Sentences with phrase «of social ills»

Saying that we can not expect significant progress in schools until we first address a host of social ills outside of school is a recipe for inaction.

Students are more pliable in earlier grades, and such an early focus on character education could resolve many of the social ills evident in our middle and high schools.

A great number of social ills of our times can be laid at the door of capitalism and nationalism, and at the door of the church for failing to teach how to be critiques of capitalism and nationalism.

Since its founding in 1985, the Bradley Foundation has been at the epicenter of reactionary policies, including welfare reform, opposition to affirmative action, and claims that «moral poverty,» rather than structural inequity, is the source of social ills in poor urban communities.

And the second half makes the case that until a wide variety of social ills are addressed, it is unreasonable to expect much improvement from the traditional public - school system.

More than 40 years ago, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan — at that time, a member of President Lyndon Johnson & rsquo; s White House staff — wrote poignantly of the social ills stemming from the decline of marriage in the black community.

More than 40 years ago, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan — at that time, a member of President Lyndon Johnson's White House staff — wrote poignantly of the social ills stemming from the decline of marriage in the black community.

Turn on the news of an evening or pick up a newspaper and we are assaulted by the plethora of social ills that afflict our society.

The issue, then, is this: most contemporary analyses of sin begin with the personal, and transfer it to the social, but individual analysis seems hard - pressed to account for the gravity of social ills confronting us.

But Sunday also was aware of the social ills of his day.

Nevertheless, one of the most profound changes which has taken place among certain segments of the Protestant ministry in the last century has been the growth of concern for analysis of society and the reform of social ills.

For assistance in diagnosis of social ills and in finding remedies, many clergymen turned avidly to the new field of social science.

They were the largest group that was «othered» and hated across Europe and other places, thus were blamed for all kinds of social ills.

«The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) underscore the imperative for our collective will towards finding enduring and sustainable solutions to addressing global disparities,» he told the Assembly's annual General Debate on its opening day, referring to the 2030 Agenda that seeks to eliminate poverty, hunger and a host of social ills within the next 14 years.

Will it be a true exposé of the social ills affecting the community concerned, or just a rambling lamentation of how the world could be better?

You'll be asking the same upon experiencing this intense, caustic little microcosm of social ills examining humanity's failings as a group of passengers are mercilessly terrorized by two young thugs one commonplace night on a New York subway.

King said, «I have never felt that demonstrations could actually solve the problem, they call attention to the problem, they dramatize the existence of social ills that could be very easily ignored if you did not have demonstrations, and the initial reaction to demonstrations is always negative... certainly no one would blame the physician for using his instruments and his skills and his knowhow to reveal (any condition) to a patient.»

Thus, for example, disparities in suspension rates by race are seen as prima facie evidence of discrimination rather than symptoms of social ills that strike some groups in America harder than others.

Featuring a wide array of works by 80 artists, «One Year of Resistance» explores the multitude of social ills spotlighted over the previous twelve months, ranging from issues of persistent racism and xenophobia to the rise of the #metoo movement against sexual harassment.

In this provocative new book, Clive Hamilton argues that, far from being the answer to our problems, growth fetishism and the marketing society lie at the heart of our social ills.

«She has a very compassionate view of the social ills that beset the state right now and how the courts impact them,» McDonough said.

A lot of social ills that happen from having a workplace accident.»

On top of this, millennials are probably the most scrutinized generation, blamed for dozens of social ills like the death of marriage, the death of the housing market, the death of chain restaurant, the death of loyalty and a host of other things.

At the same time, the host of social ills besieging children in this country, from homelessness to domestic violence to HIV to child neglect and abuse, place unprecedented pressures on schools to, in essence, become surrogate guardians for many children.

Rich founders are being profiled as eligible bachelors in the New York Times, young people increasingly claim they aspire to be entrepreneurs and the entrepreneurial mindset is being hailed as the cure for many of the social ills that ail us.

Pervasive colonial narratives of our culture as lost, less or even worse, the cause of our social ills, is something that I feel compelled to contest.

Since 1991, Erika Rothenberg has employed the form and generic sentimentality of the greeting card as a means of examining a vast range of social ills and political injustices.

«Donna Leon has written almost three dozen novels in this series, combining vivid descriptions of Venice, Brunetti's appetite, and a wide variety of social ills.

You can't just justify some of the social ills and say God is okay with those actions.

Living a life worth living would solve so many of our social ills that legal prohibitions don't begin to to cure.

Conservatives have won the economic arguments, he says, and on the cultural front they have done a fine job of showing how the decline of the traditional, two - parent family is linked to a host of social ills.

Bullying — the use of dominance to create harm — is at the root of many of our social ills, and is one of the main vehicles for perpetuating trauma.

In his interview he surprisingly suggests that Margaret Thatcher's period as Prime Minister was responsible for some of the social ills that still blight many parts of the country.

Family breakdown is a great driver, for example, of social ills.

HORN: Father absence may not be the sole cause of each of these social ills — but it certainly makes each one worse.