Sentences with phrase «of economic desperation»

The term was coined by economist Milton Friedman who, in 1969, likened the idea to dropping money from a helicopter, an act of economic desperation if there ever was one.

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.

He's the bastard son of capitalism, the American Dream gone sour in our time of economic desperation.

«When a father sells his daughter, he's doing so out of economic desperation,» «the father is going this out if concern for his family, and Israel's laws provided a safety net for it's very poorest.»

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When O'Neil first started to see Olympic medals showing up at coin shows, she didn't know it at the time but it was a byproduct of Soviet bloc economic desperation.

They play it much harder in the tall trade, says Halberstam, because, while we may think of our sports stars as heroes, «the new American athlete, particularly the modern American professional basketball player... was rarely confident about anything save his own sport... he was more often than not black, often came from pathetic economic and psychological circumstances, was a basketball player out of desperation....

For over twenty years the outsourcing of migration controls has meant that European publics have been protected from the practical reality of forced displacement and economic desperation that is now showing up on holiday beaches.

But as anxiety mounts - even as a swath of California farmland has been left fallow and extremist groups worldwide exploit the desperation of people losing livelihoods to desertification - many are finding new routes to water security with key implications for food access, economic resilience, and climate change.

CDHR, therefore, called on the «government to rise to the occasion and tackle the social and economic conditions that created the desperation of the Nigerian people to seek better lives outside the shores of this country.»

It somehow becomes about the relationships between these characters against the backdrop of 2008 New Orleans, the national economic collapse, the depression and desperation of a city, and the hope the 2008 election of Barack Obama could bring.

In what has accidentally turned out to be perhaps the first new release to actually tap into the economic and emotional desperation of our times, this ray of sunshine painstakingly shows us how these young Albuquerque - based sisters wound up cleaning other people's guts off the floor.

«Fear Factor left behind the rule book in E.L. Katz's ultra-violent parody on American economic desperation that mixes murky morality with a heavy twist of sadism.

This economic crash, and the desperation of people on both sides of the crash to adapt to these chaotic new times, is the focus of 99 Homes, the latest from director Ramin Bahrani (Man Push Cart, Chop Shop).

As such films as Beasts of the Southern Wild expressed and exploited, when depicting children there's a fine line between free spirit and lost soul, and it can occasionally register as simplistic to use kiddie innocence to prop up a story of genuine economic desperation.

More than anything, the lopsided success of Givling — low daily revenues and a long funding queue — highlights the desperation felt by many borrowers and the need for new policy measures to address the long term economic burden of student loans.

The process of picking a boat is assisted by the desperation of dealers due to the poor economic system.

An obvious starting point would be his series «Merchant Posters» (2006 — 09): collages made from signs he found on telegraph poles, boarded - up shop fronts and fenced - off empty lots, which speak both of entrepreneurial spirit and economic desperation.

Enacting a dramatic narrative in the style of a soap opera or telenovela, Linzy's multiple personae express desperation, desire, and ambition in the vernacular of southern blacks from the lower socio - economic spectrum.

Those focused both on humanitarian relief efforts, often a military mission, and on combating rising instances of extremism (which are often fueled by economic desperation or inability to access shelter, food, and water) are now very concerned about the impact of climate change disruptions on global stability.