Sentences with phrase «social progress»

They write with the benefit of social progress over the past few centuries and they have the power to set the framework.

Growth provides the resources for social progress and environmental conservation and restoration.

The lack of press freedom is not only indicative of a lack of political freedom but, I feel, will act to limit social progress in the long term.

Activities include research, publications, events, teaching, consultations, and projects focused on social progress and sustainability.

For those pessimistic about social progress, there are examples of hope today.

Never before have we had access to more effective means to advance social progress.

The book explores the idea — the dream — that social science can inform social policy to achieve social progress.

Instead, it's about solving problems and creating social progress; building great new things that make a better world.

The adolescent heroes inevitably find their true identities as they lead a political revolution to put social progress back on track.

Our economic success was matched with an uncommon partner, namely unprecedented social progress.

On one hand, yes; it's an uplifting movie involving sports that trades in an easy form of symbolic social progress.

Our journal is practicing a policy of immediate open access to published content, supporting the principles of the free flow of scientific information and global knowledge sharing for the common social progress.

Conservatives believe meaningful social progress tends to be incremental and gradual, the product of local communities, private associations, dynamic markets, and individual initiative.

It's experienced remarkable social progress in recent years.

The goal ever since has been a mix of economic and social progress shaped to sustain cultural and environmental assets.

We do not want more minority MPs simply to represent minority communities - we want them because they will be an indicator of social progress and make our democracy more legitimate.

With social justice advocate and journalist Madina Stepanchenko he set up and is currently the curator for Phenomena Project in Manhattan, a not - for - profit organization founded to promote social progress through the medium of contemporary art.

Through her focus on a female experience, she comments on the enormous social progress made in Chinese society during Mao Zedong's tenure, yet she hints that some promises remain unfulfilled.

The group, chaired by Harvard's Michael Porter, has just released the 2016 Social Progress Index, which measures countries» ability to satisfy basic human needs and provide opportunity and the foundations for wellbeing.

Similar to the «MPs drive social progress» argument this seems to reveal a general distrust in the voting public.

The other presenters include Germination, a cutting - edge event company furthering social progress, Project Dirt, an innovative web community, the Hub, a shared workspace concept for social entrepreneurs and Sublime, a sustainable lifestyle magazine.

Hopefully, US state and local governments can do that as well, given that federal lawmakers have a hard time agreeing on even the need for such social progress.

«It is with sadness, but steadfast conviction, that I announce I am no longer capable of impeding social progress with the energy and endurance that is required of the highest ministry in the Roman Catholic Church,» Benedict reportedly said in Latin to the Vatican's highest cardinals.

I'm pretty sure to a Middle Eastern person, what Westerners call social progress is actually backwards progress towards the barbarity of a life away from the laws of Allah, their god

liberalism a political orientation that favors social progress by reform and by changing laws rather than by revolution

It will be starved of the bread that nourishes Life and life more abundant within the individual heart and mind; it is cut off from the life - blood that sustains true social progress.

And since independent film is where social progress typically finds its earliest, least compromised expression, we're now seeing more richly observant films like «Return,» a sensitively rendered drama that marks a promising debut for writer - director Liza Johnson, in rewarding collaboration with underrated actress Linda Cardellini.

Through her work, Vikram examines misguided institutional efforts toward inclusivity as well as artists who enact social progress through the creation of art.

Prospect New Orleans is founded on the principle that art engenders social progress.

Africa's progress in this century will largely be propelled, or impeded, by the ability of its cities to sustain social progress for the tens of millions of people moving from rural to urban lives.

That is not how social progress is achieved in a liberal democracy.»

The Tory leader is said to favour devolution rather than centralisation, stress social progress over economic and place more faith in society than the state.

The Index's authors define social progress as «the capacity of a society to meet the basic human needs of its citizens, establish the building blocks that allow citizens and communities to enhance and sustain the quality of their lives, and create the conditions for all individuals to reach their full potential.»

But we have yet to think widely of the developing world as a customer base for shared value creation, or to focus on a virtuous circle where local economic and social progress means progress for everyone.

Legacy companies, Penn says, should focus on «how they can help build social progress and consensus rather than what they are against.»

Guardian Circle's Jeffrey sees entrenched interests as the biggest threat to social progress via cryptocurrencies.

They see him as the head of a backward - looking, misogynistic organization that continues to thwart social progress by her stands against homosexual relationships and the use of prophylactics to thwart the spread of AIDS.

The Social Gospel grounded social progress on the fusion of the Kingdom of God with democracy to create a new social order.

It could be because the church no longer offers social progress, so love of money and power take people elsewhere (which is politics in this town, and there's another story!).

Hence, it is not justifiable to identify the coming of the Kingdom with human social progress, but neither is it legitimate to overlook God's demand that in every aspect of human life our world must be fashioned more nearly to his will.

«This will encourage more believers to make contributions to the country's harmonious social progress, cultural prosperity and economic development.»

This is one world, God's world throughout, whose law - abiding regularities, whose amazing artistries, whose evolution of ever higher structures, whose creation of personality, whose endless possibilities of spiritual growth and social progress indicate that it is a spiritual system.

Muslims need to grow up, get a thicker skin, and get with the world social progress.

«The pattern of discernment for those who oppose capital punishment,» says McKnight, «combines social progress, historical development, legal development, and the theological development that climaxes with Jesus» own teaching.»

The final chapter of this book gives Whitehead's reasons for thinking that social progress depends on a new educational system, one that will give equal importance to «appreciation of the concrete» and «facility with abstractions.