Sentences with phrase «existing social fabric»

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As many as 400 tribes exist in India... they ostensibly are a major segment of the Indian social fabric, with a legitimate share in the subcontinent's unmatched pluralities.

For the oppressed, Pentecostalism provides a satisfying religious alternative to the trauma induced by conquest and colonization, historical processes that manipulated existing manifestations of the sacred to rend the social fabric.

«It is unprecedented to convert part of an existing economic development project that provides affordable housing and retail jobs for the purpose of building a casino which would obviously affect the social fabric of our community.»

Meléndez projected that Maria's damage to Puerto Rico's physical, social and economic fabric could result in as many as 200,000 migrants to the U.S. mainland over the next 12 months, with many of the new arrivals relocating to Florida, New York and New Jersey — all of which have existing large Puerto Rican communities.

The Inter-EHSCC Working Group concluded that a potential for water and air pollution exists that might endanger public health and that the social fabric of communities could be affected by the rapid emergence of drilling operations.

Further locating the works within the social fabric of the city in which they exist, each sculpture will emit weather reports, cultural reportage, and music from different local radio stations transmitted through miniature radios projected from the sculpture.

They call for «innovative designs that take into consideration the historical and social context, the existing urban fabric, the human scale and the environment.»