Sentences with phrase «social tensions»

Thus, when we speak of a rise in social tension in society, we tend to forget that this nervous energy is generated by concrete human souls.

Addressing feline environmental needs is the key to preventing feline social tension.

The picture resembles a candid shot that captures the moment and its implicit social tensions, but is actually a recreation of an exchange witnessed by the artist.

Some of the documented disadvantages include increased social tensions between different community groups, reduced access to healthy food and lifestyles and loss of cultural traditions, practices and livelihoods.

Aside from exacerbating social tension and discrimination, it fundamentally relies on an ideological core of ignorance, denial, and misinformation, one that not only denigrates most of the world's peoples but is also fatal to a society's capacity to steer itself effectively through political challenges and crises.

is part of an international project undertaken by Owens with audiences in various cities, as a way of exploring the underlying social tensions and relations within divergent communities.

[1] Today, amid growing social tensions and extreme xenophobia, Rosenberg's Color for the People intended to create space for remembering the vital roles that color (and food) continue to play in shaping our consciousness and in fostering shared experiences of pleasure and joy, which are, as Rosenberg says, «medicine for times like these.»

The studies warn, «High inequality can diminish economic growth if it means that the country is not fully using the skills and capabilities of all its citizens or if it undermines social cohesion, leading to increased social tensions.

At the SIC, Neil dissected the current social tensions across the country and analyzed and what they mean for politics, markets, and concerned citizens.

This was compounded by heightened social tensions due to the establishment of a forest monoculture of Eucaliptus globulus and Pinus radiata in land that historically belonged to indigenous communities.

In response, the environment has become equally turbulent, battering the settlements with rogue waves, electric snowstorms and pink lightning, which amplifies mounting social tensions — verging on a state of industrial disaster and perpetual crisis.

Some of them sought to stoke racial, religious and other social tensions in a bid to stir political unrest, sources told Recode in September, particularly around issues like gun control and Black Lives Matter.

Although the southern European country has been growing above 1 percent in the past few years, unemployment levels are still over 11 percent and an inflow of immigrants has deepened social tensions.

This 2006 winner was writer - director Paul Haggis» tale of multiple, intertwining plots meant to highlight racial and social tensions still prevalent in modern society.

There, it is true that the arbitrage gains arising from free trade between economic zones of vastly different living standards without trade balance equilibrium and being captured by a small minority are correctly viewed as un-earned gains and giving rise to social tensions which could easily degenerate into political tensions.

Nicaragua was portrayed to its neighbors as a dangerous enemy in order to take attention away from internal injustices that could fuel social tensions within other Central American countries.

The Third Great Awakening of l890 - l920 also began during a time of grave social tension.

In such contexts programmes that are not inclusive risk — at best — being perceived as illegitimate, and — at worst — exacerbating existing social tensions.

Governor of Osun state, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola has on Tuesday praised the Federal Government of Nigeria for the success of two major socially impactful welfare programmes which it said would go down to ease social tension and motivate the poor.

The Queen endured a potential minefield of social tension today, as she celebrated her Jubilee with a lunch involving the surviving prime ministers of her reign.

But given no one knows how much time China has before its debt pile up, industrial overcapacity, environmental degradation and social tensions prove hard to control, erring too much on the safe side may be risky too.

Although social tension gave him great discomfort, there can be no doubt that Darwin's fame was propelled by the world - shaking controversy sparked by his theory of evolution.

But the notion of boundaries, the notion of emotional and social tension at the point of the boundary, is not going to change either.»

Working from Phyllis Nagy's adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's groundbreaking novel The Price of Salt, director Haynes (of 2002's lauded Far From Heaven) once again showcases the 1950s as the backdrop for simmering social tensions and stellar work by his lead actresses.

But that eight - month period was also a time of explosive social tensions, with the George W. Bush administration launching a war based on lies and the eruption of the largest protests in world history.

Such is Peele's confidence behind the camera that he knows exactly when to edit on a close up for maximum social tension and dark humour, fully exploiting the incredulity felt by Chris and ensuring the movie is as witty as it is terrifying.

Yet in recent years, the value of education in the liberal arts and sciences (hereafter, liberal arts) has been questioned and, indeed, challenged by a number of factors, including rising costs, hyper - vocationalism, various forms of online education, and numerous social tensions.

Same question, professors and college students, etc.... I'm NOT saying there is a HUGE problem; I'm saying there are some underlying unaddressed social tensions associated with public education.

Jennifer Levonian and Sari Carel both use animation practices to explore personal, formal and social tensions found in everyday experiences.

In Black is Brown and Brown is Beautiful, Nery revisits territory from his youth — investigating social tensions between the African - American and Latino communities in his native LA.

Following a turn - of - the - year which dragged such heavy and intricate social tensions along, this show gathers works that, as a whole, point to lowered expectations, if any.

Mennour juxtaposes Morellet, a pioneering minimalist who passed away in 2016 at the age of 90, with Mohamed Bourouissa, a young Algerian - born Parisian artist whose multimedia practice explores contemporary social tensions and cultural idiosyncrasies, especially in urban environments.

Nengudi's manipulation of the materials exposes dual and often contradictory qualities, which can perhaps be interpreted as a metaphor for larger social tensions.

As the title suggests, the exhibition makes immediate reference to the age old social tensions between the North and South of the UK, tenderly turning them on their heads and instead choosing as its focus a celebration of togetherness, alignment and conversation.

The ethnic, political and social tensions caused by centuries of colonial rule are being exploited by competing political forces seeking to gain or maintain access to the mostly exploitative profits resulting from a growing global appetite for African commodities.

Making art, in this time when social tensions were very high in the United States, and here you are making paintings and not seeing anyone in the mainstream scene who's an African American artist?

«The general trend of urbanisation is not going to help either, as urban heat islands can exacerbate the problem, and when people are concentrated social tensions can escalate.

Amid growing social tensions and extreme xenophobia, Color for the People intends to create space for remembering the vital roles that art and food continue to play in fostering shared experiences of pleasure and joy, which are, as the artist says, «medicine for times like these.»

The event explores political and social tensions in the Middle East through the sensation of sugar, depicted in a series of lustful scenes from Egyptian cinema.

The gallery fosters an active discourse between the contemporary South Asian arts and the international art community by featuring exhibitions that can contextualize contemporary art from this geographic region within its rich artist traditions and current social tensions.

Where Iraqi affairs are concerned, the author argues that the international sanctions and the containment heightened social tension and political pressure on Saddam's regime.