Sentences with phrase «affluence means»

Its cultural and economic affluence means that there are plenty of eligible, hardworking singles waiting to be met.

A congestion charge proposed for Perth's CBD would be ineffective because Western Australia's affluence meant motorists were unlikely to change their driving habits, according to the RAC.

Not exact matches

What we meant to model was the sending of one of our number to be a foreign missionary — to learn a new language, to understand a local culture, to sacrifice the amenities of affluence and to live knowing that he or she is always being watched by seekers — while the rest of us stay here as lifetime local missionaries, learning to speak the language of the unchurched, understanding secular culture, sacrificing the amenities of affluence and living as a «watched» person in a society that is skeptical of Christian spirituality until it sees the real thing on display.

The idea of affluence and self - indulgence as the meaning of life would not seem to be a firm basis for the dissemination of democracy.

The evangelical - fundamentalist - Pentecostal subcultures have expanded significantly since 1962, and their meaning - systems have been drastically transformed while these churches embrace the world of advertising and celebrities, sex manuals and affluence, theological adjustment and new styles of witness.

Based on the fans affluence, ticket prices, stadium size, finances, and support, it is unacceptable and wrong (as a matter of fact it is intellectual corruption) that a manager earning such a huge wage (# 8millions / year... F*cking joke) is not capable of delivering trophies, and I mean major trophies (not those small ridiculous domestic cups) on a regular basis.

Favourable boundary changes and Jowell's assiduous cultivation of support across a constituency with pockets of affluence and poverty mean that she bequeaths a much more substantial majority of over 9000 to Hayes.

With the benefit cap meaning that housing benefit will be capped at a point where for many who rely on it will have to move away, which means areas with relative affluence with sites of former counci estates, which are now being snapped up by yuppies or young professionals renting them will increase in an area — less likely to vote Labour than those who were on receipt of housing benefit.

You can read in detail, with real data, how this works in Part 4 of my book, «Learning Matters», together with the reason for the factual link between postcode affluence and mean cognitive abiliy (that heads have always understood).

Zones of comparative affluence spread out from there in concentric circles, exactly matched by the mean intake CATs scores of the secondary schools located in those zones.

The high rates of affluence in the Washington region mean our students tend to have above - average ambition and home support.

The Chicago Tribune reports that the American Affluence Research Center took a poll among the wealthiest 10 percent of Americans and found that among the 11 million households representing about half of all consumer income in this country, plans to reduce spending will mean a softness in the sale of new motor vehicles in the next 12 months.

re Dan H. 541 — that's what I meant by human population dynamics being «fortunately complex» — that it helps to control our population growth by being nice to each other (in specific ways), as opposed to how we would control deer or lady bugs (or aphids) or gypsy moths, etc. (would that change if deer reached a stage part - way between subsistence and affluence?

One of his last contributions (with Adam Millard - Ball) was a paper noting what appears to be «peak travel» — meaning that in eight countries with rising affluence, personal mobility doesn't keep rising (pdf of paper).

In our current growth - based economic system, rising affluence and population growth mean increased consumption, environmental destruction, and waste production.

By this I mean that a self growing system, a bit like the economy, grew, where assistant professors became professors and needed graduate students, affluence allowed more students to go to graduate school instead of facing the real world, even though academy was not a dedication but just work, in a growing spiral.