Sentences with phrase «economic survival in»

That confidence, born of economic survival in the Depression and later of survival in World War II, probably did more to rid sport of the curse of pseu - dovirility than any other factor.

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In fact, MacDonald's latest portfolio might well be the most important position in the entire cabinet when it comes to Nova Scotia's economic survivaIn fact, MacDonald's latest portfolio might well be the most important position in the entire cabinet when it comes to Nova Scotia's economic survivain the entire cabinet when it comes to Nova Scotia's economic survival.

But in an anemic economy where jobs are in short supply, attracting business today is a matter of economic survival.

• Bad economic theory: Greenspan's «oops» moment came when he told Congress he found a flaw in his idea that bank executives would never do anything that would hurt the reputations, never mind the survival, of their institutions.

The economic crisis in Europe is threatening the very survival of the mainstream political parties.

It's a poor economic decision over the long term to allow companies to survive if they are not economically fit (think survival of the fittest) to remain in business.

For those who understand the tremendous financial and geopolitical forces that today are vying not so much for supremacy as they were previously, but for survival; gold remains as it always has been — a store of value in times of monetary chaos and economic distress.

The level of dependency on public assistance for basic economic survival has essentially doubled since 1964; almost one - half of all black children are supported in part by transfers from the state and federal governments.

Whether fighting for their clients, or struggling for their own economic survival, they often had to operate in strange or hostile territory.

So we Americans in the bottom 98 % are finally beginning to care about self - interest and economic survival?

Therefore they still insist that foreign capitalistic investments in Korea was only for economic survival.

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

Rather it has been the reality of the economic struggle for survival in this country.

This is a radical shift in ethical understanding and at rock bottom, it clearly rises out of our economic struggle for survival.

As for guilt, if we're to believe morality is formed merely for socio - economic survival and a product of biological evolution, then sometime somewhere in the past, the «experiment» was carried out that stealing from someone, ra.ping someone, kil.ling someone, etc., hurts that person and / or others.

In this perspective, one of the most significant tasks should deal with the implementation of rules and of peaceful economic behaviour, beyond that of competition / rivalry / warfare / struggle to conquer markets and for survival.

They noted that when average income in a nation rose to a certain point, people turned attention from issues of economic survival to concern for the health of the environment.

They were concerned for economic survival, of course, but beyond that participation in family structures seemed more important to them than «improving» their condition.

The economic factors of life in many primitive cultures dictated that those members of the tribe who could not share the burden of the struggle for survival were not carried by the tribe, even as revered, elderly dependents of the 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.

Oh well — the struggle for survival in the post-apocalyptic hellscape Sure To Result from the Current Economic Crisis will no doubt have its own charms.

In antiquity, fierce land hunger in Crete and surrounding islands, triggered the founding of Greek colonies, a cluster of voluntary diasporas, angling for economic survivaIn antiquity, fierce land hunger in Crete and surrounding islands, triggered the founding of Greek colonies, a cluster of voluntary diasporas, angling for economic survivain Crete and surrounding islands, triggered the founding of Greek colonies, a cluster of voluntary diasporas, angling for economic survival.

Sadly, the prospect of resuscitating the public sphere does not seem likely at a time when, rather than engaging in critical debate, the majority of 99 % is engaged in a daily battle for economic survival.

Farming, humanity's main occupation throughout history and once essential to economic survival, has become but a minuscule part of a broader food economy in Ulster County as elsewhere.

The Red Sea may be in form of the bitter pills of the economic realities that the nation is being forced to swallow so that we can recover from our ailment that is posing great threats to our economic survival as a political entity.

This book is timely, as there's increasing interest among Nigerians (as there's elsewhere) in the stronger protection of socio - economic rights, which are vital to the survival, dignity, and prosperity of everyone.

Given the recent economic turmoil and the fact that patent protection on many successful drugs is set to expire in a few years, maintaining innovation is more essential than ever to a company's survival.

Other scientists are exploring the origin of economic strategies, such as fishing, hunting and gathering, in modern humans over the last few thousand years, and how the development of these strategies may have contributed significantly to human survival at the onset of huge climatic changes at the beginning of the Holocene period.

The reality of marriage is that it was in many ways a means of socio - economic survival.

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

Our economic growth and our survival as a major player within the international community are bound up in the future of FTTH.

The two threats, economic and environmental, tend to produce a real crisis of humanity that makes becomes an imperative the construction around the world of a new society different from the current that act interdependently with common goals and rational in every country and on a global scale without which it may be put into question the survival of humans and life on Earth.

He is the author of Sons of the Sea Goddess: Economic Practice and Discursive Conflict in Brazil and co-author of Fieldwork under Fire: Contemporary Studies of Violence and Survival.

Equipping students with economic decision - making skills to navigate through life will lead to increased civic competence, proficiency in logical and analytic reasoning, an appreciation of our free enterprise system, and a development of crucial personal and survival skills.

Social Darwinism and economic liberalism were fused to rationalize the survival of the wealthiest in the industrial jungle and to give racism the accolade of Science.

Developing personal relationships with the customers who come into the store is always important, but in difficult economic times, it can mean the difference between survival and peril.

Its importance has become particularly acute especially in times of crisis, when international travel tends to be affected, enhancing the role of domestic travel as a means of economic survival.

Although commercial whaling has largely been banned in the Pacific, the International Whaling Commission allows sea hunting by aboriginal peoples whose economic and cultural survival is at stake.

In theory this encourages the player to join guilds and form raiding and protective parties, both for economic and survival reasons.

Art historical, political, and historical references are layered deep in images like that of George W. Bush in The Ghost of Liberty: the 2004 drawing is derived from the artist's charcoal drawings Poor George after Philip Guston, which echoed Guston's Nixonian Poor Richard series from 1971, which in turn drew its title from Ben Franklin.32 More recent codices have addressed the global economic collapse: Illegal Alien's Guide to the Concept of Relative Surplus Value; and Escape from Fantasylandia: An Illegal Alien's Survival Guide [see Art in Print Vol.

In recent years, demonstrating one's own insouciant flexibility, whether professional or personal, has been a matter of economic survival; thus, the shrug emoji has reigned.

When one examines the troubling contradictions — astonishing cruelty, environmental and health risks, economic imbalances — involved with the business behind and mass consumption of meat, vegetarianism takes on the urgency of much larger debates in which the survival of the human race is at stake.

Provost is currently in pre-production of his first feature film «The Invader», a thriller about an anti-heroic African immigrant and his struggle for economic and emotional survival in the new world.

We religiously promote our widely shared and consensually - validated fantasies of «real» endless economic growth and soon to be unsustainable overconsumption, overproduction and overpopulation activities, and in so doing deny that Earth has limited resources and frangible ecosystems upon which the survival of life as we know it depends.

Either way, their survival depends far more on their adaptation than it does to US action, since no matter what policies we enact, there is warming already in the «pipeline» and the warming to come from the economic growth in the developing world will dwarf any attempts to limit our own emissions.

We religiously promote our widely shared and consensually - validated fantasies of «real» endless economic growth and soon to become unsustainable overconsumption, overproduction and overpopulation activities, and in so doing deny that Earth has limited resources and frangible ecosystems upon which the survival of life as we know it depends.

On the other hand, despite the overwhelming evidence that global warming will transform the Earth's climate for centuries, with fearful consequences for human health and wellbeing (not to mention the survival of many species and ecosystems), the world can not agree to significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions because of concerns about the effects on economic growth.

In order to facilitate the economic survival and privatisation of some of the Hungarian coal mines, the Government decided to combine collieries with power stations that could use their coal production.

Climate change is a moral crisis because every time governments of wealthy nations fail to act, it sends a message that we in the global north are putting our immediate comfort and economic security ahead of the suffering and survival of some of the poorest and most vulnerable people on Earth.

From a survival perspective, I understand the data to point to ongoing and escalating catastrophic harms, suggesting to me in public health at least, that the time for «playing games» with economic models or other approaches that simply tinker and tweak on the periphery has to be urgently replaced with an ideological transformation, exactly along the lines that Mike and Ken were speaking to last night.