Sentences with phrase «as serious an issue»

The unanimous position among the UCP leadership candidates to repeal the carbon tax without proposing any alternatives to reform or replace it suggests that none of them see climate change as a serious issue.

It can help parents deal with common parenting issues like setting boundaries and making kids aware of consequences of their actions, as well as serious issues like drug and alcohol abuse and prevention of abuse.

A new Siena poll found New York voters view corruption in state government as a serious issue, yet only about a third of them have followed recent developments about Cuomo's disbanded Moreland Commission closely enough to be able to offer an informed opinion.

Schumer is among those who consider the threat of deep cuts at Fort Drum as a serious issue that can't be ignored as political posturing.

Identifying the presence of lead in residences as a serious issue that adversely affects children, particularly in the City of Buffalo.

In this country, so many people are suffering from insomnia that we don't really consider it as a serious issue anymore — we simply see it as a typical by - product of modern life.

We view this as a serious issue to deal with SDS strives to combat this.

However, they don't remain focused on SAT reading passages for long as their serious issues come to life.

Many critics also site charter schools» lack of accountability and operational transparency as serious issues.

Personally, I am not one of those people who refuses to buy products with DRM but do recognize it as serious issue that needs to be dealt with.

This is as serious an issue as any of these, but apparently missed because this six - figure business does such a good job of keeping this horrific crime a secret.

With overpopulation as a serious issue, adopting a pet can help to ease the shelter system and give a well - deserving cat a loving forever home.

I asked if that type of club was needed when veterinary school is characteristically predominately women, but she described it as a serious issue at her college and across the veterinary field.

The Nintendo head honcho also played down the importance of graphical prowess and improved console performance, citing cost recovery and «saturation» as serious issues.

The Democratic Party Platform mentions climate change 19 times and treats it as a serious issue.

Legitimate news organizations have an obligation to treat industrial hemp as the serious issue it is and to not confuse it with drugs.»

A 2015 poll of African Americans found that 60 percent ranked global warming as a serious issue, and 67 percent said that actions should be taken to reduce the threat of global warming.

Given other surveys suggesting Americans see climate change as a serious issue but put it near the bottom of their priority list, these estimates sound about right.

An important acoustic study, just published, concludes that «enough evidence and hypotheses have been given herein to classify LFN [low - frequency noise] and infrasound as a serious issue, possibly affecting the future of the [wind] industry» (4).

The ABC News and Washington Post poll conducted by the Langer Research Associates showed that only two out of three Americans consider climate change as a serious issue.

I, for one doubt you are sincere in accepting climate change as a serious issue requiring a serious response.

Do they see access to justice as a serious issue?

Let's zero in on one area of litigation in the hope of grounding the discussion in real, messy particulars of excessive billing as a serious issue rather than the view from 30,000 feet up.

If anything can be pointed at as a serious issue, it's battery life.

I doubt Facebook saw this as a serious issue, aside from the press coverage it attracted, because users were likely having their data «breached» by thousands of other companies.

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As with most social policy issues, it's worth noting that homelessness and affordable housing are serious matters.

Eleanor Whitehead — The Economist: Anyone who believes millennials can't do serious journalism should check out Whitehead's excellent reporting on issues such as Boko Haram in her role as West Africa Correspondent.

It's a story sure to engender plenty of giggles, but it's also another example of a bizarre little story that serves as a pretty decent starting point for consideration of more serious issues.

In many cases, it's a serious issue and, as the workforce continues to get younger, it's going to become a bigger problem.

If you have a serious health issue such as obesity, heart disease or diabetes, and your doctor recommends swimming as a vital form of daily exercise, you may be able to deduct the cost of a new pool in the backyard as a medical expense, according to Lisa Greene - Lewis, a CPA and tax expert at TurboTax.

Earlier this year, in his most direct comments on the issue, President Obama said in a speech at the National Cybersecurity Communications Integration Center that cyber threats pose «one of the most serious economic and national security challenges we face as a nation,» and acknowledged that hacking is ongoing.

«If a business doesn't have the resources to raise capital when it needs to, manage tax situations effectively, or execute increasingly complex accounting issues [such as] revenue recognition, then they could run into some serious problems,» explains Calvin L. Hackeman, a partner at Grant Thornton LLP, a large accounting firm in Chicago that serves both small and midsized businesses.

Treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin may have declared earlier this year that the issue is «not even on [the White House's] radar screen,» but it could have a serious political as well as economic impact.

But as more apps, fun or serious, begin attaching our locations to our messages, related privacy issues will remain a hot topic of conversation, perhaps forcing us to reexamine our views about how much privacy we need to maintain in our digital lives.

Organizations such as the Canadian Association of Optometrists say only doctors should be responsible for issuing medical aides (which it believes glasses and contacts are), and have expressed concern this change will lead to people skipping eye exams, which could delay the diagnosis of serious eye disease.

During periods of adverse changes in general economic, industry or competitive conditions, such as we experienced in calendar years 2008 and 2009, some of our vendors may experience serious cash flow issues, reductions in available credit from banks, factors or other financial institutions, or increases in the cost of capital.

And any power outage there is a serious issue, as Vox's Alexia Fernandez Campbell explains, because the government is broke.

The online survey of 1,019 Canadians asked which federal leader they would prefer to do things with, including serious issues, such as dealing with a terrorist attack, and not - so - serious issues, such as drinking a beer and babysitting.

But, adding up the sheer volatility of cryptocurrencies with liquidity issues facing this infant and unregulated market, it does not take long to figure out why institutional players do not see cryptocurrencies as a serious contender for an investable asset class.

As far as we understand the situation, there are no serious issues remaining,» Putin told the reporters at the APEC foruAs far as we understand the situation, there are no serious issues remaining,» Putin told the reporters at the APEC foruas we understand the situation, there are no serious issues remaining,» Putin told the reporters at the APEC forum.

This raises the issue as to how serious the Government is in accepting the Auditor General's recommendations.

The same goes for issues that could affect resale value, such as serious damage to the foundation or roof.

Each of these issues should be applied to China as well, despite (or perhaps because of) serious concerns regarding China's performance.

It comes as a new study shows nearly 80 per cent of the British public see no signs of improvement for hundreds of thousands of vulnerable children who are at risk of serious issues such as neglect, poverty, bad health or homelessness.

Never must one of these new religions be laughed at or dismissed easily; rather it must be understood on its own terms and as a serious response to some fundamental issues raised by the women's movement.

It would, however, be a serious mistake to focus unduly on the issue of homosexuality, as did the media and many Lutherans in their initial outrage.

The serious issue, as THE INSIDE HIGHER ED article on the governor says, is what should be the Republican agenda on higher education.

While modernity, the Holocaust, the American Jewish experience, and threats to Israel's existence have forced us to confront serious demographic concerns, oftentimes we use such issues as a veil to cover our ignorance of our own tradition.

Of this much, however, I feel sure: no theologian can long avoid these kinds of issues if the character of theology as serious speech about God is to survive.

In such a world no serious person ought to be asked to consider such issues as whether using the masculine pronoun for the general case might not be psychically injurious to females — or be induced, indeed, to stoop to arguing the opposite.