Sentences with phrase «bad social conditions»

He wants to protect those ideals when they are under attack from bad social conditions.

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We realize at the end that social policy can do no better (though it can do far worse) than provide conditions that will facilitate the evolution of the circumstances we wish to create.

It continues and gets worse when the reverse, the shaping of social factors, conditions, and orders by spiritual (religious) forces is overlooked or denied, as we find it in a legion of modern studies more or less dedicated to economic determinism.

Wherever there are signs of widespread social discontent and / or the fear of war, we have the conditions in which people are ready to give their blind allegiance to a charismatic, authoritarian leader in the belief that he or she will be able to restore a more ordered and secure environment and save them from a much worse fate.

Philanthropy which merely patches up the worst results of evil social conditions can hardly be called anything more than a necessary evil.

Similar attacks were made on the Church of England's report Faith in the City (1985), which was criticized by some for blaming crime and delinquency on bad social and economic conditions, rather than on the individual's moral failure.

But — and this is a huge qualifier — if that message of justification by God's undeserved love is preached apart from an unmasking of the actual power relations which have aggravated these feelings to the level of a social neurosis; if people are released from the rat race of upward mobility only privatistically, with no critique of the economic and social ideology that stimulates such desperate cravings; if people are liberated from a bad sense of themselves without any sense of mission to change the conditions that waste human beings in such a way, then justification by faith becomes a mystification of the actual power relations, and the Christian gospel is indeed the opiate of the masses.

This is despite the fact that private rented housing is more expensive, less secure, and in worse condition than social housing.

As a young man doing voluntary work in London's East End, he saw the very worst of pre - World War One social conditions.

Making things worse, many also experience the pain of self - stigma, an under - reported condition in which the patient internalizes social myths and prejudices about mental illness.

You might think they're talking about current American politics: There is no money in the national treasury for more social programs like orphanages and vaccinations; The military budget must be cut; The rich are intent on keeping their tax privileges; Members of the legislature continue to beat down all proposed reforms of the leader; The conditions of the poor are getting worse; Some religious leaders insist that the Earth was created in six literal days; Foreigners must be deported.

If already only six per cent of the doctors come from working - class contracts, what will even lower pay and even worse working conditions do to social mobility?

States above the line are doing better than expected based on their social and economic conditions; states below the line are doing worse than predicted.

In urban and low - income districts, the conditions are made worse by the loss of social safety net supports in the community.

Many of them were in very bad condition — covered in fleas, dirty and un-groomed, but in spite of the bad environment they had been living in, they were still friendly and social.

When say the Social Security Administration gives three projections of the system's condition, ordinarily these are best case, worst case, and most likely case.

Adelady, for a nation that's supposed to have picked all the low hanging fruit, Australians have the dubious distinction of an indigenous subpopulation living in worse than third world conditions (rampant poverty minus the social cohesion plus glue, alcohol, and violence).

Aborigines are far worse off than White Australians in relation to housing, health, wealth, social conditions, imprisonment, avoidable death and life expectancy (see Gideon Polya, «Film Review: «Utopia» By John Pilger Exposes Genocidal Maltreatment Of Indigenous Australians By Apartheid Australia», Countercurrents, 14 March, 2014: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya140314.htm; Gideon Polya, «Ongoing Aboriginal Genocide And Aboriginal Ethnocide By Politically Correct Racist Apartheid Australia», Countercurrents, 16 February 2014: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya160214.htm; «Aboriginal Genocide»: https://sites.google.com/site/aboriginalgenocide/; MacRae A, Thomson N, Anomie, Burns J, Catto M, Gray C, Levitan L, McLoughlin N, Potter C, Ride K, Stumpers S, Trzesinski A, Urquhart B (2013).