Sentences with phrase «economic desperation»

"Economic desperation" refers to a situation where people or communities face extreme financial hardship and feel desperate or trapped due to a lack of resources or opportunities to improve their economic condition. Full definition
Just like that, director David Mackenzie establishes, first, the idea that the men in that blue Camaro are up to no good; second, the current of economic desperation driving screenwriter Taylor Sheridan's story; and third, the religious posturing that offers an alternative to existential despair, with roadside churches, TV evangelists, and Christian radio offering a relentless white - noise stream of piety on demand to an American underclass with nowhere left to turn.
Partitioning our state into frack and no - frack zones base on economic desperation is a shameful idea.
When O'Neil first started to see Olympic medals showing up at coin shows, she didn't know it at the time but it was a byproduct of Soviet bloc economic desperation.
«Fear Factor left behind the rule book in E.L. Katz's ultra-violent parody on American economic desperation that mixes murky morality with a heavy twist of sadism.
As such films as Beasts of the Southern Wild expressed and exploited, when depicting children there's a fine line between free spirit and lost soul, and it can occasionally register as simplistic to use kiddie innocence to prop up a story of genuine economic desperation.
The term was coined by economist Milton Friedman who, in 1969, likened the idea to dropping money from a helicopter, an act of economic desperation if there ever was one.
Those focused both on humanitarian relief efforts, often a military mission, and on combating rising instances of extremism (which are often fueled by economic desperation or inability to access shelter, food, and water) are now very concerned about the impact of climate change disruptions on global stability.
It is only the English ** Middle Class which could afford «family silver», a liquid asset useful in times of last - ditch economic desperation («selling off the family silver»), whose offspring benefited from a jump - start in life («born with a silver spoon in his mouth») or unearned privilege («handed to him on a silver platter»).
Although this internship redefinition has only been reported in the States as yet, it leads to wonder how long it will take until economic desperation leads to a similar fad this side of the water.
«When a father sells his daughter, he's doing so out of economic desperation,» «the father is going this out if concern for his family, and Israel's laws provided a safety net for it's very poorest.»
For over twenty years the outsourcing of migration controls has meant that European publics have been protected from the practical reality of forced displacement and economic desperation that is now showing up on holiday beaches.
While I am concerned that some women may do this solely out of economic desperation (of course, critics might want to focus on that problem), we compensate research subjects all the time.
He's the bastard son of capitalism, the American Dream gone sour in our time of economic desperation.
An obvious starting point would be his series «Merchant Posters» (2006 — 09): collages made from signs he found on telegraph poles, boarded - up shop fronts and fenced - off empty lots, which speak both of entrepreneurial spirit and economic desperation.
Initially, I, along with the other people who helped formulate them, envisioned these solutions as a way to undermine the economic desperation that gives rise to so much anti-US sentiment.
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