Sentences with phrase «economic fact of life»

Buyers who are still waiting on the sidelines must learn a basic economic fact of life: if fundamentals aren't supporting a market decline, then it's not going to decline for very long.

It is an economic fact of life that many couples will have to continue living under the same roof during their divorce.

It is simply an economic fact of life that the public and private sectors must change the way they operate and find new cost effective models to fit these times.

It is totally unenforceable, which renders it useless, and is another attempt by politicians to place a «legal fix» upon what is really just an economic fact of life brought on by changing times, NAFTA, and the ability of farmers in other countries to grow New Mexican varieties to meet the demand here.

IF you don't want to loe them in their hundreds of thousands — if not millions — you need to educate them in the economic facts of life..

«Simply put, these are the economic facts of life for all of us, Westchester is one of the only counties in New York that doesn't require employees to contribute to the cost of health care benefits,» said Testa.

Not exact matches

The task of rhetoric is to divert attention from the fact that the financial sector aims not to «free» markets, but to place control in the hands of financial managers — whose logic is to subject economies to austerity and even depression, sell off public land and enterprises, suffer emigration and reduce living standards in the face of a sharply increasing concentration of wealth at the top of the economic pyramid.

The fact that Luther's economic thought was hostile to any form of capitalism largely reflects his unfamiliarity with the sophisticated world of finance then emerging in the public life of the cities.

Concentrated economic and political power is going to be a fact of life, regardless of the economic arrangements under which we live.

Every people has its culture, whether primitive or advanced, and this culture is discerned in the folkways and moral standards, forms of family life, economic enterprises, laws and modes of dealing with lawbreakers, forms of recreation, religion, art, education, science, and philosophy that constitute the social aspects of human existence as contrasted with the bare biological fact of living.

While economics as a descriptive study is not concerned with moral issues, the facts of economic life inescapably point to the moral element in human nature.

But if they live in a rich society, they depend in fact on the existence of those economic mechanisms, technical rigors, and open or hidden violences that form the warp of that society.

But he was more interested in the fact that each religion was presumed to possess the same «spiritual values» of «the American Way of Life,» by which he meant a soft - hearted faith in democracy (political, economic, and religious) combined with a more robust faith in idealism, activism, and moral conviction.

It is due also in part to the fact that religious institutions in black communities have not been sufficiently cognizant of the radical implications which the changing political, economic and social realities have for their life.

When we are told that «communism and Christianity are in actual fact two competing systems offering to reconstruct China... they are two antithetic and contrasted systems, either of which will affect the whole political, social and spiritual life of the people,» the question at once arises: What are the Christian correlates to the communist economic system and social practice?

The importance of the power problem for Christian ethics derives both from the fact that power, whether economic, political, military, or spiritual, means capacity to determine life for good or ill, and from the fact that some fundamental redistribution of power is necessary as a condition of the freedom and dignity of men in their social relations.

«Fullness of life» may mean many things; but what is meant here appears from the fact that it is something which other faiths also offer in an inferior or equal manner and that it is elsewhere declared that «our dedication... is to the progressive realization of the dignity and worth of man in every area of life — political, economic, social and religious.»

Psychology of learning; social analysis of the societies in which students will work; statistical methods applied to the economic facts of ministers» salaries and the cost of tuition, and the like; and many other relatively precise procedures applied to limited data can give guidance to perplexed administrators that no amount of hard thought about the large question of man's life before God will yield.

The moral treason of the «conservative» leaders lies in the fact that they are hiding behind that camouflage: they do not have the courage to admit that the American way of life was capitalism, that that was the politico - economic system born and established in the United States, the system which, in one brief century, achieved a level of freedom, of progress, of prosperity, of human happiness, unmatched in all the other systems and centuries combined — and that that is the system which they are now allowing to perish by silent default.

The tightening network of economic and psychic bonds in which we live and from which we suffer, the growing compulsion to act, to produce, to think collectively which so disquiets us — what do they become, seen in this way, except the first portents of the super-organism which, woven of the threads of individual men, is preparing (theory and fact are at one on this point) not to mechanize and submerge us, but to raise us, by way of increasing complexity, to a higher awareness of our own personality?

This is the fact that the Church was designed by God to be inclusive enough to embrace not only the people of all parts of the earth, but also persons of every race, color, nation, economic or social class, age, sex, culture, language, and station in life.

What in fact do we expect to happen as a result of our involvement and participation in economic, social and political life?

This concern arises out of the fact that Christians believe that God, the Creator, is the Lord over human life in all aspects — be it political, economic and social.

Way of life, profession, forms of recreation, possibilities of education are no longer in most cases inescapable facts determined by social and economic conditions, but have been transformed into questions and problems requiring moral decision.

«Jobs and the environment» is a good slogan, but in fact we can not have both economic opportunity and a sustainable environmental policy without a fundamental transformation in some of our ideas about how we are related to one another and what makes life worth living.

However, it is not well rooted in the facts of economic history or the practicalities of economic life.

Like so many others, the Augustinian cloister had in fact taken on a life of its own as a social and economic unit in a society devoted to the maintenance of the policy and economy of the Church with all its complicated and expensive structures.

Mr Speaker the economic argument is in fact strongly in favour of banning live animal exports because of the way the trade is cannibalising the processed meat industry at the expense of thousands of Australian jobs.

In fact, a closer look at Smiths career shows that he has made a healthy living off playing characters who battle things that do nt exist including Space Aliens, zombies, space aliens, his own sons acting abilties, iRobots, space aliens again, racism in golf, and the unrealistic expectations of upward economic mobility.

Waring is critical throughout the book (not just in relation to breastfeeding) of the fact that the international economic system «makes no distinction between creative (or life - enhancing) and destructive production and consumption.

Political and economic competition across the border is now an increasingly visible fact of life.

Nevertheless, economic interdependence has become a fact of life for both sides.

Republican political economy deepens this appeal by focusing attention on that fact that tax justice is integral to blocking sources of political and economic domination that disfigure and distort the conditions of civic life.

Living standards are falling, productivity growth is weak, and the economy has, in fact, been flat over the last year,» Philip Booth, editorial drector at the Institute of Economic Affairs, said.

As for economic underperformance, these are the times, unfortunately, that we live in, a fact of life the IDA readily acknowledges.

«The fact that we have nearly 300,000 more children living near poverty today than at the height of the Great Recession is concerning,» added NCCP director of Family Economic Security Heather Koball.

«Nearly half of American children living near poverty line: National Center for Children in Poverty's Basic Facts about Low - Income Children Report illustrates severity of economic instability and disparity in the US.»

The focus on economic gain over human life is introduced in Aliens during the very first line of dialogue when the salvage crew worker expresses his disappointment over the fact that because Ripley is alive they can not claim her shuttle for themselves.

I can assure you that my generation has only recently woken up — probably rudely shaken to reality by the fact that our struggles to plan for a carefree «after work» life, has not and will not materialize, and most of us finding that the efforts to ensure a good pension plan, has largely been based on illusions, dished out by the insurance companies, which ultimately are not much better than the banks that have brought on the economic demise, but for their part will still continue their self - enriching bonus system.

I really learned quite a bit from this book, things I never knew such as that 1 / 3rd of the impoverished live in India, this despite the fact that India is second in economic growth behind China.

The elementary fact of life when it comes to understanding a business is that corporate economic earnings, or cash flows, are valuable only insofar as they either enhance the wealth of a company, both qualitatively and quantitatively, or are available for distribution to securities holders.

In fact, were it not for the terrible economic situation in the country and that it were so far away from all of our friends and family, we could see ourselves living there.

Taipei Biennial 2014: The Great Acceleration» Artforum International; September 1, 2014; Busta, Caroline; 354 words TAIPEI FINE ARTS MUSEUM * September 13, 2014 — January 4, 2015 * Curated by Nicolas Bourriaud Dubbed The Great Acceleration,» the ninth iteration of the Taipei Biennial reflects the fact that the acute social, technological, and economic growth witnessed (and caused) by late - twentieth - century life

Taipei Biennial 2014: «The Great Acceleration» Artforum International; September 1, 2014; Busta, Caroline; 352 words TAIPEI FINE ARTS MUSEUM * September 13, 2014 - January 4, 2015 * Curated by Nicolas Bourriaud Dubbed «The Great Acceleration,» the ninth iteration of the Taipei Biennial reflects the fact that the acute social, technological, and economic growth witnessed (and caused) by late - twentiethcentury life

Dave wrote in Comment 9: ``... they will keep putting those new coal - fired energy plants online or create nuclear fission plants that create waste that can't be disposed of» and «Wind / Solar et al. is nice but is getting no funding and going nowhere fast right now, not to mention the fact that it might not do us much good anyway on the kind of unsustainable economic scales we (at least Americans) want to live at.»

I think I wrote this earlier, but again, reflect on the fact that economic necessity forces the majority of people in this country to live crammed into cities and suburbs, without access to fresh air, open space, or anything but the merest vestige of a natural landscape (and conditions are worse in much of the rest of the world), while lack of exercise & a diet of processed foods has created an epidemic of obesity and its consequent diseases.

It must never be forgotten that political and economic activity is only effective when it is understood as a prudential activity, guided by a perennial concept of justice and constantly conscious of the fact that, above and beyond our plans and programs, we are dealing with real men and women who live, struggle and suffer, and are often forced to live in great poverty, deprived of all rights.

The economic realities of recession and the environmental impact of such a wasteful lifestyle are becoming clear to many, not to mention the fact that it ties one down to a life - long mortgage, artificially inflated property taxes due to minimum house size requirements and a life of «stuff» - acquisition that spiritually impoverishes individuals and communities.

Not so funny is the fact that Economic Imperialism rules (thats what Barry Schwartz calls it in his 1994 book, The Costs of Living).

I like the fact that COTAP's certified forestry projects are located in very impoverished areas where the economic opportunities they create are changing lives for some of the poorest communities in the world.