Sentences with phrase «richest society on»

In terms of per capita income, Hongkong is now the sixth - richest society on earth.

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In our 17th annual report on the richest people in Canada, we celebrate both the upper - crust establishment figures who dominate the society pages and the self - starters who built their empires from scratch (and are busily dismantling the ones that came before).

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.

«In societies where there is a greater disparity between the richest and the poorest, that causes lower levels of economic wellbeing amongst the whole childhood population, both those on lower incomes and those on higher incomes.

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.

But in present American society, etiquette rites are much more elaborate among the young and the poor (for example, in the dress codes, precedence systems, gestures of greeting, and modes of address in urban street gangs) than among the rich, who have increasingly abandoned the very aspects of etiquette that are of vital concern on the streets.

For the rich had given the example and set society on the acquisitive path.

This is very far from being a new analysis: Family and Youth Concern, still battling away, was doing pioneering work over 30 years ago (for which its founder, Valerie Riches, was deservedly made a papal dame), pointing out how disastrous for society the undermining of the traditional family based on marriage - not least by successive governments - really was.

But if they live in a rich society, they depend in fact on the existence of those economic mechanisms, technical rigors, and open or hidden violences that form the warp of that society.

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.

Marxism postulates that rich people just get richer until society crashes down on them.

While capitalistic globalization confers many advantages to the owners of capital and the local elites of both rich and poor countries, with the availability of more consumer goods and their participation in the TNC - led businesses, it has gravely harmful effects on the poorer sections of almost all societies.

This field, it is widely believed, has advanced sufficiently to permit meaningful predictions of the impact of population changes on the social and economic development of both rich and poor societies.

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.

On the one side was a stratified society, with a few rich and many poor, with private property in land and water, with money, trade, and credit and the inequalities and tyrannies incident to a commercialized regime — all this under the ægis of the baals.

The rich dictate much of what happens in our society and culture, but to now let the rich and powerful dictate what happens on Sunday morning is beyond gospel betrayal.

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.

Religion, according to Jung, can help us balance the overpowering influence of objective «reason» and external reality by keeping us in touch with the rich, nonrational side of reality, and giving us a point of reference that transcends society and all the statistical generalizations on which scientific rationalism focuses.

But it must be realized that although the long history of Islam has bequeathed to modern times a rich legacy, no society can meet the needs of our times by drawing on its inner resources alone.

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.

We must focus on the politics of redistribution to close the gap between society's rich and poor #LabourHustings pic.twitter.com/feJhVNz 4Ky

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 wide disbursement of capital can not only help to correct the undue political influence of giant corporations and the rich, but it can also create a society in which there are more Amy's Pup - in - the - Tubs and more people have enough to make their own way in the world without being dependent simply on labor income or constrained by the circumstances of birth.

«Carbon offsetting is used by rich societies to carry on polluting but without the guilt.

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».

Osborne's autumn statement measures represent an attack on the fringes of society: the poorest and richest are paying the price.

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.

Taken together, Osborne's autumn statement measures represent an attack on the fringes of society: the poorest and richest are paying the price.

Clegg's tax proposal, which calls for a «time - limited contribution» from the richest in society beyond the party's current policy for a mansion tax on properties worth more than # 2m, came in an interview following his return to Britain after a two - week family holiday in Spain.

Amidst all the talk of «going for growth», Lib Dem «hate taxes on the rich», and difficult decisions for Ministers having to reduce their budgets, there is one large, flabby area of government which has been insufficiently tackled, but which could be cut down to size easily, popularly, and with huge benefits for society: the equalities sector.

Hungry humpbacks travel thousands of kilometers to feast on a rich buffet of tiny crustaceans called krill, researchers reported here this week at the biennial meeting of the Society for Marine Mammalogy.

«Even if people think objectively and follow rules of statistical inference, richer and poorer people may be led, by the information available to them, to very different conclusions about how wealthy their fellow citizens are, on average, and how wealth is distributed across society.»

THE latest show of togetherness from the world's seven richest nations focused attention on «the information society».

Graphite - epoxy optical systems: Lessons learned on the way to Mars M. A. Ravine, E. A. Derby, G. E. Danielson, M. C. Malin, J. Richer, T. A. Soulanile, and A. R. Telkamp Proceedings of SPIE International Society for Optical Engineering 5179, 311, doi: 10.1117 / 12.507967, 18 December 2003.

According to a new study, the results of which were presented at The Endocrine Society's 93rd Annual Meeting in Boston on June 12, even a modest reduction in carbohydrate - rich foods can promote loss of the deep belly fat (intra-abdominal fat) that's been linked to type 2 diabetes, stroke and heart disease.

For example, flaxseeds contain 3 grams of carbs per tablespoon (all of which are fiber), and may reduce hot flashes in menopausal women.2 Pruthi, S. et al. «Pilot Evaluation of Flaxseed For The Management of Hot Flashes,» Journal of the Society for Integrative Oncology 5 (3)(2007):... continue While flaxseed is primarily rich in fatty acids (4 grams per tablespoon), and has a small amount of protein (2 grams per tablespoon), many on low carb diets skip it in favor of fatty acid sources that contain no fiber at all (coconut oil or butter).

Miscellaneous Farmers Market Society — Information about all of Vancouver's farmers market — a great way to eat locally and seasonally World's Healthiest Foods — Nutrient - rich, whole food recipes and nutrition information ND Sat Dharam Kaur's resource for healthy breasts Pre-eminent US organization working on toxins, health, and the environment

Younger women dating successful, rich older men has been going on in society for decades.

Commenting on the findings, Match's Scientific Advisor Dr. Justin Garcia said: «Today's society is full of rich gender and sexual diversity, however relatively little is known about the dating experiences of LGBTQ people.

SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE — June 12 — The Money Talks PR stunt of the week goes to... the Society of Single Professionals for a speech by dating expert Rich Gosse, the Marin PR guy who you may remember ran for governor on the singles platform.

Society in the past has tended to look down on younger men dating rich women but times are changing and more and more things are becoming acceptable.

A romantic comedy about lazy rich people on holiday in Italy in the 1930s, it stars Helen Hunt as a gold - digging woman «of a certain age» who's stalking a young married couple — for third - act catharsis reasons you can see coming — and causing snippy, gossipy society people to make snippy, gossipy comments.

Sketching Keith's inner conflicts and practical struggles with a graceful, mood - rich lyricism, Porterfield presses gently but painfully on some of the most inflamed and sensitive parts of American society.

In conclusion, there are melodramatic spells, as well as some focal unevenness, spawned from hurrying past certain plot aspects that really aren't all that needed in the first place, being not much more than supplements to the rather repetitious bloating that makes this overambitious effort too overblown for its own good, though not to the point of completely dismissing its engagement value, as there is enough sharpness to the production designs, cinematography and score work to provide striking style, as well as enough story value, brought to life by inspired writing, direction and acting, - particularly by leading lady Halle Berry - to make «Alex Haley's Queen» a rewarding near - epic study on the struggles faced by the mulattoes who struggled to fit into a post-slavery society that was rich with racial tension and plenty of other life challenges.

Spencer Tracy is a hardcase newspaper editor being sued for libel (he «s guilty), Myrna Loy is the society gal suing him, Walter Connolly is her rich father, William Powell is the newsman Casanova trying to get the goods on Myrna, and Harlow is Tracy's long - suffering fiancé, who marries Powell (Harlow's real - life inamorata) as part of the plot.

The Online Film Critics Society's Governing Committee said, «This year's nominations and films recognised represent the rich variety of films on the global stage in 2016.

This year's Cinderella story,» Slumdog Millionaire», a «rag to riches film based on the life of a young slumdweller of Mumbai, has won the best cinematography award from the National Society of Film Critics, US.

When the Boxtrolls are targeted by villainous pest exterminator Archibald Snatcher, who is bent on eradicating them as his ticket to Cheesebridge society, the kindhearted band of tinkerers must turn to their adopted charge and adventurous rich girl Winnie to bridge two worlds amidst the winds of change — and cheese.

When the Boxtrolls are targeted by villainous pest exterminator Archibald Snatcher (Mr. Kingsley), who is bent on eradicating them as his ticket to Cheesebridge society, the kindhearted band of tinkerers must turn to their adopted charge and adventurous rich girl Winnie (Ms. Fanning) to bridge two worlds amidst the winds of change — and cheese.»