Sentences with phrase «of affluence which»

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.

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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.

The affluence of the industrialized world, in which Bono is part of the wealthiest class, is a scandal to theological and moral understandings of global justice.

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.

Garbage, which is just the effluence of our affluence, was the perfect target.

We live in a country of enormous affluence in a world in which 1 in 6 people is chronically malnourished and in which 50,000 people die every day of poverty related causes.

It's only the middle - class affluence of southern England which has its own separate agenda.

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.

Even in an age of affluence and abundance in which round - the - clock consumerism and overspending are the norm, limits and constraints can still serve a purpose.

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.

In fact, we are becoming a nation of virtual and real gated communities in which people self - sort based on similarities in education, race, culture, and affluence.

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.

The median rent is just $ 1,361, which is quite a deal considering the affluence of the area and the proximity to New York City.

«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.

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.

But it seems evident that the target must have been, in part, the form of life in which the affluence of the Reagan years expressed itself in collecting art, in «getting in on the ground floor» through acquiring paintings that were certain to appreciate in the way that Abstract Expressionist paintings had done - so that «bad painting» was a kind of willed uglification, a refusal to be complicit in the agenda of painting - as - luxury.

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.

Ehrlich and Holdren (1972) formulated the IPAT relationship, which states, to a first approximation, that environmental impact is the product of population, affluence, and technology (I = P ∗ A ∗ T).

These authors repeatedly make the same point: that the human population, through affluence (which translates into consumption) and facilitated by technology, is damaging the natural bases of life on Earth.

This seems unfathomable given the high levels of education, affluence, and respect lawyers enjoy (or will enjoy), factors which predict happiness and job satisfaction in other areas of life.This class will present the research to date on lawyers and happiness.

The median rent is just $ 1,361, which is quite a deal considering the affluence of the area and the proximity to New York City.

Policy Term in Aviva Affluence is a period of time during which the policy is valid.