Sentences with phrase «people of affluence»

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What we meant to model was the sending of one of our number to be a foreign missionary — to learn a new language, to understand a local culture, to sacrifice the amenities of affluence and to live knowing that he or she is always being watched by seekers — while the rest of us stay here as lifetime local missionaries, learning to speak the language of the unchurched, understanding secular culture, sacrificing the amenities of affluence and living as a «watched» person in a society that is skeptical of Christian spirituality until it sees the real thing on display.

The paralyzing effect of affluence takes its toll on middle - and upper - class people.

What is making this ideal so appealing to people in a time of such conspicuous affluence?

By downsizing their expectations of material affluence, people are able to discover and invest in what really matters to them, whether that is family, relationships, community involvement, environmental responsibility or a new, more satisfying kind of work.

[c] onversion, instead of being a vertical movement toward God, a genuine renewal of life, has become a horizontal movement of groups of people from one community to another, very often backed by economic affluence, organizational strength and technological power.

As for the common people, their economic status doubtless limited the size of their households and, as among all polygamous peoples, any rise in affluence was accompanied by an increase of wives.

If by some way humanity were able to reduce the environmental impact of all its technologies by 10 per cent and there were no increase in per - person affluence, world population growth would return the collective impact of humans to the previous level in about five years.

«There is a growing affluence among people and they are becoming increasingly aware of the importance of good health and choice of nutrition.»

We live in a country of enormous affluence in a world in which 1 in 6 people is chronically malnourished and in which 50,000 people die every day of poverty related causes.

According to one chronicle written a century after Genghis's birth, there were more than 20,000 people of his lineage «living in the comfort of wealth and affluence.»

It is widely believed that a nation's metal use plateaus when that country's gross domestic product (GDP) reaches a threshold of $ 15,000 per person; with rising affluence, the theory goes, nations achieve a new level of resource efficiency.

As we have seen with other diseases of affluence, when people migrate from areas of the world where disease incidence is low to areas of the world where disease incidence is high, they quickly adopt the high incidence rates as they change their diet and lifestyle.

Because of the existing social circles and affluence rich people are akin to, their desired partner will need to fit a certain mould in order to fit in and be accepted.

A.O. Scott, among many others, has written about how the film might turn some people off because of the relative affluence of its main characters, whose «rich people» problems are sure to be the envy of some viewers.

Part of the fun is seeing people of wealth and affluence acting like petulant children.

In fact, we are becoming a nation of virtual and real gated communities in which people self - sort based on similarities in education, race, culture, and affluence.

Slavery, job discrimination and redlining, which took away the ability of black people to establish equity in a home, had much more to do with creating affluence for white people and giving them the ability to choose.

in the face of rising productivity and affluence, older workers find themselves disadvantaged in their efforts to retain employment, and especially to regain employment when displaced from jobs; the setting of arbitrary age limits regardless of potential for job performance has become a common practice, and certain otherwise desirable practices may work to the disadvantage of older persons; the incidence of unemployment, especially long - term unemployment with resultant deterioration of skill, morale, and employer acceptability is, relative to the younger ages, high among older workers; their numbers are great and growing; and their employment problems grave; the existence in industries affecting commerce, of arbitrary discrimination in employment because of age, burdens commerce and the free flow of goods in commerce.

In a city of nearly a million people that is known for its affluence, renters insurance is advisable.

«People are now starting to view their pets as a family member, rather than just an animal, which generally remains outside of the house,» Jetley says, attributing this shift in attitudes to increased exposure to global trends and a growing affluence that allows people to spend more on theirPeople are now starting to view their pets as a family member, rather than just an animal, which generally remains outside of the house,» Jetley says, attributing this shift in attitudes to increased exposure to global trends and a growing affluence that allows people to spend more on theirpeople to spend more on their pets.

After the rapid expansion of people and affluence that has occurred since 1800, we should have at least the good sense to sit down and weigh the costs and benefits of continuing on the same path.

But, as yet, there's no set of such goals for those who are already living lives that many analysts say are consuming resources at a pace well beyond the planet's carrying capacity, particularly if the habits that attend affluence — from greatly increased meat consumption to unthinking energy use and greenhouse - gas emissions — are adopted by another few billion people.

[T] he main actors are parents changing population, workers changing affluence, consumers changing the diet (more or less calories, more or less meat) and also the portion of crops entering the food supply (corn can fuel people or cars), and farmers changing the crop production per hectare of cropland (yield).

At any given level of technology, there is a trade - off between how many people can be born into a society and the level of per capita physical affluence that can be sustainably supported.

CO2 emissions are the product of «population» (number of people or consumers) times «material affluence» (GDP per person or per capita GDP) times «carbon intensity of the economy» (tons of CO2 emitted per GPD generated).

The farmers market is therefore a market where people of the necessary affluence are brought together with farmers where they pay more for food in return for better taste.

People are willfully uninformed and latching onto anything — climate denial, left wing conspiracies — that will justify and help perpetuate their current rate of consumption and affluence.

In face of impending environmental and social catastrophe, says Steffen, «all over the world, groups of people with graduate degrees, affluence, decades of work experience, varieties of advanced training and technological capacities beyond the imagining of our great - grandparents are coming together, looking into the face of apocalypse... and deciding to start a seed exchange or a kids clothing swap.»

In a city of nearly a million people that is known for its affluence, renters insurance is advisable.

Some have said this is a function of the affluence found in the city, others suggest it has more to do with the people themselves.

Aviva Affluence Premium and gains are ways of investment for the life insured person.

It is widely believed that a nation's metal use plateaus when that country's gross domestic product (GDP) reaches a threshold of $ 15,000 per person; with rising affluence, the theory goes, nations...

At the urban neighbourhood level, liveability can be seen in the demeanour of people, the affluence expressed through cars and clothes, and through the quality of neighbourhood retail and restaurants.