Sentences with phrase «call global attention»

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The girl statue was commissioned by State Street Global Advisors, the fund management arm of Boston - based State Street, to call attention to the role of women in corporate America and its «gender diversity index» fund.

One problem is that, among academics in what Peter Berger calls the global faculty club, assumptions about secularisation are driven by the intellectual history of ideas, with slight attention being paid to what persists in being the real world.

Mr. Gore, a Democrat who has made drawing attention to global warming his signature cause, called the governor's proposed mandate «a terrific and bold action,» noting that it comes a week before the United Nations will hold a conference on climate change in Paris.

Dr. Hermann Ott, German global warming mobber who not long ago called for a science pogrom aimed at skeptics of dubious global warming science, brings our attention here to a planned conference at the Bundestag in Berlin on June 10, 2011.

It also called for the creation of a global health committee within the UN Security Council to bring quick attention to emerging health crises.

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What I like about Artwork Network is it is not an «art mall», the service and one on one attention given to the artist is outstanding (few art marketing companies, let alone art malls actually call each artist and lay out a plan of action in order to increase sales), and the jurying process ensures a good fit for it's global target market!

The result of Ghost of Concordia is a shared gaze: The digital reconstruction and documentation of an environment that you can't find on Google Maps, the captured motion of people — now digital Ghosts - that were once global and are now nowhere to be found, surrounded by virtual artifacts that called Cea's attention for their ambiguity within the narrative of the newsreel.

Focusing our attention on personal experiences of complex global processes, a landscape of calling cards, the sweaty back of anthropologist Charles le Roux, blue and white ceramic plates depicting a workforce, an encounter with a Fed - ex employee, a Vietnamese soap based on a shipment of porcelain commissioned as part of an artist residency and a long - distance relationship between an artist and a personal assistant demystify the global as an expansive, open world.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In an effort to call attention to the detrimental effects of industry - funded, so - called «research» in the debate on global climate change, Senators John (Jay) Rockefeller IV (D - WV) and Olympia Snowe (R - ME) today called on the world's largest oil company to end its funding of a climate change denial campaign.

«My attention has just be called to a list of «450 Peer - Reviewed Papers Supporting Skepticism of «Man - Made» Global Warming.»

I should add that anyone who can separate multidecadal climate defined as F3 (HadCRUT3) into the sum of an oscillating component and a concave - downwards trend (the opposite of what I called Observed Global Warming which is concave - upwards) will have the immediate attention of a lot of people.

Though not CMOS's first public statement, it was one of the most «vocal about climate change of late» due to the fact «that Canada's new Conservative government does not support the Kyoto Protocol for lower emissions of greenhouse gases, and opposed stricter emissions for a post-Kyoto agreement at a United Nations meeting in Bonn in May [2006]» and because «a small, previously invisible group of global warming sceptics called the Friends of Science are suddenly receiving attention from the Canadian government and media,» Leahy wrote.

It is part of a larger effort to boost the moral case for action by drawing attention to what McKibben calls global warming's «terrifying new math.»

Years earlier, one climate researcher at the company, Henry Shaw, had called management's attention to a key conclusion of a landmark National Academy of Sciences report: global warming caused by carbon dioxide emissions, not a scarcity of supply, would likely set the ultimate limit on the use of fossil fuels.

Calling attention to the threat of climate change impacts that will disrupt both industrialized and developing countries, he called for a global solution with the industrialized countries playing a leading role, but also urged developing countries to do more to cut their greenhouse gas emissions.

«We write to call your attention to recent research indicating that many anticipated biofuels will actually exacerbate global warming,» the letter said.

These upward spikes in global temperatures, Figure 2, call attention to El Nino events during periods when global temperatures are rising.

For example, semantic analysis of USGCRP annual reports indicates that their attention is heavily weighted to what is called «anthropogenic global warming» or AGW.

Al Gore's global warming movie, «An Inconvenient Truth,» aims to call attention to the dangers society faces from climate change, and suggests urgent actions that need to be taken immediately.

As the crisis at the Japanese Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex continues to captivate global media attention, President Obama's domestic energy plans, which have long - included a push for the construction of new nuclear reactors, are beginning to be called into question.

In 2013, the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide exceeded 400 parts per million for the first time in millions of years, marking a milestone that, while symbolic, called greater attention to escalating greenhouse gas levels and a steady global warming trend.

The conference's theme was «Climate Change: Scientific Debate and Economic Analysis» to reflect Heartland's belief that that «scientific debate is not over,» and it was designed to «call attention to widespread dissent to the asserted «consensus» on various aspects of climate change and global warming.»

Having said that, we think that there is a growing attention to various kinds of data, particularly the more reliable it becomes, particularly with a new breed of general counsels who are more metric driven, more focused on public sources of data, and who are under increasing pressure to drive efficiency in what I like to call the global age of more for less.

«Storm Warning: An EPA decision to ignore global warming calls for Supreme Court attention.»

Canada received a lot of attention in Paris when it endorsed calls to «strive» to keep global temperature increases below 1.5 ˚C (and below 2 ˚C at all costs).

Early on Friday morning on Twitter, Costin Raiu, head of Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Labs global research and analysis team, called attention to a $ 110 million USD transfer of Ripple (another cryptocurrency) out of Coincheck.»

LeEco is one of a growing number of young Chinese companies vying for global attention, and one of its most fun (and extravagant) products is called Le Syvrac.

Banks are paying close attention to the so - called blockchain technology behind bitcoin mining because of its potential in global storage of transactions that can not be tampered with.

Although we've left the worst of the recession behind us — especially with a sharp rebound in the unemployment figures which always favor job seekers with college diplomas — there is a lot of attention being given to new thinking regarding the linkage of higher education to the global workforce and the so - called «return on investment» of a college education....

One common source of relationship difficulties is when a woman is hyper - focused on the details of her present feelings, and she needs to be listened to and validated by her partner, but since he is thinking about the executive tasks of the relationship, he thinks she is calling to his attention a global problem, and feels criticized and that his lead is not being accepted.