Sentences with phrase «of social disintegration»

The terms «high bottom» and «low bottom» refer, as has been suggested, to the degree of social disintegration that has occurred by the time the person «hits bottom» or becomes open to help.

Moreover, conspiracy theories — themselves symptomatic of social disintegration and incipient fascism — have exfoliated at both ends of the political spectrum, gaining credence among wide sectors of the population.

The personal histories of the fathers and sons are miniatures of the larger black - white confrontation in South Africa, the pattern of social disintegration and the hope for its moral restoration.

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With massive and increasing structural deficits; exploding debt in all sectors; hostile demographics; social and political fracturing and disintegration; grotesque wealth inequality; extraordinary global trade competition; a complete collapse of respect for vital government organizations such as the Justice Department and FBI, which the people now realize have gone rogue; an extremely complex and corrosive global geopolitical environment; the real prospect of war, potentially nuclear and worldwide; not to mention numerous additional factors, we can only point to few other times in history more dangerous to the people's financial welfare, and therefore more overall bullish for gold, one of the only financial sanctuaries proven to work in times of dislocation.

Between the failed dream of communism and the rising dream of peace, plenty and personal liberty lies a world reeling dangerously between false idols and social disintegration.

The greater freedom we enjoy in Western society has created an environment where the misuses of freedom have produced social disintegration.

But parabolic hiddenness is what predominates, I believe, in the stories of the fathers and sons, and because Paton has shown the reader through dramatic personal growth the pattern of disintegration and restoration, he has created an extended metaphor of the experience of coming to belief in the workings of the gracious transcendent in both personal and social realities.

Economic globalisation is widely acknowledged to be the major cause of poverty, social disintegration and environmental degradation over the past decades.

Homosexuality «is being used as the stalking - horse of all the current social fears concerning the disintegration of moral And social structures.

If the world continues to accept disappearing tree - cover, land degradation, the expansion of deserts, the loss of plant and animal species, air and water pollution, and the changing chemistry of the atmosphere it will also have to accept economic decline and social disintegration... such disintegration would bring human suffering on a scale that has no precedent...» 7

Good manners express and help to conserve sound social values; bad manners manifest social decay and hasten the disintegration of civilization.

But Patterson's position highlights the need for African - Americans to struggle against forces of disintegration personal as well as social, internal as well as external to the African - American community.

The decade of the «30s saw the gradual disintegration of the social - gospel synthesis.

Exemplifying this phase of millenarian formation is book I of I Enoch, which, by an appropriation of the myth of Genesis 6:3 — 4, attributes the disintegration of the current social order to the birth of giants who «consumed the produce of all the people until the people detested feeding them.

If, for example, we are dealing with a juvenile delinquent, at what point are we to see this fourteen - year - old boy as responsible in spite of the social misery and disorder or family disintegration in which his life may be lived?

When, for example, Jeremiah, thrown back on God amid the social disintegration of his time, entered into a trustful reliance on Yahweh — «my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction» (Jeremiah 16:19)-- he was unwittingly blazing a trail toward faith in immortality.

Such a tendency has always existed within the church, but in the challenge for individuals to develop self - discipline, to exercise personal sacrifice, and to perform social or community service, the church has always offered a supportive, affirmative group within which these characteristics can be sought without total loss of personal worth or personal disintegration.

They can not readily adapt themselves to a social pattern that is in such a condition of disintegration.

Because of this and the fact that, unlike Gamma alcoholism, social disintegration tends to occur subtly and gradually, the Delta alcoholic is often able to hide his problem for many years.

This may be because fertility rate usually serves as proxy for the degree of social integration and a decline in fertility can be interpreted as an increase in social disintegration and exclusion;

Illegal immigration and the racism attendant to it, social groups morphing into organized hate groups, the disintegration of traditional bonds, organized crime, white slavery — all of it is tossed into a loud, anxious bundle and presented as a confused overview of the hell of modern life.

One hopes, however, that their voices, and others like theirs, aren't lost to a Brexit - era Britain with more than its own share of crippling social damage, disintegration and prejudice to ponder: there are many English Honeys and Three Billboards Outside Ebbsfleets demanding to be made, and the UK industry can ill afford to export all its anger.

This is the way to combat the violence that increasingly contributes to the social disintegration of the world in which we live.

Helping students to cultivate dense networks of social relationships better equips them to handle life's challenges and is particularly vital given the disintegration of many social structures today.

It hasn't succeeded because it takes a village to overcome the challenges of poverty and social disintegration.

«Before the Fall: German and Austrian Art of the 1930s is an exhibition devoted to the development of the arts in Germany and Austria during a decade marked by economic crisis, political disintegration, and social chaos.

On March 8, 2018, Neue Galerie New York will present «Before the Fall: German and Austrian Art of the 1930s,» an exhibition devoted to the development of the arts in Germany and Austria during a decade marked by economic crisis, political disintegration, and social chaos.

builds on signs of disintegration resulting from social and personal conflicts.

«The objectives of democide include the disintegration of the political and social institutions of culture, language, national feelings, religion, and the economic existence of national groups; the destruction of the personal security, liberty, health, dignity; and even the lives of the individuals belonging to such groups.

Bachelor of Arts (Maîtrise)-- University Studies Diploma, English Department, 2004 — 2005 Thesis: Social Disintegration in Achebé's Things Fall Apart.