Sentences with phrase «society groups such»

That includes civil society groupings such as NGOs, women, trade unions, youth and others.

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.

He presented the paper to influential groups such as, the Institute of Corporate Directors (ICD), the Society for Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP), the Canadian Bar; Wills & Estates Chapter.

The latter position means opposing any Constitution amendment which grants special privileges or status to one group in Canada (such as recognition of Quebec as a distinct society).

Thus university theology is characteristically in search of the very possibility of theology as such and tends, on the one hand, rarely to advance beyond prolegomena, programmatic probings, or an apologetic natural theology — unless it turns, on the other hand, with no little relief, to the very respectable study of the history of theology (as demonstrated, for instance, by the Bonhoeffer Society, the 19th Century Working Group of the AAR, the Tillich Working Group, or even the recently founded Karl Barth Society).

The problem is that through out history folks have called groups or elements of society that they do or did not like or agree with such names to de-humanize them.

In such a society it is not possible to divide people into cultural groups each of which has a complete and distinctive way of life.

Other vulnerable groups, such as the disabled or elderly, may likewise be pushed into a planned death due to a perceived lack of contribution to society.

The charter deals also with the rights of particular groups who merit special consideration in society, such as elderly people, migrants, people with different capabilities, and prisoners (12).

They were the primary group in the American Missionary Society, which started such famous Negro schools as Hampton Institute, Fisk University, Tougaloo, and Atlanta University in Georgia.

But it can hardly be doubted that such a state of actually invincible error in moral questions exists also in society or in social groups in which the individual participates, so that his power of moral discernment does not go beyond a certain point, which, through no fault of his own, falls below objective morality.

A human person is an example of such a personal order, and one could extend this image to include larger and more complex corpuscular societies, such as ethnic groups, geographical communities, or subcultures.

The distinction arises because in some instances a group of occasions, such as, for example, a particular enduring entity, could have retained the dominant features of its defining characteristic in the general environment, apart from the structured society.

Regardless of the criteria used for class placement, the purpose of such grouping is either to enable the teacher to manage the students more effectively or to use the school to sustain class distinctions recognized in the society of which the school is an agency.

Police and governmental controls on such groups — and they have in America always included a significant proportion of the common people as well as the upper classes — have been minimal compared to most European or Asian societies.

Japanese imperial rule (beginning in 1910) and the burdens of World War II disturbed these efforts, but when China «fell» to the communists in 1949, many groups, such as the Oriental Missionary Society, pivoted towards Korea.

By the same token, conflict between rival groups within a society may be intensified by differences in their net reproduction rates; such differences may have implications for the tenor of civil life or the composition and character of the national directorate, factors that may play a decisive role in determining the climate for development.

Those who converted to Islam in such a sectarian society might well experience changes in their inner perceptions, but they would also be faced with concrete and external changes in their social groups, marriage opportunities, and legal status, and in the body of linguistic and cultural skills they were expected to possess.2

If we introduce euthanasia / PAS as a legal, medical option, would we risk discriminating against vulnerable groups — such as those with AIDS, Alzheimer's or spinal cord injuries — that are perceived as burdens on the system and on society?

It is much easier to experiment with delivery of basic social services by mediating groups than to discern what might be done to promote the health of such groups, or of smaller, primary groups that compose the «fine texture» of society.

The problem our society has is that we think there is such thing as «normal» and we try to place everyone into these groups of varying degrees.

One of the early peace groups to draw a connection between feminism and peace was the Garrisonian wing, of the New England Non-Resistance Society in the 1830s, including among its members such prominent early abolitionist - feminists as Maria Weston Chapman, Lucretia Mott and William Lloyd Garrison himself.

A healthy civil society is marked by a flourishing of such groups and relationships freely cooperating in a spirit of solidarity.

As we have seen, process thought not only affirms pluralism, which is reflected in our schools, universities, and colleges no less than in our society, but advocates such an attitude of openness towards individuals, groups, cultures, and ideas different from ourselves and our own groups, cultures, ideas that the possibility of increased contrast, richness of experience, of mutual transformation, without loss of integrity, is enhanced.

By moving to such overall considerations, we can avoid the question of what happens to particular groups within society and consider the average results.

In such a society one could see a certain role for oriental religious groups and the human potential movement — perhaps even for a small radical political fringe.

It is natural and appropriate to be scandalized that such claims should be made of just these all - too - well - known groups, faithless to their self - descriptions, thoroughly assimilated to the value system of the larger culture in which they live, complacent and at ease, often trivial and banal, subtly using the rhetoric of the faith to sanction their privileges and to obscure society's injustices.

Whitehead calls any such group of occasions with some sort of connectedness a nexus,» and a nexus which shows some trait shared by each member in dependence on the others he calls a «society» (PR 30, 50f.).

In similar fashion, a few clergymen have undertaken or been assigned by their church bodies to enter into such a relationship with oppressed or deprived groups in our society.

Indeed, through the pressure of such groups as the American Civil Liberty Union, philosophical liberalism is rapidly becoming our orthodox civil religion, if I may indulge in a contradiction in terms, and traditional American views of the relation of religion and society are declared unconstitutional.

At their best, such «chaplains» help to «damp» the explosions of social conflict, to channel it into constructive or at least rational forms (rather than impulsive or self - destructive), to provide links to the other structures of society, to lend legitimacy to the objectives of the militant groups, to help them to weigh the choices before them and to communicate their hopes and needs to the «outside world,» and to supply spiritual nurture and encouragement.

In his conclusion of Sociology of Religion he states: «The fact that this study is limited to a descriptive sociological examination of religious groups need not be interpreted as an implicit admission that the theological, philosophical, and metaphysical problems and questions growing out of such a study of society have to remain unanswerable.

It can not be denied that consent operated in New England society in such a way that a relatively small group of elite magistrates and deputies managed to retain control of the colony.

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).

Beer groups such as the British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA) the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) and the Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) are also supporting the campaign, along with retailers and publicans.

We are also a peak body representing around 40 Australian «Member Society» groups for whom we provide campaign advice or representation on animal welfare committees and government advisory groups, such as the Australian Animal Welfare Advisory Committee.

Such thinking is a poison to our society... no matter how much you sympathize with one group or person.

Although private groups such as the Questers and the Dole Mansion Preservation Society have advocated preservation and raised money for years, the city did not establish its Historic Preservation Commission until 1996, after the pump house was abruptly leveled to make way for a school parking lot.

And we, as a society, are finding ways to transcend the existing gaps at a rapid pace, with such ideas as mindfulness in schools rather than issuing detention and offering free positive discipline education at local API Support Groups.

As a result of the LEAP study, groups such as the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Canadian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, now state that for infants at high risk, there is strong evidence to support the introduction of peanut between 4 and 11 months.

The Fertility Center at Women & Infants Hospital has been named a Nursing Center of Excellence by the Nurses» Professional Group of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM), the only such program in Rhode Island to achieve this recognition for nursing care.

Amidst this hullaballoo, the political class has conveniently turned a deaf ear to the calls by civil society groups to undertake critical electoral reforms such as decriminalising politics.

It's important to note that the very wealthiest groups in society are much less likely to take part in surveys and so their wealth is under - reported and alternative sources of data need to be analysed, such as HMRC personal wealth statistics.

Inter-media groups such as Aman Ki Asha and other civil society initiatives were identified as important Confidence - Building Measures between the two countries.

STV is the system of choice of groups such as the Proportional Representation Society of Australia (which calls it quota - preferential proportional representation), [2] the Electoral Reform Society in the United Kingdom [3] and FairVote in the USA (which refers to both STV and instant - runoff voting as ranked - choice voting, [4] although there are other preferential voting methods that use ranked - choice ballots).

Terrorist groups such as ISIS seek to disrupt life in Western society.

The Howard League, a charity of almost 150 years standing and with United Nations consultative status, was dismissed as a «left - wing pressure group», along with other eminent organisations such as English PEN and the Royal Society of Literature.

The 19 leading figures from groups such as Fabian Society, Compass, Policy Network and Progress expressed unease that Labour's leader may not secure a mandate for the kind of reforms they believe Britain needs.

The formation of vigilante groups seems to be growing across the country, especially among the two major political parties — the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), despite concerns raised by the National Peace Council, the clergy and civil society groups over the existence of such groups.

In the past, Suffolk County officials have been reluctant to indemnify other nonprofit groups with contracts, such as the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, because of the potential exposure to damages in a lawsuit.