Sentences with phrase «about evils of»

Having heard about the evils of vampire power and the need to unplug devices when we're not using them, we were surprised to see that not a single charger used a detectable amount of vampire power when it was plugged into an outlet.

That policy choice is not a comment about the evils of torture, but rather an indication of what principles Parliament has chosen to promote.»

Especially if you insist on repeating the same argument about evils of alternative business structures and legal advice services that will destroy the profession ad nauseam.

So this «triumphalism» about the evils of communism tends to whitewash evils of the non-communist world, and I deliberately haven't included Nazi Germany, slavery in the U.S., the decimation of the First Nations in North America, the Armenian genocide, the Rape of Nanking, and other examples from history.

«A blog to vent about the evils of the legal profession, the law school scam, and being jobless with a JD.»

Reusing materials including corks, tires, ties, and paper, Avantgarb (age) is not yet another collection of clothing with recycled components, nor is it a preachy monologue about the evils of our consumer lifestyle.

When Mike Strobel of the Toronto Sun went on a rant about the evils of bicycles earlier this week, I couldn't decide whether to devote the pixels or the energy to respond to it.

A new campaign launched by the Organic Consumers Association strives to educate people about the evils of factory farming and encourages them to refuse to eat those products.

As a movement that is all too often painted as kill - joy, holier than though, and maybe even a little smelly, shouting too long and too hard about the evils of weekly trash collection risks only perpetuating such stereotypes.Yet there is no doubt that something has to be done about our all - too - casual attitude to waste.

Once the fat - is - bad theory became the consensus — and was being formally promoted in federal agencies» recommendations to the public — the officials handing out money were much more interested in finding evidence about the evils of fat than in looking at alternative hypotheses (like the carbs - are - bad theory discussed by Mr. Taubes).

Distrust for democracy (usually dressed up these days in libertarian clap - trap about the evils of government)

A sense of persecution and ill - traeatment (usually these days once again dressed upon as libertarianism and clap - trap about the evils of multiculturalism; railing about anti-Americanism and so on.)

I've taken the epigraph for this column from the Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz, who knew something about the evils of certitude.

The schools have STOPPED teaching, uh, sorry, indoctrinating our children about the evils of pollution????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The nonsense of a «greenhouse» from the get - go is nothing more than allegory by Al Gore, et al., with CO2 as the Left's Moby Dick — i.e., a dramatic tale about the evils of Americanism as told by scientific idiots that secular, socialist politicians find useful to fleece the sheep.

A depressing show that is gonna preach to us about the evils of civilization?

I'm an old man now dealing with the consequences of a lifetime smoking habit but I can assure you that my grandmother warned me about the evils of smoking for good health and the expression «coffin nails» predates the 50's.

After arguing endlessly about the evils of politicization of science, Judith now suggests that we need to politicize science more!

«Steeped in years of talk around college campuses and in stylish urban enclaves about the evils of factory farms (see the E. coli spinach outbreaks), the perils of relying on petroleum to deliver food over long distances (see global warming) and the beauty of greenmarkets (see the four - times - weekly locavore cornucopia in Union Square), some young urbanites are starting to put their muscles where their pro-environment, antiglobalization mouths are.

While I was ranting about the evils of level based vertical progression long before EQ: N, it was a pleasure to explore the concept in a more positive light with a game actually planning to go that route.

Let's not waste breath preaching about the evils of piracy.

I preached to my kids ad nauseum about the evils of debt during their lifetimes with mixed results.

Interestingly, many cry out about the evils of credit card debt and college students and want to ban on campus credit card marketing but the amount of student credit card debt is about $ 2,200.

In the past I've muttered and grumbled about the evils of DRM for a variety of reasons.

When I was reading this, it definitely occurred to me that talking about the evils of editors and «cookie cutter» manuscripts might have been a way to make the writer feel better if she was having secret doubts about self - publishing.

Finally, someone stirred the waters and more and more posts have been appearing on social media about the evils of self - publishing.

We've all heard about the evils of vanity publishing, which is not to be confused with self - publishing.

The Privileges is not your standard cautionary tale about the evils of ill - gotten gains.

Then one Sunday Uncle Rulon will give one of his sermons about the evils of television.

I've been a lurker on Kboards» Writers Cafe for months now, and the same 3 - 4 people who regularly comment about the evils of Amazon on EVERY SINGLE Amazon - related thread have sales rankings for their books in the high six - digits.

As a business owner you can bitch and whine and moan all you want about the evils of Amazon.

Install a minivan steering wheel or stereo volume knob in a luxury car, and automotive critics will cry foul about the evils of parts sharing.

Its Halloween, so that means its time for a spooky, scary message from the NJDOE about the evils of opting out of PARCC testing and how school superintendents need to put on their scary faces when parents bring up the...

For years we have heard about the evils of too much screen time — sleep problems, attention issues, obesity, sedentary lifestyles, etc..

He went room to room, talking to students about the evils of gangs.

To his credit, he does manage to milk some creepiness out of damp carpets and water in general — but then, that's old hat to him, particularly after building a whole film about the evils of wetness in 2002's Dark Water (which, as it happens, is set to get the Hollywood treatment in August, directed by Walter Salles and starring Jennifer Connelly — incidentally, one of the initial choices for the lead in The Ring).

Instead, the movie makes use of the earlier films» basic plot device (man turns involuntarily canine at the most inopportune moments) and hauls it into the New Millennium, adding plenty of computer generated effects, throwing in a politically correct storyline about the evils of animal experimentation, and making the humor a little ruder and cruder.

It is only by combining an iconic white - guy - hero - genre with one of the few credible black - guys - with - guns genres that Tarantino can make his larger point about the evils of slavery and racism.

Either a profoundly moving theological story or a darkly funny joke about the evils of dogma, depending on how you look at it.

Nichols doesn't set out to preach to you about the evils of racism, the beauty of racial harmony, or anything of the sort.

A sprawling cautionary tale about the evils of the internet, Men, Women & Children examines the ways in which the internet affects the way we connect as human beings.

On the road, he gripes about the evils of» society,» and he nurses family wounds: the father (William Hurt) who was a materialist, and violent, too; the mother (Marcia Gay Harden) who enabled him.

A mysterious stranger (Alan Cumming, in this role and many others) comes to lecture the kind parents one night in 1936 about the evils of the drug, marijuana.

I don't know where robot boxing falls on your moral spectrum, but I'd take a pre-teen to see Real Steel, as long as we had a long talk afterwards about the evils of product placement.

To know more about the evils of soy, read The Whole Soy Story: The Dark Side of America's Favorite Health Food.

While some claims about the evils of gluten can - and have - been exaggerated, Factor 75 chose to eliminate gluten from all of our meals.

I being an avid runner am constantly bombarded by strength gurus that warn me about the evils of endurance training.

Syriza, on the other hand, has its roots in more traditional radical left politics, but in the past four years it has ditched doctrinal debates about the evils of capitalism and embraced Keynesian solutions to deal with Greece's debt and social crisis.

Oh, and she's also a hypocrite who spent years ranting about the evils of private education only to send her own son to a private school using the lame excuse: «I was a single mum just trying to do the best for my son.»»

When Michael Howard had his one to one interview befre the election on BBC1, he said that we'd been wrong to say that public spending should be less than 42 % of GDP, beat his breasts about the evils of Section 28, and pledged increases in public spending.