Sentences with phrase «a national conversation»

At a time when the national conversation has reached new levels of divisiveness, corporate America's commitment to diverse and inclusive workforces has never mattered more, said Reshma Saujani, founder and CEO of Girls Who Code.

Whether it's leading a national conversation about gun control or fighting for girls» education and gender equality around the world, an increasing number of young women are stepping forward as change agents.

Duchesne acknowledges that a fear of the unknown might be a reason why more Canadian businesses aren't looking to expand overseas, but he hopes that the results of the study will spark a national conversation about the country's potential for international trade.

Wesfarmers chief executive Richard Goyder says the tone of the national conversation has become too pessimistic, challenging business leaders to embrace the opportunities created by Australia's strong

It sparked a national conversation on U.S. carriers» treatment of customers in an industry comprising just a handful of competitors following years of mergers and consolidations.

Mr. Schultz, one of the most visible chief executives in the country, has made Starbucks a vocal part of the national conversation on issues like gun violence, gay rights, race relations, veterans rights and student debt.

The new proposed bill may not go anywhere, but it could at the very least ignite a national conversation about how to spark entrepreneurship.

It seems unfair — or at least unfortunate — that New Mexico governor and fellow Democratic candidate Bill Richardson has been left out of the national conversation about Hillary Clinton's health insurance initiative.

Blogger in Chief Arianna Huffington launched her New York City — based news and opinion website just as what she calls «the national conversation» was moving online.

That is a tougher national conversation, because it means addressing professor tenure, the wisdom of some research projects (Did we really need to know that horses prefer bananas to oregano?)

More broadly, her story has kindled a national conversation about whether women can truly «have it all» in terms of work - life balance.

But while that is a crucial national conversation, the heated pipeline debate sometimes means we pay a lot less attention to the kinds of things we should build in Canada if we're serious about reducing carbon emissions.

According to the New York Times, black students have never been responsible for mass shootings that drove the national conversation about gun safety and minority schools have never been the targets of such attacks, leaving civil rights groups wondering why black students would be the focus when seeking to address an issue that plagues white, male students.

«The irony is, we did create a national conversation — not how we intended, but you learn from mistakes,» Schultz says.

Harvey Weinstein's long alleged history of sexually preying on actresses, journalists, and musicians — and then scaring them into silence — has spurred a deeply charged national conversation about sexual harassment in the workplace.

The shocking lawsuit, which sparked a national conversation around the treatment of women in tech, has been dropped.

We want to contribute to a national conversation, involving the public and private sector, industry stakeholders, and small business owners, about how to better support small businesses in every community.»

Coming of Age in the Asian Century: The Need for a National Conversation By Sarah Eaton, Post ‐ Graduate Research Fellow, Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada Political pundits tell us this federal election will be fought not over big ideas but along a narrow set of economic wedge issues.

This wave of scandals coincided with the #MeToo movement, a national conversation on workplace sexual harassment.

The project hopes to start a national conversation about alternatives to private financing of public investment, and needs both research partners and financial support.

And, as America votes for a new president in less than a week, how do we make sure that our enormous health care challenges and opportunities play a larger role in the national conversation?

There has been a national conversation about guns after the Feb. 14 Parkland school shooting that left 17 dead and 17 wounded.

This year, I hope that we have answered that question and showcased how Starbucks can truly use our scale for good and play a role in changing the narrative and national conversation to create opportunities for all.»

It was published Sept. 25 by the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, under the umbrella of its National Conversation on Asia initiative.

The vitality of our national conversation around engagement with China requires a commitment to open debate and free exchange of ideas.

Holder even called us «a nation of cowards» because we were unwilling to have a «national conversation» about race.

There's a broader issue magnified by the intensity of reactions to the Parkland shooting: When it comes to gun violence, race and the unique needs of communities of color are still being overlooked in the national conversation.

As the deadly shooting at a Parkland, Florida, high school, which killed 17 and injured more than a dozen others, sparks a national conversation around gun control, the White House is pushing Congress to actually pass gun control measures.

On the eve of the Supreme Court decision, perhaps the time is ripe for a national conversation to take place.

Starbucks is such a visible company they could start a national conversation with just a few words.

If we really want to shift the national conversation for good, then we need to lay all solutions on the table for our decisionmakers to see.

Nature does call for an «intense national conversation» on the subject — but that, we gather, merely would be to raise the public's comfort level with using embryos and, coincidently, confine the word embryo to those embryos researchers already find unacceptable for their purposes.

In the midst of the national conversation about arming teachers and right before high school students around the country walked out to protest gun control laws, a high school teacher...

Pope Benedict asserted that «religion, in other words, is not a problem for legislators to solve, but a vital contributor to the national conversation».

To the discernment team, as leaders of a national conversation, surely you understand the importance of listening.

A decade after the controversial documentary An Inconvenient Truth brought climate change into the national conversation, Al Gore is back with an updated look at the state of our planet.

In the light of the Pope's below words the centre will then only partially enter into «the national conversation».

appeared in The Atlantic in 1991, it galvanized a national conversation about the state of American literature and how creative writing was being taught, produced, and consumed by the reading public.

The centre's director, Stephen Bullivant, said that the centre would «bring the riches of the Catholic tradition of social thought, the riches of Catholic teaching on faith and reason, into the national conversation.»

Given this week's national conversation surrounding gun violence and legislation, we decided this conversation about...

Safe seats are bad for democracy, bad for a national conversation, no matter your political preference.

Because of this, a silent but powerful cohort of conscientious citizens don't enter the national conversation.

«Religion, in other words, is not a problem for legislators to solve, but a vital contributor to the national conversation.

If your group grows so large that it enter the national conversation (like the Phelps clan) then look forward to negatvie remarks from the nonbelievers of your cult.

Over this summer, CMS is seeking to start a national conversation on mission by launching a major listening exercise to ask what «Mission Is».

I've spent a good part of my career working in PR, so I know what it takes to get a story into the national conversation via coverage on CNN, Fox News, The New York Times, The Atlantic and other media outlets that drive the national conversation.

Do I think that we should have a national conversation about increasing violence in our cities and schools?

The national conversation tends to skip over how much this demographic — who came of age with mass tragedies like the Columbine shooting and 9/11 — want a candidate who conveys a sense of protection in what they see as an «increasingly dangerous world.»

In my view, however, «Moby - Dick» has not been as influential as either Harriet Beecher Stowe's «Uncle Tom's Cabin» or Mark Twain's «Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,» each of which has carried considerable weight in our national conversation about race.

Recognising the lack of vision and leadership on these profound questions, the Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance was formed in 2010, consciously linking Australia to the global movement for food sovereignty, with the aim of promoting a different, values - based national conversation on the future of our food and farming systems.