social malady

They were forced on us by a social malady that swept this country.

They are paying the price with a high unemployment rate, violence, corruption and other social maladies for the wrong national policies of the past.

He struggled to balance his tough line by acknowledging the social maladies underlying the unrest.

And I hear from men and women who wonder whether we can ever eliminate what appears to be an intractable social malady.

In a way, such attempts were also a cover up of social maladies some believed that not discussing them would mean they do not exist.

The devastating epidemics of social maladies that always seem to spread rapidly during the early stages of industrialization took their toll as well.

Gopabandhu was aware of the then social maladies like casteism, superstitions, untouchability and lethargy.

In addition, the factory farms that produce these foods contaminate our water supply, pollute our air and contribute to a host of social maladies.

Many people who lived during the Renaissance did not view it as the "golden age" imagined by certain 19th-century authors, but were concerned by these social maladies.

But behind an improving facade, the social maladies that periodically drove teams in other cities to build new stadiums in the suburbs have festered unabated.

Catherine herself always speaks ex cathedra, delivering ideologically unimpeachable position-lectures on every social malady from murder to junk-food addiction.

Commenting in advance of the 1988 presidential election, she noted that "there is no panacea for our social maladies" - but there remained the power of belief.

On learning that Prafulla is illiterate (women illiteracy was a common social malady in India at that time), Bhabani tells her that her education will begin there.

If we are to be a nation of laws and not men, then perhaps we should pause before we attack yet another social malady or human weakness by passing yet another unenforceable law.

Modern social workers can be found helping to deal with the consequences of these and many other social maladies in all areas of the human services professions and in many other fields besides.

This distrust rises menacingly, the state politicians say, each time a tax is advertised as a cure-all for fiscal or social maladies only to be revealed later as simply a vial of especially nasty snake oil.

While gangster rap takes the heat for a range of social maladies from urban violence to sexual misconduct, the roots of our racial misery remain buried beneath moralizing discourse that is confused and sometimes dishonest.

The liberal use of the word is thus also a way of distributing its balm more widely: at least since Aristotle, tragedy has been understood as an explicitly therapeutic dramatic form, a purgative treatment for lingering social maladies.

The two new advertisements are part of a broader effort to stop Mr. Bush's march toward the center by portraying Texas as suffering an array of social maladies and the governor as beholden to the rich and powerful.

Some countries take delight in embarrassing America, and when the United States joins in a compact to combat a social malady like racism or sexism, other members may prefer looking for flaws in the superpower's own performance to recognizing egregious violations of human rights by others.

That gender gap has been a subject of enormous frustration and intense study for Ms. DiVall, whose own lifelong allegiance to the Republican Party arises from her belief that the Federal Government should be leaner and less quick to assume that it has the prescriptions for all social maladies.

After making Saptapadi, in which he dealt with the social stigma of caste system, K. Viswanath followed up with this film in which he dealt with the social malady of the dowry system and is inspired from famous writer Gurazada Venkata Apparao's work Kanyasulkam.