Sentences with phrase «society groups said»

In a policy paper released ahead of the July summit, civil society groups said that President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement was «short - sighted and irresponsible... a decision that not only ignores the reality of climate change... but also undermines the standing of the United States as a reliable partner in solving global problems.»

The Sri Lankan government and civil society groups say that Facebook has failed for years to monitor and remove accounts inciting ethnic violence in Sri Lanka

Not exact matches

And civil society groups in Myanmar have hit back at Zuckerberg's claim that the company is able to use monitoring to stop hate speech messages spreading like wildfire through its services — they say such messages spread for days, leading to violence.

Vince Lombardi famously said, «Individual commitment to a group effort — that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.»

They are almost twice as likely as the next closest segment (61 % to 34 %) to say that Canada should be focused on encouraging cultural diversity instead of integrating minority groups into mainstream Canadian society.

The group's announcement said that «this painful decision has become necessary by concern for the common good of the Society of Saint Pius X and its good government, according to what Archbishop Lefebvre denounced: This is the destruction of authority.

The Second Vatican Council said: «Let associations and groups be organised through which the lay apostolate will be able to permeate the whole of society with the spirit of the gospel».

Stephen Evans, campaigns manager at the National Secular Society (NSS) says: «We welcome the government's robust response to the specific allegations against schools in Birmingham, but it has a long way to go before we can be confident that children's education isn't being compromised by groups with a religious agenda.

Catholic News Agency: Few Catholic colleges freely choose to cover birth control, group says An analysis by the Cardinal Newman Society shows that most Catholic colleges offering contraceptive coverage do so because of a state mandate or medical reasons but not for birth control purposes.

Yet this is far from saying that any particular society or cultural group is as God would have it, or wholly the product of divine activity.

«All the groups that make up the new American population, as opposed to the population of 50 years ago, are now participating on equal» terms, in politics and American society in general, he said.

Thirty - seven percent of respondents said that clergy contribute a lot to society, but the percentages vary greatly among religious groups.

First, they can exist as a nonviolent group only thanks to the order and productiveness (which is to say, the violence), of that society.

To dismiss this by saying that God will take care of you is really to say that someone else will provide for your needs, that you are planning on luck or on being a burden to society (or to some group or individual), and that you are planning not only on not being able to help the poor but on taking resources yourself that otherwise could have gone to help others.

Archbishop Justin Welby has said of the scheme: «The full community sponsorship scheme presents churches and other civil society groups with the opportunity to provide sanctuary to those fleeing war - torn places.»

DeeCee, yes some are but since we could say that some of any group in society are cruel and mean, that it just means that the Christians community are humans.

Thus, she said, if we assume that what has meaning and status for society finds, its way onto television screens, the message conveyed seems to be that the elderly are not very important, and that among that population group, only men have significance.

And certainly this radical inclusiveness at the heart of the Gospel is part of what we must proclaim if we hope to reach out to the unchurched, the group that Jim Adams said is the largest growing religious group in our society.

There can be little question that homosexuals have constituted one of the most oppressed groups in our society — some say, the most oppressed.

This harmonization begins when intellectual leaders — «public intellectuals,» we would say today — imaginatively project a set of ideals to which diverse groups of a society can resonate.

«The future of Burma must be peace, a peace based on respect for the dignity and rights of each member of society, respect for each ethnic group and its identity, respect for the rule of law, and respect for a democratic order that enables each individual and every group - none excluded - to offer its legitimate contribution to the common good,» he said.

Those who reject the notion of a deity however could say that it is an evolutionary development in that groups who become societies have a far greater likelihood of success and survival with the basic understanding of things like right and wrong and justice.

As a result of his efforts, along with those of the mental health societies (the change from «hygiene» to «health» came in the 1940s) and many other groups, including the professionals, it is safe to say that most mental hospitals are better now than they were a generation ago.

It is when I began to notice that the same crap we have to put up with as people of faith from the Bin Ladens and some would say those that hang out even further extreme than the 700 club, happens with most groups in society.

A legal system is generalized, Parsons says, to the degree it is «an integrated system of universalistic norms, applicable to the society as a whole rather than to a few functional or segmental sectors, highly generalized in terms of principles and standards, and relatively independent of both the religious agencies that legitimize the normative order of the society and vested interest groups in the operative sector, particularly in government.

The substantive claim is that Confucian values are anti-democratic; Asian societies, according to Samuel Huntington, are said to favor authority over liberty, the group over the individual, duties over rights and such values as harmony, cooperation, order and respect for hierarchy (Huntington, 1993).

Humera Khan, author of the two guides and co-founder of the An - Nisa Society, a Muslim women's group, said:

I'm Nicole from the Facebook group Social Society and wanted to say hi!

Forty - six percent said society is «better off if marriage and children are a priority,» but that group was made up largely of adults 50 and older.

Touching on the emergence and activities of vigilante groups, he said people who committed criminal offences should be made to face the full rigours of the law irrespective of their status in society.

ONITSHA — A human rights group, International Society for Civil Liberties and the rule of Law, Intersociety has said that it is far better for the detained leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu to be kept in the prison custody than to remain in the captivity of the Department of State Services, DSS.

These statements come from a Minister who in the past has attacked secularism as «intolerant and illiberal», has said that religious people contribute more to society than the non-religious, has championed religious groups as being at the heart of the «Big Society», and even tried to amend the Equality Bill in a way which would leave humanists unprotected against discrimination and unequal treatment in the provision of, and access to, public services, employment, education, funding, and elssociety than the non-religious, has championed religious groups as being at the heart of the «Big Society», and even tried to amend the Equality Bill in a way which would leave humanists unprotected against discrimination and unequal treatment in the provision of, and access to, public services, employment, education, funding, and elsSociety», and even tried to amend the Equality Bill in a way which would leave humanists unprotected against discrimination and unequal treatment in the provision of, and access to, public services, employment, education, funding, and elsewhere.

She has also said that religious people contribute more to society than the non religious, has championed religious groups as being at the heart of the «Big Society», and even tried to amend the Equality Bill in a way which would leave humanists unprotected against discrimination and unequal treatment in the provision of, and access to, public services, employment, education, funding, and elssociety than the non religious, has championed religious groups as being at the heart of the «Big Society», and even tried to amend the Equality Bill in a way which would leave humanists unprotected against discrimination and unequal treatment in the provision of, and access to, public services, employment, education, funding, and elsSociety», and even tried to amend the Equality Bill in a way which would leave humanists unprotected against discrimination and unequal treatment in the provision of, and access to, public services, employment, education, funding, and elsewhere.

Today, pensioners are no more likely to be poor than any other group in society,» he said.

Co-chairman Dr Sunjoo Advani FRAeS of IDT and the Royal Aeronautical Society's Flight Simulation Group, said: «It is indeed an honour for ICATEE to be recognised for its accomplishments to date in reducing and preventing Loss - of - Control accidents.

And if you factor in the student loan, the housing ladder and so forth then the fees hike may well have the effect (since the NPV of a degree isn't all that impressive as it is, as far as I'm aware) of disadvantaging some groups relative to, say, plumbers or junior bankers in a way that won't be helpful to society as a whole.

Whatever one thinks about the potency of the Big Society as a political message — and I have my doubts, as I have said before — it is based on a good Conservative principle: that the state's role is limited, and voluntary groups have an important part to play in helping society flSociety as a political message — and I have my doubts, as I have said before — it is based on a good Conservative principle: that the state's role is limited, and voluntary groups have an important part to play in helping society flsociety flourish.

The pamphlet, by the Labour - affiliated Fabian Society and Policy Network thinktank, admits Labour has lost ground among the DE bottom social group but says it will only restore its electoral fortunes if it performs better among white - collar and skilled workers, who are strongly represented in marginal seats in the South and Midlands.

In a statement to The Real Deal, the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation took issue with the height limits, which Andrew Berman, the group's director, said were not strict enough.

«The early voting just modernizes voting to be in the same sort of system as the rest of society,» said Blair Horner, with New York Public Interest Research Group.

Michael Polenberg, Vice President of Government Affairs at advocacy group Safe Horizon, said that society's recognition of domestic violence is broadening.

Richard Amper, executive director of the Pine Barrens Society environmental group, said the wells pose no threat to the area's ecosystem.

«This is an opportunity for us to share some of our ancient culture with the community,» said Roberto Borrero of the Taino Cultural Society, after his group performed in the opening ceremony.

«If we are to celebrate the diversity of humanity, we can not refuse the complete rights of citizenship to any group within society,» he said.

«Acts of violence and abuse towards Jews are an affront to any modern society,» said the group's chairman, former Foreign Office minister Denis McShane.

The group said the Civil Society Coalition for the Emancipation of Osun, the statement noted could be using the opportunity that it mobilized its members to Abuja to show solidarity with the controversial Justice Folahanmi Oloyede, who has been summoned to Abuja by the National Judicial Council to defend herself, to score some cheap points.

Olujimi who described Fayose as behaving more like a thug who is not properly brought up to associate with a civilised group or society, said he has warned her to relax her governorship ambition, just as she quoted him as saying, «anyone who goes against my order would pay dearly with his or her life.»

IPOB Media and Publicity Officer, Mr. Emma Powerful said IPOB is a non violent group with responsible men in the society in Nigeria and in diaspora as members and therefore, can not involve in any violent activity that may possibly harm or take the life of anybody from within and outside Nigeria.

He said, «Most civil society groups, NGOs inclusive, are limited in capacity, funding and resource profile (human capital), and are in many cases one - man or one - family organisations which spring to life when a new tranche of donor - funding is received.

A professor of Political Communication, who is a columnist with The PUNCH, said the civil society groups which should ensure good governance by keeping the government on its toes had been largely compromised, while many of them were in a state of stupor.