Sentences with phrase «at human exploitation»

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And with the legal and language barriers, social isolation and employment challenges that immigrants often face, many are also at risk of exploitation and human trafficking.

But realize due to human trafficking violations, environmental exploitation and constant overconsumption that completely ethical electronics are so rare, you may even want to consider buying / giving less electronics, and getting the most use at of the ones you own.

The evils reflected in their words, and indeed portrayed throughout the Old Testament — avarice, exploitation, bribery, chicanery, and attempts at seizure of power for personal gain — are perennial human tendencies which appear in every State.

Hence McFague argues that when we put the world at risk with our unbridled exploitation of nature, God, the God who is incarnate within the creation, is at risk in human hands.

Berrigan's complaint, in short, is that the reestablishment of a Jewish state (a justifiable goal) has come at a tremendous cost in human suffering, armed violence and moral decay; that the course of the new state has been a betrayal of everything the term «Israel» has stood for — justice, compassion, succoring the humiliated and injured; that a «settler state» was established through the expropriation of the people of the land, followed by an imperialist venture, based on the subjugation and exploitation of the conquered; and that, to add moral insult to physical and spiritual injury, the spokesmen of and for the state claim for it a special virtue and glorious achievement which may not be criticized.

Often lured by middlemen (or drugged, beaten, and otherwise coerced), donors end up with a few hundred to a few thousand dollars and a scar at the waist that has become an emblem of exploitation and human indignity.

She's the eldest of hundreds of sisters whose parents are aquatic goddess Gran Mamare (Blanchett) and the nearest thing the story has to a villain, a former human called Fujimoto (Neeson) who's now the guardian of the sea, despairing at the filthy humans» exploitation and pollution of his home.

But feel - bad films reigned supreme for the fest's first week: By the time Cannes hit the halfway point, audiences had been subjected to beaucoup examples of horrific violence, human - rights violations, pedophilia and more exploitation of women than you could shake a rape whistle at.

These pups know nothing but exploitation and abuse at the hands of humans and have to endure the pain of giving birth and having their puppies taken away far too soon.

The right - hand panel reveals human exploitation at the hands of big business — a dubious «peace.

Annabel Osberg of the Huffington Post describes Honarvar's work as presenting «the human body at the center of microcosmic theaters of dichotomy in which irrationality permeates logic, serenity belies violence, and luxury secretes exploitation.»

Annabel Osberg of the Huffington Post perfectly describes Honarvar's work as presenting the human body at the center of microcosmic theaters of dichotomy in which irrationality permeates logic, serenity belies violence, and luxury secretes exploitation.

On a related front, Bryan Walsh of Time Magazine has posted an interesting look at another arena in which humans seem to be blissfully spending beyond their means — in our intensifying exploitation of the world's natural capital.

The world's wetlands too — often at risk from human exploitation — cover less than 6 % of the planet's land surface, but they hold the most carbon per hectare.

But there can be other hopes that, although they're looking dim for now, are at least within reach: that greenhouse warming can be limited sufficiently to allow communities around the world who are currently impoverished and oppressed to improve their lives; that access to food, water, shelter, safety, culture, nature, and other necessities becomes sufficient for all; or that exploitation and oppression of humans and nature be brought to an end.

During a trip to Toronto at the end of November, Gore said the exploitation of the tar sands is the «largest source of polluting energy on earth» and represents «one of the most serious threats to the human race.»

On Monday at noon, Ritter - Sorononen will join over a hundred activists from St. Louis and around the country to march through downtown St. Louis in a creative direct action to spotlight Peabody Energy and Bankof America's records of environmental and human exploitation.