Sentences with phrase «with human achievement»

The professional climate change deniers at the Competitive Enterprise Institute counter-programmed it with Human Achievement Hour.

Not exact matches

Another important principle, articulated by Michael Armstrong in his book A Handbook of Human Resource Management, is that business success «is most likely to be achieved if the personnel policies and procedures of the enterprise are closely linked with, and make a major contribution to, the achievement of corporate objectives and strategic plans.»

It's a great way to get people comfortable with recognizing their own achievement, hearing how they've positively impacted others, and connecting on a more human level.

With his record running times, Bolt stretched the limits of human achievement, sending physicists scrambling to explain what made him so special ---- in essence, his longer, stronger legs create more ground force to propel him forward ---- and ponder the possibility of anyone on the planet ever running faster.

Worse, voluntarily makes poor choices that run counter to reason and actual goal achievement, with the ultimate result of human annihilation, to no purpose except machine contrarianism.

Katherine High, Spark's president and chief scientific officer, expressed her enthusiasm for the early clinical data related to SPK - 8011: «The encouraging start of our SPK - 8011 clinical trial reinforces the strength of our gene therapy platform, delivers human proof - of - concept in a second liver - mediated disease — a significant achievement in the gene therapy field — and positions us well to potentially transform the current treatment approach for this life - altering disease with a one - time intervention.»

This comparison is not as outrageous as it seems: Like monasticism, science is an enterprise with a superhuman aim whose achievement is forever beyond the capacities of the flawed humans who aspire toward it.

And yet, with the emergence of consciousness at the level of regnant human occasions, the struggle for justice becomes ingredient in the achievement of the richest harmony of experience attainable.

Besides undercutting human achievement (your team could only beat my team with divine influence?)

In line with the premise of continuity, if belief as an operative principle for the achievement of the future appeared in man as a «rational» or human act, it must somehow be already in the past, but in an irrational form.

For they are disenchanted with a culture that neglects human problems while priding itself on its two achievements of technical efficiency and affluence.

Third, the context has shifted: in contrast to the traditional Catholic conception of the political community, and politics within such communities, as the means of achieving real if limited justice for human life in the world, and a corresponding theory of international relations, recent Catholic thought on war often treats the state as a locus of injustice and the goals of particular states as inherently at odds with the achievement of common human goals, while an internationalism defined in terms of the United Nations system is proposed as the best means to those common goals.

Buddhism, as the culminating achievement of India, lies side by side with Christianity as an alternative mode of human realization.

Yet we share something with the Greeks every time we assemble for this great athletic contest: a desire to transcend the politics of the moment and reach beyond the ordinary limits of human achievement.

if humans had just fell in line with religious teachings and never asked questions other than «god did it»... then people would still be dying in child birth, the common cold, small poxs etc etc etc. i find that we survived a s a species to become the alpha predator of this planet and the achievements we have made since then to be amazing; attributing everything humans have achieved to a god just cheapens the value of our achievements as a species.

A preoccupation with faith stages may perpetuate an illusion that spiritual wholeness is a human achievement.

Nonetheless, the affirmation will not be evaded that the biblical influence has been, and is, of a more potent sort; for it strongly grips human emotions, the driving force in achievement, and sets them aflame with a supreme ideal which by its very loftiness thrills and mocks us.

Thus to bring the inner realm of man's freedom and the whole outward task of human culture and social advance into one religious unity, with a clear ethical imperative and sustaining hope, was the supreme achievement of the liberal Christian mind.

Israel, we may say, would have granted the supremacy of the invisible church, the custodian of the nation's best social achievements and highest idealism; but the visible church was too fallibly human to be trusted with so high a responsibility.

Tinder, however, has no patience with those who use this gap between human achievement and Christian hope as an excuse for inaction.

This refers not only to other historic religions, which also produce high fruits of human achievement — whether or not in as great numbers or with as much efficiency as Christianity we are not concerned to say at this point but to movements and influences not ordinarily called religious.

At the other, in protest against the self - righteous «perfectionism» thus implied, is the current neo-orthodox tendency to stress the continuance of sin in the most saintly Christians, with reluctance to grant any significant moral achievement as the result of redemption lest it savor of human presumption.

In this view, when the primitive idea of God, which was based on the personification of powers of nature, vanishes gradually behind the infinitude of the causal sequence, the concept of God gains in coherence and consistency in proportion as it achieves a firm position in connection with the claims and needs of the human spirit, and becomes the «irreducible coefficient of the achievement of moral processes in self - consciousness.»

While emphasizing that salvation takes place by grace, on the basis of the work of Christ rather than human effort or achievement, the Catechism seems reluctant to engage with the questions raised above and does little to reassure the anxieties of any readers familiar with the sixteenth - century debates.»

Few will deny, for example, that Paul's theology represents with something approaching adequacy the fact and meaning of sin in human life — the reality of moral evil, the universal blight it brings, man's hopeless entanglement with it, the perverse and rebellious pride, deep in our nature, which degrades us, distorts our efforts, mars even our best moral achievements, and from which we know God must save us if we are to be saved at all.

But even more daunting, his own productivity and protean creativity so defy the imagination that one might almost sympathize with the Shakespeare «deniers if the candidates put forward in his stead were not themselves such pathetic blue «blood epicenes» not to mention the fact that the achievement would still remain inexplicable coming from any human being, whatever the color of his blood.

A third area of focus for continuing education that is relevant for the achievement of mental health is concerned with the meaning of religion in relation to the meanings of the other disciplines of human thought.

The Reformers» alternative conception of the way of love in the world begins with the insight that the tendency of man is to seek self - justification and to think of ethical perfection as an achievement of human freedom.

One may doubt that this results in the achievement of the kind of unity that has to do with the human being.

God treats us as sons and daughters, providing attractions from his or her circumambient love and usually under creaturely incognitos (including above all our fellow humans), which can save us from ourselves and set us on the path toward fuller shared existence here and now, with the promise that our achievements, when they are for good, will be received by God.

The rampant evil we see in the world today: ~ the corruption of human character so prevalent even in the young, ~ the disregard of everything that is pure, virtuous and godly, being replaced with apathy and indifference toward anything that stands for righteousness, ~ the boastfulness and pride in man's own achievements... ~ the inability to recognize the beauty and virtue in things that generations of the past naturally understood.

Confession becomes prayer when it is made with a consciousness of the limitlessness of the possibilities of goodness against which every human achievement must appear as a relative failure.

But the analogy of divine creative achievement to human mental achievement seems to be harmonious both with the logic of emergence and with numerous religious symbols of God's power and love.

The italics are Teilhard's own; and the succeeding pages of the essay from which the quotation comes show that for him «what has gone wrong» was the failure of much traditional Christian teaching and preaching to see that the world — the whole created order in its materiality, along with man's grasp of the importance of secular effort and achievement — is an ongoing movement in which significance is given to human life.

Since all of us are filled with admiration for the achievements of science and since all of us desire to practice and propagate such human virtues as friendliness, tolerance, good humor, sympathy and courage, we unconsciously assent to scientific humanism as a working philosophy of life.

Using a graphic image, he concludes, «the normal human reaction to a great cultural achievement like the Bible is to do with it what the Philistines did to Samson: reduce it to impotence, then lock it in a mill to grind our aggressions and prejudices» (p. 233).

Working with Worms to Fight Climate Change Global studies show that water scarcity and water stress are increasing, and as much as 15 % to 35 % of human withdrawals of water for agriculture are considered unsustainable.1 Achievement of climate change - related commitments like those made at last year's Paris Climate Conference («COP21») will require that businesses strategically manage their water footprints for maximum efficacy while mitigating negative impacts.

Among the large number of available studies measuring developmental achievements in relation to diet, no suggestions are ever made of any intellectual or other neurological detriments associated with absence of formula supplements or human milk fortifiers, even when there is slower premature infant growth.

Responding CP Imohimi Edgal, attributed the achievements of the Command on human rights issues to the cordial working relationship with members of the Bar and the Bench.

But with opposition MPs and human rights groups raising concerns at the government's illiberal record, he maintained a «fashionable but false orthodoxy» sought to deny Labour's achievements since 1997.

He also noted in particular that in addition to his landmark achievements in human and infrastructural development, he remained the only Governor (past and present) that was not leaving the State with burden of debt, urging other Governors to emulate his people - oriented administration.

Hublin, who accepts that Neandertals were cognitively sophisticated but believes their cultural achievements fell short of modern humans», is impatient with what he sees as Zilhão's absolutism.

These findings suggest that self - control may not be a crowning psychological achievement of human evolution and indeed may have nothing to do with self - awareness.

«In addition to gains in achievement test scores we also saw improvements in engagement with school, such as an increase in attendance of about 2.5 weeks per year» said Jonathan Guryan, Associate Professor of Human Development and Social Policy in the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University and Co-director of the University of Chicago Urban Education Lab.

«This is a very impressive scientific achievement and it represents a major step forward in dealing with one of the major barriers in transplantation of organs from animals to humans.

This admiration for human achievement somewhat undermines Adam's intentions to kill himself with a wooden bullet obtained from his stoner human buddy Ian (Anton Yelchin in a Renfield - goes - Rock - n - Roll mode).

Best Actress: Annette Bening — Kids Are All Right — stern, intelligent yet moving and likeable — it takes a real pro to accomplish that with such style and verve Nicole Kidman — Rabbit Hole — heartbreaking but resilient — a perfect balance between broken and fixed — it is so joyful to watch a character so succinctly communicated Lesley Manville — Another Year — heartbreaking with closeup after closeup of vulnerability and grasping hope — truly a fragile and pulsating performance Julianne Moore — Kids Are All Right — courageous and oh so human — sexy and vulnerable in an earthy way — her struggles with herself are the heart of the movie and she carries it magnificently and warmly Natalie Portman — Black Swan — the tour de force this year — the crazy, emotionally volatile core of a crazy, emotionally volatile film — some wonder if it might be «easer» to play such big emotions but the incredibly thin wire she has to traverse in such an extreme environment is daunting and she makes it work and gives us believability and solicits true sympathy in the middle of a fright fest — a truly accomplished achievement

In an effort to significantly alter the human capital in the nine schools, 100 percent of principals, 30 percent of other administrators, and 52 percent of teachers were removed and replaced with individuals who possessed the values and beliefs consistent with an achievement - driven mantra and, wherever possible, a demonstrated record of achievement.

Although it is true that the constitution of the United Nations represented itself as an effort of intergovernmental cooperation and plural unity of human diversity, creating a planetary consciousness of belonging to a community with a common destiny, the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) forces us to create new symbiosis between ecological sustainability and human rights.

Evidence of student growth that goes beyond academic achievement drives home what so many of the Match leaders and corps members underscored as central to understanding Match Corps: tutoring Match - style is about human capital, relationship building, and providing students with the confidence to succeed, not only in school but in life.