Sentences with phrase «biggest national challenges»

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In the spirit of Bell Labs, a new National Innovation Foundation could connect federal agencies and outside partners to take on big innovation challenges jointly.

National Director for Sri Lanka, Dhanan Sennathirajah, told Premier: «The biggest challenge right now is access to the areas [affected] because some of them are in mountainous terrain and most of the roads have got washed away or they are under five or six feet of water.»

A leading abortionist stated that if their model of crisis pregnancy centres went national across the US, it would provide one of the biggest challenges for the abortion industry.

In a long and winding interview with Rolling Stone published this week, the president offers suggests that the «biggest» challenge facing national unity is the proliferation of news sources, and the ability of Americans now to function almost completely in an information bubble.

As some of the UK's biggest names in retail are happy to use date ingredients in their products, following their lead should present no challenge to achieving or maintaining national listings in their stores.

We can't wait for National Cheeseburger Day and what is shaping up to be the biggest and most successful Triple Triple Challenge competition to date»

But the Rockets face their biggest challenge of the season Tuesday night on national TV when they welcome the NIU Huskies to the Glass Bowl.

Last year, I took RESOLVE's National Infertility Awareness Week challenge to write about my biggest fear regarding infertility.

«This is happening because many of the county's largest property tax owners — national chains, big box retailers, developers, not residential property owners — are challenging their assessments, and many local assessors are not regularly or accurately assessing properties,» Poloncarz said.

Evans agrees that national and local governments face a big challenge in the coming months - avoiding rushing into implementing changes which haven't been properly thought through.

Syracuse's Colleen Deacon, who's challenging GOP Rep. John Katko in NY - 24, joined an elite group of Democratic House candidates at a California strategy session last month where national party leaders talked of potential big gains because of Trump's drag on the Republican ticket.

Among the questions asked by the press: whether the city is working with Mexican government officials to encourage any eligible Mexican nationals to register with the city for assistance, whether all victims have been located and identified, what is the biggest remaining challenge at the site, whether there are continuing concerns of gas leaking at the site, whether there is any evidence of illegal gas connections in the basements of the destroyed buildings, what damage or evidence the FDNY will look for, the number of people needing housing assistance, whether any victims asked about the investigation when meeting with the mayor, the number and location of apartments being made available by REBNY to temporarily house victims, what the mayor would say to any employer not granting time off to a victim and whether the mayor is concerned about the pace of gas main replacements.

Reid is a top target for national Republicans in 2010 - but the GOP faces a big problem: it has not settled on a candidate to challenge the Democratic leader.

This year was especially challenging keeping it to ten cartoons, with so many big global and national stories...

«Science, technology, engineering and mathematics transcend national boundaries and provide a common language and common quest for humanity to extend our understanding of the universe, define big challenges and pose evidence - based solutions,» said Johnston.

«One of the biggest challenges in doing research in Namibia is that we do not yet have a national funding agency for research,» he says.

But historically it has been a big challenge for such a system to recognize faces under different lighting conditions and from a variety of angles, says Jonathon Phillips, an electronics engineer at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, which develops standards for the technology industry.

The biggest challenge is to reduce fishing mortality, and national and international politics have always made that politically difficult to achieve.»

What are the biggest challenges faced by the «American research enterprise — the indispensable engine of national prosperity»?

In my perspective, the biggest challenge to global scientific collaboration is lack of funding for global issues, as individual national agencies often tend to allocate funds for scientific endeavors aimed at their specific national interests.

The biggest challenge that global scientific collaboration faces is dealing with technical secrets and issues that concern national security.

I think national security is one of the biggest challenges to global scientific collaboration.

From the beginning, he notes, they were convinced that — in addition to individual grants — the technological challenges facing neuroscience today require coordinated «big science» investments in technology, such as the national telescopes and particle accelerators that revolutionized astronomy and physics.

Working with big data sets is challenging but the potential benefits for increasing national security are significant, scientists and national security experts agreed at a joint event organized by AAAS and the FBI.

Nearly a dozen scientists across Oak Ridge National Laboratory are teaming with medical researchers and leveraging ORNL's biggest science tools to solve a modern - day biology grand challenge: unlocking the secrets of disordered...

Vodafone Fiji national team head coach Christophe Gamel is calling on fans to come out in numbers and support the Bula Boys... The Welsh Netball team is primed for one of the biggest challenges of their careers when they kick - off the World Cup in Sydney with a clash Read More...

Vodafone Fiji national team head coach Christophe Gamel is calling on fans to come out in numbers and support the Bula Boys... The Welsh Netball team is primed for one of the biggest challenges of their careers when they kick - off the World Cup in Sydney Read More...

Vodafone Fiji national team head coach Christophe Gamel is calling on fans to come out in numbers and support the Bula Boys... The Welsh Netball team is primed for one of the biggest challenges of their careers when they kick - off the World Cup in Sydney

March 7, 2016 • Overcrowding is one of the biggest challenges facing the National Park Service, and as the agency prepares to turn 100, another record - breaking year is predicted.

Providing appropriate tests for English - language learners is one of the biggest challenges that states face in complying with requirements for that group of students under the No Child Left Behind Act, concludes an issue brief by the National Council of La Raza.

Taking place at the Telford International Centre from 1st — 3rd March, VEX is hosting its biggest UK National Championship to date, with 120 teams competing to win titles in the VEX IQ Challenge and VEX Robotics Competition.

Schools across the country are being invited to sign up for The Big Pedal 2017 — a national challenge to get more young people cycling and scooting to school, backed by double Olympic gold medallist cyclist Joanna Rowsell Shand.

During National School Choice Week, I encourage parents to explore innovative educational alternatives, and I challenge students to dream big and work hard for the futures they deserve.

As you prepared for the National Superintendent of the Year competition what was your biggest challenge and what have you taken away from the experience?

Another big challenge in tracking young learners is that the federal Head Start and Early Head Start programs use a reporting system «that doesn't interface at all with state - level systems,» said Rachel Demma, a senior policy analyst with the National Governors Association.

President Obama challenged the nation's governors to invest more in education during a speech to the National Governors Association in which he asserted that no issue has a bigger effect on the economy, and that it is best addressed at the state level.

The biggest challenge may be reaching agreement on what a national curriculum should include.

Join us for a conversation on where states are in their planning, what they see as the biggest opportunities and challenges, and what the recent national elections might mean for the implementation of this new law.

n their planning, what they see as the biggest opportunities and challenges, and what the recent national elections might mean for the implementation of this new law.

«We took a big leap forward today by starting a national conversation about these topics, the future of V2I technologies and some of the bigger challenges facing us, such as privacy, security and interoperability.»

Over these past two years, we have shined a hot lamp on the problem — political handwringing, using yesterday's funding levels to solve tomorrow's challenges, expecting state and local governments to place big bets when the national government won't make long - term commitments, and applying 20th century policy to a 21st century context.

August 5, 2016 — The fans call it «America's National Park of Speed» and with its three long straightaways, variety of challenging corners and big elevation changes,...

The Student Challenge was led by G4C in partnership with the Sprout Fund in Pittsburgh and the Big Thought in Dallas, national curriculum partner Mouse, and Institute of Play.

What's the biggest challenge to managing a regional, independent firm such as yours in a market where national firms are looking to grow and local firms are looking to expand?

BOSTON — The Big Ten Conference is joining MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership (MENTOR) and local nonprofit partners across the country to launch the Coaches» Mentoring Challenge — an effort to connect young people with caring adult mentors.

Some of the big challenges facing the country's 31 primary health networks (PHNs), established in July 2015 by the Coalition Government to replace the 61 Medicare Locals created under the previous Labor Government, were highlighted at the recent National Rural Health Conference in Cairns.

The types of properties which are seeing the greatest challenge to sustaining their value on a national scale are older, traditional big - box stores and regional malls, large walk - in bank buildings and all manner of commercial properties in certain areas of the country which have sustained industry downturns, in sectors such as cars and oil and gas.

We're a big country — the challenge for a national body is to come up with policies and directions that are going to satisfy everybody.

Speaking about the national economy, Jack Guynn, president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, said the biggest challenge is figuring out «what the heck happened» to the economic boom and «what looms ahead.»

The ever entertaining and thought provoking NREP (National Real Estate Post), formerly known as TBWS (Think Big Work Small) challenges our national leadership and loan regulators to promote home ownership by easing qualification reguNational Real Estate Post), formerly known as TBWS (Think Big Work Small) challenges our national leadership and loan regulators to promote home ownership by easing qualification regunational leadership and loan regulators to promote home ownership by easing qualification regulations.