Sentences with phrase «of affluence for»

Second, the right to collective bargaining has been enshrined in law, and the results of these contract negotiations worked in combination with the supremacy and prosperity of American heavy industry in the mid-twentieth century to produce a previously undreamt of affluence for skilled laborers.

Familiar examples of such action would include the advocacy of social services aimed at the redistribution of material well - being so that there would be some agreed - upon level of affluence for all, including refusal to live above this parity level, unilateral disarmament, pacifism, nonviolent refusal to abide by existing laws that perpetuate injustice with the willingness to suffer the penalties that existing laws demand.

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After all, «the state - sanctioned scarcity of legal services» is the reason for their affluence, she writes.

In our China special, we highlight the opportunities for dealmakers in the region; look at the new breed of LP; identify the growth investment opportunities in China's vast business landscape, and discuss how increased affluence is spurring demand for high - end products.

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 motivations vary by discipline, but a short list would include the largely physical pleasure of the Utilitarians, the desire for survival of the Darwinians, the incestuous sexual cravings of the Freudians, the quest for power and class domination of the Marxists, and the blind search for unlimited affluence of modern economists.

For they are disenchanted with a culture that neglects human problems while priding itself on its two achievements of technical efficiency and affluence.

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.

It takes for granted the culture of celebrity and affluence and overlooks the question of whether it is morally possible to live with integrity at any level of material comfort in our industrialized society.

He saw a land of unlimited opportunity, where one with ability could climb the corporate ladder to success and affluence, for that was his experience.

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 society.

Three times in national elections we voted for a simulacrum of the «American Century,» for a candidate who projected a sense of American superiority in the world and ethically untroubled affluence at home, willingly suspending disbelief in the possibility of such a restoration.

But we still hope we can avert war without surrendering any of our affluence or revising our desires for national power, prestige, and glory.

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.

For example there was the Roman Age, the Middle Ages, The Renaissance, The Reformation, The Revolutionary Age, Scientific Age, The Age of Non-Reason, The Age of Fragmentation, and the Age of Personal Peace and Affluence.

It is an opportunity to experiment with the biblical values of hospitality, community and celebration instead of simply settling for affluence, individualism and status.

For Sachs, Bangladeshi workers are akin to the immigrants who once worked on New York's Lower East Side, «where their migration to toil in garment factories was a step on the path to a future of urban affluence in succeeding generations.»

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 wives.

According to Peter Drucker: «On Taylor's «scientific management» rests, above all, the tremendous surge of affluence which has lifted the working masses in the developed countries well above any level recorded before, even for the well - to - do.

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.

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.

Thus they acquired a reputation for affluence and magical knowledge and, on the strength of their claim to «noble birth,» obtained the daughters of the local chieftains in marriage.

The mounting strength of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States has been a large factor, and this in turn has been due to the faithful efforts in the nineteenth century which laid the foundations for that strength and to the rise to comfort, and here and there to affluence, of Roman Catholic emigrants and their children, who, coming poverty - stricken to America, have profited by the development of the virgin resources of the land.

With the Chairperson's insatiable demand of affluence and flamboyance, she unilaterally awarded a contract to the tune of GHS3.9 million for demarcation and partitioning of the said office complex without recourse to the Commission.

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.

Spokesperson for the group Kojo Hamenya Keglo accused party officials of affluence and neglecting the grassroots supporters of the party.

With the benefit cap meaning that housing benefit will be capped at a point where for many who rely on it will have to move away, which means areas with relative affluence with sites of former counci estates, which are now being snapped up by yuppies or young professionals renting them will increase in an area — less likely to vote Labour than those who were on receipt of housing benefit.

Later back in her studio, she turned the casts into bronze sculptures for her «Artifacts of Affluence» series.

For example, if you look at the Cornell - Oxford - China Project, rural plant - based diets centered around rice were associated with relatively low risk of the so - called diseases of affluence, which include diabetes.

Their breadth and knowledge from all walks of life, combined with their affluence they are willing to share, makes them an attractive fit for anyone looking for a friend, mentor, companion, etc..

Equally, women often have similar troubles, but in a slightly different way; sometimes, when confronted with affluence and success in a man, they have the same mental reasoning block and in a subconscious effort to find and create a stable environment for their children, they will choose the man that can offer them financial stability over one that might actually be better for both then and their children in terms of their spiritual welfare.

I am not a bullet to be fired from the gun of society; into the body of consumerism and affluence, money holds no value; for the most valuable asset is a free soul.

In mourning the loss of their formerly mindless affluence, the afflicted have set up Dating a Banker Anonymous, a support group that meets for.

Gil has developed a distaste for the affluence that's been a recurring Woodman milieu and longs for the boho lifestyle of a true artiste.

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.

You can read in detail, with real data, how this works in Part 4 of my book, «Learning Matters», together with the reason for the factual link between postcode affluence and mean cognitive abiliy (that heads have always understood).

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.

in the face of rising productivity and affluence, older workers find themselves disadvantaged in their efforts to retain employment, and especially to regain employment when displaced from jobs; the setting of arbitrary age limits regardless of potential for job performance has become a common practice, and certain otherwise desirable practices may work to the disadvantage of older persons; the incidence of unemployment, especially long - term unemployment with resultant deterioration of skill, morale, and employer acceptability is, relative to the younger ages, high among older workers; their numbers are great and growing; and their employment problems grave; the existence in industries affecting commerce, of arbitrary discrimination in employment because of age, burdens commerce and the free flow of goods in commerce.

In a city of nearly a million people that is known for its affluence, renters insurance is advisable.

But over the years, with China's increasing affluence & (continued) high savings rate, an increasingly huge pool of savings has been sloshing» round looking for a home.

Interviewees saw no need for change for the sake of change; they avoid flashy displays of affluence and don't like to show off their wealth.

Parts of San Diego — Tijuana are well known for the affluence and resort communities.

Due to its affluence and ideal location for trade, Majorca was an ideal target for pirates operating in the area, most notably the Germanic Vandals - who raided the city on numerous occasions during the fall of the Western Roman Empire.

Photographer Lauren Greenfield has been documenting what she terms «the influence of affluence» for the last 25 years.

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.

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But Obama faces a reality that many of these groups seem slow to recognize: While the 20th - century toolkit preferred by traditional environmentalists — litigation, regulation and legislation — remains vital to limiting domestic pollution risks such as the oil gusher, it is a bad fit for addressing the building human influence on the climate system, which is driven now mainly by a surge in emissions mostly outside United States borders in countries aiming to propel their climb out of poverty on the same fossil fuels that generated much of our affluence.

But, as yet, there's no set of such goals for those who are already living lives that many analysts say are consuming resources at a pace well beyond the planet's carrying capacity, particularly if the habits that attend affluence — from greatly increased meat consumption to unthinking energy use and greenhouse - gas emissions — are adopted by another few billion people.

John P. Holdren, now President Obama's science adviser, wrote in «Science and Technology for Sustainable Well - Being» that when you measure human harm in years of life lost (e.g., a child cut down by disease loses decades; a grandmother dying of a stroke at 80 loses a few years), the major afflictions of poverty and affluence do us in at roughly equal rates.

2) Changes in affluence may not have any impact on the environment, if much of that affluence is just used for speculation, and this is very common.