Sentences with phrase «by affluence»

Arguing that preservation requires something «qualitatively different from limiting our contamination of nature,» Nordhaus and Shellenberger contend that, as Americans, we must collectively sacrifice our standard of living to reverse the inevitable, a seemingly impossible but necessary task in a nation plagued by affluence envy and credit card debt.

So apparently your attitudes weren't being too much influenced by affluence.

Children of Zodiarcs A story - driven, tactical RPG set in the fantasy realm of Lumus — a world divided by affluence and poverty.

Check it out below after the official synopsis... Set on the shores of Long Island's Gold Coast, the story centers around Hardy Buchanan (Skyler Gisondo), a poor high school senior surrounded by affluence -LSB-...]

How to angle singles and personals online is answered by affluence of dating accessories on the Internet.

There one can see a touching picture of all human miseries, not of those poor attrackted by the alms of sovereigns, or of those insects who attach themselves to the reach, but of starving beggars deprived of necessities by the «charity» of their bishops so as to prevent them from becoming corrupted by affluence.

Not exact matches

Huffington adds: «As long as success is defined by who works the longest hours, who goes the longest without a vacation, who sleeps the least, who responds to an email at midnight or five in the morning — in essence, who is suffering from the biggest time famine — we're never going to be able to enjoy the benefits of time affluence.»

By doing activities that make them feel useful, employees increase their sense of «time affluence,» the researchers conclude, implying that the source of our perceived time famine isn't really lack of hours but a lack of a sense of purpose and accomplishment.

With the growing affluence generated by the Industrial Revolution, however, came the gradual rise of the welfare state, a safety net woven from myriad programs offering cash and services to anyone who was poor, disabled or involuntarily unemployed.

What we meant to model was the sending of one of our number to be a foreign missionary — to learn a new language, to understand a local culture, to sacrifice the amenities of affluence and to live knowing that he or she is always being watched by seekers — while the rest of us stay here as lifetime local missionaries, learning to speak the language of the unchurched, understanding secular culture, sacrificing the amenities of affluence and living as a «watched» person in a society that is skeptical of Christian spirituality until it sees the real thing on display.

The motivations vary by discipline, but a short list would include the largely physical pleasure of the Utilitarians, the desire for survival of the Darwinians, the incestuous sexual cravings of the Freudians, the quest for power and class domination of the Marxists, and the blind search for unlimited affluence of modern economists.

Familiar examples of such action would include the advocacy of social services aimed at the redistribution of material well - being so that there would be some agreed - upon level of affluence for all, including refusal to live above this parity level, unilateral disarmament, pacifism, nonviolent refusal to abide by existing laws that perpetuate injustice with the willingness to suffer the penalties that existing laws demand.

In this regard, considerations of donor affluence — and of consequent ability to give aid — are irrelevant to the moral question of whether potential recipients of that aid will benefit or will be harmed by it.

In the second period there was a decline in religious observance and moral discipline, a revision of curriculum favoring newly specialized disciplines, and a heightened interest exhibited by educators and students in affluence: the former for new resources and the latter for more remunerative careers.

In the U.S. and Western Europe, there will presumably be either a return to certain Hellenic or older European concepts of the good life, or an intensified alienation and search made necessary and facilitated by the unprecedented affluence and permissiveness of the postindustrial economy.

By downsizing their expectations of material affluence, people are able to discover and invest in what really matters to them, whether that is family, relationships, community involvement, environmental responsibility or a new, more satisfying kind of work.

Increasingly, we seek to be an alternative in a society that is often destructive of human relationships and humane values, a society afflicted by a chronic low - grade nihilism that is masked but not healed by material affluence.

These shifts were spurred by a new American affluence, by the Pill, by the flood of women into the work force, by the destabilization of traditional values during the war in Vietnam, and by a new societal emphasis on self - fulfillment.

They are guardians of the world of commerce, where everything is valued only as it might be bought or sold, where all giving and receiving are governed by the satanic law that each must try to take more than he gives, where everything is plunged into the abysmal shadow of that insatiable Typhon called America — that gaslit desert of barbarism, with its infantile, gigantic, exuberant vulgarity, its monstrously guileless delight in affluence, its omnivorous vacuity...» He ceased speaking suddenly, looking all at once abashed.

[c] onversion, instead of being a vertical movement toward God, a genuine renewal of life, has become a horizontal movement of groups of people from one community to another, very often backed by economic affluence, organizational strength and technological power.

But the affluence and competence we treasure so much is matched by a profound fear — that the dollar will collapse, that the bomb will explode, that the Communists will attack.

These religious issues — personal formation and making sense of life — are often disguised by our relative affluence and the apparent assumption that getting everyone to middle - class economic status will solve all problems.

As for the common people, their economic status doubtless limited the size of their households and, as among all polygamous peoples, any rise in affluence was accompanied by an increase of wives.

If by some way humanity were able to reduce the environmental impact of all its technologies by 10 per cent and there were no increase in per - person affluence, world population growth would return the collective impact of humans to the previous level in about five years.

In a society hungry for ever more affluence, where resources will seem permanently scarce, the decision not to abort might in time seem a willful act of self - indulgence whose costs should be borne only by the self - indulgent woman herself.

Bell feared that the virtues that made capitalism viable — hard work and frugality — would be undercut by the very affluence that it produced.

The mounting strength of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States has been a large factor, and this in turn has been due to the faithful efforts in the nineteenth century which laid the foundations for that strength and to the rise to comfort, and here and there to affluence, of Roman Catholic emigrants and their children, who, coming poverty - stricken to America, have profited by the development of the virgin resources of the land.

Driven by increasing affluence at home and a growing number of export markets, beef production is expected to increase by 22.5 per cent, reaching 10.9 million tonnes by 2023.

Despite it's disastrous track - record of macro-economic management, epitomised by the Lawson boom in the late 1980s and George Osbourne's ill - timed retrenchment since 2010, the Conservatives have consistently positioned themselves as the party of fiscal discipline and economic competence, as well as the party of entrepreneurship and material affluence.

Everybody agrees that the current affluence of Israel, its modern infrastructure and economy were developed by the Jews

With the benefit cap meaning that housing benefit will be capped at a point where for many who rely on it will have to move away, which means areas with relative affluence with sites of former counci estates, which are now being snapped up by yuppies or young professionals renting them will increase in an area — less likely to vote Labour than those who were on receipt of housing benefit.

«A lot of the diseases that do come about today or have been linked with high - fat diets or things like that have been referred to by some researchers as «diseases of affluence.»

Inflammation Nation: The First Clinically Proven Eating Plan to End Our Nation's Secret Epidemic by Floyd H. Chilton argues that inflammation occurs when we consume «foods of affluence,» e.g., farmed salmon and eggs, and out - of - season fruits and vegetables — foods that have replaced the seasonal nuts, fruits and vegetables eaten by our hunter - gather ancestors.

Watching Blanchett's entitled character, accustomed to wealth and affluence having to struggle as a receptionist for a libidinous dentist (played with creepy skeevyness by Michael Stuhlbarg) is near excruciating, and Jasmine's life, as rendered by Blanchett so amazingly, is utterly agonizing.

If Ralph Richardson and Malcolm McDowell were played by the old and the young Alec Guinness respectively, would the green Lurex suit evoke The Man in the White Suit (Mackendrick - Ealing, before austerity became affluence)?

Zones of comparative affluence spread out from there in concentric circles, exactly matched by the mean intake CATs scores of the secondary schools located in those zones.

Features like this advertisement are entirely indicative of the character exhibited by Madison: an idyllic suburban community of ease and affluence.

Kia K900 delivers affluence in a «challenge the luxury you know» catchphrase promoted in advertising by Kia spokesman and movie legend Laurence Fishburn, he of Matrix movie fame.

Todd seemed nervous, obviously intimidated by such affluence.

Older Americans have made dramatic gains in their level of affluence relative to younger generations, says a new study by the Pew Research Center.

The new affluence is at present still too new, everyone remembers what it was like «before the sugar company» and there has yet to be a generation grown up surrounded by cane fields.

Over the next two decades, the affluence of the Andersons was enhanced not only by the sale of Saga to the Marriott Corp. in 1986, but also by their growing art assets.

Often illuminated by flashes of searchlights, Ruscha's paintings of common objects and urban night scenes evoke atmospheres culled from Hollywood movies, casting a dark shadow on American myths of affluence and success.

In the art world this tangle is further convoluted by the relishing of trade and an inherent affluence, elitism and circuitous pandering that can compromise anyone's well - intentioned we / they stirrings.

But if we were to admit that our problems were spiritual and political in nature and bedeviled by population and affluence, then we would endorse reductions in energy consumption and the inequalities that feed such appetites.

But Obama faces a reality that many of these groups seem slow to recognize: While the 20th - century toolkit preferred by traditional environmentalists — litigation, regulation and legislation — remains vital to limiting domestic pollution risks such as the oil gusher, it is a bad fit for addressing the building human influence on the climate system, which is driven now mainly by a surge in emissions mostly outside United States borders in countries aiming to propel their climb out of poverty on the same fossil fuels that generated much of our affluence.

re Dan H. 541 — that's what I meant by human population dynamics being «fortunately complex» — that it helps to control our population growth by being nice to each other (in specific ways), as opposed to how we would control deer or lady bugs (or aphids) or gypsy moths, etc. (would that change if deer reached a stage part - way between subsistence and affluence?

But, as yet, there's no set of such goals for those who are already living lives that many analysts say are consuming resources at a pace well beyond the planet's carrying capacity, particularly if the habits that attend affluence — from greatly increased meat consumption to unthinking energy use and greenhouse - gas emissions — are adopted by another few billion people.

John P. Holdren, now President Obama's science adviser, wrote in «Science and Technology for Sustainable Well - Being» that when you measure human harm in years of life lost (e.g., a child cut down by disease loses decades; a grandmother dying of a stroke at 80 loses a few years), the major afflictions of poverty and affluence do us in at roughly equal rates.

Our descendants may one day say that ours was a time of affluence, subsidized by their suffering.