Sentences with phrase «social utility»

And a plethora of smaller social utilities are regularly popping up.

Surely, there is social utility in distributing class action funds to improve our society more generally.

The wider public social utility of my individual right to dissent needs re-affirmation.

In a speech last year at Case Western Reserve University, Gorsuch said that message was that «legislators may appeal to their own moral convictions and to claims about social utility to reshape law.

There are a number of theoretical means of improving overall social utility when negative externalities are involved.

However, the issue with using Marx for this is that Marx discovered empirically that not all labour hours are treated the same, and that the level of capitalisation (unit productivity per labour hour), personal productivity (length of the working day, fatigue), and social utility produced an «average» social labourer.

He also recognised the emerging potential of online social utility networks by joining MySpace and Facebook, two of the biggest.

If HFCS is a product of dubious social utility, what about the other uses of corn?

The University of Chicago Law School article examines the potential bases of liability, and considers the relative social utility of this kind of litigation, as well as the practical implications for corporate boards and their organizations.

Typically, a jury's decision reflects community values in the resolution of issues, «such as whether a party's actions were reasonable, whether a product's social utility exceeds its risk,... whether a breach of contract should be excused, or whether a police officer's use of force was excessive.»

Amongst the overwhelming number of blockchain projects, it will be those who are truly innovative and have inherent social utility that will forge new and unique opportunities for growth and market dominance.

«Legislators may appeal to their own moral convictions and to claims about social utility to reshape the law as they think... but judges should instead strive (if humanly and so imperfectly) to apply the law as it is, focusing backward, not forward, and looking to text, structure and history to decide what a reasonable reader at the time of the events in question would have understood the law to be.»

It means taking account of the severity and likelihood of harm posed by some hazard, and weighing up the cost and difficulty of controlling it and, importantly, any other effects on the benefits or social utility of the hazard or hazardous activity.

Of course, denying the natural existence and the social utility of sexual orientation should not be our final end - goal in the arena of sexual ethics.

Essays like this one provide little support for the idea that Kristol believed religion was to be praised only for its social utility, as «a good thing for other people to have.»

Emphasis on the social utility of science also tends to lead to the neglect of pure science.

«50 So pervasive were these Societies that in 1850 a Unitarian minister, but by no means an enemy to evangelical sentiments, complained that «the minister is often expected to be, for the most part, a manager of social utilities, a wire - puller of beneficient agencies,» and his character is often judged «by the amount of visible grinding that it can accomplish in the mill of social reform... «51

The real dominant theme here is of the social utility of religion: ask not what this government can do for you, but what you can do for your government!

Clearly then, we need to think about how we might address this issue of inequity: to develop the role of Deputy Prime Minister so that it can be more fulfilling, raising public awareness and recognition of the social utility of what they do, promoting the holder's sense of self - worth, and harnessing their full creative potential...

Facebook As one of the largest social networks focused on college students, «Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them.

Facebook - The Social Network As one of the largest social networks focused on college students, «Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them.

11:00 AM - Social Utilities and Smartphones - The Evolution of the sMobile Experience Balaji Gopalan, (Product Manager), RIM - Research in Motion

The by - product of the theory should be to change our schools from places that serve «social utilities» to places where boredom is reduced, living enhanced,...

Project Appleseed employs Facebook as a social utility that connects parents, families and people with friends and others who are interested in improving their local schools.

The number of social utilities is also quite limited, with no native Facebook, Google +, or Pinterest apps available.

The social utility of futures markets is considered to be mainly in the transfer of risk, and increased liquidity between traders with different risk and time preferences, from a hedger to a speculator, for example.

Facebook is a «social utility that connects you to the people around you,» but is basically the user - friendly, easier on the eyes version of MySpace.

They call themselves industries; and when their directors» incomes are published, any doubt about the social utility of the finished products is removed.»

The show explores the social utility of the gaze in photography; the photographers capturing the sensual, vulnerable truth that reveals the imperfection and idealised perspective of the female gaze.

In general, I think it is important for us to support «green» business that not only provides a social utility but also helps the environment.

In dismissing the residents» well - documented complaints out of hand, the Council's whitewash asserts that: «The social utility of the Macarthur WEF is significant, in that it is a source of renewable energy that does not cause greenhouse gases or other pollutants».

We don't save lives, the way other professions do, and our social utility isn't always as tangible.

The main question is whether the court, in applying the common law of nuisance, should require a balancing of social utility and reasonableness of the project against the property owner's right to be compensated for interference from a public project.

Given that cigarette smoking has close to zero social utility when compared against the known and suspected health risks of cigarette smoking, I say this is a good move (one presumes it may also reduce the risk of driving while distracted).

Developers could build games and social utilities, or offer a «Profile Box» app that let you spruce up your personal presence on Facebook.

In its early years, Facebook even described itself as a «social utility.»