Sentences with phrase «sacrifice your standard of living in»

Then, you won't have to sacrifice your standard of living in retirement.

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Self - important simpletons commonly hate anyone that isn't bound to the «moral» standards of verses such as Leviticus 20:13 which commands putting people to death that are not within the primitive social norms of living in caves and sacrificing goats and children and owning slaves.

«It is wholly untenable to have millions of people making sacrifices in their living standards, only to see the banks getting away scot - free.»

As the quality of life is so often defined in terms of material living standards and national income per person, it might seem paradoxical to claim that environmental restrictions on economic growth need not involve sacrificing our quality of life.

A Romanian - born journalist with no training in ecological matters, he secured a Canada Council of the Arts grant to write The Conserver Solution (1978), a treatise that argued technological and policy innovations could lead to an improved environment without sacrificing our high standard of living.

Arguing that preservation requires something «qualitatively different from limiting our contamination of nature,» Nordhaus and Shellenberger contend that, as Americans, we must collectively sacrifice our standard of living to reverse the inevitable, a seemingly impossible but necessary task in a nation plagued by affluence envy and credit card debt.

A 2003 report commissioned by Greenpeace — «Energy Rich Japan — Full renewable energy supply of Japan» — claimed that Japan could make a full «transition to clean, renewable energy without any sacrifice in living standards or industrial capacity».

I have an idea, we could save perhaps even in the $ $ kazillions from mitigating global warming and reducing GHGs down by 80 % (at least down to 70 % without any sacrifice or lowering of productivity or living standards), and use that for adaptation:)

A Medicare enrollee can struggle financially to pay for those bills, which can harm their standard of living, and they will start to have to make sacrifices in other areas of their life to pay for the health care that they need to stay happy and healthy for years to come.

Shifting from single family to multifamily housing involves a sacrifice in terms of living standards.