Sentences with phrase «affluent societies with»

So it seems that home - births ARE a great and safe option for well educated, healthy, wealthy, mothers who live in affluent societies with good infrastructure.

Anyway to me these are all signs of an affluent society with the discretionary wealth to make certain choices.

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So even though trying to live faithfully as part of an affluent society, with all the temptations this entails, is in some ways more difficult and more uncomfortable than living the radical response, it does have several important advantages:

We have now considered several methodologies for arriving at a standard of what we must share of our own with the rest of the world if we are to remain a part of the middle class of an affluent society and still be faithful.

We should finally be able to quit pretending that we know who Heidegger is, why Toynbee is to be regarded with suspicion, and what an affluent society really means.

«We live in one of the most affluent cultures in history where many of the values of an increasingly materialistic society stand in direct conflict with the gospel vision,» they charged.

Through much of the period from David to the fall of Jerusalem, Israel's life was not marked by the concern with hope, any more than is the life of the affluent society of the west today.

An objective look at the life of every society, even the most affluent and those which are, theoretically, more just, will show the reality of the poor today in the marginalized, the drop - outs who can not cope with modern society, the prisoners of conscience, the dissidents.

In less affluent societies, and in the past, we lived much more closely with other people.

Not only have measures of well - being and happiness ceased to rise with economic growth but, as affluent societies have grown richer, there have been long - term rises in rates of anxiety, depression, and numerous other social problems.

Sugar Daddie was established to help attractive young women get in touch with the rich and affluent of the society for a mutually beneficial relationship.

Not only have measures of wellbeing and happiness ceased to rise with economic growth but, as affluent societies have grown richer, there have been long - term rises in rates of anxiety, depression and numerous other social problems.

The exhibition deals with the social isolation of the individual and the lack of communication that Elmgreen & Dragset attribute to an affluent society and consumer culture.

What is more, past global warming has included both minor and mass extinction events (e.g. PETM, Permian - Triassic extinction) so even if current warming is in line with what's repeatedly been experienced in the past, it doesn't follow that either the process of warming or the end result are desireable from the perspective of maintaining an advanced, affluent, complex human society based on creating reliable surpluses of food for 7.5 + billion people.

But juxtaposing the 100 - percent scenarios that promise a permanent high - energy economy with critiques showing such projects to be futile should lead us to a different vision altogether: that, at least in affluent countries, it would be better simply to transform society so that it operates on far less end - use energy while assuring sufficiency for all.

«My husband and I deliberated for years about whether to have a child at all, partly because parenting in an affluent society is, shall we say, a carbon - intensive activity, and partly because we knew that future generations will probably have to contend with the consequences of a severely disrupted climate.

The exception to that may be those who have a high number of lawyers in their social and familial circles, i.e. the affluent and influential members of society who were never at risk for being confused over who the identity of the regulator is, or perhaps have rubbed shoulders with graduates of a prestigious Toronto school which shares the same name.