Sentences with phrase «upon society»

Its heightened, often ironic attention to the past has served to impress upon society the importance of having a retrospective view of things.
British democratic institutions are in many ways positive influences upon society.
Hence, the individual depends radically upon the society of other souls.
First, the risks to sustainability are truly unprecedented in their global scale and have come upon society rather suddenly in the past two generations.
Its birth and growth statistics was much like the Internet which was also predicted to bring doom upon the society.
As do the piquant jabs at voice mail mazes, the separation of classes in our «classless» society, and vaccine scars as the next putative flaw to fret over foisted upon a society obsessed with physical perfection.
Will GPE 2009 be the glorious beginning to a new pet industry year as in the past, or will it be a gloomy realization that our industry is not impervious to the severe recessionary pressures imposed upon our society as a whole?
Clearly, when a sentence is one of imprisonment, the protection of society is accomplished in an absolute sense by preventing an offender from repeating his unlawful acts upon society during the term of his imprisonment.
Again and again such thoughtful writers as Alasdair MacIntyre and Robert Bellah tell us that moral rectitude, fundamental truthfulness, and all of the other virtues and skills that make us human depend upon society: upon our....
Despite the ambiguous connotations of the artist's search for Lenin, the absurd, at times seemingly naive dialogues throughout the film epitomize the nonsensical lens Niwa turns upon society across his practice.
Deal with the effects this problem has upon you in particular and upon the society in whole and give your evidential proofs that the problem you are discussing should be solved.
I'd feel sorry for you if you weren't a blight upon society and a pawn of those who would enslave me.
christians and all organized religions are a plague upon society
Get ready to battle with Christians as long as you plan to impose your filth upon the society.
While this often took the form of blood sacrifice, the practice of «scapegoating» is also seen when a culture blames some person or people group within their society for all the woes that fall upon that society.
The lame, the disfigured, the abandoned are no longer burdens upon society's limited resources, doomed to a frustrated existence.
They immediately sided with the railroads against the «wild beasts turned loose upon society.
Of course, the influence of religious ideas, practices, and institutions upon society had always intrigued the historians, but it could be assessed better from the time that the organizations of society, to use Dilthey's terminology, were more clearly distinguished from the systems of cultural objectification (law, art, science).
In political and social thought, no Christian has ever written a more profound defense of the democratic idea and its component parts, such as the dignity of the person, the sharp distinction between society and the state, the role of practical wisdom, the common good, the transcendent anchoring of human rights, transcendent judgment upon societies, and the interplay of goodness and evil in human individuals and institutions.
The two senses are linked by a critical — even revolutionary — spirit, but in the second sense, this spirit has been unleashed upon society without reference to any notion of what it is good to be and do.
But we now see that this imposition is not simply the restrictions which the natural environment places upon society, but there is also the inheritance of social custom.
Female leaders are viewed as better arbiters of conflict and as exerting a «mothering,» soothing effect upon society.
The post-recession economy that is being created is based upon reinforcing the distribution of power between capital and labour that has been imposed upon our society since the 1980s.
Whilst this is a small figure in actual terms, combined with the contribution from other melting glaciers around the world and expansion of the world's oceans, it will have an impact upon society through flooding of low - lying coastal regions.»
The screenplay by Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver, and Mark Bomback is surprisingly wise about the toll of fear upon a society.
VECCS is eager to identify a highly motivated, experienced, and dynamic executive who is prepared to build upon the Society's current successes.
He also endorsed products, appeared in advertisements and made business deals, giving new currency to the philosophical and practical interplay between art as a reflection upon society and art as a product of society.
The exhibition reveals him as both artist and human being who was beyond what seemed on the surface to be a post war rebel pushing boundaries for the sake of art, someone who deeply reflected upon society and his time, and desperately yearned for freedom both as an artist and human being, breaking out of historical, artistic, and political constraints, condemning any form of conformism, and refusing to be labelled, branded or marketed.
So all the AGW alarm is thrust upon society and especially the third world of developing nations by stating that Humans supposedly have an < 7/1, 000 th of a percent influence on total wwT over the last 125 years.
And they will continue to inflict major damage and misery upon society until law societies are replaced with agencies that are more responsive to public need and the democratic process.
Again, particularly for those provinces with fine option programs, it's another way for the individual to contribute through some type of community service and assistance to make recompense in a small way to those people they've victimized and to the threats they've inflicted upon society.
The case of Omar Khadr — a Canadian citizen and former child soldier — is a stain upon our society and shows a blatant disregard for Canada's obligations under international law.
Millennials have always been held responsible for every change brought upon our society and their recent target seems to be fiat currencies which stand at a high chance of being overtaken by its alternate digital forms.
«We need to impress upon society the importance of supporting families in their care of newborns,» Alexander said.
EJF is a vital organization for those committed to helping others, strengthening our communities, and making a positive impact upon society.
This was sooo refreshing to read with all the comments I get on breastfeeding a toddler (mainly negative)-- the breastfeeding Moms and scientific proof of what GOOD breastfeeding means for our children is proof of its positive influence upon society's future as well.
That same year she founded, with Annette Michelson, the magazine October, which she still co-directs, with the goal of creating a useful platform for spreading post-structuralist theses applied to modern and post-modern art, through a vision of art where aesthetic experimentation acts upon society.
Again and again such thoughtful writers as Alasdair MacIntyre and Robert Bellah tell us that moral rectitude, fundamental truthfulness, and all of the other virtues and skills that make us human depend upon society: upon our having a lifelong place within a social order and contemplating the historical «narrative» that defines the social order.
«This is happening for the failure of the market economy to equally account for many of the negative human and environmental impacts that are imposed upon society and the life support system.»
Religion changes to fit a society when it can no longer force it's will upon that society.
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