Sentences with phrase «marketed as panaceas»

These are marketed as panaceas — a good way to profit from the excess of soy.

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The ideology of the «free market» plugged by the media and academics as the panacea for the problems of economy and society may help the spread of such elements of a mono - culture.

The advocates of «globalization» described it as the panacea for all economic woes, and that the only path to prosperity is to adhere to free - market principles.

Yogurts like Dannon's Activia have been marketed with much success as a panacea for all of our intestinal ills.

But I am much more skeptical now than I was before that market forces are some sort of panacea, as they appear to be in some industries.

What can we do as educational and cultural workers, at this crucial moment in history, when corporate revenue expands as the job market shrinks, when there is such a callous disregard for human suffering and human life, when the indomitable human spirit gasps for air in an atmosphere of intellectual paralysis, social amnesia, and political quiescence, when the translucent hues of hope seem ever more ethereal, when thinking about the future seems anachronistic, when the concept of utopia has become irretrievably Disneyfied, when our social roles as citizens have become increasingly corporatized and instrumentalized in a world which hides necessity in the name of consumer desire, when media analyses of military invasions is just another infomercial for the US military industrial complex with its huge global arms industry, and when teachers and students alike wallow in absurdity, waiting for the junkyard of consumer life to vomit up yet another panacea for despair?

Every decade or so, the IT industry will pick an emerging technology (or two) and market it to high heaven as the panacea to all of your computing problems.

And in the poster's case, even going indie is far from a panacea — as I said before, the conventional wisdom is that literary fiction does terribly in the indie market.

Variable - annuity panaceas are sold as full market upside with attached guarantees.

Markets in soil and trees have not turned out to be the finance panacea thought by many, but soil and trees are still seen as the solution to long term temperature rise — through geoengineering.

Having conducted interviews with Solomon and a dozen of his former colleagues, I've come away with a better understanding of how the Energy Probe Research Foundation was created in his image while utilizing his gift for rhetoric, a talent for securing funding — albeit from questionable sources, such as the oil industry — and a never - waning vision of free markets and property rights as an all - encompassing panacea.

Bamboo has been marketed as something of a panacea — a kind of wonder wood that checks all the boxes.