Sentence examples for harsh adversity from inspiring English sources

Porn was just the context, the background for the story, and it was a volatile background for it to happen in, but it was really about a woman's journey, a woman overcoming really harsh adversity and really finding her own voice and becoming her own person.

Its social and cultural effects were no less staggering, especially in the United States, where the Great Depression represented the harshest adversity faced by Americans since the Civil War.

We set up worker protections, Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid to protect ourselves from the harshest adversity.

Offshore detention with increased isolation in remote and harsh circumstances exaggerates that adversity.

Today I take my cues from another Oscar: Oscar Pistorius overcame the harshest of physical adversities and reached the pinnacle of human physical achievement.

Environmental adversities such as harsh family emotional climates may also contribute to individual differences in emotional reactivity.

If we turn our schools into Jeremy Bentham's Panopticon, where all is seen and little is allowed, "We risk raising kids who don't know how to solve problems on their own, withstand adversity or bounce back from the harsh trials life inevitably brings".

Secondly, even in the epicentre of repression, harsh regimes generally underestimate the ability of great traditions to survive adversity.In common with other religions, Buddhism in the Soviet Union suffered fierce repression in the 1930s, with many lamas sent to prison camps.

A moment of togetherness in the face of adversity that's all too often missing in the harsh me-me-me age we're living through.

One source of social adversity in early life can stem from parenting that is harsh, inconsistent, non-sensitive or hostile.

That Beckett can eek out humor from a litany of woes encapsulates his worldview: Life is harsh; every now and again, a glimmer of hope appears amid the adversity.