Sentences with phrase «only wealthy societies»

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Dr. Cobb examines wealth and how the wealthy gain control not only of the economy but also of society and government.

«Most wealthy congregations are only thinking of themselves and give little money to missions; meanwhile, international mission societies are curtailing their budgets for Japan.»

Coontz misstates the historical record to give the impression that marriage has typically not been a province of law and only became such in an effort to preserve the narrow interests of certain powerful sects of society: wealthy parents in requiring parental consent, Catholic authoritarians in proscribing divorce, and Southern racists in preventing miscegenation.

While Reno is correct that it is «unhealthy for our society when cultural power becomes too concentrated in just a few very wealthy institutions,» using the state's tax power to attack «institutional giganticism» in the name of «philanthropic subsidiarity» as he proposes would only open the way for government to control, and even destroy, such institutions.

Last year, the think - tank Policy Network revealed that modern British society is a «5-75-20 society» where only the 5 % constitutes the comfortable and wealthy elite, the 20 % is rather poor and often socially excluded, and the 75 % majority can be labelled as «the new insecure» ones.

So presumably, the less wealthy, after being told what to spend their money on by «society» for all their working years, reach pensionable age fully moulded by a paternalistic government into financially responsible citizens who will commit a significant amount of their time to research where they want to invest their pensions, and subsequently enjoy «regular updates on how their pension fund was growing» — because of course, like house prices, pension funds can only rise in value.

If only a few wealthy companies control how Americans communicate with each other, it will be harder for people to talk among ourselves about the kind of society we want to build.

I worry that if we, as a society, don't figure out how to make this happen, the diversity of points of view we find in the books and articles we read will slowly shrink, until we're left with a situation where we only have the points of view of people wealthy enough not to need the money and people so over the top invested in sharing their ideas that they don't care about money at all.

Only societies that are wiling to destroy wealth are willing to deny power to the wealthy.

What we do know is that the game follows a low - class protagonist named Charlie who lives in a society that only the wealthy can enjoy.

(Aside: «depopulation» is hardly the only way to cope with settlement trends; for a society as wealthy as we are, preparedness — much, much more extensive preparedness — is another way.)

Breakthrough is also right that the centralized model is the only thing that has powered a wealthy industrialized society to date.

I am sure that the radical environmentalists view the current CPP as only the first step towards their fantasy «renewable» society with astronomical prices for electric power, regardless of the consequences for the rest of us, particularly the less wealthy among us.

Material consumption has only just begun to peak in the wealthiest societies.