Sentences with phrase «combat social ills»

There is widespread disillusionment both with the characteristic reliance of liberals on government and of conservatives on the market to combat social ills.

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The social ills Brooks suggests we address are worsened by the aggressions of our opponents; they can not be combatted if we lay down our arms.

In this model, the modern epoch is characterized by an abandonment of the three - tiered or dualistic universe of traditional religion, a reliance on scientific and technical reasoning, and increasing intervention by the state to promote advanced industrial capitalism and to combat its ill effects on social life.