Sentences with phrase «class struggling with»

He may have masterfully exploited the despair of the precariat to his own advantage, yet it is the precariat, the working class struggling with chronic and manifold precarity, that is using him as a weapon against the invisible oppressive hand of neoliberalism that has ravaged the middle class since the late 1970s.

«It's an absorbing, well - researched snapshot from the American class struggle with excellent performances and an evocative sense of time and place.»

Begins with revision of the Catholic view of evolution (my class struggled with this) and then details the questions, mark scheme and a sample answer for each for students to understand their marks.

It would be wise to spend more time re-teaching a standard in which a large portion of the class struggled with on an assessment.

As the producer class struggled with a sluggish economy, Milwaukee public school teachers were rewarded for their political support by getting a 5 % pay increase for the current school year.

Not exact matches

Years ago, he met a middle school student on a class tour through DC who was struggling with his stutter, and wrote him a letter: «You can beat it just like I did.

Plagued with an overwhelming amount of messages about diets, fitness programs, and CrossFit classes - most people never get started, and those that do often struggle to achieve the level of transformation they desire.

Atlanta has a world class airport and strong public transportation although they struggle, like these other finalists, with rush hour traffic.

Even in Canada, we do have to make an effort to have that middle class life and retirement life and plenty of people who had two professional incomes did not save nearly enough and / or make the right financial moves, and struggle in retirement even with pensions.

Nervousness is dominant across asset classes, but especially bond markets and major currencies are in the center of attention, with equities struggling to gain footing following the most bearish two months in years, after the volatile holiday - shortened week.

«With stagnant job growth numbers this past year and a significant decrease in family - supporting jobs, giving up on her jobs plan is a sign the premier has given up on middle class families who are struggling to make ends meet.»

Italy's political class has struggled to deal with the underlying causes of the country's malaise, including a loss of international competitiveness and the stagnant productivity of its business sector that began well before the European financial crisis of recent years.

The appearance of many states with conflicts among their national bourgeoisie serves only to paper over the reality of a worldwide class struggle.

He shares with his numerous predecessors the determination to suppress all problems of the economic base, their idealistic tendencies and their belittling of the class struggle in the naïve terms of a vague humanism.

If the Christ paradigm offers salvation to the rich via his identification with the oppressed masses in their struggle for justice, this route must really mean a greater enrichment of experience for that rich man than, let us say, the enjoyment of good books and music which the continued leisure of the upper class could have afforded him.

Much of what Ramsey teaches is sound, helpful advice, particularly for middle - class Americans struggling with mounting credit card bills.

The cops I know are constantly struggling with some form of» - ism» (e.g. race, age, class, etc) given the combination of experience and an innate human tendency towards profiling.

So we buy fancy cars and travel first class and build mansions for ourselves and furnish them with luxuries to satisfy our whims while our neighbors on this planet live in shacks and struggle against oppression and watch their children die young from lack of food and medical care.

Yet I have struggled long and hard with the question of whether it is possible to be a member of this class and at the same time to be a Christian.

Neither of these men — the anonymous homosexual and the hypothetical heterosexual — should discuss their current sexual struggles with the fourth grade religious education class.

The person on income support who is struggling to make ends meet can please and honour God with their giving just as much as the financially comfortable middle - class family.

He came out against middle - class tax increases, said he now supported the mid-1990s welfare reform, and he made an effort to seem like an abortion moderate who struggled with the moral complexity of the issue.

Perhaps EMS was not familiar with the ideas of a number of prominent theologians who accept class struggle as a fact and as a tool for analysis.

His candidacy would combine upfront social conservatism with an economic message targeted at the middle - class and struggling wage - earners rather than at the party's lobbyist and donor elites.

Because he is a dedicated Marxist as well as a famous geneticist, Lewontin saw the conflict between creation and evolution as a class struggle, with history inevitably awarding the victory to the naturalistic class.

What actually happens with Gutiérez and others close to him is something like this: they turn to the social sciences for help in understanding the dynamics of the world in which they live; among those they read is Marx, who describes a world in which a «class struggle» is going on.

Printing ushered in the Reformation and with it religious plurality and the differentiation of consciousness reflecting competing and conflicting classes and other interests (all struggling for the right to tell stories from their own points of view) in the same society.

Instead it is reduced to an aid in understanding either the unfolding cosmic drama (as with process thought) or the class struggle of history (as with liberation theology).

Not only its aesthetic value, which is apparent in the power of its expression, in the depth of its sensitivity, and in its monumental structure; but also its content — the bold and colossal struggle with the ancient, and at the same time always new, human problem of the meaning of suffering — all this puts the work, in its universal significance, in a class with Dante's Divine Comedy and Goethe's Faust.8

In other words, they saw clearly that along with the struggle for justice for the industrial working class, we must simultaneously go forward with the liberation of dalits, tribals and women if we have to realize an Indian socialism.

While working - class young adults «struggle with similar, and structurally rooted, problems, there is no sense of «we,»» reports Jennifer M. Silva, author of Coming Up Short: Working - Class Adulthood in an Age of Uncertaclass young adults «struggle with similar, and structurally rooted, problems, there is no sense of «we,»» reports Jennifer M. Silva, author of Coming Up Short: Working - Class Adulthood in an Age of UncertaClass Adulthood in an Age of Uncertainty.

It fashions society into an economic organization in which production for profit becomes the central enterprise, in which the economic relations of men are regarded as their fundamental relations, in which economic privileges are most highly prized, and in which the resultant classes of men are set to struggle with one another for the economic goods.

So, when we use the phrase «political animal» today, it might be wise to recall that it originally reflected an understanding of civic affairs almost diametrically opposed to our modern obsessive fascination with partisan struggle, polls, campaigning, and the fortunes of a distinct «political» class.

We started out with the proposition that the ideal of a fraternal organization of society will remain powerless if it is supported by idealists only; that it needs the firm support of a solid class whose economic future is staked on the success of that ideal; and that the industrial working class is consciously or unconsciously committed to the struggle for the realization of that principle.

Recognizing that wining over working - class swing voters (or non-working-class voters with many struggling people in their social networks) requires, at minimum, addressing the everyday concerns of those voters — and recognizing that the fates of American working - class voters of all races and ethnicities are linked.

In school, all the grand old masters of literature are brought out for the children to study and to struggle with, with those dorky Questions for Class Discussion: What rhetorical device does the writer employ when he refers to «poems they tape to the refrigerator door»?

When the «depressed classes «awaken to their rights and begin the struggle for social and economic equality, and when the members of the «aboriginal «tribes, who have been peacefully secluded for centuries from the main stream of Indian nationalism, join with others in demanding their rights, fundamentalist groups and the monied classes oppose such moves.

Nevertheless the Christian doctrine of the relation between the ethics of Law and Grace, the Hindu concept of paramarthika and vyavaharika realms, the Islamic concept of shariat law versus the transcendent law, and the equivalent ones in secular ideologies like the Marxist idea of the present morality of class - war leading to the necessary love of the class-less society of the future need to be brought into the inter-faith dialogue to build up a common democratic political ethic for maintaining order and freedom with the continued struggle for social justice, and also a common civil morality within which diverse peoples may renew their different traditions of civil codes.

Some of their findings are as follows: class struggle is an objective situation of oppression and conflict starting with the existence of social classes.

Love is not realizable until the social alienation of human beings in a class society is overcome and classless society emerges, for which, of course, the ethics of power - politics of class - struggle with its denials of love is to be followed.

Love is not realizable until the social alienation of human beings in class - society is overcome and classless society emerges, for which of course the ethics of power - politics of class - struggle with its denials of love is to be followed.

As a rule, totalitarianism endeavors to do away with the individual subject: his thought is replaced by ideology, his speech is replaced by some dialectical variety of Newspeak, his actions are replaced by the automatic development of Progress, History, or class struggle, supervised by the State or the Party» which, thanks to its «hundreds of eyes» (Brecht, Die Massnahme), is supposed to be wiser and more farsighted than any one of us.

While many students struggle with wasting time, others plunge into classes and work, believing constant busyness equals purposeful living.

It is an article of faith with every devout Communist that the working out of the class struggle will eventually bring the Communist Party to power in every part of the world.

Clarke, a champion of class struggle who has been enamored of almost every lefty cause that has come down the pike, exults in the fact that, with the help of a few friendly bishops, he was a very successful «mole» in undermining a conservative hierarchy that is captive to the «corporate agenda.»

Associating aspirations to democratisation of society with those aiming to give the management of the economy accessibility to the popular classes is probably the main concept around which the struggles can unite.

Raised in a secular / liberal home, Roose struggles to keep up with the Bible classes at Liberty and to make sense of some of the idiosyncrasies of the conservative evangelical subculture.

The Communist Manifesto begins with these words: «The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.

The storm confronting Keely and his family feels like it has reached gale - force levels: as farmers struggle with the fall - out of an unprecedented, late - in - the - season 15 per cent drop in the milk price and demand politicians deliver an industry fighting fund, the largest processor and price - setter Murray Goulburn was hit with a class action and an Australian Securities and Investments Commission investigation.

Top class players earning only a little more than rubbish / average players make no sense in terms of: struggling to sell rubbish / average players because no one will match their ridiculous wages, contract renewals (as we're seeing with the likes Sanchez and Ozil, not to mention other top players who have left in the past), and in terms of attracting top quality players.