Sentences with phrase «transforming societies»

There are rational responses to the issue — but they are about is transforming societies and economies.

Urbanization is a global megatrend that is transforming societies.

It is this, what I am calling «secondary», moral responsibility that can be the basis of action as citizens and consumers start upon the road of transforming societies and economies.

This activity report is based on the Asia and the Pacific megatrends, such as urbanization, economic and trade integration and rising incomes and changing consumption patterns, which are transforming its societies and economies while multiplying the environmental challenges.

Gary Cohn and 10,000 Women program graduates discuss how women entrepreneurs from around the world are growing their businesses and transforming their societies.

Such quick and easy access to space is likely to transform our society, heralding the development of everything from space - based solar power stations to asteroid mining.

«It is not simply a way of making life on earth tolerable for the destitute but a key ingredient of a transformed society and a world we can look forward to.»

Five technology trends transforming society and creating the foundation for future enterprise growth.

And yet, a prominent Silicon Valley promoter of bitcoin proclaims that «Bitcoin is going to transform society... Bitcoin's been very resilient.

I said that in the seventies it was possible to hope that the spirit of Christ was transforming all society, bringing forth repentance for our many crimes and calling us forward to becoming sustainable societies.

While I oppose discrimination, I'm completely in disagreement with the desire to transform society into this confused state of living.

We should seize the opportunity to do so, for as Familiaris Consortio 44 states: «Families should grow in awareness of being «protagonists» of what is known as «family politics» and assume responsibility for transforming society; otherwise families will be the first victims of the evils that they have done no more than note with indifference.»

The kingdom of God, whether thought of as that which gradually comes on earth through a transformed society or as that which comes only in God's eternal kingdom beyond death and earthly history, is always a social concept.

From the French Revolution onward we've entertained dreams of a single, profound, and decisive moment that will transform society, or even human nature itself.

I have a friend who is in a political party that goes under the banner of Christianity and seeks to transform society by applying Christianity as a political platform.

And yet, in the new transformed society there will be no need to persecute religion, for its essential function will have disappeared.

The theologian must be immersed in the struggle for transforming society and proclaim the message of the gospel from that point.

Few irruptions in history have transformed societies so completely and irrevocably as did the conquest and expansion of the Arabs in the seventh century.

The need for prophetic churches arises not only because of the structural connectedness of the church to society implied in the fabric image, but also because little will happen to transform society if attention is not given to specific issues, problems, and examples.

Some would make it solely a personal inner commitment, while others have identified its coming with a transformed society.

Instead of teaching their own positive convictions, which can help overcome a dehumanizing orthodoxy and so transform the life of the church, these schools seem to think that they will transform society and church by offering this or that course in urban studies, by relocating the setting of education to the places «where people live,» and by increased field experiences.

The strategies differed as well, with Graham and company focusing on the conversionism that had been central to evangelical awakenings as the means to transform society and the liberal Protestants rallying behind an all - out assault on social ills.

Whatever germ of inequality is planted also nourishes the seed of social injustice and the determination to transform the society.

Only the attempt to transform society from within (# 5) can redirect a technological civilization to the service of God and man, preserving a legitimate place for scientific progress without making it the ultimate source of meaning in life.

Most Provocative: Andrew Jones with «9 Reasons NOT to Plant a Church in 2012» «The measurement criteria of the church planting project, focusing on numbers of attenders and momentum of new church launch, is too narrow, too shallow, un-holistic and ignores more vital measurable signs of a transformed society in its various spheres (economic, environmental, social, impact outside the church environment, etc).»

So transforming our work with young people can transform our churches, which will in turn transform our society and even our world.

It requires us to look at our work from the perspective of those who are oppressed by that ideology and who are therefore actively trying to expose it and to transform the society of which it is a part.

The Basque Culinary World Prize (BCWP) is an international award created to celebrate the way gastronomy can transform our society, by recognizing chefs who have made an impact «beyond the kitchen».

After the winner is notified that he or she has been awarded the Basque Culinary World Prize, the winner's chosen project is vetted to determine if it makes a valuable contribution in terms of transforming society through gastronomy.

It has real power to transform society because it touches everything: education, the environment, entrepreneurship, cultural identity, agriculture, trade.

The prize, which was created to recognize chefs who transform society through gastronomy, is promoted by the Basque Culinary Center and the Basque Government under the framework of the Euskadi - Basque Country Strategy.

Thus, Magna Carta — a medieval political settlement, which was never intended to radically transform society — came to stand for representative government, the protection of human rights, and the pursuit of liberty.

Citizen Action of New York is a grassroots membership organization taking on big issues that are at the center of transforming society.

Labour had one of the great opportunities of modern times to transform society.

It is a lack of brain mass, because the greatness of leadership is in its ability to transform the society just like the wise Emiratis, Saudis, Qataris etc have done to their countries.

Citizen Action of New York bills itself as «a grassroots membership organization taking on big issues that are at the center of transforming society.»

It was this eclectic literature and his burning desire to transform society that shaped his brand of democracy.

While these may well be the weaknesses needed in a leader, who is determined to transform his society, there is no doubt that they are also targets of criticism, and may need to be moderated.

Welfare reforms are transforming society; education reforms are pushing up standards; and 1.8 million more people have the security of a job.

It will include over 150 hours of workshops, talks, performance and activities to «empower communities and transform society».

Our Regional Fellows Program is a one - year leadership development program designed to build the next generation of social leaders with the audacity to transform society and create a better, more inclusive world.

Radio has transformed society three times, not to mention giving birth to the entire field of electronics.

Whatever technology comes next must be broadly adopted so it will drive continual improvements, similar to the way the 1947 invention of the transistor transformed society.

Experiments all over the world are already showing its potential to transform society for the better

The result, led by researchers at Stanford University and the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, is the culmination of 20 years of research aimed at finding out whether the pseudogap helps or hinders superconductivity, which could transform society by making electrical transmission, computing and other areas much more energy efficient.

In addition to being a master of the asana practice, Eddie is transforming society as co-founder of Urban Yogis New York, an organization dedicated to helping the youth in the Baisley housing project create profound personal and social transformation through yoga.

The IAI writes: «Technology has transformed society.

Matchdoctors mission is to provide an interactive place where people can meet Our mission is to transform societys response to sexual assault, domestic violence, and child abuse, support survivors healing, and end this violence forever.

Kevin Doyle By listening to its young Irish, their stories and ideas, and by involving them, Ireland has «the potential to transform our society in a profound and exciting way».

Ideas and paradigms and worldviews are important, and so are new ways of thinking about ourselves and our relation to the ecology of capitalism, but it is those ideas that are located in the routines and rituals of everyday life that are more likely to have an impact on transforming society.