Sentences with phrase «social ravages»

Some of the social ravages, the Pope believes, can be avoided, or at least tempered.

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It has been on an upward price track for years, in part because the Chinese — compelled by the lack of a social safety net to save rigorously for things like higher education and in case of illness — have few other investing vehicles with which to protect their savings from the ravages of inflation.

The cyclical ravages of inflation, the doubts about the future of Social Security and the continuing escalation of health care costs must cause at least occasional anxiety for any prudent person.

Extending that approach to the social sciences more generally could help us develop forecasting tools to assess a whole range of problems threatening human society — not just the ravages of the markets, but wars, disease and demographic change.

The audience, then, is succinctly primed for another film about the ravages wrought by the ever - increasing social distance between the higher and lower classes.

But, the privatizers had a problem: public schools were not failing fast enough, and in some cases, despite the ravages of institutional racism, poverty, joblessness, crime, and social and family upheavals, they were actually successful.

Intensely personal and deeply felt, his work also reflects a lifelong commitment to social activism, whether he is photographing the ravages of cocaine addiction, his first wife's struggle with breast cancer, or the emotional aftermath of 9/11.