Sentences with phrase «society by addressing»

Case in point, three out of four young people believe corporations should create economic value for a society by addressing its needs.

His most well - known works are monumental, sculpture - based public art pieces as well as palm - sized sculptures, which often depict human figures, critique American society by addressing race, sex, class and money.

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To address this «big problem,» the company, which is owned by Ebay, has enlisted the Space Tourism Society and the SETI Institute to help it launch PayPal Galactic (yes, that's the real name), an initiative to devise solutions.

The Giving Pledge is an effort to help address society's most pressing problems by inviting the world's wealthiest individuals and families to commit to giving more than half of their wealth to philanthropy or charitable causes either during their lives or after their deaths.

On the other, atheists would argue that a world directly guided by reason and evidence is more effective in addressing both general and specific issues affecting the rights and quality of life of individuals and societies.

In fact, incredibly, they placed demands on the assumed power of men by teaching them to be kind to their slaves, to be gentle with their children, to love their wives; they addressed the powerless within a patriarchal society.

In contrast to suburbia, the traditional city is a complex institution designed to address and transform the unpleasant aspects of human life by means of community, culture and civil society.

The social doctrine teaches that the problem of poverty is best addressed by empowerment: enabling poor people to enter the circle of productivity and exchange in society.

You witness by telling others that racism is still a problem we need to be addressing across our society.

Yet one wishes the book had another chapter (or a reflective conclusion) that addresses the inevitable questions raised by any discussion of the just society.

The seventh chapter is a modified version of a presidential address given by me before the Society for Philosophy of Religion at its 1978 meeting in Charleston, South Carolina.

Like Cone, he is addressing the racist structures of society, expanding upon Cone's work by delving into the human tendency to universalize one's own experience.

If faith communities are serious about strengthening the family as the cornerstone of a virtuous society, they must address the challenges posed by socioeconomic segregation.

The teachings of the Qur» an are universal, addressed to all people throughout the world regardless of their origins and revealed to mankind to enlighten man's spirit, to purify his morals, to unify his society, and to replace the domination by the powerful with justice and fraternity.

Any people and pastor wishing to take God's Word in Scripture seriously, therefore, will regularly be asking what issues or values in the surrounding society are addressed by that Word.

One was the work of a sociologist, Earl Brewer, who, with the aid of a theologian and a ministries specialist, sought by an extensive content analysis of sermons and other addresses given in a rural and an urban church to differentiate the patterns of belief and value constituting those two parishes.67 The second was the inquiry of a religious educator, C. Ellis Nelson, who departed from a curricular definition of education to envision the congregation as a «primary society» whose integral culture conditions its young and old members.68 James Dittes, the third author, described more fully the nature of the culture encountered in the local church.

Addressing the New York State Medical Society, Smith said: «These observations led us to explore the possibility that the alcoholic's problem was caused by disturbance of bodily chemistry.»

In his Presidential Address to the North American Patristic Society in 1994, Frederick W. Norris acknowledged that «some of the most interesting voices interpreting early Christian texts are Christian theologians from Africa, Asia, and Latin America,» and that some of them «make historical comments and acknowledge that their sense of what the texts mean is formed by their present commitments and their membership in specific communities.»

A sick, badly wounded or endangered society is addressed by occasional surrogate prophets.

In an age when society was headed by kings and emperors it was natural to address God as king of kings and Lord of lords.

This was not an exercise in academic theology, but a case of theologians addressing themselves to the worldly fact that religious beliefs had not kept pace with the radical transformation of society by science and the rest of modern culture.

Perusing the index of Origins, the weekly publication of representative documents and speeches compiled by Catholic News Service, our imaginary historian will note, for example, the following initiatives undertaken at the national, diocesan and parish levels in 1994 - 95: providing alternatives to abortion; staffing adoption agencies; conducting adult education courses; addressing African American Catholics» pastoral needs; funding programs to prevent alcohol abuse; implementing a new policy on altar servers and guidelines for the Anointing of the Sick; lobbying for arms control; eliminating asbestos in public housing; supporting the activities of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (227 strong); challenging atheism in American society; establishing base communities (also known as small faith communities); providing aid to war victims in Bosnia; conducting Catholic research in bioethics; publicizing the new Catechism of the Catholic Church; battling child abuse; strengthening the relationship between church and labor unions; and deepening the structures and expressions of collegiality in the local and diocesan church.

An article by Jim Dwyer in, of all places, The New York Times reported (April 27) that the New York State legislature is beginning to address the fact that child abuse is not only a problem for the Church, but for the whole of society.

That movement had its unity not in a theology but in the conviction that the Christian churches had the responsibility to address the injustices of the class society being produced by industrialization and that the Bible, properly understood, required concern for these social issues.

The gospel material, especially in the teaching of Jesus, with its use of images from nature and husbandry, is nearest to rural society and to the world of the Hebrew Scriptures; James is thought by some scholars to be addressed to the Palestinian church.

These societies are marked by a pervasive consciousness of dissatisfaction and indeterminate longings, and that is the consciousness most effectively addressed by Christians who have a distinctive message that challenges the spirit of secularism.

Since your article addresses legal matters, I would like to respond as an attorney with more than thirty years experience and a commitment» untarnished by pecuniary baggage» to the First Amendment and the preservation of individual liberty and our pluralistic society.

If that is really the justification — the enoromous costs incurred by families and a society when a child is poisoned — than our efforts are better spent addressing the much more significant cause of childhood lead poisoning — older housing and buildings coated with lead paint.

By addressing these needs, the children become active and productive members of society while fostering a life - long love of learning.

Breastfeeding rates in the north of England are notoriously low, something which Leanne hopes to address by sparking a visual dialogue, one in which breastfeeding is celebrated and accepted as a normal, natural part of our society's fabric.

We are at a «constitutional moment» said White; an exceptional historical period when normal politics is superseded by the need for «We, the people» to address fundamental issues about the content and distribution of rights in society and the basic nature of government.

But the Joseph Rowntree Foundation's chief executive Julie Unwin said the Budget had failed to take steps to address problems faced by the poorest in society.

Meanwhile she bases her critique of FPTP on the safe seats issue — a real problem, but one that AV would do very little to address (the Electoral Reform Society's own report on AV admits that «There will be relatively few constituencies which are currently uncompetitive under FPTP but would be put into play by AV.»)

Inspired by Saturday's address by Pope Francis at the third World Meeting of Popular Movements — a meeting hosted by the Vatican that brought together delegates representing the poor, unemployed and others struggling at the margins of society — longtime antiwar activist and former gubernatorial candidate Brian P. Moore of Florida yesterday endorsed Rocky De La Fuente's longshot bid for the presidency.

In an address to the conservative Federalist Society, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito defended his stance on the issue by arguing, «Surely the idea that the First Amendment protects only certain privileged voices should be disturbing to anybody who believes in free speech.»

Adamu, who was represented by the Permanent Secretary, Sonny Echono, said in his address, «there is an urgent need to protect education from attacks, because without access to quality learning, the children are not only being deprived of education; they are also being robbed of future opportunities which will affect the entire society.

The EFCC said in a statement by its spokesman, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren, that Suinner allegedly hacked the email address and cloned the letterhead of a company named Greenview Development Nigeria Limited and used same to write a letter to Access Bank Plc to transfer the sum of N25m to the account of ICT Aid Foundation Cooperative Society domiciled with United Bank for Africa.

The Greater New York Hospital Association and the Medical Society of the State of New York are pushing back against an argument being advanced by the Assembly Democrats and state Bar Association that the best way to address high medical malpractice insurance is to prevent the incidents that spark lawsuits.

Kendall will address Labour supporters flocking to Corbyn by saying that he does not have a monopoly of hope as she pledges to tackle «five causes»: ending inequality from birth, eliminating low pay, building a caring society, sharing power with people, creating a future of hope for young people.

In her goodwill message, Adebule, who was represented by a director in the Deputy Governor's Office, Alhaja Ramat Ladiju, urged women to live up to their responsibilities and to address the spate of teenage pregnancy in the society.

The public has the right to know who is stopping them, why they are being questioned and how to address any improper behavior by police officers,» said the letter from the Legal Aid Society, Bronx Defenders, Brooklyn Defender Services, and others.

Two civil society organisations, CD and CACOL, said the Buhari - led Federal Government did not deserve to continue in office unless it addressed the «incessant killings by herdsmen» in Benue State.

Each quarterly issue is comprised of a cover story addressing one particular issue or event, sometimes written by an expert outside the AAAS; a series of in the news stories; brief updates from the societies; and resources and announcements.

Britz discusses social justice as a moral norm for addressing ethical challenges in the global information society, seen as a continuation of relationships altered by information and communication technologies (ICT).

«However, as we discussed in our 2014 article in Nature, pasture - based livestock production systems have a multifaceted role in society — the point acknowledged, but not actively addressed, by the FCRN report.

A thesis by Philip von Rosen, researcher at the Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, can help to address this problem.

This was the challenge addressed by Mary - Claire King, Ph.D., American Cancer Society Professor of Medicine and Genome Sciences, and Tomas Walsh, Ph.D., Associate Research Professor of Medical Genetics, both at the University of Washington, Seattle.

In 1908, in his presidential address to the Child Study Society, Crichton - Browne (by then ennobled) bemoaned that «the evil of insufficient sleep in children is widespread».

«Across the country, and especially in Pennsylvania, there's been a significant effort made by physicians, law enforcement, politicians and others to take necessary steps to address the staggering statistics related to both prescription opioid pain relievers and the street - drug heroin,» says Scott Shapiro MD, president of the Pennsylvania Medical Society.

The collaboration with the Illuminating Engineering Society exemplifies the vision of The New Polytechnic, an emerging paradigm for teaching, learning, and research at Rensselaer, the foundation of which is the recognition that global challenges and opportunities are so great they can not be adequately addressed by even the most talented person working alone.