Sentences with phrase «decent lives»

-- to acknowledge the full scope of what would need to happen on a world heading toward 9 billion people seeking decent lives.

In a world heading toward 9 billion people seeking decent lives, how does that play out?

But when I talk to students and others about forging a smooth path toward roughly 9 billion people seeking decent lives, and the underlying need for an aggressive and sustained energy quest, I always say don't look to those hallways full of gray suits — the fossils, as activists call them — for the breakthroughs.

Baltimore was prosperous during World War II, but in the postwar period, with suburbanization and then the decline of American heavy industry and manufacturing, the city lost half its jobs in these areas, the jobs that enable those with less education to make decent lives.

Old - fashioned and melodramatic it may be, but playwright Lillian Hellman's tale of decent lives destroyed by idle gossip still hits hard.

Thus, irrespective of their small wage, the purchasing power will be high and they will be able to live decent lives.

Speaking in Swindon as part of a tour of west country constituencies, where his speech was watched by his parents, the Conservative leader said: «At the start of this campaign I said we would fight this election for the people who are ignored in our society, the ones who work hard, pay their taxes, live decent lives and yet feel they are sidelined.

But for the people who are actually living in the camp, the relevant question is whether the resources they need to lead decent lives (including opportunities for education and productive work) will in fact be provided so long as they remain where they are.

Aren't the scare quotes around «wife» an insult to adults who are trying their best to live good, decent lives?

Their interest is ONLY in being re-elected, not in helping working - or middle - class Americans live decent lives.

You brag about how financially disciplined you are, but that just translates into me not making enough money to lead a decent life.»

When Leacock started, he says, he was able to make a decent living.

Of course, this comes down to what your profession is, and whether it is sustainable enough for you to work remotely and still earn a decent living.

Or maybe it's just you're not good enough at any one thing to make a decent living at it?

And paradoxically, as a teacher, it can be notoriously hard to make a decent living.

«McDonald's action falls far short of what is needed to make sure fast food jobs provide a decent living for the men and women who work in them,» Christine Owen, executive director of NELP, said in a statement.

Many bloggers and content writers earn a decent living through their blogs, even though they may not be strong writers.

As more men and money have flowed into the country thanks to prostitution, more and more women have arrived to serve them with the hopes of making a decent living.

           For most Canadians, there's no recovery yet — and there won't be one until a lot more people are working, in decent jobs, earning a decent living.

Many of the estimated nine million self - employed professionals in the US who earn a decent living fall short of lenders» income reporting requirements.

If you're starting a business to just pay yourself and make a decent living, then there is no problem with charging what you want your salary to be.

An Import - Export business can provide you with a decent living — or an extremely handsome living.

There is always the need for a person (who is facing death) to satisfy themselves in the context of «you have lived out a good and decent life».

Say have Christians helped it to have a decent life or at least develop what they know best with equipment's at least towards recycling as green move this way they would have helped them needy for decent living and conserved environment and nature?

If there is no afterlife, then when you die, that honest, decent life is gone.

So she does make a decent living from her writing, I imagine.

I am in no way rich, but I make a decent living.

If you choose, for example, to be an educator or a social worker or an artist, realism demands that you prepare for the possibility that a shrunken job market or the impossibility of making a decent living will force you to abandon your career aspirations in favor of something more «practical.»

The plumbing does not determine how the City will be used, but it will make possible a decent life in the context of a healthy biosphere.

The idea that there is meaning, that life experience accumulated, of decent living attempted in all manner of circumstances, and especially under pressure, is a kind of existentialism to him.

I already have happy days, and a decent life all things considered, and god (s) had nothing to do with it.

Let's be realistic, if you're not with the majority you are the minority and that can hurt you in many ways in the modern day (politically, economically, socially, etc) if your just trying to scratch out a decent living.

When you were a kid, a caveman could still make a decent living in this country as the spokesman for the wonderful, delicious breakfast sugar...

Dominant community pressure made church membership not only a necessity but also the mark of civilization, good manners and decent living.

And those who were lucky enough to immigrate looking for a decent life and job as well not concerned with politics.

I know of some illustrators who make a decent living doing things like this.

The inspiration of the life and teaching of their founders and seers and sages can lead people towards a movement for decent living and human dignity of all and peace among all communities.

Jesus» spirituality inspires a vision of a just world in which all humans have a chance of obtaining the means for a decent life.

It seems impossible to live any sort of decent life without ideas about moral truth, just as it seems a corruption of the judge's function to confuse those ideas with the law to be applied.

They see any alternative to this process as ceasing to provide the goods people need for a decent life.

This just makes things more difficult to make a decent living.

Some of us in academia have made a decent living chronicling the malaise of our fellow clergy.

... now make a decent living by making and selling lots of stuff to greedy fat people in other lands like US, and no longer are State depemdants.

Totally agree, if these companies were providing a decent living wage and had universal health care as they have in most other advanced industrial countries, I would be satisfied.

I figure I'll be happy once I'm making a decent living at this, once I don't have to worry how we'll pay the bills, once I see my name in Amazon's Top 100, once I've stopped doubting, once I've figured God out.

Live a decent life.

The world has the means to provide every person and people with the means for a decent life.

If you and your generation want to continue to live a decent life you'd all better get out of the Democrat party and become a thinker — and a doer instead of socialist whiner.

You need a threat of epic proportions, just to live a decent life.

I live a good, honest, decent life.