Sentences with phrase «in rich society»

To raise kids, for example, in our rich society, who are sorry to be alive.

But if they live in a rich society, they depend in fact on the existence of those economic mechanisms, technical rigors, and open or hidden violences that form the warp of that society.

Similarly, Dasgupta and Ehrlich claim: «In rich societies, competitive consumption has further adverse consequences.

Although we live in the richest society in the history of the world, we still assume that there is not enough.

In richer societies the question becomes: How can one maintain a reasonably effective welfare state without succumbing to the «Swedish disease»?

The problems in rich societies such as most of those in Europe is not, heretical as this is to say, caused by these societies somehow not being wealthy enough (and therefore requiring more GDP growth, and the associated promotion and veneration of «wealth creators» and establishing ideological divisions within society between «shirkers and strivers» etc.).

It is common knowledge that in rich societies the poor have shorter lives and suffer more from almost every social problem.

And a proposed goal to «ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns» needs to address expressly the role that unsustainable consumption and production in richer societies plays in driving climate change.

Not exact matches

In our 17th annual report on the richest people in Canada, we celebrate both the upper - crust establishment figures who dominate the society pages and the self - starters who built their empires from scratch (and are busily dismantling the ones that came beforeIn our 17th annual report on the richest people in Canada, we celebrate both the upper - crust establishment figures who dominate the society pages and the self - starters who built their empires from scratch (and are busily dismantling the ones that came beforein Canada, we celebrate both the upper - crust establishment figures who dominate the society pages and the self - starters who built their empires from scratch (and are busily dismantling the ones that came before).

There are no official definitions of what it means to be rich, and many factors come into play for measuring where one falls in the often amorphous class structure of American society.

If the majority of people fall further and further behind — while others in society become unbelievably rich — the notion that the most important value in a country is its citizens having the ability to select their leaders will lose sway.

Venezuela is a target - rich environment,» Feierstein said at a December 12 event at the Americas Society / Council of the Americas in New York City.

«As a society gets richer, its citizens» living standards should rise,» Lane Kenworthy, a sociology and political science professor at Harvard University, contends in a blog post.

He was part of a New York City dinner circuit that includes people who believe the US should go back to the gold standard, rich people who don't think they should have to give back to society in the form of taxes, and anyone interested in either of those ideas who wanted to write a book about them.

In 1930, economist John Maynard Keynes made a prediction: Better living standards and a richer society in the future would allow people to work far less — just 15 - hours a weeIn 1930, economist John Maynard Keynes made a prediction: Better living standards and a richer society in the future would allow people to work far less — just 15 - hours a weein the future would allow people to work far less — just 15 - hours a week.

We have enormous untapped opportunities and a rich blend of natural resources, but our real wealth lies in our people and our society.

II § 5, Mill described rent - yielding properties as enabling their holders to demand payment from society «without any exertion or sacrifice on the part of the owners... Landlords... grow richer, as it were in their sleep, without working, risking, or economizing.

To put this in context, the richest 1 % of the population received more than twice as much income from capital gains alone, as the median total income of the bottom 99 % of society (which was $ 29,300 in 2011).

When a company invests in growth, it doesn't just benefit its own bottom line; it makes the broader society richer.

Science has an especially rich and often fraught role to play in society; if we don't at least acknowledge this we imply it is unimportant.

«In societies where there is a greater disparity between the richest and the poorest, that causes lower levels of economic wellbeing amongst the whole childhood population, both those on lower incomes and those on higher incomes.

He made their economic dream of getting rich come true while sacrificing the political dream of many to live in a free society.

We ran into one cyclical recession in the» 70's, and the Republicans seized on it as an excuse to rig government and society for the benefit of people who are already rich, while taking away opportunities from everyone else... then they crushed the unions so that workers would never be able to get back better pay and better job security, while investors make more and more and pay less and less in taxes.

Because of the split between rich and poor, our society currently fails to give basic prenatal care in thousands of pregnancies each year.

But in present American society, etiquette rites are much more elaborate among the young and the poor (for example, in the dress codes, precedence systems, gestures of greeting, and modes of address in urban street gangs) than among the rich, who have increasingly abandoned the very aspects of etiquette that are of vital concern on the streets.

America before 1930 was a society in which a small number of very rich people controlled a large share of the nation's wealth.

People are increasingly recognized that the economy itself is far too important to be left to those who deal with it in such abstract ways and that society as a whole is too rich to be placed in the service of the market.

At the same time, Bonhoeffer also addresses his challenge to the new elites of our society, those who were powerless but are now powerful, those who were in solidarity with the poor but are now numbered among the rich.

And it was that contradiction that he acted and reenacted in an ingenious multitude of variations: Sir Charlie, tipping his bowler hat, not only to portly mayors and rich tycoons and society ladies, but to children and dogs and trees and milk cows.

In societies without this regard, the rich do all they can to evade taxes, and they often use their power to protect their assets, even at the expense of solidarity.

Latest was explosions in India marked as «Islamic Jihadists» and another in Pakistan although I was surprised that it was not marked as «Hindu Jihadists»... That would have had both Great Countries confront each other serving the purpose of other competing nations over the Rich Indian Peninsular... Believe me no nation fall back unless people of her own are traitors to it's nations principals and beliefs for the reason of Hate, Envy, Revenge, or Greeds towards material wealth even if by selling their Dignity and integrity or their family, tribe, community, the nation and the country it wouldn't mean much to them... and those can be found among every level of the one Society...

Mariani notes that Stevens had a withdrawn manner at home and an unpleasant one in the office, but none of this stopped him from becoming rich and successful and, eventually, joining affluent society after the family settled in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1916.

While capitalistic globalization confers many advantages to the owners of capital and the local elites of both rich and poor countries, with the availability of more consumer goods and their participation in the TNC - led businesses, it has gravely harmful effects on the poorer sections of almost all societies.

It tells us how we should behave in the presence of the rich and of the poor, what teenagers should wear, what words are acceptable in polite society.

The research studies of so - called normal people — that is, people who have families, hold jobs and are involved in no major conflicts with the laws of society — disclose «rich pathological material» in the average man's personality.

Feminism challenges the legitimacy of sex roles Along with other social movements, feminism is rooted in the critique that a society so constructed that certain people and groups profit from inequalities — between men and women, rich and poor, black and white, etc. — is a society in which money is more highly valued than love, justice, and human life itself.

But it is also held that globalization has brought in its wake, great inequities, mass impoverishment and despair, that it has fractured society along the existing fault lines of class, gender and community, while almost irreversibly widening the gap between rich and poor nations, that it has caused the flow of currencies across international borders, which has been responsible for financial and economic crises in many countries and regions, including the current Asian financial crisis, that it has enriched a small minority of persons and corporations within nations and within the international system, marginalizing and violating the basic human rights of millions of workers, peasants and farmers and indigenous communities.

Churches around the country are vital centres for local communities and wider society, preserving our rich heritage for future generations, and I very much welcome the opportunity to support the Council in their work.»

An Untouchable had no chance of becoming a Brahmin, and a member of the lower feudal orders had few opportunities to make it into the aristocracy, but the poor in a class society have at least a reasonable chance of making it into the middle class and some middle - class individuals do make it into the ranks of the rich.

Although her family was prosperous, as a descendent of slaves she was expected to make her way in society by becoming available as a «mistress» to rich white men.

Who will speak truth to privilege in a society in which the disparities between the rich and poor grow more pronounced daily?

The gap between rich and poor keeps growing in all societies, and also among the countries of the world.

The question is being asked whether the price for the present pattern is not too high, whether we could not, without losing me many good things in our society, have a freer impulse life, a richer imaginative consciousness, be less alienated from our bodies, be capable of more profound intimacy with a few and more community with many others.

You said: «Until the day that universities do not cater to the rich so to implement and further a two class society, where the rich can have their children educated for the better paying jobs in society and the poor are stopped at the door....

Until the day that universities do not cater to the rich so to implement and further a two class society, where the rich can have their children educated for the better paying jobs in society and the poor are stopped at the door....

Mass unemployment, severe cyclical slumps in rapid - fire investment and mobile business, the spreading distance between rich and poor in a confrontation of limousine plenty and homelessness, and limited revenues for limitless needs now afflict all societies, even if in drastically different proportion.

Clashes within the family or the work situation that cause resentment, hard feelings and then severance; anonymity and rootlessness in an overcrowded but lonely world; uncertainty as to the future and even as to whether there will be a future — these elements in our society rob many of what ought to be the rich satisfactions of living.

In terms of per capita income, Hongkong is now the sixth - richest society on earth.

In Centesimus Annus 10, a 1991 letter to all local Catholic Churches, Pope John Paul II wrote «The State can not limit itself to «favoring one portion of the citizens,» namely the rich and prosperous, nor can it «neglect the other,» which clearly represents the majority of society.

In Christian preaching, and quite properly so, we more often hear of its moral aspect: Jesus came especially to the poor and the despised, to the margins of society, and he died as a criminal; and today, too, we are more likely to find him visible on comparable margins than among the rich, the powerful, and the respected.