Sentences with phrase «society is in decline»

The illustrated novel follows a runaway teenager and her toy robot on a journey through an alternate - reality 1997 USA, where the high - tech consumerist society is in decline.

Declinism is our tendency to think that society is in decline and the future looks bleak.

The Oxford dictionaries declared «post-truth» word of the year and Donald Trump won the US presidential election with a campaign that stressed that American society is in decline.

However, the health of our youngest members of society is in decline.

Instead, what matters is how people interpret their economic position: feelings of relative personal deprivation and a general view of society being in decline were found to be the major predictors of populism.

Not exact matches

Fake news, filter bubbles, the «post-truth society,» and the decline of trust in the media are dominating the public debate.

We believe this has been a critical factor behind the multi-decade drop in global yields, beyond the more familiar decline in potential growth as societies age, productivity softens and central bank inflation targeting keeps price volatility in check.

Before signing up with the anti-Victorians, however, you must read Gertrude Himmelfarb's latest collection of essays, The De-moralization of Society (Knopf), for an account of just how strong and long - lasting those Victorian virtues were - even in an era of declining faith.

Toby applies the prayer to the hopeful decline and eventual elimination of religion because of its obvious harmfulness to society: we can't change the harm religion has done in the past, so we must serenely move on; we must courageously overcome the dangerous influence of religion in our society; and we must know the difference between harm done and the harm that can be prevented from religion.

This has been demonstrated in recent years, when a declining belief in etiquette as a legitimate force in regulating social conduct has prompted American society to try to get along without it.

You know, I bet if you slapped the rise in number of atheists / agnostics in the country on a graph with the decline in morality and good sense, you'd get a big fat X. It's pretty obvious which way things are going with a mere cursory glance at today's society.

Feminism has been blamed for the breakdown of the nuclear family, day care, physical and sexual abuse, hurricanes, the downfall of «real manhood,» the decline of the Christian Church in western society, and spectacularly bad television.

A declining Sweden is also the most thoroughly secularized society in the world.

And a society in which each of us is invited to treat our years of decline as less valuable than our more vigorous, productive years may find it difficult to get away from the comparative judgments between human beings that Daniels himself is eager to avoid.

The forces disestablishing marriage in Western societies are so overwhelming and intractable that all efforts to stop or slow the decline will appear moralistic and coercive to the general population.

The usual assertions are (1) that this kind of religion is today on the defensive; (2) that the defensive posture is occasioned by the flourishing of «conservative churches» (although the alleged liberal enervation is also seen in more autonomous terms); (3) that the growth in religious conservatism and conservative churches is itself the result of widespread reaction against «secular humanist» values and against those who hold such values; (4) that our society as a whole has been experiencing a breakdown in moral consensus, a loss of moral coherence somehow connected with a decline in oldline Protestant dominance; and (5) that some or all of these happenings have been quite sudden, so that the early 1960s can be taken as a kind of benchmark — as a time before the fall.

American society is not in decline.

In my opinion, a public education system that does not teach students about GOD is creating a morally and spiritually bankrupt society that is destined to decline and destruction.

The story behind the conversion of St. Cyprian states that it was a revulsion against a decline in the standard of the society.

The periods of world history are divided into epochs, each of which is accentuated by the growth and decline of historical cultures and societies; in each of these shortlived tribal units have succeeded each other in the domination of a given region or section of the populated earth, either simply co-existing or vying with each other for temporary or semipermanent superiority.

There are some grounds, alas, for thinking that American society is becoming less open and that its power is in decline.

The church on the other hand continues to dig it's own grave and ensure its continued decline in borader society.

Second, «There is no doubt that in developed societies education has contributed to the decline of religious belief» (Edward Norman, in Christianity and the World Order [Oxford University Press, 1976]-RRB-.

I don't think there is a significant correlation between Catholic belief and support of independence but to the extent that there might be it, it could also have been a non-intentional disposition to hasten the day of the further decline of the Catholic Church as a force and even a presence in Scottish society giving support to proponents of radical secularization.

At the same time, Christian ethicists often decry the absence or the decline of these values in Western societies today and go on to suggest that, unless we return to the old virtues, we will go under economically; and in this they may very possibly be mistaken.

Thus liberal churches are counting on the subgroups in society that are declining in numbers and social influence, while they neglect the subgroups that in the end will grow in numbers and influence.

Updike presents the reader of his novels and stories with the pseudo — wise men of today's society — with Jimmy, the big Mouseketeer who quotes Socrates; with the neon owl that advertises pretzels; with Ken Whitman, the scientist living in Tarbox who is considered intelligent in his field but who lacks a basic understanding of life; with Bech the writer, honored in direct proportion to the decline of his literary production; with Connor, the efficient, well - trained administrator of the old people's home who fails to comprehend as much of life's mystery as his simple and sometimes senile wards do.

The dramatic decline of marriage is a major factor in the misery of many in our society.

Money has gradually declined in value since then; the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church, founded in 1820, in its early days thought of $ 500 as a generous salary for a domestic missionary, and the first American bishop to be supported wholly by his diocese (the Bishop of New York in the 1830's) received $ 2500.

Although racism is on the decline in professional football, it is unfortunately on the increase in British and European society.

This is just one point of reckoning society will face over the decline in births — and its effect on domestic products of all kinds.

While that might make society feel better and more secure in the belief that the divorce numbers were declining, it wouldn't improve the quality of these troubled marriages: It would only prolong the agony and postpone the inevitable.

Basically, inheritances push us towards a winner take all economy in which lots of people who would be highly rewarded in a fully meritocratic society are undercompensated and may decline to fully utilize their abilities knowing that fact.

He warned society was in danger of «imploding» into a «Babylonian - Greek» culture where sex is «primarily a recreational activity», if «traditional marriage» continued to decline.

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In a society that has become ever more individualised and where people's social lives are no longer rooted in their local working men's clubs or liberal associations, that decline is unsurprisinIn a society that has become ever more individualised and where people's social lives are no longer rooted in their local working men's clubs or liberal associations, that decline is unsurprisinin their local working men's clubs or liberal associations, that decline is unsurprising.

The motion at the debate held at Royal Geographical Society in Kensington was: Britain's in decline: pity Cameron is a Heath not a Thatcher.

Secondly, Bush's compassionate conservatism was a moralising doctrine, which assumed that society's basic moral standards were in decline and set the federal government the task of improving them.

At the last general election only 44 % of 18 - 24 year olds voted and in the Hansard Society's latest Audit of Political Engagement only 12 % of them say they are «certain to vote» at the next election; a decline of 16 percentage points in the last decade.

The decline of white men as the dominant class in society surely plays a significant role in the success of racist strongmen in election, but it can't be denied that the current economic order of things simply isn't working, or the historical correlation between economic downturns and an increase in xenophobic nationalism.

More recently, in May 2012, I prescribed on the Electoral Reform Society blog, how some of these could be used in the UK to offset the decline in voter registration that IER would bring.

How do today's leaders expect that there won't be a decline within their nations in terms of the moral fabric of our societies?»

Sullivan said she is most concerned about the «apparent decline in society's confidence in science as an enterprise of special value to society and of scientists as respected and trustworthy people.»

In sharp contrast, a previous study by Greenfield analyzing American books found that the use of the words «obliged» and «give» declined substantially from 1800 to 2000 as U.S. society shifted from being predominantly rural to predominantly urban.

Industrialized societies are experiencing a decline in fertility rates that exceeds the drop in mortality rates.

Together with their colleagues from the Senckenberg Nature Research Society, scientists of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) were able to show that currently widespread insects are threatened with a serious decline in species diversity in the near future.

The Royal Society strongly disagrees with the assumption underlying the ACOST plans, that one of the reasons for Britain's economic decline compared to other countries in recent years is a failure of the research council system to deliver what industry needs.

Eric, built in 1928 to open the Society of Model Engineers's annual exhibition (but only after the country's future king declined), was constructed out of aluminum and stood just under 2 meters tall.

The potential for early diagnosis and delaying the onset of motor or cognitive decline by perhaps ten years is of potentially profound importance in an aging society.»

«Although sleep scientists have generally accepted that the average sleep duration of Americans has been declining in parallel with our transformation to a frenetic 24 - hour society,» Quan wrote, «most sleep clinicians would consider those values indicative of sleep deprivation even by current standards.»