Sentences with phrase «broken the system of»

Particularly, this novel looks at the brokenness of a missionary family amidst the broken systems of post-colonial Africa.
That's like saying I only crashed your car because I wanted to let you know how broken the system of people crashing other people's cars is... your welcome.
It's so sad and really just shows how broken our systems of governments are, whether is in Africa or America, they just can't or won't protect mothers and babies from the interests of big business.
«We applaud Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and the members of the Election Law Committee for jumpstarting this session's discussion of how to repair our broken system of campaign finance.»
This is not only wasteful and inefficient, it is emblematic of a broken system of food production that is simply unsustainable.
Aside from that, somewhere down the road from today, we may look back and wonder about the sudden proliferation late in this decade of films centred on Robin Hoods literal and allegorical, robbing from a broken system of fiscal governance to give to (or, at least, not directly take from) the common guy.
For example, the U.S. Department of Education's Equity and Excellence Commission found in its 2013 report that «students, families and communities are burdened by the broken system of education funding in America.»
They're not breaking away from districts simply to replicate the existing broken system of special education.
As Grodner explains in her blog post, Students Break the System of Bullying in English Class, she showed the powerful documentary film BULLY to launch the project.
But lack of funding equity has caught up with charters and our children are the ones who will pay the price if we don't fix Connecticut's broken system of education funding.
She is passionate about utilizing social justice as a way through the broken systems of education, and co-facilitates a national conversation with other social justice teachers for the Teacher Leadership Initiative via NEA and the Center for Teaching Quality (CTQ).
Adding to these challenges is the broken system of creating and managing charter schools in our state, a system that includes our own school.
A broken system of abuse reporting makes Facebook a paradise for trolls.
You know vaccinations are grossly over-provided in our broken system of veterinary medicine.
You'd think that they could have made a plot about breaking the system of Panopticons and freeing humanity from automatic million year sentencings.

Not exact matches

Not cries out of pity but out of joy, pride and sadness at the lost lives, broken families and a broken system but also at the hope, ambition and remorse that I witnessed.
So what psychologists recommend is underneath the stretch goal, you have a system to force you to break some component of it into a plan — to start thinking about the goal in a methodological way.
21 years of record - breaking, system growth can only be accomplished by continuous pursuit of innovation.
Bertolini, it's worth noting, is one of this broken health care system's most successful CEOs.
Western Australian Treasurer Christian Porter has welcomed an interim report on the carve - up of GST revenue, which has flagged changes to a system Mr Porter says is broken and in need of reform.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, one of the most revered figures of South Africa's anti-apartheid struggle and a key backer of the divestment campaign that helped end the system, was an early backer of fossil fuel divestment and said in 2014: «People of conscience need to break their ties with corporations financing the injustice of climate change.»
There are many challenges involved in fixing America's broken healthcare system, but certainly one of the knottiest is privacy — and the many questions that surround the exploding amounts of personal healthcare data.
If the cartel system continues to break down and potash prices sag much further, the economics of that project may become impossible to justify.
«I have a nightmare scenario that a hacker breaks into our system that controls satellites, UAVs, even the launch of missiles.
The banking system was hyper - competitive and quick to take risks in pursuit of profits; policymakers aggressively pushed homeownership through measures such as tax breaks for mortgage interest payments; and weak recourse laws let mortgage defaulters off the hook.
Syriza, which broke a two - party - led system, has disappointed some on the left for implementing austerity measures and the reputation of the mainstream parties remains damaged following what is perceived as years of failed promises.
Add to that, the cost of health insurance premiums growing at four times inflation and workers changing employers far more often than they did 60 years ago, and you have a system that's going to break.
It came as a shock to many when, in September, Google admitted to the SEC that some of its most important systems «are not fully redundant» — meaning if something breaks, your data may be gone.
But now, with the aging baby boom generation threatening to strain the country's single - payer system to the breaking point, provinces are exploring new avenues of public - private partnership.
He still needs a rocket that can survive reentry and a guidance - and - control system capable of directing it to the U.S. without breaking up.
President Trump woke up this morning and fired off a tweet criticising Democrats who «are pushing for Universal HealthCare while thousands of people are marching in the UK because their U system is going broke and not working.»
While most retailers face a 2015 deadline to switch to the new systems, gas stations have until 2017 because of the expense of «breaking concrete» to install new credit card readers at pumps.
That means managing your time in a way that allows you to prioritize your action steps, removing as many distractions from your life as possible, allotting budgetary resources to your goals, breaking ties with people who discourage your efforts to change, and cultivating a strong support system of people who want you to succeed and will help hold you accountable to your goals.
Imagine an autonomous car's hardware systems freezing, malfunctioning or breaking down in the middle of a drive.
In other words, if any kind of content can be broken down into a formula, then the system could package related, but different content in that same formula repeatedly ad infinitum.
One where a group of terrorists or «disgruntled insider» hackers break into the power system and bring 50 of the almost 700 generators in the northeastern U.S. offline, resulting in a blackout that lasts about 4 days.
Instead, you'll have a fast, simple system for discovering the opinion of your market, which is the one opinion that decides if you go broke or get rich.
Healthcare and education are just two examples — but they illustrate a point: if the current system prevents a growing number of people from being able to care for themselves when they are sick, or get the training they need to get a job that supports themselves and their families, they will break the system.
The broken tax code was tops on the alumni's list of criticisms, followed by the U.S. political system.
Those who thought this breaks the laws of physics didn't have understanding of how the [uBeam] system worked, or what the basic specs are.»
But Democratic critics of Senate Bill 4 have spoken out as well in the wake of the smuggling deaths, arguing that the fatalities and injuries were caused not by sanctuary policies, but by a the current broken immigration system.
«In a year where politicians traffic in anti-immigrant rhetoric, there is also a Broadway musical reminding us that a broke, orphan immigrant from the West Indies built our financial system, a story that reminds us that since the beginning of the great unfinished symphony that is our American experiment, time and time again, immigrants get the job done.»
As part of bug bounty programs, companies offer cash and other rewards to security researchers or so - called white hat hackers who break into their computer systems and find security holes.
«This comprehensive framework requires the city to implement sweeping operational changes to fix a broken system and dismantle a decades - long culture of violence,» Bharara said in a statement.
Additionally, the Pentagon created a bug bounty program in March to entice hackers to break into its computer systems and networks — and of course tell officials about vulnerabilities so they can fix them.
In late August, Yahoo broke news that foreign hackers had breached the state Board of Elections websites in Illinois and Arizona, which the FBI's cyber division followed up with an alert to election officials across the nation to increase voting system security.
The report said tax systems around the world were «broken,» but that an era of greater transparency was beginning.
A number of HR practitioners told Fortune that the current moment has prompted soul searching in the field, though they're hesitant to say the system is completely broken.
The studio's parent, Sony Corp., launched an overhaul of its own security in 2011 after hackers broke into its PlayStation Network gaming system and stole data of 77 million users.
But on the behalf of entrepreneurs, who have so much to gain from intelligent reform of America's broken immigration system, you can understand how they feel.
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