Sentences with phrase «less control over their lives»

By this I mean that they have less control over their lives, less latitude in decision - making, and less influence over political, educational, and economic institutions which impinge upon their lives, than is the case with people in the middle classes.

This blamed pressures from social media and the fact that young people felt less control over their lives.

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But how can you achieve a better work - life balance, especially if you're just beginning your career or starting your business and feel like you have less control over your work life than you prefer?

I believe in smaller government, less control over the people, but we need to help our brothers and sisters with handouts but mostly a hand up to a better, more fulfilling life where they can do things for themselves and their families.

If it is objected that production in and for small communities would be less efficient than large - scale centralized production, it could be answered, first, that when the true costs of transportation are calculated, this may not be true, and second, that efficiency in that sense is less important than a good life in a self - reliant community that has some control over its own destiny.

Like I mentioned before, it often feels like training takes over the lives of triathletes — so, even though I have less than a month to get into racing shape, I'm not going to let this sport control my life.

It may have less to do with the actual food than a need to test the limits of your authority and assert some control over his life.

It is worth noting that while people under age 65 in the U.S. live in a heavily market - dominated economy where poor employment outcomes mean poverty and a lack of access to health care, almost everyone over age 65 has most of their healthcare paid for by Medicare, (a FICA tax financed, single payer system that pays providers more or less the same rates as private insurance companies and has few cost controls), more than half of their nursing home costs paid by Medicaid, (which is stingy in how much it pays providers and moderately means tested), and receives enough of a guaranteed income from the combination of Social Security and SSI payments to keep the poverty rate for people age 65 +, (even if they have no retirement savings of their own), above the poverty line, regardless of the state of the local economy.

Recounting his upbringing by an abusive father and his anger over losing construction job opportunities to illegal immigrants, Foley seems to have taken up arms less out of necessity (à la Autodefensas) than out of a frustration with both the American government's lack of immigration control and with his own tough, on - the - margins life.

Ruby Sparks is about a fictional woman come to life, a female - led version of all those male fantasy movies such as Weird Science; Kazan exposes the limitations of that fantasy (Dano plays a novelist whose heroine, played by Kazan, steps full - blooded into his life, whereupon he discovers that to exert total control over another human is less of a gift than a nightmare).

He says there's a growing sense that K - 12 teachers simply have less control over their professional lives in a bitter, politicized environment.

In life there are few things that we have less control over than the weather and natural disasters.

It's true there are factors you have less control over when it comes to the cost of life insurance — such as your age — but there's a lot within your control, too.

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It is more private than going through the court system, causes less emotional wear and tear (although, its still difficult), and allows you to have a greater measure of control over your own life, your own family and your own future.

Fact:» [1] Fathers who reported strong authoritarian views were involved relatively less in weekday caregiving, playing, teaching, and nighttime soothing and in weekend teaching during early infancy... Attitudes consistent with authoritarian parenting, in which demands for obedience and behavioral control of children are prominent, appear to have lasting, negative effects on fathering even early in life, long before parent - child conflicts and matters of discipline become common...» [2] Consistent with prior work linking maternal attitudes and father involvement, fathers engaged in relativelyless caregiving, playing, and teaching on weekends during early infancy when their partners held highly protective attitudes... Although an initial lack of experience or support might be expected to diminish father involvement over time, relations between maternal protective attitudes and fathers» relative involvement did not hold longitudinally... the lack of longitudinal relations may suggest that father involvement is primarily self - determined and that mothers» attitudes are in part a consequence of how involved fathers actually are in childrearing.»

Our finding that the severity of depressive symptoms was a significant but relatively smaller contributor to physical disability in this sample (after controlling for the possible effects of age, sex and duration of pain) is consistent with findings of some previous studies of patients with chronic pain, but not with some treatment studies, which found that depression level contributed to less significant improvement in pain - related disability.11, 27 It is not surprising that cognitive, pain and behavioural variables accounted for more physical disability than depressive symptoms but it is notable that social support (as measured by the MPI), sense of control over life, and catastrophising did not significantly contribute to physical disability.

To date, less research has examined the role of low perceived control, the belief that one's actions do not exert influence over important life outcomes (Weisz et al. 2001).

An online national survey of 4,500 American adults (the 2010 United Healthcare / Volunteer Match Do Good Live Well Study) found that people who volunteer have less trouble sleeping, less anxiety, less helplessness and hopelessness, better friendships and social networks, and a sense of control over chronic conditions.