Gaians argue that it is a human duty to act as such-committing themselves in particular to the Precautionary Principle.

Some Gaians say Gaia is Earth's authentic name as " She " is therefore personalized in order for us as humans to have a better relationship with Her.

Many Gaians become vegetarian or vegan, however this is not a requirement.

Some Gaians say Gaia is Earth's authentic name as " She " is therefore personalized in order for us as humans to have a better relationship with Her.

Many Gaians often become vegetarians and vegans, however this is not a requirement.

Some radical political environmentalists who accept some form of the Gaia theory call themselves Gaians.

Gaians played an important role in shaping the future course of universe.

In the end of Foundation and Earth, the main character, Golan Trevize, explains that psychohistory had a flaw, that it didn't apply for humaniform robots like R. Daneel Olivaw, Gaians like Bliss and the Mule and more like them.

Gaians have long names ; the longer the name, the higher their status.

Members of Gaia Online, known as Gaians, receive a customizable avatar when they sign up.

Gaians are individuals who use the Gaia Theory of James Lovelock spiritually.

Bliss, like all Gaians, has an enormous affinity for life and can't bear to see life destroyed.

Gaians argue that societies evolve deterministically to play a role in the ecology of their biosphere, or else die off as failures due to competition from more efficient societies exploiting nature's leverage.

Gaians are individuals who use the Gaia Theory of James Lovelock spiritually.

In contrast, some Gaians see such colonists as locusts or a disease, and may see all human beings as elements of a single Earth-wide ecology, if not organism.

Political Gaians are a relatively recent offshoot of the ecology movement — and get their name from the Gaia hypothesis, a postulate first devised by James Lovelock holding that the biosphere tends to homeorhetic balance or even homeostasis ( with the implication that human beings should be working toward such balances or states.

Lacking a strong general to control the by-now mostly barbarian Roman Army, Honorius could do little to attack Alaric's forces directly, and apparently adopted the only strategy he could in the situation: wait passively for the Visigoths to grow weary and spend the time marshalling what forces he could.

Roman rulers began to persecute the new sect almost immediately ( the emperor Nero accused the Christians of starting the fires that destroyed much of Rome in 64 AD ), and would continue to do so for centuries, sometimes vigorously, and other times passively.

It was the Egyptian-born philosopher Plotinus CE who brought Greek Idealism to the Roman Empire as Neo-Platonism, and with it the concept that not only do all existents emanate from a " primary essence " but that the mind plays an active role in shaping or ordering the objects of perception, rather than passively receiving experiential data.

Myelinated sections of axons are not excitable and do not produce action potentials and the signal is propagated passively as electrotonic potential.

These processes do not need added energy, they act passively.

Artificial competence can be induced in laboratory procedures that involve making the cell passively permeable to DNA by exposing it to conditions that do not normally occur in nature.

80 % of the blood flows passively down to the ventricles, so the atria do not have to contract a great amount.

It indicates that human beings do not passively experience phenomena, but that the content of our experiences is something which is validly conceptually designated by mind.

He exhorts people not to just wait passively for an opportunity to vote for justice, because voting for justice is as ineffective as wishing for justice ; what you need to do is to actually be just.

Powell asserted that as this immigration was concentrated in urban areas, the result would be violence: " I do not believe it is in human nature that a country ... should passively watch the transformation of whole areas which lie at the heart of it into alien territory ".

As long as Austria ruled absolutely, Deak argued, Hungarians should do no more than passively resist illegal demands.

Individual organisms compete for food and mates ; groups of living organisms compete for control of territory and resources ; species though, do not so much compete, as passively adapt to their environment.

Petey confronts them one last time but passively backs down as they take Stanley away, " broken ", calling out " Stan, don't let them tell you what to do!

By what right of superior virtue, Southerners ask, do the people of the North do this??

I ask you to do me the last favour of reading them by 8 to-morrow evening, about which time I shall come to say my sad good-bye.

I would ask, `` Why not do both ''??

Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members who desire to do so may extend their remarks at this point in the record ; ;

He wanted to ask her about Jenkins now, but he knew he couldn't do so in Needham's presence.

`` All you have to do is ask '', he retorted hopefully.

We all know what the dummies will do '' -- he gestured at the hummocks in which the decorticated men were cradled -- `` and we all know what the new people will ask.

When these do not work, he tries to avoid responsibility, saying he will ask the government for orders.

Again, it was not enough to merely ask or urge his audiences to put aside their blood loyalties and ethnic differences, and embrace the equality of all Muslims under the Sacred Law, it was necessary to make them do so.

That is, the rules do not say whether one player may ask another how many shares of stock he or she owns in a particular chain.

If the catechumen is of age, the celebrant will ask him or her if he or she desires Baptism, to which the catechumen will respond: " I do.

Despite Edmund's respected intelligence and abilities, he has no personal fortune to speak of, apart from his frequently fluctuating wage packet from the Prince, as he says: " If I'm running short of cash, all I have to do is go upstairs and ask Prince Fat-head for a rise.

I do not attach undue importance to this movement, but it is increasingly difficult to meet the argument that it is unfair to ask the British taxpayer, already overwhelmed with taxation, to bear the cost of imposing on Palestine an unpopular policy.

* Ana Castillo: " marginalized, brown woman who is treated as a foreigner and is expected to do menial labor and ask nothing of the society in which she lives.

In the United States federal courts, a cross-examining attorney is typically not permitted to ask questions that do not pertain to the testimony offered during direct examination, but most state courts do permit a lawyer to cross-examine a witness on matters not raised during direct examination.

: " O God, the Eternal Father, we ask thee, in the name of thy Son, Jesus Christ, to bless and sanctify this water * to the souls of all those who drink of it, that they may do it in remembrance of the blood of thy Son, which was shed for them ; that they may witness unto thee, O God, the Eternal Father, that they do always remember him, that they may have his Spirit to be with them.

Perhaps you ask why I do this.

You stipulate that we should not ask for or accept anything but Holy Scripture, but you do it in such a way as to require that we permit you to be its sole interpreter, renouncing all others.

" I asked whether the Japanese would become Christians if I went with him to this country, and he replied that they would not do so immediately, but would first ask me many questions and see what I knew.

Under this pact, Finland was obliged to resist armed attacks by " Germany or its allies " against Finland, or against the Soviet Union through Finland, and, if necessary, ask for Soviet military aid to do so.