Sentences with phrase «wide social ills»

Khaled tasked youth to pitch charity plans and formulate solutions to region - wide social ills such as unemployment and poverty.

Not exact matches

Boot Camp is validated by research and has been named a best practice by many organizations that consider it an exceptional means of supporting dads - to - be and fostering behaviors that greatly benefit children and help prevent a wide range of social ills.

Droll, dry and ultimately rather heartless, it's clear that Kirn («Thumbsucker») positioned his novel as a kind of «Bonfire of the Vanities» for post-millennial readers, a work that diagnoses the ills of corporate America and chimes in with a wider sense of social malaise.

And the second half makes the case that until a wide variety of social ills are addressed, it is unreasonable to expect much improvement from the traditional public - school system.

«Donna Leon has written almost three dozen novels in this series, combining vivid descriptions of Venice, Brunetti's appetite, and a wide variety of social ills.

Surprised morning staff and awakening regular resident pets were wide eyed to see their outside daytime play areas now housing emaciated, barely standing goats, several critically ill chickens still laying an occasional egg (Big Bird had overtaken the enclosed kitten yard), white rabbits whose painfully thin bodies were less obvious, and a social pig dubbed Jimmy Dean.

He fell out of favor in the 1980s and»90s, when critics dismissed his work as decorative and unemotional, with little to say about the social ills of the wider world.