Sentences with phrase «of vast numbers of people»

The Dóchas EU Presidency Project will be working to ensure that the post-MDG framework does not simply articulate an extension of current practice, but rather captures an inclusive, sustainable and just set of solutions to some of the biggest global challenges that are facing mankind: economic inequality, social instability, environmental degradation, resource scarcity, climate chaos and political exclusion of vast numbers of people.

But we also need to act on the vested interests that squeeze the living standards of vast numbers of people across the country.

Despite shedding some classical features, such as service in citizen militias or the exclusion of vast numbers of people from citizenship, neo-republicans profoundly share with the classical tradition its emphasis on the tight interconnection between good citizens, good norms and good laws and institutions.

Not exact matches

«But for whatever reason the vast number of people say [of sales], «Well that's not a respectable job.

Far from an economic powerhouse, China's economy remains a middleweight when its vast number of poor people is taken into account — the country's per capita GDP is only around US$ 4,500, 1 / 10th that of the U.S. And as a share of the economy, household incomes have actually declined over the past decade.

These platforms have made it easier than ever for anyone with a message to reach vast numbers of people directly, rather than going through a traditional intermediary like a TV network or newspaper.

As John Herrman at The Awl described so thoroughly in a recent piece he wrote about the disintermediation of journalism by the web and social media, one of the biggest shifts in media of the past decade has been the ability for anyone — journalist or not — to pick up a phone and share information with vast numbers of people.

Given the vast numbers of people who use Facebook daily, and the similarly large numbers of users who get a lot of their news there, it's incumbent on Zuckerberg to be part of the conversation around how to fix the «fake news» problem.

If current activists view online support as an asset, rather than with resentment because it is different from «traditional» methods, they can mobilize vast numbers of people.

«There is a vast number of people out there, particularly with the levels of information that are available today, who are able to understand risk, who are able to make sensible decisions, who may not be fabulously wealthy but should be able to get much wealthier.

The vast numbers of young people coming into adulthood mean an unprecedented talent pool to create and innovate.

According to the bank, the impact of the global economic downturn could be felt for decades by the vast number of people who raided their...

but in attempting to make that large number seem problematic, you actually both defeated your other argument (about its irrelevance and lack of pervasiveness) while also unintentionally pointing out the very opposite of the point you were attempting to make — the primary unity underlying a vast & varied swath of people.

And yet over the course of writing my blog, I have found that vast numbers of people struggle with fear, guilt, shame, and all sorts of terrible thoughts about God and others, and as I have learned more, I find that many of these feelings come from a faulty view of God.

If only I had that level of ruthlessness and charisma to lie to vast numbers of people so elegantly and strip them of their money!

Because of this, I feel deep sorrow that on one hand, vast numbers of people around the world consider it confusing at best, and at worst, intolerant and violent.

In contrast, traditional Catholic churches serve vast numbers of people who have little or nothing in common, and they are often impersonal «supermarkets for the sacraments,» as some liberation theologians call them.

We've all heard the ancient, nonsensical hypothesis about the all knowing, all merciful, all loving god, who seems to find joy in destroying cities, killing vast numbers of people by floods, fire from the sky, plagues and pestilence.

The vast majority, some 900,000 persons, are of African - American heritage, while the number of white and Hispanic converts is estimated at 75,000.

the vast numbers of people killed were victims of their own countrymen, who welcomed an excuse to perpetrate an act that they obviously already wanted to do.

Safe and secure in their rights, they poured vast numbers of talented and gifted people into the Massachusetts Bay area.

In more recent times, as translations have been muhiplied, they have been read by vast numbers of people.

Because the vast numbers of Christian do NOT want to have authority to run other peoples lives.

Still, plans are under way for creating the necessary vehicles and artificial environments for space travel and residence, vast resources of intelligence and materials are being expended on research and development in the field of space technology, and increasing numbers of able young people are being educated for future work in this field.

NP said: «There are vast numbers of people like them, like me, who desire community that respects and embraces a spiritual component but entirely free of manipulation, control, exploitation, expectations and confined thought and belief.

The sensitive thinking man is probably aware of this, but he may be quite unaware that for vast numbers of people the capacity for awe, wonder and humility has been exhausted or numbed by the bewildering advance of modern knowledge.

Vast numbers of people think that the fact of a relatively settled order of nature, along with the scientific interpretation of change and the description of the inner dynamics of human personality (and much else as well), has ruled out once and for all genuine novelty and made change nothing more than the reshuffling of bits of matter - in - motion.

And so likewise among the Bactrians and Huns and Persians, and the rest of the Indians, and among Persarmenians and Greeks and Elamites, and throughout the whole land of Persia, there is an infinite number of Churches with bishops, and a vast multitude of Christian people, and they have many martyrs and recluses leading a monastic life.

But considering the vast number of churches that do not acknowledge the problem, it seems that most denominational bodies and local congregations are in denial — the primary symptom of a dysfunctional person, organization or system — even though one substance - abusing minister can sicken, dishearten and dispirit an entire church just as one alcoholic can infect an entire household.

But on the whole, the American scholarly scene is one of frenetic decadence, with the publication of vast numbers of articles and books which fewer and fewer people read.

In 1978 he wrote about Christ Without Myth: «The newer theological developments of the past decade, especially the emergence of the various theologians of liberation, compelled the conclusion that the most urgent theological problem today, at any rate for the vast number of persons who still do not share in the benefits of modernity, is a problem more of action and justice than of belief and truth.

We've moved on, even if a vast number of people wish that were not so.

We are surrounded by a world in which vast numbers of people go to bed hungry and where many children come into the world unwanted and without the most minimal opportunities for love and development.

And yet there are vast numbers of Christians who believe that God commands people to slaughter others, that God drowned people in a flood, and that God is the one who killed His own Son on the cross to appease His own wrath and anger against human sin.

Perhaps one could call it a simplification of and variation on the English class - system which had a hereditary monarchy on top, followed in descending succession by clearly demarked classifications of nobility, a complex church hierarchy, a landed gentry, a rising merchant class, simple yeomen, and vast numbers of unfranchised people who fitted none of those categories.

For vast numbers of Israelites, this «failure» continues to this very day, as it does for the majority of people on earth.

Conservatives make a big deal about abortion but do next to nothing about starvation (1000s die a day), car and road safety, drug and alcohol abuse, gun safety, drug safety, food safety, water safety, preventable disease, etc. all of which kill vast numbers of people.

He said: «Along that two and a half hour drive there were people lined up the whole way except for about 10 kilometres - otherwise it was people sitting on the side of the road, sometimes with large, vast numbers of people sitting there.

Vic, Marriage is a word that has been used by generations of people to describe a vast number of arrangements.

In addition, he showed that if the FWL problem is tackled in a correct manner (in storage equipment and training for farmers in this case), then even a modest amount of money can bring about a huge change to a vast number of people.

About 400,000 jobs are directly created in food industries and the number gets bigger when people working in its vast distribution networks and supply of raw materials are taken into account.

Health conscious people have likely visited health food or vitamin stores and felt overwhelmed by the vast number of supplements on the market.

But currently vast numbers of people live in highrise apartments particularly in Europe and Asia.

Perfectly healthy girls and boys as young as four worry about being fat while a vast number of people in our country overeat to the point of morbid obesity.

Despite the vast number of people who have subscribed to campaign e-mails in the last cycle there are still millions of potential e-mails that campaigns can obtain.

By next spring, I suspect that the big Obamacare story will be the vast numbers of people who've signed up, despite today's technical problems.

«For 10 years the vast majority of people have seen no increase in their standard of living at all, while a relatively small number of people have become incredibly rich.

Despite a well educated population (with a median age of 24), the country had not created enough jobs for the vast number of young people obtaining secondary and college degrees, particularly in the interior and western parts of the country.

As the Obama campaign found, online fundraising also lets a campaign tap the vast number of politically interested people who can't donate hundreds or thousands of dollars at time but whose smaller donations can add up to a princely sum.

@Bobson According to this site, there are about 5000 first names and 150 thousand last names in the US: howmanyofme.com So assuming 150 million possible full names (which is a vast overestimate), the expected number of people with matching names, birthdays, and last four of social is 18: www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=101000000*%281-%28%281-1%2F%28365*10000*150000000%29%29%5E%28101000000-1%29%29%29.