Sentences with phrase «about urgent»

Roundtable President and CEO Jeffrey DeBoer talks about the urgent need to extend TRIA in an interview with DLA Piper at their recent Global Real Estate Summit in Chicago.

November 2017 We invite you to join the many organizations and advocates who are dedicated to raising awareness about the urgent need for permanent families for children in U.S. foster care — and for orphaned children around the world.

But as we still await the outcome of the July 2 poll, there are concerns about urgent funding needs and policy gaps, including efforts to deal with the devastating rate and impact of suicide in Indigenous communities.

The health sector is also increasingly speaking up, together with human rights advocates and social policy and law reformers, about the urgent need for governments to tackle the over-incarceration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Many of our coalition partners and allies, such as the Elizabeth Fry Society of Greater Vancouver, West Coast LEAF, Community Legal Assistance Society (CLAS), Inclusion BC, the Canadian Mental Health Association - BC Division, BC ACORN, Raise the Rates and the Single Mothers» Alliance BC, wrote to government and spoke up about the urgent need to rectify this policy and its negative impacts on child well - being.

A related complaint that came up regularly was about urgent work getting dumped on trainees and juniors» desks relatively late in the day when they had been fairly quiet previously.

The Honourable Ralph Goodale Minister of Public Safety 269 Laurier Avenue West Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0P8 January 30, 2017 Dear Minister Goodale, We are writing to you about the urgent need for Canada to revise the Ministerial Directives on torture issued by the previous government to conform to the unconditional ban on torture in international -LSB-...]

Not about the urgent need to raise awareness about sexual assault and sexual abuse, of course.

Because when our client calls about an urgent matter, we want our client to be the first name that people think of.

Yeb arrived and gave a moving speech to the cameras about the urgent need for a justice driven, equitable deal on the climate crisis.

A week later at the powerful Pathway to Paris event at New York's Carnegie Hall, as Patti Smith, Joan Baez, Talib Kweli and Michael Stipe bore witness, Bill McKibben, spoke about the urgent need for New York to lead and to do so by divesting from fossil fuels.

That is the only way we can ever hope to bring about the urgent necessary changes.

With regard to possible «tipping points» in public opinion, I have been wondering what sort of event might act as a «global warming 9/11» — a shocking event that would quickly transform public opinion about the urgent need to make and / or accept large - scale lifestyle changes to quickly and drastically reduce GHG emissions?

We must act now and bring about urgent changes in the way we live and use natural resources.

Our governments are not considering any options which will bring about the urgent transition to clean energy we need to protect the planet.

So if we are really serious about urgent climate change action we should put CPRS to the side till at least 2020 and take direct action on the big ticket emission items for which there are commercially available solutions.

As we have seen, in the first two entries in this series, the new book edited by sociologists Dunlap and Brulle includes information on how participants in the denial countermovement have prevented governments from responding to climate change by undermining the scientific basis on which claims about the urgent need to take action.

We at CTC will be continuing to offer hard - hitting news and analysis to educate leaders in the climate movement about the urgent need to prioritize a carbon tax in their — and our — campaigning.

If President Obama meant what he said in his recent speech about urgent action needed to stop climate change, then he must block Keystone XL and its massive climate - disrupting pollution.

Since the last relatively substantive meeting on a new climate treaty, in Bali, Indonesia, in 2007, there has been a steady stream of statements about the urgent need to «seal the deal» next month in Copenhagen, providing a firm new treaty curbing emissions from rich countries and emerging powers and buttressing poor ones against climatic and coastal hazards.

It is also an example of cultural essentialism, which hinders our ability to have a serious debate about urgent topics like racism, injustice, poverty and oppression that affects primarily, though not solely, African Americans in the U.S..

During the conversation, he spoke at length about the urgent need to integrate the canon.

Pemberton shared with Shelter Me the new procedure for sending information to their partner rescues about those urgent dogs:

It can affect your ability to pay bills and bring about an urgent need to re-evaluate spending.

The clock is ticking on when tenure reform will become part of the discussion about the urgent need to improve student outcomes in Milwaukee.

Thank you for providing me with the opportunity to speak tonight about the urgent need to approve Mayor Walsh's proposed $ 2.4 million appropriation for additional school psychologists, social workers, and nurses.

First, as humans and managers people are most concerned about urgent, fire - drill like issues.

This is a critical moment for the city to stand up and support people like Dr. Perry who are unafraid to speak truth to power and have tough conversations about the urgent need to improve Buffalo schools so that every child can get a great education.

He speaks frankly about the urgent need to improve schools — particularly when poor, minority families are the ones suffering the most from educational neglect.»

Now, sometimes when I talk about the urgent need to strengthen the applied skills of our nation's teenagers, skeptics dismiss the significance of the PISA results.

Having said that, I think that the business community and education reformers must do everything they can to educate citizens, opinion shapers, and civic and political leaders about the urgent need to set higher standards.

First, children need our help to become aware about the urgent issues going on around them — whether it be construction that could destroy a nearby river or an animal shelter where the dogs get no exercise.

And then something about its urgent insistency snapped at my soul and captured my full attention.

With Furiosa behind the wheel, though, Fury Road steers this testosterone - soaked franchise in a brilliant new direction, forging a mythical portrait about the urgent need for female rule in a world where men need to be saved from themselves.

The combination of high - profile movies about urgent topics and the feeling of urgency in the world at large is set to give the annual September rite an unprecedented electricity.

«Promised Land» may raise awareness about an urgent environmental issue, but as drama, the movie drills and drills, never quite hitting pay dirt.

As the Brazilian tribal language Tupi Guarani nears extinction, this hyper - aggressive group is raising awareness about the urgent need to save it — one ENOUGH WITH THE CHRISTMAS SWEATERS PLEASE!

Educate genomic technologists about urgent conservation problems that might benefit from the application of new genomic tools;

«Missing out two sectors that would constitute a «top 10 emitter» essentially ignores what the «best available science» is saying about urgent, deep and sustained mitigation commensurate with 2C.

We need to ask these patients not only about their urgent health needs but their overall goals and experiences with care.»

Four in 10 parents (43 percent) had never received first aid training and they were also the least confident in making decisions about urgent situations compared to parents with first aid training.

«I have spoken with the de Blasio Administration about the urgent need for reforms and called for substantive changes that include splitting the responsibilities of ACS into different agencies; implementing rigorous oversight over contract agencies; adequately training and supervising caseworkers; and providing deeper ongoing supports to children in foster care or child preventative services.»

«He speaks frankly about the urgent need to improve schools — particularly when poor, minority families are the ones suffering the most from educational neglect.»

Clients and advocates, including Community Access CEO Steve Coe, spoke about the urgent need for State leaders to sign the full MOU.

The reaction to my announcement this week about the urgent need to remove obstacles to adoption was positive, widespread and in some cases surprising.

The defeat appears to have focused some minds about the urgent need for reform within English football.

In the lively debate that concluded the conference, there was little disagreement between young delegates and senior dignitaries about the urgent need for re-charting Pakistan's political course so as to realise the long - cherished aspirations of its people.

Because he is clearly an improvement over Walcott and Gnabry and you know Ox case with injuries... the same way we signed Ozil when we have Cazorla (even better than Ozil in my eyes) and other CAM's... It is about signing quality players when they are available... that being said we should never forget about the urgent need for clear ST

Luther was well acquainted with the new Elector and felt sufficient confidence to send him, on 15 May, a memorandum about the urgent financial and other needs of the University, a memorandum originally intended for Elector Frederick, who in the last twelve months of his life had slowed down his normally very deliberate procedures almost to stopping point.

The movie also spends generous attention on homeless people, some of whom are neatly sketched, and includes lines about the urgent need to help the homeless.