Sentences with phrase «even as national leaders»
Even as national leaders make the headlines on climate, more and more, cities are the places turning big - picture objectives into practical steps forward to a sustainable future.
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Once established as a major national thought leader, you should have no trouble developing even more opportunities to place links.
Even as North Korean leader Kim Jong - Un seeks diplomatic engagement with South Korea and the United States, National Guard troops in remote central Alaska maintain the U.S. missile defense system and its devastating weapons ready to launch at a moment's notice.
The second is Marine Le Pen, the deeply controversial, far - right National Front leader whose harsh anti-immigration rhetoric and chest - thumping nationalism has won a lot of support, even as she's had to field off frequent accusations of racism and nativism.
Even though Fascism remained ideologically eclectic and chaotic — Gentile's systematizations never had any organic connection with the movement — and in large measure it was simply the acting out on the national stage of some of the less pleasant aspects of the Italian underculture — the band of thugs tied to their leader in bonds of personal loyalty — it did develop an ideological style and became once in power, a church, as Jemolo describes it:
In particular, local media attention matters: it's often easier to get than national coverage, it lets you leverage your local activists and it can lead to much broader distribution of your story if it gets on a newswire (even local blogs can help, since they may be disproportionately read by elected officials and other opinion leaders and can also serve as a source for national blogs — see this article for details).
The University at Buffalo Foundation used an offshore fund to invest in fracking and fossil fuels, even as university officials sought to portray UB as a national leader in climate - change and sustainability research.
The fact that Democrats won those districts even as Obama lost them, often overwhelmingly, makes Democratic candidates in those districts particularly vulnerable to any messaging that ties them to national leaders.
Such a transition has been made possible by the convergence of several factors: a stream of new science showing an accelerating pace of climate change and its impacts; the everyday experience of people witnessing the change around them (and seeing it on the evening news); the compelling portrayals of what is happening and why, such as Al Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth and the 2007 reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; and the shifting stances of constituencies as diverse as evangelical Christians (who argue for protecting the climate on grounds of stewardship of God's creation) and military leaders (who argue on grounds of national security).
And even as the statewide Florida Education Association vehemently opposed these reforms, our students went on to become national leaders in making progress on NAEP (see Figure 1).
And it would help do both by giving state policymakers more ownership of (and therefore more pride in) the mundane work of everyday governance, even as it redirected the attention and the self - regard of national political leaders toward national questions.
Or, as ResultSource explains it on its website, ``... having a Bestseller (sic) initiates incredible growth — exponentially increasing the demand for your thought leadership, skyrocketing your speaking itinerary and value, giving you a national (even global) spotlight, and solidifying your author brand as the foremost leader in your niche.»
Today, as Scenic Hudson's Assistant Land Conservation Director, I direct our work in farmland protection - and I'm even more excited because we've become a national leader in developing innovative strategies to secure productive agricultural land essential for sustaining supplies of fresh, healthy food.
In 2012, even as most of our leaders dodged or denied the climate change issue, we were busy tackling it from many angles — reducing carbon emissions by securing national air pollution regulations that clean up or phase out dirty plants and then defending these innovations in court when they are attacked by the polluters.