Sentences with phrase «of affluence as»

Instead, he arrives at a state of profound indifference, as «Winter Sleep» shifts from a restrained character study on the darker ramifications of affluence as its solitary protagonist eventually finds himself too rich to care.

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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.

Huffington adds: «As long as success is defined by who works the longest hours, who goes the longest without a vacation, who sleeps the least, who responds to an email at midnight or five in the morning — in essence, who is suffering from the biggest time famine — we're never going to be able to enjoy the benefits of time affluence.&raquAs long as success is defined by who works the longest hours, who goes the longest without a vacation, who sleeps the least, who responds to an email at midnight or five in the morning — in essence, who is suffering from the biggest time famine — we're never going to be able to enjoy the benefits of time affluence.&raquas success is defined by who works the longest hours, who goes the longest without a vacation, who sleeps the least, who responds to an email at midnight or five in the morning — in essence, who is suffering from the biggest time famine — we're never going to be able to enjoy the benefits of time affluence.»

It is also likely to shift over time, as affluence grows and technology evolves, and as companies like Coke and Starbucks and a thousand anonymous start - ups find new ways to make environmental protection efficient, in the broadest, most ethically - significant sense of the word.

What Lasch described in 1972 as «the familiar materials of popular discontent, quietly persisting through three decades of «affluence,»» are once again on the rise: «distrust of officials and official pronouncements; cynicism about the good faith of those in positions of great power; resentment of the rich; a conviction that most things in life are «fixed.

What we meant to model was the sending of one of our number to be a foreign missionary — to learn a new language, to understand a local culture, to sacrifice the amenities of affluence and to live knowing that he or she is always being watched by seekers — while the rest of us stay here as lifetime local missionaries, learning to speak the language of the unchurched, understanding secular culture, sacrificing the amenities of affluence and living as a «watched» person in a society that is skeptical of Christian spirituality until it sees the real thing on display.

Their power and affluence are obvious, while their claim to victimhood is acknowledged as «a common sign of virtue.»

The idea of affluence and self - indulgence as the meaning of life would not seem to be a firm basis for the dissemination of democracy.

The cozy monstrosity is also, of course, the scheme of their marriage as a place of refuge from the impersonal, warlike society in which they carry on their ambitious professional lives, earning the salaries that buy conspicuous affluence.

He predicts that as these stresses make themselves felt in the industrial sector, our ethics of affluence will shift into an ethics of triage.

The good society is regarded as one of material affluence, where a wide range of desires are powerfully stimulated and abundantly satisfied.

As long as the poor have real hope that they will soon share in the new affluence, they may endure their poverty and work hard for the good of the whole societAs long as the poor have real hope that they will soon share in the new affluence, they may endure their poverty and work hard for the good of the whole societas the poor have real hope that they will soon share in the new affluence, they may endure their poverty and work hard for the good of the whole society.

There one can see a touching picture of all human miseries, not of those poor attrackted by the alms of sovereigns, or of those insects who attach themselves to the reach, but of starving beggars deprived of necessities by the «charity» of their bishops so as to prevent them from becoming corrupted by affluence.

The vices of the middle - aged and the middle class of middle America have been scored repeatedly, while the suburbanite is routinely pictured as one who cowardly flees from the tumult of the inner city to enjoy his affluence in the privacy of his background with its green grass and ubiquitous charcoal grill.

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.

Population growth alone precludes that, even if we who are accustomed to affluence were willing, as few of us are, to give up the benefits of industrialization.

As for the common people, their economic status doubtless limited the size of their households and, as among all polygamous peoples, any rise in affluence was accompanied by an increase of wiveAs for the common people, their economic status doubtless limited the size of their households and, as among all polygamous peoples, any rise in affluence was accompanied by an increase of wiveas among all polygamous peoples, any rise in affluence was accompanied by an increase of wives.

As Jose Lutzenberger when Minister of Environment in Brazil, said: «If development is to be the continuation of the present mode and we must help the developing countries to reach our level of affluence, while the developed countries must still continue developing to even higher levels of consumption, then what we are doing is suicidal» (1991, p. 11).

It may be also that Western middle - class affluence will soon be recognized not as the universal ideal but as a remarkable exception in human history, one bearing great stewardship opportunities and responsibilities for worldwide extension of the gospel and for helping the underprivileged to help themselves.

Green vegetables are thought to bring affluence in the New Year, as they are the color of money.

During Splash's youth, Wauwatosa had been a small bedroom suburb on the western outskirts of Milwaukee, a quiet, tidy enclave whose middle - class affluence was as sturdy as its stone houses, as neatly clipped as its putting - green lawns, a town where men often took the streetcar to work, or else walked whistling under the elms.

Based on the fans affluence, ticket prices, stadium size, finances, and support, it is unacceptable and wrong (as a matter of fact it is intellectual corruption) that a manager earning such a huge wage (# 8millions / year... F*cking joke) is not capable of delivering trophies, and I mean major trophies (not those small ridiculous domestic cups) on a regular basis.

@Rob A - That is true and unfortunately women is less developed countries seem to see being able to feed their babies as a sign of affluence and therefore something to aspire to.

Tough points to the documentary The Race to Nowhere as a prime of example of affluence undoing kids.

You mention in the book a woman named Madeline Levine who writes about the problems affecting children who grow up in affluence, and it seems as if they have the same sorts of problems with grit, perseverance, self - regulation, optimism.

This choice - induced misery is usually described as a side effect of societal affluence.

Despite it's disastrous track - record of macro-economic management, epitomised by the Lawson boom in the late 1980s and George Osbourne's ill - timed retrenchment since 2010, the Conservatives have consistently positioned themselves as the party of fiscal discipline and economic competence, as well as the party of entrepreneurship and material affluence.

In response to the HMRC's revelation of the continued enormity of the tax gap, Danny Alexander announced that 2,250 extra government tax inspectors would be tasked with tackling tax evasion and avoidance, including an «affluence team» to target those in the 50p tax band and ensure that «those with the broadest shoulders bear their fair share of the burden», as he told The Independent on Sunday.

No just as the Slave owners of our first Civil War, who needed African slaves on their Plantations, to make them economically viable for the Southern Aristocracy to maintain their affluence, the Anti Gov forces of today seek a totally deregulated American economy.

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.

It's a strange thing in some ways that many of us think of diabetes as what they used to call a disease of affluence, that it was a disease you'd find a lot in the richer, in [the] developed world.

«This too could reflect affluence as out - of - state tuition is typically two - to five - times greater than in - state tuition,» the authors write.

«A lot of the diseases that do come about today or have been linked with high - fat diets or things like that have been referred to by some researchers as «diseases of affluence.»

The combined influences of population and affluence have been regarded as the core of environmental stress — and have tended to guarantee an annual increase in carbon dioxide emissions.

In an analysis of 43 large economies during the period of 1995 to 2015, a team of researchers found that GDP remains intrinsically linked with metal use even as affluence grows.

As we have seen with other diseases of affluence, when people migrate from areas of the world where disease incidence is low to areas of the world where disease incidence is high, they quickly adopt the high incidence rates as they change their diet and lifestylAs we have seen with other diseases of affluence, when people migrate from areas of the world where disease incidence is low to areas of the world where disease incidence is high, they quickly adopt the high incidence rates as they change their diet and lifestylas they change their diet and lifestyle.

This in turn has lead to «diseases of affluence» such as CAD, diabetes and arthritis.

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

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

Our Espresso Metallic road boat with the Cream Designo interior and the shiny Riva - inspired woodwork is perceived as from a different planet here, an unabashed symbol of affluence.

It was a model Chevy Biscayne and BelAir owners could aspire to as their level of affluence increased.

Effia soaks in relative affluence and her immediate family members become key power brokers in the Gold Coast slave trade, even as later relatives want to have little to do with this stain of history.

Rising affluence and rising debt have become almost indistinguishable, as year - over-year consumers embrace higher levels of debt together with lower levels of savings.

«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.

«The demand is related to the increase in the size of the human population, an increase in affluence in developing countries, as well as an increase in overall urbanization.»

The affluence of Tirol from its silver and copper mines led Habsburg Emperor Maximilian I (c. 1490) to designate Innsbruck as imperial capital.

Taking up concepts such as affluence, corruption and aggression, his works are undertones of what he perceives to be a «mad world».

In this interview Rauschenberg speaks of his role as a bridge from the Abstract Expressionists to the Pop artists; the relationship of affluence and art; his admiration for de Kooning, Jack Tworkov, and Franz Kline; the support he received from musicians Morton Feldman, John Cage, and Earl Brown; his goal to create work which serves as unbiased documentation of his observations; the irrational juxtaposition that makes up a city, and the importance of that element in his work; the facsimile quality of painting and consequent limitations; the influence of Albers» teaching and his resulting inability to do work focusing on pain, struggle, or torture; the «lifetime» of painting and the problems of time relative symbolism; his feelings on the possibility of truly simulating chance in his work; his use of intervals, and its possible relation to the influence of Cage; his attempt to show as much drama on the edges of a piece as in the dead center; his belief in the importance of being stylistically flexible throughout a career; his involvement with the Stadtlijk Museum; his loss of interest in sculpture; his belief in the mixing of technology and aesthetics; his interest in moving to the country and the prospect of working with water, wind, sun, rain, and flowers; Ad Reinhardt's remarks on his Egan Show; his discontinuation of silk screens; his illustrations for Life Magazine; his role as a non-political artist; his struggles with abstraction; his recent theater work «Map Room Two;» his white paintings; and his disapproval of value hierarchy in art.

Known as «Ibeji» within Yoruba culture, twins are a source of anxiety and celebration, regarded as divine beings capable of bringing either affluence or misery to their parents.