Sentences with phrase «be global citizens while»

JSIS seeks to teach students to be global citizens while raising academic performance.

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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.

While commending the Nigerian Military for doing their best to halt threats to citizens as exemplified by Boko Haram, IPOB, Avengers and other groups complicit in crimes against humanity, Global Amnesty Watch sees Amnesty International as constantly demonizing nations that are battling terrorism and setting the ground for killers to embed themselves among migrant populations to spread to these other peaceful countries.

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.

One is that, while the U.S. has relied for decades on non-U.S. citizens to fill out its scientific workforce, the growing global competition for scientific talent makes our dependence on foreign scientists «an increasingly uncertain proposition.»

The mission of the York Preparatory Academy (YPA) is for the faculty, staff, students, parents, and community to provide an engaged learning environment that leads to the success of each individual student, while also challenging these students to become life - long learners, independent thinkers, respectful individuals, and responsible citizens thus preparing them for a 21st century global economy.

«I think that Experiential Travel or Impact Experiences can help create more responsible global citizens; ones that recognize and value differences in culture, mores, political viewpoints and lifestyles while also realizing that there is more than one way to achieve happiness and success.

It was not until around 2005 that American media reported clearly that scientists had resolved the controversy, while films and ominous weather events gave citizens a better idea of what global warming might mean.

Because I recognize the true degree of our ignorance in addressing this supremely difficult problem, while at the same time as a mere citizen I weigh civilization and its benefits against draconian energy austerity on the basis of no actual evidence that global climate is in any way behaving unusually on a geological time scale.

While the AGW debate is real, CAGW is a complex shell game; it's been propagandized as a distraction to unite citizens behind a concept, the goal is political empowerment, ultimately global fascism for many elites on the Left who are yanking the reigns.

In a lame effort to fill out the TRNN video with other material which looked like fossil fuel industry orchestrating things, a line from the American Petroleum Institute's 1998 leaked «Global Climate Science Communications Team» memo was highlighted, while the narrator read it: «Victory will be achieved when average citizens understand uncertainties in climate science.»

While the great majority of citizens said they thought global warming was underway, few felt really sure of that.

And research also shows that nearly half of all US citizens think global warming is a reality and humans are responsible, while a similar proportion think it is either from natural causes or not happening at all.

By divesting their assets from fossil fuels, they are reducing the ability for big oil, coal and gas companies to develop new extraction projects, while citizens worldwide are rising to stop these projects in their communities,» said Yossi Cadan, Global Divestment Senior Campaigner at 350.org.

Although a strong case can be made that historical ghg emissions before 1990 should be considered in determining a nation's fair share of safe global emissions, selecting a common baseline year such as 1990 would facilitate easier citizen comparison of national commitments while retaining the rights of nations to make arguments that historical ghg emissions should be considered in any equity framework.

While citizens across America will «step - it - up» to urge Congress to take action on global warming, citizens of the Pammal municipality are celebrating the success of another type of waste initiative.

Both are global citizens, with John being of Indian descent, born and raised in Malaysia and educated in the UK, while Karen hails from a cotton farm in Texas.