Bible, You'd be forced to conclude that his followers perverted his teachings, and the whole thing was now being run as a confidence scam of the first order, to bilk billions out of the unsuspecting and influence social and political order at the same time.

«That is why, at least in Latin America, a Pentecostal experience focused on day - to - day reality may well become a major force for social change.»

In the beginnings of history it was the forces of nature which were first so reflected and which in the course of further evolution underwent the most manifold and varied personifications among the various peoples... But it is not long before, side by side with the forces of nature, social forces begin to be active — forces which confront man as equally alien and at first equally inexplicable, dominating him with the same apparent natural necessity as the forces of nature themselves.

But he never asks what social, economic, political and ideological forces were at work in the creation of the modern scientific world view, any more than he looks at the role of those forces in the eighteenth century celebration of it, the romantic reaction against it, or the nineteenth and twentieth century codification of positive science.

By recognizing the social force of the forms available, the preacher can make a conscientious selection for the purpose at hand.

By the grace of God through Christ that child as he grows to manhood may be able to rise above the social forces that surround him and at the risk of his life assert his citizenship in Christendom.

That this is no longer true is due not to social and economic forces but to the blockbusting and white flight fostered by realtors and bankers that set blacks and Jews at each others» throats.

Unlike the contextualist who endeavors to explain the congregation in the light of social ideas and forces at work throughout the larger community, the symbolist observes the structure of ideas and actions within the church itself that particularize its outlook and behavior.

In 1960, it was increasingly evident, not least to people like Congar, that this anti-modernist discipline had become ineffective at coping with the flood of social, cultural, and intellectual forces that confronted the Church.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the German theologian and social philosopher Ernst Troeltsch argued that a desire for personal religious experience has been a revitalizing force in religion in every era.

Dr. Smith looks at process thought and black liberation from a pastoral psychology perspective and black people's experience of oppression: The struggle against oppression in black people's experience is a constant struggle against external forces as manifested in economic, social, and political exploitation.

CGF Social Sustainability Manager Facilitated Breakout Session at RBA Roundtable on Forced Labour in Penang, Malaysia

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Manchester United defender Luke Shaw has been forced off in the first half their Barclays Premier League clash against Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park with yet another injury and there has been a huge reaction on social media.

Unless we enforce vital and clear out style change by a campaign of force and disobedience on social media, and by demos at the ground with banners and anti-Wenger chants, we are lost, never to win the title again.

But a lesser - noticed story published that same day on the Times School Book blog reported that New York City is being forced to cut its Universal Meals Program, which had previously insured that all children at some predominantly low - income schools received free lunches, without demonstrating economic need — and therefore without risking social stigma by taking the school meal.

It will be recalled that some members of the Invincible Forces of the NPP were caught on tape assaulting ASP Bruce Nanka at the Flagstaff House in a video that went viral on social media last week.

At 11 a.m., the Assembly Committees on Social Services, Codes and Labor and the Puerto Rican / Hispanic Task Force hold a joint oversight hearing on services for victims of human trafficking, Legislative Office Building, Roosevelt Hearing Room C, Albany.

Others outside social media, have also questioned the whereabouts of Prof. Attafuah, when ASP Nanka — Bruce, was attacked at the Flagstaff House in January by the NPP Invisible Forces and also abusing his pregnant wife.

This attention has been particularly justified considering that the current Chinese president assumed power at a time when social media became a real force.

Progressivism, a populist reform movement in the early twentieth century, espoused by Presidents like Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, and grounded in Protestant moralism, which sought to make government both more responsive to the plight of the people, for instance using Constitutional amendments to deal with social problems like alcoholism and using government force to quash monopolies, and at the same time more representative of the will of the electorate, for instance instituting more democracy like the direct election of Senators and ending the corruption of Machine politics in the cities.

To waste billions on a full replacement of Trident is to take money away from other defence and social priorities, threatening members of the armed forces and the British people at large.

Nothing about the content of the Nazis belief was particularly extreme: eugenics, forced sterilization, social Darwinism, anti-Semitism, and many more of their beliefs were all normal (although obviously not shared by 100 % of the world) at their time.

Repeated surveys, polls, and studies show most of us as individuals are not Christian in our beliefs or our religious identities and at a social level, Britain has been shaped for the better by many pre-Christian, non-Christian, and post-Christian forces.

Alison Stanley, HR director, civil service employee policy; David Stephens, director of resources (Army), HM Armed Forces, Ministry of Defence; Andrea Sutcliffe, chief inspector of adult social care, Care Quality Commission; Deborah Walsh, deputy head of counter-terrorism at the Crown Prosecution Service; and Nick Whitfield, chief executive, Achieving for Children, all also receive CBEs.

He even managed to get them to applaud the nation's social workers at one stage, and although they didn't give them the lengthy standing ovation that thundered praise for the armed forces, it seems some of the PM's touchy feely stuff still resonates.

The Cyclone at Coney Island got stuck at the top of its track today, marring its season debut and forcing passengers to walk down the tracks to safety, according to images and accounts posted on social media.

Speaking at the 2016 National Children's Day Celebration, Buhari said: «Challenges posed by the total breakdown of societal values and the current unrestricted social media vices, which therefore, calls for an urgent need for all stakeholders to put all hands on deck in making conscious efforts at raising awareness of parents, family and communities at all levels on the critical role of protecting children against all forms of violence, abuse and exploitation including abduction of children, forced and early marriage.

Speaking in Abuja to mark 2016 National Children's Day Celebration, President Buhari said, «Challenges posed by the total breakdown of societal values and the current unrestricted social media vices, which therefore, calls for an urgent need for all stakeholders to put all hands on deck in making conscious efforts at raising awareness of parents, family, communities at all levels, on the critical role of protecting the children against all forms of violence, abuse and exploitation including abduction of children, forced and early marriage.

At a pointy - headed session between the Fabian Society and the Lib Dems» CentreForum, ex-professor of social policy turned lefty Lib Dem MP, Steve Webb, joined forces with the Fabs» Sunder Katwala, to warn against spending cuts which end universal benefits.

General News of Wednesday, 9 May 2018 Source: classfmonline.com Hajia Fati is a known activist of New Patriotic Party (NPP) Social pressure group, OccupyGhana ®, has condemned the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) for offering a «forced» and «half - hearted» apology over the assault of a journalist by a party supporter, Hajia Fati, at the party's headquarters.

Song's study looked specifically at Facebook, which, with more than one billion users and growing, is a major force in people's everyday life and social interactions.

By studying the social forces that bind these ills together, «you can really push the boundaries of public health,» says Dale Stratford, a medical anthropologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.

He headed the modeling team at the time but is now directing a new group that is developing integrated climate models that include social and economic forces.

«It is an opportune time for academic economists, complexity scientists, social scientists, ecologists, epidemiologists, and researchers at financial institutions to join forces and develop tools from complexity theory, as a complement to existing economic modeling approaches», says Andy Haldane, Chief Economist of the Bank of England.

Were people only following orders and bowing to social pressure, or were there some other forces at work that led people to engage in such devastating actions?

She may be a full - time student at the University of Maryland and a model in her spare time, but she's also known for being a candid force on social media who often challenges society's beauty standards.