Sentences with phrase «social pressures placed»

Ultimately, On Chesil Beach is a film that deals with how young people have so many social pressures placed onto them by society.
The social pressure placed on students by their parents sees them sleeping at midnight and waking up at 5 in the morning.

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And they're not just saving money on rent and commuting costs, Matt tells CNBC: «We also need less stuff to fill our place, and we feel less social pressure to buy more things to match our living situation.»
Those discussions, which have been pushed by Twitter CFO Anthony Noto, have been taking place since the beginning of the year, said sources, as the social communications giant has faced increasing pressure from Wall Street to grow its audience and innovate its products.
Interests in God as useful to achieving personal wholeness, even of the most «spiritual» sort, and interests in God as necessary for social justice and emancipation, even the most urgent cases, will be under pressure to surrender pride of place to apparently irrelevant» interests in God that take the form of joy in and celebration of the odd ways God is present, for their own sake.
In the light of this analysis, then, my own scenario is cautiously hopeful, depending on (1) whether a creative minority of dreamers and doers with visions of a new life - fulfilling social order really emerges in strength, (2) the alliances that can be worked out with blacks, the poor, and other minorities now excluded from major social benefits, (3) the extent to which the populist idealism of the lower middle classes and working people generally favoring the extension of rights and equality to the «little man» everywhere wins out over the reactionary fears and prejudices which establishment elites and opportunist politicians are all too willing to exploit, and (4) what takes place at the center of the political spectrum itself under the pressure of events and in response to challenges to the established system from militant seekers of change.
On the other hand, women who choose hospital birth may have a psychological advantage in North America associated with not having to deal with the social pressure and fears of spouses, relatives, or friends from their choice of birth place.
«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.
But he also acknowledged «the largest influx of people Britain has ever had» and the «real pressures», including social ones, this has placed on Britain.
With an aging population placing increasing demands on entitlement programs like Social Security, and likely federal spending increases for defense and infrastructure programs, budgets for scientific research could come under intense pressure.
It's such a great place to be, when you can do what you want without feeling any social pressure!
Kat coached him on his general social skills, taught him how to flirt, encouraged him to try new things, and identified low - pressure places where he could meet available women.
The pressure to build hundreds of free schools is part of the government's aim to improve social mobility and good school places across the country.
Councils say that a rise in pupils diagnosed with autism, social and emotional needs, or severe physical and neurological needs, has put pressure on local state school places.
I seriously doubt any (save maybe one in a trillion) would ever make this up, there is a tremendous amount of social pressure not to make the claim in the first place.
A brand new Facebook page, that's what — https://www.facebook.com/travelswithcharu After years of resisting — how many places in social media can I manage — I finally succumbed to the pressure and set up this page.
While making allusions to the American Dream, consumerism, and pressures of compliance to the social norms, she humanizes a stigmatized disease by relating her internal struggles to universal pains that many people face when trying to find their place in the world.
In one lifetime our increasingly interconnected and interdependent economic, social, cultural and political systems have come to place pressures on the environment that may cause fundamental changes in the Earth system and move us beyond safe natural boundaries.
Europe: Tensions may rise as immigration from Africa and the Middle East exacerbated by climate change places additional social and economic pressures on countries.
Some people who are experiencing an unplanned pregnancy and considering adoption are afraid that if they talk to social workers, lawyers or adoption agencies they will be pressured to give up their baby or place the baby with a certain family.
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