Sentences with phrase «struggles against the conditions»

To struggle against the conditions that make for or exacerbate suffering, and to do so with compassion — «suffering with» one another — is how we find redemption in suffering.

While federal funding for legal aid hangs in the balance, our clients» struggles against the conditions of poverty persist.

Not exact matches

Fair enough: decades of Communist tyranny set atop centuries of other, far more invincible tyrannies have effectively shattered the Orthodox world into a contentious confederacy of national churches struggling to preserve their own regional identities against every «alien» influence, and under such conditions only the most obdurate stock survives.

The foreign debt continues to be an issue and new voices have began to sound the need to look for ways to face it; (ii) At the national level two questions are concentrating increasing attention: one is the reassessment of the necessary role of the state to correct the distortions of a runaway market (currently discussed in Europe and in the discussions about the role the initiatives of «an active state has played in the economic development of Asian countries); the other is the need for a «participative democracy over against a purely representative formal democracy: in this sense the need to strengthen civil society with its intermediate organizations becomes an important concern; (iii) the struggle for collective and personal identity in a society in which forced immigration, dehumanizing conditions in urban marginal situations, and foreign cultural aggression and massification in many forms produce a degrading type of poverty where communal, family and personal identity are eroded and even destroyed.

However all three results have come against sides that either were or now are struggling with form and confidence, whereas Saturday's foes arrive in peak condition and full of beans following their rise to the summit for the very first time courtesy of their 7 - 1 drubbing of Blackburn last weekend.

«Joined to the feeling of law, a feeling of impossibility of struggling against the law; a child's obedience, the basic condition for all further education, is thus solidly founded for the time to come... The most generally necessary condition for moral will power and character is the unconditional obedience of the child.»

If you have ever been to a British music festival then you will know about the constant struggle of trying to appear stylish, whilst also dressing practically against the muddy conditions.

More than six months after a supposed militant faction of the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) won control of the union, it has completely capitulated to school and state authorities and refused to mount any struggle against the destruction of teachers» jobs and conditions.

This remarkable document, reflecting periods of both manic exhilaration and clear - headed health, presents a startling portrait of a man who was a uniquely astute observer of his own condition, struggling with a disease for which there was no cure, racing against time to unlock the key to treatment before his illness became impossible to manage.

His large, usually dark canvases call to mind the natural world and the primordial American landscape, simultaneously wonderful and terrifying and their torn, gestural quality speaks to the classic Abstract Expressionist themes of struggle and the human condition, of man against the void.

The change happens as more vegetation grows in the warming Arctic, and forests struggle to survive against fire and insect infestations in warmer and drier conditions.

Flying is hard on the human body — even adults struggle with the cramped conditions and fight the good fight against boredom.