It is possible that international organization will ultimately supplant the multi-state system, but its proper function for the immediate future is to reform and supplement that system in order to render pluralism more compatible with an interdependent world.

But far from being concerned about whether or not Russia will have achieved Utopia by 1980, the world is watching Moscow today primarily for clues as to whether or not there will be nuclear Armageddon in the immediate future.

With world peace constantly being threatened, most of us regard the future skeptically, and even with fear.

Our own freedom, and the future of freedom around the world, depend, in a very real sense, on their ability to build growing and independent nations where men can live in dignity, liberated from the bonds of hunger, ignorance and poverty.

At the recent horse show convention in New York it was stated that this Intermediate Judging Class is meeting with great success and will be a great help to future judges in the horse world.

By recognizing and helping Juniors get interested in the dog world, all will be helping to create future dog owners.

When consciousness deserts the sleeping body and the wakeful world, it continues in the myriad progressions of the ever-present past and future, in a life as vibrant and real as the one left when the body tired and required sleep.

Time perspective -- the ability to plan for the future and to postpone gratifying immediate wants in order to achieve long-range objectives -- is more easily developed if, from infancy on, the individual has been able to rely on and trust people and the world in which she lives.

If we look about the world today, we can see clearly that there are two especially significant factors shaping the future of our civilization: science and religion.

There are several other initiatives around the world involving humanoid research and development at this time, which will hopefully introduce a broader spectrum of realized technology in the near future.

This latter construal is sometimes expressed by saying " there is no fact of the matter as to whether or not P ." Thus, we may speak of anti-realism with respect to other minds, the past, the future, universals, mathematical entities ( such as natural numbers ), moral categories, the material world, or even thought.

He spoke about what he considered to be his direct experience of the Akashic Records ( sometimes called the " Akasha Chronicle "), thought to be a spiritual chronicle of the history, pre-history, and future of the world and mankind.

Yet looking far into the future the Völva sees a brighter vision of a new world, when both Höðr and Baldr will come back ( stanza 62 ).

Botanists also study how plants produce food we can eat and how to increase yields and therefore their work is important in mankind's ability to feed the world and provide food security for future generations, for example, through plant breeding.

Daniel 7-12 focuses on God ’ s plan for the future in regard to the fate of world kingdoms being replaced by His kingdom.

The first 39 chapters prophesy doom for a sinful Judah and for all the nations of the world that oppose God, while the last 27 prophesy the restoration of the nation of Israel and a new creation in God's glorious future kingdom ; this section includes the Songs of the Suffering Servant, four separate passages referring to the nation of Israel, interpreted by Christians as prefiguring the coming of Jesus Christ.

In the real world, a potential difficulty is that currency markets are far from a free market, with government and central banks being major players, and this is unlikely to change within the foreseeable future.

In the future world of Wells ' vision, virtually all members of humanity know this language.

The novel explores life in an imagined future world where a totalitarian government has achieved terrifying levels of power and control.

Beck also described a negative cognitive triad, made up of the negative schemata and cognitive biases of the person, theorizing that depressed individuals make negative evaluations of themselves, the world, and the future.

Futurist Christians consider the " Abomination of Desolation " prophecy of Daniel mentioned by Jesus in and as referring to an event in the end time future, when a 7 year peace treaty will be signed between Israel and a world ruler called " the man of lawlessness ", or the " Antichrist " affirmed by the writings of the Apostle Paul in 2 Thessalonians.

The crew is made up of four unique characters: Jet Black, a former ISSP police officer who retired following a mob hit that cost him his arm, Spike Spiegel, a laid-back exiled hitman of the ruthless Red Dragons ' Syndicate, Faye Valentine, a beautiful amnesiac con artist who awakened into the future world after a lengthy period of cryogenic hibernation, and Radical Edward, a hyperactive and barefooted preteen girl with a reputation as a prolific computer hacker.

" It has also been implied, especially in the ' alternate future ' story Kingdom Come, that the Clark Kent persona is symbolic of the values taught to him by his wholesome Midwestern parents, the values he holds most dear: his instinctive knowledge of right and wrong that allows him to adopt his Superman persona, without being consumed by the moral implications of his actions ; Superman is the means through which he can bring this example to the world.

Judaism is more focused on the practicalities of understanding how one may live a sacred life in the world according to God's will, rather than a hope of a future one.

* The future hope for humankind and the world: An increasing number of scholars are also affirming resurrection and a renewed and transformed earth ( not going to heaven ) as the ultimate hope for humankind and the world.

In 1974, Marvel Comics writer Rich Buckler introduced the cyborg Deathlok the Demolisher, and a dystopian post-apocalyptic future, in Astonishing Tales # 25.

* Cable, a mutant from the future in Marvel Comics.

In the alternate future called " Marvel 2099 ", various power struggles over the fate of Latveria end with most of the country destroyed by nanites.

* In Marvel Comics, Limbo is a section outside time, ruled over by a future version of Kang the Conqueror called Immortus.

It has been shown to be possible to travel through time without creating a new alternative universe, instead altering events in the future, but this seems to have devastating and very far-reaching repercussions, as depicted in Marvel 1602 ( it almost destroyed the whole multiverse, including the afterlife ).

In the alternate future depicted in Marvel 2099, an alien attack floods much of the earth rendering the Savage Land the only inhabitable space.

* Talon ( Marvel Comics ), a Marvel Comics superhero from the Guardians of the Galaxy future

In the limited series, Fantastic Four: The End, the superheroine formerly known as Kismet ( now under the name of Ayesha ) has apparently taken over the Captain Marvel mantle in the not-too-distant future.

" However, because of the way time-travel in the Marvel universe works, it should be noted that this is only a potential future, not necessarily a definite one ( This future being even more unlikely after the events of One More Day ).

Bishop was a member of Xavier's Security Enforcers ( initially called the Xavier School Enforcers ), a mutant police force from a dystopian future of the Marvel Universe.

Born about 80 years in the future of the Marvel Universe, Bishop was the son of Aborigine mutant refugees who fled Australia for America a day before it was devastated in a nuclear attack.

* Spider-Girl, a Marvel Comics character from an alternate future

In the MC2 Universe ( an alternate future primarily focused on the children of current Marvel superheroes ), Elektra married Wolverine and the two had a daughter named Rina Logan, a. k. a. Wild Thing.

Death and suicide are recurring themes in Starlin's work: Personifications of Death appeared in his Captain Marvel series and in a fill-in story for Ghost Rider ; Warlock commits suicide by killing his future self ; and suicide is a theme in a story he plotted and drew for The Rampaging Hulk magazine.

Marvel 2099 is a Marvel Comics imprint, started in 1992, that explores one possible future of the Marvel Universe.

The 2099 world has been seen occasionally since, most notably in Peter David's " Future Tense " storyline in Captain Marvel, which revisited both Spider-Man 2099 and the alternate future of the Maestro that David created in The Incredible Hulk: Future Imperfect, explaining a plot point which had been left dangling since David had abruptly left Spider-Man 2099.

The present-day Marvel continuity is referred to as an " Age of Heroes " that abruptly ended in a catastrophe a century before that also set back society ( This catastrophe was averted in the present when Miguel O ' Hara-Spider-Man 2099-temporarily swapped places with his past self shortly before the cataclysm, turning Miguel's world into an alternate future of the Marvel Universe rather than the future ).