Sentences with phrase «social burden of»

The report also takes care to offset certain cost elements that have inappropriately been internalized into the existing price of coal, such as the high social burden of coal enterprises to provide a broad array of social benefits for its employees (which is not in itself a bad thing, but is done in a very wasteful manner), and what the researchers consider to be excessive mandatory contributions by coal enterprises to the Railway Construction Fund (RMB 22 billion in 2006 alone, amounting to 33 % of total profits for the coal industry).

Not exact matches

While there are programs like Social Security to help ease the financial burden, most workers have to depend on savings, 401k's and the dwindling number of pension plans that some companies offer, to see them through their after - work years.

Europe followed a similar model, but spared of the burden of a huge military, nationalized most social security programs, especially health care but also pensions.

«The responsibility — and sometimes burden — of making these decisions falls on companies that have been built to maximize profit more than to maximize social good,» he said.

The medium used does not lessen the burden of creating excellent, trust inspiring information, i.e. messaging and social media channels are not in themselves enough to mitigate the effects of bad communications.

What happens in a command economy such as China's is that the element of free social conflict that market capitalism contains is absolutely missing - and that therefore the Chinese economy must sooner rather than later collapse under the strain and burden of «unproductive» investment.

In the wake of an open letter in January from Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, exhorting businesses everywhere to focus on their social impact rather than simply maximizing profits, they wondered whether Moynihan might feel under more pressure to do so now that tax reforms would be lightening the burden in the future.

Taking the example of the Quebec Liberal government's austerity agenda, Lanctôt explained how major cutbacks in the health and social services sector have imposed an unsustainable burden on both those who provide and those who use the services, the majority of whom are women.

But for Zoe Alexander, a trainer with the social service center of Our Savior Anglican Church in Suez, some churches have a special burden from God.

She observes, unsurprisingly, that the burden of social and sexual revolution has disproportionately fallen on those most vulnerable, particularly children and women.

«Therefore the Church gives thanks for each and every woman: for mothers, for sisters, for wives; for women consecrated to God in virginity; for women dedicated to the many human beings who await the gratuitous love of another person; for women who watch over the human persons in the family, which is the fundamental sign of the human community; for women who work professionally, and who at times are burdened by a great social responsibility; for «perfect» women and for «weak» women - for all women as they have come forth from the heart of God in all the beauty and richness of their femininity; as they have been embraced by his eternal love; as, together with men, they are pilgrims on this earth, which is the temporal «homeland» of all people and is transformed sometimesinto a «valley of tears»; as they assume, together with men, a common responsibility for the destiny of humanity according to daily necessities and according to that definitive destiny which the human family has in God himself, in the bosom of the ineffable Trinity.»

Because of this burden social and institutional history moves more slowly than we wish.

We Presbyterians, who share so much — a confession of faith, a rich theological heritage, the advantages and the burdens of wealth and social power — could covenant to stay together, to labor with each other, in love, for justice and truth.

The specter of the unplanned child, born to be a burden on the social body, is still a powerful tool in the propaganda of cultural assimilation.

As a social structure, the heterosexual box intends to permit no androgyny or gynandry; nor does it encourage us to cast off the burden of sex roles — because the heterosexual box is built entirely out of sex roles.

Governments, harassed by the burden of debt service payments, reduce public expenditure on health and education and other social services to balance their budgets.

He calls attention to (1) the degeneration in syncretism of the old Yahweh faith prior to the appearance of the eighth - century prophets; (2) a kind of «emancipation» from Yahweh in increasing dependence upon the maturing structure of the political state; and (3) the dissolution of the old tribal social order with the shift of economic power to the cities, the increasing inability of the farmer, because of the burdens of heavy taxation, to maintain himself as a free man, and the growing concentration of land in the hands of a few wealthy urbanites (cf. Isa.

At the very least, I contribute by paying taxes, contributing to charities (via richarddawkins.net of course), helping people as I can and not being a burden by inappropriately taking advantages of social programs or ever being in jail.

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The burden of the preceding discussion is to suggest that technology, with all its problems, is not a monolithic entity whose very touch brings the death of creativity and aesthetic experience, but an integral aspect of human personal and social existence, with all the richness and ambiguity of human life itself.

And in the past several decades we have systematically moved the burden of taxation from singles to families, penalizing that social institution which is the crucial transmitter of tradition.

While it's true people of all social status are «greedy» sinners, and poor man can hold his idols, its the ones on the top that burden and oppress the masses, because they have the power in their hands.

Religious programs act as a functional alternative to the local church, thus decreasing attendance and involvement by reinforcing the social tendency toward the individualizing of religious experience at the expense of its corporate expressions, and placing a burden on the religious broadcasting organizations which they are not equipped to handle.

Body odor can be a social burden to tweens who are already self - conscious and afraid of sticking out from the crowd.

Therefore, to help ease the burden on the teachers, schools have developed professional administrations to share the responsibility of running the schools and instilling related social ideals.

«Nothing else truly matters: not the NHS, now in its most severe crisis since its creation; not the real challenge of the modern economy, the new technological revolutions of AI and Big Data; not the upgrade of our education system to prepare people for this new world; not investment in communities left behind by globalisation; not the rising burden of serious crime; or bulging prison populations; or social care; not even, irony of ironies, a genuine policy to control immigration.

Supporters and allies of the President would stop at nothing to burden the country further through anti- social and unpatriotic acts.

Unlike their Palestinian and Iraqi predecessors, however, the majority of Syrians arrive with limited funds, placing an immediate burden on Jordan's social services.

He said demography was «pushing social care costs through the roof» and feared Whitehall should accept more of the burden of future spending cuts.

Local councils are reluctant to approve plans to build retirement homes because of the additional burden this would create on their health and social care facilities.

«The Department of Social Services aggressively pursues funding opportunities that reduce the local tax burden and improve services to Erie County residents,» said Social Services Commissioner Carol Dankert - Maurer.

«The stimulus that Election Day provides by giving people information, imposing social pressure to encourage them to vote, giving them social rewards from seeing neighbors and friends at a polling place — all the things that happen on a traditional Election Day — tend to be diluted,» said Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, who worked on the AJPS study.

David Willetts» unfortunate comment last week about higher education being a «burden on the taxpayer» suggests that not only will Liberal Democrat ministers have to continue to remind their Conservative colleagues of the importance of social mobility, but they will have to make the economic case for building a learning economy as well.

The Council Conclusions stress that harmful use of alcohol is recognised as an important risk factor in the need to reduce the burden of alcohol - related avoidable deaths, chronic diseases, injuries, violence, health inequalities and other social consequences to third parties.

The abolition of fees remains central to Liberal Democrat education policy and the Social Liberal Forum believes that unless HE is paid for through general taxation, a fairly instituted graduate contribution, with repayments that reflect graduates» ability to pay, is the best policy to help the UK's HE sector remain world - class without placing a burden of debt on young graduates.»

Already we have Bill Bratton scheduled to return as Police Commissioner (and he is one of a very short list that can fill the shoes of Kelly and perhaps stem the tide of paying a fraudulent bill of racial profiling due to politically correct social appeasement that may burden our city).

Liu took issue with questions over whether DHS properly followed the Fair Share doctrine, meant to keep neighborhoods from carrying too much of the burden in providing social services.

«The concern that these families could become a burden on Broome County unfortunately fuels the shocking stereotyping of the clients we are both charged to serve as social services officials,» Banks wrote to Williams.

Women shouldn't have to shoulder the burden of solving gender inequality on social media, this grad student writes

Associate Professor Bryan Fry of UQ's School of Biological Sciences said cobras were killers in Africa and Asia, and caused crippling social and economic burdens through the number of survivors who needed amputations due to the snake's flesh - eating venom.

«It's not simply that they are burdened with the weight of social, moral and political implications, which can obscure objective scientific study,» says Bailey.

«According to SAMHSA (2015), alcohol and drug abuse and related problems contribute substantially to the burden of disease in the U.S., costing an estimated $ 400 billion annually,» said Dr. Jennifer Manuel, PhD, an assistant professor at the NYU Silver School of Social Work, and an affiliated researcher with New York University's Center for Drug Use and HIV Research (NYU CDUHR).

The study also demonstrates that cases born with abnormalities of the brain and spinal cord entail major social and financial burdens.

«Our results, based on in - depth interviews with seniors and their caregivers, add to a growing body of evidence that this decline in dementia risk is a real phenomenon, and that the expected future growth in the burden of dementia may not be as extensive as once thought,» says lead author Kenneth Langa, M.D., Ph.D., a professor in the U-M Medical School, Institute for Social Research and School of Public Health, and a research investigator at the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System.

It includes an overview of African Americans» burden of cardiovascular disease; how traditional risk factors and adverse health behaviors affect the disparities between African Americans and whites; a discussion of the genetic and biological factors that might contribute to cardiovascular disease in African Americans; and medical treatments and the social, cultural and environmental factors that influence prevention and disease management in African Americans.

Supervised by a nurse and other members of the team that includes a social worker and a geriatrician, the care coordinator assistants monitor symptom burden, coach patients with history of depression on implementing behavioral activation and relapse prevention activities.

The economic, social, and emotional tolls of these deaths are substantial, but some parts of the US are bearing heavier burdens than others.

The aging of society needs new, more cost - effective solutions to improve the life quality of patients and cut the burden that is placed on the social welfare system.

Growing numbers of older people compared to younger ones in a population could create unsustainable burdens on social support and healthcare systems if a greater number of older people are dependent on a declining proportion of working - age people in the population.

For patients with the blood - borne virus, HCV imposes a social, as well as a health burden: they feel stigmatized by a disease that is often perceived by society as a consequence of chronic alcohol abuse.