Sentences with phrase «society than today»

The book does point to a future in which conventional legal advisers will be much less prominent in society than today.

The book points to a future in which conventional legal advisers will be much less prominent in society than today and, in some walks of life, will indeed have no visibility at all.

Do you think they had to be a lot more secretive and «under the radar» about it to avoid fierce judgment at the time from a much less free society than today's?

Not exact matches

«That set of rules and those thought processes are so ingrained in society today that it's hard to communicate exactly what the vision is, and I think «Reinventing Organizations» does a better job than any other book on communicating that vision and communicating that this is not just a hypothetical like, «Oh, wouldn't it be cool if we did this,»» Bunch said.

It's a sentiment rarely seen in our litigious society today, but Lincoln seemed to believe lawyers had a greater social responsibility than other citizens.

In today's fast - paced society, images are becoming more popular because they are easier to understand more quickly than long blocks of text.

High school seniors today are more likely than previous generations to say that making a contribution to society is extremely important to them, according to an October 2014 report from The White House's Council of Economic Advisors.

In today's market dominated society, were virtually all land is owned by someone, where history has been influenced by money more than anything else ten fold.

The societies of 2000 years ago were much more authoritarian than today.

Constitutional Engineering in a Divided Society by Donald L. Horowitz University of California Press, 312 pages, $ 24.95 Just over 200 years ago, the United States was in a position arguably more critical than that of South Africa today.

The way I see it, US woud have had over 70 million more Americans suffering, kids that fought old mens war, more jails filled with criminals and a troubled society than we see today...

One in 10 Christians think sport is «an idol that many people worship in society today» and more than half said it's okay to play sport on a Sunday, so long as they're engaged in their churches at other times during the week.

Most of them are perfectly aware that the stories of the Bible was written in historically ancient time with very different customs than our own that are not applicable to today's society.

Attempts to «green» industrial societies are now more than two hundred years old, many at a certain scale successful, but the environmentalist politics in which we are immersed today have their origins in the 1960s.

Now, realize that in today's society you are still just as hated, shunned and looked down upon for declaring that same differing belief... or even non-belief — just because people are still too hung up on their precious religious dogma to realize that, though the outcome is obviously less drastic than in the past, they are still doing the same thing that religious people did in the past?

Rather than working to tearing down this wall and making the world a better place, American society and the media continually shore up this separation between «faith» and reason, hence the comparitively sorry state of science and research in our country today.

The abnormalities of atheistic beliefs are in today's timelines littering profusely many cherished religious societies whose fundamentalisms have been a social consistency for many good years... Even though I am distasteful of today's religions in that they are usurping the least wealthy, I see their mismanaging of financial dexterities due each religion's hierarchies needing more money for themselves than for their communal poor folks...

«Faith and Reason are the two things that the world needs today more than any other time and it is our duty to provide this need for society.»

Today we are perhaps more disappointed in life than former generations, and the repeated upheavals in the life of society and of individuals may be explained by this mood of despair, because there is so much colourless boredom in life despite its great possibilities.

The world of the concentration camps,» Ionesco has said, was not an exceptionally monstrous society» It was only more refined than what occurred on plenty of plantations in the Western hemisphere, than what occurs today in plenty of fields of vegetables and fruit.

The society in the day when MEN wrote your book, was different than today, but we still do not let one person take the punishment for another.

Biblical literalism is a powerful force today; it tends to imprison people in attitudes that were suitable enough when science and technology were little dreamt of but which fail to illuminate a society in which, for instance, it is desirable, because of the effects of modern hygiene on death rates, for women to bear, on the average, perhaps a third as many infants as were appropriate two or three thousand or even two hundred years ago, a society in which war might mean something like the end of the species, or at least vastly closer to that than any war of the past could be.

And there are more than one used in today's society.

Part of the problem with Evangelical Christianity is that many wish to stay comfy in the dusty pews of centuries old Christianity rather than getting their toes wet by dipping their lives into today's uncertain post-modern society.

Through much of the period from David to the fall of Jerusalem, Israel's life was not marked by the concern with hope, any more than is the life of the affluent society of the west today.

Society today is more distracting than ever before.

In 1925 the Protestant churches were much more liberal, relative to the society around them, than they are today.

If today we are to illustrate how idolatry distorts the whole of society, this is a far more illuminating illustration than one dealing with sexuality.

Today they are certainly much greater than in former times, when a pluralistic society such as we have now did not and could not exist.

He did all this in a society which, while far less secular than our own, was almost equally corrupt, and there is no reason why his methods can not be applied in a similar way today.

Fathers abuse their children more than priests in society today.

Perhaps recent «developments» amount to nothing more than a suggestion or claim that, in at least most of the world today, there are alternative modes of punishment that are fit retribution and that can protect society against chaos.

Today Government, which at the time of the death of God was celebrated by Time as the omnipotent progenitor of the Great Society, is no better than a «dispenser of largesse.»

In Christian preaching, and quite properly so, we more often hear of its moral aspect: Jesus came especially to the poor and the despised, to the margins of society, and he died as a criminal; and today, too, we are more likely to find him visible on comparable margins than among the rich, the powerful, and the respected.

@netwallwarrior — at what point in our history was this society anymore moral or civilized than it is today?

Today's task of re-evangelizing may be, in some sectors of our society, more difficult than was evangelizing in, say, the fourth century, mainly because in the West so many people think, mistakenly, that they know «the Christian thing.»

By a host of cultural indicators, American society was better off in the 1950s than it is today, and the constraint and self - censorship of that age's mass media had a great deal to do with this achievement.

«We need to see that those things that are threatening our society today are much graver than anything that may divide us,» he told CNN.

In these introductory chapters, I have examined the remarkable nature of the congregation, notable today less for its accomplishment than for its communal discourse that at once particularizes a corporate genius and links it to the symbolic structure of all societies everywhere.

But that is far easier said than done in today's society where pictures of smiling breastfeeding women cover every baby book and pamphlet you come across.

See, being tough didn't work... And, actually, parents today are probably better than they ever have been in western society.

«As our society becomes more «wired,» more parents want to their children to experience the «real» games they remember, rather than just the digital games so prevalent today.»

The humanistic, pleasure - seeking, materialistic society in which we live today repeatedly broadcasts the messages that women need to find fulfillment and financial independence in the workplace and that paid caregivers make better parents than a child's own mother.

In today's society, he would be viewed as data - driven, and he taught his students to simply describe observable symptoms rather than try to interpret them.

Today's society leads us to believe that «normal babies» sleep through the night from about two months; my research indicates that this is more the exception than the rule.

Today» society also brings about challenges that have become harder than ever to be a parent, but it can take on a whole new role when... more

In today's modern society in the US (especially), families are relying heavily on prepackaged foods rather than fresh vegetables and produce.

We are now busier than ever and being a parent in today's fast paced society requires some compromise.

Even though people today are growing up in more diverse families than ever before and are much more open to and accepting of broader views of gender and sexuality than generations past, society still tends to view non-monogamous relationships negatively.

Peer pressure is at its max and in today's teen society there are more tempting sidetracks than ever.