I refer to the notion that the structure of society is a microcosm of the cosmic design and that history conforms to patterns of justice and chastisement as if it were a morality play set in motion by the gods for our instruction.

Pending the reorganization of our foreign aid structure and program, the Peace Corps should be established as an agency in the Department of State.

We simply find ourselves in the position of having no means for inquiring into the structure and meaning of this range of our experience.

At one time I became disturbed in the faith in which I had grown up by the apparent inroads being made upon both Old and New Testaments by a `` Higher Criticism '' of the Bible, to refute which I felt the need of a better knowledge of Hebrew and of archaeology, for it seemed to me that to pull out some of the props of our faith was to weaken the entire structure.

And so today when we examine the structure of our knowledge of the atom and of the universe, we are forced to conclude that the best word to describe our universe is music.

Yet our state is similar to a cancer cell — with its messianism and expansionism, its totalitarian suppression of dissent, the authoritarian structure of power, with a total absence of public control in the most important decisions in domestic and foreign policy, a closed society that does not inform its citizens of anything substantial, closed to the outside world, without freedom of travel or the exchange of information.

" In the New Testament, a thorough concordance search shows that the second most frequent use of " head " ( kephalē ), after " the structure that connects to our neck and sits atop our bodies ," is the metaphorical sense of " source.

Of his characters ' transformations, Cronenberg said, " But because of our necessity to impose our own structure of perception on things we look on ourselves as being relatively stable.

A variety of definitions exist: F. Stuart Chapin and coauthors define it as " the application of ecological science to resource management to promote long-term sustainability of ecosystems and the delivery of essential ecosystem goods and services ", while Norman Christensen and coauthors defined it as " management driven by explicit goals, executed by policies, protocols, and practices, and made adaptable by monitoring and research based on our best understanding of the ecological interactions and processes necessary to sustain ecosystem structure and function " and Peter Brussard and colleagues defined it as " managing areas at various scales in such a way that ecosystem services and biological resources are preserved while appropriate human use and options for livelihood are sustained ".

Some notable observed features of galaxy structure ( including our own Milky Way ) that astronomers wish to explain with galactic formation theories include ( but are certainly not limited to ) the following:

* If we grant a building permit to build a religious structure in our community, then there will be no bound on the number of building permits we will have to grant for religious structures and the nature of this city will change.

Philosophers study, rather than use, the concepts that structure our thinking.

For example, a few percent change in the value of the fine structure constant would be enough to eliminate stars like our Sun.

Their apparent duality is conditioned by the structure of our consciousness, which separates perception and thinking, but these two faculties give us two complementary views of the same world ; neither has primacy and the two together are necessary and sufficient to arrive at a complete understanding of the world.

Once an area of almost tribal allegiance to different schools of thought, today there is wide spread consensus about the structure of personality assessment and its status within the framework of the cross disciplinary progress being made in our understanding of Human Nature.

The narrator speculates at one point that the mysterious aliens who left this structure on the Moon may have used mechanisms belonging " to a technology that lies beyond our horizons, perhaps to the technology of para-physical forces.

The film led Roger Ebert to call Reiner " one of Hollywood's very best directors of comedy ", and said that it was " most conventional, in terms of structure and the way it fulfills our expectations.

Kant denies that either space or time are substance, entities in themselves, or learned by experience ; he holds rather that both are elements of a systematic framework we use to structure our experience.

To comprehend the structure of government during the reign of Claudius, we must look at four inscriptions that deepen our understanding of a new, truncated empire.

Rossi held that the city remembers its past ( our " collective memory "), and that we use that memory through monuments ; that is, monuments give structure to the city.

The current use of X. 509v3 certificates outside the Directory loaded directly into browsers is problematic, but also necessary for our current global structure for e-commerce as it developed, and before the added security envisioned by the scheduled 2011-2014 implementation of NSTIC, a two to three year project protecting digital identities in cyberspace.

Due to the varying frequency at which chimpanzees associate, the structure of their societies is highly complicated.

Accepting the existence of these two societies, the constant tension between them, and extensive geographic and social mobility tied to a market economy holds the key to a clearer understanding of the evolution of the social structure, economy, and even political system of early modern France.

Computers, mobile phones, and other digital home appliances are now inextricable parts of the structure of modern societies, made possible by the low cost of producing integrated circuits.

The Australian academic and practicing Pagan Caroline Jane Tully argued that many Pagans can react negatively to new scholarship regarding historical pre-Christian societies, believing that it is a threat to the structure of their beliefs and " sense of identity.

Most Ringworld societies have forgotten they live on an artificial structure, and now attribute the phenomena of their world to divine power.

Additionally, over the past five years, Venezuelan society's general age structure has been trending towards the homologous structure found in Cuba, Western Europe, Japan, and other healthy and rapidly aging societies.

Between one-half and two-thirds of the world's population, in traditional societies as well as developed countries, still live or work in a building made with clay as an essential part of its load-bearing structure.

The three-tier race structure, which existed well into the 1940s and in some societies beyond, upheld the belief of European racial superiority, although most West Indians are of African descent.

All societies have a basic structure of social, economic, and political institutions, both formal and informal.

In the wake of the breakup of the British and French colonial empires, and in the wake of U. S. defeat in Vietnam, anthropologists became especially attentive to relations of domination and subjugation that link Western and non-Western societies, and that structure relations within any given society.

Reversing the order of names is also customary for the Baltic Fennic peoples and the Hungarians, but other Uralic peoples didn't need surnames, because of the clanic structure of their societies.

In the past kinship charts were commonly used to " discover logical patterns and social structure in non-Western societies ".

His insights about the significance and details of kinship structure in Native American societies influenced much following anthropological and ethnological research.

In societies where classes have been abolished it is usually the result of a voluntary decision by the membership to form such a society, to abolish a pre-existing class structure in an existing society or to form a new one without any.

Such a structure developed in the west in the period of time following the Industrial Revolution, and replaced the agrarian societies of the Pre-modern, Pre-industrial age.

In the early years of the 21st century, the network society is not the emerging social structure of the Information Age: it already configures the nucleus of our societies.

This is the emergence of networked individualism, as social structure and historical evolution induce the emergence of individualism as the dominant culture of our societies, and the new communication Technologies perfectly fit into the mode of building sociability along self-selected communication networks, on or off depending on the needs and moods of each individual.

Initially, in tribal societies, these three needs are inseparable, and the kinship system is the dominant structure that satisfies them.

The world of The Elder Scrolls is known by fans and critics for its attention to detail, attempted realism, and the vast number of names, dates, and places that constitute its history and the interconnected structure of its various societies, cultures, and religions.

There is no " formal linking " between equality of opportunity and political structure, according to one view, in the sense that there can be equality of opportunity in democracies, autocracies, and in communist nations, although it is primarily associated with a competitive market economy and embedded within the legal frameworks of democratic societies.

Thompson claimed that Giddens presupposed a criterion of importance in contending that rules are a generalizable enough tool to apply to every aspect of human action and interaction ; " on the other hand, Giddens is well aware that somerules, or some kinds or aspects of rules, are much more important than others for the analysis of, for example, the social structure of capitalist societies.

Levirate marriage has been practiced by societies with a strong clan structure in which exogamous marriage ( i. e., that outside the clan ) was forbidden.

In the 16th century while Martin Luther was working out a compromise High German for his translation of the Bible, societies called rederijkerskamers, " chambers of rhetoric ," were being formed in Flanders and Holland between 1550 and 1650, which at first attempted to impose a Latin structure on Dutch, on the presumption that Latin grammar had a " universal character.