Sentences with phrase «society organizations which»

[24] We can not fail to praise the commitment of international agencies and civil society organizations which draw public attention to these issues and offer critical cooperation, employing legitimate means of pressure, to ensure that each government carries out its proper and inalienable responsibility to preserve its country's environment and natural resources, without capitulating to spurious local or international interests.

This prevented medieval society from becoming totalitarian along the Chinese model, and (as A.D. Lindsay put it in The Modern Democratic State) «preserved liberty -LSB-...] by maintaining in society an organization which could stand up against the state.»

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«I'm not exaggerating when I say AVs will have as big an impact on our cities and society as the arrival of the first cars over 100 years ago,» says Barrie Kirk, head of the Canadian Automated Vehicles Centre of Excellence (CAVCOE), which is striving to build an ecosystem of organizations to supply the market's needs.

EY's definition of purpose: «an aspirational reason for being which inspires and provides a call to action for an organization and its partners and stakeholders, and provides benefit to local and global society.»

As professors, we teach at business schools that encourage our students to transform not just the organizations they lead but also the broader societies in which they operate.

In May 2017, the Trade Justice Network (TJN) participated in the tri-national meeting of civil society organizations from Canada, the U.S. and Mexico to discuss the NAFTA renegotiations, which took place in Mexico City.

they are an organization which promotes a strictly secular society.

They can't fund religious - oriented greek societies in any way, and they can't have policies which support selection for funded student organizations based on religion.

However, the path of the person that has eschewed all religious organizations is one that is meandering and largely inefficient, and the unfortunate result of not of the religion or the belief itself, but of the way in which bodies of believers function within society.

A symptom of this attitude is the group that calls itself Una Voce and which wants especially, though not only, to preserve the Latin liturgy: it corresponds to the Latin Mass Society in England and other similar organizations in other countries.

From a sociological perspective, Campos asserts that Latin American Pentecostalism offers symbolic mediation for what he calls the «the affirmation of popular hope,» because it is both a spiritual movement which transforms the individual and a movement of symbolic protest in a society which denies the dispossessed the chance to achieve or to participate in social organization.

And wherever in the name of the necessity of uniform education and organization the State or perhaps the future super-State determines on imposing a single ideology with all the means of modern pressure and formation of the enormous mass of men, it will not be a Christian philosophy which is proclaimed as the official ideology of society.

This will be taken to Include political organizations; fraternal organizations; college and school groups; labor groups; industrial, business and professional organizations; religious orders; civic clubs, memorial and patriotic societies; philanthropic and reform societies (Anti-Tobacco League, for example); athletic organizations; women's groups, etc., which are in good standing.

Such a society is «one in which the organization of theoretical knowledge becomes paramount for innovation in society, and in which intellectual institutions become central in the social structure.»

Powers are people who are decision - makers in the established organizations of society, the organizations which by and large control the systems, determine the policies, provide the money and make it.

In a gesture worthy of Chesterton, he observes that the Enlightenment view, which found its apogee in Immanuel Kant, identified «progress in history» with the «rational, egalitarian, and humane organization and regulation of society» but turned out to be the old millenarian delusion in mufti.

It fashions society into an economic organization in which production for profit becomes the central enterprise, in which the economic relations of men are regarded as their fundamental relations, in which economic privileges are most highly prized, and in which the resultant classes of men are set to struggle with one another for the economic goods.

While Calvin seems to see more clearly than Luther the need for reforming the orders of the world guided by love and justice, both Reformers see the organization of society in terms which we know are far too simple in the light of the later history of democratic forms of political life.

The temptation is enhanced by the long nurtured illusion of social progress, which leads men to believe that the meaning of human existence must be realized in some organization of human societies dwelling on the planet.

Much more than in earlier periods, many of the organizations through which the influence of Jesus made its way into society had only a tenuous connection with the churches or were entirely independent of them.

Presumably Whitehead himself never thought of this possibility because his basic image of a society was that of an aggregate of actual entities, sometimes dominated by a higher - order actual entity which equivalently acts as a «soul» or principle of unity for the others, but otherwise without any centralized organization or control.

The life force, which is the divine Eros, is calling humanity to a new organization of human societies.

An organization of society which fails to provide for the needs of the vast majority «where there is no room for all», can hardly be considered rational.

The foreign debt continues to be an issue and new voices have began to sound the need to look for ways to face it; (ii) At the national level two questions are concentrating increasing attention: one is the reassessment of the necessary role of the state to correct the distortions of a runaway market (currently discussed in Europe and in the discussions about the role the initiatives of «an active state has played in the economic development of Asian countries); the other is the need for a «participative democracy over against a purely representative formal democracy: in this sense the need to strengthen civil society with its intermediate organizations becomes an important concern; (iii) the struggle for collective and personal identity in a society in which forced immigration, dehumanizing conditions in urban marginal situations, and foreign cultural aggression and massification in many forms produce a degrading type of poverty where communal, family and personal identity are eroded and even destroyed.

however this statement actually weakens the «controversial» aspect that He pointed to the Ku Klux Klan, which decades ago was «a functioning, dominant political force in American society which identified (itself) as a Christian organization, carrying out «God's work,» branding the flaming cross as (its) symbol,» he said.

He pointed to the Ku Klux Klan, which decades ago was «a functioning, dominant political force in American society which identified (itself) as a Christian organization, carrying out «God's work,» branding the flaming cross as (its) symbol,» he said.

In this case the church's mission to television may represent a massive clash of institutions, with the church becoming a paradigm of a counterculture or antienvironment organization in which human values are preserved and restored to their foremost position in society.

Seljuq institutions were essentially military in character, not only because of the kind of life the Turks had lived in their original steppe environment, but also because the Turks adopted a role in the Islamic Society which necessitated such an organization.

The range of concrete materials with which the conference deals is suggested by the titles of the five sections into which the delegates were divided for simultaneous sessions of intensive discussion: «The Church and the Community» (meaning by «community» what the Germans mean by Volk, society in its larger units viewed with reference to its cultural and racial coherence rather than its political organization); «Church and State»; «The Church and the Economic Order»; «Church, Community and State in Relation to Education»; «The Universal Church and the World of Nations.»

This may seem like an unremarkable turn of events, but according to Grant Castleberry of the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood (flagship organization for the complementarianism movement, which advocates hierarchal gender roles in the home, church, and society), it represents a severe «cultural capitulation» which, «instead of helping guide children towards embracing who they actually are, blurs reality,» «confuses them,» and «drags them through the dark labyrinths» of their parents» gender - based delusions.

But also quite general problems of human society, such as marriage rules and incest, or even the organization of nature and the universe, may be the subject of [myths];... it is only philosophical interest, both ancient and modern, that tends to isolate the myths of origin and cosmogony, which in their proper setting usually have some practical reference to the institutions of a city or a clan.

The history of chili cookoffs begins with the Chili Appreciation Society International, which was the first organization to support the notion that chili is more than just meat and chiles — it's a way of life.

MANILA / BANGKOK, 27 October 2015 — The world's first standard for sustainable rice, which sets new and more efficient standards for rice cultivation, was launched today by the Sustainable Rice Platform (SRP), a global alliance of agricultural research institutions, agri - food businesses, public sector and civil society organizations convened by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI).

Champions 12.3 — which includes CEOs of major food companies Nestlé, Tesco and Unilever, along with government ministers, executives of research and intergovernmental institutions, foundations, farm organizations, and civil society groups — will work to create political, business and social momentum to reduce food loss and waste around the world.

This organization was composed of the Audubon Society, which was trying to save the beautiful Hawaiian stilt from extinction, the Hawaiian Trail Hikers, fishermen, botanists and various other nature lovers.

You may find it strange, but sometimes the physician forgets to actually check the «clear» box on the version of the most commonly used preparticipation evaluation form - the one produced by the group of five medical organizations known as the «Five Society Monograph» - which is used in various versions around the country.

You are, of course, absolutely right about schools in Santa Barbara County, including Carpinteria, receiving bazillions of dollars over many years from the Orfalea Foundation; these folks are truly saints, and there is hardly an organization serving the needs of low income women, or kids, or others disadvantaged members of society in Santa Barbara County which does not receive their attention and support.

He was so thrilled that our organization had a simple model of parent - to - parent support, which was in his experience one of the most - needed components in society.

The Sitka Conservation Society is partnering with other state organizations this legislative session to advocate for permanent state funding, which would create student access to local foods regardless of family income.

The NCAA, which faces multiple concussion lawsuits, worked with the College Athletic Trainers» Society, several medical organizations, multiple conferences and the American Football Coaches Association to create guidelines, not rules.

Corruption and impunity have become accepted convention in the administration, nepotism is eating the administration up yet, some members of OccupyGhana and other civil society organisations are helping the administration to play the blame game on the past Mahama administration as a coverup for the administration's failure which is betrayal of what these groups and their mother organization the Npp promised Ghanaians during the campaign.

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) in Ghana believes in the principles that democratic societies provide individuals with the best conditions for political liberty, personal freedom, equality of opportunity and economic development under the rule of law; and therefore being committed to advancing the social and political values on which democratic societies are founded, including the basic personal freedoms and human rights, as defined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; in particular, the right of free speech, organization, assembly and non-violent dissent; the right to free elections and the freedom to organize effective parliamentary opposition to government; the right to a free and independent media; the right to religious belief; equality before the law; and individual opportunity and prosperity.

The app, which government said cost the country $ 2.5 million, has been criticized by some experts in the technology space, as well as some civil society organizations.

The result is a ballot discussion happening within an easy - to - read grid showing the voter's virtual ballot next to the endorsements of a personalized, ten - member advisor panel, which now includes organizations as diverse as the Sierra Club, the NRA, The Human Society and GoProud, as well as one's friends, neighbors and family.

Civil society organizations and the media recently joined the government to launch series of campaigns against illegal mining which is causing havoc to livelihoods and property as well as Ghana's water bodies and forest covers.

The Governor said it is a widely acknowledged fact that all modern and civilized societies thrive on the quality of laws which regulate and guide the actions of government, organizations, individuals and institutions, and that the dynamics of law relative to time and circumstances however demands that such laws are revisited periodically to ensure their relevance and effectiveness.

The Legislature's vote followed months of fact - finding, committee meetings, and public hearings in which several doctors, medical experts and public health organizations, including the Roswell Park Cancer Institute, the American Cancer Society, the American Lung Association, the Buffalo - Niagara Tobacco Free Coalition, the Wellness Institute of WNY, and the Commissioner of the Erie County Health Department warned of the dangers and risks that the emissions from Electronic Cigarettes and Vaping pose to the public's health.

The nonprofit organization, which promotes and elevates Dominican culture and folklore across the nation, celebrated a «Our Future, Our Youth» reception at the Wildlife Conservation Society's Bronx Zoo to honor distinguished Dominican - American college students on February 22nd.

He also spoke about the meeting held the evening before by the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation re: the air rights bill signed by Governor Cuomo last night, of which VID was one of the co-sponsors, along with the VRDC and 22 other organizations.

The summit, which was organized by the Government - University - Industry Research Roundtable (GUIRR) of the National Academies of Science and held in Washington, D.C., 11 to 12 November 2002, included representatives from government agencies, disciplinary societies, and several education and science organizations who presented a litany of policy prescriptions and recommendations on the educational and societal forces that affect the experiences and expectations of the nation's future scientists and engineers.