Sentences with phrase «human cost»

The images of the burnt out building has brought into stark relief the terrible human cost of failing housing policy.

But nothing excuses the incredible human cost for some of the things we enjoy.

In addition to the very real human costs, the system is extremely inefficient.

But we won't have any real idea of the true human cost of the hack for years.

At most organizations, human costs represent around 70 % of total operating expenses.

But while that happens, I think we have to have additional measures in place, or face a huge human cost.

Katy's strong interest in striking a balance between differing perspectives, and her deep understanding of the excessive financial and human costs involved in protracted litigation, have led to her full time commitment to early resolution of employment and elder law disputes.

If the United States had a free press, then why were the U.S. people indifferent to or ignorant of the terrible human costs of U.S. foreign policy?

We are somewhat more explicit about recognising the potential human cost of financial instability in terms of financial distress and unemployment and are more attuned to the behavioural risks associated with risk cultures and financial innovations.

At about the same time, the Washington Post carried an article by Daniel Southerland entitled «The Staggering Human Cost of Mao's Vision.»

Forbes «Matt Herper has a thought - provoking essay up on the tragic human costs that often fly under the radar when we discuss drug pricing.

As he steps into the Great Hall and sees the devastating human cost of his defiance of Voldemort, his eyes register one body blow, and another, and another as he sees dead and wounded friends.

Another song of mine, «Black Bird,» touches on the under - appreciated human cost of our energy habits by recounting the death of a Pennsylvania coal miner long ago.

Sir Tony Hawkhead, chief executive of Action for Children, said: «Waiting too long to help children and families in need has a dire human cost and sentences them to a bleak future.

The failures and vast human costs of modern «salvation myths» are now well known, as is the capacity of democratic capitalism to raise up the poor, protect human rights, and allow for unprecedented freedom of thought and action.

Now, after Ronald Reagan rewrote the rules of political debate, it's backwards: the Democrats find themselves promising to follow Republican market initiatives, only with more heart and less human cost.

We obscure the frightening human cost of the war in Vietnam with daily «body counts» that are announced with routine poise by television newscasters who follow with the baseball scores.

None endorses sheer economic efficiency at immense human costs.

All of it, of course, has been a gigantic delusion» the analysis was false, the vision was deeply flawed, and the experiments of realizing the vision have exacted horrendous human costs.

Even if one is not a true disciple of Hayek, one must concede that the road to economic disaster (with all its ensuing human costs) is frequently paved with good intentions.

The burden of these catastrophes is not only monetary, it also carries a heavy human cost.

Still, square topical in a round argument, though it is, I sympathise with the underlying theme The left ignore the profound human cost inherent in taking decisions from us.

It is grotesque that Adriano Espaillat, who has made a great deal of noise as a defender of the rights of undocumented immigrants to the United States, was happy to take time out of his run for Congress in order to heap praise on an egregious, racist law with untold human cost.

Major subway disruptions like the one last week carry human costs, financial and otherwise.

We say that it is inaction that can not be afforded, the economic and more importantly human costs are simply too high,» UCL's professor of epidemiology and public health Sir Michael Marmot said.

«It would eliminate the unnecessary human costs of marijuana prohibition the form of arrest that disproportionately impact our black and Latino communities,» said Hoffnung, who says it would also end «senseless policies that criminalize» recreational users.

While dangerous pathogens will not mobilise armies nor annex land, they can, if unchecked, inflict human costs rivalling those of armed conflict.

«Otherwise their hope goes on forever, and the tragedy and human cost go on forever, while the ability to live autonomously never comes.»

Original publication: Bond, G.G. & Dietrich, D.R. Human cost burden of exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals.

Owens's anger has been sparked by the banal way in which cycles of conservatism are repeating themselves, with consequent human cost.

Director Gurinder Chadha («It's a Wonderful Afterlife,» «Bend It Like Beckham») attempts to explore the cataclysmic human costs of the Partition without humanizing any of the Indian characters.

Greengrass» ambitions are noble: he strips the attack of its political implications until human cost is all that's left.

Respectable opinion would never consider an assessment of the Reagan Doctrine or earlier exercises in terms of their actual human costs, and could not comprehend that such an assessment — which would yield a monstrous toll if accurately conducted on a global scale — might perhaps be a proper task in the United States.

Unlike other colonisation games, Surviving Mars makes that human cost exceedingly clear.

In a section on propaganda, Diego Rivera or Alexander Rodchenko only fine - tunes a record of human costs found with Dorothea Lange or Margaret Bourke - White.

His Three Gorges Project series consists of huge paintings and is one such example: in this work, Liu chronicles not only the construction of the highly controversial dam along the Yangtze River but also the trying human cost of the project.

While climate effects are often measured in terms of its financial impacts on countries» Gross Domestic Product, that doesn't capture the full human cost, says report author Stéphane Hallegatte, a World Bank senior economist.

And air pollution isn't the only harmful human cost of China's coal - driven industrial growth and export - orientation.

«Sadly, a massive human cost, such as that sustained by Patricia Mincey and her family, is often paid before a recall is issued.

That statistic suggests the economic hardship that fractious breakups impose, but not the heartbreaking human costs imposed on parents — especially fathers, who often find the deck stacked against them in court.

«The unfortunate bankruptcy involving Centennial serves as a dangerous red flag to Congress and the Administration that there is a serious human cost from the $ 1.8 billion in Medicare cuts,» says Charles Roadman, M.D., president and CEO of AHCA.