Sentences with phrase «in affluent nations»

However, the ultimate factor underlying diseases of civilization is the collision of our ancient genome with the new conditions of life in affluent nations, including the nutritional qualities of recently introduced foods.

This means that, instead of aiming at steadily higher levels of consumption, we in the affluent nations may have to cultivate asceticism — a deliberate reduction of the rates at which we use up material things.

On the whole, those Protestants who favor the national system want to improve the quality and quantity of help to the poor, insuring that in an affluent nation such as ours noone goes hungry, unclothed, or homeless.

Some of those factors seem obvious: Living in destitution in an affluent nation is strongly associated with unhappiness.

Not exact matches

Am I just congratulating myself in order to get past the uncomfortable feeling that many people from affluent nations feel at enjoying luxury while visiting a nation rife with poverty?

South of the border, there's a lot of attention being paid to the rich, as President Barack Obama and some wealthy Americans like Warren Buffett call on the most affluent to pay a greater share of taxes in that recession - torn nation.

More affluent users with more buying power in markets like the US, UK, and Canada command higher ad prices, effectively subsidizing the social network for those in developing nations where ad rates are lower.

For Tribune Publishing, spun off from Tribune Broadcasting six months ago, San Diego — California's second largest city, and the tenth most affluent metro area in the nation, with a population of 3.2 million — would become Tribune's ninth metro market, and a new twist to C.E.O. Jack Griffin's clustering strategy.

In this way the ideal of equality of opportunity may be furthered, the more favored sections of the nation helping to lift the heavier educational burden of the less affluent sections.

This passage will have a different impact and significance for persecuted Christians behind the Iron Curtain and in the impoverished nations of the Third World than it has for affluent Christians in the West.

Asserting that in our time the whole planetary system must be taken into account in planning for a humanly desirable future, he argues that the prime end must be to redirect the use of human and technological resources to overcoming the gap between the affluent nations and that much larger portion of mankind which still exists in hunger, poverty, disease, and misery.

Fast growing economies of China and India, a former powerhouse in Japan, an increasingly affluent South Korea, and the fast - growing Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN).61 Each possessing multiple regions and demographics that demand varying tastes, sizes, prices, packaging and branding, as well as differing in standard business practices, routes to market and competitive landscapes.

The restricted availability of premature feeding formulas and supplies, incubators and other equipment in less affluent nations causes premature infants to be more often held and breastfed — hence, they more often survive.

Maryland, one of the nation's most Democratic states, serves as a microcosm of the trends shaping today's Democratic Party: continuing lopsided support in ethnically and racially diverse urban areas, increasing Democratic success among affluent, suburban voters, and a waning of the party's influence in rural areas.

Others said Paladino's comments reflect a deeper problem in a community consistently ranked as one of the most segregated in the nation, and that has a burgeoning immigrant population both in the city and several affluent suburbs.

The effect of diet on the gluconeogenic capacity of rat - kidney - cortex slices [5] Liver and kidney metabolism during prolonged starvation [6] Unrecognized Pandemic «Subclinical» Diabetes of the Affluent Nations: Causes, Cost and Prevention [7] Carbohydrates and Immune Function [8] Overexpression of glut1 and glut3 in stage I nonsmall cell lung carcinoma is Associated with poor survival [9] The in?uence of diet on the mucin carbohydrates in the chick intestinal tract [10] Rat intestinal mucosal responses to a microbial flora and different diets [12] Chronic Ethanol Induced Impairment of Hepatic Glycosylation Machinery in Rat Is Independent of Dietary Carbohydrate [13] Glycosylation in Cellular Mechanisms of Health and Disease [14] Metabolic Aberrations Associated with Arginine Deficiency [15] Glycerol gluconeogenesis in fasting humans

Because if the director's previous film, The Master, charted the quest for meaning in affluent Eisenhower - era America, then this one shows where the search fetched up, in the fracturing counter-culture of southern California, where LAPD cops moonlight as B - movie actors and the Nation of Islam makes common cause with the Aryan Brotherhood.

Marcellus Gallio (Richard Burton) a self - centered and brazen centurion is the product of an affluent family in a conquering nation.

Given the enormous changes taking place in the world, the current education achievement gap between low - income and affluent students, and the logical nexus between a nation's economic strength and the quality of its public education system, it is incumbent on our country to put in place a national education strategy.

No country has achieved anything like equity on this front, but several nations, often dubbed the «Asian tigers,» get more than 10 percent of their disadvantaged students into the top - scoring levels in math, alongside more than 30 percent of their affluent youngsters.

Here are students in one of the nation's most affluent districts and most successful high schools, yet in Robbins's telling they are on the verge of falling apart.

Connecticut has the nation's largest achievement gap between poor students and their more affluent peers, and it's acute even in higher - income towns like West Hartford.

In fiscal year 2013 - 14, the nation's 50 richest PTAs raised and spent $ 43 million dollars for the nation's most affluent schools.

While there always have been inequalities among the nation's public schools, the gap in spending between public schools in the poorest and most - affluent communities has grown during the past decade.

(Connecticut also has one of the widest test score gaps in the nation between low - income students and their more affluent peers.)

Delegates explored several new tourism topics at the congress, including «Women's Engagement in Africa's Tourism Industry,» which brought together representatives from Affluent Hospitality Group, Amalinda Collection, United Nations World Tourism Organization, and ZTA to discuss the challenges and opportunities facing women in the tourism industry today.

China and India, for example, the world's most populous nations, are increasing their consumption as they become more affluent and their per capita emissions will in time become similar to those of economically developed countries.

In either case, the growth rate has already slowed down considerably, and is expected to continue to do so, as developing nations become more affluent.

In a similar situation, Taubman Centers accuses Simon of derailing its plans to add a new upscale center in New York's Long Island, one of the most affluent areas in the natioIn a similar situation, Taubman Centers accuses Simon of derailing its plans to add a new upscale center in New York's Long Island, one of the most affluent areas in the natioin New York's Long Island, one of the most affluent areas in the natioin the nation.

OK, go ahead and laugh: Take newlyweds with a modest income and little savings for a downpayment, and tell them they can buy a house in one of the most affluent parts of the country — say, in Northern Virginia, just outside the nation's capital.

The acquisition is the company's first in Montgomery County, one of the most affluent counties and strongest office markets in the nation.

As the magazine points out, «The fact is, in many of the nation's most affluent communities, $ 1 million doesn't begin to buy the best.