Sentences with phrase «especially upon women»

As a child I experienced firsthand the severe effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially upon women and children.

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«But if a poor man or woman comes... and especially they are stricken in years, and there be no place for such, do thou, O bishop, with all thy heart provide a place for them even if thou have to sit upon the ground.»

Not only because it is Afro - Americans themselves, especially men, who now inflict these wounds upon themselves — through the ways they betray those who love them and bear their progeny, through the ways they bring up or abandon their children, through the ways they relate, or fail to relate, to each other, through the values and attitudes they cherish and the ones they choose to spurn, through their comforting ethnic myths about their neighborhoods, through their self - indulgences, denials and deceits — but because only they as individual men and women can find the antidote to heal themselves.

And that tradition dares to insist that the story which I have been telling in its human and historical shape is the other side of another story — the story of God's unceasing concern for and activity in and upon the created order and more especially for, in, and upon the men and women whose existence is in that created order.

Although her message calling for more strong women in the Senate will likely resonate more within the safe Democratic district, especially given the nature of Clemens» exit from the Legislature and the focus laid upon sexual harassment in both Tallahassee and the nation over the past month.

Under these circumstances, it isn't surprising that some women are reluctant to stick it out, especially considering the personal sacrifices academic career women are often called upon to make.

Before, average people look down upon plus size singles and laugh at them, especially the big women.

The movie is also admirable for its choice of five women and no men as the ones who embark upon the journey, and Portman's performance especially makes it an emotional one.

First recognised for paintings and collages concerned with the myriad forms of violence and misrepresentation visited upon women, especially black women, in the contemporary world, Mutu's work has often featured writhing female forms.