Sentences with phrase «ignored by society»

Taking its title from the celebrated 1952 novel by Ralph Ellison, in which the black protagonist feels overlooked and ignored by society, Marshall interprets the title literally, blending his dark - skinned subject into a jet - black background.

Big Beautiful Women: They are wonderful, yet are mostly ignored by society, in favor of skinny, body - obsessed girls, for no good reason.

RMM and its allies consistently claim that there are virtually no laws protecting farmworkers and they are «invisible» and ignored by society.

The Methodist bishops» pastoral letter on nuclear arms, In Defense of Creation, is bound to be ignored by a society that sees that bishops talk no differently than do politicians.

They are ignore by society.

Not exact matches

He's done this by ignoring the unwritten rules demanded by America's polite - society political class and the mainstream media.

Failing this sort of bold action, Hofmeister sees North America entering an «energy abyss» by the end of the next decade, the result of land (mis) management, an irrational aversion to nuclear power, and 50 years of ignoring serious questions about our resource base and the infrastructure that powers society.

By ignoring the bad morality in the bibles, and focusing on the wise philosophy in the bibles, the vast majority of Christians are productive members of society.

The Jewish scholar Joseph Klausner, for example, holds that the Pharisees and Sadducees were justified in their attacks on Jesus because he imperiled Jewish culture at its foundations, and that by ignoring everything that belongs to wholesome social life he undercut the work of centuries.2 Others within the Christian tradition have felt considerable uneasiness lest the words of Jesus about nonresistance imperil the civil power of the State, or his words about having no anxiety for food or drink or other material possessions curtail an economic motivation essential to society.

believing that the same, very personal, means by which his own life had been soundly established should work for all, and ignoring the need for structural changes in society.

Neither system is invoked by name, but in their complete violation, the novel presents not a world in which evil has triumphed, but one in which the basic obligations of humans as social beings — to establish civil society and recourse for its governance — are ignored.

However, the moral prerequisites and purposes of democratic capitalism are rarely articulated, and are frequently ignored, even by the religious leaders of free societies.

The alleged subordination of the gospel to Karl Marx is illustrated, for example, by charging that «false» liberation theology concentrates too much on a few selected biblical texts that are always given a political meaning, leading to an overemphasis on «material» poverty and neglecting other kinds of poverty; that this leads to a «temporal messianism» that confuses the Kingdom of God with a purely «earthly» new society, so that the gospel is collapsed into nothing but political endeavor; that the emphasis on social sin and structural evil leads to an ignoring or forgetting of the reality of personal sin; that everything is reduced to praxis (the interplay of action and reflection) as the only criterion of faith, so that the notion of truth is compromised; and that the emphasis on communidades de base sets a so - called «people's church» against the hierarchy.

By ignoring the true God, their contemporaries not only did not know whom to worship or how, they failed to see that everything else in society — morality, art, literature, politics — was skewed.

This is something that has been ignored by the materialistic Christian society.

Church leaders are accused of fostering psychological violence against homosexual people by repeating certain myths or ignoring the important issues responsible for many problems that gay and lesbian people experience, both in churches and the wider society.

We have ignored the use of communication by Western societies as a tool of cultural domination of other nations instead of speaking to marketplace, industrial and government interests in our own society on behalf of our brothers and sisters in other countries.

Because women are often quickly judged in our society by «appearances,» concerns about what to wear and how one's voice carries can not be ignored.

And the actions of national church bodies belie seriousness, pretending action while only issuing pronouncements which are systematically ignored by the churches, the press, and society.

The Faith perspective sets human action within the context of an ecosystem, material (as used in the normal sense of the word by science) and spiritual (ignored or denied by western society).

By comparison, the private benefits captured by the farmers were calculated at US$ 16 billion but in their decision they were ignoring the costs of US$ 8.1 billion imposed on the rest of societBy comparison, the private benefits captured by the farmers were calculated at US$ 16 billion but in their decision they were ignoring the costs of US$ 8.1 billion imposed on the rest of societby the farmers were calculated at US$ 16 billion but in their decision they were ignoring the costs of US$ 8.1 billion imposed on the rest of society.

What is often ignored by those who are opposed to bedsharing is that there is substantial evidence that children left in a crib in a room separate from their parents (the new «norm» in Western society) is associated with a large increased risk for SIDS, even when bedding and mattress and temperature are taken into account [5][6][7].

Since the Weinstein revelations and the subsequent #MeToo campaign, the scale of sexual violence and abuse committed by men against women in every sector of society has become impossible to ignore.

Speaking in Swindon as part of a tour of west country constituencies, where his speech was watched by his parents, the Conservative leader said: «At the start of this campaign I said we would fight this election for the people who are ignored in our society, the ones who work hard, pay their taxes, live decent lives and yet feel they are sidelined.

«These are the ties that unite our society — and yet they are not powerful enough on their own if the economic gap between us is allowed to grow too big... I say we One Nation Tories can not ignore the gulf in pay packets that yawns wider year by year.

Ignore all cases of autocratic or «personal rule», where it is difficult to distinguish between «anti-social», «criminal» and «treasonous»; limit answers to examples of societies which have an established governance and a mechanism by which to criminalize behavior.

Certainly, we can not ignore the possibility; the Eugenics Society in Britain also held a centenary symposium for Huxley in 1987 (The result, Evolutionary Studies, edited by Milo Keynes and Geoffrey Ainsworth, was published in 1989, three years earlier than the American offering).

There's actually nothing wrong with doing nothing; it's a belief cast on us by society, so you can just choose to ignore it if you want.

By ignoring the other half, the equally incredible amounts of animal products, the film goes after the safe villains, while not tackling the much touchier subject of this society's obsession with animal foods.

As a result, we're either ignoring our hunger signals or eating by the clock because that's when society says it's socially acceptable to eat; you know... breakfast at 7 am, lunch at 12 pm, dinner at 6 pm and potentially a snack in between.

With the coming of online dating site on Internet and with growing Net user base day by day, more and more people are coming across varied sexual orientation of humans which so far where either closeted or ignored by the straight society as repulsive or aberrant, and not worth taking a peak into.

So by all means, gentlemen, go forth and ignore society's small - minded trivialities.

They're not afraid to speak the truth in a society that has made an industry of deliberately ignoring it, and by going on strike they shake the sexist British establishment to the core.

The zero draft ignored the hundreds of submissions made by national governments, civil society organizations and major groups and came up with a document that even shocked government negotiators who called for greater imagination by the UN Secretariat for Rio +20.

Harman added, «These animals are literally ignored by officials, rescues, humane societies, everyone.

The campaigns that urge people to spay or neuter their cat have been acted on by thoughtful people, and have been ignored by that element in society that doesn't care about the suffering and killing caused when they let their cat have kittens, or who are looking for easy money.

«A painfully honest look at life in today's society from the perspective of someone demonized by that society so it can keep ignoring its actual problems.

Fuelled by a longing for more transparency within society and a need to ask the tough questions we are all guilty of ignoring, Stuart Semple is an artist to keep watching.

Common themes of Lola's subjects are the forgotten or those ignored by mainstream media and society.

Online, Rafman's videos could be considered (at least by some) kinky; offline, they're tough to ignore — they reflect a society that has all sorts of repressed, messed - up, digitized feelings.

It means that even if we completely ignored the fact that lower emissions will reduce future climate change damage, it would still make society richer by implementing a 100 % revenue - neutral carbon tax swap.

Then in 2009 when the temperature plateau became too obvious to ignore, Knight et al. (2009), in a report on climate by the American Meteorological Society, asked the rhetorical question «Do global temperature trends over the last decade falsify climate predictions?»

It is curious then that, bar a brief mention in a recent paper on sustainable biofuels by the UK - based Royal Society, the potential for biomass production at sea is largely ignored.

And it's downright deceitful to focus on this minucia while ignoring the bigger picture of a warming globe and increasingly stressful extreme weather events that will continue inflicting greater damage on a complex society that seems to be committed to ignoring the consequences of increasing our planet's atmosphere's insulating medium (GHGs) by a third.

Her natural - law point of view (whatever western society has traditionally done for the past couple of centuries is right — I exaggerate a little) leads her to oppose same - sex marriage and various other social positions that she has no actual evidence to show are harmful, while ignoring a lot of the harm done by existing practices.

In Dangerfield's experience, the first sign of trouble for a lawyer, and the subject of the majority of complaints to the Manitoba law society, is his or her failure to respond to the client, either by ignoring phone calls or not providing updates on the status of their cases.

Narrowing the scope of who may be a «harasser» under the Code by focusing on workplace hierarchy alone ignores the reality of modern workplaces and the myriad ways in which power is understood, negotiated, and acted upon in society.

But, while ignoring this problem, which afflicts the majority of the population, the alternative business structures proposals (ABS proposals) are being very much «fast - tracked» by LSUC to a law society decision — with comparative lightning speed to serve the interests of commercial investors.

Law society benchers are super-vigilant about government interference, but benchers who have clients who can be investors are likely to ignore interference by those investors.

As a result, public duties are ignored, such as those imposed by s. 4.2 of the Law Society Act (Ontario).