Sentences with phrase «including social unrest»

A variety of factors, including social unrest, labor - related issues and a competitive real estate market, keep individual members of the restaurant community inching along toward incremental growth.

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Major obstacles include religious fundamentalism, which not only triggers conflicts but also contributes to the suppression of women; global warming, which might produce ecological crises that spur social unrest and violence; overpopulation, particularly when it produces a surplus of unmarried, unemployed young men; and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

Separate analyses of documents from ancient Egypt — everything from inscriptions on monuments to tax records, poems, and letters — hint that eruptions may have contributed to social unrest, including riots, tensions between Egyptians and their Greek overlords, famines and plagues, and farmers abandoning their land and moving to the cities.

Detailing key socio - economic data as well as developmental trends, the maps provide a comprehensive territorial analysis at a local scale and explore the potential for regional integration and cooperation.These pioneering maps examine challenges that threaten this wide, yet inter-connected, region, including environmental concerns in the North, political unrest in the East, social factors in the Western Balkans, and the upheaval in the Mediterranean since the Arab spring.

Covering an unusual breadth of material, the gallery's holdings include Alexander Calder's Santa Clause Suite portfolio, along with a series of lithographs by social and political satirist William Gropper that depict the dramatic unrest inside the U.S. government during Richard Nixon's Watergate scandal.

Many of the works included here depict socioeconomic and political climate and contradictions, including vast discrepancies in wealth and social status, and actions of political protest and social unrest.

Intended to provide predictable costs for employers and quell growing social and labour unrest by state - administered payments and medical coverage for injured workers, it became a model looked to by many jurisdictions, including Ontario.

Social and labour activism (and governments» fear of unrest) were essential forces in establishing modern workers» compensation systems, including Ontario's in 1914.

Still, the apology did little to quell unrest and now companies and users, including Elon Musk and Playboy, are boycotting the world's largest social network in support of user privacy.