Sentences with phrase «not squalor»

Similarly, I don't think CO2 reduction will do much of anything to improve our climate, but if we find it necessary, it will be through application of wealth, not squalor, that we overcome the problems.

Not exact matches

For instance, the steady destruction of our natural forests, pasture lands and inland coastal water bodies has not only meant increased economic poverty for millions of tribals, nomads and traditional fisherfolk, but also a slow cultural and social death: a dismal change from rugged self - sufficient human beings to abjectly dependent landless laborers and squalor - stricken urban migrants.

However, while highlighting the poor quality of life of children in stories such as Oliver Twist and Little Dorrit, authors at that time did not follow today's pro-abortion attitude — namely that it is cruel to let children be born into squalor.

Let a child be physically maimed for life by a birth injury, or spiritually maimed by having to grow up in hunger and fear as in war - torn lands, or in squalor and crime as in our own slums; and then when the natural consequences appear, not a few pious Christians will say that God in his inscrutable providence willed it to be this way.

A good picture of the general squalor, cynicism, and despair in Soviet life was provided by a documentary film Tak Zhit Nel» zya (roughly «We can't go on living like this»), which was released into movie theaters in the summer of 1990.

To be sure, many places are not developing so rapidly, and areas of squalor and grinding poverty remain.

Sometime between living in squalor during those not - so - clean college days and moving in with your S.O., you went from a total mess to neat and tidy.

It means that you can live in a country where old people aren't starving or living in squalor, that you don't have to see old homeless people begging for money in the streets every day when you go to work or shopping.

The leafy, immaculately manicured courtyard where Ms. Olatoye, Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito and Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance announced the new LED lamps today could not have differed more from the squalor residents described inside and behind the public housing buildings.

«The injustices that scar society today are not those of 1945... want, squalor, idleness, disease and ignorance,» he said.

With Love and Squalor certainly won't change pop music as we know it, but it packs surprisingly huge melodies and shamelessly danceable beats.

When we do get a good look at the filth and squalor of Paris — at least the parts not inhabited by the wealthy (thus, most of the city)-- we see how appalling the quality of life is for the majority of Parisians and completely understand why there was an attempted revolution.

It's also messy, not only in its depiction of squalor but also its vacillating focus, gaps of character, and a too - tidy finale (Whether it's true to life and the book or not is beside the point), and for all the effort to balance the lives of father and son, it's the father's story that's more intriguing.

It's hard not to empathize with this troubled teen and his equally mercurial mother, but the writer - director undercuts his characters by wallowing in classist squalor

Lucy Punch, whose TV credits include Ben and Kate and a brief stint on New Girl, will play Esme Squalor, «who's perhaps a love interest for Olaf, we don't know for sure,» per Sonnenfeld.

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His life choices probably aren't acceptable to many but when compared to the filth and squalor surrounding him, a misery that encrusts itself upon these shores like barnacles on a ship hull, his vices feel harmless.

He lives in squalor, hasn't showered «since before the New Year,» and lives in a haze of heartache.

Generally pre-teens and teenagers want to fit in, and living in filth and squalor is not the average home.

Their kids are well cared for, and they don't live in squalor.

This is so that you don't see the squalor where the puppy was raised.

With cats being brought into the home and kittens being born in the home, it is not long before there are an unbelievable number of felines living in squalor and misery.

Gorky was not his real name or patronymic; it is the Russian word for «bitter,» which, as anyone who has read his work can tell you, accurately describes the life of this man who grew up in pre-Bolshevik Revolution squalor.

And those nights don't have to be spent in squalor, since their hotels in Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa are pretty impressive.

This is not to say Tillmans seeks to expose beauty in squalor or the everyday; he also finds it in the sublime, in nature, or the aesthetic thrill of saturated colour.

The connection between such an image and Mr. Bickerton's «commercial pieces» of the 1980s isn't obvious, but it could have to do with the collision of squalor and luxury.

Oldenburg «s portrait conveyed not only the squalor of the neighborhood, but also the mysterious allure of its «bums» and «chicks,» its signage, and even its manhole covers.

Will the squalor of life in the Have Not zones make the Have Nots even more envious of us?

As Edward Abbey pointed out two decades ago, «It should be clear to everyone by now that crude numerical growth does not solve our chronic problems of unemployment, welfare, crime, traffic, filth, noise, squalor, the pollution of our air, the corruption of our politics, the debasement of the school system (hardly worthy of the name «education»), and the general loss of popular control over the political process — where money, not people, is now the determining factor.»

Such a standard, however, would condemn mankind to Medieval squalor, not enhance public health and welfare.

I can limit flood damage and improve health very simply: But I need lower cost energy (you don't want that), lower cost steel and transportation (you are working very hard to make both more expensive), more proper and safe rules and less excessive regulation (you want more regulation and more fees and more interferences from very propagandized zealots against work), lower costs for electricity, water and fuel (you seek more taxes and rules on all) no government corruption (The carbon taxes you want go ONLY to the corrupt third world dictators and NGO profit - seekers who are selling their ENRON - inspired carbon credits, none do anything for the people of each country forced into squalor and death.)

It is not considered ok for one parent to live in a posh lifestyle while the other parent lives in squalor.

Why not just put up a lemonade stand with free banana muffins while you vaccuum and paint your hillbilly neighbours squalor.

The best part is, I'm not going to need to worry about showering in squalor