Sentences with phrase «of class conflict»

While the current exhibition of British folk art at Tate Britain politely avoids the issue of class conflict and appears more like a jolly country fête, this exhibition shows with force and clarity how subversive folk art can be.
Grounded in Gerwig's hometown Sacramento, California (also seen in another NYFF hit Griffin Dunne's bio-doc of his aunt Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold), Lady Bird flies through familiar hurdles of wrong boys, mean girls and BFF betrayal with amusing twists and sensitive portrayals of class conflict.
But as it stands, one of the greatest causes of class conflict is the party tribalism linked with our current two - party system.
The New Deal did not, in their estimate, constitute the hardest step in bringing about a socialized economic system; the idealistic weekly was sidestepping the crucial issues of class conflict and the factor of coercion in effecting social justice.
Many liberation theologians have largely accepted a Marxian interpretation of class conflict and the causes of poverty.
However, to criticize liberalism he used Marxism's organic view of society, its theory of class conflict, its insights into social injustice, its intuition of judgment and disaster, and its sense for the duplicity of man.

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Finally, portraying the debate as a conflict between wealthy tax dodgers and the hard working middle class was divisive and appeared hypocritical when it was later suggested that both the Prime Minister and Minister of Finance had themselves benefited from tax planning measures.
«The official Opposition will call on the ethics commissioner to investigate a possible conflict of interest... after a document released to the media indicated Air Canada's CEO and executive vice-president Duncan Dee apparently upgraded Raitt's flight from economy to business class — almost a $ 550 value — for free on Sept. 25....
The conflict: Detroit moviegoer Joshua Thompson filed a class - action lawsuit against theatre giant AMC last month, accusing the chain of price - gouging customers on popcorn and other snacks.
T shares, a class of mutual fund shares, generally would pay advisers a uniform commission, thereby mitigating advisory conflicts otherwise associated with variation in commission levels across different mutual funds.
«We are seeing that our focus on the middle class, by putting more money in the pockets of hard working families, and giving less advantages to the wealthiest, is growing the economy,» Trudeau said, as he also attempted to distract the media horde from his finance minister's loose interpretation of what constitutes a conflict of interest.
The strongest argument against dual class stock rests on conflict of interest grounds.
Another good example of a dual class transaction that fails to raise conflict of interest concerns is subsequent issuance of lesser - voting rights shares.
In some dual class recapitalizations, management has essentially the same conflict of interest.
In addition to this general concern, a distinct source of potential conflict between managers» self - interest and the best interests of the shareholders arises in dual class recapitalizations.
[1] Dual class transactions motivated by their anti-takeover effects, like all takeover defenses, pose an obvious potential for conflicts of interest.
Obama cited statistics released the same day in the White House's new report from his Council of Economic Advisers which show that conflicts likely lead, on average, to 1 percentage point lower annual returns on retirement savings as well as $ 17 billion of losses every year for working and middle - class families.
According to Bullard, «the DOL has laid out in detail written documentation examples of material conflicts of interest and the firm's program for mitigating them, which is a virtual roadmap — and also an evidentiary motherlode for bringing both arbitration claims and class actions against firms.»
Greenlight discussed its plan privately with GM for a number of months but went public after the board dismissed the plan citing a number of concerns, including valuation uncertainty, the potential to jeopardize GM's investment grade credit rating, a lack of established market demand and governance conflicts associated with a dual - class structure.
Canadian telecoms company Telus» (TSE: T) plans to end its dual - class share structure could be a «potential conflict of interest» for certain executives, according to a Canadian business academic.
«We will see how this case plays out, but the red flags to me at least, are (i) the potential unfair treatment of one class of shareholders to the benefit of another; and (ii) the potential conflict of interest by the Telus board and certain executives.
Conflicts of interest likely lead, on average, to 1 percentage point lower annual returns on the retirement savings of middle - class families, according to a recent report by the White House Council of Economic Advisers (CEA).
In addition, conflicts of interest are cited as leading to $ 17 billion of losses every year for working and middle class families.
Unsealed documents related to a class - action lawsuit filed on April 29 against Facebook's board allege that director Marc Andreessen had conflicts of interest related to the company's plan to create a new class of stock.
Even so committed an anti-Communist (and non-Marxist) as Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. took class conflict as self - evident, and in The Vital Center (1949) and elsewhere he depicted the central theme of American politics as the struggle for power between the business community and all other social groups.
Berry IS a kind of a institutionalized culture conflict: A residential campus run and paid for Chick - fil - A is the source of something like 120 of the students in our classes.
The appearance of many states with conflicts among their national bourgeoisie serves only to paper over the reality of a worldwide class struggle.
If instead the devil is your surety (and he is no doubt the promoter of conflict, strife, invidiousness, and class warfare), there will be no credit.
From this persistent fact of cultural conservatism arise the most serious problems of social conflict, including the bitter strife of races, classes, sects, and nations.
What form does pastoral care take in a parish bleeding from internal conflicts about life and ministry in a neighborhood undergoing rapid changes in matters of race, age, economic class and sexual orientation?
As radical Islam so clearly shows, the global future we face involves conflicts of conviction, not race, class, or gender.
Printing ushered in the Reformation and with it religious plurality and the differentiation of consciousness reflecting competing and conflicting classes and other interests (all struggling for the right to tell stories from their own points of view) in the same society.
I don't think that it is a matter of having a belief that includes «a bit of Yoga here, a Zen idea there, a quote from Taoism and a Kabbalah class, a bit of Sufism and maybe some Feing Shui,» it is a matter of believing that they do not have to conflict.
This violent process is permeating the relations among international and political powers, social classes and cultural groups, national and ethic groups, and caste and religious communities, making it making it very hard to bring about peaceful resolution of conflicts and disputes among the struggling parties, and eroding the foundations of peaceful life.
Human affliction, especially the monstrous inhumanity of man to man, was to them a practical, rather than a theoretical, problem; it represented not only a conflict of ideas but a conflict of individual and class interests, a struggle for justice in personal character or social organization against selfishness, ill will, and inequity.
India's multiple languages - the Indian constitution recognizes twenty - two - and religions, together with great inequalities of caste and class, ensured a wide potential for conflict.
While the soldiers of the radicals» class conflict changed from proletarians to people of color and victims of gender bias, the structure of the radical paradigm was maintained: the division of society into the «people» and those identified as the «enemies of the people,» into «us» and «them» — the prescription for cultural and political war.
The radical paradigm that informs the new racism is a melodrama of social domination and political liberation: domination by an oppressing class, liberation through civil conflict.
But non-evangelical working - class whites also have conflicted feelings about the size of government.
Although churches have never fully lived up to this ideal and have often sadly departed from it, the Christian gospel has always been a rebuke to race prejudice, national or class conflict, and every other form of man - made division.
Some of their findings are as follows: class struggle is an objective situation of oppression and conflict starting with the existence of social classes.
So Mr. George Henry Soule says of the Puritan revolution in the sixteenth century: «The conflict of religious ideas was indeed important, but it was important not so much because of the abstract significance of these ideas as because they represented the mechanism of attack and defense between economic and social classes who were struggling for power.»
The translation of economic class struggle into terms of religious conflict is a familiar phenomenon in history.
Though class conflict and rural / urban divides are not one and the same (there are people of all classes in small towns and in cities), their overlap exposes profound class and cultural divisions in America.
The antagonistic classes are collective expressions of the conflicting forces of the self - system.
In particular, the determining factor in the evolution of society is the class struggle — the inevitable conflict between the exploiters and the exploited, the capitalists who own the tools of production and the workers who use them.
Unlike all previous social revolutions, the communist revolution abolishes the class conflict at the heart of the economic substructure and thereby obviates future revolutions.
Representative thinkers of the conflict model are Dahrendorf, Rolf, Class and Class Conflict in Industrial Society (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1959); Coser, conflict model are Dahrendorf, Rolf, Class and Class Conflict in Industrial Society (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1959); Coser, Conflict in Industrial Society (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1959); Coser, Lewis A.
Best - in - class education on emotional intelligence, conflict resolution, strategic planning, and influence with diplomacy is part of the curriculum to ensure our leaders are prepared for today and tomorrow's industry challenges.
who would of guest City would make an offer of 60 million in the summer for Sanchez with only a year left on his contract, i'm guessing we could get an offer of around 30 million from City in January so he wont be persuaded by the likes of PSG with a signing on fee in the summer, but who knows what goes in the mind of Alexis or what kind of injuries some big clubs could have from now until January for them to make ridiculous offers to a world class player with no CL conflict of interest, lets say Real Madrid loses Ronaldo, Bale, Karim to long term injury you bet they will come ceiling with baring gifts for Sanchez's services or even Barca with Messi or Suarez
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