Sentences with phrase «voice for human»

As Landry undoubtedly recognizes, the commission has some way to go to achieve its goal of becoming the national voice for human rights.

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«If you think about it, the automotive human - machine interface is kind of predestined for voice,» says Gartner research director Werner Goertz.

Amidst reports that the team favored liberal news outlets and supressed conservative voices, Facebook in August ditched human editors for algorithms.

Through its sister organization — the Better World Campaign — the UN Foundation works to support a fully funded United Nations so that it can continue to be an effective voice for international cooperation on behalf of peace, development, human rights and the environment.

Amazon was just awarded a patent for a drone that will use recognition of human gestures and voice commands to deliver packages...

I know for certain that no human being hears the voice of God simply because I never have.

Crixus — HUGE logical falllacy in your argument,» I know for certain that no human being hears the voice of God simply because I never have.»

$ 14 paper In Human Dignity in the Biotech Century: A Christian Vision for Public Policy, some of the most active voices in the American bioethics....

Religion in this case was people hearing the very real loving voices of other people, inspired to love one another for whatever reasons they might think they have, and attaching themselves to that love in order to deal emotionally with the struggles we face just by being human.

They note that he has been a powerful voice in defense of the sanctity of human life in all stages and conditions and marriage as the conjugal union of husband and wife, though they do not praise him for that as I would.

However, his proclamation of «a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sin» strikes most of us, if we are honest, as a call from another world — a voice from a wilderness that has long since been brought under human control.

The key is knowing how to listen for God's voice» (Stark, The Human Faces of God, 237).

For some conservative Catholics he is the authentic voice of the medieval Church; for many liberal atheists he is an authentic voice of human suffering and hoFor some conservative Catholics he is the authentic voice of the medieval Church; for many liberal atheists he is an authentic voice of human suffering and hofor many liberal atheists he is an authentic voice of human suffering and hope.

I look forward to Judge Gorsuch's voice on the court for decades to come and pray that he will be an articulate and stalwart advocate for religious liberty and human dignity at all its stages.

Dropping the mic would necessitate cultivating the art of classical oratory as well as constructing sanctuaries designed to carry the human voice, just as the use of the microphone (I would suggest) has relegated homiletics to an afterthought for many seminarians and encouraged uninspired ecclesiastical architecture.

Amnesty International has added its voice to the growing demand within Colombia for an end to mass arrests, torture of political prisoners, repression of labor organizations and other violations of human rights.

Only recently, however, have other conservative Christians voiced theological support for human rights.

I consider this an ambiguous gift: on the one hand, postmodern tendencies open up spaces for the new perspectives and voices mentioned above; on the other hand, as the social critic Jane Flax notes, a hard - core kind of postmodernity which would postulate the death of history, of the human being and of metaphysics undermines the kind of critical reason that is necessary to counter the «master narrative» constituted by capitalist globalization.

Don't you think that it's more likely what people call the voice of god is simply a complex awareness created by the human brain which has been evolving its ability to recognize patterns for millions of years?

Each human being can choose to believe or not to believe — but for all of my friends who are indeed atheists — when I ask them the question do you ever listen to an inner speaking that you take to be your conscience / voice / guide (whichever term you prefer) speak to you — they all say resoundingly YES.

So for example, in my case and that of other persons whose minds dissociate when we engage in intense / deep spiritual practices like intense / deep prayer, meditation, fasting etc and we hear voices, hallucinate, see visions, experience thought insertions, automatic channelling just like a spirit medium as well as other psychic phenomena (clairvoyance etc), and the mind dissociation makes some persons mentally and emotionally unstable; our minds enter an altered state of consciousness just like those of the Buddhist monks but in our case the altered state of our brains results in psychotic and psychic symptoms being induced (interestingly, some persons who are ignorant of how the human brain functions chalk up these experiences to demonic attack)......... are these psychotic, psychic experiences which persons like myself experience a gift from God as well?

Paul Knitter in his One Earth, Many Religions emphasizes the priority of «the dialogue of action» in response «to the widespread human and ecological suffering and injustice that are threatening our species and our planet» but he recognizes that «unless the voices of the mystic and the scholar are also heard, the conversation will lose its religious content or it will be turned into a tool for purposes that can only discredit all the participants.»

If the church did not maintain a voice in the contemporary debate about the nature of reality and the purpose of human life, it could not hold or attract the kind of leaders it needed for the future.

It is still the calm, clear voice of Jesus in the magisterium that destroys the house of cards that human arrogance substitutes for the truth.

Is there reason to believe that the human voice, with its personalizing and socializing effects, has never really lost its place in our culture, and now in a mechanized and impersonal world, is more than ever needed and longed for?

In this incidence, a broken human voice was an avenue of the Spirit to «break» into an order and thereby establish a new meaning for the liturgical performance.

In a recent interview with the Washington Post (part of their ominously titled «Voices of Power» series), Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius discussed Archbishop Joseph Naumann's request that she not present herself for communion because of her public support for legalised abortion: «Well, it was one of the most painful things I have ever experienced in my life, and I am a firm believer in the separation of church and state, and I feel that my actions as a parishioner are different than my actions as a public official and that the people who elected me in Kansas had a right to expect me to uphold their rights and their beliefs even if they did not have the same religious beliefs that I had.

The problems of teen - age sexuality and the fact that conservative political and religious groups have put these problems on their agendas suggest that it is urgent for mainline denominations and liberal churches to recover a credible voice in matters of human sexuality — both the ethical and the practical.

He joined the Society for Human and Spiritual Understanding, a pseudo-church that met on Sunday mornings in a small sanctuary - style room to practice meditation and listen to the pronouncements of a trance medium through whom, it was claimed, spoke the voice of an Egyptian priest who had lived 3,500 years be-fore.

«If there's one place where humans should stay out of each other's business, it's eating,» the longtime actor explains during a busy day that includes a Law & Order shoot and voice - overs for American Dad.

She is a prolific author and public voice on civil liberties and human rights, particularly reproductive liberty, human trafficking for sex, labor, body parts, and marriage.

«It is probably because the human voice is such an important social cue that the brain shows an early specialization for its processing,» added Anna Blasi of King's College London.

For your whole life you've heard the voices of the dominant culture saying negative things about human nature, children, teenagers, siblings, parents, and parenting.

Renowned for her pure, powerful songwriting and clear voice, Beth Nielsen Chapman has become one of the most distinctive portrayers of resilience and human vulnerability with an astoundingly diverse and extensive array of songwriting credits.

Organizations like Nebraska's Voices for Children have expressed support for LB 834, and human services agencies should also put pressure on lawmakers to vote for the bill.

Of course, there are other necessary elements including an innovation strategy, policies to boost human capital giving employees a stake and voice in the firm as well as upgrading skills, more investment in science and R&D, and more risk capital for firms in export - led sectors.

Whereas, New York State is a leading voice for women's equality and has raised that voice in action through such significant achievements as passage of the historic «Women's Equality Agenda» in 2015 - eight laws that advance women's equality in New York State by helping to achieve pay equity, strengthen human trafficking laws and protections for domestic violence victims, and ending pregnancy discrimination in all workplaces; other measures further safeguard and promote women's interests and help improve their status in settings where they live and work; and

The bearded Labour MP Jeremy Corbyn criticised the Tory benches and their position on Human Rights and their support for a «Bill of Rights», making an emphatic argument that MPs should, «take a moment to praise the European Court of Human Rights & European Court of Justice and stop listening to the neanderthal voices behind him [the Tory backbenchers] in what was a very important step in improving the human rights after the second world war.&rHuman Rights and their support for a «Bill of Rights», making an emphatic argument that MPs should, «take a moment to praise the European Court of Human Rights & European Court of Justice and stop listening to the neanderthal voices behind him [the Tory backbenchers] in what was a very important step in improving the human rights after the second world war.&rHuman Rights & European Court of Justice and stop listening to the neanderthal voices behind him [the Tory backbenchers] in what was a very important step in improving the human rights after the second world war.&rhuman rights after the second world war.»

Berky, an independent urban planning consultant, has been a leading voice for the progressive wing of the legislature's Democratic caucus and has pushed for anti-transgender discrimination laws and beefed up Human Rights Commission.

Former EPA Region 2 Administrator Judith Enck, who was featured in the Politico article and is also a regular voice on WAMC, called the actions by EPA and the Department of Defense «scientific censorship» of the report being compiled by the Department of Health and Human Services» Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.

Countries such as the United Kingdom and the Federal Republic of Germany on the other hand were voicing criticism about Greece's human rights record but supported the country's continued membership in the Council of Europe and NATO because of the country's strategic value for the western alliance.

However, much more can be achieved when the science, engineering and health communities embrace human rights as an area suitable for and deserving of robust inquiry, and become an influential voice in the defense of human rights.

A Role for the Right A counterintuitive but essential feature of Petkov's results, similar to the corresponding findings in the human brain, is that voice - selective activity was stronger in the right hemisphere.

In May 2014, Fernanda Monteiro attended a special meeting of the Human Rights Commission of Minas Gerais state, where citizens stood up to share their grievances in the town square of Diamantina and voiced their support for an extractive reserve.

«The human voice is the oldest tool for storytelling,» Shapiro says.

«With human voice, there are so many opportunities for connection.

Dam Quake When plans for the dam were first approved in 1992, human rights activists voiced concern about the people who would be forced to relocate to make room for it.

This study is the first to demonstrate causal evidence for a positive effect on corporate reputation of consumers» exposure to a company's social media activities, and the crucial role of a company's «online human voice» in these activities.

Having a sound source that close to the Kinect's four microphones will dramatically undermine its ability to separate human voices from other sounds, and thus make it much harder for the Kinect to understand you.

Birds and humans look different, sound different and evolved completely different organs for voice production.