Sentences with phrase «of economic misery»

In the early 1980s it was not yet obvious how neoliberals would make use of the economic crisis in impoverished communities — and the argument that school failure was the leading cause of economic misery — to make their case for a radical transformation and privatization of public education.

What's strangely missing from this social picture is any image of the economic misery that made Dillinger a folk hero.

This was the start of a lively to - and - fro from backbenchers, who enjoy nothing more than a good dose of economic misery.

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Your current misery makes economic sense according to professor Angus Deaton, one of the study's co-author.

And as to the comfort the gospel speaks of, it seems that Christianity ought no longer to be the comforter of the poor and the afflicted, because, forsooth, «if you comfort them you divert them from seeking material, concrete means for ending their misery; if they are comforted by faith, they will not set to work to solve the economic problems.»

Gregory found in Nathan's example a powerful model of how to proceed in a teaching ministry of pastoral care to the rich, who may be blind to their own pride and power and unaware of their own collusion with economic misery.

The elite domination, continuing misery of the poor, rise of religious fundamentalism, impact of new economic policies, ecological crisis, and so on.

In them we find clearly articulated such themes as the importance of the communidades de base («grass - roots «Christian groups); Jesus as the liberator from hunger, misery, oppression and ignorance; the refusal to separate Christian sanctification from «temporal» tasks; challenges to capitalism (as well as to Marxism); the theory of «dependency» on inhuman economic systems; the need for liberation from neocolonialism; the need for «conscienticization»; the need for the church to support the downtrodden; the correlation of peace and justice; and the reality of «institutionalized violence.»

Still further, Hartshorne points out that our loveless physics and biology have produced in our time loveless politics and economics, with the results that we have seen the revival of human cruelty on an unprecedented scale and the adoption of callous economic policies which leave the alleviation of human miseries to the automatic functioning of the «market.

The facts about these societies - facts about massive terror, repression, and economic misery, and, need it be said, about the persecution of Christians» were systematically ignored, denied, or explained away.

Lifting the wretched of the earth out of their misery will require a combination of thoroughgoing economic and political reforms in the poor countries and substantial aid from the developed countries.

For two decades, liberation theologians blamed Latin American misery on «capitalist methods» such as markets, private property, and profits, and they looked for economic salvation by way of a «socialist» strategy of «basic needs.»

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.

It is a history of defeat, national humiliation, economic misery, and the tangle of social pathologies for which the Weimar period has come to stand.

The Olympics is actually an even longer - running story than Britain's economic woes - even though it's now been four years since the financial crisis of 2008 triggered the unending misery which continues to this day.

By the same token, 2011 promises to be a year of social and economic misery, as the coalition's cuts and the heaviest costs of the bankers» crisis are loaded on to the poorest under the slogan «we're all in this together».

The story of the last Parliament was the Tory - led government crushing a nascent economic recovery and condemning the country to five years of misery through austerity — but successfully convincing the public that it was all Labour's fault.

Education will enable refugees to lift themselves out of poverty and misery and, eventually, obtain the means to participate fully in the host communities as well as to contribute to national economic development and, upon return, to the development of their own countries.

That time appears to be now as economic misery in European nations like Greece and Italy intensifies along with risks of a double dip recession for some countries.

But to be honest, I felt like the only parts of the exhibition reserved for postcolonial critique were Gordon Bennett's cutting sketches of the oppression of Australian Aboriginals (Notepad Drawings, 1992), or Gaganendranath Tagore's depiction of colonial economic misery in British India (1917 - 30)-- both now historic works, and both framed drawings.

Portraying a Nation: Germany 1919 — 1933 brings together two artists whose works document the glamour and misery of the Weimar Republic, a time of radical extremes and political and economic upheaval.

What they are doing is they are making a lot of money for some very rich farmers and causing death and misery at the other end of the economic spectrum.