Sentences with phrase «central challenge of»

A central challenge of any review project is quality control — because, even when just one reviewer is on the case, it's almost impossible to ensure every coding call is consistent with the last.
Dr. Kandel explains, «The central challenge of science in the twenty - first century is to understand the human mind in biological terms....
The central challenge of a permanent outdoor collection is its permanence, and though the changing seasons and the passage of time (trees grow, flora and fauna evolve, Corten degrades) introduce elements of change, Inside / Outside has provided a series of opportunities for artists to reframe the collection and to re-present it — and the individual works in it — to the public.
A central challenge of education systems in developing countries — the context for which our results are most relevant — is that students in the same grades and classrooms are extremely diverse.
A central challenge of biomedicine is to understand how the biological systems that underlie healthy life and disease react to variations in their make - up (genetic variation, for example) or their environment (drugs, for example).
A central challenge of thermal physics — and of interfacial thermal conductance, specifically — is that phonons exist over a wide frequency range, and how phonons interact with interfaces and other phonons depends on their frequencies.
Such cameras could be useful for any number of military, commercial, or scientific purposes, the researchers suggest, changing the central challenge of photography from «Where should we point the camera?»
«I agree completely with what he's saying about the central challenge of inequality in our country today.
He said politicians should concern themselves with «what makes people happy, as well as what makes stock markets rise», adding that this was the «central challenge of our times».
This is FOSI's 11th year and online safety is the central challenge of the digital...
The Awards also reserve space for two central challenges of the present, those of climate change and development cooperation.
And could that same research teach us something more general about the central challenges of teaching and learning in American schools?

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Reversing these trends is the central economic challenge of our time.
Since value depends on results, not inputs, value in health care is measured by the outcomes achieved, not the volume of services delivered, and shifting focus from volume to value is a central challenge.
Comments: «We continue to believe that prospects remain good for economic growth to reassert itself as challenges are persistently met by concerted efforts of country officials and central bankers around the world aided and abetted by secular trends larger than the cyclical hurdles in the immediate path.
Federico Sturzenegger, the chairman of the Central Bank of Argentina, told CNBC that both the fiscal stimulus and the protectionist policy that the president - elect wants to put forward are a «challenge» for Argentina and for many emerging economies.
Whether among sub-prime mortgage lenders, investors in Bernie Madoff's funds, or «the embers of BP's refinery,» the central challenge, argues Heffernan, «was not harm that was invisible — but harm that so many preferred to ignore.»
'' (It) underlines the challenges for the CBRT (central bank) in managing the lira when Erdogan has tied both hands behind its back in terms of limiting its ability to hike policy rates,» Bluebay Asset Management strategist Timothy Ash said.
The RBNZ's challenges became immediately apparent after the central bank decision, with investors lifting the local dollar to a one - year peak despite the easing and threatening to depress both exports and inflation in New Zealand's small open economy with a population of 4.7 million.
Henceforth, «great - power competition,» not terrorism, must be the primary focus of U.S. national security, the report declares: «The central challenge to U.S. prosperity and security is the reemergence of long - term strategic competition,» primarily from China and Russia.
The challenge is to change the societal outlook to one that is long - term and accounts for humanity's central role in shaping the planet's destiny, instead of one that reacts to immediate crises and thinks in the short term.
TIJUANA, Mexico (AP)-- Packed into five old school buses, hundreds of Central American migrants arrived at the US border Sunday for a rally, to be followed by a planned mass attempt to apply for asylum, in a direct challenge to the Trump administration.
NEW YORK, Nov 28 - The Federal Reserve faces the challenge of standing by as financial markets «correct» as the central bank trims its asset holdings, U.S. hedge fund manager David Tepper said on Tuesday, adding he was surprised the bond - yield curve was so flat.
And the convoluted process of obtaining green cards — particularly challenging for immigrants from Central America — added to the family's sense of insecurity.
The late - night Comedy Central host has challenged his audience to boycott the ecommerce giant for its manipulative treatment of book sales.
The fact that the companies are trying to face up to the central defining question of their existence amidst the explosive growth and the mundane, day - to - day chores of running a business makes it a very challenging business indeed.
December 2002 (769 kb PDF file): Research summaries on IMF conditionality and country ownership of reforms and on public policies and the Millennium Development Goals; country / area study: Hong Kong SAR; summaries of conferences on challenges to central banking from globalized financial systems and on globalization in historical perspective; agenda of Third Annual IMF Research Conference; summary of September 2002 World Economic Outlook; visiting scholars at the IMF; contents of latest issue of IMF Staff Papers, other IMF research publications.
«It is encouraging to see this major central bank seeing the need to move with the times and understand its role in dealing with one of the major challenges facing our economies today: climate change,» said James Leaton, research director at the Carbon Tracker Initiative.
Central banks approach this challenge of capturing underlying inflation differently, but ultimately we are all judged by what happens to overall inflation over time.
The US is diplomatically challenged and commercially weak in around two - thirds of the Eurasian continental landmass — including many countries in Central Asia, South Asia, and mainland Southeast Asia.
«The challenge that this administration has refused to take on is that there is a very real call in the west to defeat and destroy the threat from radical Islamic terrorism, whether it fights under the name of Al Quaeda [sic]... or Boko Haram or ISIS or any of the other dozens of groups that are founded on the central principle of the destruction of the West and the imposition of Sharia law,» Pompeo said in an October interview with the Wichita Eagle newspaper.
I'll say this again: our central challenge was not the result of our valuation methods, which didn't miss a beat (see Why Warren Buffett is Right and Why Nobody Cares).
«The emergence of distributed ledger technology could present a hypothetical challenge to central banks,» the report suggests.
Second, as counterintuitive as it is to central bankers who came of age when the inflation of the 1970s defined the central banking challenge, our problem today is insufficient inflation.
Even so, Mr. Draghi is unlikely to challenge the founding dogma of the European Central Bank, which demands that it adhere to its German - inspired mandate to fight inflation.
Banks are relying on the short end of the curve for much of their funding, which has been facilitated by the influxes of liquidity provided by the central banks, but challenges remain in the mid - to longer end.
In Europe, the European Central Bank has adopted negative interest rate policies designed to strengthen lending activity, while devising a plan for the region's banks to remain profitable in spite of the challenging conditions.
The challenge that this administration has refused to take on is that there is a very real call in the west to defeat and destroy the threat from radical Islamic terrorism, whether it fights under the name of Al Quaeda... or Boko Haram or ISIS or any of the other dozens of groups that are founded on the central principle of the destruction of the West and the imposition of Sharia law,» Pompeo said in an Oct. 17 interview with the Wichita Eagle.
The Challenge of Central Banking in a Democratic Society.
Meanwhile, don't expect as big of a reaction to this month's nonfarm payrolls report because it will be released after FOMC and only be used to confirm or challenge the central bank's guidance.
And even though mainstream economics now blames the Federal Reserve and the Bank of France for the intensity of the Great Depression and acknowledges that too many central banks have created runaway inflations, mainstream economists have been slow to answer the challenge that free banking theory now poses to central banking.
Kenya's central bank is partially to blame for the country's new economic challenges: Its 2016 Banking Act caps lending rates at a maximum of four percentage points above the central bank benchmark rate of 10.5 %, resulting in limited lending and corporate growth.
In fact, the influence of bitcoin is so strong that a senior Central Bank of Ireland official has gone on record to state that, «virtual and digital currencies can challenge the sovereignty of states.»
While acknowledging that the virtual offerings such as Bitcoin currently pose little or no challenge to the existing order of fiat currencies and central banks, the IMF chief considers the underlying volatility and riskiness of cryptocurrencies as technological challenges to be addressed over time.
As such, Walker's central challenge to process thought becomes his own theological struggle for coherence in a metaphysical scheme that denies what he affirms as fundamental to a black liberation theologian, i.e., that the most inclusive concept of God is the God of the oppressed.
According to Theodore Walker, Black theology's central challenge to process theology is that the God of the oppressed must be embraced as more inclusive than the God of all.
if you are looking to show a failure within the system of faith (here you've chosen God's sovereignty as the topic to challenge), it's probably best to use central examples.
Accepting the biblical understanding of love as central to any human concept of the divine is at the heart of Williams» enterprise, directly challenging the Augustinian formulation as a corruption of this.23 Love is «spirit taking form in history.»
At all events, we are justified in seeing this table - fellowship as the central feature of the ministry of Jesus; an anticipatory sitting at table in the Kingdom of God and a very real celebration of present joy and challenge.
It is vital that people reject or accept Christianity because of this central message and challenge, and not because of a secondary and unnecessary theological framework which many of us find outdated and incomprehensible.
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