Sentences with phrase «social breakdown in»

«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.

Take some of her recent parts: the colonial survivor, tenacious in the face of social breakdown in Claire Denis's White Material (09); a flamboyant fantasist in Marc Fitoussi's frothy comedy Copacabana (10); the uncomprehending, vulnerable daughter of elderly parents in Michael Haneke's Amour (12); a comically lascivious Mother Superior in Guillaume Nicloux's Diderot adaptation The Nun (13); a bored married woman pondering an affair in a softer comedy, the recent French release Paris Follies (Fitoussi again, 14).

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.

Not exact matches

If a society actually loses faith in its medium of exchange, a general breakdown of trust and social cohesion often ensues.

Many have pointed to a long - term catastrophic financial breakdown of the program, and while the worst fears of Social Security disappearing entirely are overblown, the odds of some reduction in benefits in are rising.

Thucydides, in one of the most brilliant passages of his history of the war, described the breakdown of social order as follows:

When government then attempts to respond to the social problems caused by the breakdown of private intermediary institutions, its new programs invariably weaken traditional structures further and make matters in some important respects worse.

``... a new culture is foreshadowed in the turbulence and spiritual confusion of [our] times... our certainty of imminent change is based... upon the worldwide breakdown of established social order and traditional culture;... nowhere more marked or more disastrous than within that civilisation... that goes by the name of Christendom.»

This is the more notable because Ezekiel was the advocate of a restored church state on Zion, and was one of the most effective forces in reestablishing the social structure whose breakdown had encouraged individualism.

Unfortunately, almost all the social problems we face are fundamentally caused by the breakdown in the family.

Underlying this practice was the assumption that poverty and need were due to a breakdown in the equitable distribution of community resources or to a social status over which an individual had no control (widows, orphans).

However, most of the cases of undeserved suffering come mixed, with individual human choices, social forces, and physical factors all combined — as in war, poverty, premature or violent death, disease, mental breakdowns, and the like.

Nor did most of us perceive how, all around us, the social environment was being transformed by a sudden breakdown in traditional norms governing sexual behavior and a sharp rise in family disruption.

As Geifman notes, Russia's «urban populace swelled from around 9 million people in the mid-19th century to about 25 million in 1913, with inhabitants of most major Russian cities increasing four - or five-fold,» leading to a «breakdown of social values.»

«Why is it that our popular established religions are so shaken in the face of the visible problems of our civilization: drugs, war, crime, social injustice, the breakdown of the family, the sexual revolution?

With the rise in the religiously - unaffiliated, and the broader breakdown of the family, it could be argued that churches have more pressing concerns than the effects of social polarization and isolation.

While each of St Benedict's twelve steps of humility (which are listed below) have a strong message of their own, the second step in particular is quite a striking one, being of great importance in today's society which is so full of consumerism, family breakdowns, celebrity culture, social media, vanity and many other problems and challenges.

It was just in this period that, as Nathan Glazer put it in The Limits of Social Policy, we witnessed «the breakdown of traditional ways of handling distress,» ways that «are located in the family primarily, but also in the ethnic group, the neighborhood, the church.»

Glazer, like many other observers, believes that in our mostly well - intentioned efforts to deal with the breakdown of these structures, «our social policies are weakening them further and making matters in some important respects worse.»

The most remarkable aspect about this reaction is that the Moynihan report itself took great pains to identify white bigotry as the fundamental cause of the breakdown of the black family: «There is a considerable body of evidence,» says the report, «to support the conclusion that Negro social structure, in particular the Negro family, battered and harassed by discrimination, injustice, and uprooting, is in the deepest trouble.»

In response to Thomas Frank's What's the Matter with Kansas, they argue that it is middle American families who most acutely reap the consequences of our cultural breakdown» and this explains their inclination toward the social conservatism of the Republicans.

Rajan Gurukkal of the Social Sciences department of the Mahatma Gandhi University in Kerala gives his reasons why the leaders of counter-culture who are anticipating «a total breakdown of the market - friendly dimension of development in the wake of micro-movements which they see as part of the process of global transformation» are too optimistic and are likely to be disappointed.

Not only is he or she the means by which we receive news of breakdowns in our social organisation; he or she is also the guarantor of the system despite these breakdowns.

His is an impressive effort driven by a sincere desire to keep RGT controversies from joining other social issues tearing at our already frayed comity, threatening «a total communication breakdown in the public sphere.»

Familial breakdown, especially in the most downtrodden social segment, is also analyzed.

In January 2015, Adweek published a breakdown from eMarketer that predicted marketshare across different United States demographics for the top social networks.

The economic, social and emotional cost of family breakdown makes the case clear for investment in relationship support.

In my opinion, what these articles fail to explain is that infidelity is ultimately a result of the breakdown of social concepts of honor and family.

There are many, many ways to find the «best» diaper for your household, including the manufacturer's social policies, overnight performance, the average time it takes a diaper's materials to breakdown in the landfill, even its design.

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.»

Social work must share the blame for the breakdown in individual responsibility within society.

The party's social justice taskforce, led by former Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith, says family breakdown is a major cause of drug and alcohol addiction, crime and the failure of many individuals to fulfil their potential in jobs or education.

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.

Calls on the Commission, by the end of 2013, to submit a legislative proposal establishing an effective and comprehensive European whistleblower protection programme in the public and in the private sector to protect those who detect inefficient management and irregularities and report cases of national and cross-border corruption relating to EU financial interests and to protect witnesses, informers, and those who cooperate with the courts, and in particular witnesses testifying against mafia - type and other criminal organisations, with a view to resolving the difficult conditions under which they have to live (from risks of retaliation to the breakdown of family ties or from being uprooted from their home territory to social and professional exclusion); calls also on the Member States to put in place appropriate and effective protection for whistleblowers.

Speaking at the 2016 National Children's Day Celebration, Buhari said: «Challenges posed by the total breakdown of societal values and the current unrestricted social media vices, which therefore, calls for an urgent need for all stakeholders to put all hands on deck in making conscious efforts at raising awareness of parents, family and communities at all levels on the critical role of protecting children against all forms of violence, abuse and exploitation including abduction of children, forced and early marriage.

Speaking in Abuja to mark 2016 National Children's Day Celebration, President Buhari said, «Challenges posed by the total breakdown of societal values and the current unrestricted social media vices, which therefore, calls for an urgent need for all stakeholders to put all hands on deck in making conscious efforts at raising awareness of parents, family, communities at all levels, on the critical role of protecting the children against all forms of violence, abuse and exploitation including abduction of children, forced and early marriage.

Always rooted in the wisdom of frontline poverty - fighters this year's published research includes the importance of the earliest years for child development, the breakdown of systems for children - in - care, Britain's asylum shambles, social housing and welfare reform.

As a prominent Tory backbencher dismissed Clegg's plan that the rich should face a time - limited tax to avoid a breakdown in social cohesion as a pre-party conference «easy clap line», Osborne said the wealthy already paid more tax and the country should be wary of driving away wealth creators.

The snapshot of benefit dependency and family breakdown will be set out today in a Social Justice Progress Report by the Department for Work and Pensions.

The breakdown of the former has been addressed extensively by the Social Justice Policy Commission chaired by Iain Duncan Smith, but arguably could be given more prominence in government policy.

«Anybody that needs to march may do so, but they can not take over public facilities or disrupt social services and commercial activities in Kaduna State, and any march or procession can be undertaken only with the prior knowledge of, and protection of the police to prevent the breakdown of law and order «My government has learnt from security reports the facts that are known, as well as complaints and allegations that have been made.

Online, on paper, on TV, on social media, and slamming into us as they run down the street in sweaty lycra, we are surrounded by grinning, toned bodies weighed down by sensor - rich bracelets tracking pulse, steps, stress, sleep... Start - ups assure us that, in exchange for a simple spit sample, they can lay bare our genetic histories and futures with ancestry tests and detailed breakdowns of our health risks.

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The central consideration of Michael Pearce's debut feature isn't the potential of a breakdown for its heroine — within its earliest scenes, Moll (Jessie Buckley) has already clenched shards of broken glass in her palm after her sister deliberately derails her birthday party — but her insidious social conditioning.

Besides such commonalities as Chris Cooper (here, Davis's disapproving boss and father - in - law), marijuana use and the topic of homophobia, «Demolition» — much like «American Beauty» — attempts to comment on materialistic consumption as a false measure of success and the breakdown of social connections (I liked how Davis» sleek and sharp - edged contemporary home looks and feels like a high - end freezer).

But, in their disjointed ways, they are all dealing with the same problem — that across vast stretches of America, economic, social and family breakdowns are producing enormous amounts of stress and unregulated behavior, which dulls motivation, undermines self - control and distorts lives.

Also explained in this report was an age breakdown for how customers find new books through social media.

Joanna Trollope is the British doyenne of middle - class domestic drama, having explored marital breakdowns, adoption, step - parenting, and any number of other social dilemmas that make up modern - day family life, and Second Honeymoon is considered by critics to be one of her best books in years.

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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.