Sentences with phrase «challenges confronted by»

This article focuses on the challenges confronted by early childhood educators as they seek to offer developmentally effective programs and services for all children, especially those who live in urban settings characterized by cultural diversity.

The book is presented as a thought provoking, inspirational, and powerful paradigm on how to live with the many challenges confronted by cancer patients and their families.

Seeing the challenges confronted by highly segregated and under - resourced schools in crime - ridden neighborhoods, I realized that most urban children in America were as or more profoundly disadvantaged than children I had met in India, Nepal, and Mexico during previous international development work.

Not exact matches

We confronted this challenge head - on by channeling our inner startup.

Perhaps traditional grocery stores will be forced to confront the challenge posed by big box stores and delivery companies like FreshDirect by playing up the community aspect of the shopping experience — just as some of the most successful bookstores have become more like coffee shops and community centers in order to stay in business.

The Congress faces an array of policy choices as it confronts the challenges posed by the amount of federal debt held by the public — which has more than doubled relative to the size of the economy since 2007 — and the prospect of continued growth in that debt over the coming decades if the large annual budget deficits projected under current law come to pass.

The IMF's October, 2012 World Economic Outlook (WEO), «Coping with High Debt and Sluggish Growth» is a must read for anyone who wants a realistic and independent assessment of global economic prospects, the challenges confronting policymakers, and the risks to global economic growth that are increasing by the month.

Your grace is pleaded to continue that climb for America and the world... We ask that you grant our president the will to act courageously but cautiously when confronted with danger and to act prudently but deliberately when challenged by adversity.

The challenge confronting the next generation of Jews is to keep the concept of peoplehood from going by the wayside.

In this experience I find my habits of thought and even my personal crises challenged and confronted by a whole new order which we have called God's redemptive story.

At any moment in the story, a paladin might find himself confronted by a giant Saracen astride a galloping giraffe, or trapped in an enchanted castle oblivious of his own name, or beset by an army of demons, or challenged by an ogre, or lost in a fairy otherworld full of the most exquisite enchantments, or at the mercy of a sorcerer.

When we are confronted with new challenges, we try to domesticate them by the practice of offering courses.

The task of confronting the nonevangelical world over the issue of Biblical authority is being undercut by the desire to challenge fellow evangelicals» notions of inspiration What is distinctively evangelical needs again to be forcefully presented to the wider Christian community.

He and later researchers showed that, when confronted with challenging new information, most people seek to preserve their current understanding of the world by rejecting, explaining away, or avoiding the new information or by convincing themselves that no conflict really exists.

These differences are often discovered by apprentices being confronted with new challenges, making mistakes, and then being taught how to do the work by the more experienced.

Boff confronts the challenges offered by today's world in its wholeness, not denying the existing antagonisms on a micro as well as a macro level.

Unless, that is, our essentially middle - class life style is challenged by the poverty and oppression which is the lot of most of humankind, and we confront the hard truth that the issue is not reform of the welfare system, no matter how much that is needed, but the end of a capitalist economic order which increasingly divides the world into those who have and those who have not.

Faced with the challenges with which the globalization of capital confronts us, we are encouraged and strengthened by the resistances and movements which we represent and with which we are in solidarity.

Never had any religion been confronted by so nearly global a challenge.

In the Portuguese possessions in Brazil, chiefly scattered as they were along the coast, Christianity was confronted by many of the challenges which it faced in Spanish America.

The men confronted by the ministry of Jesus are challenged to recognize that this is the beginning, but not the end.

By John and Aimee Good The greatest challenge organic vegetable farmers confront every season is weed control.

It's my understanding that the scoring method for certification is the flexibility you speak of — the fact that the shade criteria was / is not critical / required and certification could be achieved without it has compensated for some of the challenges or unique situations confronted by some farmers.

We dads are confronted by all sorts of challenges, and we measure ourselves not on the problems, but how we respond to them.

They get two different messages from the parents, and they get power by picking on the weaker of the two parents, confronting the parent who challenges their power base or lashing out at the parent they deem is «unfair.»

She has given me the skills to be a better parent by not only giving me the tools to confront daily parenting challenges but by teaching me how and when to use them.

However, I am reminded of our conversations about birthday cupcakes, sneaking carrots in smoothies, and a few others where you've insisted on creating a «kid - friendly» version of life that bears no resemblance to the real thing for your kids with respect to mental and emotional challenges such as refusing a cupcake when everyone else is eating them, or being confronted with the irrationality of one's own food refusals by surprise.

Following Pompidou, Giscard d'Estaing led an ambitious presidency but was challenged within his own camp (by no other than Chirac), and confronted an astute three - time candidate, Mitterrand.

In Ghana, the day will be commemorated under the adapted theme «Economic empowerment of rural women: A tool for sustainable development in a changing world of work,» which according to the Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection, Ms Otiko Afisah Djaba, was chosen to help rural women and girls to achieve their ambitions and also challenge the negative traditional and socio - cultural practices, discrimination and difficulties that confront the rural woman by changing the world of work for all women in Ghana.

New York Daily News editorial by BP Adams assessing the legacy of outgoing NYPD Commissioner Bratton and the challenges confronting incoming NYPD Commissioner O'Neill.

The challenges confronting the press will be the topic of a Dec. 4 panel discussion at Big Ditch Brewing Co. hosted by -LSB-...]

Thus, while my own take on Russia in Ukraine is somewhat more informed by «constructivist realism» and the English School International Society approach, I still believe that International Relations scholars ought to confront the best versions of arguments with which they might disagree, especially on such a pressing matter as the Russian challenge to contemporary World Order.

Despite these criticisms, Duterte's regime, confronted by another challenging issue, has extended another form of «martial law» by declaring war against the Islamist armed group Maute, aligned with the Islamic State, in the city of Marawi.

«We must begin by confronting honestly the challenges we face.

Buratai while commending President Muhammadu Buhari for partnering with the international community in confronting challenges in the country, however, noted that there were successes recorded by the Multi-National Joint Task Force in routing crimes from the North - East region so far.

The de Blasio administration, eager to learn how other global cities are confronting the regulatory challenges posed by so - called «sharing economy» stalwarts like Uber and Airbnb, is planning to host a global gathering on the topic next May.

Inspired by the true - life events confronting Abraham Lincoln and his monumental moral and political challenge to amend the United States Constitution to permanently abolish slavery, Lincoln is a rich and compelling historical and human drama.

«After agreeing to leave and save The Gambia from a major crisis, Jammeh was confronted by big challenge — how to fly out,» a report on The Nation said.

The Governor said government would explore the possibility of addressing the power challenges confronting the area, especially by linking the estate to the Mainland Independent Power Project

The de Blasio administration, eager to learn how other global cities are confronting the regulatory challenges posed by so - called «sharing economy» stalwarts like Uber and Airbnb, is planning to host a global gathering on the topic next May, the mayor's office told POLITICO New York.

Mr. Cuomo, a centrist accustomed to governing by the art of the possible, is confronting a new challenge in the form of Mr. de Blasio, a staunch liberal who has channeled the impatience of a national left fed up with leaders who trade ideology for compromise.

At AI2, unshackled by profit - obsessed boardrooms, the mandate from its CEO Oren Etzioni is simple: Confront the grandest challenges in artificial intelligence research and serve the common good, profits be damned.

Now, however, David Silver, Demis Hassabis, and 18 other computer scientists at Google DeepMind, an AI company in London acquired by Google 2 years ago, have developed a program that confronts the challenges of Go directly.

Debate about the border wall advocated by President Trump to run along the southern border of the United States has focused on the structure's security effectiveness and cost, but experts at the AAAS Science Diplomacy 2017 conference described a huge set of interrelated challenges in the region, including multiple environmental concerns that have often been confronted bilaterally.

Confronted by the challenge of naming dozens of new species or geologic formations, scientists have risen to the occasion with wit, charm, and ingenuity.

Thompson confronted the challenge head - on by proposing to re-engineer the three major components of the census:

Our approach to confronting these challenges is to center the workshop on research findings emerging from the SciSIP awards; provide for independent, collegial commentary on these presentations by individuals whose work has spanned, or crossed over, implementing and writing about science policy (and who have not applied for SciSIP awards); and then to carefully roll out a distillation of findings from SciSIP awards to federal agencies and other organizations more directly involved in the formulation or implementation of science policy.

George Daley, MD, PhD, professor of hematology / oncology and director of the Stem Cell Transplantation Program at Boston Children's Hospital, says, «By confronting and ultimately solving the many regulatory challenges of a first - in - human trial, Dr. Takahashi has paved the way for all of us in the stem cell community to recognize the promise of iPS cells.»

With performances multiplied by 100 in terms of brilliance and coherence, EBS will lead the way in pushing back the boundaries of scientific exploration of matter, and contribute to answering the great technological, economic, societal and environmental challenges confronting our society.

Being confronted by this situational challenge coupled by a history of perpetual yoyo dieting only compounded my sense of discouragement in achieving my goals.