Sentences with phrase «rich societies as»

He writes that the «inner poisoning of life extends not only through poor societies but through rich societies as well.

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Silicon Valley is facing an identity crisis — once the poster child for futuristic innovation, it's increasingly seen as a bunch of rich white guys chasing money at the expense of everybody else, including their employees and society at large.

«As a society gets richer, its citizens» living standards should rise,» Lane Kenworthy, a sociology and political science professor at Harvard University, contends in a blog post.

II § 5, Mill described rent - yielding properties as enabling their holders to demand payment from society «without any exertion or sacrifice on the part of the owners... Landlords... grow richer, as it were in their sleep, without working, risking, or economizing.

To put this in context, the richest 1 % of the population received more than twice as much income from capital gains alone, as the median total income of the bottom 99 % of society (which was $ 29,300 in 2011).

We ran into one cyclical recession in the» 70's, and the Republicans seized on it as an excuse to rig government and society for the benefit of people who are already rich, while taking away opportunities from everyone else... then they crushed the unions so that workers would never be able to get back better pay and better job security, while investors make more and more and pay less and less in taxes.

People are increasingly recognized that the economy itself is far too important to be left to those who deal with it in such abstract ways and that society as a whole is too rich to be placed in the service of the market.

As we have just seen, Christian realism leads to the conclusion that violence is natural and normal to man and society, that violence is a kind of necessity imposed on governors and governed, on rich and poor.

Latest was explosions in India marked as «Islamic Jihadists» and another in Pakistan although I was surprised that it was not marked as «Hindu Jihadists»... That would have had both Great Countries confront each other serving the purpose of other competing nations over the Rich Indian Peninsular... Believe me no nation fall back unless people of her own are traitors to it's nations principals and beliefs for the reason of Hate, Envy, Revenge, or Greeds towards material wealth even if by selling their Dignity and integrity or their family, tribe, community, the nation and the country it wouldn't mean much to them... and those can be found among every level of the one Society...

Although her family was prosperous, as a descendent of slaves she was expected to make her way in society by becoming available as a «mistress» to rich white men.

As the feminine emerges, so does a much richer and more healing global society, one characterized by interrelatedness, interdependency, synergistic mutual enhancement, persuasion, and so forth.

Perhaps the Occupy Movement will bring us to the point where we once again as a society decide we want to uphold the rule of law, not just for the petty crimes of the poor, but also the high crimes of the rich and their politician puppets like Blair.

God the Creator we know as the power which binds the surging variety of life into richer and wider societies of mutual enjoyment and support.

Clashes within the family or the work situation that cause resentment, hard feelings and then severance; anonymity and rootlessness in an overcrowded but lonely world; uncertainty as to the future and even as to whether there will be a future — these elements in our society rob many of what ought to be the rich satisfactions of living.

The poor do not exist as a problem to be solved, or to provoke the guilt of the rich, or to provide a rationale for Great Society, welfare - state legislation.

In Christian preaching, and quite properly so, we more often hear of its moral aspect: Jesus came especially to the poor and the despised, to the margins of society, and he died as a criminal; and today, too, we are more likely to find him visible on comparable margins than among the rich, the powerful, and the respected.

As might be expected in a society in which white Anglo - Saxon Protestants are slow to recognize their own ethnicity, the first, and still the best, ethnographies of congregations are Samuel Heilman's study of an orthodox synagogue and Melvin Williams's description of a black Pentecostal church.71 Heilman and Williams conclusively demonstrate the power of even small, marginal congregations to generate among themselves a rich symbolic communication that gives each its meaning and cohesion.

We are forced to conclude that, as in Solomon's day, Yahwists believed that the power, prestige, wealth and apparent security of the crown and the nation were bought at a price too dear — widening economic disparity between rich and poor, the ruthless exploitation of society's weaker members, a deepening acquisitiveness and an inevitably accompanying disregard of the justice and righteousness of Yahweh, the meaning of covenant, and the true practice of the Yahweh cult.

Though advertised as progress for all, computer programs, data bases, specialized videocassettes and a wide assortment of information services are, in fact, separating society into the information - rich and the information - poor.

A society in which married couples are expected to be faithful to their marital vows «for better or worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health» is a society that assumes all people, regardless of class, can experience marriage as a «school of love»» no matter what economic hardships may confront them.

In a community the idea of the common good takes on a far richer meaning than in a society understood as founded only on a compact and made up of atomic individuals.

So far as we know, human society is the utmost cosmic adventure toward creation of richer integration with the possibility of richer human experience.

After a rich discussion of the interweaving of coercive and persuasive factors in society, Whitehead summarizes his position as follows:

As the rich accumulated wealth, they saw it as their duty and responsibility to give this wealth back to society in the form of music, arts, schools, hospitals, and other such humanitarian workAs the rich accumulated wealth, they saw it as their duty and responsibility to give this wealth back to society in the form of music, arts, schools, hospitals, and other such humanitarian workas their duty and responsibility to give this wealth back to society in the form of music, arts, schools, hospitals, and other such humanitarian works.

^ Shouldn't our government at least look to tackle this by legislation, the gap between the richest and poorest is growing so as a society we could stand up to those mega rich and just say no!

Society seems to be saying that such an abhorrent crime as rape should be shunned and held in contempt rather than be rewarded with the riches and fame that football brings.

Basic techniques in oil painting are widely available on the internet as tutorials (You Tube is great for these), you can buy DVD's and your local art society would be a rich source of advice and support.

The Canadian Government recommends meat and other iron - rich foods as baby's first foods and base this recommendation on a joint commission to examine evidence - based feeding practices which included the Canadian Pediatric Society, Dieticians of Canada, and the Breastfeeding Committee for Canada.

As the Lancet Breastfeeding Series stressed in January this year, breastfeeding improves health outcomes for babies and mothers in rich and poor countries alike (read our summary), as well as benefiting society and the economy as a wholAs the Lancet Breastfeeding Series stressed in January this year, breastfeeding improves health outcomes for babies and mothers in rich and poor countries alike (read our summary), as well as benefiting society and the economy as a wholas well as benefiting society and the economy as a wholas benefiting society and the economy as a wholas a whole.

When my parents got married if was not acceptable in either society, while not as bad these days I imagine that in China as a guai lo you may experience this to some degree but just ignore it and think of the rich cultural heritage you are giving to your daughter.

Not only have measures of well - being and happiness ceased to rise with economic growth but, as affluent societies have grown richer, there have been long - term rises in rates of anxiety, depression, and numerous other social problems.

The problems in rich societies such as most of those in Europe is not, heretical as this is to say, caused by these societies somehow not being wealthy enough (and therefore requiring more GDP growth, and the associated promotion and veneration of «wealth creators» and establishing ideological divisions within society between «shirkers and strivers» etc.).

However, in our view, this is not an ideal example as we favour Basic Income based on tax reform which would represent distribution of wealth from the very rich to the other members of the society, which is not the case with Alaska.)

The free market is presented as the best way of organizing economic life — but it can only function well against a background of equal personal and property rights that protect all members of society, from the very rich to the very poor.

As a compassionate society we must be willing to invest in and help those who have long - term challenges and who truly are incapable of helping themselves — not giving handouts to the rich and famous in Hollywood.»

George Osborne is to help the very richest as well as the poorest in society in his third Budget later.

On its website the Alliance party describes its aims as being «to build a Northern Irish society devoid of segregation, sectarianism and prejudice where everyone - Catholic or Protestant, black or white, local or immigrant, rich or poor, young or old - can live their live the way they want, free from fear».

If you are prepared to be unpopular you could accomplish an awful lot for the benefit of the people you represent, so I would hope to reduce the prison population and reduce the gap between rich and poor, as it seems that the smaller the gap the fewer of society's ills trouble everybody.

A stronger, richer, more dynamic society as a result.

The coalition is expanding its pupil premium, as part of a bid to narrow educational attainment between the richest and poorest in society.

Owen Smith has pledged to impose a special wealth tax on the richest in society as he outlined a left - wing manifesto aimed at seizing the Labour leadership from Jeremy Corbyn.

I think glibness, I think ideologically based rhetoric, I think trying to divide up society between the haves and have — nots and mobilise the middle ground against the rich is as unacceptable as we have from elsewhere in the political spectrum trying to mobilise the middle ground against what they call welfare scroungers but are actually poor people who have little and want more.

As the Fabian Society's Tim Horton has noted, while the richest 10 per cent pay # 1 in every # 25 in VAT, the poorest 10 per cent pay # 1 in every # 7.

The deputy prime minister said it was right there should be a «time - limited contribution» from the richest in society as Osborne draws up plans for an extra # 10bn in welfare cuts by 2016.

The intervention by Clegg, who is calling for a «time limited contribution» from the richest in society beyond the party's current policy for a mansion tax, came as the deputy prime minister marked his return to Britain after a two - week family holiday in Spain.

Similarly as a society can be evaluated not just for being rich but also for being egalitarian, a forest can be evaluated for its structural complexity — in addition to other, more customary, properties like its biomass and growth.

Dust - rich disks around baby stars can grow huge but don't last as long as previously thought, according to reports here 26 May at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society.

There is simply no very reliable way to project fertility, and in particular the rapidity of the «demographic transition» whereby people tend to opt for lower fertility as the societies they participate in get richer.

The result of these combined trends is that rich societies are becoming more secular but the world as a whole is becoming more religious.»

The proper way to take in minerals is through mineral - rich water; through nutrient - dense foods and beverages; through mineral - rich bone broths in which all of the macrominerals — sodium, chloride, calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium and sulphur — are available in ready - to - use ionized form as a true electrolyte solution; through the use of unrefined sea salt; and by adding small amounts of fine clay or mud as a supplement to water or food, a practice found in many traditional societies throughout the world.