Sentences with phrase «at challenging the world»

That's why we're proud to partner with the Humane Society Silicon Valley (HSSV) in support of their national animal - human welfare movement called Mutual Rescue aimed at challenging the world to re-imagine how our lives can be transformed when we adopt a homeless pet.

That's why we're proud to partner with the Humane Society Silicon Valley (HSSV) in support of their national animal - human welfare movement called Mutual Rescue through a series of films aimed at challenging the world to reimagine how our lives can be transformed when we adopt a homeless pet.

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The tariffs, which have increased frictions with U.S. trading partners worldwide and have prompted several challenges before the World Trade Organization, are aimed at allowing the two U.S. metals industries to increase their capacity utilization rates above 80 percent for the first time in years.

In a conversation Tuesday with Inc.com executive editor Christine Lagorio at SXSW that swerved from the human genome to space plumbing (which Dyson mastered while training to become a cosmonaut), Dyson challenged the investment community to look deeper, to find entrepreneurs solving real - world problems.

China and neighbors including South Korea may opt to challenge the decision at the World Trade Organization — which has rebuffed prior U.S. - imposed tariffs that appeared before it.

We need to challenge our children and give them at least a little look into the real world, where there are winners and losers every day.

Fortune's World's Greatest Leaders list is out this morning, and at the top of it are a bunch of kids — the students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and elsewhere, who have challenged the powerful NRA with surprising effectiveness.

Marketing.Media.Money profiles the chief marketing officers at some of the world's biggest brands, exploring their careers, their business challenges and how they are directing their significant advertising spend.

We're very good at launching Mario Party - type games — that's one franchise that does better in Canada than other markets, for example — but when it comes to launching new IP it's a huge challenge in today's world, where consumers are just bombarded with entertainment options that didn't exist when we first launched Mario 30 years ago.

You'll be so fixated on the challenges that you won't step back and realize you're already there.With skateboarding, at some point I was on top of the world, but I had no idea because I was so busy and so focused on doing it.

The problem is, it's challenging to perform at your high level and make an extraordinary contribution in the world if the above describes how you start your days.

Local entrepreneur Graeme Speak's cyber security startup business has been named the fintech category winner at the Silicon Valley Forum's World Cup Tech Challenge.

Since my last Sino - Saturday edition, much has happened on the trade front: Donald Trump announced plans to impose tariffs of as much as $ 60 billion on imports from China; China fired back with tariffs of $ 3 billion against imports from the US, a promise to challenge US penalties at the World Trade Organization and some tough language threatening more painful countermeasures to come; global markets took a nosedive.

A look at the deeply intertwined history of humanity and freshwater reveals looming challenges that could upend power structures around the world.

In a perfect world, employees would refrain from conducting their holiday shopping at work, but when your employees see «80 percent Off Everything» promotions advertised across the Internet and in their inbox, it will be nearly impossible to stop the online shopping mayhem unless you address the challenges for your network and employees in advance.

At a recent Nasdaq luncheon Q&A, Schultz was challenged about his expansive view of «corporate social responsibility»: Was it not the role of the corporation simply to maximize profits for shareholders, who in turn can use the proceeds to do good in the world if they choose?

Woods» schedule on his website continues to show him as playing at the Hero World Challenge on December 1 - 4.

These mega-projects are fraught with challenges ranging from new engineering demands to public opposition.But to look at any one pipeline or container - port controversy in isolation is to miss the big picture of inexorable change in the world economy and Canada's place within it.

Their challenge: letting the world know their B2B demo automation software thrives at facilitating buying consensus.

Xi outlines his plans at the Boao Forum for Asia on the same day the World Trade Organization said China filed a complaint challenging President Donald Trump's tariffs on imported steel and aluminum.

I recently read an opinion piece by Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini in which he extolls the virtues of greeting the sun just as it's rising each morning: «Every day I get up at 5:30 for my own yoga and meditation practice because I know I'm going to head into a chaotic world where I will be challenged.»

At the Challenge Festival, startups like as BaseTrace, which «uses DNA - based tracers to track where industrial fluids are going in large, complex environments» and Reliefwatch, a cloud - based system that uses smartphone technology to track inventory and diseases for healthcare organizations in the developing world, battled it out on stage for a grand prize of $ 150,000 in investment.

At this year's Brainstorm Tech conference, July 16 - 18 in Aspen, Colorado, we will be staging The Pitch, a contest designed to put a spotlight on the private sector's freshest and smartest solutions to the world's biggest social challenges.

More recently, we worked with Disney Pixar to bridge the disconnect between what students learn about math and science at school and tackling creative challenges in the real world with an initiative called Pixar in a Box.

In «The State of Digital Media 2018,» my team analyzed more than 3.5 million pieces of published content (as well as survey responses from editors at online publications) to uncover challenges and opportunities in the world of content.

EVANS & Tate may have chucked a cat in with the pigeons by being named the makers of the world's finest red wine at the 2000 International Wine Challenge in London recently.

December 2002 (769 kb PDF file): Research summaries on IMF conditionality and country ownership of reforms and on public policies and the Millennium Development Goals; country / area study: Hong Kong SAR; summaries of conferences on challenges to central banking from globalized financial systems and on globalization in historical perspective; agenda of Third Annual IMF Research Conference; summary of September 2002 World Economic Outlook; visiting scholars at the IMF; contents of latest issue of IMF Staff Papers, other IMF research publications.

The Capital Markets Institute at the Rotman School of Management fosters a clear understanding of the challenges facing the Canadian capital markets, and the institutional tools that Canada must develop in order to convert those challenges into opportunities to be a leader among the world's small, open capital markets.

After three days of interacting with these experts, hours of exploring challenges at a deeper level than you'll find in today's financial media, and debating with fellow attendees from around the world, you'll be more prepared than ever to safeguard the future of your family and your wealth.

When Mahatma Gandhi challenged Indians with the statement, «If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change,» it was a rallying call for the country to inspire change across the globe by looking first introspectively at...

After skewering the proposed system («one of the most expensive per mile and one of the slowest in the world»), Musk issued an open - source design challenge: a 28 - passenger solar - powered pod capable of levitating through a system of tubes almost at the speed of sound, with a one - way ticket price of $ 20 and a total building cost estimated at $ 6 billion, less than a tenth of the budget for California's high - speed rail project.

After exhausting all the challenges available to him at a project in India to build the world's tallest statue, Anish Gogate put his skills to work helping a Calgary charity.

For example, our Institute for Sustainable Investing helps develop the next generation of long - term - oriented business leaders, in partnership with INSEAD and the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, challenging teams of graduate students from around the world to demonstrate how investing can go hand - in - hand with positive social impact.

Doug's book challenges us to look at disruption more than by assuming that one form of retail will win over another - simply put, the book forces us to understand the power of personalization and customer engagement - the lifeblood of our new retail world.»

This book challenges you to see that if you don't change your approach, your competitor will... This book pushes you to look at your world and fix how you do business.

If the tariffs do go into effect, the European Union and other allies will most likely respond with tariffs of their own and challenges at the World Trade Organization.

Our mission at FreshBooks is to reshape the world to suit the needs of self - employed professionals and their teams, and this challenge is an exciting way for us to support other entrepreneurs who share our mission.»

SAN FRANCISCO, April 17, 2018 / PRNewswire / — At OhmConnect, our goal is audacious — help people tackle and take action on one of the world's most pressing challenges: climate change.

Centra Banks Holding Gold While China will attempt to add to its gold holdings without disrupting the global metals market, even a cursory look at the mathematics of the world market for the yellow metal underscores that Beijing faces a real challenge.

Student teams from around the world showed that they are more than ready for the challenge at the second annual O.R. & Analytics Student Team Competition held during the recent 2018 INFORMS Conference on Business Analytics and Operations Research in Baltimore.

The joint research undertaken by the two companies will examine how blockchain, the technology at the basis of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, could be used for developing innovative cybersecurity solutions, such as secure transmission of information between services and supply chains, user authentication, critical devices and elements that run with no human intervention and additional solutions for the cyber challenges in a hyper - connected world.

At Global Citizen, we believe that taking action on the world's most challenging issues — from education to health to climate — can make the world a better place and help eliminate extreme poverty by 2030.

«Instead of tariffs, we strongly encourage the administration to build an international coalition that can challenge China at the [World Trade Organization] and beyond,» Dean Garfield, president of the Information Technology Industry Council wrote in a letter last month to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, one of the US officials visiting China this week.

Over half of the global staff in more than 100 locations throughout the world submitted, voted or commented on at least one of the 392 pitches to the «DFAT Ideas challenge.»

What is more unfortunate is that contemporary bishops, who have been exposed to and educated in the modern world and its global challenges — at least by comparison with their predecessors, who were restricted by the «iron curtain» or oppressive xenophobia — appear less interested in transcending any prejudice and parochialism.

But in the midst of those challenges, they have something to teach Christians and the world at large: a way of being Christian that requires us to rethink some of the disconnects between our love of God and our love of justice, or our ability to talk about personal spirituality without also talking about social transformation.

Through his years in the earthly hell of the Soviet prison system, to the publication of A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovichin 1962, and, later, the multivolume Gulag Archipelago, Solzhenitsyn challenged the world to look unblinkingly at the good and, with relentless specificity, the evil of which we are capable.

It bears upon the world to challenge culture at some points, to encourage it at others, to transform it at many.

We try to publish ideas that break stereotypes, challenge the status quo and spur a generation to know God more — and change the world while they're at it.

The challenge to «horizontal enchantment» from people like Taylor and MacIntyre, if I may audaciously attempt to boil it down to one paragraph, is this: At the root of horizontal culture (the modern world of democratic republics and entrepreneurial economies) is the claim that people can and should Reform the world.