Sentences with phrase «torn from society»

When human beings are torn from society and forced to fight for survival, our true nature is often revealed.

Not exact matches

The idea of debt amnesties was to prevent debt from tearing society apart — to prevent the kind of crisis that the United States has been in since 2008, when President Obama didn't cancel the junk - bond debts, or the debts that tore the Greek economy apart — when the IMF and Europe imposed them on Greece instead of letting it default on debts owed to French and German bondholders.

In contrast, worship refers to an action which is an end in itself; it offers, at best, some measure of respite from those political conflicts that threaten to tear a society apart.

The Roman Catholic Church, while by no means so nearly a phantom as the Holy Roman Empire, had also demonstrated its incapacity to bring into being such a society long before the Protestant revolt tore away much of Europe from its fold.

The most famous points regarding the Divine Office in the Society are its exemption from choir, which did not absolve individual Jesuits from our obligation to the Breviary, and Ignatius's personal dispensation from said obligation, which was granted in view of the fact that the flood of tears that ensued when Ignatius recited the Office was harming his eyesight.

His point is that we are moving from a civilized to a post-civilized society, and that since civilized society is so disagreeable for so many, no tears should be lost as a result.

Indeed, he creates a virtual phantasmagoria of suffering from actual instances of human barbarity that he has read about in Russian newspapers: Turkish soldiers cutting babies from their mother's wombs and throwing them in the air in order to impale them on their bayonets; enlightened parents stuffing their five - year - old daughter's mouth with excrement and locking her in a freezing privy all night for having wet the bed, while they themselves sleep soundly; Genevan Christians teaching a naive peasant to bless the good God even as the poor dolt is beheaded for thefts and murders that his ostensibly Christian society caused him to commit; a Russian general, offended at an eight - year - old boy for accidentally hurting the paw of the officer's dog, inciting his wolfhounds to tear the child to pieces; a lady and gentleman flogging their eight - year - old daughter with a birch - rod until she collapses while crying for mercy, «Papa, papa, dear papa.»

Finally, consider the militarization of our society's response to recent racialized conflict: From tear - gassed protesters and check points on Ferguson thruways to calls for a militarized response to immigrant children fleeing oppression in neighboring countries.

In a paper published in the June issue of the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (BSSA), researchers Carlos Alberto Vargas of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and Paul Mann of the University of Houston relied on recorded earthquake data from the Colombian National Seismological Network database and tomographic data to reveal a clearly defined, prominent tear.

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Read previous Zoologger columns: Ancient air - breathing, triple - jawed fish, Horror fly returns from the dead, Even parasitic worms have a divided society, Shrimp plays chicken with its sex change, Death by world's longest animal, Live birth, evolving before our eyes, Sympathy for the piranha, The world's most fecund vertebrate, Whale - eater's helpful sulphur - powered guests, Horror lizard squirts tears of blood.

equality (sex, gender, social economic status, race), freedom from war, innovation; it actually brought tears to my eyes to know that i am living in a society that has re-elected a man with such liberal and wonderful views.

Adapted very faithfully from the novel by Thomas Keneally (later author of Schindler's Ark), the film concerns a young «half - caste» in turn - of - the - century Australia who feels torn between the values and aspirations of white society on the one hand, and his Aboriginal roots on the other, and who thus takes to violence against his perceived white oppressors.

Who: Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Ansel Elgort, Miles Teller and Kate Winslet What: Beatrice Prior continues her fight against a powerful alliance which threatens to tear her society apart with the help from others on her side.

When the light turned green, the tachs turned red; our import companion quickly removed himself from the equation as two American motoring icons reared back on their live axles and tore after the fast - approaching merge zone in a shameless display of society - shattering, testosterone - fueled misbehavior.

The eldest, Faruk, a dissipated historian, wallows in alcohol as he laments his inability to tell the story of the past from the kaleidoscopic pieces he finds in the local archive; his sensitive leftist sister, Nilgün, has yet to discover the real - life consequences of highminded politics; and Metin, a high school nerd, tries to keep up with the lifestyle of his spoiled society schoolmates while he fantasizes about going to America - an unaffordable dream unless he can persuade his grandmother to tear down her house.

The multiplayer portion serves as a prequel, taking place during the fall of Rapture as power - crazed test subjects for Sinclair Solutions, the underwater utopia's premier provider of plasmids and tonics, proceed to use their newfound powers to tear each other, and their doomed from the start society, to shreds.

This war survival game drawn from the Siege of Sarajevo in the Bosnian war makes you the Civilian who is struggling to live in a war - torn society.

With Maclean playing all of the characters, with wild and wacky costumes and facemasks, the plotline veers from the saccharine to the horrific, tearing down contemporary society and its vices along the way.

A mass of refugees from America's Regime Change wars is tearing apart German society... that's not on Putin.

Whenever anyone questions the way things are, from the Occupy protestors through to people like me arguing that economic growth will end in tears and crisis, the response is very often, but «markets are wonderful and efficient way of organising our society».