Sentences with phrase «take on society»

Your take on society and education is not one I disagree with.

But despite its oddities and surrealistic black comedy take on society's perception of relationships this is actually a surprisingly good film.

It was a fantastic take on society as a whole, which I find refreshing.

Former English professor Craven makes a case for the cultural importance of stories by making a decidedly grim fairy tale, a modern twist on an ancient tradition, and winds up with an imaginative take on society's fascination with horror.

«[If] you take on the police, you take on society; you're going home in a body bag.»

If you've ever caught a rerun of Everybody Loves Raymond, you've witnessed a pretty good take on society's view of the dysfunctional family.

It's rare to find a televised marriage in which the show creators seem to have any idea how a real relationship ought to work, and the toll that's taken on society has, perhaps, yet to be fully understood.

Dan Vergano, a science reporter for BuzzFeed, called the Gold Award series «a distinctive and heartbreaking look at the science behind the toll that violence takes on society's most vulnerable.»

While Heartland continues politicizing science, demonizing credible scientists and using tobacco industry tactics to forge doubt over global warming, Americans are feeling the real toll climate change is already taking on society, by increasing the severity of storms like hurricane Sandy or pushing droughts, wildfires and heatwaves to new extremes.

While Heartland continues politicizing science, demonizing credible scientists and using tobacco industry tactics to forge doubt over global warming, Americans are feeling the real toll climate change is already taking on society, by increasing the severity of storms like hurricane Sandy or pushing droughts, wildfires and heatwaves to new extremes.

Not exact matches

President Obama will take the stage at SXSW Interactive on March 11 to discuss civic engagement in today's tech - intense society.

While there are some organizations that are championing women in the right way and some sectors are taking the current «moment» more seriously than others, Leader - Chivée isn't comfortable with society resting on its laurels.

In most cases, we hone the skills that society smiles on, taking jobs because we don't want people to judge us or because others want us in specific roles.

(For a more detailed take on how to think critically about your company's CSR agenda, see Michael Porter and Mark Kramer's article, «Strategy and Society: The Link Between Competitive Advantage and Corporate Social Responsibility»).

On the other hand, members of the middle class take jobs they don't enjoy «because they need the money, and they've been trained in school and conditioned by society to live in a linear thinking world that equates earning money with physical or mental effort.»

Society needs to figure out «how many people are born incapable of taking care of themselves, just physically and mentally,» said McNealy, also co-founder of digital marketing firm Wayin and online education community Curriki, on «Squawk Box.»

This will further entrench the on - demand economy in society, as large companies change the ways in which they conduct business, looking to on - demand providers for services that traditionally took place in - house.

Thurman says that as people in business, «we should take heart because, although a lot of people who consider themselves progressive and spiritual feel like business is something very lowly, that it's about just making money, the vocation of business can be extraordinarily honorable and has the ability to make a long - lasting positive impact on our society and world at large.»

It took the top spot on the American Society of Magazine Editors» October 2005 list and remains one of the most iconic photos ever taken, on or off of a magazine cover.

The cover took the number 13 spot on the American Society of Magazine Editors» October 2005 list.

But this is less of a check on power than it first appears because the impact of social media on society and the economy is still poorly understood, and regulation takes time to catch up.

Critics accused her of focusing on strategies individual women could take to get ahead at large corporations, at the expense of acknowledging sexism throughout society.

By providing students in all disciplines with concepts of sustainability, universities are taking on a more essential role — giving students a broader perspective for whatever profession they choose and helping to create a more inclusive, responsible society.

The worst effects of pervasive joblessness — on family, politics, society — take time to incubate, and they show themselves only slowly.

There are so many lessons we can take from his legendary life and impact on society.

«He's an egomaniac devoid of all moral sense» ---- said the society woman dressing for a charity bazaar, who dared not contemplate what means of self - expression would be left to her and how she would impose her ostentation on her friends, if charity were not the all - excusing virtue ---- said the social worker who had found no aim in life and could generate no aim from within the sterility of his soul, but basked in virtue and held an unearned respect from all, by grace of his fingers on the wounds of others ---- said the novelist who had nothing to say if the subject of service and sacrifice were to be taken away from him, who sobbed in the hearing of attentive thousands that he loved them and loved them and would they please love him a little in return ---- said the lady columnist who had just bought a country mansion because she wrote so tenderly about the little people ---- said all the little people who wanted to hear of love, the great love, the unfastidious love, the love that embraced everything, forgave everything, and permitted everything ---- said every second - hander who could not exist except as a leech on the souls of others.»

In recent issues of The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor I've covered the U.S. government's ongoing «War on Cash»... how our government is trying to take over the Internet with the latest push for «net neutrality»... the risks and advantages of digital currency like bitcoin... how U.S. banks are preparing for «bail - ins» during the next financial crisis... how the U.S. government is using Common Core to indoctrinate children so they'll submit to the coming socialist society... and much, much more.

Given their strong influence on society, these great minds do a great deal to also take care of their bodies.

Jacinda Ardern and Justin Trudeau take questions from young Londoners on gender equality and how to bring about change in society

Yet shortly after the council, the high culture of the West took a sharp turn toward an aggressive and hegemonic secularism that now manifests itself as Christophobia: a deep hostility to gospel truth (especially moral truth) and a determination to drive Christians who affirm those truths out of public life and into a privatized existence on the margins of society.

Governments on the other hand have actually had some reasonably longer lasting societies where the poor are taken care of pretty well.

Poor Adam, he certainly did have his work cut out for him, but perhaps he took too much on, like some men do in our society today.

This ignorance extends to all sectors of society, from the «man on the street» to the professor at the elite university; and it has taken a terrible toll.

If you think these ideas are outdated or irrelevant, I suggest you take a look at the damage that has been wrought on society by rampant divorce, abortion, our of wedlock pregnancy, falling birth rates, and a general view that life is NOT sacred, family is NOT important, and that children are more a burden to be avoided than anything.

If indeed «Sharia» is meant to function as it takes into consideration what would be best for society on a whole through a lens of compassion and mercy», it should also ensure that animals will be dispatched «kindly» — as humanely as possible.

However, the Bible and history provide important insights on our present state of affairs — and the Bible alone reveals where these startling changes are taking our youth and our society.

But gee, so Dorothy Day, the SCLS and Martin Luther King and all those religiously oriented people who restrain their baser impulses, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, take in children no one else wants, seek justice for those society devalues in the name of money, power, or maintaining the hold of the class in power — all based on their beliefs — are dangerous to society and mentally ill?

We ran into one cyclical recession in the» 70's, and the Republicans seized on it as an excuse to rig government and society for the benefit of people who are already rich, while taking away opportunities from everyone else... then they crushed the unions so that workers would never be able to get back better pay and better job security, while investors make more and more and pay less and less in taxes.

I often ask my wife if what i did or said was evil and i more often then not get «yes» so as i said before, i believe its a matter of perspective of those involved and the society it takes place in — but now in the modern day where your actions are on youtube in a seconds notice — the world is the final judge... and that does» t bode well for the U.S.

So we see that a renaissance of marriage and family life based on natural law has taken place once already in Britain, serving the good of society and upholding the absolute sacredness of human life from the moment of conception to natural death.

I went on to speak of how, as the church grew and became a dominant force in society, the church and later the nation took some responsibility to protect the weak and powerless.

I work hard, I pay my taxes, I donate to charities, I help people, I take showers, mow my yard and so on just like all the other productive people of society that are both atheist and christian.

According to this view, the New Deal had a more profound impact on American society than even its most ardent admirers have suggested: it imposed norms of relative equality in pay that persisted for more than 30 years, creating the broadly middle - class society we came to take for granted.

He takes refuge in a situational ethic — an ethic that condones any objective society decides on.

In a society founded on the exaltation of freedom it is understandable that the desire to satisfy one's human appetites takes an ever firmer grip on individuals who live in an environment where they have considerable spending power and great encouragement to spend on pleasures and material goods.

The second argument must be taken very seriously, for (as so often happens nowadays) it casts doubt on certain Christian beliefs, namely, that we must preach the gospel so that men may be converted; that the purpose of preaching the gospel is neither to reform society nor to increase justice, but simply to convert men to their Lord Jesus Christ.

The Law society, in other words, has given «guidance» to its members as to how to draft wills in a way which circumvents English legal principles as they have always been accepted: and it envisages that this might even mean taking on the English law in court to see if their wily little legal tricks have been successful: a perfect example of an attempt to make the letter of the law prevail over its spirit: Christians will remember that, according to St Paul (2 Corinthians 3:6), «the letter killeth but the spirit giveth life».

If I am right, it will take a far deeper mind than mine to explain whether such nihilism is the inevitable consequence of the transcendent losing its hold on individuals and society.

Taken as a society, the Church is based purely on the free faith of her members.

Cultural intermingling inevitably took place on the frontier between a nomadic society to the south and a settled, advanced civilization to the southwest and northeast.