Sentences with phrase «social breakdown»

The bigger problems of social breakdown and family crisis are much more complicated and difficult to handle.

He is now used as a general commentator on social breakdown with media organisations using him to respond to stories that only have a loose political dimension.

... looking at social breakdown and thinking, are we reinforcing responsibility between citizens?

Throwing money at problems is, in many cases, a stupid waste unless we also address the real social breakdowns and needs driving the issues in our health care system.

In short, he is a sinner, perhaps a typical sinner for our time, in which social breakdown and dysfunctionality have become the defining note of many young people's lives.

However, Iain was making very strong points about social breakdown, which is something he's been working on every since and is doing work on that now for us — it's right at the heart of our plans.»

The three years of Gordon Brown's premiership were not happy ones for the Labour Party or the country with economic and social breakdown besetting them at every turn.

By displacing people from their homes and exacerbating food shortages, climate change will cause social breakdown and mass migration.

«The Bill implements an apparently simple solution to a complex set of problems — attaching new conditions to social security payments and taking over family budgets to combat child abuse and truancy generally, and prolonged joblessness and social breakdown in remote communities.

Andrew Selous, Shadow Minister for Family Welfare and Child Support, looks at ways that the costs of social breakdown can be assuaged by pro-family policies.

Political aspirants blame present political leaders for unemployment, inflation, social breakdown.

Mostly brought on by our long love affair with economic development without adequate attention to anything else, there are everywhere signs of ecological and social breakdown.

A return to primordial loyalties in the face of cultural and social breakdown can be defensive, based more on fear than joyous reaffirmation.

It is no accident that we in the West face the social breakdowns represented by drug abuse, murder, unethical business practices, family breakups and homelessness.

[9] According to Richard Niebuhr, the Wesley brothers, founders of the Wesleyan movement, replaced the concept of the Reign of God with the symbol of heaven and saw sin as laxity and individual vice, not as oppression or social breakdown.

Commenting on the figures, Dominic Grieve, the Conservative shadow justice secretary, said: «The surge in female violence - fuelled by binge - drinking - is a damning indictment of this government's track record in addressing both crime and social breakdown.»

Well, you get all these other problems: immigration, crime, social breakdown,» he said.

Today's report, which will be followed up by a full study published next summer, acknowledges the role poverty, bad housing, unemployment, debt and drug and alcohol addiction play in social breakdown, but argues families are also vital.

Third, the unprecedented numbers of people fleeing conflict, persecution, human rights abuses, social breakdown and climate disasters.

The Conservatives have attacked Labour for trying to legislate their way out of gun and gang violence, rather than focusing on the social breakdown that can underpin disorder.

I still think crime and social breakdown should be at the heart of our election strategy.

But the former party leader, who beat Mr Clarke to the job in 2001, believes wedded couples help stem the tide of social breakdown.

We all need to remember that Brown may be winning plaudits for his response to the economic crisis but the next election will be decided on a wide range of issues - immigration, crime, social breakdown and a powerful sense of it being «a time for a change».

But the former revolutionary turned scientist recently came to a surprising conclusion about how best to bring back grasslands and in the process help address poverty and social breakdown in some of the poorest corners of the planet.

Julian Brazier, MP for Canterbury and patron of the Conservative Christian Fellowship, said that extramarital dating sites were pushing Britain towards a «social breakdown».

- The Independent on Sunday (UK) «Thoughtful, meticulously written, and slow burning... A story that is a warning of the dangers of mass surveillance, but also a meditation on the frailty of individual identity when it is shaken by personal and social breakdown, and by the dislocation of expatriate life.»

Some tie their grim predictions in with predictions of terrorism and social breakdown, the spread of new viruses, or projections of doom based on the financial troubles of Europe, belt - tightening by China's government or the latest pronouncements of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board.

Violette's heavy - metal stylings become a mirror of the anxiety in youth culture, an adopted language compensating and empowering those who suffer sensations of immense sorrow and despair... Fuelled by its associations with violence, satanism, racism and nationalism, Violette uses the Goth genre as both symptom and cause of individual amorality and social breakdown.»

Parks are used by so many people across society for a wide variety of reasons, delivering considerable benefits But the consequence of not having free and easy access to well - maintained public spaces could be detrimental, affecting all aspects of society, such as public health and wellbeing, increased long - term economic costs and social breakdown.