Sentences with phrase «economic anxiety about»

No, the real story is that motherhood has become a stress - laden and guilt - ridden project due to the societal veneration of stay - at - home moms, the workplace requirement that women be overachievers just to stay even with their male colleagues, economic anxiety about class standing and, above all, government and corporate refusal to devise family - friendly policies.

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The Jewish scholar Joseph Klausner, for example, holds that the Pharisees and Sadducees were justified in their attacks on Jesus because he imperiled Jewish culture at its foundations, and that by ignoring everything that belongs to wholesome social life he undercut the work of centuries.2 Others within the Christian tradition have felt considerable uneasiness lest the words of Jesus about nonresistance imperil the civil power of the State, or his words about having no anxiety for food or drink or other material possessions curtail an economic motivation essential to society.

Sarna is especially incisive when he discusses Jewish indebtedness and identification with American values, together with his anxiety about Jewish security and survival in North America, pride in the existence and achievements of the state of Israel, and satisfaction at its economic Westernization.

It is less clear what immediate agenda this would generate for dealing with the pressures of an economic downturn and rising food and fuel prices, or public anxieties and grievances about immigration, crime, the closure of post offices or NHS reconfiguration.

«We need to think deeper about why we seem out of touch to so many and understand the demands of cultural anxiety as well as economic prosperity.»

«This is about economic anxiety» in a society where the top 1 percent «have had 95 percent of the income growth and the bottom third is going backwards,» the governor said during a union - organized rally in Manhattan's Foley Square.

Economic inequality can also cause anxiety about social status for those with less, which can lead to chronic stress that weakens the cardiovascular and immune systems, says Richard Wilkinson of the University of Nottingham.

There's no two ways about it: It was a pretty terrible time to be an American, but then again, the combination of a crumbling belief in our country's bedrock institutions (government, religion) and widespread economic anxieties made the»70s a glorious, unprecedented (and, ultimately, unsurpassed) time to make horror movies.

, and Take Shelter, a psychological drama about mental illness and end - of - the - world fears wrapped up in contemporary anxieties of economic survival.

«About an hour in, I found myself wondering what the Dardenne brothers might have done with this story, with its roots in economic anxiety and parental dedication.

When the 2009 PISA scores were released, noted Zhao, «The results received extensive media coverage in the United States, all emitting a sense of shock, urgency, and anxiety» (p. 56) about American students» ability to compete with peers from China and other economic rivals.

She used this time to meticulously research the 16th - century Italian Renaissance art form of the commedia dell» arte, with its exaggerated expressions and gestures and tales of subterfuge and misrecognition at a time when rapid social and economic change were bringing about anxieties regarding status.

Today, the Times and other newspapers run stories about how Americans are coping with their economic, not ecological, anxieties.

Natural anxiety about economic well - being creates self - interest bias.

Russian propaganda delivered to Americans on social media seek to heighten ethnic divisions, play off security fears like domestic terrorism and increase anxieties about social and economic decline, researchers say.

Economic anxiety can also reflect expectations about the future, how the economy is changing, and whether one can adapt to those changes.