Sentences with phrase «challenges confronting humans»

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Grief is a challenge, and though confronting it is slow and painstaking, doing so is among the most creative of human activities.

As with cannibalism we are confronted with the most direct challenge to basic notions about the dignity of the human form.

Jiti Ogunye, lawyer and human rights activist, acknowledged the challenges confronting the anti corruption agencies especially the dangerous environment in which their personnel operate.»

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.

That's the challenge confronting face - recognition experts who hope to protect us from terrorists — to identify every single human on the planet

Other films challenged audiences to confront the role of humans in wildlife extinction, invited viewers to think twice about our seemingly insatiable appetites for food and fuel, and encouraged the adoption of more sustainable ways of life.

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.»

It takes acknowledging your intrinsic value as a human being and then working to acquire the skills needed to confront the many challenges and struggles we encounter in life.

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, and based in part on the book «Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln» by Doris Kearns Goodwin, Lincoln is a rich and compelling historical and human drama that has been hailed as one of the best film of the year.

One way of achieving this might be to empower women to confront the state committing such human rights violations against them, through international and domestic forums coupled with the ability to directly challenge men in society who harm them.83 It must be recognized in law that the violation of women sexually and reproductively is a «form of unequal treatment.»

On this, see the seminal study by ALSTON, P.: «Out of the Abyss: The Challenges Confronting the New UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights», Human Rights Quarterly, Vol.

I can't possibly hope to change any or all of these issues on my own; it will require authentic partnership and creativity to mobilize higher education to confront and address these challenges in order to improve the human condition.

A horrible infection has fallen over a desolate town in this short horror story.The townsfolk are forced into action to protect themselves from further outbreaks caused by an addicting berry that grows amongst the base of large boulders.When Emmie returns home to find one of The Lost in her backyard, she suspects the strange berries have grown back, but confronting this horrible human creature unfolds a great realization — one that would challenge her beliefs of The Lost.This story is merely a glimpse of Kenneth W. Cain's work, so if you enjoy «Desolate,» be sure to pick up Kenneth's Embers: A Collection of Dark Fiction, available from Crystal Lake Publishing — Tales from the Darkest Depths...

Each piece simultaneously confronts and aestheticizes the artist's personal day - to - day challenges and the universal human emotions that Dietz explores in his stage play.

Confronting lives that extend so much longer than human lifespans challenges us to rethink the context of our human communities and the more - than - human environments into which we are embedded.

A portion of the archive is included in the exhibition with a purpose of confronting audiences with the human costs of public policies, connecting domestic and foreign policies and policing, and challenging viewers to reevaluate the abstractions of political rhetoric in individual terms.

She has campaigned to stop jail expansion; confront police violence; reveal prosecutorial misconduct; bring visibility to women prisoners, political prisoners, and people confined to control units; interrupt gender discrimination and bias within prisons, policing, and sentencing; challenge the human rights abuses of prisoners, former prisoners and their family members, and experiment with decarceration models for shrinking the system.

Madani's oeuvre confronts human frailty and the great communal and personal challenges of our own era.

If there is a probability that humanity could soon be confronted with a huge challenge, one that takes its astounding shape from overconsumption, overproduction and overpopulation activities of the human species, then would reason and common sense not suggest that the human community could move forward by limiting increases in certain global activities, the ones now overspreading the surface of Earth.

Humanity could soon be confronted with a huge challenge that takes its astounding shape from continuously skyrocketing absolute global human population numbers as well as from economic globalization and per - capita consumption of limited resources by the human species.

Conscious of our leadership role in meeting such challenges, we, the leaders of the world's major economies, both developed and developing, commit to combat climate change in accordance with our common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities and confront the interlinked challenges of sustainable development, including energy and food security, and human health.

Given the large scale and increasing number of human - induced global challenges being presented to humanity in 2008 with a mere 6.6 billion people on Earth, what do you suppose our young people can expect to confront in 2050 when 2 1/2 billion more people are added to our current numbers?

Collaborating with scientists and cultural informers in confronting the facts of global climate change, the artists participating in the Carbon 14: Climate is Culture exhibition respond to various aspects of the climate challenge in poignant, nuanced, subversive, often humorous, and always passionately human ways.

The negative manifestations of these interactions are often referred to as «the human predicament» [10], and determining how to prevent it from generating a global collapse is perhaps the foremost challenge confronting humanity.

Mann added that 49 people out of tens of thousands of former and current NASA employees is just a tiny fraction, and that «NASA's official stance, which represents the full current 16,000 NASA scientists and employees, is clear if you go to their website or look at their official publications: human - caused climate change is real, and it represents a challenge we must confront.»

PF: While human ingenuity seems almost endless, do you think it's harmful to rely solely on technology to confront the challenges that global warming poses?

WRI is honoring Darren Walker, President of the Ford Foundation, and Feike Sijbesma, CEO of Royal DSM, at its 2017 Courage to Lead dinner, an event recognizing bold leadership that confronts pressing environment and human development challenges.

It's a few countries attempting to crush mechanisms that the world has come together on and agreed are essential to confront extremely challenging human rights situations.

Too many poor people in the U.S. lack access to lawyers when they confront major life challenges, including eviction, deportation, custody battles and domestic violence, according to a new report by advocates at Columbia Law School's Human Rights Clinic.

At the first multilateral meeting ever held on killer robots, nations have recognized the need to confront the challenge of fully autonomous weapons that could select and attack targets without any human control.

I believe that these principles provide a useful lens through which to look at any human rights challenge confronting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

The end result is a legal system that offers minimal protection to human rights and a system of government that has failed to seriously address the human rights challenges that Indigenous peoples have faced in the past and those which confront them today.