Sentences with phrase «which supports life»

The biosphere is that slim layer of earth crust, earth surface, ocean and atmosphere which envelops the earth and which supports life.

The whole of our biology is actually designed to absorb from the environment that which supports life.

With age, our eyes accumulate waste in retinal pigment epithelium (RPE), which supports the life and function of photoreceptors (light sensitive cells in the eye); in advanced stages, RPE and photoreceptors die.

Thus, for instance, the self - conscious freedom of human activity is made possible by the extremely complex order that it is privileged to appropriate, including the conditions which support life on this earth and the complexity of the human body.

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No Fear also saw the opportunity to extend its brand into music, and partnered in 2007 with House of Blues / Live Nation to launch an annual No Fear Music Tour, which has supported bands such as Bullet for My Valentine and Lamb Of God.

Thiel, who also supports the idea of creating autonomous islands on which people could live and create their own laws, said he is in favor of a bi-partisan bill called the «Intimate Privacy Protection Act,» which would make it illegal to distribute explicit private images without a person's consent, and would involve criminal penalties for those who profit from doing so.

At the time, the former investment banker was making noise about taking the world's largest economy off life support, which helped market bulls roar into the new year.

There's a bunch of existing Chromebooks that'll support the Play Store when it goes live, but very few of those manage to find a good balance between price, performance, and having a touchscreen, which is important when you're about to add thousands of touch - enabled apps.

In return, you are given compensation, in salary, wages and benefits, which in turn allow you to make personal economic decisions, manage your life and support the people you love.

A very basic example of confirmation bias in daily life, in which people look for information that supports their existing notions and views, is the preference of conservatives to watch Fox News and of liberals to watch MSNBC.

Historically, there's always been a problem of lawyers thinking they know everything, which is in fact a problem in life with lawyers... There's been a culture of activism of making it clear to lawyers that the support is necessary and appreciated, but they weren't necessarily the leaders of the movement.

The report suggests that civilians have been detained merely because they were suspected of supporting varying sides of the Ukrainian conflict, which began in April 2014 and has claimed more than 9,400 lives.

«We agree with her remarks about the high costs of living in San Francisco, which is why we announced in December that we are expanding our Eat24 customer support team into our Phoenix office where we will pay the same wage,» read a company statement, echoing CEO Stoppelman's comments on Twitter over the weekend that the cost of living in San Francisco was excessively high.

«The key point here is that this investment then supports transfers of technology (as well as intangible benefits such as transfers of knowledge, know - how, management techniques, et cetera), which raises productivity and allows for a sustainable rise in incomes and living standards.»

For now, technology companies like ours — who lack the crucial support of venture capitalists — are forced to rely on angel investors and the generosity of companies like Google, which just partnered with Beit Issie Shapiro to grant $ 1 million in order to donate the Sesame Enable technology to every individual in Israel whose life could be improved by such a phone.

Nevertheless, unemployment threatens the American economy, which is still on life support, and any gains in U.S. oil demand will have a tough time making up for ongoing stagnation in Japan, European austerity and Chinese curbs on inflation.

Focused on financings and financial advisory for life sciences, medical technology and health care services companies our health care team have developed industry contacts which are leveraged to result in flawless execution and long - term client support.

We live in an «Age of Reforms,» which in many cases have already supported stronger activity and in others promise improving global growth, in our assessment:

In effect, you'd be stripping cities and city - regions of real earnings with which they could reinvest and effectively transferring those earnings to keep other places on life support.

Wright - Lacy urged corporate America to increase its use of minority - owned businesses because, by promoting supplier diversity, these corporations are helping to support the economic base of the communities in which they live, work and do business.

Living Goods told us that in the past it has used a mix of unrestricted and restricted funding to support its operations in Kenya.156 In 2015, Living Goods told us that it plans to spend about $ 700,000 in Kenya, 157 which is similar to the roughly $ 750,000 it spent in 2014.158 As far as we know, Living Goods does not have plans to use further unrestricted funds to scale up in Kenya.

Additionally, employees of Bass Pro Shops impacted by hurricane Harvey are eligible for assistance through the Bass Pro Cares Fund, which furnishes financial support for essential living expenses «in times of devastating need.»

The president held a video conference from Camp David in which he instructed departments and agencies to «stay fully engaged and positioned to support his number one priority of saving lives,» the statement said.

The government will introduce legislation for the Pension for Life plan, which will include benefits to support Canada's veterans.

Support can be accessed via live chat, email, and telephone which includes local numbers as well as toll - free

Conservatives are railing against dual decisions by the British government to prevent Alfie Evans» parents from transporting him to Italy for further treatment, and to order Alfie's doctors to withdrawal life support from Alfie, which they did, and which soon led to Alfie's death.

«Southwest is committed to connecting people to what's important in their lives, and we are honored to provide All Hands and Hearts travel support which helps connect staff and volunteers to communities affected by disaster.»

The store, which is near Davis - Monthan Air Force Base, supports military and their families as they transition to civilian life.

Contributions and profits from the sale of promotional items are used to help Choose Life America, Inc. promote the sale of the real Choose Life License Plate which raises funds to support adoption efforts of Crisis Pregnancy Centers, Maternity Homes and not - for - profit adoption agencies.

So long as you support a healthcare system in which people have to make economic decisions over life and death based on what they can afford, you are not pro-life.

Jesus would not support anything that would lead to the distruction of life that he and his Holy Father, and Holy Spirit created, which is life.

Can someone please understand why so many catholics stay in a church which takes positions they can not either support or live?

It is designed to evolve to higher life forms until intelligence reaches a point at which it will support the spirit.

This guy is, in essence, asserting that at that time no one knew anything about places they didn't live, therefore if anything they said about Israel is accurate then they were there and eyewitnesses to everything and the gospels are correct and magic happened, which is completely moronic and without evidentiary support.

It includes a chapter on domestic life that reviews how and where single men lived; a chapter on associations such as the YMCA and YMHA, which sprang up in these years to offer support, wholesome company, and structure to bachelor life in the city; a chapter on bachelor - frequented institutions (a rather more dignified term than most readers would choose) such as the saloon, the pool and dance halls, and the barber shops.

For instance, a strong resolution opposing embryonic stem cell research, which destroys human lives, passed with 97 percent support.

Hence, even in this highly complex case, it is the collective agency of the entire structured society or overall field of activity which is at work to support a «thread of personal order» among the living occasions.

The statement called for understanding, forgiveness and spiritual support of homosexual persons; expressed opposition to «the unjust and unkind treatment given to homosexuals by individuals, society and the church»; and pledged to minister to homosexuals and «to help them to change their life style in a manner which brings glory to God.»

By conceiving of collegiality in terms of «support groups,» the authors fail to appreciate the potential for strong forms of collegiality that have the character of friendship, in which fellow pastors share each other's lives and help shape each other's character.

It calls for the identification and development of resources «which will enable all families to be ministered to creatively and all persons, regardless of their family patterns, to be affirmed and supported in the life of the Church...» Behind such statements lies an emphasis articulated already in 1978 by G. William Sheek, then Director of Family Ministries and Human Sexuality of the National Council of Churches.

Living in the Old Age involves supporting less - than - perfect institutions and making compromises (which those who take the rigorous path call cop - outs).

C4M's high - profile campaign attracted around 668,000 signatures to a petition which said: «I support the legal definition of marriage which is the voluntary union for life of one man and one woman to the exclusion of all others.

In a Czech land called «Comenia» that could be Bohemia, first the Nazis and then the Russians impose terror and devastation, through which the author traces the fate of several families, including that of an aristocratic woman who both supported the Nazis and saved the lives of Jews.

While President Bush endorsed the 2005 Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act, which I supported, he also championed a pre-emptive war in Iraq that costs hundreds of thousands of lives.

If the work of creation is seen as an evolutionary process, then existence of matter is the necessary precondition for the appearance, on earth, of spirit: elsewhere Pere Teilhard de Chardin speaks of matter in more exact language as the «matrix of spirit»: that in which life emerges and is supported, not the active principle from which it takes its rise.

«Lord, lock me up within you»: yes indeed I believe — and this belief is so strong that it has become one of the supports of nay inner life — that an «exterior darkness» which was wholly outside you would be pure nothingness.

It is in this context that academic freedom finds meaning — it supports a plurality of voices and traditions (past and present) when debating what vision of human life maximizes flourishing, which is the ongoing project of any society that seeks to perpetuate itself.

Those who do support capital punishment can make a legitimate argument that there are extreme cases in which the failure of a society to demand a life (capital punishent) is the failure to defend life.

If a minister is fortunate enough to live in one of the eighty - two communities (in thirty - two states) in which there is a local Council on Alcoholism, he should support its work as well as encourage his parishioners to do so.

Agape bids us seek justice here, not the stale justice of combat and compromise, but the justice of a search for a new economic, political, and ecclesiastical order in which sexuality can be fulfilling for each in a life which is a support and not a barrier to the love which binds all together.