Sentences with phrase «economic ills of»

He applied Christianity to the social and economic ills of his day and wrote several books including Christianity and the Social Crisis (1907), Christianizing the Social Order (1912), and A Theology for the Social Gospel (1917).

Realizing that Jews have been the scapegoats of all Western history, that they have been made to bear responsibility for everything from the Black Death to the economic ills of the Germans, these observers fear that the enormous increase in Jewish numbers in America will lead to charges that the Jews have monopolized the opportunities for economic advance and that these charges will pave the way for Fascism here as they paved the way for Hitler in Germany.

Not exact matches

Though this bout of unrest is certainly ill - timed — Thailand's tourism high season is barely underway and will surely take a hit — analysts like Jefferies» Sean Darby believe the protests are «unlikely to cause major economic disruptions.»

Instead, the Games went on to become an enormous economic flop, saddling the city with $ 1.5 billion in debt — thanks largely to the construction of the ill - starred Olympic Stadium.

So in September, when Cain unveiled his 9 -9-9 tax plan as the panacea for America's economic ills, both sides of the political aisle were quick to scoff at its simplicity.

At a time of slowing economic growth, the world can ill - afford watching the largest economies turn inward.»

Trump went hard after China during his campaign, blaming it for a host of American economic ills and promising to be tough on the Asian superpower.

The author explores why income inequality and all of the associated societal ills have only worsened even as the U.S. has experienced an eight - year - long economic expansion.

Instead, the price distortions lead to clusters of ill - conceived investments, thus setting the stage for a recession or economic bust.

I believe that man is, by nature, an exile and will never be self - sufficient or complete on this earth; that his chances of happiness and virtue, here, remain more or less constant through the centuries and, generally speaking, are not much affected by the political and economic conditions in which he lives; that the balance of good and ill tends to revert to a norm; that sudden changes of physical condition are usually ill, and are advocated by the wrong people for the wrong reasons; that the intellectual communists of today have personal, irrelevant grounds for their antagonism to society, which they are trying to exploit.

Germany (1920 - 1940)-- collapsed economy — highly industrialized — politicians blame jews for the economic ills — gas six million of them in custom built ovens

Osteen said some of his church members have been hit hard by the recession, but he prefers to preach about the cures, not the causes, for the nation's economic ills.

Average earnings continue to drop drastically, indebtedness, bonded labor, illiteracy, homelessness, health hazards have increased and a host of social and economic ills not only persist but are on the increase.

For so long as women settle for a position of subordination in marriage, in the church, and in the economic order, we will be aiding and abetting the ills of racism, militarism, and all the other oppressive structures in our society.

Buchanan does not accuse those who have brought us economic globalism of ill will or bad faith, partly because he was himself an ardent supporter of free trade during his time of government service under Ronald Reagan.

Experience of suffering, poverty, political disfranchisement, economic exploitation, racism, sexism, and other social ills create a different context for appropriating process metaphysics.

The economic crisis, previously viewed as an indispensable ally in helping the President enact the agenda, now appears as a malevolent agent, and a perversely ill - timed one at that, since, as Hendrik Hertzberg of The New Yorker explained, «the longest and deepest mass suffering» of the Great Recession, in contrast to the Great Depression, «has occurred with Obama in the White House.»

As the ills of capitalism became apparent in the late 19th century and as various forms of socialism — Soviet, democratic, Chinese - developed in the 20th century, notable Christian theologians — Tillich, the early Reinhold Niebuhr, the early Brunner and, more recently, liberation theologians - have advocated the wedding of Christian ethics with socialist economic 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.

The Republican party had become donor - dominated, fixated on economic policies increasingly ill - suited to our political moment, and punitive of any dissent.

Hans Kung suggests that the Enlightenment led to the unprecedented progress of the sciences, a completely new social order and a revaluation of the individual.12 Today the Enlightenment approach is subject to strong criticism, especially from post-modernists, but it helped, for good or ill, to divorce political and economic thinking from a basis in a religious view of life.

Conservatives have won the economic arguments, he says, and on the cultural front they have done a fine job of showing how the decline of the traditional, two - parent family is linked to a host of social ills.

Towards the end, Luther turned to social and economic ills, and the cliches of every trimmer of stylish living are heard.

And how fascinating that so many see the source of the ills in those social, economic, legal, and technological developments that have roots in the transcendental, even dualist, thought that God is other than the world, and that in our obedience to God we may be called upon to change the world.

Vince Cable is the undisputed seer of the debt crisis but, says Frank Field, his book tell us too much of the causes and too little of the cures of our economic ills

Despite it's disastrous track - record of macro-economic management, epitomised by the Lawson boom in the late 1980s and George Osbourne's ill - timed retrenchment since 2010, the Conservatives have consistently positioned themselves as the party of fiscal discipline and economic competence, as well as the party of entrepreneurship and material affluence.

«What is often forgotten in rooting all of Egypt's contemporary ills to the July Revolution is the systematic undoing of most of its economic, social, and foreign policy programs soon after Nasser's death.»

I still believe, as I put it in chapter two, that «software», not «hardware» — the long, slow waves of cultural change, not the more obvious technological and economic changes that figure so prominently in public debate and academic social science — hold the key to the British predicament; that our ills form an interdependent system or, in medical language, a «syndrome»; and that they reflect the bewilderment and disorientation of a people who have forgotten the history that shaped them, and who therefore no longer know who they are.

However, as a way of challenging the complex array of social and economic ills implicated in the financial crisis, and emanating from it, a republicanism based on the 99 per cent slogan will not work.

Meanwhile one of the dominant themes of the Labour leadership campaign is not an attack on this reactionary economic policy but a wholly ill - informed debate on immigration.

The governor and those closest to him must stop going out of their way to make excuses for ill - conceived insider deals masked as economic development programs.

«The cost of the state of having the children return to the psychiatric system makes this move ill - advised from an economic standpoint or from a mental health standpoint.»

Former Governor of Adamawa State, Mr. James Ngilari, on Saturday fell critically ill within the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

He said that decision was also in line with the support the people of the state had been giving to Buhari in his efforts at correcting the ills of the past and putting the nation on sound economic footing.

Krueger recalled that the ill - fated Empire Zones program, which was created by former Gov. George Pataki in 1999 (it actually morphed out of the New York State Economic Development Zones) ended up being an ill - conceived boondoggle that gave away millions of dollars worth of publicly - funded incentives and tax breaks to businesses that pledged to create jobs and then often didn't make good on those promises.

Referencing the report, «Homelessness in Oneida County, NY: Understanding and Addressing a Hidden Social Problem,» written by Social Sciences Associates in support of the Mohawk Valley Housing and Homeless Assistance Coalition and funded by The Oneida County Department of Mental Health, Picente said that data makes it clear there is a problem with chronic homelessness, and that the problem of homelessness is intertwined with other social ills, including substance abuse and chemical dependency, status as an ex-offender, and the increasing number of family breakups caused by economic stress, domestic violence and even transitioning back to the community from military service.»

Of course, our opponents want to put us on the back foot and lay every economic ill at our door and Ed was a big beast of the New Labour yearOf course, our opponents want to put us on the back foot and lay every economic ill at our door and Ed was a big beast of the New Labour yearof the New Labour years.

Of course, objective social and economic shocks and the intervention of socialist politics and political analysis play the decisive role, but an especially vivid sense of a society's ills, its psychic ills among them, and the human urgency of addressing them come from visual images and dramOf course, objective social and economic shocks and the intervention of socialist politics and political analysis play the decisive role, but an especially vivid sense of a society's ills, its psychic ills among them, and the human urgency of addressing them come from visual images and dramof socialist politics and political analysis play the decisive role, but an especially vivid sense of a society's ills, its psychic ills among them, and the human urgency of addressing them come from visual images and dramof a society's ills, its psychic ills among them, and the human urgency of addressing them come from visual images and dramof addressing them come from visual images and drama.

«While students from low - income families are more likely to be chronically absent, the ill effects of missing too much school hold true for all socio - economic groups.»

On one side, there are people like New York University professor / former Deputy U.S. Education Secretary Diane Ravitch who argue that larger social ills such as poverty, joblessness, economic despair and lack of health coverage negatively affect educational achievement, and that until those problems are addressed, schools will never be able to produce the results we want.

It is thus in the economic fitness of things that we charge only very normal and reasonable prices from all our valued customers, since we are well aware of market dynamics and the ill effects of unreasonable and artificially inflated pricing in terms of our long term business growth and development over time.

The economic ills resulting from low - grade fertilizers are not confined to the matter of fillers, but include distribution charges, since freight is charged against gross weight, not quality, and, therefore, increases progressively as plant - food content decreases.

And they sure as hell weren't going to repeat the hardships of their parents & grandparents, or the economic & political ills of the previous decade.

Maybe you're struggling to make ends meet because of unemployment, ill health, economic conditions or a relationship breakdown.

Because of that, Max's Helping Paws Foundation reduces economic euthanasia, surrender and suffering of severely ill or injured pets by providing pet owners assistance with the costs of urgent medical care.

Sam's Hope will use the award to assist elderly, disabled, ill, unemployed, and low - income pet owners facing economic hardship in Bucks, Montgomery and Philadelphia Counties in Southeastern Pennsylvania, in an effort to reduce the number of pets surrendered to shelters due to financial reasons.

While large numbers of pit bull type dogs in this country live out their lives as cherished family companions, many not so fortunate suffer from man - made shortcomings, including unspeakable cruelties, the socio - economic pressures of under - resourced owners, and the relentless biases and discrimination of an ill - informed public.

Modernism, in general, includes the activities and creations of those who felt the traditional forms of art, architecture, literature, religious faith, philosophy, social organization, activities of daily life, and even the sciences, were becoming ill - fitted to their tasks and outdated in the new economic, social, and political environment of an emerging fully industrialized world.

Ill economic winds have, of course, been blowing worldwide — and the most recent Hong Kong art auctions were down from last year's — but there are still many reasons for galleries from the West to be interested in China.

The body of work on show at the M + Pavilion riffs off the fad for charity pop singles aimed at raising awareness of and somehow curing the world's social and economic ills.