Sentences with phrase «systemic forces in»

Studying larger, systemic forces in society can help students better understand their situation, and can be a useful starting point for students to become more active themselves.

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Affirmative action opened the door to higher education for the pan-Asian community in the aftermath of the Chinese Exclusion Act — which was in force from 1882 to 1943 — and Japanese American internment during World War II, at a time when systemic racism barred our grandparents and parents from accessing a better life for themselves.

It is equally noteworthy that Citigroup, the global behemoth which started this systemic train wreck in 1999 by forcing the repeal of the Glass - Steagall Act, is also on the list.

That nonviolent movements often disintegrate in despair when they experience the full force of organized injustice and systemic evil is clear.

Partly to provide a way of conceptualizing God's transcendence over evil, and in part for other systemic reasons which we need not cover now, Hartshorne is forced to introduce a dualistic account of the divine nature.

In this connection we can appreciate the need and significance of economics, literacy, computer literacy, use of media so as not to be brainwashed by the systemic forces, and dominant orthodoxies.

ordinary people, even good ones, can be seduced, recruited, initiated into behaving in evil ways under the sway of powerful systemic and situational forces (p. 443)

Though it rankles morally, the fundamental legal and philosophical distinction between letting somebody die and causing their death avoids the systemic injustice involved in forcing individuals to be Good Samaritans.

Ordinary people, even good ones, can be seduced, recruited, initiated into behaving in evil ways under the sway of powerful systemic and situational forces.

This mentality denies any systemic problem with colonialism, including the role of brute force in establishing, consolidating and holding on to the largest empire the world had ever seen.

And it is far from certain if the current changes in the number and nature of political forces will be sustained in the long - term and at the systemic level.

In 2000, then - New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani appointed Schwartz to lead a task force to suggest ways to overhaul the city's Buildings Department, after allegations of systemic corruption.

«While we did not specifically investigate the use of force against the adult inmate population, our investigation suggests that the systemic deficiencies identified in this report may exist in equal measure at the other jails on Rikers,» prosecutors wrote in the report.

«The prohibition would force swaps into less regulated entities, increasing systemic risk by pushing transactions into the very «shadow market» which played such a large role in the recent crisis,» Bloomberg said.

This story of two families united by circumstance and, as the title suggests, bound by their debt to the land, is a micro version of a larger story about systemic racism in America — a mighty force that will not simply yield to a handful of the «good ones.»

But the result is a film that, for all its emotional power, is strangely disengaged from the cultural and systemic forces that led to police brutality in 1967 and continue to do so today.

And being one of the many women joining forces - and I get to look across the room to see all these incredible women that mean business and have always meant it - but now culturally there is a time and space for them to take that ownership and that power and really create systemic change in this business and across industries.»

If only the Obama administration would stop forcing states to continue some form of subgroup accountability and allow for more «race - neutral» approaches, then there could be more innovation in accountability that may further systemic reform.

Over the course of her distinguished career at CTL, Dr. Hargan has done extensive state and national consulting work in systemic reform, and has served on national and local organizations including the President's Task Force on USAID to Education in Underdeveloped Countries, the National Forum to Accelerate Middle Grades Reform, the Early Childhood Task Force of the National Arts Education Partnership and the Prichard Committee Task Force on Teacher Quality.

After working as an elementary school teacher in South LA, she became frustrated with the lack of arts, and the systemic forces that made it nearly impossible to effectively integrate arts into her classroom.

While the simultaneous Mandarin and English translations provide a literal underscore to Cheng's experience of foreignness, it is in pieces like The Bridge (2016), where a young black man traverses Hell Gate Bridge while repeating, «I do not turn around», that we are reminded that the maddening forces of Otherness and isolation are as much a homegrown effect of systemic racism than that which is lost in translation.

«I am interested in looking at the overlaps of entitlement and domination in our society, and in calling out the aggressors, the intimidators, and the often - overlooked larger, systemic forces that encourage and reinforce this poison in our culture.»

In June, an international task force of 29 independent scientists released a four - year assessment of 800 peer - reviewed studies into neonics and systemic pesticides.

However, when NASA experienced those two catastrophic failures they were forced to admit failure and that other participants (external peers) were required to be present in their game processes in order to determine if their failures were the result of systemic problems within their game rules.

Some participants hoped the global financial crisis in 2008, and the European financial crisis now, might force resolution of systemic Wicked Problems with the global economic system.

Yet what is more, since the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty, the ne bis in idem principle has become a yardstick of the systemic impact of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (CFREU) on secondary EU law.

But it was absurdly naive to think that a simple regulation could cure decades of systemic racism in Ontario's police forces.

«In the case at bar... there is actual evidence of a systemic problem within the police force as it relates to understanding the longstanding laws relating to release,» she wrote.

Greenwood's infringing conduct was not typical of a systemic problem in the Ottawa Police Force.»

In the case of the $ 700 billion global legal market it would be forced into a systemic and messy meltdown, which could easily be avoided.

We would like the CCW process to emerge strengthened from these discussions, resulting in increased systemic controls on international armed conflicts embedded in international law in a manner that does not widen the technology gap amongst states or encourage the use of lethal force to settle international disputes just because it affords the prospects of lesser casualties to one side or that its use can be shielded from the dictates of public conscience.

Transforming Work in Ontario's Early Years and Child Care Sector outlines the Task Force's recommendations on the workforce strategy and addresses the systemic and structural supports that early years and child care programs / organizations require in order to meet the principles of decent work set out in the Charter.

At a time when external systemic forces peer groups and mass culture are at least as powerful in defining the adolescent's world as the internal family system, the old primary family system, once figuring so dramatically in therapy, has become a shadow of its former self, often exerting less pull on the teen's heart, mind and hormones than the second family of the peer group.

The Task Force's recommendations on the Workforce Strategy will address the systemic and structural supports that early years and child care programs / organizations require in order to meet the principles of decent work set out in the Charter.

The world of an adolescent is now so powerfully defined by systemic forces other than home that working with the family alone is rarely powerful enough to effect change in the life of a troubled teenager.

Restoration Therapy is a professional resource that introduces the reader to the essential elements of its namesake, and from there guides clinicians to a systemic understanding of how certain forces lead to destructive cycles in relationships, which perpetuate more and more dysfunction among members.