Sentences with phrase «against hopelessness»

«Reading is our best and only vaccine against hopelessness in the world,» he emphasized.

I write because history shows us — heck, The Daily Show and Roxane Gay and Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and thousands of journalists and bloggers and working poets and writers literally show us every day — that it's the best weapon against hopelessness and despair and loneliness, mightier than tear gas and homophobia and injustice and corrupt politicians and fracking and every other evil in the world, and every bit as necessary for reaching our human potential as oxygen is for continued function of the brain.

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Well let me tell you that all corruption, destruction and decline of morals is not caused by religious ones but in the contrary it was and still is caused by disbelievers who have nothing to stand on except standing against all good morals brought by religions... well Mr. Go enjoy your infidelity with your kind and leave out religious ones from your hopelessness...

the battles against crime, violence, drugs, poverty and hopelessness.

The leveling of Paul in the dust of the Damascus road and the days of hopelessness that followed symbolize the humiliation that is the background against which maturing must unfold.

But it won't abate, unless the government mounts a vigorous and well - funded counter-campaign: hope against its enemies» agenda of hopelessness, love against virulent hate, facts against diabolic rumours, and a systematic and deliberate projection of its accomplishments, to silence the nay orchestra, now making hay.

A somber, bleak story of a father's undying love for his son in the face of hopelessness, «The Road» even comes equipped with images of a pistol pressed against a little boy's forehead and a father washing a man's brains out of his son's hair.

Both Darkest Hour and Dunkirk highlight Churchill's great speech about rising to meet to challenges of war, but only Darkest Hour really shows what he was up against in terms of reviving the spirit of his people in their deepest moment of hopelessness.

So each time I am presented with hopelessness, a new case or student with the odds stacked again, I am reminded of my own story and the hundreds of students with disabilities I have worked with who have defied the «insurmountable odds» stacked against us.

I will continue resisting against burnout and learned hopelessness for myself professionally as a counselor and personally as a community member and Asian American woman.

Ultimately this is a love story about a fight against poverty and hopelessness, the transformation made possible by a true love, and the power of young people to have a deep impact on the world.

Looking back at the barren wasteland that is Earth in 2009 I remember tilting my head ever so slightly to the right as I read the words: «Plants vs Zombies» — my thoughts were that of hopelessness, because the human race has gotten so obsessed with zombies that now even plants have to fend for themselves against these hordes.

Where most games empower you and are some form of escapism from reality, this title pits you against all the hopelessness and insecurities of real life.

A sense of thinking an attorney can not help or would not be a true advocate; a sense of paranoia about the justice system; an inflated sense of one's intelligence and abilities; feelings of combativeness about the charges lodged against oneself; possibly a sense of hopelessness about the impending finding of guilt; maybe even a sense of fun about the learning experience.

But they also discuss the feelings of hopelessness that follow after the accident; navigating insurance claims, deciding who should pay the medical bills, what to do about lost wages, juggling legal issue while knowing are likely up against a multi-state corporation.

However, this article suggests that we need also to address the many barriers to deployability including «a lack of self - agency, a lack of knowledge or how to negotiate, and (we hypothesize) a struggle against debilitating emotions such as fear, shame, guilt, or hopelessness.»