Sentence examples for problems of affluence from inspiring English sources

Poorer countries need to make the delivery of basic services such as health and education to all their citizens the priorities; emerging economies need to ensure safety and protect human rights; richer countries need to face up to the problems of affluence, such as obesity, and work on building tolerant societies; everyone has a long way to go on environmental sustainability.

In short, it offers a way to address the problem of "private affluence and public squalor" that John Kenneth Galbraith identified in the 1950s.

And rising costs are often symptoms of much deeper problems: problems that were irritating during the years of affluence but which are cancerous in an age of austerity.The first problem is the inability to say "no".

It was also said that we did not spend enough of our ingenuity & affluence to solve the problems of the 60s.

There are signs of affluence everywhere.

These are the anxieties of affluence.

The simplest signs of affluence can seem obscene in public.

They have a daughter and enjoy a life of affluence.

In the south, the sea is of affluence.

They want that kind of symbol of affluence".

It's kind of an upper-class sign of affluence.