Sentences with phrase «costs on society»

Because these girls impose significant costs on society, on themselves, and on their children, efforts to identify and assist them at a young age could yield considerable benefits.

The presumption of innocence imposes a number of costs on society (and, of course, has a number of benefits, of which not imprisoning the factually innocent is only one).

Finally, a global initiative hosted by the United Nations and led by high profile policymakers, including US Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, has recommended the liberalization of the regulation of legal services in order to allow nonlawyers and community - based organizations and advocacy groups to provide legal services to the poor, stating that «it is likely to improve access to justice for the poor substantially while imposing relatively few costs on society,» and that a «major attraction» of such liberalization is that it may require «fewer government or donor expenditures.»

Although the article says that criminal lawyers are the most despised ones in the minds of the public, I think personal injury / tort lawyers have this label because they impose costs on society and business such as hefty insurance premiums (somebody has to pay for that award money), and reduce personal freedom due to the banning of certain activities due to fears of litigation.

Nonrenewable electricity sources may also impose costs on society from water use or pollution and may justify subsidies for some renewable alternatives.

Regulating carbon dioxide may be profitable for certain industries and governments, but will impose enormous costs on society — while having no effect on our weather and climate.

CFACT's position on climate change is CO2 is «beneficial» to plants and wildlife and therefore, «Regulating carbon dioxide may be profitable for certain industries and governments, but will impose enormous costs on society — while having no effect on our weather and climate.»

Biological invasions are among the greatest drivers of species extinctions worldwide and can cause severe impairments of ecosystem services, imposing huge economic costs on society.

She said it was not a case of making prison «softer» for female offenders, but of minimising the wider impact and costs on society.

Emphasizing marriage clearly should fall within this area, since the decline of marriage imposes great costs on society, and marriage has many benefits for individual family members.72 To that extent, public school curricula should:

Increased extreme weather and climate - related impacts are imposing significant costs on society and on companies.

I will assume climate change imposes a net cost on society i.e. it is bad.

Unfortunately, failing to make the polluter pay exacts a high cost on society.

We all know that impaired driving has a huge cost on our society, with the loss of lives, injuries and damage to property.

Not exact matches

A new study from the Air Transport Research Society ranked 206 airports on productivity and cost competitiveness.

OMB's interim guidance, issued on February 2, 2017, explains that for Fiscal Year 2017 the above requirements only apply to each new «significant regulatory action that imposes costs,» and that «costs should be measured as the opportunity cost to society.»

We know that the Canadian population is aging, which means that health needs are increasing and that more and more costs are being imposed on society as a whole.

It is also important to keep in perspective the very real problems that beset our society in other respects, including adolescent depression and the terrible cost it can extract on young lives, on families and on all of us.

The cost is more than individual: when multiplied by the over 1.1 million divorces per year — which affect almost 1 million children annually — an enormous cost is piled on society every year.

Folks are getting tired of the constant, «woah is me» that some women are harping, that their lives are messed up and society must help them with her pregnancy and cost afterward because she made a mistake on the type of guy she allowed between the sheets.

Consider a partial list of developments since just World War II: a broad national decline in denominational loyalty, changes in ethnic identity as hyphenated Americans enter the third and subsequent generations after immigration, the great explosion in the number of competing secular colleges and universities, the professionalization of academic disciplines with concomitant professional formation of faculty members during graduate education, the dramatic rise in the percentage of the population who seek higher education, the sharp trend toward seeing education largely in vocational and economic terms, the rise in government regulation and financing, the great increase in the complexity and cost of higher education, the development of a more litigious society, the legal end of in loco parentis, an exponential and accelerating growth in human knowledge, and so on.

Capital punishment's lack of demonstrated superiority as a deterrent (the evidence for its effectiveness being at best mixed), the capacity of society to protect itself equally well by permanently imprisoning those who are currently being executed (which is possible at limited marginal cost, especially when one takes into account the cost of the extended trial procedures and interminable appeals and reviews which usually accompany capital punishment)-- all these points are important, but their utility is chiefly as rebuttal arguments in response to the empirically weak but emotionally strong claims made on behalf of capital punishment.

The re-ordering of American law, policy, and society since at least the 1950s, all in the name of «liberty,» imposed differential costs on different parts of American society.

According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), «Without treatment the consequences of mental illness for the individual and society are staggering: unnecessary disability, unemployment, substance abuse, homelessness, inappropriate incarceration, suicide and wasted lives; The economic cost of untreated mental illness is more than 100 billion dollars each year in the United States.»

As Christians find themselves more and more on the margins in American society, people are beginning to count the cost.

It has been argued that, even if the penalty of life imprisonment were acceptable on other grounds, our society could not reasonably be asked to pay the cost of maintaining convicted murderers in prisons for the remainder of their natural lives.

Secondly, civil authority would allow individuals even in an unfallen society to economize on decision costs.

By comparison, the private benefits captured by the farmers were calculated at US$ 16 billion but in their decision they were ignoring the costs of US$ 8.1 billion imposed on the rest of society.

And that includes recognizing the longterm ramifications (and the impact on the choices people are often forced to make) when as a society we increasingly individualize and download the cost of things like education onto graduates and their families.

I wonder, too, what the long term benefits are for children whose mothers did make that sacrifice (when able) and how it impacts society on a much grander scale than cost of formula vs. cost of breastfeeding.

Even though interest in breastfeeding has been on the rise, the idea that breastfeeding has an economic value and that not breastfeeding is connected with high costs for society is relatively new.

Breastfeeding has a positive impact on the infant, mother, parents and the health - care system; it also reduces the costs to society of raising healthy children who reach their full potential.

The backlash against the private sector is hardly surprising: when financial institutions broke down following the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2007, the costs fell not on wealthy financiers but society as a whole in an era when middle income households were suffering an unprecedented squeeze.

It's cheaper to bear the costs of warehousing miscreants than to impose the costs of a non-functional educational system on society.

Cameron's commitment to spending more on health than the rate of inflation every year of the next election will still leave the NHS under significant cost pressure as it tries to deal with the soaring demands of an elderly society.

«So as a society, either we control the cost of housing or you spend the money on benefits.

We help society by running buses and trains in a safe, socially and environmentally responsible way Together with industry partners we ensure the safety and wellbeing of passengers and our people improve energy efficiency and reduce costs All making a positive impact on the communities we serve

Not so, Sturgeon took care to say, it's all been costed, but she also went on to say that of course «a fair society must be paid for», and that it would be «right to consider how our limited tax powers might help us protect what we value most».

Jonathan Baldie Editor, The Pryer Community orders are not cost - cutting The article «Too Soft on Crime» (TP, June) argued that community sentences are an insufficient deterrent against society's worst repeat offenders.

The added competition for retail funds from NS&I not only distorts the savings market, but increases the cost and reduces the availability of mortgage funding which building societies and other lenders rely on for mortgage lending.

How do they compare to costs to society of prohibition of a particular substance, in terms of law enforcement, and opportunity costs from loss of otherwise productive members of society to our criminal justice system, either through incarceration or effects of having a conviction on their record?

The UK recession has seen unemployment to be far more focused on young people than in previous downturns imposing large costs on individuals and society.

In recent days he has been saying all sorts of outrageous things: tax cuts would encourage growth, increasing energy costs via green taxes is lunacy in a downturn and the Big Society doesn't really seem to have caught on as a concept.

All of this certainly has major impacts on human society, and it imposes costs.

Not only public debates on single local protective measures are needed; what is also needed is a broader societal discussion on the risks that a society and its citizens are willing to carry in connection with flooding and how the costs of mitigation measures should be distributed.

The find, announced on 3 October at a meeting of the American Vacuum Society in Boston, could bring down the production costs of nanotubes and help researchers apply them in a range of new materials and devices.

In recent emails to the roughly 2,000 members of the society and a posting on the group's website, Faloon wrote that enrolling in the study would cost $ 285,000 — in an effort, he said, to be transparent to people who couldn't afford it.

«What we have to do as a society is figure out how to move ourselves around in a way that is low - cost and has minimal effect on the environment,» he says.

Thus, external costs in effect subsidize fossil - fuel power generation, either directly or via indirect effects on the society as a whole.

«The Effect of Transplant Center Volume on Cost and Readmission in Medicare Lung Transplant Recipients» was published online ahead of print in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society.