Sentences with phrase «challenges as the masses»

By all legitimate means, we need to find a solution to our nation's challenges as the masses are hungry for direction.

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As a result, many people believe Carson is a flat - out mass murderer - not a hero who beautifully blended care for human health and nonhuman nature in one of the most important and challenging books of the 20th century.

As a social movement scholar and someone who believes we should leverage all assets in a challenge, I know that much social good can come from mass involvement - and research shows that includes online activism.

However, there are still numerous barriers that need to be overcome before this product platform will see mass adoption, as both technological challenges and societal hurdles persist.

She officially took MacArthur's helm last year after over a decade as a top exec there, and has moved with bold decisiveness to streamline the foundation and focus its resources on some of the biggest challenges of our time, including climate change and mass incarceration.

Ironically, Plato's dialogues, intended as a challenge to the notion that paideia would be accomplished by ways of conveying information, were themselves included in the mass of information conveyed in the name of teaching knowledge of the Good.

Last century Marx criticised religion as being the opiate of the masses because it suppressed radical challenge to the system.

NATO has taken a stake in studying and preparing for emerging and global security challenges including cyber attacks, energy security, environmental security, missile defence, as well as terrorism and weapons of mass destruction.

As we all know, thanks to whistleblowers like Snowden, and subsequent legal challenges from Liberty and others, our government has been practising — and investing time and vast resources — in mass surveillance methods for years.

One of the biggest challenges facing New York City right now is its aging mass transportation system, with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's infrastructure deteriorating as subways and trains run on an outdated system.

He named the challenges militating against cocoa production in the country as the unreliable supply of inputs to farmers as a direct result of the «free» input policy adopted by the government, new brands of chemical inputs released to cocoa farmers in Ghana without adequate trials and research by designated institutions, low producer prices paid to farmers and the politicisation of the mass spraying and fertiliser distribution programme.

The enormous range of scales (stars, the building blocks of galaxies, are each about one trillion times smaller in mass than the galaxy they make up), as well as the complex physics involved, presents a formidable challenge for any computer model.

It can also walk up a slope, squeeze through a slit and push objects as heavy as ten times its own mass, demonstrating its ability to perform in challenging environments and pointing at potential future applications.

Small modular reactors may help with two of the biggest challenges facing the nuclear industry: the growing stores of waste from existing reactors and residue from the mass production of nuclear weapons as well as the overall safety of nuclear power.

As a thin male, gaining muscle mass has always been a challenge for me.

As we age, muscle mass naturally declines and it becomes more challenging to maintain it.

Loren Fishman: Yoga helps grow bone mass, but because yoga poses pull and stretch the bones from every conceivable angle, yoga also may stimulate the formation of a bone structure that is able to resist greater amounts of pressure, as well as many different types of challenges.

We issued this challenge to raise awareness about building bone strength and density when you're younger to achieve peak bone mass and to maintain bone health and strength as you age.

Also, with all of your challenging workouts you are likely building muscle and lean mass as well as losing fat so if you increase your lean muscle mass by 1 lb and lose 1 lb of fat the scale wont change but your physique will (muscle is approx 15 % denser than fat so 1 lb of fat takes up much more space than 1 lb of lean muscle).

Pair - fed mice lost only 5 percent of bodyweight, and their lean mass did not change appreciably; leucine deprived mice lost 15 percent of body - weight, and their lean mass was the same as the control mice, and unchanged.There were no strength or endurance challenges, but when one considers that the mice lost 50 percent of abdominal fat, 15 percent of bodyweight, and had no loss of lean mass, that is incredible.

Children would require an understanding of money, mass, volume and length conversions, as most questions include a mixture of measures for extra challenge (e.g. grams and kilograms within the same word problem - the pupil would need to convert to either g or kg first).

Insofar as a social movement is «an organized, sustained, self - conscious challenge to existing authorities» (Tilly, 1984), the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions included a multiplicity of informal and formal institutions and alliances: students, unions, professionals, religious groups, etc.And while the master frames calling for the ouster of Mubarak and Ben Ali were no doubt unifying discursive devices that were readily supported by most if not all of the protestors, secondary frames — calls for democracy, social justice, freedom, and dignity — presented significant points of divergence not only in and between Islamist and non-Islamist groups, but between the secular - liberal youth who are credited with initiating the mass protests in the first place.

Included in this set are 32 loop cards which include questions about converting measures (mass, length, capactiy and time) as well as some challenging questions about converting between metric and imperial.

Lobbyists and attorneys listen as student survivors from the Feb. 14 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School interrupt a house legislative committee hearing in the hope to challenge lawmakers on gun control reform in Tallahassee, Fla., on Feb. 21.

Students and community members grieving the largest mass shooting at an American high school express a common sentiment that's as much a challenge as it is a prediction: Nothing will change.

As management guru Peter Drucker observes, the challenge of mass education is to get ordinary people to do extraordinary things, teachers no less than students.

Meanwhile, despite the fact that many «reformers»» policies have spectacularly failed, prompted massive scandals and / or offered no actual proof of success, an elite media that typically amplifies — rather than challenges — power and money loyally casts «reformers»» systematic pillaging of public education as laudable courage (the most recent example of this is Time magazine's cover cheering on wildly unpopular Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel after he cited budget austerity to justify the largest mass school closing in American history — all while he is also proposing to spend $ 100 million of taxpayer dollars on a new private sports stadium).

With an almost perfect mass distribution of 51/49 %, a firm sports suspension and a steering on which the force in the steering wheel is higher in the Sport Plus mode, the BMW holds a surgical precision along the path and it feels as the most engaged and challenging when pushed to the limit.

The supply of books to mass merchants, as to any account that is not primarily in the book business and comfortable with both the logistical challenges and relatively low profit potential in books, is complicated, expensive, and usually inefficient.

Her arguments were challenged by other veterinary professionals whose belief in the duty to vaccinate was galvanized by episodes such as the deadly parvo virus epidemic in the late 1970s that killed thousands of dogs and was only halted by mass administration of the parvo vaccine.

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The cat food category is one of the most contested pet care segments at the retail level, with mass merchants and grocery stores constantly challenging pet stores for position as the go - to source for feline nutrition products.

In an age where games target the masses, and try to welcome as many players as possible, it seems as though any sort of challenge is masked behind a difficulty...

Every now and then, you command your army to form on you and march as a phalanx, ordering when to shield up or do a mass pilum throw — something that is by no means challenging, but is a lot of fun, and a nice change of pace experience.

In a visual arts context, Picabia, Schnabel, and Willumsen challenge the same concepts in their unprejudiced treatment of the traditions of art history and mass media images as well as private photographs and stories.»

In a world just as tumultuous as in 1982 (MacConnel's work was in response to President Reagan's challenge to the Soviets through military buildup), the years leading up to today have seen wars waged in Afghanistan and Iraq where the perceived threats seemed to be not much more than a hostility toward democracy and perceived threat of weapons of mass destruction.

At the same time, as Chris Stephens (Head of Displays, and Lead Curator of Modern British Art, Tate) has acknowledged, his art «challenged and dispensed with the values at the heart of the American painting», reflecting a new spirit of engagement with popular culture and the mass media.

The exhibition at Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria, is a major solo show that presents four key bodies of work: Body and Fruit, Critial Mass, Allotment II and Clearing V. «Embedded in the context of Peter Zumthor's architecture, they challenge the fine line in the human psyche that marks the mental balance between asserting oneself as an individual and blending into the masses.»

Whether taking images of existing artworks in the case of Louise Lawler, or challenging the verisimilar qualities of images propagated in the mass media in Richard Prince's case, each of the artists featured in Double Take use photography as a tool to re-frame and re-contextualise.

To conclude with the words of Martha Wilson in a video plea on YouTube titled «Confrontational Art» (2010), however not included in her retrospective but available for the masses, sums up the artist as active participant to its environment, the artist beyond mere aesthetics of value but as imposing challenges, questions and problems to the public norms.

It also departs from the biennial's value system as rooted in the empire building world's fairs of the 19th and 20th centuries — many call London's Great Exhibition of 1951 held in a dramatic crystal palace the «first» biennial — designed to give viewers a deeply overwhelming «great mass and jumble of things» (commodities, mostly) as «a challenge to make sense of... unimaginable diversity; to find or invert a «perspective» on the whole so that objects could be made to «stay and lie orderly.»

The exhibition challenges viewers to consider the impact of mass incarceration on vulnerable communities, as well as the entire country.

Most importantly, it challenged convention by asserting that an artist's use of mass produced commodities such as soup cans was a valid form of fine art.

When Murray first began making her raucous, eccentrically shaped, often multi-part paintings, during the decade under review, their burgeoning, layered shapes, sci - fi images, and, often, high - key color, made them read at once as affronts to the reductive qualities of minimalism and as aesthetic challenges to the mass - culture quotations of Pop art.

The tackling of climate - related distinctive challenges will improve the credibility of practical, sustainable solar houses as a key requirement for their mass - production locally or around the globe in the near future.

«I might say, parenthetically, I believe there are national security and common security aspects to the whole globalization challenge that I really don't have time to go into today, so I'll just steer off the text and say what I think briefly, which is that as we open borders and we increase the freedom of movement of people, information and ideas, this open society becomes more vulnerable to cross-national, multinational, organized forces of destruction: terrorists; weapons of mass destruction; the marriage of technology in these weapons, small - scale chemical and biological and maybe even nuclear weapons; narco traffickers and organized criminals, and increasingly, all these people sort of working together in lines that are quite blurred.

Our «leaders» view Climate Change as the biggest challenge facing mankind and have labeled it a weapon of mass destruction.

Professor Reif wrote, «As the Pentagon describes it, climate change is a «threat multiplier» because its direct effects intensify other challenges, including mass migrations and zero - sum conflicts over existential resources like water and food.»

As we have written before, the challenge of legal research is no longer finding sources, but rather the opposite — winnowing down from the mass of information that digital searching yields.

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