Sentences with phrase «social economic surprises»

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Beyond all these surprises, Perry pointed out, is the stunned recognition that things will never be the same again — that a great social, political and economic power, one which our world has reckoned with for most of this century, is unraveling.

I have been surprised to see how many parents have bundled their faith inseparably with a particular political view, economic philosophy, worship style, or the latest social issues.

Social scientists report that fathers of out - of - wedlock children and divorced fathers give surprising little economic or emotional support to their biological children.

He had strong views about economics, the free market and low taxation, and it will come as a surprise to many of his former colleagues that he was the founder member of PEST — Pressure for Economic and Social Toryism — which later became associated with a left, if not wet, form of Conservatism.

Mauritius was a possession of a European power almost continually from 1638 to 1968, including of the Netherlands, France, and the U.K. Having been part of a European country that long and that recently, its social and economic ties to Europe are strong, so having visa - free or visa - on - arrival access is not especially surprising in that case.

I expressed surprise that after 3000 years or so of domestication, within a series of industries of great economic and social importance, the kind of data that Wemmer and Krishnamurthy are now collecting and the standards they seek to impose should still be lacking.

However, Rajan (2009) debates this breaking down of the financial model while underestimating the political, social and economic risks should not have been very much of a surprise while the models relied entirely on hard information and ignored soft control variables such as the incentives of lenders to collect information about borrowers, which was one of the fundamental causes for their failure (Rajan et all., 2009).

In a drought - prone region where educational and economic opportunities are few and far between, this school is a surprising oasis: Social and emotional intelligence, project and experiential learning, and a gentle love and respect for the environment — and for one another — pervade the sunlit grounds.

The poet Bulhão Pato, writing of Ponta Delgada, was surprised by the extraordinary riches of the plantation owners, the «gentlemen farmers» that lived within the urbanized core: exporters of oranges and corn, bankers, investors, industrialists and shippers, all contributing to a privileged class of economic and social thinkers and philanthropists.

They're climate surprises but they're social - economic ones.

It shouldn't be a surprise that green roofs are big in Toronto; Green Roofs for Healthy Cities, the industry promotion organization with the mission» to increase the awareness of the economic, social and environmental benefits of green roofs and green walls» was founded here in 1999 and is still run from Toronto.