Sentences with phrase «social collapse with»

As the story hits its early surprise plot twist, we witness a reflection of America's social collapse with Mr. Megamind overseeing the carnage of infrastructure.

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As infrastructure and public transportation collapsed, and customers prudently stayed home, entrepreneurs found their coping ability and ingenuity tested to the limit — along with their social media creativity.

So let's add that to the Zika virus, the open sewer of a harbour where the sailors and triathletes will compete, the street crime that has already made a victim of an Australian para-athlete and the financial and political chaos that includes a president facing impeachment, many other politicians facing indictments and the declaration of a «state of public calamity» in Rio de Janeiro, with a top state official adding that it is on the verge of «social collapse.»

But the other day we had a vending machine in India and a vending machine of Coca - Cola in Pakistan, and had cameras on the vending machine where a consumer in India shared a Coke with a consumer in Pakistan, and that collapsed all the social media networks because so many people were talking about it.

After dealing with war, hyperinflation, economic collapse and wrenching social change, they're ready for anything the world can throw at them.

With massive and increasing structural deficits; exploding debt in all sectors; hostile demographics; social and political fracturing and disintegration; grotesque wealth inequality; extraordinary global trade competition; a complete collapse of respect for vital government organizations such as the Justice Department and FBI, which the people now realize have gone rogue; an extremely complex and corrosive global geopolitical environment; the real prospect of war, potentially nuclear and worldwide; not to mention numerous additional factors, we can only point to few other times in history more dangerous to the people's financial welfare, and therefore more overall bullish for gold, one of the only financial sanctuaries proven to work in times of dislocation.

Those with the most chaotic lives are the least likely to vote, but writers like Ross Douthat and Michael Brendan Dougherty have speculated that one of the reasons Trump's earliest voting base was made up of working - class whites was because of the slow social collapse that Charles Murray wrote about.

The alleged subordination of the gospel to Karl Marx is illustrated, for example, by charging that «false» liberation theology concentrates too much on a few selected biblical texts that are always given a political meaning, leading to an overemphasis on «material» poverty and neglecting other kinds of poverty; that this leads to a «temporal messianism» that confuses the Kingdom of God with a purely «earthly» new society, so that the gospel is collapsed into nothing but political endeavor; that the emphasis on social sin and structural evil leads to an ignoring or forgetting of the reality of personal sin; that everything is reduced to praxis (the interplay of action and reflection) as the only criterion of faith, so that the notion of truth is compromised; and that the emphasis on communidades de base sets a so - called «people's church» against the hierarchy.

With the increased trust of consumers in building societies and credit unions after the banking collapse, it seems there is a public appetite for the co-operative alternative and a belief that it is possible to combine social justice and economic efficiency within the firm.

«Poor healthcare, collapsed education, lack of public utilities, decayed social services, are all products of corruption, as those entrusted with public resources put them in their private pockets.

According to him, every sector of the Ghanaian economy, over the last 8 years, has witnessed constant decline, coupled with the collapse of every social intervention programme implemented by the Kufuor...

This can be problematic for two key reasons, namely; (1) it elicits relatively superficial engagement with the cause, and (2) the exponential increase in social momentum is unlikely to be sustained, as explosive unchecked positive growth typically results in system collapse.

«For example, cooperative behaviour may be enforced by social conventions or laws and failure to comply with these may result in collapse of the public good.

This insight into how social networks adapt to significant losses could lead to new ways to help people with the grieving process, ensuring that their networks are able to recover rather than collapse during these difficult times.

The team points out that the period of intermarriage overlaps with a time of huge social upheavals in India, including the collapse of the ancient Indus civilization — which thrived on the Indian subcontinent between about 2600 B.C.E. and 1900 B.C.E. — as well as large - scale population movements and the rise of the Vedic religion, the predecessor of modern Hinduism.

Certainly, there's no requirement that directors who train their eyes on such bleak social milieus mitigate the darkness and usher us out the door with sunshine: comparable films like Lynne Ramsay's Ratcatcher stay successfully mired in the mud without collapsing into nihilism.

Most social / political satires forget to balance character with plot, or worse, the thin jokes collapse under the pressure of an easy, likeable third - act conclusion.

After a slightly slow start during which Buckley introduces his characters, provides them with motive and generally lays the groundwork, Boomsday develops into a mischievously farcical tangled - web of generational warfare and political backstabbing, set against the background of the failing Social Security system and the general collapse of the American economy.

Lending its title to the exhibition, the centrepiece of the show is a 70th Anniversary Commission for the Arts Council Collection with Iniva and Bluecoat, comprising of three synchronised high definition video projections, which depict a narrative of economic and social collapse.

In her catalog essay, the Whitney Museum of American Art's film curator, Chrissie Iles, distinguishes Ms. Collier from the Pictures Generation artists: «Collier's relationship with her subject matter takes place at one remove, and at a greater historical distance, within a social culture transformed by the Internet, in which the linear trajectory of history has collapsed into a flat matrix of information, influence and temporal fluidity.»

Hewitt has worked with historically exploited and marginalized social groups, and Rahman's recent novel «In Light of What We Know» focuses on extreme poverty and the financial collapse.

Could our society — one obsessed with products, satire, social media, and environmental collapse — be interpreted by future beings as something completely different from our current reality?

Lending its title to the exhibition, the centrepiece of the show is a 70th Anniversary Commission for the Arts Council Collection with Iniva and Bluecoat, consisting of three synchronised high definition video projections, which depict a narrative of economic and social collapse.

The exponential development of digital technologies, the advent of the social networks and the use of Big Data have progressively and inexorably changed our society and we are witnessing the collapse of the philosophies of social and urban sharing and the establishment of a new regime that in the name of security is stripping us, with our consent, of every intimate and personal space.

Although with the collapse of the NSW State carbon price these businesses failed by traditional criteria, they were great successes in social entrepreneurship, dramatically breaking new ground and showing the way for many other businesses to follow.

And their apparent success is principally owed to disappointment with the other parties, and the appeal of their social agenda following the near total collapse of the UK Left — not climate change.

In the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union, social scientists have explored with wonder... [more]

Infants whose attachment strategy collapses even under the mild stress of brief separation experienced in the Strange Situation and who show high degree of incoherence and disorganisation upon reunion with their caregivers comprise on average 15 % of typical populations and as high as 50 - 80 % of high social risk groups [8].