Blair called religion at its best "a benign progressive framework by which to live our lives".
But you can't change the inherent selfishness of people who are not you; all you can do is create your own ethical framework and attempt to live within those rules.
"It's important that initiatives like Let Girls Learn, which are taking that measured approach, be wrapped in some sort of institutional framework that is going to live beyond a particular initiative or a particular administration," said Thompson.
To discipline a child means to offer a child a framework, a set of boundaries to live with.
Similarly, she skips over the mass slaughter of dissident Muslims perpetrated by the Ottoman sultan Selim I in preparation for his war against the Safavids in 1514, and rests content with the anodyne half-truth that the Ottoman "government merely provided a framework which enabled different groups... to live together peacefully, each... following its own beliefs and customs".
Biobanks have to live with these frameworks and practices, which have raised a number of complex issues for society.
Design a new philosophy to live our lives, a framework for a new belief system -- or a reimagining of an existing one. .
It's been 12 years since 9/11, and except for increased security at airports, we Americans have continued to live our day-to-day lives within a false framework of harmless refuge, deadened to the realities to which we are all vulnerable.
Well before there was an evolutionary framework to unite all living organisms, Carl Linnaeus (von Linnaeus 1759) recognized the place of humans alongside the apes in his eighteenth century Systema Naturae.
