Sentences with phrase «world ought»

US researchers report in the journal Nature that they collected fossil pollens from 642 ponds and lake beds across Europe and North America, to provide a record of local temperature shifts in the last 11,700 years, to conclude that — without global warming as a consequence of profligate human use of fossil fuels — the world ought to be in a cool phase.

And governments of the world ought to take a good, sober, hard look at this issue and come up with sensible policy... not fearmongered doomsdayism.

Why America abandoned nuclear power (and what we can learn from South Korea) There's a simple, compelling argument that the world ought to be building many more nuclear power plants.

``... coherence in the world [an author] creates is constituted of two concepts he holds, which may be in conflict: one is his world view, his sense of the way the world is; and the other is his sense of morality, the way the world ought to be.»

«Whether you think you can, or you think you can't; you're right» Henry Ford once said to describe the importance of attitude towards achieving results, and the world ought to listen; the great American inventor certainly knew a few things about success.

Working on this film brought Shawn back to his home state of New Hampshire, where he believes all the screenplays in the world ought to be filmed.

This kind of interdisciplinary engagement may also have the side benefit of heightening the theorist's reflective awareness of the underlying sociological assumptions — about power, human nature, the main tendencies of social life and so on — that s / he inevitably makes in constructing a political vision of how the world ought to be.

IT»S GOOD TO BE Being the top all - time international goal scorer for the country who gave soccer to the world ought to be enough, but it's been the Manchester United striker's lot to be sometimes undervalued at home, as if somehow he's never been quite forgiven for supposedly not quite living up to the expectations England had for him.

He voted that the world ought not to agree about tastes; on another occasion, that we should not «be normal.»

In his preface to the Philosophy of Right, Hegel famously remarks that the owl of Minerva takes flight only as dusk is falling, which is to say that philosophy comes only at the end of an age, far too late in the day to tell us how the world ought to be; it can at most merely ponder what already has come to pass and so begun to pass away.

Those who seek a plan for reorganizing society on Christian lines make a judgment of society and a demand on the world — the judgment that the world ought not to be as it is, and the demand that society so change that there will be no more war, no more poverty, no more exploitation of man; so change that a Christian finds it satisfactory.

It suggests that even if we do not fully understand how religious and scientific responses to the world ought to be related, we do know that reality does not come to us divided in two parts, along the religion - science divide.

There is no one religious symbol or concept from the past which it is essential to retain for the spirituality of the global society, any more than the language of the whole world ought to be English, Arabic, Chinese or Latin.

To say one more word about preaching what the world ought to be like, philosophy arrives always too late for that.

The radicalness of this approach to perception is sharpened by Rosemary Haughton's skepticism about our acceptance of a biblical view of what the world ought to be:

My conclusion here will be that if there were a God and if he were viewed as having the power to influence events at this level at all, then we would have to conclude that the world ought to be a very different place than it in fact is.

By contrast, in our society it is commonly assumed that the poor and the hungry of the world ought to bear the major burdens of bettering their own condition.

With its emphasis on stewardship it allows us to affirm that the nonhuman world ought to be used in an ecologically responsible manner for the benefit of all humans.

It is idealistic to believe that we know how our world ought to work.

As Keith Stanovich, Richard West and Maggie Toplak point out in their new book, The Rationality Quotient, rational beliefs «must correspond to the way the world is,» not to the way you think the world ought to be.

So the world ought to be at an ideological turning point.

Yet he was its maestro, and so the space where it shows itself — and its products — to the world ought to bear his name.

Not exact matches

I think companies that are doing the right thing they ought to be joining me in looking for the Shkrelis of the world.

The tipping point came in 1917, when President Wilson made the decision to enter World War I. Suffragettes argued that the effort to «make the world safe for democracy» (Wilson's words) ought to begin at home by extending the francWorld War I. Suffragettes argued that the effort to «make the world safe for democracy» (Wilson's words) ought to begin at home by extending the francworld safe for democracy» (Wilson's words) ought to begin at home by extending the franchise.

What you ought to know: The site features a state - of - the - world newswire for intrepid travelers, sponsored by guidebook publisher Lonely Planet.

This ought to mean that unless there is a very severe slowdown in the world economy, the trade sector of the economy should still do pretty well, even if the growth rates are not quite as high as in the past year.

As much as possible the emphasis ought to be on experiential, learner - centric and inquiry - based classes that help to develop the mindset, reflexes, agility and resilience an entrepreneur needs to search for certainty in a chaotic world.

We ought not to identify a rational account of the world exclusively with what the natural sciences describe.

(8) In the affairs of nations, the American conservative feels that his country ought to set an example to the world, but ought not to try to remake the world in its image.

There has been a resurgence of interest in Raymond Aron in France, though the English - speaking world takes less notice of him than it ought.

I do think that maintaining the normativity of Scripture entails giving it a higher priority than worship, if we are talking about our means of knowing the shape the Christian faith ought to take in the world, even if our primary encounter with Scripture is within the context of worship.

Ultimately, she challenges readers to care, to love, and to take heart, things which ought to be central to any Christian's approach to the world.

Not only do we not know what we ought to change the world into; we should not be changing the world at all.

Having received grace from God, through Jesus, we ought to be the first to give it to the world in a thousand small ways every day.

You fundamentalist born - again Christians claiming to be offended by these «false prophets» really ought to regard them more closely, because they're exactly what you look like to the rest of the world.

The church, according to Pope John's opening address to the council, ought to serve the world with the «medicine of mercy,» rather than condemn it with the «medicine of severity.»

The field can also be characterized geographically, so that if revolutionary activity on the Continent was an element in the emerging constitution of the Reform Bill passage, then the same area ought to be considered when analyzing its antecedent world.

Pictures of the terror by which rulers in the ancient world sought to maintain their authority ought not to be applied to God's exercise of his rule and should not, in my opinion, be used to suggest that Jesus taught that the wicked would burn for ever in hell.

It ought to be apparent that in most respects this conception of God, which Charles Hartshorne has called «neoclassical theism» or «the di - polar conception of God,» is a natural consequence of the more general process way of seeing things or looking at the world.

Quite apart from that crisis, however, responsible theology ought to be done in the context of contemporary science and were it to take that context seriously, models underscoring the closeness, not the distance, of God and the world would emerge.

All this ought to make us reconsider all the activist talk in the church, the supposed imperative that the church should go out to meet the world, the insistence that Christians should stop presenting to men the authoritative demand and commandment of God....

What we ought to be able to discover in this world picture, once the incredible science is gone, is a conception of the universe in which, under what are for us weird and frequently utterly impossible images, the whole creation is seen as dependent upon a loving and active God who is its ultimate meaning and its ground of being.

Of course, there is still evil in the world, but we ought not to concentrate on sin or be obsessed by it, for sin is totally within the system of grace, and grace is stronger than sin and all - encompassing.

The work of this world is beneficial, and Christians ought to make their contribution to it.

A third method for determining how much you ought to be sharing with the rest of the world is based not on a percentage of income nor on how many (or few) dollars you feel you can spare each week, but instead on your own needs and your own use of money.

215 pages, $ 58 cloth, $ 19.95 There has been a resurgence of interest in Raymond Aron in France, though the English - speaking world takes less notice of him than it ought.

Mantel's memoir, like the novels, is thick with smoldering grievances: against teachers («I don't know if there is a case on record of a child of seven murdering a schoolteacher, but I think there ought to be»); adults generally («In Hadfield, as everywhere in history of the world, violence without justification or apology was meted out by big people to small»); and above all, against the Catholic Church, which stood in judgment on her mother when Mantel was a child.

The story illustrates Hauerwas's insistence that Christian pacifists ought not think that being nonviolent will make the world safer; it might well make it more violent.

And finally, if we do not want the world to be submerged by a pagan secularism without God and without hope, we ought not to compile statistics and make forecasts, but should bear our Christian witness in the market place by word and deed.

So, Oscar Wilde wrote: But in a manner not yet understood of the world he regarded sin and suffering as being in themselves beautiful holy things and modes of perfection», did he!!!! ----- The apostle Paul wrote:::» Futhermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not be done.»