Sentences with phrase «social standards»

Demonstrated and reinforced social standards of behavior — Established norms of class behavior and maintained order at all times.

At 11 years old, it's downright ancient by social standards, and its age is starting to show.

The medical, education and social standard in our villages are nothing to write home about.

Demonstrated and reinforced social standards of behavior - Established norms of class behavior and maintained order at all times.

Over the years, Urgewald has led many successful campaigns and today plays a key role in efforts to establish strong, binding environmental and social standards for international finance and investment.

This growing segment of American society is marked not just by economic poverty, but also by social and cultural poverty: the decay of bedrock institutions like marriage and organized religion, as well as the erosion of cohesive social standards like the two - parent family.

Moralism stresses the need of avoiding particular wrong acts, but gets its frame of reference from social standards and conventions.

If it tries or pretends to be neutral about certain issues, the pluralist game becomes a shell game by which people are tricked into consenting to changes in basic social standards and institutions on the pretense that nothing more is asked of them than respect for the rights of individuals.

Coles treated its suppliers in a manner not consistent with acceptable business and social standards which apply to commercial dealings.

They do expect a certain social standard when meeting suitors so make sure you make something of yourself first so you can provide for them and take care of them.

Socially Responsible Fund A type of mutual fund that is invested solely in companies that are up to a predetermined social standard.

Christopher Giancarlo, seat of the CFTC, likened Bitcoin into the baby boomer generation's rejection of previous social standards through their experimentation «sex, drugs, -LSB-...]

Identification with accepted social standards is a moralistic view of sin.

Yet there are sinful acts, which are to be defined not by Pharisaic or Gentile or twentieth - century social standards but by the eternal will of God.

The danger lies, rather, in taking social standards as the voice of God, «absolutizing the relative,» and condemning all whose opinion differs in moot matters.

The rule of law, he has argued, demands that we be bound by the text of the law» not by evolving social standards, not even by some elusive authorial intent, but by the actual words of the Constitution and of the statutes passed by state and federal legislatures.

Over 87.2 million acres (35.3 million ha) of forestland are managed according to the rigorous environmental, economic, and social standards required for Rainforest Alliance certification.

No one should be forced to feel ashamed of their bodies, yet our society has taught women to be sheepish and apologetic about their form (especially if it doesn't adhere to a particular social standard).

You know, to flout sexist, unfair social standards about how obscene women's bodies are because we're viewed only as sex objects so how dare we use our bodies in public for something non-sexual, meanwhile, there goes a pack of shirtless men jogging by like it's not even a thing.

This variation is probably due to different legal and social standards across Europe.

This is all really to say, the western woman has generally held the light on the culmination of these efforts, emerging positive changes while raising enlightening social standards, and economic «new age» commerce.

This ongoing awareness of the emotional wellness challenges in body acceptance drive Ivy toward changing the face of wellness from skewed social standards to love and appreciation based lifestyle choices for people of all sizes.

Dating is the most dynamic social standard.

It's a bit of a chicken - or - egg problem: maybe online dating has made us more cavalier, or maybe our growing casualness fed online dating, or maybe these things both exist together in a miasma of hook - ups and right - swipes and shifting social standards.

We've seen popular guys abandon all high school social standards to date the quiet, nice girl, but what makes «The Spectacular Now» stand out is that this time, you believe it.

In the Austen novel, the central character is Anne Elliot, the daughter of Sir Walter Elliot, a widower who has spent his family into near poverty; Anne is a spinster who years earlier had been persuaded by her snobbish family to abandon her true love because he was not up to their elevated social standards.

Value - oriented investors who screen out companies that don't meet strict social standards, [the fund managers], over the last year, generated a respectable 14 percent return in their core equity fund where they have large stakes in Apple and Google.

Children are often among the spectators, learning aggression, animal cruelty and irresponsible social standards.

Conceived of as the anti-hero or victim who attempts to uphold and maintain personal notions of self, achievement and success, she is contrasted in type by the inclusion of other more mechanical figures, who metaphorically represent social standards and the mechanization of habits, thoughts and values.

The organic silk used in the lining of my gown is certified to a standard that guarantees the highest environmental and social standards throughout production.»

At Friends of the Earth, we work to strengthen and raise environmental and social standards at international financial institutions.

The talk is of multi-actor partnerships, like the GAVI Alliance on children and the Global Fund on AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, of companies that proclaim social standards that go beyond pure profit and that police them in partnerships with many others.

Adolescents may compare their parents» monitoring efforts to a perceived social standard, and, if divergent from such standard, they may be less likely to self - disclose, more likely to perceive their parents» monitoring to be limiting, and more likely to engage in risk behaviors.

If importing countries insist that timber and timber products are certified under internationally recognized environmental and social standards like those of the Forest Stewardship Council, illegal logging becomes more difficult.

Live by social standards, and don't hide behind the cape of fear to die.

The Hermes Reform Campaign is being supported by 140 German NGOs with a combined membership of over one million citizens and calls for the establishment of strict environmental and social standards for export guarantees.

Only when there is a stable home, providing affection, continuity of care and some basic social standards can a psychotherapeutic approach alone be helpful.

He found that mirrors can push people to compare and match their behaviors with social standards of correctness.

Nevertheless, in its examination of social standards in the early 1950s, the film gives us an uncomfortably claustrophobic vision of the constraints forced upon both women and men during this period.

Updating certain social standards and behaviors doesn't negate belief in God.

Vietnam's has recently jumped from low to lower - middle income, and policy makers are now facing questions about avoiding the «middle - income trap» and generating economic growth without increased exploitation of natural resources and cheap labour that would result in deteriorating environmental and social standards.

This idea pictures sin in terms of infractions of prevailing moral and social standards.