Sentences with phrase «of affluence from»

Have you consciously rejected signs of affluence from your life?

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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.»

«The hotel business will be a huge beneficiary of rising global affluence and tourism, especially from China,» said Gray, who is also the chairman of global hotel business Hilton Worldwide.

With the growing affluence generated by the Industrial Revolution, however, came the gradual rise of the welfare state, a safety net woven from myriad programs offering cash and services to anyone who was poor, disabled or involuntarily unemployed.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is the jewel of Parkland, graduating top - notch students and athletes who grow up in a dignified affluence far removed from the gritty urban sprawl of Miami.

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.

When those fundamental values are translated into concrete moral choice, the resulting norm may in fact differ from one historical situation to another — from the premonarchic agricultural setting in Israel to the affluence of the eighth century to the period of Hellenistic or Roman domination to today's secularized society.

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.

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.

[c] onversion, instead of being a vertical movement toward God, a genuine renewal of life, has become a horizontal movement of groups of people from one community to another, very often backed by economic affluence, organizational strength and technological power.

In Europe itself, the forces of secularization, allied with economic affluence, have made dramatic progress in alienating the popular mind from the Christian origins of Western culture.

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.

Participants who successfully complete all three courses: Nutrition Fundamentals, Diseases of Affluence, and Principles in Practice, in this program receive a Certificate in Plant - Based Nutrition from the T. Colin Campbell Foundation and eCornell.

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 lifestyle.

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..

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.

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.

The data show that the percentage of teachers who live in their own districts varies a great deal — from 8 percent to 55 percent in this sample — and tends to increase with the affluence of the district.

I've taught in three states from urban to rural settings, and from deep poverty to an area of high affluence.

Zones of comparative affluence spread out from there in concentric circles, exactly matched by the mean intake CATs scores of the secondary schools located in those zones.

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.

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.

He came from the part of the Kingdom that had not shared the affluence of the petroleum deposits, and where old ways still continued.

Remember, taming one of the breed from the list of the expensive dog in the world will uphold you affluence and successful life and will segregate you from the mass.

On explaining the rationale behind the creation of the show, Serge and Sarah comment: «Today we are seeing a radical shift of affluence and power from traditional luxury customers to the Creative Class.

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

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.

Often illuminated by flashes of searchlights, Ruscha's paintings of common objects and urban night scenes evoke atmospheres culled from Hollywood movies, casting a dark shadow on American myths of affluence and success.

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The imagery, culled from pornography, mail order catalogues, society pages, interior design magazines and the cesspools of the world wide web creates a cosmology of affluence and power, where human beings function largely as decorative elements.

Regarding overpopulation, Washington and Cook refer to Paul Ehrlich's book form 1968 «The Population Bomb», and states that the impact from overpopulation is the product of population × affluence × technology.

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.

Last year, I wrote about how John Holdren of Harvard University came up with roughly similar losses in years of life from the afflictions attending affluence and poverty.

Reaching a goal of zero net deforestation will require reducing the pressures to deforest that come from population growth, rising affluence, the construction of ethanol distilleries and biodiesel refineries, and the fast - growing use of paper.

Reaching a goal of zero net deforestation will require reducing the pressures that come from population growth, rising affluence, growing biofuel consumption, and the fast - growing use of paper and wood products.

Arguing that preservation requires something «qualitatively different from limiting our contamination of nature,» Nordhaus and Shellenberger contend that, as Americans, we must collectively sacrifice our standard of living to reverse the inevitable, a seemingly impossible but necessary task in a nation plagued by affluence envy and credit card debt.

Then there's Brazil, where the infrastructure to produce ethanol from sugar cane has transformed a formerly poor part of the country into one of relative sufficiency if not affluence — and decreased pollution and petroleum dependence.

Archaeological excavations have yielded thicker cultural layers from periods of prosperity; correspondingly, modern waste - generation rates can be correlated to various indicators of affluence, including gross domestic product (GDP) / cap, energy consumption / cap,, and private final consumption / cap (Bingemer and Crutzen, 1987; Richards, 1989; Rathje et al., 1992; Mertins et al., 1999; US EPA, 1999; Nakicenovic et al., 2000; Bogner and Matthews, 2003; OECD, 2004).

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Still, the method does not give an indication of the magnitude of the economic transition (eg, moving from affluence to poverty may have greater consequences than moving from relative poverty to poverty).