Sentences with phrase «extraordinary cases of»

For the third year in a row, Sustainia, C40, and Realdania have collected the 100 best urban solutions to climate change from cities around the world, and the 2017 edition of Cities100 presents some extraordinary cases of city climate action within the categories of energy, adaptation, transportation, mitigation, and waste.

Using extraordinary cases of spontaneous healing, Dr. Rankin shows how thoughts, feelings, and beliefs can alter the body's physiology.

Extraordinary cases of genetic determination of reproductive caste have been found in several ants, including harvester ants and fire ants.

The digested and undigested remains of the last meal eaten by a Saurichthys, a Triassic bony fish, were discovered in a extraordinary case of preservation that paleontologists at the University of Zurich were quick to take advantage of.

«This is an extraordinary case of kid - centered decision making.

The question has raised itself again for me recently as I looked into the extraordinary case of Lilac Sky, the Kent - based chain which handed over its nine schools last year to other trusts following a string of resignations by directors.

Georgina was instrumental in helping to lead former beauty queen, Pauline Chai, to victory against her Laura Ashley and Corus Hotels tycoon husband in her jurisdictional battle spanning two hemispheres, in the extraordinary case of Chai v Khoo.

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Having created the myth of the black's extraordinary sexual prowess, the white male interprets such a case as an affront to his ego, his virility and his property.

Over 60 years ago when it was still extraordinary for women to work out of the home in this country the mainline was making the theological case for women in ordained ministry against the overwhelming opposition of most Christians throughout history.

The case I like to give my bioethics students to illustrate the point — not least because it was pivotal in the historical formulation of the ordinary / extraordinary distinction — is the battlefield amputation of a limb without pain medication, in order to save a soldier's life.

Can ethics be built upon the unusual, the extraordinary, the purely situational, or the so - called «hard cases» of life?

Even Court watchers who favored legislative liberalization of abortion law were inclined to agree with dissenting Justice Byron White that the case represented an extraordinary judicial power grab.

For in that case the assertion of God's sovereignty would be seen as a universal truth which can by logical reasoning be made intelligible to everyone; the miracle would then be regarded as a universally accredited, extraordinary event, from which the conclusion may be drawn that it depends upon a divine cause.

He believed that William James's «momentous error» had been to justify the exercise of religious belief on the basis of a few extraordinary individuals (who in any case were merely justifying religious believing, not the beliefs themselves), and he understood clearly that those who followed in James's track were (like Dewey) eventually going to lose any grip on religion at all.

The Catholics recognized that, in matters of sexual morality, to make exceptions, even for «very extreme and extraordinary cases,» would lead to anarchy.

Under his preferred settlement, national public policy would allow abortion only in cases of imminent danger to the life of the mother, conception by rape or incest, and a few other extraordinary instances.

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WCB chief executive David Lord hoped that would be the case, saying it been a long process with an «extraordinary number of board meetings».

For all the abundant feel - good angles — conventional wisdom getting caught looking; a moribund sport getting a shot in the arm; a rare case of an irrationally hyped athlete exceeding expectation — consider this one: Ohtani's extraordinary moonlighting is playing as well in Japan as it is here.

Having access to that experience, expert coaching 24/7 and, in many cases, extraordinary financial resources thanks to the NBA salary boom of the mid-1990s — is a huge advantage.

Just as in Ruth's case, his range of skills is extraordinary.

The baby will do well with breastfeeding alone in the vast majority of situations and will not require additional fluids such as so called oral electrolyte solutions except in extraordinary cases.

The pocket on the back is extraordinary for holding a couple of little things in case you're going for a short walk or brisk outing.

Peace campaigners complain that this has not changed since the end of the Cold War, but the symbolism never had a direct linkage to that extraordinary confrontation or the existence of the Soviet Union in any case.

It is a case that hardly received any national publicity during the extraordinary referendum campaign, but it goes to the heart of the historic decision that the House is being asked to make now.»

«It is provided further that within one month of the circulation of the notice; and since this case relates to an elected national officer, the national council shall summon an extraordinary delegates conference to deliberate and decide on the matter»

I believe the case of Mr. Lopez requires that the Assembly formally consider taking this extraordinary step.»

The extraordinary seizure was part of an ongoing probe by the attorney general into Abelove's controversial handling of a case in which a Troy police officer was cleared in the April 2016 shooting death of a DWI suspect.

«Can the Home Secretary explain what was unique about this case that led to them to want the police to be involved, when the police were not invited to investigate the systematic leaking of price - sensitive information about banks and bank capital, or to look into the extraordinary leaking of practically the whole pre-Budget statement, which was really a Budget?

Ken Clarke, the Conservative chairman of the all - party group on extraordinary rendition, said: «Given the fulsome nature of the apology, the question has to be asked why it has taken the government so long to settle this matter, particularly when Mr Belhaj offered to settle the case in 2013 for # 3 and an apology?

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has asked that a federal medical examiner do an autopsy on Brown's body as soon as possible because of «extraordinary circumstances involved in this case and at the request of the Brown family.»

In the last few extraordinary days, I have been reminded of my favourite Edgar Allan Poe story, The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar, in which a man is frozen at the point of death by hypnosis.

The bill would raise the age of criminal responsibility to 18 - years - old, send 16 - and 17 - year - olds charged with misdemeanors to Family Court, and create a «youth part» in adult Criminal Court for nonviolent cases that would give prosecutors discretion to send to Family Court unless they find «extraordinary circumstances.»

• The New York Post editorial board believes that «while it's hard to make a sound legal case for Gov. Paterson's appointment of Richard Ravitch yesterday as lieutenant governor, it's easy to understand the frustrations that drove him to such extraordinary action.»

As a very successful county executive of a county larger than eleven states, Steve understands and is well - equipped to make our Republican case in the present extraordinary political climate.

«What makes this case both extraordinary and far outside the heartland of public corruption cases,» Gage wrote, «is that it arises from a father's love for a son.»

He added, «Steve understands and is well - equipped to make our Republican case in the present extraordinary political climate.Steve speaks about his Contract for New York, which sets out the terms of the mandate he wants from the voters and taxpayers of New York, with a genuine gut conviction based on real time experience walking - the - walk of a fiscally conservative county executive.»

However, rather than cooperate, «Abelove quickly and surreptitiously presented the case to a grand jury,» before whom he withheld material evidence and «took the extraordinary step of conferring immunity upon» the Troy police officer who shot Thevenin, the AG said in a statement.

The most prominent public official named in the case was Alain Kaloyeros, the former president and guiding visionary behind the SUNY Polytechnic Institute, who was entrusted with an extraordinary degree of control over Cuomo's biggest state - subsidized tech projects.

Likewise, contributions to the academic field must be «original» and «of major significance» for Extraordinary Ability cases, but need only be «original» to count toward OPR petitions.

These are the accumulated reflections from a lifetime spent observing the extraordinary ways the human brain can misfire and misbehave: a man who believes his own leg does not belong to him, an autistic woman with a gift for understanding animals, and the man who mistook his wife for a hat — the case that inspired one of Sacks's most famous books.

That's because tiger snake antivenom has an extraordinary level of cross reactivity against other snake species, and can therefore neutralise the lethal effects on humans in snakebite cases.

The first properly documented case of extraordinary memory is that of Solomon Shereshevskii, studied by the celebrated Russian psychologist Alexander Luria starting in the 1920s.

As the number of cases continues to rise the Liberian president has called for «extraordinary measures for the very survival of our state»

This fact makes the LCSB scientists» results of extraordinary interest to Parkinson's researchers worldwide, as Schwamborn stresses: «On our new cell cultures, we can study the mechanisms that lead to Parkinson's much better than was ever the case before.

If that's the case, it opens up an extraordinary opportunity to understand how life got started on Earth, and where (see «Beginner's guide to the origin of life «-RRB-.

It is a strong and compelling case that, when combined with the extraordinary impacts of the project on the country, clearly calls for a change in national nuclear waste policy and direction.

Dr. Margaret Chan, director general of the WHO, said Monday that the explosive growth of microcephaly cases in Brazil constitutes an «extraordinary event and a public health threat to other parts of the world.»

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