Sentences with phrase «which humans helped»

Ross MacPhee of the American Museum of Natural History argues the culprit was extremely virulent disease, which humans helped transport as they migrated into the New World.

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The Internet makes it easier than ever to distribute text and video, which can be a big help for human rights activists trying to get the word out about horrific conditions in war zones or repressive regimes.

At the Chan Zuckerberg BioHub, efforts will center on creating tools that can help find cures for the four major diseases from which humans die: heart disease, infectious diseases, cancer and neurological disease.

The most prescribed types of insulin are called analogues, which are slight variations of human insulin that aim to help diabetics» bodies function more closely to how they would if they were able to produce the insulin themselves.

LENSAR claims that its VR technology helps surgeons study 3D images of the human eye, which can help doctors better remove cataracts.

The chemical works by interfering with the hormones that help insect larvae hatch, which doesn't happen in humans.

Director Jonathan Levine («The Wackness,» «The Night Before») and screenwriter Katie Dippold (2016's «Ghostbusters») were obviously going for an edgy «mom - com,» in which the men are idiots and a story of self - discovery is at the core (Emily helps Ecuadorian women form a human chain to take water from a well, which brings her to an aha moment).

The honorees will include Joanne Smith, the Chief Human Resources Officer for Delta Air Lines (No. 98 on this year's list), for helping the airline to build a more inclusive workplace by pushing it to commit to the White House Equal Pay Pledge, which encourages U.S. companies to take action to advance equal pay among men and women.

Accounting software can not only help you reduce human errors in your calculations, but it can help you gain insights into your business that you couldn't see in paper form — such as generating sales forecasts for the next quarter, determining which items are overstocked, and pinpointing your least profitable service.

«Much of the tiring pre-purchase journey, which ranges from finding what you're looking for at the right price point to customer support and checkout, can actually be fully automated with the help of a personal A.I. shopping assistant without any human intervention,» said Friedman.

Starbucks Corp.'s SBUX, -1.15 % Chief Executive Howard Schultz wrote a letter to the company's «partners» in which he reassured employees that the company's human - resources staff would provide help and support to anyone impacted by the ban.

A landscape architect, Karen sits on the board of New York's High Line public park, which Ackman money helped build; and Human Rights Watch, which has received major gifts from the couple.

She eventually sought help from human resources, which told her that corrective action would be taken.

The optimist's take on this trend is that robots help Amazon keep prices low, which means people buy more stuff, which means the company needs more people to man its warehouses even though it needs fewer human hours of labor per package.

i am happy that you had help in your time of need,, but at the end of the day these were not Mormons, or Catholics, or Jews or atheists... they were human beings helping human beings, which has been part of our evolutionary history..

Your brain which (like every other human brain) are a master of deception and delusion react to the stress by presenting you with the feeling that someone bigger and more powerfull is there to help you.

In the morning they are like grass which grows up: In the morning it flourishes and grows up; in the evening it is cut down and withers» The psalmist compares the human life to grass in order to help us realize how helpless and weak we are without God!

Our home cell system is a funtional structure which has helped with building stronger relationships and works well among the yout who are highly relational at this stage of their human development, but I still feel we are missing it somewhere.

Again, think of any human relationship (which are given to use to help us understand our relationship with God).

For one thing it gives one a sense of «at homeness» in the universe which helps satisfy the «longing to belong» that is a deep human need.

Where peace of mind is forfeited, we had better look to human causes which God stands ready — far more ready than we — to help men to control and correct.

Faithful to it, Vatican I recognised that faith involves a free act which can not «be produced necessarily by arguments of human reason» (DS 3035, 3010); hence the Council added to those external signs the «internal helps of the Holy Spirit» so that the former might be «most certain signs of divine revelation adapted to every intelligence» (DS 3009f, 3033f); as a result faith relies on «a most firm foundation» and «none can ever have a justreason for changing or doubting that same faith» (DS 3014, 3036; 2119 - 2121).

If not, then at least they might know something about resume preparation, or know someone in the Human Resources department at their workplace which can help the pastor market himself to local companies.

10... «only a sound philosophy can help candidates for the priesthood to develop a reflective awareness of the fundamental relationship that exists between the human spirit and truth, that truth which is revealed to us fully in Jesus Christ.»

Faithful to it, Vatican I recognised that faith involves a free act which can not «be produced necessarily by arguments of human reason» (DS 3035, 3010); hence the Council added to those external signs the «internal helps of the Holy Spirit» so that the former might be «most certain signs of divine revelation adapted to every intelligence» (DS 3009f, 3033f); as a result faith relies on «a most firm foundation» and «none can ever have a just reason for changing or doubting that same faith» (DS 3014, 3036; 2119 - 2121).

Hinduism can help Christians in the West rediscover a sense of the mystical — an awareness of the reality of the Divine, who or which can never adequately be described in human language.

Maybe a more positive valuing of human sexuality, which is evident in contemporary Christian thought, may help to combat the trivializing of it in Western society.

MOST of both of these texts are about peace and love and goodwill and all that, but as usual, as humans we can't help but add our own geopolitically motivated agendas into the mix, which are of course, usually taken far out of context hundreds or thousands of years later.

When correctly understood, these principles of obligation help Christians discern what they should do and lead them in both actualizing and mediating between various tendencies and needs (the third level) which Christians believe are essential for human existence.

Eliade is asking the modern (European) man to enlarge his «self» to discover that human aspect within him which will help him understand the myths in religion.

When I reflect on the infinite pains to which the human mind and heart will go in order to protect itself from the full impact of reality, when I recall the mordant analyses of religious belief which stem from the works of Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud and, furthermore, recognize the truth of so much of what these critics of religion have had to say, when I engage in a philosophical critique of the language of theology and am constrained to admit that it is a continual attempt to say what can not properly be said and am thereby led to wonder whether its claim to cognition can possibly be valid — when I ask these questions of myself and others like them (as I can not help asking and, what is more, feel obliged to ask), is not the conclusion forced upon me that my faith is a delusion?

Another Long Day by More than I (Matt Aznoe) and the Cargo movie are two media productions which help raise awareness about human trafficking.

Hence, a fundamental religious virtue is humility, born of the persuasion that no man and no human institution can rightly claim the authority of God himself, but that all are under an authority toward which each may at best help to direct his fellow seekers after truth.

In this chapter I have argued that Kierkegaard's thought helps us to understand the basic motivations which impel human beings to violence.

I believe that he can, and it is my purpose in this paper to suggest the way in which his thought helps us to understand the basic motives which impel human beings to violence.

Kierkegaard's Reflections on Violence We turn now to a consideration of the way in which Kierkegaard's thought can help us to understand the basic motives which lead human beings toward violence.

Gross was involved in the project, which helped «implement activities in support of the rule of law and human rights, political competition, and consensus building, and to strengthen civil society in support of just and democratic governance in Cuba,» according to a statement from DAI President and CEO Jim Boomgard at the time of Gross» arrest.

The pressure of the church in a society should help reduce the tension between spiritual freedom and social morality and therefore the influence of the church in society should produce a larger community which also may be spoken as a first fruits of the Future, God intends for human beings.

The major task in the ministry, to which both Whitehead's and Kaplan's process theologies are germane, is consoling those who have suffered tragedies, especially bereavement, and helping those who have suffered human injustice and oppression.

When Paul Lehmann in an often quoted sentence said that «God's purpose for human life is to make it and keep it human» he was putting the point in an admirable fashion — which helps to make contemporary people grasp both their high dignity as humans and their defection from that possibility.

However, since in the past Christianity has demonstrated its ability to survive the passing of the order which it has helped to shape and of which it has seemed to be an inseparable part, it is to be expected that this again will be the record and that after what may be a decline Christianity will revive and with increased power go on to mold, more than before, the human race.

It can help to set free the resources of will and intelligence which must be summoned if we are to achieve some tolerable solution of pressing human problems.

We who are married can help to overcome sexism, the prejudice and discrimination against women most obviously, but also against men, which blocks human becoming on a massive scale.

For MacIntyre, the practices necessary for training in practical reason through which we acquire the ability to act intelligibly requires the systematic growth of human potential by acquired excellence that can not help but challenge the character of modern moral practice and theory.

Stories help us identify one another as fellow human beings with whom we can laugh and weep and pray, rather than issues over which we must fight.

As responsible members of the human family, we all should support governmental, United Nations, and church - sponsored efforts to help families in poor nations acquire the food, shelter, medical help, and education which will allow them to use their full God - given potentialities.

I am just saying that usually, these sorts of disasters and catastrophes help spur the human race on toward a new level of understanding and unity, which make further advances easier.

The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!

Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present (SL 63 - 69)... Humans do not know the future, and what the future will be depends largely on just those choices which they now invoke the future to help them make.

Books like these, which delve deeply into both the human heart and the public square, can help us with the old struggle, the longtime call to people of faith to look not only inward and outward, but upward.