Sentences with phrase «of economic despair»
«Whole communities and cities have been brought back from the brink of economic despair because of successful brownfields redevelopment projects.»
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The Motor City has epitomized both America's past industrial dominance and the despair of economic decline.
Given the attitudes of middle - class people, the economic structures of society, the way political power is exercised, and the despair of the adults around them.
It can create social unrest and economic despair leading to many forms of destructive behavior.
But it is also held that globalization has brought in its wake, great inequities, mass impoverishment and despair, that it has fractured society along the existing fault lines of class, gender and community, while almost irreversibly widening the gap between rich and poor nations, that it has caused the flow of currencies across international borders, which has been responsible for financial and economic crises in many countries and regions, including the current Asian financial crisis, that it has enriched a small minority of persons and corporations within nations and within the international system, marginalizing and violating the basic human rights of millions of workers, peasants and farmers and indigenous communities.
Salvation works in the struggle for economic justice against the exploitation of people by people; in the struggle for human dignity against the political oppression of human beings; in the struggle for solidarity against the alienation of person from person; and in the struggle of hope against despair in personal life.
Those who take comfort in evangelical dogmas are fleeing what Hedges terms our «Culture of Despair» ¯ the social and economic conditions of modern industrialized America.
A great many different motives may lead to an action of this kind; indeed in cases where it is an act of despair, performed in circumstances of extreme human or economic destitution and misery, the guilt may often lie rather with the community than with the individual.
The statement urged Nigerians not to despair but rekindle their hope in the future as the PDP is now repositioned to regain power in 2019 and return the nation to the path of good governance, social stability and economic growth, for which it is generally known.
«Both north and south of the border, lives have been destroyed and millions left in despair thanks to the failed economic dogma of neoliberalism and austerity.
Javier Bardem leads a sublime cast that embodies the despair of economic abandonment with dignity, humor and solidarity.
Just like that, director David Mackenzie establishes, first, the idea that the men in that blue Camaro are up to no good; second, the current of economic desperation driving screenwriter Taylor Sheridan's story; and third, the religious posturing that offers an alternative to existential despair, with roadside churches, TV evangelists, and Christian radio offering a relentless white - noise stream of piety on demand to an American underclass with nowhere left to turn.
On one side, there are people like New York University professor / former Deputy U.S. Education Secretary Diane Ravitch who argue that larger social ills such as poverty, joblessness, economic despair and lack of health coverage negatively affect educational achievement, and that until those problems are addressed, schools will never be able to produce the results we want.
Those of us, including several contributors to this blog, who continue to argue that an underlying cause of so much economic and ecologic despair is population growth, coupled with economic growth, are ignored, especially by economists.
... Enter the prophets of climate despair, who wave away all this analysis and declare that the only way to limit carbon emissions is to bring an end to economic growth.