Sentences with phrase «massive imbalance of power»

«There is such a massive imbalance of power that women in the industry often end up in distressing situations,» Ms. Wu said.

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The massive gap between the haves and have - nots also doesn't discourage the formation of jerk - like tendencies, according to Sutton: «The research says that when we're in those situations [i.e. large imbalances in power and wealth], there's envy going up, and sort of disdain goes down,» he notes.

He raised taxes at a time when the average family was near or in starvation mode, he confiscated all of the nation's privately - owned gold and then promptly devalued the dollar by 40 % (reducing the buying power of any saved dollars by almost half overnight), he raised bank reserve requirements numerous times (taking yet more cash out of the real economy so it could be hoarded in vaults), he actively supported a trade war with tariffs that created massive global imbalances (some would argue ushering in the rise to power of fascist regimes that would have had no chance in times of prosperity), and perhaps most damning, rather than plowing most of those raised tax dollars back into the stalled economy, he instead bought gold on the global markets for the government and sequestered it, keeping it from backing new dollars (monetary expansion, which most understand is required to turn a recession around) and instead further crushing the economy — and not just the US economy.

Considering this massive power imbalance and the general change of the moral views by society (which are also motivated by the situation sex workers where in), the courts changed their opinion on prostitution and § 138 BGB and, suddenly, prostitution was legal the eyes of German civil law.

Clark expressed «serious doubt» over the usefulness of lawyers in the context of massive social inequality given the imbalances of political and economic power.