Sentences with phrase «breakdown of society»

I cant wait to see the Sarra take on the total breakdown of society!

Violence: Riots, deaths and the breakdown of society occur during a worldwide epidemic.

We never really experience the breakdown of society; the random events that do occur — occasional power outages, incomplete radio transmission, speculative new reports — fail to cause anything other than ennui.

The four protagonists aren't about to let something as minor as the complete breakdown of society get in the way of having a good time, and their fun proves infectious.

If alcohol - based businesses were blamed for a breakdown of society in the Prohibition era and beyond, breweries are now being seen as a force for good.

Everyone benefits from history, to remind ourselves of the horrors of war, the inhumanity to people and cultures and the breakdown of societies.

Not exact matches

If a society actually loses faith in its medium of exchange, a general breakdown of trust and social cohesion often ensues.

Feminism has been blamed for the breakdown of the nuclear family, day care, physical and sexual abuse, hurricanes, the downfall of «real manhood,» the decline of the Christian Church in western society, and spectacularly bad television.

He was conscious of the economic breakdown in Muslim society caused by the luxurious living of the rulers and upper classes among the Muslims.

Me to... but... in the grand scheme of things, invading two Islamic countries in a mater of 18 months, completely destroying their way of life and system of government (s), and imposing, or attempting to impose democracy on them, and in the process, being directly and indirectly responsible for the complete breakdown of their fragile societies and the deaths of hundreds of thousands...

It is not farfetched to suggest that the depletion of spiritual capital accounts for the breakdown of moral standards in our society.

Christian politicians (if there are any left) should not support any person, group, agenda or movement that promotes a sinful lifestyle, because quite frankly every sinful lifestyle leads to things not beneficial to society (crime, violence, scams, breakdown of the family, etc.).

I thank Brian C. Anderson for his analysis of recent books on whether markets can be blamed for the moral breakdown of modern society.

The usual assertions are (1) that this kind of religion is today on the defensive; (2) that the defensive posture is occasioned by the flourishing of «conservative churches» (although the alleged liberal enervation is also seen in more autonomous terms); (3) that the growth in religious conservatism and conservative churches is itself the result of widespread reaction against «secular humanist» values and against those who hold such values; (4) that our society as a whole has been experiencing a breakdown in moral consensus, a loss of moral coherence somehow connected with a decline in oldline Protestant dominance; and (5) that some or all of these happenings have been quite sudden, so that the early 1960s can be taken as a kind of benchmark — as a time before the fall.

The crisis of black liberalism and the emergence of the new black conservatives can best be understood in light of three fundamental events in American society and culture since 1973: the eclipse of U.S. economic and military predominance in the world; the structural transformation of the American economy; and the moral breakdown of communities throughout the country, especially among the black working poor and underclass.

His breakdown amid the variety of Roman alternatives was cured by the new Christian alternative, his intellectual doubts as a late antique philosopher were resolved by Hebrew and Christian truth, his dissatisfaction with professional advancement in Rome was rechanneled into an enthusiasm for the new society of the ecclesia.

While each of St Benedict's twelve steps of humility (which are listed below) have a strong message of their own, the second step in particular is quite a striking one, being of great importance in today's society which is so full of consumerism, family breakdowns, celebrity culture, social media, vanity and many other problems and challenges.

What these symptoms reveal is nothing less than the breakdown of the cultural values that glue society together, because in that society there is no longer a culturally accepted norm for what is right and what is wrong.

But, looking at the divorce rates between the late forties to the mid-sixties, one can already see the incipient breakdown of marriage owing, in part, to hasty wartime marriages combined with the stress of servicemen reintegrating into civilian society.

The leaders of what would become the New Age Movement confidently anticipated salutary effects from the breakdown of American society, which they called a «broken - back» technocracy.

The legend of the tower of Babel is effectively used to show that whereas language may be man's most distinctive characteristic, his own self - centered designs to make a god of himself result in a complete breakdown in that verbal communication upon which all human culture and healthy society depend.

Nowhere is this more apparent than in the moral nightmare of our society's breakdown since the sexual revolution.

Not too long ago, GOP presidential candidate Sen. Rand Paul blamed the protests in Baltimore on «the breakdown of the family structure, the lack of fathers, the lack of sort of a moral code in our society,» while another GOP presidential candidate, Rick Santorum, blamed single moms for «breeding more criminals» and ruining the country.

I am also hugely grateful to the Centre for Social Justice for its analytical work, which has opened up the whole debate on the impact of family breakdown on society

It is about the breakdown of the foundations that underpin society.

Questioned about his own privileged upbringing Mr Cameron said he was lucky, especially in contrast to the people «trapped» at the bottom of society, which he blamed on poor education, family breakdown, alcohol and indebtedness.

But if you look at the breakdown of the family, of the fathers walking away from their wives, fathers walking away from their children, you take that right back to what's wrong with our society, why poverty rates rise.

Steve: Which got such press, I mean, the idea being that if a neighborhood had a broken window, it instilled a sense of lawlessness among the residents of the neighborhood that led to a breakdown of civilization; but if you fix the window, then everybody was on board with the idea that we're all in this together, and we are all going to live in a peaceful society.

«Indeed, there is a very real danger of a complete breakdown in civic society, as desperate communities understandably lose faith in the established systems.»

Some information from previous generations may be vague or not formally diagnosed (for example, in the early 1900's a person might have been said to have a «mental breakdown» - which resulted in them being temporarily treated in a psychiatric hospital, given shock treatments and released; or maybe you had a «eccentric uncle» that lived by himself in a cabin away from society and only very rarely socialized with family, and spoke of conspiracy theories when he did talk.

They use everyday indignities as the kindling for bonfires of discharged aggravation, in which the swift breakdown of protocol and etiquette points to a greater hollowness at the heart of modern society.

This is part 2 of our shot - by - shot breakdown of the trailer for Café Society, the new film written and directed by Woody Allen.

Set in the Sixties at an exclusive all - boys prep school, The Emperor's Club is immediately recognizable as another iteration of Dead Poets Society, even more so when one realizes that the film features the same quartet of student types (the troubled one, the trickster, the bookish one, the gregarious one — also the same breakdown you'll find in Stand By Me, come to think of it) and the same crinkly - eyed inspirational professor who finds a lesson for young lives in the heartening words of dead versifiers.

Each is defined and then, at the bottom of the handout, is a breakdown of the debate as to whether these celebrations offered a safety valve for society.

The Humane Society provides a full list of these programs, including a state - by - state breakdown.

Some of the more privileged members of Belizean society perceived that increases in juvenile delinquency, crime, and drug use among Belizean urban youth were directly attributable to breakdowns in family structure.

This thirty - something generation grew up under communism, witnessed the breakdown and collapse of the system, coupled with experiencing the violent invasion of consumer culture in an indigenous society.

In short, avoiding a breakdown in the food system requires the mobilization of our entire society.

That would lead to a hemispheric wide breakdown in the affected areas infrastructure, governmental control and it's ability to direct recovery and total failures in the modern electrical / communication dependent food supply and food transport and water distribution networks leaving billions without the sophisticated infrastructure that underlies all of today's city centric society ability's to exist and survive.

A brief breakdown in the cold winter trend in Britain was recorded in the diary entry of Samuel Pepys for January 1660 / 61 - the year the Royal Society was established - when he wrote;

Since our society has become so selfish and self centered, there are days when I'm out in public and it takes every bit of self restraint not to have a complete mental breakdown.

Within a month of the breakdown of negotiations on Aboriginal rights, the First Ministers met privately at Meech Lake, where they agreed to describe Québec as «a distinct society» in the Canadian Constitution.

As I approach the point where I am exhausting the alternatives I can conjure up, I realize that the root causes of the justice system's inadequacies might just lie in the dysfunctional way that we as a society handle family breakdown; exploring alternatives to how we restructure families is the point of this post, whether we're prepared to contemplate social change of this magnitude or not.

The gender - breakdown statistics for Manitoba lawyers are set out in The Law Society of Manitoba's 2013 Annual Report:

It is self - evident that changes in modern society have made the resolution of breakdown of relationships outside marriage an essential component of family practice.

Everything we have learned since convinces us that these are just symptoms of a breakdown of Aboriginal culture and society.

This breakdown of the American family has dire implications for American society and the U.S. economy.

[1] The breakdown of marriage today, fraught with dire implications for national economic life and American society, calls for a similarly visionary response.