Sentences with phrase «appalling number»

Appalling numbers of girls today are starving themselves, bingeing and purging, mutilating their bodies, throwing their hearts away on careless cads, suppressing their natural desire for romance, and denying their need for family and children.

Clegg himself faces appalling numbers, fuelling speculation about his own future in charge of the party going into the 2015 general elections.

This is evident in the current trek to psychiatrists, the fullness of the mental hospitals, the frequency of alcoholism, and the appalling number of suicides in America — sixteen thousand in one year.

For an appalling number of people, younger and older, in current society there are two principal criteria governing conduct: (1) one does «what other people do» and (2) one does «what you can get away with» and escape detection or penalty.

The MJC issues a temporary 75 - day license to the Certified Nurse Midwives to cover the gap in physician supervision, but most are unable to find a doctor willing to buck the establishment [and take responsibility for the appalling number of deaths at the hand of homebirth midwives] and allow them legal status.

Yet an appalling number of people, young and old, know little or nothing about it.

The effects of ignorance are visible in the appalling numbers of animals that are destroyed in humane societies in our country each year (13 to 18 million).

In October 2004, Amnesty International released a report entitled Stolen Sisters: A Human Rights Response to Discrimination and Violence against Indigenous Women in Canada, in response to the appalling number of Indigenous women who are victims of racialized and sexualized violence.

Indigenous women and communities, women's groups and international organizations have long called for action into the high and disproportionate rates of violence and the appalling numbers of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls in Canada.

«The appalling number of deaths among the younger children... brings the Department within unpleasant nearness to the charge of manslaughter»: Hon. S.H. Blake, K.C., Chair of Advisory Board on Indian Education (partner in what is now national law firm Blake, Cassels & Graydon), to Minister Frank Oliver.

I didn't think it wasn't that bad, despite its appalling numbers, so I've decided it deserves another airing.