Sentences with phrase «affects generations of people»

The most rewarding part is that I know that those changes affects generations of people.

If «Lincoln» the film is a portrait of the difficult process of moving the needle forward even slightly, Lincoln the performance is about how historic figures attempt to wrestle with the possibility that their every action and failure will have consequences that affect generations of people.

Not exact matches

The number of people below the poverty line, measured in terms of minimum necessary nutritional standards, is said to be going down and yet malnutrition as well as severe physical debilities and destitution are on the increase, especially these affecting women and children, the simple physical capacity of the youngest generation to withstand the strains of living becoming ever more unstable and fragile.»

«We're not negating the ways God used Exodus to positively affect thousands of people, but a new generation of Christians is looking for change - and they want to be heard,» Tony Moore, an Exodus board member, said Wednesday.

The Labour government's failure to prevent «deep discounting» of drinks has affected an entire generation of young people, Alcohol Concern chief executive Don Shenker has claimed.

«The alternative is to allow an entire generation of young people to never get work, to affect the poorest, to undermine our businesses, to allow savers to lose all their money,» she pressed.

It will affect the lives of the British people for generations to come.

Lammy told The House: «I will not rest until the Windrush Generation get a public apology from the Prime Minister, until every single individual affected is happy that their immigration status is settled and the Home Office changes the burden of proof to assume that these people are here legally, not illegally.»

The participants saw themselves as being potentially the worst affected by spending cuts, not least because they perceived politicians to take less notice of the views of young people than of those of older generations.

It is true that the future prosperity of our economy hangs firmly on the successful rehabilitation of the global financial services sector: but it will impact on more than just raw policy — these decisions will affect the lives of people across our country for a generation.

Laws can be overturned and politicians voted out of office, but the decisions we make today will affect our people, their families and entire communities for generations.

After a generation or so, people seem to become less affected by the power of a new electronic medium.

The current generation of young people faces the worst job prospects in decades, yet previous research into how «NEET «youths feel about their own prospects and how unemployment affects their mental health is scarce.

She looks forward to watching some of these youths become the next generation of neuroscientists and witnessing their quest to find new brain discoveries that will help ease people affected by devastating brain disorders such as Alzheimer's disease.

Rather than alluring to the obvious shocking facts and events affecting our planet and way of life, audiences actually see Al Gore for what he's really doing in real life «being the most influential person of his generation» inspiring others to take up arms in the fight for Climate and how the world's democracies are politically unwise when it comes to using the actual solutions.

Asthma can affect people of all ages and is particularly common amongst the younger generation.

Rae Meadows takes us on our own journey of discovery in Mercy Train, an affecting and wonderfully woven novel about three generations of motherhood, family, and the surprising sacrifices we make for the people we love.

Consider the millions of people, generation after generation, which his words have affected.

That really affected a person like me who was one generation ahead of you, this bohemian living a very simple lifestyle, paying $ 250 a month rent, one little teaching job to take care of that.

It takes extra effort and resolve to convince people that the real benefit of what they are doing today will positively affect the generations of the not so distant future.

If I were making policy decisions that affected billions of people for generations to come, I would apply a generous safety factor, of at least 2 and maybe 10.

The cumulative weight of the scientific evidence contained in this report confirms that climate change is affecting the American people now, and that choices we make will affect our future and that of future generations.

Global warming will leave people in the western states of the US exposed to increasingly extreme temperatures that could seriously affect electricity generation.

What I would like to point out is that it seems that some of the same issues you are discussing in climate science are affecting other branches of science — notably medicine: pharmaceuticals have been throwing millions at doctors and medical researchers for more than a generation, and partly as a result, about one in three people in the United States is taking prescription drugs.

I completely agree with Stefan — I can not understand at all why people think that climate change would only affect future generations (which, for many of us are our children anyway).

How this will affect the learning and working styles of a new generation of lawyers and librarians remains to be seen, but many people already in the work force are trying to get up to speed on these technologies and applications to facilitate the transition.

It honors the generations of women who have fought for reproductive justice, while also recognizing that our movement has evolved and must continue to evolve to include people of all genders and the myriad issues affecting Planned Parenthood's patients and their communities — like transgender justice, immigration rights, and police violence.

Intergenerational trauma is deeply felt in our community from myriad past practices, including the relatively recent Stolen Generations — I work with people born to parents who were stolen, many of my friends were stolen or come from families affected by the woeful policies of the past.

And the kicker is that children ARE their own unique selves, formed of DNA from huge numbers of persons of past generations, all combining and recombining differently... (Ignoring of course the disparaging role modeling as affecting self - esteem... because it's not what daddy did that harmed anyone, it's that mommy complained about it...)