Sentences with phrase «for wealthy society»

Not surprisingly, some of the greatest support for wealthier societies doing more is found in relatively poor economies that are not major sources of emissions.

Not exact matches

The abnormalities of atheistic beliefs are in today's timelines littering profusely many cherished religious societies whose fundamentalisms have been a social consistency for many good years... Even though I am distasteful of today's religions in that they are usurping the least wealthy, I see their mismanaging of financial dexterities due each religion's hierarchies needing more money for themselves than for their communal poor folks...

So, for these and other reasons, we do not now often see our society as one divided into wealthy exploiting owners and poor exploited workers.

«Most wealthy congregations are only thinking of themselves and give little money to missions; meanwhile, international mission societies are curtailing their budgets for Japan.»

I am not calling for cuts to government programs as of now — they are necessary for so many people's basic survival — but Mr. Beck does have a pertinent point: voting to tax someone else (typically wealthier than us) to provide assistance does not necessarily demonstrate a society that «cares» — much more caring is a society that willingly donates those funds to charities they have taken the time to research, and more caring still if the members of that society take the time to volunteer to administer that aid.

A stratified society, with wealthy landowners at the top and slaves at the bottom and, in between, a mass of poor folk skirting precariously the edge of servitude for debt and in times of depression forced into it or compelled to sell sons or daughters to redeem the family's fortunes — such a picture is revealed by a careful reading of the records.

Free societies have an excellent system to compensate for a lack of charity on the part of their wealthy citizens — it is called TAXATION.

While Reno is correct that it is «unhealthy for our society when cultural power becomes too concentrated in just a few very wealthy institutions,» using the state's tax power to attack «institutional giganticism» in the name of «philanthropic subsidiarity» as he proposes would only open the way for government to control, and even destroy, such institutions.

So it seems that home - births ARE a great and safe option for well educated, healthy, wealthy, mothers who live in affluent societies with good infrastructure.

The very wealthy should be willing to repay society for the many benefits they have derived from being born in the U.S.

After all, they have been the winners of the Tories» relentless support for the wealthiest people in society.

So presumably, the less wealthy, after being told what to spend their money on by «society» for all their working years, reach pensionable age fully moulded by a paternalistic government into financially responsible citizens who will commit a significant amount of their time to research where they want to invest their pensions, and subsequently enjoy «regular updates on how their pension fund was growing» — because of course, like house prices, pension funds can only rise in value.

The WFP shares my view of a society and an economy that works for everyone, not just the wealthy and well - connected.»

If only a few wealthy companies control how Americans communicate with each other, it will be harder for people to talk among ourselves about the kind of society we want to build.

- The class of society the website is made for: There are a few websites that specifically target older women that are wealthy.

This site is proud to be one of the pioneering dating sites for wealthy and known singles in the society.

However, for the wealthy and millionaires, mingling with the common opposite sexes do not come naturally because of their placement in the society and the places they frequent.

Kudos to Channing Tatum for the kind of self - effacing star turn you wouldn't expect from an actor whose character is both eponymous and «magic»; cheers to Jada Pinkett Smith (as the troupe's hype - woman) and Andie MacDowell (as a wealthy society client whose chaste amusement ripens into something else) for stealing their scenes with the evident pleasure of consummate thieves.

Day - Lewis is Reynolds Woodcock, the mercurial, inscrutable genius who designs dresses for continental princesses and other wealthy women of society.

Kevin Kline is the life of this rather precious coming of age film as Henry Harrison, a former playwright and full time «extra man» (an escort to the wealthy society widows who like a man on their arm for social events) who rents out a room in his walkup to make ends meet.

Consider the implications for American society — for equity, for mobility, for prosperity — if its inventors and innovators continue to come almost exclusively from wealthy backgrounds.

«We must recognize that different colleges provide different experiences for students, and, if we as a society value equal opportunity as we say we do, it's critical that Colorado's low - income students have the same access to elite colleges as their wealthier peers,» said Van Schoales, CEO of A + Denver.

United Teachers of Los Angeles president Alex Caputo - Pearl gave a speech for the ages a couple of weeks ago, securing a wing in the pantheon - of - vile, a place which includes such memorable outbursts as National Education Association general counsel Bob Chanin's «right - wing bastards» farewell - to - troops speech in 2009 and Chicago Teacher Union boss Karen Lewis» talk to the Illinois Labor History Society in 2012, where she joked about the possibility of union members killing the wealthy.

Well educated and wealthy, Montaigne retired from society for a long period following the deaths of a daughter (one of six), his brother, his father and a close friend.

The characters are delightfully typecast - there's the tragic figure of our much put - upon anti-hero who is driven to commit violence for what he believes is a justified cause; a truly dastardly old - Etonian poetry - spouting villain (who, if this was a play, would receive hisses from the audience every time he came on stage); the exceedingly wealthy and influential Lord Tansor, living off the gains of his brighter ancestors; a dead - ringer for Uriah Heap; plus a massive supporting cast representing every strata of society, both urban and country; and last but not least, Evenwood House itself and its great library - the representation of everything that Edward yearns for but that remains tantalizingly out of reach.

To prepare his daughter, Sara, for society, wealthy widower Captain Ralph Crewe enrolls her in Miss Minchin's Select Seminary for Young Ladies.

Within the category of luxury hotels are premium accommodations for society's wealthiest debutants.

The title refers to a 1980s economic term used to describe the belief that benefits for the wealthy will eventually trickle down to the rest of society.

This was back when the magazine was still an academic journal for the National Geographic Society — a 200 - member society of wealthy adventurers that swapped stories of their excuSociety — a 200 - member society of wealthy adventurers that swapped stories of their excusociety of wealthy adventurers that swapped stories of their excursions.

(Aside: «depopulation» is hardly the only way to cope with settlement trends; for a society as wealthy as we are, preparedness — much, much more extensive preparedness — is another way.)

What about human birth control (and I am NOT, NOT, NOT referring to sterilizing poor people or promoting more births within wealthy socio economic societies); I'm referring to one child policies (for a while) not taking more than we need; compromise; simplification and minimalism, and respect for other life on this planet.

Edward Lendner, who was director of climate issues in a previous White House administration, wrote last week: «In what would be the single most important contingency that could impact civil society in the United States and other nations around the world, there is no agreed upon plan for how to deal with a collapsing world in the distant future if climate change and global warming get out of control and mass migrations northward create chaos in both wealthy and poor countries.»

While publics in both rich and poor nations are generally supportive of their own governments taking action to curb greenhouse gas emissions, in principle many people believe that wealthy societies, not poor economies, should take on more of the responsibility for addressing climate change.

I am sure that the radical environmentalists view the current CPP as only the first step towards their fantasy «renewable» society with astronomical prices for electric power, regardless of the consequences for the rest of us, particularly the less wealthy among us.

Wealthy nations (mostly wealthy people, really) are quickly burning through this carbon budget, leaving us with fewer and fewer options for the future except for a completely carbon - free sWealthy nations (mostly wealthy people, really) are quickly burning through this carbon budget, leaving us with fewer and fewer options for the future except for a completely carbon - free swealthy people, really) are quickly burning through this carbon budget, leaving us with fewer and fewer options for the future except for a completely carbon - free society.

Indeed, in contradiction to the often - expressed fear of infinite growth colliding with a finite planet, demand for many material goods may be saturating as societies grow wealthier.

Given how cheap energy has contributed to societies wealthy enough that many (ideally all) people have an opportunity for self - development according to their own choices, I find it hard to imagine how any libertarian would deny that.

Uncertainty in GDP, which is the most important factor for CO2 and N2O, largely reflects society's willingness to pay to avoid impacts in the future (wealthier people will pay more) rather than uncertainties in the impacts themselves as for other factors.

«There is a growing imbalance created by fee increases that places the courts out of reach for many small businesses and all but the wealthiest individuals in society.»