Sentences with phrase «toll on society»

Injuries and violence among young people have a substantial emotional, physical, and economic toll on society.

To say nothing of the social and economic toll on society.

Traffic crashes take their toll on society.

Stress triggered neuropsychiatric disorders take an enormous personal, social and economic toll on society.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) explains that speeding is one of the most preventable causes of accidents that takes one of the biggest tolls on society.

Not exact matches

This ignorance extends to all sectors of society, from the «man on the street» to the professor at the elite university; and it has taken a terrible toll.

It's rare to find a televised marriage in which the show creators seem to have any idea how a real relationship ought to work, and the toll that's taken on society has, perhaps, yet to be fully understood.

Meanwhile the tolls, levied substantially on a what - the - traffic - will - bear basis, have tended to eliminate some elements of society from the marketplace of ideas and to give dominance to others.

«This takes an emotional toll on the kids, and puts them even further behind their peers,» said Susan J. Horwitz, Senior Staff Attorney at The Legal Aid Society, which represents several of the families involved in the suit.

According to Cowal, HIV and AIDS was taking its toll on the most productive members of society and, as a result, HIV and AIDS became much more than just a health issue; for many countries HIV and AIDS caused their economies to suffer.

Dan Vergano, a science reporter for BuzzFeed, called the Gold Award series «a distinctive and heartbreaking look at the science behind the toll that violence takes on society's most vulnerable.»

Those policies exert a heavy toll on individuals who still have much to contribute to society, he tells ScienceInsider.

The crippling toll of the disease on patients, family and society at large makes it a global health crisis of frightening proportions.

As expected, intensification of droughts, heat waves, floods, wildfires, and severe storms is occurring, with a mounting toll on vulnerable ecosystems and societies.

Dengue, in addition to inflicting pain and suffering, also extracts a significant social and economic toll on India,» said Alan Magill, MD, president of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, which publishes the journal.

«Resisting the ever - present temptations of unhealthy food in modern society takes a mental toll, as it requires considerable willpower and may involve missing out on some enjoyable activities.

While Heartland continues politicizing science, demonizing credible scientists and using tobacco industry tactics to forge doubt over global warming, Americans are feeling the real toll climate change is already taking on society, by increasing the severity of storms like hurricane Sandy or pushing droughts, wildfires and heatwaves to new extremes.

In selecting a director of photography for his haunting, elegiacal war drama, Malick chose two - time Academy Award - winning director of photography John Toll, ASC (Legends of the Fall, Braveheart), whose work on The Thin Red Line recently earned him both the New York Film Critics» and National Society of Film Critics» awards for Best Cinematography.

The best is a hallucinogenic striptease (by «veteran con» Rosalba Neri) before a high society crowd that plays like how a lot of Eyes Wide Shut probably should have played: erotic, charged with class schisms and the toll of exploitation on all women, even those in the audience.

International Youth Day 2014 moved its theme to a topic that needs our immediate attention, as it is evident that the loud and clear signal of our society simply screams out for action; Major Depression and Mental Health Condition is a direct result of the frightening course our modern way of life takes its toll on the younger generation specifically.

It's a given that being in direct contact with the most helpless, innocent, and unprotected victims of society takes its toll on emotions.

While Heartland continues politicizing science, demonizing credible scientists and using tobacco industry tactics to forge doubt over global warming, Americans are feeling the real toll climate change is already taking on society, by increasing the severity of storms like hurricane Sandy or pushing droughts, wildfires and heatwaves to new extremes.

TDS, a disease that is taking a terrible toll on self identifying liberal progressives — aka the elite of our society.

Drug addiction takes a terrible toll on the addicts, their families, and society at large.