Sentences with phrase «frayed social fabric»

I asked him what we could do to stitch together the frayed social fabric of the most disadvantaged and dysfunctional families and communities.

The rise of the self - aggrandizing, mega-churches has done nothing to help heal the frayed social fabric of our society.

Power is still out, mobile phone service is limited and stories are emerging of a fraying social fabric, including looting.

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Otherwise, the social fabric may start to fray.

The old certitudes seem less certain; the old privileges are under powerful challenge; the old dominations are increasingly ineffective and fragile; the established governmental, educational, judicial and medical institutions seem less and less able to deliver what we need and have come to expect; the old social fabrics are fraying under the assault of selfishness, fear, anger and greed.

He says: «I am very apprehensive as to what will happen in Greece, the social fabric is really fraying and it is hard to predict what will happen next.»

To set up a clinical trial for humans takes time and resources, and doubly so in a country whose social and political fabric is as frayed as Liberia's.

First, by ignoring the closure of urban Catholic schools, we have not only allowed high - quality seats to disappear, we've also allowed the further deterioration of the threadbare social fabric of fraying communities.

The folks are more worried about their leaders pushing loosey - goosey immigration that is fraying the traditional cultural - social fabric and importing terrorism.