Sentences with phrase «call for an alternative»

I expect, however, that there will be three first - order effects that will be very similar to those that followed the BP spill: 1) increased public consciousness of the dangers inherent in transporting oil and oil products and more aversion to having these products moved nearby; 2) increased calls for alternatives to oil rather than alternative means of transporting oil; and 3) decreased trust in regulators» and firms» abilities to sufficiently mitigate risks from transporting oil.

Fifty thousand gathered in Porto Alegre in February at the Second World Social Forum to voice unanimous opposition to economic globalisation and to call for alternative models of world governance and finance.

It thus seems to me that Rod is not first and foremost calling for an alternative Christian culture in terms of institutions such as a retreat to a monastery in the Rockies, though it does not necessarily exclude the creation of such alternatives.

Since the poor have been the main victims of development, K.C. calls for an alternative vision of society one in which the rights of the poor are protected and their voices are heard.

In the United States the call for alternatives has come from among churches whose leaders have sensed decline or who have looked for something more creative in new historical unfoldings.

As a result, there has been a critical call for an alternative approach to the traditional methods that would usually take the form of classroom training and workshops.

HG: Since the 1980s, right wing and conservative educational theorists have both attacked colleges of education and called for alternative routes to teacher certification.

American Indian and Alaska Native students often have unique needs that call for alternative approaches to narrowing opportunity and achievement gaps.

Throughout the country, parents, teachers, and students are calling for an alternative to the test - and - punish culture.»

I expect, however, that there will be three first - order effects that will be very similar to those that followed the BP spill: 1) increased public consciousness of the dangers inherent in transporting oil and oil products and more aversion to having these products moved nearby; 2) increased calls for alternatives to oil rather than alternative means of transporting oil; and 3) decreased trust in regulators» and firms» abilities to sufficiently mitigate risks from transporting oil.

«They're calling for alternatives, though the campaign is extremely vague on what those alternatives should be.»

Truthfully reflecting that cap and trade only impacts energy produced from polluting sources would hurt their case, and may actually help motivate Americans currently purchasing «dirty energy» to seek and call for alternatives.

To hear a leader of a Wall Street firm recently issue a clarion call for alternative fees was amusing.

The scandal has rekindled suggestions that people delete Facebook and renewed calls for alternative social networks whose businesses don't involve surveillance of their users.

Not exact matches

Dataminr is the biggest player in a nascent industry — call it alternative big data for big finance — that has exploded in the past six months: In March it raised $ 130 million from Fidelity as well as other investors, including former Citigroup (C) CEO Vikram Pandit, valuing the company at $ 700 million.

To be sure, Agrawal is best known for her signature line of underwear, called Thinx, which are billed as an eco-friendly alternative to pads and tampons.

Within hours of the announcement on Thursday — which involves making it easier for users to flag fakes, as well as alerting readers when the accuracy of a story has been called into question — conservative outlets were already dismissing the move as a conspiracy of left - leaning partisans, designed to smother alternative sources and protect existing «gatekeepers.»

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BlackBerry fell behind Windows mobile device operating system for the first time, the Star reported last week, shortly after the Waterloo company that used to be called Research in Motion announced it was looking at alternatives for its future, including a sale.

Through this partnership (and in collaboration with the Payne Firm, an international environmental consulting firm), Carlyle and EDF jointly developed a new due diligence framework for the alternative asset management sector called the «EcoValuScreen.»

But legislation that would mandate paid sick leave nationwide, notably the so - called Healthy Families Act, has stalled in Congress for years, prompting the administration to seek alternative ways of achieving the policy's goals.

It modeled the implications for the company of a requirement for emissions to decline to levels consistent with a so - called «2 °C world» after 2030 and also looked at a number of alternative scenarios based on divergent ranges in global growth and trade, geopolitics, technological innovation and responses to climate change.

The Florida teens call for action arising from their tragedy on February 14 inspired us to rally in solidarity through our Amnesty International Columbus Alternative High School chapter.

This is what made Google's low - key announcement of its latest plans for messaging on Android phones — an exclusive with The Verge about what it calls Chat — so striking: the company is introducing an open alternative to products like iMessage and WhatsApp, but only as a last resort, and the effort is being pilloried by critics to boot; Walt Mossberg was representative:

Calls for comment to the company's main switchboard went unanswered during normal business hours; its website was not functioning properly and Saudi trade officials in the United States had not furnished alternative contact information at publication time.

Although numerous reasons have been called to play as the reason for the price volatility, one that stands out tall is the idea that, some investors were looking to switch to alternative coins.

The TJN has long called for a more equitable, socially just and sustainable model for global trade; and so, in the context of NAFTA, the TJN is continuing to work to present alternatives to the current global trade regime.

Wildrose MLAs will likely focus their energy attacking the carbon levy and calling for more oil pipelines, but will the official opposition defy the radical climate change deniers in their own ranks and present a policy alternative to the NDP's Climate Leadership Plan?

The Trade Justice Network (TJN) joins the call for such alternatives in order to promote a more equitable, inclusive, socially just and sustainable model of trade or economic exchange.

A big drop in returns would be particularly vexing for pension funds, which are counting on private equity, hedge funds and other so - called alternative investments to help them meet their mounting liabilities.

Some credit unions offer what they call payday alternative loans (PALs) for short - term cash needs.

Join us for monthly events and calls as we bring together the brightest minds and thought leaders in the alternative investment industry.

The ethical (read political and economic) program attempts to sketch out the «alternative models of society» called for by the General Secretary.

One such example is a paper called «Of woods and webs: possible alternatives to the tree of life for studying genomic fluidity in E. coli».

Martin fails to help both believers and unbelievers understand what the alternatives are for dealing with this issue of faith and history because, in a fashion now considered politically correct, he advocates what he calls «multiperspectivism.»

God and Man at Georgetown Prep is warmly recommended for young people, their parents, and teachers who have tired of trivial alternatives to the majesty of the tradition they are called to transmit.

Nevertheless, the self as self - transcendent subject can elaborate visions of more desirable futures for itself and the world that constitute a lure calling for the actualization of some selected alternative.

If a single adult simply can not live the celibate life and is not willing to be married or is simply not emotionally ready for or capable of marriage what are the alternatives that could still be called moral?

This is the sense in which «a fact can harbor potentiality» (Adventures 138): All objects that exist are actual either (1) as determinate, satisfied processes physically felt, or (2) as indeterminate objects created in the present and conceptually felt in the present — by what Whitehead would call Valuation (also Reproduction and Conformity) and Reversion — as the present whole weighs somewhat general and indeterminate alternatives for its satisfaction.

For indeed Christianity was complicit in the death of antiquity and in the birth of modernity, not because it was an accomplice of the latter, but because it alone, in the history of the West, was a rejection of and alternative to nihilism's despair, violence, and idolatry of power; as such, Christianity shattered the imposing and enchanting façade behind which nihilism once hid, and thereby, inadvertently, called it forth into the open.

Such an alternative view of students in classroom space would call for more, not less interaction, cooperation in tasks rather than competition, a dynamic give and take instead of a unilateral telling and listening.

Historically speaking, celibacy was a sociological alternative and not merely a psychological ascetic practice for many who entered what Catholics call «religious life.»

The irony is that there will be no renewal of family life until authentic alternatives to family exist for persons who are not called to that very special and demanding relationship.

While evidence and peer review of evidence has helped to modify and enhance evolution since its original proposition as a HYPOTEHSIS (look it up; it's the scientific term for what others call «just a theory») and mature it to a SCIENTIFIC THEORY, no sound, reasonable, VERIFIABLE alternative has ever survived the merciless review of the scientific method.

Moreover, the Pope calls for greater support for adoption as a true pro-life alternative to abortion.

There is a remarkable appreciation for pet dogs and plants, which has resulted in sections of many nursing homes implementing the so - called «Eden Alternative» of a naturalistic environment with friendly animals.

Examples are 9/11 hijackings, The holding back of stem cell research that could save countless human lives, Aids being spread due to religious opposition to the use of condoms, Christians legally fighting this year to teach over 1 million young girls in America that they must always be obedient to men, the eroding of child protection laws in America by Christians, for so called faith based healing alternatives that place children's health and safety at risk, burning of witches, the crusades, The Nazi belief that the Aryans were god's chosen to rule the world, etc... But who cares about evidence in the real world when we have our imaginations and delusions about gods with no evidence of them existing.

The Church, teacher of humanity, never tires of exhorting people, especially the young of whom you are a part, to remain watchful and not to fear choosing «alternative» paths which only Christ can indicate... Jesus calls all his friends to live in sobriety and solidarity, to create sincere and disinterested emotional relationships with others... From you, dear young students, he asks for honest commitment to study, cultivating a mature sense of responsibility and a shared interest in the common good.

It thus calls for either acceptance or a theological alternative.

As I understand my assignment for this conference, it is to represent a «methodological alternative in process theology» that has been given the name «rationalist» so as to facilitate its distinction from two other such alternatives, the empirical and speculative so - called.