Sentences with phrase «economic exploitation by»

These and other examples from the ancient world have led several scholars to conclude that the term arsenokoites likely describes economic exploitation by some sexual means.

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Those who continue to cling to the fatally flawed infinite economic growth within a resource finite biosphere won't have much to cling to as we witness the outcome of the laws of basic arithmitic, physics, and chemistry on this planet overwhelmed by artificially supported human population and resource exploitation.

These ministers who took on the big economic issues of the day were inspired by the example of Jesus, who angered the powerful by condemning the economic exploitation of the poor, religious scholars say.

The Third World, wallowing in want and victimized by exploitation, may even regard economic survival as too important to be neglected.

Christianity is not an economic system, but it has a faith and ideal which puts upon any system the demand that it honor rather than exploit human personality, that it operate as a technique to provide for the material well - being of all the people and not for the exploitation of the weak by the strong.

The Dakota Territory had absorbed a large wave of immigrant homesteaders, a population vulnerable to economic exploitation and political domination by the native born Americans who also flooded into the territory.

Salvation works in the struggle for economic justice against the exploitation of people by people; in the struggle for human dignity against the political oppression of human beings; in the struggle for solidarity against the alienation of person from person; and in the struggle of hope against despair in personal life.

Many of them do not understand that the threat of catastrophic judgment is brought on by their nation as nation and by its vested interests: neglect of the least privileged in this country and beyond, economic exploitation, popular media saturated in violence, the support of repressive client regimes, military buildup and the corporate destruction of the environment.

For me, that was the going wage in the economic law of supply and demand, but in fact, that was part of the exploitation of the weak by the strong.

The woman is rich, and became so by riding the beast to military victory and the economic exploitation of those who were defeated.

The report on this subject frankly acknowledged that «the missionary enterprise, coming as it does out of an economic order dominated almost entirely by the profit motive,» has not been «so sensitive to those aspects of the Christian message as would have been necessary sensibly to mitigate the evils which advancing industrialization has brought in its train,» and then proceeded to scrutinize mercilessly the exploitation of backward peoples as the result of the economic penetration of Africa and Asia by the West.

«Other stand - out recommendations include a bill designed to address the exploitation of our tax laws and exploitation of Nigerians by multinational firms by Femi Obagun, and a brief policy for more stringent laws against rapists, a Workers Protection Act, an Alternate Financing to Economic Growth Act, a Policing and State Security Act, and a Government Transparency and Anti Corruption Act.

What he seems to be saying, in an observation underscored by Ashley's desperate economic and familial circumstances, is that deprivation comes in many colors, but exploitation is a one - way street.

This book is focused on the challenges to implement sustainability in diverse contexts such as agribusiness, natural resource systems and new technologies.The experiences made by the researchers of the School of Agricultural, Forestry, Food and Environmental Science (SAFE) of the University of Basilicata offer a wide and multidisciplinary approach to the identification and testing of different solutions tailored to the economic, social and environmental characteristics of the region and the surrounding areas.Basilicata's productive system is mainly based on activities related to the agricultural sector and exploitation of natural resources but it has seen, in recent years, an industrial development driven by the discovery of oil fields.

Children can be abused by their parents due to neglect, violence or through sexual or economic exploitation.

Haacke turns his critical eye on real - estate transactions in lower Manhattan, chronicling exploitation of dire economic conditions by the wealthy to profit from the displacement of working - class New Yorkers.

Featuring works by Torkwase Dyson, Lorraine O'Grady, Jade Montserrat, and Keisha Scarville, The Last Place They Thought Of considers how histories of racial, sexual, and economic exploitation shape our understanding of geography, habitat, and environment.

Modifications of the landscape and the economic exploitation of nature are counteracted by its unexpected force and how it affects the course of history.

The dreams of Art et Liberté were often concerned with social inequality, economic exploitation and struggling bodies — dreams troubled by the reality of Egypt under British colonial rule and a fascist fervour sweeping Europe,

«A deeper awareness of the economic value of free services provided by nature may increase our willingness to invest efforts and resources into natural capital conservation and correct exploitation, so that societal wealth, economic stability and well - being would also increase.»

What was of greater concern was the state inaction in response to this known problem, in particular by addressing socio - economic conditions and addressing their vulnerability to sexual exploitation.

The native title system is clearly designed to support the ongoing exploitation of land and natural resources by non-Indigenous Australians, and neglects Indigenous economic development.

On 14 December 1960, the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution, the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples.113 The Declaration includes a provision that «the subjection of peoples to alien subjugation, domination and exploitation constitutes a denial of fundamental human rights, is contrary to the Charter of the United Nations and is an impediment to the promotion of world peace and co-operation» 114 and «all peoples have the right to self - determination; by virtue of that right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development.»