Sentences with phrase «societal standards of»

A leaf - blower might be employed to keep up with the societal standards of yard maintenance.

How do we live up to societal standards of beauty when we age?

The movement explores societal standards of beauty and media influences on self - esteem and identity.

It shouldn't be surprising though, we are bombarded by societal standards of what beauty is (and isn't) on a daily basis and we are constantly receiving messages on what / how to eat via diet culture.

The collection was created to help redefine societal standards of beauty, and offer girls with kinky / curly hair, wider noses and fuller lips a doll that reflects their unique beauty.

Not exact matches

That attitude puts the onus on individual women to improve their self - esteem instead of criticizing societal beauty standards writ large.

Standard Life Investments cited a recent poll of UK residents that showed that only 39 percent of 18 - to -24-year-olds and 35 percent of 25 - to -34-year-olds were «more concerned in investing in a company that provides high returns on investment than societal / environmental issues».

The denial of the transcendent God who orders the universe and directs our lives leaves us with societal chaos and the absence of any objective standard of meaning.

It has been standard practice in adjudicating the psychopathological status of a behavioral syndrome to focus on four criteria: statistical infrequency, distress, maladaptiveness, and violation of societal norms.

Without an invitation, and with only a legal threat, the ACLU was able to force the school board the change its policy, dictate the outcome of the controversy, and lower societal standards.

One can think of many other ways in which shame follows from our failure to measure up to familial, societal, academic, ethical, psychological, and perhaps especially, «religious» standards of performance.

Several of Shakespeare's most notable works have satirical elements pointed toward everything from societal standards to direct political analogies.

Amidst the societal changes, standardization crept in, from ensuring nuts and bolts were made identically to maintain production quality, to a standard railroad gauge used on both sides of the Atlantic.

And in terms of societal beauty standards, it's depressing.

Fearless Rebelle Radio is dedicated to empowering you to break free of societal standards and body shame.

Men working a color combination of red, purple and pink in one look are not considered, by the societal standards, to be a «common» man and dressed like a «gentleman».

There are so many complexities to the levels of understanding of the future and the way in which it is represented, that this film, for all its dullard sensibilities and lewd language, is as thought provoking as any film about dystopias and the erosion of our societal standards.

A consistent sense of danger underpinned the lyricism of It Felt Like Love as Lila's attempts to puff herself up sexually and thus conform to a certain societal standard veered into breathtakingly fraught moral terrain.

Murray adopts a kind of iffy working class Brooklyn accent and his outbursts at societal standards (from bank lenders who cut him off with a shrug and a smile to telemarketers) feel a little stale and unoriginal.

Built on specific English and world history state standards, the project covered concepts including the pre-World War II global economic crisis, the rise of totalitarianism, and the societal moral dilemmas that world leaders at that time faced, and then had students draw parallels to similar fictional themes in the book.

Firstly, the supremely confident Reacher, who has rarely felt a moment of doubt in his life as we know it, finds himself measuring his life choices as a drifter against those of his colleagues, who all enjoy various degrees of personal or professional success as measured by normal societal standards.

During a 6 - month stay on the island of Aruba in 2006, Tom says the people there helped him learn that being successful in life was about more than just accomplishing the standard societal expectations (go to school, get a job, buy a house, etc.).

Born in San Diego in 1947, David Avalos is a forceful societal observer and provocateur who employs confrontational gesture, poetic metaphor, philosophical inquiry, public interaction, and a variety of more standard art - making skills — video, sculpture, photography, etc. — in the creation of potent performances / installations / public art works.

This fact alone has left me submerged in societal influences of impossible appearance standards and numb to the bombardment of advertising featuring nameless faces - the generic «beauty».

Now the Obama Administration is unleashing a host of new mandates and standards, based on arbitrary «social cost of carbon» calculations that assume fossil fuel use imposes numerous climate and other costs, but brings minimal or no economic or societal benefits.

The long - term objective of climate change policy should be to reduce the risks of serious harm to humanity and ecosystems at minimum societal cost, while recognizing additional shared humanitarian necessities, including providing reliable and affordable energy to improve global living standards.

Societal standards, pressures and displays of wealth do seem to affect climate change.

The pioneers of green design can have widespread societal impact only if their work is protected and nurtured by formal standards with «teeth».

For a rule or principle to constitute a principle of fundamental justice for the purposes of s. 7, it must be a legal principle about which there is significant societal consensus that it is fundamental to the way in which the legal system ought fairly to operate, and it must be identified with sufficient precision to yield a manageable standard against which to measure deprivations of life, liberty or security of the person.

Law societies only have so much control and power over these labour markets, which is why many of the larger structural and experiential issues in legal practice may be properly addressed simply by applying existing societal standards to the legal industry as well.

These early decisions generally agreed that the BNA Act should be liberally construed and that the original meaning should be able to accommodate new external circumstances that had not existed in 1867, such as the invention of radios and airplanes; but none of the decisions advocated that the meaning of the text is subject to evolving societal standards.

Purpose The purpose of s. 215 is to establish a uniform minimum level of care to be provided to certain designated persons, a societal standard rather than a personal standard.

Thus, the question of what is «marked» is not based on «are these parents «bad» parents,» or even, «based on my own personal standards are these parents bad parents,» but rather the question is based on the societal standard in place in the context of the circumstances.

Complicating matters is the fact that different generations appear to have different notions of privacy and that may eventually play into what constitutes a «reasonable expectation of privacy» since societal values form a foundation for an «objective» standard.

An income - based definition of poverty compares a household's total cash income (from work, welfare, relatives, and all other sources) with a threshold level of income that varies according to family size, inflation and, in some definitions, according to general societal living standards.

In this age of standards, high - stakes testing, curriculum stressors, and societal pressures on students and educators, classroom time is precious.