Sentences with phrase «of social breakdown»

Take some of her recent parts: the colonial survivor, tenacious in the face of social breakdown in Claire Denis's White Material (09); a flamboyant fantasist in Marc Fitoussi's frothy comedy Copacabana (10); the uncomprehending, vulnerable daughter of elderly parents in Michael Haneke's Amour (12); a comically lascivious Mother Superior in Guillaume Nicloux's Diderot adaptation The Nun (13); a bored married woman pondering an affair in a softer comedy, the recent French release Paris Follies (Fitoussi again, 14).

Andrew Selous, Shadow Minister for Family Welfare and Child Support, looks at ways that the costs of social breakdown can be assuaged by pro-family policies.

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If a society actually loses faith in its medium of exchange, a general breakdown of trust and social cohesion often ensues.

Now that we've outluned our goals clearly, it's important to develop a breakdown of activities for each social platform you plan to engage on.

A litany of social research backs up his remarks, Kenney added, pointing to a 1960s study by former U.S. senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan that warned about the consequences of the breakdown of the African - American family.

Fortunately, Pew provides a demographic breakdown of exactly who is using these social networking sites and how often.

Many have pointed to a long - term catastrophic financial breakdown of the program, and while the worst fears of Social Security disappearing entirely are overblown, the odds of some reduction in benefits in are rising.

Here's a breakdown of the most - liked people on Facebook, according to social media tracking firm Fan Page List, counting down from number 10.

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Thucydides, in one of the most brilliant passages of his history of the war, described the breakdown of social order as follows:

When government then attempts to respond to the social problems caused by the breakdown of private intermediary institutions, its new programs invariably weaken traditional structures further and make matters in some important respects worse.

``... a new culture is foreshadowed in the turbulence and spiritual confusion of [our] times... our certainty of imminent change is based... upon the worldwide breakdown of established social order and traditional culture;... nowhere more marked or more disastrous than within that civilisation... that goes by the name of Christendom.»

This is the more notable because Ezekiel was the advocate of a restored church state on Zion, and was one of the most effective forces in reestablishing the social structure whose breakdown had encouraged individualism.

Melanie Phillips pointed out that she had been writing for more than two decades «on the various elements that have contributed to this collapse of order: family breakdown and mass fatherlessness; educational collapse which damages most those at the bottom of the social heap» and so on.

Mostly brought on by our long love affair with economic development without adequate attention to anything else, there are everywhere signs of ecological and social breakdown.

While the mainline has a great deal to say about the social - structural evils that afflict children, it sidesteps the impact of family breakdown on child well - being and has very little to say about the responsibilities that parents have to their children.

Underlying this practice was the assumption that poverty and need were due to a breakdown in the equitable distribution of community resources or to a social status over which an individual had no control (widows, orphans).

Not surprising, then, that drawing connections between geographic mobility and social challenges» environmental destruction, the socioeconomic decline of Middle America, the breakdown of the family, declining civic participation» can be regarded as a form of treachery.

However, most of the cases of undeserved suffering come mixed, with individual human choices, social forces, and physical factors all combined — as in war, poverty, premature or violent death, disease, mental breakdowns, and the like.

Nor did most of us perceive how, all around us, the social environment was being transformed by a sudden breakdown in traditional norms governing sexual behavior and a sharp rise in family disruption.

As Geifman notes, Russia's «urban populace swelled from around 9 million people in the mid-19th century to about 25 million in 1913, with inhabitants of most major Russian cities increasing four - or five-fold,» leading to a «breakdown of social values.»

The breakdown of the Egyptian empire and the circumstances contributory to the capture of Babylon by Cyrus, besides hosts of incidents from those days to the present, show that organized religion, strange as it appears, can be no less an obstacle to social and political advance than the reactionary policies of vested political or economic interests.

«Why is it that our popular established religions are so shaken in the face of the visible problems of our civilization: drugs, war, crime, social injustice, the breakdown of the family, the sexual revolution?

With the rise in the religiously - unaffiliated, and the broader breakdown of the family, it could be argued that churches have more pressing concerns than the effects of social polarization and isolation.

While each of St Benedict's twelve steps of humility (which are listed below) have a strong message of their own, the second step in particular is quite a striking one, being of great importance in today's society which is so full of consumerism, family breakdowns, celebrity culture, social media, vanity and many other problems and challenges.

William Oddie convincingly draws out some of the social effects of this breakdown.

It was just in this period that, as Nathan Glazer put it in The Limits of Social Policy, we witnessed «the breakdown of traditional ways of handling distress,» ways that «are located in the family primarily, but also in the ethnic group, the neighborhood, the church.»

Glazer, like many other observers, believes that in our mostly well - intentioned efforts to deal with the breakdown of these structures, «our social policies are weakening them further and making matters in some important respects worse.»

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The most remarkable aspect about this reaction is that the Moynihan report itself took great pains to identify white bigotry as the fundamental cause of the breakdown of the black family: «There is a considerable body of evidence,» says the report, «to support the conclusion that Negro social structure, in particular the Negro family, battered and harassed by discrimination, injustice, and uprooting, is in the deepest trouble.»

In response to Thomas Frank's What's the Matter with Kansas, they argue that it is middle American families who most acutely reap the consequences of our cultural breakdown» and this explains their inclination toward the social conservatism of the Republicans.

Finally, we have learned that prevention of mental and emotional problems must include concern for the economic, social, and environmental problems which trouble entire communities and form the foundation for specific instances of mental illness and breakdown.

Rajan Gurukkal of the Social Sciences department of the Mahatma Gandhi University in Kerala gives his reasons why the leaders of counter-culture who are anticipating «a total breakdown of the market - friendly dimension of development in the wake of micro-movements which they see as part of the process of global transformation» are too optimistic and are likely to be disappointed.

Not only is he or she the means by which we receive news of breakdowns in our social organisation; he or she is also the guarantor of the system despite these breakdowns.

[9] According to Richard Niebuhr, the Wesley brothers, founders of the Wesleyan movement, replaced the concept of the Reign of God with the symbol of heaven and saw sin as laxity and individual vice, not as oppression or social breakdown.

If so, what are the social consequences resulting from the breakdown of traditional families that were previously defined by marriage?

Everyone is familiar with the list of social maladies believed to be at the root of violent criminal behavior: poverty, discrimination, family breakdown, narcotics, gangs and easy access to deadly weapons.

The economic, social and emotional cost of family breakdown makes the case clear for investment in relationship support.

In my opinion, what these articles fail to explain is that infidelity is ultimately a result of the breakdown of social concepts of honor and family.

Commenting on the figures, Dominic Grieve, the Conservative shadow justice secretary, said: «The surge in female violence - fuelled by binge - drinking - is a damning indictment of this government's track record in addressing both crime and social breakdown.»

It was this error, O'Grady believes, that led eventually to the «breakdown of the social contract, the subsequent Winter of Discontent and the Thatcherite counter-revolution.»

politics Julie Germany, which has put together a terrific state - by - state breakdown of state officials» social media presences.

I am also hugely grateful to the Centre for Social Justice for its analytical work, which has opened up the whole debate on the impact of family breakdown on society

However, Iain was making very strong points about social breakdown, which is something he's been working on every since and is doing work on that now for us — it's right at the heart of our plans.»

The party's social justice taskforce, led by former Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith, says family breakdown is a major cause of drug and alcohol addiction, crime and the failure of many individuals to fulfil their potential in jobs or education.

They found evidence of anti-social behaviour on the part of homeless people, with high incidences of drug and alcohol abuse, mental health problems, violent behaviour, familial breakdown, negative social networks, unemployment and dependency on benefits, begging, sex work and crime.

A breakdown of the anticipated costs for the campaign advertising is as follows: - Poster advertising # 751,612.69 - TV and video on demand (VOD) # 1,730,387.70 - Social media advertising # 354,000 - Digital display advertising and Pay per click (PPC) # 520,000 - Newspaper / magazine advertising # 250,000 - Radio # 299,826

Third, the unprecedented numbers of people fleeing conflict, persecution, human rights abuses, social breakdown and climate disasters.

The Conservatives have attacked Labour for trying to legislate their way out of gun and gang violence, rather than focusing on the social breakdown that can underpin disorder.

I still think crime and social breakdown should be at the heart of our election strategy.