Sentences with phrase «social progress by»

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

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.

Not exact matches

Another report, published by progressive advocacy group Center for American Progress and FWD.us, found that repealing the program could cost the U.S. $ 460.3 billion in economic output over the next decade, and that contributions to entitlement programs like Medicare and Social Security could drop by $ 24.6 billion.

According to a 2013 study by the social action group Center for American Progress, if the undocumented immigrants currently living in the United States were provided legal status, the 10 - year cumulative increase in the gross domestic product (GDP) would be $ 832 billion.

However, lobbying, advocacy and other political spending by corporations and trade associations can also inhibit good policy - making, hold back progress, undermine critical environmental, social or economic regulations, and offload private costs onto the public.

The environmental and labor side agreements negotiated by our administration will make this agreement a force for social progress as well as economic growth.»

Let's not for a moment forget who we are up against — a politician committed to continuing the dismantling of decades of social progress and facilitating the de facto annexation of Canada by the U.S..

Canadian online retail, in short, looks a lot like Canadian retail did 20 years ago: unimpressive, outdated and at threat of being thrashed by American retailers — many of which are already making steady progress in better serving this market.Despite the country's reputation as one of the world's most wired and digitally social people, Canadians only spent $ 18 - billion online in 2010, or 3.4 per cent of total retail sales, according to Boston Consulting Group — well behind other developed countries such as the U.S. at 5 per cent and the United Kingdom at 13.5 per cent.

The dominant interpretation, derived from Franco - German scholarship of the nineteenth century, emphasized material aspects: political contest and domination in the Near East; the social structures of the Levantine crusader principalities viewed, especially by Francophone scholars, through the lens of modern colonialism; cultural confrontation and exchange through settlement and trade, a topos made familiar by eighteenth - century Enlightenment writers seeking to integrate the Crusades into a narrative of European progress; military adventurism that exposed the mentality of crusaders — heroic, passionate, devout, or misguided according to taste.

Most modern social and moral progress has been made by people free from religion — including Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Charles Darwin, Margaret Sanger, Albert Einstein, Andrew Carnegie, Thomas Edison, Marie Curie, H. L. Mencken, Sigmund Freud, Bertrand Russell, Luther Burbank and many others who have enriched humanity.

In order to progress towards the ideal proposed by the religions the renunciation of selfishness by individuals at personal level should lead to a social concern for a positive loving caring for all, especially the many in dire need in our globalized society.

Social progress can well be measured by the criterion of personal liberty, and the level of civilization may properly be rated according to the range and variety of choices people can make.

I would submit that much of the scientific and social progress that has transpired since the Dark Ages was driven by those who didn't drink the Kool - Aid of organized religion, but who dared to strike - out on their own spiritual path, without necessarily «tossing out» the concept of a higher power in our lives.

The idea of progress can defeat itself no more surely than by getting itself so believed that men expect automatic social advance apart from the conquest of personal and social sin.9

It now seems all too clear that the various over-all solutions of the social problem which have been emphasized in the past two centuries by the believers in progress are not solutions after all.

By investing in the progress and application of these fields, foundations boasted that they could delve down to the very roots of social problems, rather than merely treating their symptoms.

The temptation is enhanced by the long nurtured illusion of social progress, which leads men to believe that the meaning of human existence must be realized in some organization of human societies dwelling on the planet.

Western Christendom at the turn of the first millennium, however, may have been the first society to give historical meaning to «progress» by undertaking great social enterprises terminating only at a horizon of unguessable distance.

The Accountability Framework, an initiative being developed by a coalition of leading environmental and social organisations (including the Rainforest Alliance), will provide a clear pathway for companies on the sustainability journey — including key milestones and benchmarks to evaluate their progress.

He is still the same kid, buffeted by the same social, environmental, and psychological forces that have guided his progress through his first five years.

Paul will discuss How Children Succeed in a speech at the High Level Policy Forum on Skills for Social Progress, convened by the OECD, the Brazilian Ministry of Education, and Instituto Ayrton Senna.

You can gauge how well your child is progressing in cognitive and social development by watching the following:

The second report Fathers Matter 2 — Further Findings on Fathers and their Involvement with Social Care Services has progressed this work by outlining the findings of the FRG's two - year action research programme, which has included:

City Hall figures, obtained by the Green party on the London Assembly, reveal that following the completion of estate regeneration schemes currently in progress, or being planned, there will be an overall loss of more than 7,000 social rented homes across London.

As social movements and revolutions progressed, this slowly made place for the rule of law; in some countries being gradually replaced by a government somewhat subjected to democratic control, in other countries being replaced by an authoritarian government claiming to represent workers interests.

If we made progress on these root problems, we'd see much larger savings to the social security budget than can be achieved by salami - slicing entitlement levels and further impoverishing children and families.

The dialogue that ensued engaged the authors with a series of questions surrounding the book's central thesis: despite the real progress in racial equality achieved by the 1960s civil rights legislation, the United States political institution has been caught in between two modes of conceptualizing, and enacting policy, about race — both of which have failed to close the tremendous gap in racial disparities in social and economic welfare that are a legacy of American history.

In a letter sent to Armstrong last month by Tony Blair, the Prime Minister says the office should «work in partnership with the sector to make progress in the key areas of public service delivery, philanthropy, volunteering, building strong communities and social enterprise» (R&R, 26 May, p2).

CFD serves the political needs of the Upper West Side by promoting and organizing progressive opinion on local, state and national issues, as well as supporting Democratic candidates dedicated to peace, progress and social justice.

Whereas, we can take pride in the progress our state and nation have made in reinforcing women's rights over the decades and recognize that we have not yet crossed all thresholds to fulfilling our mission and quest for true equality; today we celebrate the economic, social, and political accomplishments of women, we honor the courageous women who have made extraordinary contributions to their countries and communities, and we pause to remember the struggles waged by generations of women who have led the fight for equality and justice; and

The conference, and the new report, is to aid local authorities in developing their local child poverty strategies to meet the need generated by social security cuts and reforms, and to look at the opportunities they have to make progress on poverty prevention and reduction.

The PDP, in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, on Sunday said the President's unwary statements have become very serious clog in the wheel of progress, eroding the confidence of both domestic and international investors in the Nigerian economic and social system.

To address this, the research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), led by Professor Charles Alderson at Lancaster University, set out to identify the factors that determine how this skill develops in a number of different languages and what factors in people's first language influence progress in reading.

The Social Mobility Toolkit for the Professions, the first common framework to measure the progress of social mobility within the professions, has been launched today by Professions for Good (a coalition of professional boSocial Mobility Toolkit for the Professions, the first common framework to measure the progress of social mobility within the professions, has been launched today by Professions for Good (a coalition of professional bosocial mobility within the professions, has been launched today by Professions for Good (a coalition of professional bodies).

The social mobility commission, set up by Nick Clegg under the coalition government, advises ministers on the issue and monitors progress.

«We are learning the hard way that social progress has to be fought for decade by decade,» Brown said.

The snapshot of benefit dependency and family breakdown will be set out today in a Social Justice Progress Report by the Department for Work and Pensions.

«Bache actively promoted scientific research, not as an end in itself, but as an intellectual and cultural pursuit closely linked to social, economic and moral improvement... His particular career choice and the zeal with which he pursued that choice embodied values sanctioned by patrician - republican, Protestant culture, specifically the pervasive allegiance to progress that characterised this culture.»

Given that happiness is widely regarded as integral to social progress, the study is increasingly being used by policymakers to design and implement legislation.

Woody Allen's progress has become unpredictable, but creative lightning struck spectacularly here, in his tale of a Park Avenue socialite driven to madness by her fall from financial and social grace.

Separated into four stories, each set in a different region of China, and each concerning cash - strapped characters either driven to or victimized by horrific acts of violence, Jia's 2013 Cannes prize winner (for best script, though it should have been a Palme D'Or) constitutes an attempt to take on the dark side of the country's much - touted 21st - century social and economic progress.

Stay tuned to the newly designed AIMExpoUSA.com website and keep up to date on the continued progress by visiting AIMExpo's social media pages.

The independent evaluation conducted by the National Centre for Social Research found that, overall, children of parents who were offered the Family Skills intervention did not make any more progress in literacy than children of parents who were not offered it.

Marking its official launch, the charity has released its new «Ambitious for Every Child» report, which examines student progress in the new «Opportunity Areas», identified by the government as areas of low social mobility and targeted with # 60 million of investment.

Leave no one behind: Need to track progress at all levels of income, and by providing social protection to help people build resilience to life's uncertainties.

If minority students today deliberately underachieve in order to avoid social sanctions, that by itself could explain why the academic performance of 17 - year - old African Americans, as measured by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), has deteriorated since the late 1980s, even while that of nine - year - olds has been improving.

Some progress has been made in the debate on ESCR indicators (38), but there is still a long way to go before these indicators become a tool that can effectively monitor the degree of compliance of social and economic rights by states.

The assessment system, which would highlight children's social and emotional maturity and physical and mental well - being as well as their intellectual skills, would be used to chart the nation's progress in meeting the first of the six goals set by the President and the nation's governors.

In one small group of five, the students start by comparing the strategies for black social and economic progress that Dubois and Washington pushed for in their papers.

Working in partnership with established school partners with a successful track record in using Achievement for All programmes to support student progress and whole school improvement, the Trust's activities will be informed by a deep - rooted mission and set of aims that will drive school improvement, develop professionals, improve outcomes for children and young people as well as enhancing inclusion and social mobility.