Sentences with phrase «societal ills»

According to one of the study's authors, Professor Ye Li, this research «opens up tremendous possibilities for reducing a wide range of societal ills from impulse buying and insufficient saving to obesity and smoking.»

If you want to reform the schools so that kids are held accountable, teachers aren't blamed for societal ills, schools get back to educating rather than feeding, clothing, and raising the students, the whole one size fits all mentality... then I'm with you.

This presentation will cover the role that attachment theory plays in the prevention of many societal ills and the core principles of parenting that are so vital to our future.

When you think of injustice, your mind might automatically go to thinking about societal ills like crime and poverty.

It can be argued that such societal ills are not due to the failure of mothers to respond dutifully to their infants.

Asim Waqif NATURE MORTE [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] For those of us who call New Delhi home, dystopia can be a lived rather than imagined condition; societal ills range from constant attacks...

Correcting societal ills or achieving specific outcomes by working collaboratively can make for an extremely rewarding career, but these missions require long - term thinking and strategy.

The author explores why income inequality and all of the associated societal ills have only worsened even as the U.S. has experienced an eight - year - long economic expansion.

Instead of having to attack the multiple root causes of two entrenched societal ills, childhood obesity and childhood hunger, we just have to do one thing — roll back the clock to upper middle class suburbia, circa 1955.

Sobowale, a journalism icon noted that the advantages of the social media far outweighs its disadvantages, stating that the platform had helped to unearth societal ills, fight corruption and injustice.

Through his sermon and «Khutbat», he drew attention to the various societal ills and suggested corrective steps.

On a sunny Los Angeles day in the early 90s — in the face of poverty, scalding heat, and the boiling pot of post-Rodney King race relations — Bill «D - Fens» Foster (a powerful Michael Douglas) finally snaps and starts a long walk home, taking out his frustration on societal ills in the process.

Even when you tell conservatives how much injustice there is to combat and how many societal ills there are to cure, they resist sweeping plans for social betterment.

They may have a strong commitment to social justice, a deep desire to address complex societal ills, and a hope to make their community and their world a better place.

But this is also an examination of some of the great journalists who exposed societal ills and promoted the reforms that aimed to address them.

The new exhibition, the artist's first major survey, invites audiences to dive into a true experimenter's half - century journey of tackling societal ills such as sexism and racism in part through examining the deep societal bonds of sports.

We've had «wars» against poverty, cancer and drugs to eradicate obvious societal ills, but poverty, cancer and drugs remain.

I believe what lies beneath the Court's decision today are the benighted notions that one can tell when racial discrimination benefits (rather than hurts) minority groups, see Adarand, 515 U. S., at 239 (SCALIA, J., concurring in part and concurring in judgment), and that racial discrimination is necessary to remedy general societal ills.

After all, the JRW Little League is rooted in the midst of several challenging Chicago neighborhoods, where crime, poverty, underperforming schools, drug dealing and other societal ills can make everyday living nothing short of a treacherous human struggle.

Listening to a Sugar Baby complaining about societal ills and daily stresses can be a real turn off.

Does anyone know where Mitt and the other stand on the problem of teenage pregnancy and the host of societal ills it creates?

That is why I often use strong words when attacking societal ills, when attacking the kyriarchy, when attacking ideas that I feel have the ability to push us in the wrong direction.

This presentation will cover the role that attachment theory plays in the prevention of many societal ills and the core principles of parenting that are so vital to our future.

Whether «morals» extends to policy specifics for the remedying of societal ills is, to say the least, uncertain.

Perhaps other factors are at work in producing the societal ills mentioned in the article.

Freeman Dyson of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton writes in American Scholar about the responsibility of science for some of our societal ills.

Jesus was way more concerned with active, thoughtful, daring solutions to societal ills and railed against the establishment.

Regnerus (the same sociologist behind a controversial study of how children of same - sex couples fare) says cheap sex — sex with little cost as far as time or emotional investment — is behind a host of societal ills, from fewer people marrying to the rise of unmarriageable men to more people living together to more children being born outside of marriage — you get the idea.

Manufacturer and inventor Grigory Kravtsov, who opened a campaign account in January, said he envisions that the expansion of American manufacturing, guaranteeing jobs for all, as a cure - all for societal ills

Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai, has opined that poor education plays a major role in youths» involvement in criminal activities and other societal ills that constitute threats to national security.

Cuomo acknowledged that casinos could bring increases in crime, domestic violence and other societal ills — and he didn't dispute the idea that gambling equates to a regressive tax.

And what about the mounting health care costs that undermine our competitiveness in global markets and rob us of resources we could use to advance medical knowledge and attend to a slew of societal ills.

They were also a sad reminder to me of a societal ill that we have apparently failed to eradicate, because NO ONE WINS when we think like this.

She's more captivated by the work of trailblazing reporter Nellie Bly, and she loves writing shocking exposés of the city's societal ills.

Quebec libraries leery of Islamic group's books blaming feminism for societal ills (Yahoo Daily Brew)

If you haven't attended, and only have time to visit one gallery this week, you might try this three - for - one - special where discrete exhibitions by Mark Bradford, Geta Brătescu and Louise Bourgeois are loosely united by themes of societal ills, cultural lore and individual pain.

Those same historical accounts largely ignored the societal ills of racial bias, restrictive housing covenants, and police brutality that precipitated the Panthers» resistance.

Loos's buildings, such as The Looshaus (1911), in Vienna, illustrate his distaste for ornament, which he blamed for societal ills and decried as wasteful.

Born to Lithuanian Jewish parents, Levine grew up in the South End of Boston, where he observed a street life composed of European immigrants and a prevalence of poverty and societal ills, subjects which would inform his work.

It is only through programs such as this that we will really address the societal ills of poverty and crime.

In any event, the prohibition went unexamined and unquestioned for many years, until it became apparent that the societal ills it was intended to prevent no longer existed.