Sentences with phrase «weakness of american»

Perhaps the most fundamental difference is the relative weakness of American political parties compared to their British counterparts.

A new and very useful symposium on the weakness of American socialism has recently been published: John H. M. Laslett and Seymour Martin Lipset, Failure of a Dream?

The strengths and weaknesses of The American are similar to those of Corbijn's Joy Division biopic Control.

By the time you've finished the first campaign, you'll know the strengths and weaknesses of every American unit, leaving you with a further 5 campaigns to play through.

Not exact matches

The rollout of the new Naked bar products also comes at a moment when the juice category is experiencing weakness as Americans have become concerned about their consumption of sugar.

American Fidelity Assurance, for instance, convenes «accountability groups» monthly where executives discuss their strengths and weaknesses in the context of the company's leadership values.

Works like American Mainline Religion can apprise us of liberalism's social strengths and weaknesses, and of its demographic constraints.

Yet the most glaring weakness of contemporary American Christianity is a failure of proportion, and it can be observed almost everywhere.

This weakness could not become conscious until a sufficient number of American Catholic intellectuals were formed; and they were being formed in the»30s and»40s.

African - Americans have always viewed male homosexuality as more of a sign of weakness than evil.

This is no small part of the reason why the American churches, with all their weakness, are in general in a healthier condition than the state - supported churches of Europe.

People felt frustrated over the economy and over what they believed to be signs of American weakness in the world.

given that 78 % of Americans are Christians and 4 % of Americans are atheist / agnostic, and yet you see this as a cause of «turbulence» is evidence of the foundational weakness of your philosophy.

The weakness of a critical socialist tradition in America can not be explained altogether by the success of capitalism or the repression of socialism but is in part due to those features of American culture and American myth that we have been examining.1

Every story in Descent offers a correction to some element of American Christian norms around sex and love: Wentworth's affair with his fantasy / bride / child / demon exposes a cultural fetish for «manly strength,» in spite of a religion that should force all of us to confess our need and weakness.

The dominance of youth culture in American high schools caused by the weakness of traditional values is not favorable to the market economy of capitalism.

Leave aside all of the individual things that Obama is doing that harm economic growth: Obama is the first American president (with the possible exception of FDR) to actually benefit from economic weakness.

Technological change, above all, doomed the fight for decency in American popular culture, as every successive technological innovation weakened the power of regulators, moral and otherwise, while expanding the venues where human weakness could be exploited for fun and profit (mainly the latter).

We read up on our squad, learn the strengths and weakness of the teams in our pool, and even watch a human interest story or two on an American footballer.

JOHN B. GATES Vice president of finance, Pan American World Airways The times the game brings out weakness in my character.

Tim Vickery's Notes from South America: dismal showing by Atletico Nacional highlights weakness of South American club football

You need to counter the strength of a competing candidate with a similar strength of your own; and being a protected minority is a major winning point in modern American identity - based politics (and being a Dead White Male is a weakness in most juridictions except deep red south).

Generally speaking, this notion of the US as casualty adverse has become entrenched in the minds of adversaries and allies, to the point that a senior British officer considered it a weakness and stated that in future wars, the UK might need to work around «the constraints imposed by this American aversion to casualties.»

Because of New Labour's weakness many more Britons lead lives that are not as free and rewarding as their American counterparts.

Paladino aides said they might seek to exploit a weakness in the Democratic ticket by bumping Edwards in favor of a woman or an African - American.

I believe that the structural weaknesses in American science are not only beginning to undermine our leadership in science and technology but also to threaten the long - term health of our economy.

The new study, which was presented this weekend at an annual meeting of the American College of Rheumatology, sought to address that weakness.

My point is that there is irrefutable epidemiological and nutritional survey evidence showing American seniors suffer in statistically significant numbers from protein calorie malnutrition and that this deficiency contributes to muscle atrophy and asthenia (weakness) and that this loss of strength results in an inability to perform activities of daily living that diminish quality of life.

DISCUSSION TOPICS - Westward expansion, Native American reservations, humanity, kindness, understanding, murder of family members, Comanche, Cheyenne, faith, grief, love, weakness, finality of death, Wounded Knee.

THE DVD For all the weaknesses of the film, Warner DVD's beautiful 1.78:1 anamorphic widescreen presentation of American Outlaws is a showcase piece for its audio / visual transfer.

The strengths and weaknesses of That Championship Season are remarkably similar to those of Everybody's All - American: uniformly great performances at the service of pieces that would probably work better in different mediums (the stage, the opera house), and indifferent ventriloquial narratives that engage in basic soothsaying less revelatory than «no kidding,» each ending with a happy, varnished (embalmed?)

King's morbid fascination for the weakness behind the facade of domestic bliss in the American nuclear family is practically a constant throughout his oeuvre.

This weakness is now of great import because we're up against a group of ideologically driven, right - wing public school critics with an agenda for changing, perhaps eliminating, American public schools.

American Educational Research Journal, December 2015 In the first analysis to investigate claims of alignment in the context of fourth - grade mathematics using tools capable of estimating the alignment of curriculum materials with the standards, results indicate areas of misalignment; including that the textbooks studied systematically overemphasize procedures and memorization relative to the standards, among other weaknesses.

I'm optimistic that American teachers, communities, and young people will make the best of the new law — I'm skeptical that Congress will be ever be held accountable for its ongoing weaknesses.»

Set in a near future where water has nearly vanished from the American West, it's a story of survival, weakness and cults.

«The Children's Hospital, a sprawling and impassioned morality tale in which a catastrophe of biblical scale wipes out nearly all life, human and otherwise, on Earth... despite its weaknesses, The Children's Hospital establishes Chris Adrian as a remarkable American fabulist in the tradition of Melvin Jules Bukiet and Tony Kushner, writers who define and confront the terrifying moral choices of a new century.»

It's the celebrity who caused Edgar Degas (perhaps the only one of his contemporaries who awed Whistler out of his weakness for a witty comeback) to chastise his American colleague: «Whistler, you behave as though you have no talent.»

This is the part of the North American Company for Life and Health Insurance review where we point out the weaknesses of the company.

One weakness of North American Company is the same negative that I would have to give to any life insurance company.

But this incident highlights a key feature of Facebook, to utilize personal information to deliver specific advertising to individuals, and only goes to underscore a critical weakness in the American electorate: that this information can not only be used to manipulate an election, but it can be obtained relatively easily, with few checks.

-- Erica Jong The most damaging myth in American culture today is that we must be independent to be happy and healthy; that needing others is a sign of weakness.

To the extent that Asian American students are encouraged to remediate their weaknesses rather than dwell on their accomplishments, the mediating role of student competency beliefs would function differently for these students than for those in other groups.