We need to fit our social fabric like a glove.
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Bitter divisions threatening to rip our country's social fabric apart.
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His neighborhood loses a valued contributor to its social fabric.
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"Social fabric has been destroyed in Iraq," Ms. Malfatto says.
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The social fabric was torn by community disintegration and family breakdown.
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Be an embedded part of the social fabric of this country.
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It starts to stress both the economy and the social fabric.
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We began to repair the torn social fabric of our country.
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But ultimately, it means to be part of the social fabric.
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That "will strengthen the social fabric, bring the world closer together."
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For years, she warned that technology was tearing social fabric apart.
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Repairing the American social fabric doesn't seem like an easy task.
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What this all means for the social fabric is anyone's guess.
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These killings undercut the stability and social fabric of our communities.
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They are tightly woven into the social fabric of this city.
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Divides like this are eating away at the American social fabric.
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Well, the damage done to the social fabric is pretty self-evident.
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The social fabric of the country has also come a long way.
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Seemingly overnight, the scourge has been woven into the borough's social fabric.
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Strong families are an essential thread in the social fabric of America.
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Otherwise, we could do irreparable damage to the social fabric of America.
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The one thing we all agree on: Our social fabric is torn.
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Some Richmond residents say birth tourism is undermining the community's social fabric.
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These places lack the diversity restrictionists say is straining the social fabric.
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Dorsey is "iconic" and intrinsic to the company's social fabric, Liekefett said.
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Poor communities have seen their social fabric fray the most, she said.
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It weaves and reweaves the social fabric, enacting and reinforcing social roles.
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From small bifurcations in the social fabric emerge catastrophic, potentially system-destroying consequences.
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But what that misses is that you live inside of a social fabric.
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This inequity has scratched at the social fabric of America for practically forever.
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And once the social fabric frays it's hard for economic recovery to begin.
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Clinton have occupied a particular place in the social fabric of the enclave.
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They remember how badly the city's social fabric had frayed in those days.
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The state, the economy and the social fabric were unraveling all at once.
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A hotel traditionally provided a manifestation of the social fabric of that city.
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"It's undermining the social fabric of the nation, this phony nationalism," Biden added.
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And what's becoming clearer is the fraying of the social fabric that results.
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Every time you assault and stereotype a person, you've ripped the social fabric.
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If we don&apost have these small businesses, the social fabric will be gone.
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And they've managed to get along well, knitting a strong social fabric, Tischler said.
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Young enough to lose my accent, I blended seamlessly into the American social fabric.
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Is Facebook ripping apart the social fabric, to use Palihapitiya's words, or isn't it?
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Women are a crucial part of the economic and social fabric of our communities.
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They are also part of the economic and social fabric of their local communities.
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Still, for Brown, neo-Nazis were part of the social fabric of her California.
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It is a critical strand of the social fabric that weaves our country together.
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These, to me, are monuments embedded in the social fabric of Syracuse, New York.
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Violence is once again threatening our social fabric, this time from the far right.
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Insects, birds, ocean plankton are diminishing, and the social fabric of humanity is fraying.
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The Republican plan would further destabilize the social fabric for those at the bottom.
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Front Burner The first first ladies remain icons in the social fabric of America.
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The social fabric gets frayed, trust and cooperation are undermined, people's health gets worse.
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Tearing these old buildings down, Mr. Tran said, rips holes in the city's social fabric.
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For starters, how to replace a law that reaches deep into the US social fabric?
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What really happens to the social fabric of a town in the wake of this?
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It ripped apart the social fabric, helping to destroy local communities and break apart families.
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But these unreal prices are eroding the social fabric of what makes Pilsen so special.
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Becoming an embedded part of the social fabric — that's going to require a different approach.
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But what's worse, invisibility or the recognition that artists are part of a social fabric?
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Instead of disruption, working with what is part of the social fabric is more logical.
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They become as much of our social fabric as the personal story of the artist.
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Tourism is tearing apart Venice's social fabric, cohesion and civic culture, growing ever more predatory.
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Artificial intelligence is poised to worm its way in the social fabric with profound implications.
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It was a beautiful scene of the complex social fabric that we had in Damascus.
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There is no longer any pretense that the America social fabric is a single cloth.
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A strategy for community problem-solving does an extraordinary job at restoring our social fabric.
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Pretty much any space that can affect the social fabric is within the author's scope.
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The social fabric, the safety net and the human capital sources just aren't strong enough.
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For customers, it's less convenient and tears away at the social fabric of the community.
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"We've become part of the social fabric," Solomon said, with pride, when he joined me.
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The collapse of our social fabric, the collapse of communities, is a much graver crisis.
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A strong social fabric isn't enough to survive the loss of a major industry, of course.
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And yet our social fabric is controlled by age-old customs that exploit and denigrate women.
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It can refer to the fall of a civilization, or the degradation of the social fabric.
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The caffeine sustains the drinker, which is integral to the social fabric of Greek coffee drinking.
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The destruction of the social fabric by Silicon Valley companies is the story of our era.
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"The social fabric, in general, has degraded to a degree..." Solis bemoaned, his voice trailing off.
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And Sanders framed Trump as dangerous to both the social fabric and economic welfare of America.
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Allostasis reminds us that to treat our ills we also have to repair our social fabric.
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He proselytizes about how the social fabric of America is being destroyed by evil communist forces.
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As I've mentioned, a year ago I co-founded something called Weave: The Social Fabric Project.
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While the social fabric has held, some worry how much stress the small island can take.
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When all politics, and indeed all truth, becomes partisan or individual, any unifying social fabric disappears.
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Developers Nanji and Langford insisted their projects would not harm the social fabric of local communities.
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As today, it was a time when the social fabric was being torn by technological change.
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And it warned that this could have serious consequences for nations' economic growth and social fabric.
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And this damaged both America's economy and its sense of fairness, rupturing the nation's social fabric.
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I can say I don't want to use those things but I still live in a social fabric where all my other sexual opportunities, social opportunities, homework transmission, where people talk about that stuff, if they only use Instagram, I have to participate in that social fabric.
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The company's slick, wireless earbuds work great, but they may foreshadow startling changes to the social fabric.
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To some degree it worked its way into the social fabric, the musical soap opera of it.
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He says that experience exposed him firsthand to how racism has permeated the social fabric in America.
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It is hardly the only place where manufacturing jobs have disappeared and the social fabric has frayed.
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Unemployment averages 9 percent, higher education has been widely democratized and immigration has changed the social fabric.
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Many have existed there for centuries and are vital to the social fabric of the Iraqi state.
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It is tearing apart the diverse social fabric and the culture of tolerance that hold communities together.
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A town square can support heated debate while banishing purposefully abusive citizens that break the social fabric.
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To me it's a symptom of a broader decline in the social fabric of the United States.
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Certainly, many will argue that unfettered immigration will damage the economic and social fabric of American society.
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In Nineveh Province, the social fabric that long reflected the coexistence of diverse groups seems permanently damaged.
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They often displace thousands of people, disrupt the social fabric and result in social conflict and protests.
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The Iranian Mullahs' toxic Islamist indoctrination, by contrast, has torn the social fabric of the Muslim world.
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We will lead the resistance to any effort that would shred our social fabric or our Constitution.
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The three economists noted that crises can prompt vastly different responses based on the underlying social fabric.
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"What are the influences of trophy hunting on the social fabric of mountain lion society?" he said.
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" The tools we've created, he explained, "are starting to erode the social fabric of how society works.
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It has disrupted politics, too, surfacing hypocrisies and fraying the social fabric of this proudly cosmopolitan city.
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Trust is built and the social fabric is repaired when people form local relationships around shared tasks.
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Where Americans Come Together (2017) Roller rinks like Skate World in Oregon still strengthen our social fabric.
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They are a result of a thick social fabric, woven over years of bottom-up political mobilization.
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The Nicaraguan social fabric is quickly deteriorating as the opposition is fraying under the onslaught of pressure.
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" He added, "It's about togetherness and the falling apart of the social fabric at the same time.
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That's why everyday patterns and rituals of speech are worthy of study; they reveal the social fabric.
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The social fabric of the internet is built on very specific assumptions, many of which are giving way.
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For Social Fabric, you'll need only 1,20193 total followers across all connected networks, according to the membership application.
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" Instead, it's "building a new infrastructure to rebuild social fabric and rebuild up the potential for human connection.
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Many readers urged me to visit a microbrewery because beer is such a part of Quebec's social fabric.
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The Danes and the Swedes take for granted a cohesive social fabric that simply does not exist here.
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My lifelong passions are the greatest influences: art, activism and an exploration of the social fabric of life.
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The demolitions have pockmarked the district with "useless" squares — Mr. Mathon's word — but its social fabric is intact.
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In the many towns the couple visits, immigrants are working hard, enriching the social fabric, and creating wealth.
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I'd start with the premise that the most important task before us is to reweave the social fabric.
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They are figuring out how to build on those ties to weave and redeem the broader social fabric.
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Mayors, certainly, have not been the only ones to suffer as Germany's political and social fabric has strained.
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The neighborhood you choose, and the social fabric you enter, is more important than the structure you adore.
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But they are concerned that the social fabric may change with the BJP in power for five more years.
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Rebuild law enforcement agencies and rebuild the social fabric through social opportunities and education health services and so on.
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Indeed, in Baraboo the potential of decontextualized viral content to rend the American social fabric had been fully realized.
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"I think we have created tools that are ripping apart the social fabric of how society works," he said.
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Some people were forced from their homes, and others fled as racial tensions rose and the social fabric frayed.
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If discrimination against Dalits is permitted, then the social fabric and promise of India cannot continue, much less progress.
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"And with such ideas still strong in India's social fabric, the problem of forced marriages is here to stay."
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From 1976 to 1983 thousands of citizens disappeared, were killed and tortured, leaving voids in the country's social fabric.
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Those acts draw our attention to the thinness of the social fabric by tearing a little piece of it.
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Those protocols do not officially include things like contributing positively to the social fabric or participating in taco Fridays.
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This underinvestment leaves red states poorer and less educated — and thus prone to a fraying of the social fabric.
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It is Yemen's women who during the conflict have maintained the social fabric of society and kept communities together.
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The social fabric, especially for those without a college degree, was disintegrating — marriage rates plummeting, opiate abuse rates rising.
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International institutions have made Venice a world capital of art and culture but take its social fabric for granted.
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My something extra was starting something nine months ago at the Aspen Institute called Weave: The Social Fabric Project.
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Our individualistic culture means there are vast empty gaps in our social fabric where people suffer alone and invisible.
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"Still was absolutely talking about the social fabric of the US," Bradford says an interview in the exhibition catalogue.
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The strains this injustice places on the social fabric might well lead to woes more damaging than rising temperatures themselves.
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In a world where many physical communities are weakening, what role can the internet play in strengthening our social fabric?
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It's become an inextricable part of the country's culture and social fabric, widely used by younger and older generations alike.
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Of course, there have been rumblings about the impact the company has on the social fabric of wherever it operates.
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Facebook, with its Oculus Rift unit and partnership with Samsung, wants to be the social fabric connecting all the headsets.
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They argue that Mr Ramaphosa is the only person who can reform the country while holding its social fabric together.
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It's their self-protecting, self-deluding rationalizations that conjure the devils of distrust that rip a social fabric to shreds.
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We focus so much on our situation, we don't see how the social fabric is tearing apart for our neighbors.
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The group is also trying to disrupt the social fabric in Iraq by going after village leaders, Wallace told Insider.
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" He argued, "The tools that we have created today are starting to erode the social fabric of how society works.
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However, many struggle to agree on the most effective approach for helping veterans reenter the social fabric of the community.
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"The tools that we have created today are starting to erode the social fabric of how society works," he said.
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Orthodox Republicans spent the last 30 years talking grandly about entrepreneurialism while the social fabric around their core voters disintegrated.
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Additionally, given its population size, heterogeneity and rather fragmented social fabric, it's unsurprising that the United States isn't like Finland.
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This tour peels back the neighborhood's historical layers and explores the social fabric of the Irish community that formed there.
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Together we can weave a stronger social fabric from today's disparate pieces and ensure a more connected and healthier tomorrow.
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So why can't the G.O.P. just cut its losses and accept that Obamacare has become part of our social fabric?
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In rural America basic values like hard work, clear gender roles and the social fabric are dissolving before people's eyes.
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"These individuals were integral to the intellectual and social fabric of our university and the broader community," Mr. Turpin said.
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However, change appears unlikely any time soon, as the race is tightly woven into the city's cultural and social fabric.
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When we stereotype, abuse, impugn motives and lie about each other, we've ripped the social fabric and encouraged more ugliness.
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In many cities — above all Washington and Los Angeles — they are an important part of the economic and social fabric.
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People have become numb to death, the social fabric is beginning to tear, even the value of life is under assault.
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Simply put, it's how social networking platforms have created a feedback loop that is irrevocably harming our real-world social fabric.
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Titled "The McDonald's Man" and featuring photography by Nabil, Yeezy's poem explores the social fabric of the fast food chain's menu.
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But whatever the motive, the turn towards diversity in reality programming is presenting more of the social fabric than ever before.
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If 28503 million of us were to pick up and leave, the holes in the American social fabric would be enormous.
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He's also pushing for a cultural preservation program, which would protect businesses that have contributed significantly to a neighborhood's social fabric.
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"It shows what a deep rift events like this cause in the social fabric, in predominately black communities," Mr. Desmond said.
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Good people, like the members of Smoke Rise Baptist, are reweaving our nation's social fabric even as it is being torn.
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He said Syria's social fabric was "much better than before" the civil war began, not that it was "much better off."
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If our digital screens are separating us from human interaction, you better believe AI will further tear that tenuous social fabric.
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They are major contributors to our economy and our social fabric, providing value beyond what's captured by economic metrics like GDP.
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The beaches provide much of the city's social fabric during the summer, as do the boat-filled marinas and busy harbor.
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" From David Brooks: "The neighborhood you choose, and the social fabric you enter, is more important than the structure you adore.
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If we can improve our suggestions and help connect one billion people with meaningful communities, that can strengthen our social fabric.
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"Complaining is honestly just part of the social fabric of our lives, it's part of how we communicate," Dr. Kowalski said.
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Israel faces a twin crisis: structural deadlock in our political system and a rapid descent into divisiveness within our social fabric.
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This breaks down the fragile social fabric they start to build as they return from military service to life at home.
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By some people's definition teaching and childcare are "green jobs" too, owing to their low carbon footprint and social-fabric-building function.
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Classically liberal conservatives are in retreat, as voters look for strongmen who will close borders and stultify the demographic and social fabric.
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At best this scenario would entail a long tearing of Hong Kong's social fabric and a relentless decline in the territory's economy.
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"These resolutions are baseless... and target the interests of the nation and its future social fabric," Hadi's government said in a statement.
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Let's face it: Trump is an affront to human decency and a danger to the moral and social fabric of our nation.
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While the new president has already done damage to the country's social fabric, he's also stirred up passion for change, Zuckerberg recognizes.
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A more imaginative approach might have been to unfurl a vision to reweave social fabric, the way David Cameron has in Britain.
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The openness that was said to bring about a democratic revolution instead seems to have torn a hole in the social fabric.
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But a president who serves only the base will lead to a further fraying of America's social fabric and even greater polarization.
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Now that the Marine Corps must allow women to serve in combat roles, it tears at the social fabric of the service.
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I find them particularly loathsome because they do their best to magnify prejudice against blacks, Muslims and Latinos, tearing our social fabric.
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"Violating human rights .. leads to repercussions on the security, stability and the social fabric of the peoples of the region," he added.
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In one America, a mentally unstable president selected partly by Russia lies daily and stirs up bigotry that tears our social fabric.
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Addressing increasingly politicized issues, viewers will contemplate their own relationships with the communities, environments, and issues that comprise our global social fabric.
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When we refer to our "social fabric", we usually mean the many mediating groups that bring us together and reinforce our values.
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When he took office in 1975, the city was in trouble, threatened by bankruptcy, public-employee strikes and a fraying social fabric.
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When he took office in 1975, the city was in trouble, threatened by bankruptcy, public-employee strikes and a fraying social fabric.
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Immigrants have built and contributed to America since its very beginning, and are at the center of our social fabric and economic prosperity.
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It does not speak to the idea of tearing apart the social fabric around the most central and difficult issue in America, race.
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But at its best, AI-generated content is likely to heal our social fabric in as many ways as it may rend it.
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And on a daily basis, the political, economic, and social fabric of the Nation are coming together in some way at this hotel.
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"What makes Israel special is its unique social fabric - Jews, Arabs, Druze, Muslims, Christians, Bedouin, Circassians - together we are all Israel," she said.
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Therefore, if the social fabric is such that there are more of those people around, there's going to be more of that violence.
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Along with reknitting the social fabric and reducing our deep divisions, the next president should rebuild the bipartisan foundation for American leadership abroad.
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The external purpose of a meme may be to elicit a laugh, but the deeper social fabric that underwrites them can be beautiful.
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"Activities that harm social fabric and are not allowed by religion are prohibited in the law including gambling, pornography, and dating," Marjan informs.
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Rising unemployment has sowed a deep sense of ennui, altering the town's already frail social fabric and spawning widespread addiction, violence, and resentment.
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"It is very difficult to establish who is not part of family in our social fabric," HAQ's Ganguly told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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"We don't want to replace public services, but instead reinforce the social fabric in our communities," AB founder Mehdi Bouteghmes told VICE Impact.
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To many voters, the message is: The economy is terrible, the social fabric is disintegrating and America is losing respect around the world.
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The social fabric is tearing across this country, but everywhere it seems healers are rising up to repair their small piece of it.
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He lets Americans put aside Kumbaya political correctness, also known as "mutual respect" or "social fabric," and instead embrace our inner storm trooper.
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"In her world, the law was upside down," Lee says, explaining how corruption and cynicism had shredded the social fabric of North Korea.
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That tolerance has been strained in recent years, she said, as one crisis after another pulled at the social fabric of the Continent.
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Just as the social fabric of society is made up of many communities, each community is made of many groups of personal connections.
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Still, the social fabric of France has changed since then, and this national team is even more clearly dominated by children of immigrants.
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"As the conflict continues, it is not only the physical destruction, but also that the degradation in the social fabric intensifies," he said.
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Yet the president-elect and the Republicans are poised to deliver blows to the social fabric and economic underpinnings of those very communities.
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He argues bypassing men would also stoke tensions in India, where economic transformations and an influx of technology are testing the social fabric.
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In their view, these ideas are solvents breaking down America's communities and, ultimately, dissolving the very social fabric the country needs to prosper.
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Deporting families who are contributing to the economic and social fabric of our nation isn't leadership; it's a reckless and callous abuse of power.
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It has made bedfellows with global capitalism — as modeled in Cuba's tourist economy — and the social fabric of American politics, as evidenced in Vermont.
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They particularly understand the full nature of the space battlefield, and the risks to military operations, the economy and the social fabric of society.
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Shaking a teacher's hand before and after class is part of Switzerland's social fabric, and is considered an important sign of politeness and respect.
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In the hours after the Dallas ambush, stunned officials and civic leaders pleaded for citizens to repair the rips in the nation's social fabric.
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This large amount is justified by the scale of the devastation to the country's social fabric, government finances, and infrastructure over the last decade.
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There are also networks, like Social Fabric and Social Native, which are used by influencers as a way to get started with brand sponsorships.
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In the Armory show, at the Wentrup Gallery booth, Nevin Aladağ's "Social Fabric" of 2017 is typical of this Turkish artist's interests in pastiche.
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"Immigrants are part of the economic and social fabric of our cities and nation," Mr. de Blasio said in a statement announcing the brief.
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No, years of erosion of our social fabric and institutional trust got us here and there is no tape which will set us free.
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It's very easy to feel somehow detached from not just the power centers of this country but even just the social fabric of it.
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In another America, a can-do president tries to make America great again as lying journalists stir up hatred that tears our social fabric.
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The social fabric that once held together the Chinese countryside is falling apart as millions of workers move away to chase dreams of prosperity.
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Much more insidious are the effects of warming on the social fabric and confidence in government in countries whose stability matters to American security.
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Those killings, and the subsequent attacks of 2015 and 2016, did more than sow fear: They also tore at the country's fragile social fabric.
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What makes the Stevens manifesto especially irresponsible is that it would rupture the social fabric in this country -- leading to turmoil, lawlessness and violence.
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The impact does not end with the economy, he added: There are downsides for the environment and the very social fabric of the state.
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I think if you do that you start to repair the social fabric that has really broken down in a lot of these places.
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However, the report noted that the U.S. economy was being held back by a weakening social fabric, worsening security, lack of IT adoption, and corruption.
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The social fabric of a city renowned for its diverse communities will be altered dramatically because of the changes, said Sweeney, a school teaching assistant.
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As the sun filtered through the grimy windows, and the voices weaved in and out, the optimistic event gave form to a utopian social fabric.
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The acquisition would allow LinkedIn to create a social fabric that can be "seamlessly integrated" with other areas of Microsoft, like Outlook calendar, he said.
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This unity of tone allows the artist to mix boldly ancient artifacts and new things, illustrating the ongoing mêlée within the social fabric of Kuwait.
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Its members, many of them second- and third-generation immigrants, are dispersing across the country, driving growth and changing the social fabric wherever they go.
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"What we really want is at the level of the social fabric to have our energy consumption to be met by renewable sources," Edminster said.
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The broadened spotlight and consequent public scrutiny that accompanies public service is a realm not tailored for all professional athletes to improve our social fabric.
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But its themes resonate particularly loudly a year into Trump's presidency, as ideological polarization continues to wreak havoc on the social fabric of our communities.
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The confluence of events has created a feeling that the social fabric of America is strained, even as the wider world careens off its axis.
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The separate homecoming celebrations, and the football rivalry between the Cleveland High Wildcats and East Side Trojans, are deeply embedded in the city's social fabric.
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The series of events has created a sense that the social fabric is torn — one point upon which people in a deeply polarized country agree.
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Is it the builders of the social fabric via Facebook or is it the destroyers of it on the negative side that's going to win?
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Inequality weakens a country's social fabric and erodes trust in institutions, according to Klaus Scwhab, the founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum.
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By the 2020s, philanthropists and community builders realized the only way to change culture and weave the social fabric was by creating an A.F.L.-C.
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These aren't just stories about violence and distrust; they are stories about the decay of a social fabric, in which isolation explodes in unpredictable ways.
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The corrosive and cancerous ideas these individuals peddle have infected our politics, our media, our public discourse, our social fabric and our very sense of security.
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In addition to the regional turmoil the executions have caused, they "could tear the social fabric" between Sunnis and Shiites in Saudi Arabia, Mr. Gerges said.
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It seems only logical, actually, that as Twitter eases into its second decade of existing, it would also become embedded more naturally into the social fabric.
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The report notes signs of a weakening social fabric and worsening security situation, for which the U.S. ranks a meagre 56th out of 140 economies studied.
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By piecing back together buildings which he says gave Mosul its soul and identity before the war, Jeber hopes also to help rebuild its social fabric.
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With the rising challenges of a new tech era also comes new opportunities that are exciting and are already impacting on the social fabric of society.
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Netanyahu has called the migrants' presence a threat to Israel's social fabric and Jewish character, and one government minister has referred to them as "a cancer".
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Related: Poetic Textiles Tell a History Woven by Women Brooklyn Textile Artists Weave a Delicate Social Fabric Sexts We'd Send If Our Tattoos Were Chinese Textiles
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But other vulnerable communities, like the one here in Tel Tal, were so traumatized that they may never recover, leaving permanent holes in Syria's social fabric.
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Saudi authorities and government-aligned media launched a smear campaign over the weekend to discredit the activists as "traitors," who were undermining the country's social fabric.
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His forthright vision embraces the realities of contemporary Italy by depicting the new immigrants and their children who make up the social fabric of today's Luzzara.
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Yet in ways large and small, they have changed history: They are people who, for good or ill, have put a wrinkle in the social fabric.
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The collision of social distancing and the social fabric seemed to threaten the aims of both, producing a Primary Day at once disjointed and borderline dystopian.
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And it really is about re-weaving that social fabric that holds a society together: honesty, decency, hope, leaving nobody behind, giving hate no safe harbor.
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It will be one more thread cut, and I'm not sure how many more cuts America's frayed social fabric can take before it begins unraveling entirely.
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Orban has been one of the loudest opponents of mandatory migrant resettlement quotas proposed by the EU, arguing this would undermine its sovereignty and social fabric.
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Women (and men) who disagree should put their votes where their anger is, not further tear at our social fabric by perpetuating dehumanizing and vitriolic rhetoric.
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Roughly three decades after the New Deal, President Lyndon B. Johnson spearheaded the Great Society, which wove the government even deeper into the nation's social fabric.
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"These individuals were integral to the intellectual and social fabric of our university and the broader community," David Turpin, the school's president, said in a statement.
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As I explain in my new book, "The Power Paradox: How We Gain and Lose Influence," the expression of these viral virtues weaves through our social fabric.
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In Vanuatu on Wednesday, Morrison said Australia will allow imports of the kava, an intoxicating drink that is deeply embedded in the social fabric of Pacific islanders.
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Trump's rhetoric, while not criminal, still "divides and damages the social fabric of our country in ways that obstruction of justice cannot," Green wrote in his letter.
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Shafak's novel captures the era's richly textured social fabric and functions as "a love poem to the cosmopolitan beauty of Istanbul," our reviewer, Christopher Atamian, said here.
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If you don't want to reach out to brands directly, there are a few networks, like Social Fabric and Social Native, that place influencers in brand campaigns.
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They accept immigrants who assimilate to existing culture, but they'll be suspicious of those who they feel bring in incompatible customs and tear at the social fabric.
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His willingness to traffic in bigotry has threatened to unravel America's social fabric and undermine the country's standing in the world from the day he became President.
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What higher duty does a government have than defending its citizens from illegal immigrants who steal their jobs, commit violent crimes, and erode the nation's social fabric?
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The flood of vendors is evidence of how a fourth year of recession - which has fomented malnutrition, disease and violent crime - is tearing Venezuela's social fabric apart.
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Many Indians are concerned about the legacy Mr. Modi will leave on India's social fabric should he remain in power for five more years, the parliamentary term.
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Every newspaper closed or politician arrested, like every new diplomatic spat with the United States or Europe, will further strain Turkey's social fabric and weaken its economy.
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Another factor that has benefited Portugal: The economy has grown and there is a robust social fabric and safety net, so fewer people self-medicate with drugs.
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We're not going to give up… We're all human beings, we contribute significantly not only to the economy but to the social fabric of the United States.
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We should use our awareness of our vulnerability and dependency to strengthen the social fabric for those exposed to the depredations of cancer and of malignant nativism.
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The coronavirus pounded the European Union this week with the biggest test of its political, economic and social fabric since the refugee crisis of five years ago.
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Waves of immigration in the 1970s had begun subtly changing the social fabric; the arrival of nearly 125,000 Cubans via 1980's Mariel boatlift supercharged this transformation.
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Coming to the defense of the bagels were fans who treasure the carb-heavy snack as an essential part of the city's Jewish history and social fabric.
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Trump has purposely stoked and exploited this tragic condition and unleashed the dark forces of hatred and division that have ripped at the social fabric of America.
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When the outgoing President warned, in his farewell speech, of the ways in which inequality corrodes the social fabric, he probably wasn't referring to commercial airline travel.
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They did not grow into the big national chapter-based structures that had repaired America's social fabric a century earlier — the Y.M.C.A., the Rotary, the Boy Scouts.
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These frightening divisions are not new, but simply the darkest phase in a decades-long process of tribalization in the political and social fabric of our nation.
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"Everything is washed away....[but] the social fabric is the one which will be extremely difficult to reconstruct," even when the roads are re-paved, she said.
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As the social fabric decays, social isolation rises and online viciousness and swindling accumulate, you tell people that the state has to step in to restore trust.
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"The people are suffering; the national social fabric is deteriorating ... we want to bring hope and find solutions to problems that have lasted too long," Lafontant told lawmakers.
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Facebook wants Group users, who it says help build the platform's social fabric, to come to the actual Facebook homepage instead of jumping straight to their favorite place.
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The Cruzes have never seemed all that interested in weaving themselves into the social fabric of the city — something that, frankly, has never been that hard to do.
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An expanded ministry statement on Saturday said these instructions do not impinge on freedom of speech as such content "intends to harm civil peace and the social fabric".
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We know that the dirty wars of the 1970s and '20063s ripped the already-strained social fabric of the Northern Triangle countries—Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras—apart.
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The company is integral to the social fabric of Saudi Arabia and the survival of the ruling Al Saud dynasty, providing up to nine-tenths of government revenues.
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"Instead of talking about the collapse of the economy, the social fabric and people's living standards, they are arguing that there is no preventative punishment," Mr. Shakour said.
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Fashion Review 30 Photos View Slide Show ' LONDON — Uncertainty and insecurity, rents in the social fabric — such atmospheric currents have a creeping, potent influence on the creative mind.
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Consistently, President Trump has made provocative statements and taken stands, particularly with regard to immigrants, that go against the intricate social fabric that defines most of our communities.
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Related: An Artist Documented Ayahuasca's Secrets as Sounds and Textile Art Brooklyn Textile Artists Weave a Delicate Social Fabric Sexts We'd Send If Our Tattoos Were Chinese Textiles
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Talking to them has made one thing clear to me: The identity of being an American, the "social fabric," has been slowly tearing for years, if not decades.
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I'm convinced that a program of this nature would have multiple beneficial effects for our economy that would far outweigh its cost, including strengthening our tattered social fabric.
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In a world where this physical social infrastructure has been declining, we have a real opportunity to help strengthen these communities and the social fabric of our society.
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But the damage done by the militants is not easily remedied: they brutalized Iraqis, exposing fault lines in the country's already fragile social fabric and ripping families apart.
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As he pulls at the threads of the country's already unraveling social fabric, his children carry on the family business, often in ways that capitalize on his presidency.
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But he believes that radical Islamists are trying to shred France's social fabric and foster a civil war, and that many leftists are unwittingly playing into their hands.
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These traumas impact every aspect of a state's social fabric and must be paid deference in any initiatives undertaken and institutions created to eradicate the roots of insecurity.
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The second idea was that this problem is being solved by people around the country, at the local level, who are building community and weaving the social fabric.
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We must recognize and speak out against the systemic injustices that immigrants face to preserve the patchwork quilt of diversity that comprises the social fabric of our country.
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"It's being used to create a divide in the social fabric of this country, and that's extremely dangerous," said Pratik Sinha, founder of the Indian website Alt News.
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The "Christchurch Call" is consistent with other steps that government agencies are taking to address how to manage the ways in which technology is tearing at the social fabric.
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"The women were seen as the spoils of war and the soldiers violated their bodies in order to destroy the social fabric of the Maya Q'eqchi' community," she said.
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Suppose you believe the presidential frontrunners are unfit for office — so unfit, in fact, that they are a threat to the moral, political, and social fabric of our nation.
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Case and Deaton make a plausible case that "slow moving and cumulative" social forces -- lack of labor market opportunities and fraying of the accustomed social fabric -- are key explanations.
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" Also last year, former vice president of user growth Chamath Palihapitiya said he believed "we have created tools that are ripping apart the social fabric of how society works.
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In a country where homophobia is still a part of the social fabric, a gay soccer team isn't merely a safe place to play, or a personal support system.
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In scouring the world for our obituary subjects, we often gravitate toward unsung heroes and heroines who have managed, however quietly, to put a wrinkle in the social fabric.
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Through their music, dance, and public art, artists create sites of public memory and gathering-places that strengthen social fabric, making people proud to feel part of a community.
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But they view short-term rentals as a frontal attack on the social fabric of their city, reducing the housing supply and making Palma unaffordable for its 440,000 residents.
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Greta's successes, when considered within the context of her Asperger's profile, shed light on the importance of accepting neurodiversity as a significant and meaningful aspect of our social fabric.
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AKILA RADHAKRISHNAN Vice President and Legal Director Global Justice Center New York To the Editor: The news today is full of cultures and countries whose social fabric is crumbling.
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called the migrants' presence a threat to Israel's social fabric and Jewish identity and some of his supporters have referred to it as "a cancer".
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She said, like she did at the launch of her campaign earlier in the week, that she believed that Donald Trump was tearing apart the social fabric of the country.
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That is understandable: Schroepfer is a human person, and has, along with the rest of us, watched tragedy unfold and our social fabric shift in heartbreaking ways, live on Facebook.
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And it also implies a willingness to deliberately incite racial angst, fear, and public discord that may be impossible to control and is almost certain to damage America's social fabric.
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He is willing to imperil the civil peace and the social fabric of his country simply to satisfy his narcissism and to excite the worst inclinations of his core followers.
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Here, the muxes — people born with male bodies but who identify as neither male nor female — are part of the social fabric, admired for their embroidery, hairstyling, handicrafts and cooking.
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This is taking place against a backdrop of human rights abuses and a fracturing economy that are threatening to rend Venezuela's social fabric and plunge it into a civil war.
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Jeannie Kielty, who works on community relations for Banks, says open cast is part of the social fabric of the northeast, an area with a long history of coal mining.
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"The ruling doesn't take into account, and does not measure, the impact on the country's already fragile social fabric," Cerén said in a statement broadcast to the nation on Friday.
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Still, the trend highlights Venezuela's fraying social fabric and the heavy toll that a deep recession and soaring inflation are taking on the country with the world's largest oil reserves.
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These were novels I had written from afar, and through them, I tried to grapple with the painful disintegration of an entire country and the destruction of its social fabric.
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But detractors say his commitment to giving more power to the country's Hindu majority has struck fear in the Muslim minority and is pulling the country's delicate social fabric apart.
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Consequently, the manifestation of the distorting effect of advertising — addiction, manipulation, fraud, tearing of a collective social fabric — has been met with little cultural immunity, policy response or institutional defenses.
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Germany: The far right's move to foment a controversy over a satirical song, "Granny Is an Old Environmental Swine," has stoked concerns about the breakdown of the country's social fabric.
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The solutions of the neoliberal era offer no serious ideas for how to restitch the fraying social fabric, in which people are increasingly tribal, divided, and disconnected from civic community.
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Although they only form about 226% of the 2350 million-plus population here, as their numbers grew, they established mosques and schools and became a part of the social fabric.
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SOCIAL FABRIC on Red Bull TV. The men's wear designer Kyle Ng implores viewers to see the art behind their T-shirts and sneakers in this new 12-part series.
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WILLIAMS: I&aposm telling you, one of these items speaks to tearing at the social fabric in a way that can&apost be undone and puts us all in great danger.
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We need to understand the political work that his law and order rhetoric does for him, but also the damage it does to the social fabric of the nation he leads.
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We are still struggling with the events of Charlottesville, and are having a national dialogue about the reality of racism that is still very much a part of our social fabric.
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But more than nostalgia is needed to render the way both city and country have begun to come apart in recent years as the social fabric holding them together has frayed.
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But when you're dealing with an onslaught of hormones and trying, probably for the first time, to navigate a social fabric that feels inherently against you, that aggression feels wholly necessary.
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And, the words he did say were ones larded with just the sort of ambiguity that he has long dabbled in but which threatens to tear the social fabric even further.
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I came, I saw, and I left feeling that a beautiful lake had been mired by a large-scale reinforcement of the social fabric: a paean to neo-feudalism, no less.
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What concerns me is not necessarily just whether Amazon is getting "too huge," but if these trends continue, whether technology will ultimately undermine togetherness and the social fabric of our society.
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As a result, as much as 40 percent of economic growth for some of these natal countries may have been lost and the costs to the social fabric have been enormous.
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We need to understand the political work that Trump's law and order rhetoric does for him, but also the damage it does to the social fabric of the nation he leads.
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Trump has surprised us in many ways this year, and let's hope and pray that he will stun us once again by repairing the tears he made in our social fabric.
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"We are indeed threatening the potential food security, water security, human health and social fabric" of humanity, Robert Watson, a former NASA scientist who led the report, told the Associated Press.
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We saw something similar with the IRA's mainland campaign in the 1970s—so many bombings that they ended up becoming part of that same social fabric they were trying to disrupt.
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Over the past few years they have been flying around the U.S. (James is a pilot), writing about the American social fabric — where it's in tatters and where it's in renewal.
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I saw the decline in this country — its weak economy and frayed social fabric — and I thought Mr. Trump's willingness to move past partisan stalemates could begin a process of renewal.
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"These individuals were integral to the intellectual and social fabric of our university and the broader community," University of Alberta President and Vice-Chancellor David H. Turpin said in a statement.
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They do things like provide disaster relief, teach coal miners coding, help veterans write résumés, educate young people about the opioid epidemic and generally patch holes in America's fraying social fabric.
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Grandpa is extremely active on Ring Neighbors, the social network that the company calls "the New Neighborhood Watch," and which is tearing at the already threadbare social fabric of his suburb.
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Morrison, on a tour of the Pacific, also promised to relax curbs on imports of Kava - a mildly intoxicating brew that is deeply embedded in the social fabric of Pacific islanders.
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" A former VP of user growth at Facebook, Chamath Palihapitiya came out against the company in December 2017 to say that it was "ripping apart the social fabric of how society works.
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And somehow it's just as hard to trust folks like him, who insist with an imploring smile—while busily rewiring the social fabric of human civilization—that everything's going to be great.
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"But instead of seeking to divide a very strong social fabric here, we're going to continue to unite it, and hopefully we can welcome the president in doing that in the future."
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"[Microsoft] can now provide this social fabric which I think is going to be so important in this network economy," said Hawtin, who owns shares in both companies through his firm's funds.
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"We need to figure out how to heal the wounds and if the social fabric has unraveled somewhat, we need to do everything possible to fix it," the Nobel peace laureate added.
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While they dwell in the land of impersonal bureaucracies, you point out that the primary task before us to repair the social fabric — the basic respect diverse Americans have for one another.
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Which is why all across the country there are citizen-led efforts underway to heal the divides created by the presidential election, to repair the social fabric, to restore trust and civility.
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Fascism and hate-based politics are gaining global ground in a manner reminiscent of the late 1930s, and the American social fabric seems to be wearing as disenfranchised populations demand overdue justice.
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" PEN America Executive Director Suzanne Nossel said: "Ethnic violence in Myanmar has profound implications for the country's social fabric, political future and international stature; it is a story that cannot be buried.
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"Cross-border terror and incitement is aimed at suppressing the will of the people of Jammu and Kashmir, disrupting its political and social fabric and undermining India's integrity," India's foreign ministry said.
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He also likened the Iowa Republican to Nation of Islam founder Minister Louis Farrakhan, who has publicly made anti-Semitic comments, and other radicals who he said weaken the country's social fabric.
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Add to this decades of abuse, the unraveling of the social fabric, and the creation of an individualistic ethos, and you have the explanation for the current discontent, rage, and explosive violence.
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Then, the work felt consonant with Ono's universalist aesthetic: it was not some specific, urgent suture; there was no promise of an instant fix for some irremediable rent in a social fabric.
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Recently, a series of violent incidents targeting Egypt's minorities has underscored what regional observers say is a fragile social fabric that could easily tear as civil strife and terrorism rear their head.
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Asians, a term that in Kenya refers to those from the Indian subcontinent, have long enjoyed economic success, but many feel excluded from the country's political and social fabric, Mr. Shabbir said.
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Best, the veteran, had three teenage children and a 12-year-old daughter, and I hope his kids understand that their dad died challenging a venomous intolerance that threatens our social fabric.
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Painted during a time of turbulent change in the social fabric of Southern California, Almaraz's depictions of fiery car crashes on freeways, shootouts, and burning buildings emulate the turmoil of those times.
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A fiber arts exhibition in Brooklyn points out that textile production doesn't just result in fabrics that we can touch, it plays a crucial role in the creation of social fabric as well.
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But Desai and writer Vipul Rawal expend too much energy on painting Rustom as a hero to ever delve deep into the moral and social fabric of Mumbai's high society during the time.
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Its government drew support in part from those with an emotional attachment to the job security, social fabric and national pride associated with mining that overlooked the downside for health and the planet.
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The conflict has torn at the social fabric of South Sudan: Millions are on the brink of famine, the economy is in shambles and more than 2.5 million citizens have fled the country.
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Out of this great crisis can also come great opportunity — a reweaving of a frayed social fabric, a fresh recognition and appreciation of the role of government in ensuring economic stability and opportunity.
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Fixing systemic flaws in federal policy and the social fabric, both argued, is essential if the Democrats hope to achieve goals like universal health care, immigration reform and a fairer criminal justice system.
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You may not agree with one of us or any of us, and that's O.K. But together we are weaving the social fabric so needed to protect us as the Trump agenda advances.
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And if these impressionable young people are not held to account, then a deadline becomes nothing more than a two-syllable word, creating a loose thread that threatens to unravel the social fabric.
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One lesson of that election, Mr. Bloomberg suggested, might be that elites have done too much to change "the moral and social fabric of the country" without explaining the changes to ordinary people.
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"Domestic work is not counted as real work in our social fabric," said Deepa Ebenezer, a research scholar working on the changing nature of domestic work at the Madras Institute of Development Studies.
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"It's being used to create a divide in the social fabric of this country, and that's extremely dangerous," Pratik Sinha, founder of the Indian "fake news"–busting website Alt News, told VICE News.
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There's a large reservoir of gender traditionalism and misogyny as shown in the Trending towards Traditionalism paper — and it persists among youths so may be part of our social fabric for some time.
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In that regard, the brooding works of Sironi, which surround you if you take that right turn upon entering the gallery, are the most emblematic of the dark undercurrents unraveling the social fabric.
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Like so many other Americans, I am left deciding which of these two candidates is the lesser of two evils, which one is capable of inflicting less damage on our country, our social fabric.
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The stagnation of the middle class and the ever-growing gap between the extremely wealthy and everyone else threaten our social fabric, manifesting in high rates of depression, a contributor to the opioid epidemic.
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And this judgment isn't likely to be persuasive to people in places—like some North American college campuses, perhaps—where the singular "they" has already come to seem like part of the social fabric.
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I can fight for my values even between elections, and even at the micro level I can mitigate the damage to my neighbors and attempt to heal a social fabric that has been rent.
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"A crisis imposed on a weak institutional structure can actually further damage the quality of the supporting social fabric if the crisis triggers blame and strife rather than cooperation and repair," the economists wrote.
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Crucially, the charitable giving culture that supports these initiatives and that Americans seem to take for granted is nearly absent from Colombia, perhaps because our decades-long war has torn apart the social fabric.
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Corporate capitalism, with its widening gulf between the ultrarich and the millions of people living in poverty, strains our social fabric while the worsening climate crisis provides unforgiving reminders of the earth's delicate interrelatedness.
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Creating financial barriers through such ongoing policies as fare increases for hardworking, low-income New Yorkers who contribute to the economic, cultural, and social fabric of our city is not for the public's benefit.
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Many of the social problems we face today — the fraying social fabric, widening inequality, anxieties over immigration, concentrated poverty, the return of cartoonish hyper-masculinity — are the same problems she faced 130 years ago.
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He argues that rural Americans are less concerned about economic issues and more concerned about Washington threatening the social fabric of small towns and causing a "moral decline" in the country as a whole.
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Our great and compelling and even everyday experiences are part of the weft and warp of the social fabric, so we are not nearly as singular and individuated as we are sometimes led to believe.
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" Dr. Romem broke down the economic forces feeding into the housing shortage and the impact it's had on the community at large "[San Francisco] is giving up it's social fabric by giving up it's affordability.
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If we can do this it will not only reverse the whole decline in community membership we've seen around the world… but it will also strengthen our social fabric and bring the world closer together.
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"Creating affordable housing is not merely about adding square footage area; it is also about maintaining the social fabric and about sensitivity to the needs of people who do not have many options," he said.
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But look, Laura, I think this speaks to the broader issue of trying to turn people against each other, trying to tear at our social fabric against things that represent the United States of America.
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A deadly war In 1998, Ethiopia and Eritrea fought one of Africa's senseless and deadliest war, which killed an estimated 100,000 people, ripping the social fabric that tied these culturally and economically interconnected peoples together.
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There are a few networks, like Social Fabric where bloggers or influencers can get started, and anyone can apply for these networks if they reach their standard metrics, like pageviews or platform engagement, Brown said.
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Despite the imposition of economic austerity by the Conservative government, there's still a greater sense in England than in the United States of a commonweal—of a social fabric that, however frayed, is worth maintaining.
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But perhaps no more difficult issue exists in the United States than racial justice and privilege, and officials expressed worry that amplifying divisions among races could do the most damage to the country's social fabric.
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They extract as much wealth as possible from hard-working people trying to hang on to the places they call home, with little regard for the common good or the social fabric of our city.
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I first came here shortly after the storm, when severe food and water shortages were tearing at the social fabric, leaving residents to scavenge for food and, in some cases, fight over what little remained.
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But for most people interviewed this week around the country, it seems to mark a time for recovery — from years of wrangling that has upended the political system and sometimes strained the country's social fabric.
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Critics say that the decision to construct new towns, rather than focus on rebuilding the historic center, was the most significant misstep in L'Aquila's renewal, displacing funds and unraveling the city's social fabric, possibly irreparably.
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In 1922 he published "Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis", in which he demonstrated the impossibility of socialism as an economic and social system and described how it leads to the destruction of the social fabric.
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To improve cultural ties, Morrison told reporters in the Vanuatu capital of Port Vila that Australia would remove restrictions on kava, a mildly intoxicating brew that is deeply embedded in the social fabric of Pacific islanders.
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" In the same month, former Facebook VP for user growth Chamath Palihapitiya stated in a talk at Stanford that social media companies "have created tools that are ripping apart the social fabric of how society works.
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Because of him, a new culture will have to be built, new values promulgated and a new social fabric will have to be woven, one that brings the different planets back into relation with one another.
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"We are not at all opposed to a social and community-minded approach, and we believe, in effect, that the population of Montreal-North merits investment in its social fabric, and in jobs," the letter reads.
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"In Africa, post offices are now considered part of the nation's social fabric and an immediate access point to financial services," Pedro De Vasconcelos, coordinator of the Financing Facility for Remittances at IFAD, said in a statement.
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"I think we have created tools that are ripping apart the social fabric of how society works," he told an audience at Stanford Graduate School of Business, before recommending people take a "hard break" from social media.
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That may sound lofty or difficult to a lot of people, but when we're faced with catastrophic climate change, extreme wealth inequality, and a fraying social fabric, defending a failed status quo is no longer an option.
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"Media is an avenue to be a part of the social fabric to be part of society, and to be seen as fully realized human that has a stake in our entirely mediated culture," Feder tells me.
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"Emergencies like these create lasting effects, partly because they can be so destructive to the social fabric of a country or community," said Richard Mallett, research officer at the Overseas Development Institute, a UK-based think-tank.
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"I think we have created tools that are ripping apart the social fabric of how society works," he told an audience at Stanford Graduate School of Business, encouraging them to take a "hard break" from social media.
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Rather, I lament the terrible damage he has already done to our country's social fabric, the coarsening of our national conversation, and the insults and violence that he appears not only to condone but also to encourage.
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Civil society has, by its actions or its failures to act, enabled such conduct to slowly work its way beyond the fringes of our society, both left and right, and infiltrate the mainstream of our social fabric.
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"I think we have created tools that are ripping apart the social fabric of how society works," he told an audience at Stanford Graduate School of Business, before recommending people take a "hard break" from social media.
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Facebook's blog post follows criticisms from former Facebook exec Chamath Palihapitiya, who said recently that social networks such as Facebook are "starting to erode the social fabric of how society works" and that they're "ripping apart" society.
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It is a ruling that will forever affect the social fabric of this country and reaffirm a constitutional morality in a time of deep social and political division — a judgment that can be equated with Brown v.
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Zahid Ahmed, 23, a local shopkeeper whose son was born at the hospital, said the cyberattack was an assault on the social fabric of the neighborhood, where the hospital was part of life, from cradle to grave.
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"Dogmatic ideological parties tend to splinter the political and social fabric of a nation, lead to governmental crises and deadlocks, and stymie the compromises so often necessary to preserve freedom and achieve progress," he wrote, rather prophetically.
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But as the social fabric of the city began to fray in the middle of the last century — a combination of deindustrialization, discriminatory lending and racial unrest that culminated in the 1967 riots — Woodland deteriorated as well.
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"Bachelor workers are eroding the privacy and comfort of families," Rashed Al Fadeh, a Qatari journalist, wrote in a column for local Arabic-language daily al-Sharq last year, saying workers overrunning neighborhoods was damaging Qatar's social fabric.
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Now — three years later and with a legion of fans who play Destiny as devoutly as some of the longest-running MMOs — it seems clear that without its social fabric, the game would be just another flashy shooter.
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Speaking at the prime minister's traditional year-end news conference, Gentiloni, 62, who took office less than three weeks ago, said he would try "to mend the many lacerations that are threatening our social fabric and our cohesion".
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Add our social media choices to the mix, which can either propagate the world with goodwill or eat away and erode our fragile social fabric, and you've got a daily impact that outpaces any annual UN meeting minutes.
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A flood of Chinese bankers is changing the social fabric of Hong Kong, as they rapidly expand their footprint in one of the world's premier financial centres, even as Beijing struggles to tame the former British colony politically.
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But I don't believe you should have to go to war in order to build that kind of trust and understanding, which is why I'm determined to knit together our social fabric through a new call to service.
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Baton Rouge has much to answer for; while the city recovers from a historic flood and works towards mending its tattered social fabric, at least the relative obscurity of Barghest is one sin that may finally be absolved.
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"Farming is a necessary part of the social fabric—in the same way as education and other civil services are—because growing the food we eat and creating strong economies are essential for a strong community," she says.
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In Boston — perhaps the emotional heart of the church in America, but a city with a history of racial troubles — Cardinal Law was a voice for tolerance, and he became part of the city's political and social fabric.
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They say it has also undercut Palestinian efforts to build institutions for a future state, and torn at the Arab social fabric, as rival ethnic, religious and national leaders increasingly apply tactics that were first tested against Israel.
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Small though its beginnings may be, the fight has added to concerns about the breakdown of the country's social fabric, as well as about the growing ability of right-wing networks online to sow discord over social issues.
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But we are really in trouble as a country if a major national security threat — attacks by an adversary on our sovereignty, democratic institutions and social fabric — cannot bring the two major parties together around a common response.
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But fallout from Brexit, as well as strains to the social fabric caused by four high-profile acts of violence on German soil in the past week, could take their toll on sentiment in coming months, economists said.
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Now and after Trump, the great project is rebinding: rebinding the social fabric, rebinding the government to its people, and most of all, rebinding the heaping piles of wreckage that Trump will leave in his wake in Washington.
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"There is evidence of this growing number of threat actors who seek to attack the seams of our diverse and violent social fabric and incite our nation's most vulnerable populations...to violence against their fellow citizens," he said.
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"Germany is a country with an enormous and very secure social security net and by and large the absorption of refugees into employment, into schools and into the German social fabric is going pretty well," the risk analyst noted.
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Actually, the process we started in order to face them, to rebuild institutions, to rebuild the social fabric, was able to deter increasing levels of that, and we were able to reduce the violence in general in the country.
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Her howls of grief when she finds out are the sound of the tattered social fabric ripping around her, leaving her dangling by the reluctant thread that is Christian, who no longer feels he can break up with her.
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Authorities in the world's biggest cigarette consumer want to rein in a widespread habit in a country where more than 300 million people have made cigarettes part of the social fabric, with another 740 million exposed to secondhand smoke.
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"This shutdown of grocery stores and bodegas will be a public show of the vital role these grocers and their families play in New York's economic and social fabric," the organizers of the event wrote on their Facebook page.
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Declaring that Donald Trump is a "president who deserves a bit of profanity" will only sharpen the polarization that is tearing our social fabric and there is absolutely no place for incendiary tweets by Peter Fonda about Barron Trump.
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Selling relief from government scrutiny of elections is a different kind of threat to the social fabric than selling relief from government scrutiny of commerce, especially in light of our country's record of denying voting rights to African-Americans.
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I've spent the past year around people who weave social fabric, and this week about 275 community weavers gathered in Washington, for a conference called #WeaveThePeople, organized by the Weave project I've been working on at the Aspen Institute.
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Shaking a teacher's hand before and after class is part of Switzerland's social fabric, and the canton authorities said that parents whose children refused to obey the tradition could be fined up to 5,000 Swiss francs, or about $5,020.
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Still, the overall results of the research seem to indicate that dive bars and local pubs may be providing a far more important service than just getting people trashed—they could be a crucial part of our social fabric.
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At this point, nothing Black Mirror puts out can be half as terrible as what the world has already accomplished, making it difficult to impress or crush an audience that's already seen what tech has done to the social fabric.
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Forecasts for a second straight year of declining new installations might suggest otherwise, but the biggest elevator and escalator manufacturers — United Technologies' Otis, Finland's Kone, Germany's ThyssenKrupp and Switzerland's Schindler — are betting heavily on opportunities rising from China's evolving social fabric.
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"The social-fabric of GCC population is being torn apart for political reasons and we will not allow ourselves to be a party to this injustice," he said, referring to the Gulf Cooperation Council which includes six Arabian peninsula monarchies.
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" According to Amnesty International , the six activists and one other individual were accused of forming a "cell," and posing a threat to national security for their "contact with foreign entities with the aim of undermining the country's stability and social fabric.
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Maybe it's really rather better-suited to fracturing the consensus narratives traditionally used to glue societies and peoples together because it's so good at isolating and magnifying differing viewpoints — and thus at ripping apart the social fabric along existing fault lines.
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This relatively recent interest in, and legal defense of, privacy was a result of industrialization, rapidly growing cities, and the fraying of a local social fabric that once enmeshed (to not say ensnared) everyone within a set of expectations and possibilities.
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"Tax dodging practices by corporations and enabled by federal policymakers contributes to dangerous inequality that is undermining our social fabric, and hindering economic growth," the report said, as it urged both Congress and President Barack Obama to enforce tax haven abuse.
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The administration's proposal would replace a system which – albeit in need of reform and characterized by excessive backlogs and delays -- has strengthened the nation's social fabric, facilitated immigrant integration, and promoted economic growth by bringing in workers of all skill levels.
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The Yemen war, fought by Houthi rebel forces allied with former President Ali Abdullah Saleh against President Abdrabbo Mansour Hadi, who is back by a Saudi Arabia-led coalition, has unveiled deep fissures in the country's political and social fabric.
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The British indie legends' fifth studio album, Weather Diaries—their first since 1996's Tarantula—is out tomorrow, June 16, and again they find themselves releasing music while a Conservative government picks away at the social fabric of their homeland.
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Their ill-founded thinking is based on a failure to appreciate the extent to which the restoration of the Jewish people to sovereignty in their ancient homeland has been deeply ingrained in the religious, political and social fabric of America.
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Tech giants have come under scrutiny for a wide range of reasons, including the way social media networks destroy "the social fabric," their unprecedented economic power, and, not least, facilitating the Russian government's campaign to tilt the election to Donald Trump.
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"Spent over the first five years of our Labour government, the Social Transformation Fund will begin the urgent task of repairing our social fabric that the Tories (Conservatives) have torn apart," he will say, according to a statement from his office.
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In 1980, for example, at the Women's Pentagon Action, 1,500 female activists surrounded the Pentagon to claim that the social fabric was being torn apart by rampant militarism, sexism, racism, homophobia, environmental devastation, nuclear proliferation, and cuts to social spending.
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Her father had explained how Italians had come to resent the tourism that ate at the physical and social fabric of their cities, but she hadn't really imagined, and perhaps he hadn't, either, that this opprobrium was meant for them.
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The change in our social fabric, as well as the heightened threat of extinction of animals, the effects of climate change, and the results of currently lax policies about gun ownership in the US all find a place in Carnwath's work.
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One of those, Vyacheslav Y. Dobrokhotov, an activist with a nationalist movement in St. Petersburg, cited a book by Oleg V. Kharkhordin, a political scientist at the university, which argued that the Soviet social fabric was largely based on hypocrisy.
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For decades, cannabis has been so deeply embedded in the social fabric of the city that illegal pot shops operated with impunity as so-called compassion clubs for those seeking medical marijuana, with the police largely turning a blind eye.
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The rising tensions and the potential for greater control over Hong Kong's political and legal systems by the Communist Party have raised questions over the long-term commercial viability of Hong Kong and the integrity of its fraying social fabric.
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"I think we have created tools that are ripping apart the social fabric of how society works," he says, asking leaders of the world not to feed the beast of optimizing engagement while forbidding his children from using these kinds of products.
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Municipalities that conduct Cultural Impact Studies will assess the potential negative impacts of decisions to redevelop or rezone, giving value to the social fabric artists, people of color, immigrants, and other communities have woven, and mitigating the potential harm of proposed changes.
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"A great hotel has always manifested the social fabric of the city," said Ian Schrager, the hotelier who recently opened Public New York hotel, which includes a social space called Public Arts with live music, film screenings, magic shows, dance parties and more.
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"The social and economic consequences of inequality are profound and far-reaching: a growing sense of unfairness, precarity, perceived loss of identity and dignity, weakening social fabric, eroding trust in institutions, disenchantment with political processes, and an erosion of the social contract," Schwab.
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"The particular worry for Pakistan's long-term stability is the presence of candidates standing for and fear-mongering with ideas of dividing Pakistan's social fabric, including through violence," said Antoine Levesques, research fellow for South Asia at the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
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Guided by these illusions, we drove our ship of state straight onto the rocks: We dismantled our industrial base, mired ourselves in unwinnable wars and tore apart the social fabric that bound city to country, worker to employer and soldier to civilian.
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"Bahrain's failure to address the legitimate grievances of its citizens has strained the country's social fabric and invited outside actors to take advantage of the deteriorating situation," six Democratic lawmakers and one Republican said in a letter to Kerry, a former Democratic senator.
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They wrongly ignore the risk crises pose to the broad social fabric supporting the modern global economy—as well as the small-scale corrosive effects of state subsidies to too-big-to-fail banks, or even to enormous paycheques for executives at failing firms.
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In Shirley, a fictionalized portrayal of author Shirley Jackson, director Josephine Decker echoes Cixous's call for écriture féminine, a kind of feminist authorship that instates the power women have historically been denied, wherein they use their bodies to write themselves into the social fabric.
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And while both these companies may be trying to clean house now they have no quick fixes for mending rips in the social fabric which were exacerbated as a consequence of the at-scale spreading of fake news and worse enabled by their own platforms.
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Its targets are fault lines in the fabric of society — be it gun control vs gun owners or conservatives vs liberals or people of color vs white supremacists — whatever issues it can seize on to stir up trouble and rip away at the social fabric.
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Landrieu was undoubtedly invited to give this address because he has earned a reputation as one of the few white elected officials from the South who is willing to speak the truth about the ways in which white supremacy is woven into our social fabric.
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A higher priority has to be given by all to register eligible Latinos and convince them to turnout on Election Day by developing new more effective mobilization strategies, securing more resources and engaging millennials, who now are a crucial part of America's social fabric.
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"Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 96%What critics said: "As ethical boundaries continue to be crossed in nearly every realm of America's social fabric, it's refreshing to watch a series wrestle so earnestly with questions of what human beings owe one another on an interpersonal basis.
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For our nation, there's the hope that the social fabric — the Little Leagues and Methodist churches and Black Lives Matter assemblies and League of Women Voters and library guilds and N.A.A.C.P. chapters — remain just strong enough that we'll escape the narcissistic nihilism of Mr. Trump.
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Without that social club as an organizational form, you get an emphasis on the pleasure of shared emotion, and especially outrage, among a large, loosely knit social fabric, which gets privileged over most other kinds of reactions and over almost many forms of collective action.
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The crucial problems today concern the way technology and globalization are decimating jobs and tearing the social fabric; the way migration is redefining nation-states; the way the post-World War II order is increasingly being rejected as a means to keep the peace.
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The Michelangelo Foundation, he said, would go some way to preserving an important thread of social fabric on the Continent: respect for exceptional workmanship that embodies culture and place, and preserving and protecting the boundless creativity of human beings in a rapidly changing world.
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In a way, hate functions like a Geiger counter, signaling where there are serious disruptions of the social fabric or where cultural beliefs are under the most stress — whether it be from a new awareness of inequality, diversity or the radical redefining of gender.
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Recent studies have found that women in Congress deliver more federal spending to their districts, prioritize earmark requests pertaining to women's issues, have greater success keeping their sponsored bills alive, spur young women's political engagement, and value and contribute to the social fabric of Congress.
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That is actually what brings the world closer together; you have millions [of] communities around the world and you have dedicated people who are looking out for fifty, a hundred people a time and that ends up being the social fabric for countries and for the world.
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Facebook is now a monumentally influential force in the social fabric of modern life, Zuckerberg admitted, and that means the company's next mission is to "develop the social infrastructure to give people the power to build a global community that works for all of us," he wrote.
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Well, that's the thing people miss, actually, because people say, "Oh, well, I don't use these products so I'm fine and I'm not outraged," but you live in a society that's affected by these dynamics, meaning the outrage spills out of the screen into the social fabric.
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But because this is America, personal debt held by individuals is rarely discussed as a topic of concern by policymakers, who instead fixate on national debt, which is typically portrayed as somehow collapsing the economy or at the very least threatening to rip apart our social fabric.
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But I most appreciated in this speech his willingness to home in on what bugs so many of us who follow politics: political polarization, unwillingness to compromise, gerrymandering, denial of basic science, and a bitter, partisan negativity that has corroded the social fabric of American life.
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"Moving from interest rates being 'low for long' to being 'low forever' would severely limit the room for manoeuvre for conventional monetary policy tools, but even more worryingly, it would threaten the contract between generations as well as risk tearing up our social fabric," Coeure said.
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Still, the fact that an eight-hour educational reconstruction of the gay rights movement is taking up primetime real estate on a broadcast network is evidence of a revolution — a still-unfolding one, to be sure, but one that has transformed the social fabric of this nation.
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"Moving from interest rates being 'low for long' to being 'low forever' would severely limit the room for maneuvre for conventional monetary policy tools, but even more worryingly, it would threaten the contract between generations as well as risk tearing up our social fabric," Coeure said.
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On Wednesday, a day short of a year after the incineration of Grenfell Tower, a tragedy that not only claimed 21970 lives but also opened gaping wounds in the social fabric of the surrounding area, survivors like Ms. Mahmud and the bereaved are still steeped in trauma.
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With the midterms fast approaching, Hillary Clinton has written a scathing critique of President Trump that accused him of disregarding the law and weakening the social fabric of the country, imploring voters to "do everything we can to fight back" and "mobilize massive turnout" in November.
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"We know that there needs to be common sense gun safety reform in this country and we know there's a lot of things we can do at the civic level to knit back together the social fabric that is so frayed in this country," Buttigieg told CNN.
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"Unlike other countries where Kurds live, in Iran, we are part of the social fabric, share a common history and our languages are very close to each other," said Hiwa Aminnejad, 43, a documentary filmmaker from the Iranian Kurdish city of Sanandaj who specializes in Kurdish issues.
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" The World Economic Forum's own research released this week blamed entrenched inequality across the globe for "a growing sense of unfairness, precarity, perceived loss of identity and dignity, weakening social fabric, eroding trust in institutions, disenchantment with political processes and an erosion of the social contract.
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That frustration, combined with a fraying social fabric and long-term corrosion in economic opportunity, has created a volatile atmosphere in Ashfield: anti-immigrant, distrustful of the political elite and receptive to populist appeals from the right that would have been jeered a few years ago.
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If China is an existential threat to the liberal international order, do we have the capacity to improve our system so it can face the challenge — to invest in human capital, to reform our institutions, repair the social fabric and make our political system function once again?
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If you believe that the West has had a generalised beneficial and salutary impact on the world... we're going to have to look at the values that inspired that In secular countries, what we've seen is the attempt to supplant a religious-based social fabric with a governmental fabric.
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When you realize that this is having a control over our social fabric, it's having a control over children's mental health, it's having control over our politics, it's having control over our elections, and people really haven't realized that technology is holding the pen of history right now.
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Among other things, I tried to explore whether members' apparent paranoia—an integral part of the movement as I experienced it—was more or less of a threat to the social fabric of society than the "shit hits the fan" scenario so many of them were worried about.
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Given that the next government must oversee some kind of resolution to the Brexit imbroglio, and will have the job of repairing both a dysfunctional democratic infrastructure and a tattered social fabric, the choices it makes will be far more consequential than those usually faced by incoming governments.
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With more women likely to be freed from Boko Haram or widowed as Nigeria's military strives to defeat the militants, experts say insults, rejection and even violence towards them as they return to their communities could hinder efforts to repair the social fabric of a region splintered by Boko Haram.
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William Fulbright, Remarks in the Senate, June 29, 1961 Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder.
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And our recognition that Clinton seeks to continue the dreadful progressivism that has led President Obama to damage America's global standing, hamstring the economy, and shatter the nation's social fabric—while Trump seeks to move in some very different directions—lead us to a strong preference for Trump over Clinton.
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If unanticipated, they could overwhelm government infrastructure and resources, and threaten the social fabric of communities The report is illustrated with examples of climate-related security developments that have already occurred, such as insurgents' exploitation of drought-enhanced desertification in a "food for Jihad" movement in northern Mali during 2015.
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It was a piece of work — proven to be a forgery almost immediately — purporting to be the meeting minutes of the leaders of the Jewish people, basically speaking like cartoon villains about their designs over the global financial system, subverting the morals of Gentiles, upturning the social fabric of moral culture.
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While news outlets joke that Pokémon Go is a great excuse to go out into the real world and then ignore it, I'd argue that while Pokémon Go players are potentially less connected to the physical outdoors than non-players, they're more connected to the social fabric of society outside.
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He radiated confidence and friendliness as he ushered a group of British and American journalists and policy analysts into an elegant wood-paneled sitting room where he claimed that the social fabric of Syria was stitched together "much better than before" a chaotic civil war began more than five years ago.
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Not only have the suitors overrun the palace, draining its stores of food and wine, carousing day and night, seducing the servant girls, but the social fabric of the island kingdom has frayed, too: some Ithacans are still loyal to Odysseus, but others have thrown their lot in with the suitors.
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Major cities, and towns as small as Edgewater — a 275-mile long, two-block wide community wedged between the Hudson River and the Palisades cliffs — are dealing with an unprecedented wave of luxury development that is transforming the social fabric, as housing prices soar beyond the reach of many families.
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They are part of an effort to restore the idea that only public action — represented in the past by bold programs such as the Homestead and Land-Grant College acts, Social Security and the GI Bill — can solve persistent problems that have torn at our social fabric for a generation.
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But while there's also a sense of community at the Hooters knockoff in which this movie takes place, there's nothing cozy about it — it's born out of necessity, an attempt to patch holes in the social fabric, like a lack of affordable child care, or help for someone dealing with an abusive relationship.
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Of course, some people pounced on Mattis and claimed he was rebuking President Donald Trump, that he was taking a shot at the commander in chief, who, after the Charlottesville protests, only deepened the tear in the nation's political and social fabric by equating counterprotesters with neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups.
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At the same time, Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE appears intent on continuing to shred the social fabric that ties our nation together.
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With all the damage that's being done to the social fabric, in matters ranging from race relations to income inequality, to name just two areas where the national leadership seems not only determined to make things worse but weirdly excited about it, fretting over the state of the language seems like an indulgence.
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But this state of dreamy suspension -- what James Baldwin once called the "sunlit playpen" of white American existence -- also explains why so many of my white liberal compatriots are not able to grasp that racism has become a national emergency, undoing the social fabric and the democratic institutions of the United States.
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The police also used water cannons on Sunday after protesters vandalized a subway station and hurled bricks and gasoline bombs at a complex of government buildings that includes the city's legislature, during a weekend that revealed the extent to which three months of pro-democracy demonstrations have frayed the city's social fabric.
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He's brought bigotry and racism to the fore; demonstrated contempt for the national interest; undermined our elections and shredded our social fabric; sabotaged our standing in the world, politicized the military and embraced autocrats; and his callous and inhumane treatment of children and the vulnerable will be a stain on America for decades.
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In two memoirs, "Ordinary Time: Cycles in Marriage, Faith and Renewal" (413) and "A Dynamic God: Living an Unconventional Catholic Faith" (2007), she described her conversion, in her 30s, to Roman Catholicism, and the ways her newfound faith shaped her mental world and her attitude toward suffering, death and the social fabric.
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"It was a call to action for the next generation of European leaders and an effort to bring them together at a time when Europe's social fabric is tearing apart," said Julianne Smith, a former adviser in the Obama administration who is now a senior fellow at the Bosch Academy in Berlin.
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YOU LOOK AT MICROSOFT'S FOOTPRINT ACROSS OVER A BILLION CUSTOMERS AND THE OPPORTUNITY TO SEAMLESSLY INTEGRATE OUR NETWORK WITHIN THE MICROSOFT CLOUD TO CREATE A SOCIAL FABRIC, IF YOU WILL, THAT CAN BE SEAMLESSLY INTEGRATED INTO AREAS LIKE OUTLOOK, CALENDAR, OFFICE, WINDOWS, SKYPE, DYNAMICS, ACTIVE DIRECTORY, FOR US, THAT WAS AN INCREDIBLY EXCITING OPPORTUNITY.
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Yet even if this were an empirical fact, it fails to dispose of the question presented by those like Tuvel who dare to defend transracialism: do the privilege and hypocrisy admittedly built into the social fabric and its constructs mean that we ought to deny to the individual the chance to live her claimed identity?
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It ensures California is positioned to lead a global transition that not only is necessary to avoid catastrophic damage to our social fabric from global warming, but opens up the possibility of a great step forward for humanity as we develop a cleaner, cheaper energy system that will massively increase prosperity across the globe.
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Because while the thinking behind Church in the Darkness is interesting, and seems like it wants to capture a lot about the fraying social fabric and rise of different forms of radicalism in the 1970s, much of what I actually saw and did as a player was like a vastly simplified version of Shadow Tactics and the like.
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Early that month, it emerged that Chamath Palihapitiya, who had been Facebook's vice president for user growth before leaving in 2011, had told an audience at Stanford that he thought social media platforms like Facebook had "created tools that are ripping apart the social fabric" and that he feels "tremendous guilt" for being part of that.
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In the end, he offers a dark but ultimately hopeful "Macbeth," one suited to our own troubled times, in which "the slowness of democracy" is no match for power-hungry strongmen who demand unstinting loyalty from ethically compromised followers, and where the brave must band together to defeat the darker forces that threaten to destroy the social fabric.
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It has operated over the decades as a "morality police" that defends America's institutional traditions and pursues those perceived as threats to the country's social fabric, whether it was Harlem Renaissance authors in the 1920s and '30s, Nazis in the 1940s, Communists in the 1950s, antiwar activists in the 1960s or "deadbeat dads" in the 1990s.
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"Puerto Rico's colonial status and unsustainable relationship with the federal government has gone on for over a century, even as our citizens have contributed to the growth, culture and social fabric of the United States, and stood shoulder to shoulder with our fellow citizens on battlefields around the globe and under our same flag," Rossello said in the release.
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Bruning's underlying theme is that the destructive pall of their combat experience didn't stop with these few fighter pilots: In many subtle ways it also tore apart the social fabric of their communities back on American soil, as the press leaked news of violent deaths before families were informed, families mourned and young widows leapt too quickly into rocky new marriages.
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Several factors lie behind the vicious campaign, experts say: a desire to weaken Egypt's authoritarian leader, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi; a need to gain a foothold in Egypt beyond the remote Sinai deserts where jihadists have been battling the army for years; and a desire to foment a vicious sectarian conflict that would tear at Egypt's delicate social fabric and destabilize the state.
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"It's a deeply rooted issue, ingrained in our sadly flawed social fabric, but it is within our power to CHANGE IT." National Center for Missing & Exploited Children Hotline: 1-800-The-Lost If you believe you are the victim of a trafficking situation or may have information about a potential trafficking situation, call the National Human Trafficking Resource Center (NHTRC) at 1-888-373-7888.
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In one of her most recent essays, "The Universal Declaration Turns 70," written with Seth D. Kaplan, a lecturer at Johns Hopkins, Glendon argues that in the United States, The overreliance on rights and courts to solve disputes has encouraged a focus on the individual at the expense of investment in the social fabric, and a winner-takes-all attitude at the expense of tolerance and compromise.
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All Images: FacebookAfter former company president Sean Parker said Facebook was exploiting human psychology to the detriment of its users, and ex-vice president of growth Chamath Palihapitiya implied that Facebook may be responsible for creating "tools that are ripping apart the social fabric," Facebook says it's instituting a new policy to help combat some of the more egregious engagement baiting that takes places on its social network.
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Nor the cost to society from hate speech whose very purpose is to rip up the social fabric and take down civic values — and, in the case of Jones' particular bilious flavor, to further bang the drum of abuse via the medium of toxic disinformation — to further amplify and spread his pollution, via the power of untruth — to whip up masses of non-critically thinking conspiracy-prone followers.
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And reflecting on 2016, this is just something that I'm proud that people in this company take so seriously, because I know that people in our community…you know we're just a small part of the social fabric around the world but we are a part of that and do have a big responsibility to get that right and keep on doing better and better work for people around the world.
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"Factors that appear to contribute to greater risk of substance use among Native American youths than their non-Native peers include racism which conveys messages of inferiority and failure which are often internalized, disruptions in the social fabric of the communities within which they live, and the widespread trauma that diminishes individual, familial, and community ability to cope with the stresses that plague these young peoples' lives," Manson added.
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I appreciate that Lucy Flores, the former Nevada legislator who has accused former Vice President Joe Biden of kissing and touching her, is taking this opportunity to speak about her experience, and I simultaneously struggle to understand how it is helpful to render men like Mr. Biden "unfit" because of behaviors that were so deeply woven into the social fabric of this country that we are only now beginning to address them contextually.
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This can only really be done by fundamentally changing the incentive structures of our economic and political systems, so that corporations like Amazon incur real, meaningful costs when they evade their ethical responsibilities and act as 'free riders' on society—profiting and drawing public resources from the social fabric that makes their existence possible without paying enough in taxes to sustain that fabric, or without repairing the social wear and tear that results from their own activities.
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Maybe it doesn't affect you, but it's causing genocides around the world, or it's causing millions of people to believe conspiracy theories and debasing our social fabric, but because that doesn't affect you, people don't have that same level of urgency of we have to shut it down, but they really need to see, it's not like the world was broken before, 10 years ago, when you could watch a video and nothing auto-played. Mm-hmm.
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In the past, if you placed your kid in front of the TV, it's possible they might flip to something that's not age appropriate, but you could be confident, at least, Sesame Street isn't going to suddenly spread alt-right rhetoric alongside the letter D. I can't have the same confidence with someone like Jafari, and simply taking away their mobile device, when (for better or worse) it's an increasing part of our social fabric, isn't a real option.
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Rounding out the trio of artists, in a gallery to the right are three sets of works by Nevin Aladağ — a triptych of patchwork canvases titled "Social Fabric" (2017), pieced together from bits of carpet; a pair of "Makramé" (2011/2014) rendered in wire cable; and a three-channel video, "Session" (2013), which captures the incidental music created by random interactions between percussive instruments and objects in an environment, like a sprinkler or rocks tossed by cars from a roadway.
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Biden has been one of President Trump's most vocal critics, recently tearing into what he called "phony nationalism" that is "undermining the social fabric" of the U.S. He has also offered a blunt take on former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE, saying in May that he never thought she would be a great candidate.
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And the Trump playbook could cause lasting damage in a country where checks and balances, civil society, and the media are weaker and less adept at holding the powerful to account than in the US. Strings of tweets and Facebook posts are becoming full-blown policies — and the events of recent weeks have raised alarms that many preelection fears are coming true as the two parties of government seem intent on chipping away at the nation's institutions and deteriorating its social fabric, putting Italy's finances and its place in Europe up for question.
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We're going to talk in the next two sections about some of the trends ... I think the goal of the book ... Thinking about explaining it, it's making the returnism cool, and I was thinking, I saw John Markoff, an old colleague yesterday, and we were talking about ... He kind of approaches his history through the hippie and the flower power kind of story, and he was asking me even, "That's good, this individuality," and of course I agree with that, but it's just not caring about the social fabric that they're breaking. Right.
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