Sentences with phrase «be global citizens of»

«We are global citizens of the world, and we need to access that global - ness,» Reiman said.

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The result is To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science, a Public Benefit Corporation that seeks to «collaborate with global citizens to advance science and build a powerful community of interest» that is made up of three divisions: Entertainment, Science, and Aerospace.

The African nation of Zambia, for instance, has only enough food available to provide its population with 1,870 calories on average, per day, according to a striking global map in the October issue of National Geographic — and in truth, in much of the world, such calorie counts offer an inflated view of what's actually accessible to most citizens, due to widespread poverty, civil unrest, natural disasters, corruption, government mismanagement, food - distribution failures, and other issues.

An argument sometimes used to defend the strength of the housing market is that foreign investors, predominantly wealthy Chinese citizens, are buying property here because Canada is a safe haven in a turbulent global economy.

A bend in the road is not the end of the road — it's the path to becoming a global citizen.

The former global operations CIO at Barclays landed on our 40 Under 40 list last year for his impressive background, quick achievements as CIO of Nike, and his advocacy and influence in the gay community (Watson is out, and was the first non-U.S. citizen to score a seat on the board of GLAAD).

21st Century Fox (fox) is the latest global company to weigh in on President Trump's controversial executive order that has banned citizens of seven predominately Muslim nations from visiting the U.S. for 90 days and halted the Syrian refugee program for 120 days.

Each of these risks is of significant interest to the risk management sector — and to governments and citizens round the world We were told that our task was to transform these risks into opportunities and that our contributions would find their way into the 2014 Global Opportunity Report that DNV GL co-produces.

As 2017 comes to a close, understanding where the US government draws the line on crypto taxes is essential for those wishing to toe the line as responsible US citizens; it's also important for citizens of the growing crypto community and the future of the global economy.

«[I] f your view of the world is having a balance of interests, a competitive marketplace, equal providers, equal parties coming to the table — whether it's a supply chain or a network of things like sending money back and forth or citizens working to solve village - level, regional or global level — this is technology can help implement that.»

A new approach has to start from the idea that the basic responsibility of government is to maximise the welfare of citizens, not to pursue some abstract concept of the global good.

Such will be the case of Estonia's proposed e-Residency Project, powered by the Nation itself, and expected to be a platform that builds a digital nation for global citizens.

The Warsaw Conference has put the interests of dirty energy industries over that of global citizens — with a «Coal & Climate Summit» being held in conjunction; corporate sponsorship from big polluters plastered all over the venue; and a Presidency (Poland) that is beholden to the coal and fracking industry.

The way forward is to increase the volume and quality of our exports and increase the skills and work ethic of our citizens — not to close ourselves off from a leadership role in global trade.

The members of the Business Council of Canada are strongly committed to Canada's success in the global economy, to the creation of new opportunities for our citizens and to breaking down barriers that prevent Canadians from reaching their full potential.

Apex Capital Partners Corp. is a founding member of the Global Investor Immigration Council, a non-partisan, not - for - profit organization addressing the opportunities and challenges of the movement of immigrant investors and global citGlobal Investor Immigration Council, a non-partisan, not - for - profit organization addressing the opportunities and challenges of the movement of immigrant investors and global citglobal citizens.

It's not only global temperatures that are rising though, the good citizens of Highwood are split and tempers are flaring.

This opportunity is only eligible for Global Citizens who are at least 18 years old and can volunteer for at least a week (ideally a minimum of two weeks) in Puerto Rico or Texas between now and Dec. 31, 2018.

There is this idea that these people are not really good citizens of the country,» said Albert W. Hickman, a research associate at the Center for the Study of Global Christianity.

Like that of the NRA, the One Campaign's goal is to communicate to political leaders that there is a large bloc of citizens behind it — in this case, citizens committed to addressing global poverty.

It is the alliance of this theory with corporate, short - term interests, and the desire of many citizens to make no sacrifices that undergird the current unsustainable global system.

They are citizens not of one country but of the whole world.51 The church and theology are criticized in terms of how they function in the global scene.

Why do they lump the gospel of Jesus Christ with faving lower taxes (not caring for the poor), deny global warming (not being good stewards for the environment), refuse reasonable gun control (being common sense good citizens)?

Soft just war theory is characterized by seven key components: a strongly articulated horror of war; a strong presumption against war; a skepticism about government claims; the use of just war theory as a tool for citizen discernment and prophetic critique; a pattern of trusting the efficacy of international treaties, multilateral strategies and the perspectives of global peace and human rights groups and the international press; a quite stringent application of just war criteria; and a claim of common ground with Christian pacifists.

As a global community, we need global citizens for whom a smattering of «foreign relations» and «global economics» is entirely inadequate.

They have had limited success, but they have forced the world to see that the policies of our global leaders are bitterly rejected by masses of citizens.

If it is ethically unacceptable to have the world controlled by transnational corporations alone, and if we can not trust global political authority to represent the interests of ordinary citizens, ethicists are under pressure to devise alternative images of a desirable future.

The standards of environmental protection — and reduction of environmental footprint specified by Nicholas Meat — are a credit to the company as an efficient, sustainable and overall good corporate citizen,» said Global Water & Energy (GW&E) Vice President, Mr. Ian Page.

Responding to the Davos announcement, he said: «It is immensely satisfying that the global outcry against food waste, echoing throughout the supply chain, from farmers down to citizens, has now been amplified and crystallised by the United Nations in the framework of the Sustainable Development Goals.

We see a major part of our role in the international movement is to put pressure on our government and Australian - owned companies to be better global citizens, and to do that we need all of you to join us and work collectively for radical food system transformation.

If the PL reverts to the indigenous and the exclusive English or the UK citizens only, in managerial management and players recruiting level it was initially in the early days of the playing of the English football at division 1 — 4 levels, what is going to happen to the global appeal status and vast amount of money accrued to the PL which it has now attained?

Baby Milk Action is the UK member of IBFAN (the International Baby Food Action Network), a global network of over 270 citizens groups in more than 160 countries that has been working since 1980 to stop misleading marketing by the baby feeding industry.

The global network is called IBFAN (the International Baby Food Action Network) a network of over 270 citizens groups in more than 160 countries.

Shedd is a collaborator with Global FinPrint, which recruits citizen scientists to help fill a critical information gap about the declining number of sharks and rays in the world's oceans.

SDN is a global network of researchers, journalists, activists, policy makers and citizens concerned with the future of democracy.

As a US citizen, I feel incredibly lucky to live in a society whose history is rooted in democratic ideals — a society that continues to benefit from the types of «elections with integrity» that the 2012 Report of the Global Commission on Elections, Democracy, and Security promotes.

Dogara said that the welfare and working condition of teachers must also be upgraded to enable Nigerian citizens compete with the global world and produce citizens that can achieve development that the country seeks.

While this was a global banking crisis without precedent, we were hit especially hard because we have one of the most open economies in the world; with a financial services sector that had grown too big for the UK economy carrying liabilities that were around five times the size of it; UK citizens were privately indebted to the tune of 1.4 trillion pounds — among the highest in the developed world; and we had a housing market that went from spectacular boom to bust.

Whereas the role of the individual qua world citizen has hitherto been a weak and intermittent strand in Western cosmopolitan political thought, recent concentrated interest in both the theory of democracy and citizenship in the context of the state is starting to spill over to the global plane.

I expressed my views in this regard on WhatsApp last weekend, «Any country in which its elites consider re-electing a president like Buhari just as thousands of citizens are murdered across the country with not a single person arrested; a president who can not make an intelligent conversation on any policy or global issue with other global leaders; a president whose EFCC and DSS engage in open confrontation; a regime which crippled the economy and relies on cyclical movements in oil prices as its sole economic lever; a regime under which 10 million jobs are lost; and key accusations against top officials are treated with levity; just as the regime appears complicit in the invasion of its senate by thugs and seizure of mace... such a country is in serious trouble, that is if it isn't doomed.

As a global campaign focuses attention on elder abuse, a local initiative is gearing up to spread joy to thousands of senior citizens across Western New York.

Business News of Tuesday, 8 May 2018 Source: ghananewsagency.org Chief Executive Officer, Global Media Foundation, Ralphael Godlove Ahenu A network aimed at facilitating active engagements between citizens and governments to deepen decentralisation and enhance social accountability at national and local levels has been set - up.

If global warming melts the world's glaciers and raises sea levels, the first to know about it will be the citizens of the Maldives, a low - lying chain of island atolls in the Indian Ocean.

Governments of some developed nations also argue that land degradation is not a global issue of immediate concern to their citizens, but rather a problem limited to the dry lands of developing countries.

«There are many, many different kinds of citizen science projects, everything from large - scale, global, data - drive, researcher - driven investigations to community - based, community - driven questions that address a critical problem, and citizen science exists in almost every scientific discipline,» said Jennifer Shirk, interim executive director of the Citizen Science Association, a nonprofit that seeks to support practitioners of citizen science.

The new budget includes a host of scientific goodies — and promised more to come — that are part of what Finance Minister Bill Morneau called «a new vision for Canada's economy as a center of global innovation, renowned for its science, technology, resourceful citizens, and globally competitive companies.»

Living at the mercy of world markets As a result, every time there is a price spike in the global commodities marketplace, Africans suffer disproportionately compared to citizens on other continents.

To improve the current culture, the team argues that increased data sharing will allow more diverse people to actively participate in research, such as early - career scientists and those from underrepresented groups; scientists from smaller or historically less - influential institutions; citizen - scientists; and scientists from the Global South, scientists from Africa, South and Central America, and much of Asia who are often excluded from leading research.

Not only will the scientific workforce for the 21st century need skills and knowledge we haven't even heard of yet, but all global citizens, whether in their doctor's office or in a polling booth, need to be better informed.

All told, the average rural Chinese citizen consumes 12 grams of salt daily, according to the 2010 Global Burden of Disease study; the average American takes in 9 grams, while the daily maximum recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) is 5 grams.