And it perhaps indicates that humanity is preparing to take fuller account of the vital services
such living systems have for tens of millenniums provided free of charge.
Not exact matches
-- Rick Morrison, CEO of Comprehend
Systems, which works with big names in the
life - sciences industry,
such as Boston Scientific, Astellas, and AstraZeneca, modernizing and improving the quality in their clinical process through cloud - based tech.
Such a paradigm shift in the
system of provider incentives can have a broad and surprising effect on how all of us
live our
lives.
That includes visits to World Record hot spots in the U.S.
such as the World's Tallest Outdoor Rock - Climbing Wall in Reno, Nevada; Bowling Green, Kentucky's Mammoth Cave National Park, which is home to the world's longest known cave
system; the World's Largest
Living Tree — a giant sequoia named General Sherman — in California's Sequoia National Park; and the volcanic - formed Crater Lake in Oregon, which at 1,943 feet is America's deepest lake.
Installers say
such changes will be meager compared to the thousands of dollars in savings over the
life of a
system.
There are plenty of other digital footprints we leave
such as websites we visit, the frequency with which we visit them, things we google, what apps we download, people and things we search on Facebook, how many internet friends we have, who we interact with often, where we go in real
life (phones have a GPS
system and motion sensors), etc., etc., etc..
Finally, you must intentionally build
systems and processes that allow you to deliver
such a wonderful experience that your customers have little choice but to rave about your company and its services to their friends, neighbors and colleagues at all stages of the
life cycle.
But now — as Ray nears retirement, he has made the decision to share even more of the
systems and strategies that have brought him
such massive success in his deeply personal book Principles:
Life & Work.
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How did we arrive at a point where national credit reporting and scoring
systems have
such power over consumers»
lives?
Yet, even with all increasing red flags that suggest that assets held within the global banking
system could be devalued, frozen, or seized, or all of the aforementioned, including warnings of possible negative interest rates applied to commercial and corporate bank accounts in the near future from big global banks like the Royal Bank of Scotland, most of us go about our daily
lives without giving a second thought about taking preventive actions to prevent
such mind - blowing and negatively impacting
life - changing events from happening.
In social policy, the Party is committed to breaking the cycle of poverty by developing a «
living wage» policy that is sufficient to allow workers to support their families; make changes to the welfare
system to encourage people on social assistance to move beyond poverty,
such as allowing some benefits to remain until they are firmly established in the workplace; and reviewing the housing component of Alberta Works social assistance to bring it in line with the current reality of the Alberta housing market.
People
living in
such countries have been failed by their centralized, national financial
systems that are controlled by the government.
Under New York law, patients may legally refuse treatment and authorize the withdrawal of
life - support
systems, including nutrition, even in those instances where
such steps would undoubtedly hasten death.
Its a sad day when our young black men do nt have the freedom to walk through certain neighborhoods without being harrased are mudered, no one has the right to just take a
life just because of the color of your skin we as a people has to stand up to injustices
such as this no one wants to hear the truth there is still a racial devide in America and our justice
system create laws so that this kind of injustice can continue to happen rather u want to admit it are not our young black men are the prey.
Life is one
such system of coupling.
And to
live in society and even just have friends one must prove he or she is a «moral» person, this morality is just a morality that lacks gods,
such as a belief that what is good is what brings about the most happiness or freedom or whatever your ethical
system supports.
Life at the molecular level is replete with
such systems, and biochemists do not even attempt to explain how any one of them could have come into existence by the Darwinian mechanism.
Each society has its own religious
system, and the propagation of
such a complete
system would involve propagating the entire
life of the people concerned» (ARP 5).
Radio would be the most wonderful means of communication imaginable in public
life, a huge linked
system — that is to say, it would be
such if it were capable not only of transmitting but of receiving, of allowing the listener not only to hear but to speak, and did not isolate him but brought him into contact.
The application of these principles in the United States would be relatively easy if the criminal justice
system operated
such that those guilty of capital crimes remained behind bars for
life.
Without
such a means of assessing Catholic practice the Vaughan school has been left with a less than perfect
system of giving extra credits to families based on the participation in the
life of the parish.
It may be that when one develops a
system of thought and
life around some set of
such patterns it turns out to be quite different from the
system developed elsewhere around other patterns.
So a fundamental part of education is to expose
such hidden or explicit purposes and presuppositions and critically examine them and transform them to a conscious commitment to a world - view which sees nature, humanity and cosmos within an organic
life system working within an ultimate framework of a spiritual movement of self - determining selves towards a community of justice and love.
If we are seeking a
system of true fairness then situations
such as those described above need to be resolved to ensure that people can
live as harmoniously as possible in our society even when we disagree, as Luke and I do.
The man who has no religion, and denies the possibility of there being any
such thing, imprisons himself within the closed -
system of physical
life upon this planet.
Those of us who do not share a particular belief
system should be respectful of others who have
such a value in their
lives.
My priest friend attacked him publicly for preaching
such religious «opium» and stated that the catastrophe was not an accident at all, much less the will of God, but rather the result of an exploitative
system that puts profits ahead of human
lives and well - being.
Third, the context has shifted: in contrast to the traditional Catholic conception of the political community, and politics within
such communities, as the means of achieving real if limited justice for human
life in the world, and a corresponding theory of international relations, recent Catholic thought on war often treats the state as a locus of injustice and the goals of particular states as inherently at odds with the achievement of common human goals, while an internationalism defined in terms of the United Nations
system is proposed as the best means to those common goals.
It must be admitted that epigenetic models lead to difficulties, because they postulate the emergence of qualities,
such as
life and mind, in evolving
systems which did not possess them at all.
The need for some overarching symbol
system can be fulfilled in a variety of ways: through personal philosophies of
life, scientific worldviews, secular philosophies
such as Marxism or nihilism, or commonsense ideas about luck and fate.
Of course, if you're taught over and over by the rock mythology, or even by PBS or the NYT, that the Righteous Artist ought to say the equivalent of «F# $ @ You» to the likes of the «military - industrial establishment,» the «
system,» or the «Power,» you might assume that you ought to say the words themselves to something a bit more obviously impacting your
life,
such as your ex-girlfriend.
Therefore, if we as Christians are going to work to improve the
systems in which people
live — as indeed we must — then we need to avoid promoting or condemning capitalism or socialism as
such.
The task of the church is to socialize people into the Christian cultural - linguistic
system in
such a way that their
lives individually and together authentically express the implications of
living out of that
system.
The claim of Christian belief is not first and foremost that it offers the only accurate
system of thought, as against all other competitors; it is that, by standing in the place of Christ, it is possible to
live in
such intimacy with God that no fear or failure can ever break God's commitment to us, and to
live in
such a degree of mutual gift and understanding that no human conflict or division need bring us to uncontrollable violence and mutual damage.
These may include not only broad philosophical issues
such as whether the universe has a purpose, but also questions we have become accustomed to think of as empirical,
such as bow
life first began or bow complex biological
systems were put together.
Anyone today who struggles through Kaplan's ponderous prose setting forth
such banal and simplistic propositions as that Judaism is a «civilization» rather than a «religion,» that American Jews
live in «two civilizations,» that the Jewish religious
system is a collection of folkways, and that God is an idea rather than a personality must wonder what all the fuss is about.
Instead of saying all those belief
systems need to go away or that it is somehow harmful to have a belief
such as that, I propose we agree to disagree in
life and understand that diversity means respecting those whose beliefs with which we disagree.
Although the congregation knits itself together by inspired strands
such as liturgies, musical programs, and water
systems, each by the activity of the same congregation also corrupts its nature and threatens the congregation's own
life together.
Yet ecological disasters, fearsome instruments of war, vast
systems of classism, racism, and sexism all have impact upon our
lives, and we experience ourselves as caught up in
such systems with or without our consent.
Such use of alcohol thus merely serves to render more tolerable a
system of
life that is unhealthy at the core.
But the attempt to reduce
living systems to
such, that is to say formal reductionism, fails in part because the number of possible combinations or classifications is generally immensely larger than the number of degrees of freedom.
But although certain non-
living systems, of which the thunderstorm is
such a striking example, do show what we can call «organismal characters,» this property is nowhere found in so high a degree as it is in
living organisms.
But sure, the relevant issues are more in regard to effectivity,
such as that two machines with drivers can harvest a field quicker than a dozen or so men, and while a
life without any work can be boring and / or decadent very quickly (and similarly
such with no physical activity whatsoever), an overall
system e.g. where productivity and numbers are «alpha and omega» seems to be very out of touch not only with nature.
The process of draining logic and meaning from everything came to full fruition in the 1960s and 1970s, when it began to be felt profoundly in the daily
lives of many Americans, with
such things as the proliferation of «alternative lifestyles,» the diluting or jettisoning of academic standards at every level, the increasing inability of the legal
system to make in practice sufficient or consistent distinctions between victim and victimizer — among many others too familiar to all of us to need spelling out.
Such teaching leads not to the development of a
system but to the transformation of
life.
Since atheism has no
such codified belief
system, and
system of
living, as religion does, it is NOT a religion.
RS: According to the hypothesis of formative causation, outlined in my book A New Science of
Life,
systems such as molecules, crystals, cells, organs and organisms are organized by specific morphogenetic fields, which give them their characteristic form and organization.