Sentences with phrase «in wealthier societies»

And then there was a different form of poverty: the «spiritual poverty of our time»; that poverty is most evident in wealthier societies and manifests itself in what Benedict XVI often called the «dictatorship of relativism»» the worship of the false god of me, myself, and I, imposed by state power, often in the name of a misguided and coercive concept of tolerance.

But in wealthy societies, obesity is a bigger health risk than being skinny, and there are vastly more people who suffer negative consequences from having too much body fat than too little.

Three Wrong - Headed Ideas Driving Reform of U.S. Teaching Force Washington Post, 6/12/15 «When the going gets tough in our wealthy societies, the powers - that - be often choose quick fixes.

«When the going gets tough in our wealthy societies, the powers - that - be often choose quick fixes.

Material consumption has only just begun to peak in the wealthiest societies.

Not exact matches

Such initiatives mark a clear difference from the previous executive, when former President Francois Hollande heavily taxed the wealthiest in French society.

In his video with Doris, Buffett says that even before he became wealthy, he and his wife Susie agreed that almost all the money he made — and he thought he would make a lot — would go to society.

Like any of number of fictional futures, from Metropolis to Altered Carbon, it is a society where the wealthy in live in glistening towers in the clouds, surrounded by technologies of luxury and convenience, looking down on an underclass that can not afford basic necessities.

The abnormalities of atheistic beliefs are in today's timelines littering profusely many cherished religious societies whose fundamentalisms have been a social consistency for many good years... Even though I am distasteful of today's religions in that they are usurping the least wealthy, I see their mismanaging of financial dexterities due each religion's hierarchies needing more money for themselves than for their communal poor folks...

In the former, euergesia (to do good) was a practice of the wealthy, who contributed to the well - being of society.

Economists sometimes argue that when a society becomes sufficiently wealthy the benefits of increased wealth will trickle down to those who are now poor, but in the countries they cite as success stories, the improvement of the lot of the poor was greatly benefited by governmental action and labor unions, neither of which are viewed favorably from the point of view of the theory.

There are numerous examples in our society of people who were once poor becoming wealthy through creativity and hard work.

Historically the Churches have generally been rather on the side of the wealthy and powerful due to the common interests of the Churches and of the affluent in society.

The landowner knew very well that they were in that situation because the powerful in society, the wealthy and the influential, even the educated and the religious, had created this terrible situation where millions of people had no work.

Even if everybody in America enjoyed excellent health care, decent housing, educational opportunities, and lots of consumer goodies, but the wealthy and powerful lived in gated communities and held the rest of us in disdain, we'd think our society sick rather than healthy.

A stratified society, with wealthy landowners at the top and slaves at the bottom and, in between, a mass of poor folk skirting precariously the edge of servitude for debt and in times of depression forced into it or compelled to sell sons or daughters to redeem the family's fortunes — such a picture is revealed by a careful reading of the records.

Coontz misstates the historical record to give the impression that marriage has typically not been a province of law and only became such in an effort to preserve the narrow interests of certain powerful sects of society: wealthy parents in requiring parental consent, Catholic authoritarians in proscribing divorce, and Southern racists in preventing miscegenation.

While Reno is correct that it is «unhealthy for our society when cultural power becomes too concentrated in just a few very wealthy institutions,» using the state's tax power to attack «institutional giganticism» in the name of «philanthropic subsidiarity» as he proposes would only open the way for government to control, and even destroy, such institutions.

So it seems that home - births ARE a great and safe option for well educated, healthy, wealthy, mothers who live in affluent societies with good infrastructure.

Paul Tough's work reflects his enduring concern about the achievement gap in our society between children from the poorest and wealthiest families in the United States.

The backlash against the private sector is hardly surprising: when financial institutions broke down following the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2007, the costs fell not on wealthy financiers but society as a whole in an era when middle income households were suffering an unprecedented squeeze.

So at the level of public space the polity as an «imaginary institution» (to misuse Castoriadis) more or less disappeared, leaving «society» as a sort of pre-biotic soup in which all that really mattered was the number of wealthy good Samaritans per head of population, or something of that sort.

The very wealthy should be willing to repay society for the many benefits they have derived from being born in the U.S.

Another problem with high levels of economic inequality is that lots of resources have to be devoted to gatekeeping and guarding the wealth of the wealthy from those denied wealth, which isn't necessary to nearly the same degree in more egalitarian societies.

After all, they have been the winners of the Tories» relentless support for the wealthiest people in society.

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.).

«We are a wealthy society in Britain and if we're going to live within the limits of our planet then some people are going to have to get more and some people at the top are going to have to get less and that means that the economics and the environment go together.

It's important to note that the very wealthiest groups in society are much less likely to take part in surveys and so their wealth is under - reported and alternative sources of data need to be analysed, such as HMRC personal wealth statistics.

Such tactics have been used by the wealthy elites and the talking heads who support them across European societies, but in many cases they have failed.

He tasked government to dedicate more resources to supporting the poor and needy in society in order to bridge the gap between the poor and the wealthy.

By progressive I'm assuming he means concerned about the poor and vulnerable in society - as well as the wealthy and strong.

Taking away a modest grant that is provided to all children while at the same time raising the inheritance tax threshold that will benefit the wealthiest in our society.

That tax advantage allows the wealthiest in this country, indeed the very wealthiest in the globe, to buy a prestige service that secures their children a permanent positional edge in society at an effective 20 per cent discount,» he wrote.

So presumably, the less wealthy, after being told what to spend their money on by «society» for all their working years, reach pensionable age fully moulded by a paternalistic government into financially responsible citizens who will commit a significant amount of their time to research where they want to invest their pensions, and subsequently enjoy «regular updates on how their pension fund was growing» — because of course, like house prices, pension funds can only rise in value.

He advised the wealthy in the society to make it mandatory upon themselves to always assist the poor and the needy in order to cushion the effect of the recession in their social and economic lives.

It's long past time that the very wealthy, who have benefited the most from society, share in its support.

Asked whether very wealthy and mobile people would just take their money away, she said: «You have to be part of the society in which you live.

Omisore called on the wealthy Nigerians to always remember the poor in the society in order to give them hope and make the nation peaceful.

Asked whether very wealthy mobile people would just take their money away, she said: «You have to be part of the society in which you live.

«The cultural lens through which the fishermen viewed this issue was of struggle in a post-slavery society, of the rich, predominantly white expatriates making a law that oppressed the poorest of the poor locals to benefit the wealthy.»

Social inequality refers to disparities in the distribution of economic assets and income as well as between the overall quality and luxury of each person's existence within a society, while economic inequality is caused by the unequal accumulation of wealth; social inequality exists because the lack of wealth in certain areas prohibits these people from obtaining the same housing, health care, etc. as the wealthy, in societies where access to these social goods depends on wealth.

Clearly, endless exhortations to eat less and exercise more aren't working in our increasingly wealthy and sedentary society.

Global Cancer Facts and Figures, 2nd Edition, a report released in 2011 by The American Cancer Society, notes that cancers related to changing lifestyles as nations become wealthier, including lung, breast, and colorectal tumors, continue to rise in the developing world http://www.cancer.org/Research/CancerFactsFigures/GlobalCancerFactsFigures/global-facts-figures-2nd-ed

In the past, it was associated with rich, developed countries or with wealthier sectors of society.

As a general rule, he is an older man who has attained a high level in his career, has a good status in society and is wealthy.

Living in a society with a resource based economy, you know there will always be greedy and conniving people trailing behind wealthy individuals in hopes to somehow benefit from their success.

They appreciate expensive gifts, exotic trips and meeting wealthy people regularly and establishing themselves in the upper class of society.The sugar baby is an individual who wants mentor - ship, help with financial expenses or general companionship with people in the upper echelon of the society.

This site is proud to be one of the pioneering dating sites for wealthy and known singles in the society.

However, for the wealthy and millionaires, mingling with the common opposite sexes do not come naturally because of their placement in the society and the places they frequent.

Most successful people choose to return their wealthy to the society in certain ways.