Sentences with phrase «social disaster»

Without an integrated management strategy and adequate funding, «the Lower Fraser River is heading for potential economic, environmental and social disaster unless senior levels of government start dealing with issues now,» said the report's principal author, Dave Park.

«We have in this whole sorry business the classic social disaster scenario; mismanagement succeeded by chaos, hurt innocents succeeded by collusion between official bodies to suppress the reality of the disaster.

January 27 - March 5 Bob Paris, a video artist and professor in VCUarts Department of Kinetic Imaging, resurrected scenes from the television coverage of the 1992 Los Angeles riots for this ambitious installation that explores the link between social disaster and television product.

From that innocent assumption has flowed a series of social disasters, ranging all the way from inefficiency and petty meddlesomeness to fullscale tyranny.

A tiny wealthy minority in a sea of ecological and social disaster, thanking God for our good fortune while waiting to be overrun by the poor on all sides?

[32] He described tower block housing as «an economic and social disaster» and said he would «like an assurance that loan sanction would not be given for any more.»

«That could lead to all sorts of social disasters.

The social disaster couldn't be waved off casually, as Sarah Palin — a strong advocate of abstinence - only sex education — did during her vice presidential campaign when her 16 - year - old daughter's pregnancy was revealed.

In 2010, 72 percent of African American births were to unwed mothers, but so were 53 percent of Hispanic births and 36 percent of white births — all far higher figures than those Moynihan saw in the black community in 1965, when he described a 25 percent rate as a social disaster.

«Not only do they cause environmental and social disasters, they, with very few exceptions, all fail to do what they were supposed to do in the first place.

Trying to apply the same sort of pressure too quickly to the US market could end in economical and social disaster.

«This should be a warning that there is a price to be paid for ignoring the clear acoustical science that predicted this social disaster long before the first shovel of dirt was ever turned,» Martis said.

New York State's Governor is grappling with a confirmed case of «Wind Turbine Syndrome», the obvious signs of which are that he's hell - bent on following the path set by the Germans and South Australians on the road to economic and social disaster.

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