Sentences with phrase «societal shift on»

The legislation has stalled in the state Senate in recent years, but supporters this session hope the focus and societal shift on sexual misconduct and abuse could reframe the debate over the bill at the Capitol.

While the nation has been grappling with the fallout and societal shift on sexual harassment and misconduct in the workplace, Albany has had its own share of bad behavior by lawmakers and top aides.

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How can companies stay on the upside of this societal shift?

@ total non sense Perhaps we're splitting hairs here, but I was trying to be kind by implying that rather than treating religiosity as a mental disability, for which the supposedly clinically sick can receive insurance benefits and evade personal actionable responsibility by claiming illness, it would be better to treat religiosity as a societal functional disorder which can be addressed through better education and a perceptional shift towards accepting scientific explanations for how the world works rather than relying on literal interpretations of ancient bronze age mythologies and their many derivations since.

At more proximate levels, one can also focus on domestic societal dynamics and on the shifts internal to religious organizations themselves.

Generally, societal shifts only happen when pressure is brought to bear on those in authority.

These shifts were spurred by a new American affluence, by the Pill, by the flood of women into the work force, by the destabilization of traditional values during the war in Vietnam, and by a new societal emphasis on self - fulfillment.

Add on top of that a potential societal - shifting reduction in suspension and expulsions.

As a former business reporter who loves reading about societal shifts, I got the same thrill while reading this that I did with Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs, the palpable sense of a sea change in an industry that also had cascading effects on the rest of the world.

how artists create new ways of working and living in response to their historical and socio - economic conditions, often foretelling and epitomizing societal shifts and providing insight on influential forces in contemporary life that relate to us all.»

With the societal shifts in the United States after World War II, more women took on the role of working artists.

In much the same way, Graham's pavilions, for which he is perhaps best known, place special emphasis on space, time and the built environment, pointing to architecture's ability to shift societal perceptions and experience.

The focus is on iconic societal events that have influenced major shifts in our collective consciousness, suggesting connections while exposing them as uncanny precursors to present - day realities.

Here's Hamilton's critique, which doesn't deal with the core argument of my talk (the need for a shift in goals from numerical outcomes to societal qualities) and instead focuses on my use of the word «good» in relation to an era he clearly sees as awful:

I spent time a couple of years ago on the engagement committee of Future Earth, an international enterprise aiming to shift research investments in science toward goals that serve societal needs.

Here's Hamilton's critique, which doesn't deal with the core argument of my talk (the need for a shift in goals from numerical outcomes to societal qualities) and instead focuses on my use of the word «good» in relation to an era he clearly sees as awful: Read more...

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I wrote the Climate Shift report to inform the decision making of environmental leaders, philanthropists, scientists, scholars and others as they consider next steps in the effort to mobilize societal action on the undeniable, human causes of climate change.

In the case of GGR, we have started to see a shift, e.g., with a major programme funded by the UK National Environment Research Council (NERC) that «will undertake research to improve our knowledge of the options for removing carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases from the atmosphere at a climatically - relevant scale, giving interdisciplinary attention to the environmental, technical, economic, governance and wider societal aspects of such approaches on a national level and in an international context» (http://www.nerc.ac.uk/research/funded/programmes/ggr/).

This closed course, hands - on education was adapted from existing law enforcement training in the United States as well as European instruction that led to a societal shift in attitudes toward driving in many countries.