Sentences with phrase «social instability»

Looking at long - term trends in rain, crops, food prices and migration, they were able to determine how these factors contributed to social instability in the region.

In many of these societies, political and social instability makes adjustment difficult.

I can tell you from personal experience we need to do as much as we can to avoid social instability.

Her reporting shows that gender inequality has much wider consequences than some might think: «Gender inequality fuels social instability, crime, and local conflict [and] women's subordination is substantially enforced by their exclusion from the money system.»

To effectively restrict communication, governments would need to dominate technologies whose forced control is a double - edged sword — when social instability spikes, internet shutdowns work at best sporadically and risk leading to greater discontent and violence.

Acrimonious Contest It further predicted an acrimonious contest between the ruling NDC and the opposition NPP in November saying, «Ongoing economic weakness at a time of approaching elections will expose Ghana to a notable risk of political and social instability early in the forecast period.»

However, new individuals in the population — new pups or males that migrate into the network — introduced social instability by often forming unbalanced triads, causing the network as a whole to retain some level of instability.

In exploring the interwoven threads of his characters, Linzy is himself tangled up and embroiled in the politics of performativity; of identity, race, gender and sexuality; and the promise of the United States» looming social instability.

While Africa is vast and multifarious, and a place where functioning democracies coexist with more authoritarian regimes, political and social instability continues to run rife in many countries.

Several western countries are already at risk of social instability because they have peaked and are now in steep decline.

The 1972 Declaration initiated an ongoing assessment of international environmental and social issues, revealing worsening circumstances of environmental degradation and social instability throughout the 1970s and 1980s.

The Bureau said the commencement of the payment of another N5, 000 monthly to its verified poorest and most vulnerable in the society just as the Agba Osun scheme which pays N10, 000 to 1,602 carefully selected most vulnerable elderly persons in the state would go a long way to reduce poverty, crime and other social vices which are at the heart of social instabilities in Nigeria.

The party's anti-immigration and anti-European Union stance is resonating with voters amid a climate of fear of terrorism and social instability, especially after last month's attacks, for which the Islamic State terror group claimed responsibility.

Those efforts eventually resulted in inflation, no growth, high unemployment and social instability.

In the context of disastrous economic conditions, corruption, and social instability, their activities are especially dangerous.

In general, scholars who approach this phenomenon from a sociological perspective claim that Latin American Pentecostals have been intensely attracted to a religion which was created and shaped as a concrete response to the crises and transformations in all arenas of life which have uprooted and bewildered people living in a context of economic and social instability.

In the transition from traditional tribalism to globalism, there will be a delicate period of social instability.

In either case, the result is misery and social instability.

To the members of the Diplomatic Corps 11 January 2010 on the «continuing» economic «crisis» and «social instability».

«The government was determined unwavering in the face of unsparing criticisms over OYES and other social protection schemes because this government was convinced these are the ways to go if we must solve the problems that stared us in the face in youths unemployment, increasing crime rates, loss of values and social instabilities and grinding poverty.

«Having personal experience with the criminal justice system and now working with at - risk youth to develop consequential thinking skills, this population is extremely vulnerable to the negative influences and trauma of incarceration, resulting in re-offending and potentially prolonged mental and social instability,» explained M.A.D.E Transitional Services Executive Director Toney Earl, Jr..

Growing scarcities of renewable resources can contribute to social instability and civil strife

THE MOTIVE In a study of more than 900 years of conflict in eastern China, a team of researchers has tested the hypothesis that cold spells fuel the social instability that leads to war.

This initiative comes amid increasing concern that Africa lags behind the rest of the world in economic development because of political and social instability, coupled with low investments in science and technology.

But any engineer would recognise that this is the social analogue of positive feedback — and too much will lead to social instability.

Turchin says these buried treasures can be used as a proxy for times of social instability.

«Social subordination and social instability have been associated with an increased incidence of mental illness in humans,» said press conference moderator Larry Young, PhD, of Emory University, an expert in brain functions involved with social behavior.

In both Mahale and Gombe National Parks [47], [48], [69], arbitrators were high - ranking individuals of both sexes [28], conflicts of all sex - dyad combinations were policed and, at least in Mahale, occurred at times of social instability.

The impact of social instability has become more obvious on the lung environment, and its impact on epidemics, particularly among the immigrant population, is of great concern for health in EU.

«If we don't make the progress that we need to make in narrowing the achievement gap then that's a recipe for social instability and economic decline,» Ferguson said.

The Dóchas EU Presidency Project will be working to ensure that the post-MDG framework does not simply articulate an extension of current practice, but rather captures an inclusive, sustainable and just set of solutions to some of the biggest global challenges that are facing mankind: economic inequality, social instability, environmental degradation, resource scarcity, climate chaos and political exclusion of vast numbers of people.

Foreign investing, especially in developing markets, has additional risks such as currency and market volatility and political or social instability.

Foreign investing carries additional risks such as currency and market volatility and political or social instability, risks which are heightened in developing countries.

Analyzing different processes of political and social instability, it intersects with the idea of ever - evolving memory.

The exhibition entitled «Bad Faith» offers «examples of how modes of protest can be located in aesthetic and materialist practice» during a moment of political and social instability.

In the face of climate change, a global economy in crisis, social instability and the moral consequences of the information revolution, the poetics of escape is becoming ever more seductive.

When you start considering the social and economic impacts of shifting percipitation patterns, rising sea levels, and the rising cost of energy, one can see the potential for major social and economic upheavals that pose the danger of economic and social instability that could lead to new major and very dangerous wars.