Sentences with phrase «society groups within»

Ghanaian civil society groups within the tax space, have urged Parliament to investigate tax waivers granted a Chinese Petrochemical Corporation, the SINOPEC Group, through an Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Commissioning (EPCC) agreement in 2014.

Not exact matches

Another sort of estrangement is that of groups within society who are alienated by the prejudice of others.

There are plenty of christian fringe groups within our society that aren't any better than the terrorists that you seem to fear so much.

Whether I would or no, I was a member of a group; every day in every way, if I would but accept the patterns of my society, I could be defined from without and therefore was not in need of definition from within.

of society, there is the potential that the stratification of intelligence within that smaller group could differ substantially from society as a whole.

Anytime you get a percentage that high, any stratification of intelligence within that larger group will be fairly close to the whole of society.

Of all varieties of social life and grouping within a given society, religious associations of a peculiar and not of the traditional type will arrest the attention of the student.

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.

Fourth, while the economic consequences of overall rates of population growth are often ambiguous or obscure, the impact of smaller groups within larger populations on the economic well - being of the whole society, or the impact of differential rates of growth within a national population on prospects for material advance, may be direct and important.

He was writing, not for a group within a group, the Palestinian church living on under the shadow of the Jewish synagogue and a part, though a somewhat segregated part, of Jewish society, observing its own peculiar Halakak; Mark was writing for a martyr church in the world's metropolis, under the darkening shadow of a tyrant's throne and in the midst of a corrupt society of which the church could not possibly form a part.

«Massive resistance continues to exist in churches across the land, although the bright spots of response now number many more within this half decade,» reports the Healing Community, a church - and synagogue - oriented organization set up to facilitate integration of various alienated persons and groups into the mainstream of society.

In the Christian Science Monitor, David Newsom has commented that «conflict in the decades ahead is likely to center not so much on disputes among states as on efforts within states to find a balance between national cohesion and an honorable recognition of the separate characteristics of groups within the society.»

Within a community organized along the lines of a Whiteheadian society, on the other hand, a single individual or a small group may indeed speak and act for all the other members as their representatives.

Outside (this group within) the prison population, society seems to not need God for morality.

[10] Making a quantum leap, one can not forget the legacy of colonialism, which resulted in massive ferment at various levels of society, and also resulted in different groups within society attempting to forge new patterns of relational identity.

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

It is true, as Hall points out, that for Whitehead ordering principles are «immanent» within particular occasions (see UP 261 - 70), but in most cases those ordering principles also reflect the «mutual relations» of individuals, as well as the «community in character» pervading groups or societies of individuals (AI 142).13 This is particularly true of persons: the relations between occasions which constitute the human body and brain, and the «community of character» of the succession of personal experiences, give an essential element of unity to human experience.

That is, it is necessary to affirm the socially established and accepted norms for the sake of social order, social responsibility, and / or the advancement of one's interests and welfare within the society, with respect both to oneself and to the groups one is loyal to.

If those elements of the population for whom crime is an acceptable alternative grow to any sizable percentage because of economic privation or because of prejudice, or if these alienated groups are prevented from finding a way to work within the system, then the whole society will be reduced very quickly to choosing between living in a police state or living in anarchy.

Yet with our understanding of the way that life is involved with life, of the manner in which self and society are bound together, of the way in which small groups within a nation act for the whole, it seems that we must move toward a conception similar to the Hebraic and medieval one.

In a society based on kinship, especially under circumstances of severe inter-tribal rivalry for the means of subsistence, one finds high ideals of just conduct within the group combined with the absence of the sense of moral obligation beyond the group.

If the cultivation of the greatest amount of Mill's higher or intellectual pleasures could be realized in a certain society only by the slave labor of a small group within that society, then it appears that we would, according to the principle of utility, be required to enslave that group in order to promote the greatest happiness.

They are major participants in groups within the American Philosophical Association, the Society of Biblical Literature and the American Academy of Religion.

OFSTED's reply to the schools was robust: «The Independent School Standards, published by the Department for Education, set out that schools have a duty to teach pupils tolerance of different groups within society.»

Marriage is still considered to be a cohesive force in society, due to learned religious «values», so in general people encourage married couples within their social groups because that's what they've learned they're supposed to do.

• To advocate for the allocation of research funding to support the development of interventions that can be tailored to particular needs of individuals and groups within society, across the whole island of Ireland.

The radical democratic theories that I talk about in my book claim to speak for the most powerless groups in society, but because they're trapped within socially weightless formulas, they remain distant from that aim.

The most widespread and dangerous racism in British society takes place within immigrant groups.

The letter reads in part: «SERAP is concerned that years of systemic corruption within the NNPC and looting of Nigeria's natural resources have had uneven consequences against the vulnerable groups of the society, including the poor, women and children, perpetrating and institutionalizing discrimination, and jeopardizing the needs and well - being of future generations.

-LSB-...] is that it has given undue predominance and voice to a minority group within wider society, namely the affluent middle class.

«SERAP is concerned that years of systemic corruption within the NNPC and looting of Nigeria's natural resources have had uneven consequences against the vulnerable groups of the society, including the poor, women and children, perpetrating and institutionalizing discrimination, and jeopardizing the needs and well - being of future generations.

«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.

The Committee reveals tight budgets, reductions in bus services, increases in fares and stretched public services are worsening transport accessibility for vulnerable groups within society.

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.

Pitching the idea to organisations and individuals within the music industry was the next step and I was bowled over by how quickly it gained industry - wide support and sponsorship from: Brian May (Queen); Andy Taylor (Duran Duran); Lee Latchford Evans (Steps); Future Publishing (Total Guitar, Classic Rock and many more); Yamaha music; UK Music; BPI; Live Nation; Music Managers Forum (MMF); Incorporated Society of Musicians; Musicians Union; MVPA; LondonParties; Team Spirit Media Group; Pernod - Ricard; the All Party Parliamentary Group on Music (APPG on Music); and the All Party Parliamentary Group on Pubs & Clubs (APPG on Pubs & Clubs).

The decision, which has drawn protests from different groups and civil societies, has generated controversies within the academic circle.

He was also a member of the influential Society of Labour Lawyers, chaired the home affairs group within the parliamentary Labour party before he joined the government and chaired the House of Commons jazz club.

It has become a very effective group in parliament, according to Adams, meeting regularly with advocates for postsecondary and research interests (such as the Canadian Society for Chemistry, the Canadian Association of Physicists, and the Canadian Federation of Biological Sciences) and assisting them in communicating their views within the federal system.

«Female migrants often suffer additional discrimination due to their gender and background, and are therefore certainly among the least - privileged social groups within our society,» explains Christine Binder - Fritz.

Furthermore, equal representation does not necessarily reflect the climate under which any minority group exists within a dominant society.

During the 69th Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society's Division of Fluid Dynamics (DFD), being held Nov. 20 - 22, in Portland, Oregon, Randy Ewoldt, an assistant professor who runs the Ewoldt Research Group in the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, and Jeremy Koch, a doctoral candidate, will present their work studying bubbles within complex fluids.

The researchers within the groups of Prof Dr Lars Schäfer and Prof Dr Enrica Bordignon, who work together in the Excellence Cluster Ruhr explores Solvation, Resolv in short, report in the Journal of the American Chemical Society of 16 March 2018.

So, a group of researchers from the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research at Beijing Institute of Technology, the Collaborative Innovation Center of Electric Vehicles in Beijing, and the Sustainable Development Research Institute for Economy and Society of Beijing set out to find out what motivates or influences consumer to purchase electric vehicles within seven cities in China.

«With or without German support — or even without the [Ecuadorian] government's support — the initiative remains valid and legitimate, not only for the indigenous people that live within the borders of the national park but for Ecuadorian society and for the world as a whole,» said Ivonne Yanez, president of Acción Ecológica, a Quito - based environmental activist group which has been instrumental in raising the initiative's profile.

These latest findings, published in Molecular Pharmaceutics, a journal of the American Chemical Society, report on the structure - activity relationship (SAR) of the hydroxyl group within the agent's lactone ring.

Idmonarachne can't be placed within previously known groups of arachnids, the researchers report online today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

Displays of togetherness like the March for Science and professional development groups for LGBTQIA individuals within many scientific societies affirm the commitment of scientists to embracing diversity and helping everyone feel like part of the greater scientific community.

Affiliated with both AAUP, the professional society for college and university teachers, and AFT, a national labor union within AFL / CIO, this hybrid group represents all of Rutgers's faculty members, research associates, and graduate student employees.

The General Clinical Nuclear Medicine (GCNM) Council is a group within SNMMI dedicated to the scientific interchange of ideas among Society members who have interest in clinical nuclear medicine issues.

At the annual meeting of the Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology in Long Beach, CA (2017), a group of faculty, postdocs, graduate students, and undergraduates gathered at the Workshop for Public Engagement and External Relations to discuss STEM public engagement within and beyond SBN.