Sentences with phrase «special concern in»

Say goodbye to insecticides... Mosquitoes have traditionally been of special concern in Israel and worldwide because they transmit pathogens to us humans.
Researchers further identified 25 species of birds in the stomachs of these invasive pythons in the Everglades, including four species of special concern in Florida and a wood stork, which is listed as federally endangered.
The western snowy plover is a Bird Species of Special Concern in California.
Additionally, the document drew attention to one particular item that was of special concern in Bedlington terriers — «cracked / corny pads»
Understanding wood decay in forests is of special concern in the tropics because tropical forests are estimated to harbor 96 % of the world's tree diversity and about 25 % of terrestrial carbon, compared to the roughly 10 % of carbon held in temperate forests.
«Clearly, this matter was of special concern in that an unarmed citizen of our County had died in police custody,» he said.
Based in large part on data provided by Mass Audubon's citizen scientists, the Eastern Whip - poor - will was recently listed as a Species of Special Concern in Massachusetts.
In fact, because of citizen science efforts at Mass Audubon, the eastern whip - poor - will, one of the inaugural Birds to Watch, was recently listed as a Species of Special Concern in Massachusetts, affording it more protection.

Not exact matches

(One early sign: The Republican House win in the Florida special election in March was due in part to concerns over the health care law.)
Former national security adviser Michael Flynn is reportedly concerned that his son, Michael Flynn Jr., could get wrapped up in special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation.
However, the Justice Department's appointment of ex-FBI Director Robert Mueller as special counsel to investigate alleged ties between Russia and Trump's election campaign team appeared to soothe investor concerns and supported Wall Street in Thursday's session.
The Times editorial comes at a time when there are growing concerns that Trump could look to undermine or completely shut down special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 US election and Trump's alleged ties to Russia.
To ease concerns that Mexico's low wage scale would cause U.S. companies to shift production to that country, and to ensure that Mexico's increasing industrialization would not lead to rampant pollution, special side agreements were included in NAFTA.
Right now, however, many of these videos feel like tech demos, more concerned with showing you how the concept works than applying it in any special way.
After a series of electoral missteps and concerns over the special Senate election in Alabama, the party — and Trump — needs a victory it can point to ahead of the 2018 midterms.
Residents in many cities said they were concerned that Amazon's arrival would increase the cost of living and opposed offering special incentives to attract the company.
Leblanc said there is an increase in the number of companies that hold special board meetings without the CEO, providing an opportunity for senior management to raise any concerns without the boss's influence.
«The great concern is they're not going to leave, and that's not paranoia,» Gen. Tony Thomas, the head of the United States Special Operations Command, told a national security conference in Aspen, Colo., in July.
The buyer should review these documents to determine if the Association has enough reserves in place to avert future special assessments, check to see if there are special assessments, legal action, or any other items that might be of concern.
So it holds a special place in our concerns
Steven Wood, CFA, founded GreenWood Investors in late 2010 based on core beliefs that great retruns are generated through a concentrated global portfolio of special situations and deep value opportunities, and can not be generated by being overly concerned with month - to - month returns.
Following several autumn 2016 news articles and blog posts which raised concerns regarding transactions with related parties, particularly with then - CEO Steven Sugarman and members of his family, in October the company issued a press release indicating that the board's «disinterested directors» had hired a law firm and formed a special committee to review the alleged connections and transactions.
The DNC may have concerns about exactly how much justice and / or transparency it is going to obtain under the criminal probe into the same matter by Special Counsel Robert Mueller and wants its own civil RICO action to move forward in case the former turns out to be a dud investigation.
Ukraine's «special operation» against pro-Russian separatists in the east of the country has led to heightened concerns of all - out violence in the troubled region.
How a nerve comes to be sensitive to light, hardly concerns us more than how life itself originated; but I may remark that, as some of the lowest organisms in which nerves can not be detected, are capable of perceiving light, it does not seem impossible that certain sensitive elements in their sarcode should become aggregated and developed into nerves, endowed with this special sensibility.»
The study of family relations and of the growth of persons within the family is the special concern of interpersonal psychology, particularly as represented in the various psychoanalytic schools.
Here the more universal concept shows itself also the more rich in content; whoever has it can deduce from it all the mathematical relations which concern the special problems, while on the other hand, he takes these problems not as isolated but as in continuous connection with each other, thus in their deeper systematic connections.
That it was a matter of special concern to Matthew is evident in other places also (Mt 22:11 - 14; 16:17 - 19; 18:15 - 18).
They seek special explanations, but at the same time, they express concern that inflationary pressures, while invisible on the surface, are building up in the economy.
One special consequence of sexuality concerns the differences in the experience of men and women.
If what we are trying to understand here were only a peculiar intellectual difficulty in conceiving how time and eternity can be related, the problem would be an abstract one hardly worthy of special attention so far as the meaning of love is concerned.
If we can see the connection between general civil religion and virtue defined as concern for the common good, we can begin to see the connections between general civil religion and special civil religion, for special civil religion defines the norms in terms of which the common good is conceived.
Chapter 4, dealing with the Emmanuel Movement, is of special interest to those who are concerned, as many clergymen are, with helping to develop a closer relationship between religion and psychotherapy, both in general and in the treatment of alcoholism.
Jesus, in keeping with this tradition, had a special concern for the poor, and opposed the accumulation of possessions.
Following each affirmation is a brief discussion of what, in the current mood or plight of modern man, makes this affirmation of special concern.
The reference may be to a passage in Numbers concerning a special burnt offering (28:9 - 10), but why the performance of a duty according to the law should be considered a profanation of the Sabbath is not clear.
Their first concern is to find gaps in the explanatory competence of the sciences, inadequacies of theory that can not, in principle, be bridged without invoking God's «special» action to supplement the natural causes to which scientific inquiry is necessarily limited.
Others in England, especially those in the Church Missionary Society, saw Africa as a place for their special concern.
In Paul's letter to the Romans, (Rom 14) he mentions the problem of those who were concerned about eating food connected with pagan rituals or keeping special days.
A. Festival Religious festivals were occasions for a break from life's larger concerns, a special time, or «parenthesis» within life, consecrated to the Lord in joy.
One reason why it is of vital concern to every citizen, whatever his special form of religious belief, that real religion should flourish in the commonwealth is that religion has always taught men thus to respect life's sanctities.
The special qualities of Puritan discourse probably need to be kept in mind in attempts to imitate Weber's concern with subjectivity.
The concerns evident in Habermas's framework gain special relevance here.
To all who work in shaping public policy, the Pope directs a special plea to make a concern for the health of the family «the basis and driving force of all social policies.»
Jesus» actions, then, are symbolic of adoption; abandoned children are to be brought into the church and raised by Christian parents, not in order to exploit their labor potential but because the biblical God is one with a special concern for the poor, the homeless, the weak and the abandoned.
If our concern is peacemaking — particularly the special urgency given that task by the nuclear threat — then we shall have to come to grips with those portions of the biblical witness in which the community of faith has been forced to deal with the violence and pain of conflict between peoples.
At the time Thornton had closely read The Concept of Nature (1920) and Principles of Natural Knowledge (2d edition, 1925), tended to interpret Science and the Modern World (1925) in line with these earlier works, and was acquainted with Religion in the Making (1926) though somewhat unsure what to make of its doctrine of God.2 He took comfort in Whitehead's remark concerning the immortality of the soul, and evidently wanted to apply it to all theological issues: «There is no reason why such a question should not be decided on more special evidence, religious or otherwise, provided that it is trustworthy.
It is true that «in the historical Jesus, God's will - to - value - and - fellowship «22 met a special fulfillment in a peculiar, reciprocal intensification of mutual involvement, but this in itself is not the way God became human, although from a human perspective it may make accessible to us the richness of God's concern for us.
Since spiritual growth is an explicit concern, special spiritual enrichment groups should be developed in churches.
Theology's focus, in contrast, should concern the special, contingent dimension of God's personal relationship to the human situation.
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