Sentences with phrase «for social ills»

There is no better cure for the social ills of our community and no better process for the education of an immigrant class than providing a great teacher, a core curriculum, a disciplined school culture, and strong accountability.

My supposition is that the individualization of sin is the trivialization of sin, and given the systematic connection between our understanding of sin and our understanding of God as the one who addresses us in our human plight, the trivialization of sin has an inexorable affect upon two areas: the doctrine of God, and the sense of individual and corporate responsibility for social ills.

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Even before a business's first bill is due, minority founders are disproportionately ill - prepared for entrepreneurship, thanks to a lack of intellectual and social capital in underserved communities, Kauffman researchers say.

For the record, the stories we are referencing in this campaign are the unsubstantiated ones (i.e. fake / false) like «Pope Endorses Trump» which move quickly across social media and result in an ill - informed public,» reads the memo.

Rich founders are being profiled as eligible bachelors in the New York Times, young people increasingly claim they aspire to be entrepreneurs and the entrepreneurial mindset is being hailed as the cure for many of the social ills that ail us.

Among them are the rights to: bullet joint parenting; bullet joint adoption; bullet joint foster care, custody, and visitation (including non-biological parents); bullet status as next - of - kin for hospital visits and medical decisions where one partner is too ill to be competent; bullet joint insurance policies for home, auto and health; bullet dissolution and divorce protections such as community property and child support; bullet immigration and residency for partners from other countries; bullet inheritance automatically in the absence of a will; bullet joint leases with automatic renewal rights in the event one partner dies or leaves the house or apartment; bullet inheritance of jointly - owned real and personal property through the right of survivorship (which avoids the time and expense and taxes in probate); bullet benefits such as annuities, pension plans, Social Security, and Medicare; bullet spousal exemptions to property tax increases upon the death of one partner who is a co-owner of the home; bullet veterans» discounts on medical care, education, and home loans; joint filing of tax returns; bullet joint filing of customs claims when traveling; bullet wrongful death benefits for a surviving partner and children; bullet bereavement or sick leave to care for a partner or child; bullet decision - making power with respect to whether a deceased partner will be cremated or not and where to bury him or her; bullet crime victims» recovery benefits; bullet loss of consortium tort benefits; bullet domestic violence protection orders; bullet judicial protections and evidentiary immunity; bullet and more...

Only with that religious and social sense can we erect a safety barrier, for example, between someone who is terminally ill and the pessimism that would be induced by the laws of natural causation.

He suggests two other points of view, and proposes that the chaplain be their advocate in the professional mix: a focus on meaning, arguing that the mentally ill have lost or have never found meaning in life (Tillich, Frankl); and a focus on morals, suggesting that a violation of moral obligation or social responsibility accounts for mental distress (Mowrer, Boisen).

Bases of the Social Concept of the Russian Orthodox Church, the Russian Orthodox Church's official document outlining its position on social issues, calls grave social ills, such as alcoholism and drug addiction, «a retribution for the ideology of consumerism, for the cult of material prosperity, for the lack of spirituality, and the loss of authentic ideals.&Social Concept of the Russian Orthodox Church, the Russian Orthodox Church's official document outlining its position on social issues, calls grave social ills, such as alcoholism and drug addiction, «a retribution for the ideology of consumerism, for the cult of material prosperity, for the lack of spirituality, and the loss of authentic ideals.&social issues, calls grave social ills, such as alcoholism and drug addiction, «a retribution for the ideology of consumerism, for the cult of material prosperity, for the lack of spirituality, and the loss of authentic ideals.&social ills, such as alcoholism and drug addiction, «a retribution for the ideology of consumerism, for the cult of material prosperity, for the lack of spirituality, and the loss of authentic ideals.»

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

There is, accordingly, little trust in human social action, but great confidence that human ills can be corrected for the faithful by the bliss that will follow the cataclysmic, yet glorious, coming of the kingdom of God.

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 issue, then, is this: most contemporary analyses of sin begin with the personal, and transfer it to the social, but individual analysis seems hard - pressed to account for the gravity of social ills confronting us.

The attempt to blame society, under whatever form of government, party rule, or social pattern, for the ills that afflict us is one of the most absurd attempts at alibi - ing oneself out of difficulties that the ingenious and sinful mind of man has ever devised.

As such, it provides a language for talking about social ills without attributing them to the economic system itself.

A great number of social ills of our times can be laid at the door of capitalism and nationalism, and at the door of the church for failing to teach how to be critiques of capitalism and nationalism.

Human affliction, especially the monstrous inhumanity of man to man, was to them a practical, rather than a theoretical, problem; it represented not only a conflict of ideas but a conflict of individual and class interests, a struggle for justice in personal character or social organization against selfishness, ill will, and inequity.

Hence, the use of technology for good purposes runs into three tough problems at once: (1) balancing private wants and social needs; (2) harmonizing the plans made by individual experts with the decisions of the public as a whole; and (3) devising long - range policies in a political system which responds best to immediately felt needs, fears, and wants and which has a generally ill - informed electorate.

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.

Nevertheless, one of the most profound changes which has taken place among certain segments of the Protestant ministry in the last century has been the growth of concern for analysis of society and the reform of social ills.

For example, when we close our eyes to elements of society such as the homeless, the unemployed, the mentally ill, and others who do not seem to fit into our idealization of social order, or if we forget the sufferings of past generations, we end up with sketches that are inadequate to God's own vision of the future.

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 (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 (Social Crisis (1907), Christianizing the Social Order (1912), and A Theology for the Social Gospel (Social Order (1912), and A Theology for the Social Gospel (Social Gospel (1917).

Still another example is the field of social medicine, where more is done than simply care for those already ill.

In addition to servicing the dietary needs of the elderly and chronically ill, there is a rising social awareness for improved health and wellbeing among younger generations.

Bullying — the use of dominance to create harm — is at the root of many of our social ills, and is one of the main vehicles for perpetuating trauma.

But it's clear that Facebook and other social networking sites has made life more challenging for people in relationships, and a sobering study recently published in the Journal of Marital & Family Therapy indicates how ill - equipped most therapists are in dealing with Internet infidelity:

Others will erroneously cite statistics linking single motherhood to a variety of potential social ills for their children.

To avoid a similar fiasco, the SPD has insisted this time on a number of social policies in the 2013 coalition treaty, such as the introduction of a minimum wage, more flexibility in the pension system, an increase in old - age pensions and benefits for the chronically ill as well as an increase in social expenditure on matters like education, health and family benefits.

They were the largest group that was «othered» and hated across Europe and other places, thus were blamed for all kinds of social ills.

Mr. Grimm faulted Mr. de Blasio for a rising homeless rate in the city, fuming that «tax - and - spend» liberals mistakenly believe government programs can solve social ills.

As well as fighting for the right for terminally ill patients to decide when it is they wish to die (that's what this «Dr Death» nonsense is, after all) he has fought to protect a women's right to choose what happens to her body from being chiseled away by social conservatives.

Ultimately the exploitation of animals for human ends must be stopped — just as slavery, child labour and other social ills have been.

«However, that must not mean using the City's emergency contracting provisions to rush an ill - conceived project through a half - page, 30 - day notice to the community, squeezing 170 people into a 10 - unit building, with no plans provided for social services or security, and disregard for city rules and processes.»

For all the human misery they have caused, the household benefit cap is forecast to save just # 110m a year by the DWP, while the bedroom tax will raise just # 490m (and both, as analysts have warned, may end up costing more than they save by increasing homelessness and other social ills).

Could have convinced the party that blue Labours view on Immigration and socially conservative views on communities such as religion, working with the state to subsidise locally run charities, was something, that could bring into our party working class people not already connected, by the groups associated with our movements (Trade unions, the Co-op, retired union affiliates) after the disaster of the World cup, owl gate and then the Ill prepared speech at the IPFF on social change and trying to deflect attention from it by rushing out the «well make unemployed teenagers work for their dole» plan, it's hard to see us being able to be taken serious on welfare reform.

Reducing pension payments merely increases poverty among the elderly, exacerbating ill health, which places additional requirements for social care and expenditure on the state.

Family breakdown is a great driver, for example, of social ills.

He added, «Freedom of education, by means of vouchers for parents so they can choose how and where education dollars should be spent, is a prime example of a powerful conservative solution to both fiscal and social ills directly related to outdated liberal social experiments that are more socialist than American.»

A new wave of studies is showing that oxytocin is neither the cause of our better angels nor a panacea for the world's social ills.

By studying the social forces that bind these ills together, «you can really push the boundaries of public health,» says Dale Stratford, a medical anthropologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.

In fact, some people avoid ill - gotten gains — such as profits from unfair labor practices or insider trading — for fear of «moral contagion,» according to a paper published this week in the online issue of the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science.

Researchers at IUPUI and the Regenstrief Institute have successfully used data to predict primary care patients» needs for social service referrals, a finding that may potentially help shift the focus of health care from caring for ill people to preventing patients from getting sick.

Synthetic biology is the newest purported cure - all technology for remedying our social, environmental, and public health ills.

In a small study of terminally ill patients, infusions of vitamin C were given twice per week for a week, together with oral vitamin C. Quality of life scales were completed both before and after treatment, and indicated that patients reported better overall physical, emotional and social functioning, as well as decreased disease symptomatology, including fatigue, nausea / vomiting, pain, sleep disturbance, and loss of appetite.

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In 1999, Valletta's modeling intersected with social work when she helped raise over 350,000 dollars for the St. Jude Royal Gala Benefit in Monte Carlo, and later parlayed that effort into a promotional tour for Elizabeth Arden Splendor perfume that had Valletta and other company reps giving terminally ill children heartstring - tugging «moments of splendor.

Writer Guillermo Arriaga and director Alejandro González Inarritu team up once again for another portrait of society's social ills, this one even longer and less enjoyable than Amores Perros or 21 Grams.

Droll, dry and ultimately rather heartless, it's clear that Kirn («Thumbsucker») positioned his novel as a kind of «Bonfire of the Vanities» for post-millennial readers, a work that diagnoses the ills of corporate America and chimes in with a wider sense of social malaise.