Sentences with phrase «more affluence»

In a society hungry for ever more affluence, where resources will seem permanently scarce, the decision not to abort might in time seem a willful act of self - indulgence whose costs should be borne only by the self - indulgent woman herself.

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The trend is probably going to persist going forward, the economists suggest, especially as younger groups of women have become more educated — affording them the affluence to work more and spend time with their families while hiring someone else to do the dusting.

They will only be met when affluence liberates us more or less completely from concerns of this type in order that we might experience more leisure and give ourselves more fully to discretionary and recreational pursuits.

In the second period there was a decline in religious observance and moral discipline, a revision of curriculum favoring newly specialized disciplines, and a heightened interest exhibited by educators and students in affluence: the former for new resources and the latter for more remunerative careers.

To impose austerity on a society may be unwise, but it is even more unwise to impose affluence on a nation through hidden per.

By downsizing their expectations of material affluence, people are able to discover and invest in what really matters to them, whether that is family, relationships, community involvement, environmental responsibility or a new, more satisfying kind of work.

They are guardians of the world of commerce, where everything is valued only as it might be bought or sold, where all giving and receiving are governed by the satanic law that each must try to take more than he gives, where everything is plunged into the abysmal shadow of that insatiable Typhon called America — that gaslit desert of barbarism, with its infantile, gigantic, exuberant vulgarity, its monstrously guileless delight in affluence, its omnivorous vacuity...» He ceased speaking suddenly, looking all at once abashed.

But in a world of tightening competition, organizing American society around an ever more intense competition for affluence — more Hobbesian than Lockean — is not the only institutional possibility.

This might result in a slight decrease in affluence if substitutes were more expensive.

True, some might get more of this new affluence, and others a good deal less.

Hiebert said much of this is due to affluence, but customers interested in specialty cheese are also more likely to put together meals from scratch, using products from various sections of the store.

Favourable boundary changes and Jowell's assiduous cultivation of support across a constituency with pockets of affluence and poverty mean that she bequeaths a much more substantial majority of over 9000 to Hayes.

Beyond a certain level of affluence, he says, we spend proportionally less on resource - intensive staples such as food, housing and clothing, and more on services.

Previous studies have determined that higher affluence is frequently associated with more biological diversity across species of plants, birds, bats, and lizards — a phenomenon coined the «luxury effect.»

According to one chronicle written a century after Genghis's birth, there were more than 20,000 people of his lineage «living in the comfort of wealth and affluence.»

«Rather than static groups that experience continual high levels of economic attainment, there would appear to be more movement into and out of these income levels,» the authors write in «The Life Course Dynamics of Affluence,» published Jan. 28 in the journal PLOS One.

Affluence more fluid than once thought.»

Teens who have fewer than three family dinners a week are 3.5 times more likely to have abused prescription drugs and to have used illegal drugs other than marijuana, three times more likely to have used marijuana, more than 2.5 times more likely to have smoked cigarettes, and 1.5 times more likely to have tried alcohol, according to the CASA report «While substance abuse can strike any family, regardless of ethnicity, affluence, age, or gender, the parental engagement fostered at the dinner table can be a simple, effective tool to help prevent [it],» says Elizabeth Planet, one of the report's researchers, and the centers vice president and director of special projects.

But at its core is the spectacle of a rational, down - to - earth individual who, faced with a career crisis that threatens the life of comfortable domestic affluence he has built for himself, succumbs with surprisingly few misgivings to an absurd New Age fix and gets more than he bargained for.

A lot of that can be credited to director Francis Lawrence, who keeps the sometimes strange and gaudy visual aesthetics of the previous movie (Those costume, hair, and makeup designs alone easily slip into self - parody) and somehow makes them seem like a completely natural manifestation of runaway affluence, but cinematographer Jo Willems» murky lighting also helps tremendously, making the abject poverty of the districts and the turpitude of the Capitol all the more constricting.

Brian Cox helps distract attention from this tedious youthful affluence, shooting pheasants, reprimanding his wife for having one too many G «n» Ts and patting people on the back reassuringly when they need more money.

Rising affluence has turned more Brazilians and Chileans into taxpayers, which increases pressure on the government to provide better public services and to meet citizens» demands.

Kids growing up in poverty and fragile families, and dysfunctional communities need a whole lot more than kids living with affluence and stability.

With both methods, researchers were able to rule out any potentially skewed factors, such as parents» affluence or level of involvement, more effectively.

Slavery, job discrimination and redlining, which took away the ability of black people to establish equity in a home, had much more to do with creating affluence for white people and giving them the ability to choose.

Middle - class, mixed - income neighborhoods have become less common as more neighborhoods of concentrated poverty and concentrated affluence have developed.

After all, this is a $ 320,000 castle on wheels, a statement of affluence that's even more overt than a diamond - studded de Grisogono watch, and an unabashed symbol of capitalism.

With increasing affluence, more Chinese now have the time and money to keep pets.

«People are now starting to view their pets as a family member, rather than just an animal, which generally remains outside of the house,» Jetley says, attributing this shift in attitudes to increased exposure to global trends and a growing affluence that allows people to spend more on their pets.

[T] he main actors are parents changing population, workers changing affluence, consumers changing the diet (more or less calories, more or less meat) and also the portion of crops entering the food supply (corn can fuel people or cars), and farmers changing the crop production per hectare of cropland (yield).

As is common with many countries as they industrialize, the usual plagues of poverty — infectious diseases and high infant mortality — have given way to diseases more often associated with affluence, such as heart disease, stroke, and cancer.While this might be expected in China's richer cities, where bicycles are fast being traded in for cars and meat consumption is climbing, it also holds true in rural areas.

The problem is not so much population growth, but China's rising affluence, which is allowing its population to move up the food chain, consuming more grain - intensive livestock, poultry, and farmed fish.

In general, affluence has a major influence on global tourism emissions — as the researchers note, «wealthier people travel more.»

So it is clear that both population as well as affluence have grown considerably more rapidly than atmospheric CO2 concentrations.

By this I mean that a self growing system, a bit like the economy, grew, where assistant professors became professors and needed graduate students, affluence allowed more students to go to graduate school instead of facing the real world, even though academy was not a dedication but just work, in a growing spiral.

The farmers market is therefore a market where people of the necessary affluence are brought together with farmers where they pay more for food in return for better taste.

On the other hand, the affluence of Pasadena affords niche attorneys the ability to attract and appeal to a more affluent legal consumer base.

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Some have said this is a function of the affluence found in the city, others suggest it has more to do with the people themselves.

«We recognize that Parkland received more attention because of its affluence,» Jaclyn Corin, a survivor of the Parkland shooting, said during her speech.

These countries» affluence likely contributes to them being targeted, as users located in these regions are more likely to pay the required ransom amount.»

Prices surpass other traditional fix and flip areas due to Naples» affluence, but more experienced investors with the ability to fund a project there have the potential to make an extremely profitable deal in this beach town.

«My current buyer wants to live in a convenient area but they have greater affluence and want bigger, more state - of - the - art homes.»