62 Metaphors for problems

Despite these somewhat reassuring facts, the problem of maintaining and increasing operating ownership of farms in America is one deserving of the most earnest thought and efforts.

The other difficulty that the labor union has to consider, and this problem they have to solve themselves, is the kind of orators who come and talk to them about the oppressive rich.

The problem of man, and his relations to the universe, are an entirely different line of study from that of the Spiritual Monad, the over-soul of every prakritic atom.

The child problem is merely one phase of the universal problem that confronts society.

Many of the slaves were more than willing to stay with their former masters, but with no income, the problem of feeding themselves was the main issue with the whites, so it was out of the question to try to fill other mouths, and ex-slaves often had to shift for themselves, a hopeless task for a race that had never been called upon to exert initiative.

The differences were slight, showing that the employment agency problem is much the same east and west.

" [Footnote 1: As some masters regarded the ignorance of the slaves as an argument against their emancipation, the antislavery men's problem became the education of the master as well as that of the slave.

The particular economic problems which are presented to each generation of our people are the resultant of all these factors taken together.

The great problem of the future of evolution is the introduction of the Personal Factor.

For to this struggling people, then as now, the problem of their uncertain present and their doubtful future was the chief concern of life.

Well, then, the problem for me is simplyhow big a dose of rhubarb decoction shall I give you?"

After such fundamentals as food and warmth, light, air and sleep, the first problems considered by this Biologist Educator are stages of growth, their appropriate activities, and the stimuli necessary to evoke them.

It constituted the chief feature of the servant problem in Saint X, as everybody called St. Christopher; and the servant problem there, as everywhere else, was the chief feature of domestic economy.

The subject of Children's Rights does not provoke much sentimentalism in this country, where, as somebody says, the present problem of the children is the painless extinction of their elders.

The great problem of steam navigation is the economy of fuel, since the quantity of fuel consumed by a vessel will very much determine whether she is profitable or otherwise.

Therefore one most momentous problem of the future is the attitude which capital can or will assume in this emergency.

Our problems of the day are preëminently spiritual ones.

of the crude article that reaches our shores goes into automobile tires; and the biggest problem in the whole automobile situation is not a question of steel and output, but a fear that we may not be able to get enough rubber to shoe the expanding host of cars.

The problem is, however, complicated by the presence of two decalogues, one now preserved in Exodus 34 and the other, the familiar ten commandments of Exodus 20.

" The other: "The problem of Existence here when tried, God remains God though matter returns to dust; The fool can read this truth; but, if denied, Does spirit return to be from what it came? Is there reunition of love with God as at first?

"But the problem of the glove is a different matter, Joe.

In the present liquidation of values, theories and institutions we are bound therefore to scrutinize each operating agency of human society, to see wherein it has failed and how it can be bettered, and the problem before us now is the political organism.

The problem "Is tea a food or is it not?" convulses our Courts, and the axioms of Euclid call for revision as follows: "Parallel lines are those which in a queue, if only produced far enough, never mean meat.

The general problem, which comprehends every special problem, is the right ruling of conduct in all directions under all circumstances.

The immediate problem was a present.

62 Metaphors for  problems