Sentences with phrase «change agenda as»

It identifies efforts to push a climate change agenda as a potential threat to national security.

It specifically comments on the emerging gaps in the climate change agenda as regards AFOLU projects in developing countries.

With Republicans striking out at President Obama's climate change agenda as part of an effort to unseat vulnerable Senate Democrats in November, the administration is hardly advertising its effort.

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«He's looking at this as showing he still can be king of the hill, because we don't have the votes to override,» Republican Sen. Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, a vocal opponent of Obama's climate change agenda, said in an interview.

Also, they have chosen a cheap populist theme, attacking cell phone, bank and credit - card charges instead of hammering the Conservatives on their dangerous, right - wing deregulation agenda — even though people are still dying as a result of Harper's «self - regulation» changes to food safety.

As newer technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning take precedence, nearly 98 % of Indian companies have innovation as part of their core agenda this year and are planning organisational design changes, according to a study by New York - headquartered HR consulting firm Mercer GlobaAs newer technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning take precedence, nearly 98 % of Indian companies have innovation as part of their core agenda this year and are planning organisational design changes, according to a study by New York - headquartered HR consulting firm Mercer Globaas artificial intelligence and machine learning take precedence, nearly 98 % of Indian companies have innovation as part of their core agenda this year and are planning organisational design changes, according to a study by New York - headquartered HR consulting firm Mercer Globaas part of their core agenda this year and are planning organisational design changes, according to a study by New York - headquartered HR consulting firm Mercer Global.

Global warming is once again on the agenda as world leaders gather for the Paris climate change summit.

Advancing a modernization agenda such as this should be a top priority, but it carries risks if not carefully managed.In areas where management is looking for change, it will be important to not seek unnecessary confrontation and to ensure that union leaders and members are treated with respect in the bargaining process.

Gadamer, of how the inspired text, which we question in order to find its meaning and relevance, questions, criticizes, challenges and changes us in the process -» Some who today raise the proper question, whether there are not culturally relative elements in Paul's teaching about role relationships (an the material has to be thought through from this standpoint), seem to proceed improperly in doing so; for in effect they take current secular views about the sexes as fixed points, and work to bring Scripture into line with them - an agenda that at a stroke turns the study of sacred theology into a venture in secular ideology.

With the advancement of the progressive Obama agenda by legislative (as distinct from administrative) means halted, Obama, now the «conservative,» will be using every ounce of his powers to sustain the parts of his program that have been enacted, while the Republicans, as proponents of change, will be seeking to reverse many of them.

At this stage of the gender revolution, some 15 years after Beijing, the agents of change want countries - national governments and cultures - to «own» the gender agenda, to become themselves the drivers of the process that will transform their own values from within so as to align them with the norms coming from UN headquarters.

Abusing their trust, global governance agents of change use the fuzzy expression «gender equality» in the developing world allowing it to be understood as a policy enhancing a greater recognition of the inherent equal dignity of the woman, while in fact it hides their own agenda.

And no one text deals with the pastoral agenda for men that might include issues such as fear, anger and grief over role changes, vocational confusion or tensions between work and family.

That is what I ran into and had to see, and that is what accounts, as far as I can tell, for how my mind has changed in the past decade, and my agenda for the future.

What is most unlikely to change is the underlying structure of these cultural interactions: the ideologies and agendas of the churches all originate outside them; the churches play a basically passive role in the cultural drama, as receptors and disseminators rather than as initiators; they «read the signs of the times.»

Just as liberation theologians have shown that human liberation can not be considered simply as an additional topic tacked on to an otherwise unchanged theology, so also changing the way human beings relate to the natural world can not be simply an additional item on the already overcrowded agenda of the churches.

In his time with IRRI, Dr. Morell has been instrumental in shaping the institute's research and outreach agenda, including IRRI's leadership on climate change - ready rice, healthier rice varieties, farmer - friendly crop management and value chain practices as well as encouraging the next generation of rice scientists.

its ridiculous and embarrassing and goes to show that the real agenda from both wenger and the board is keeping the books straight its the continual party line of «in the summer, we'll do this» then the player is unavailable there used to be a time not that long ago when you knew that whoever they brought in was going to be class, now you know that whoever they bring in will be cheap and wont do much of a job, Sanchez has been the only real good bit of transfer business and I mean really good bit since we were supposed to be free of financial restraints makes you wonder if we ever really had any as its still not changed.

It seems the German tactician is plotting changes to his squad, with the Express adding that Daniel Sturridge could make way for Aubameyang, while a goalkeeper and centre - half are also on Klopp's agenda as he looks to strengthen his squad for the second half of the campaign.

Although it will be incredibly difficult to ever match his contributions on the pitch, it's vitally important for a former club legend, like Henry, to publicly address his concerns regarding the direction of this club... regardless of those who still feel that Henry has some sort of agenda due to the backlash he received following earlier comments he made on air regarding Arsenal, he has an intimate understanding of the game, he knows the fans are being hosed and he feels some sense of obligation, both professionally and personally, to tell it like he sees it... much like I've continually expressed over the last couple months, this team isn't evolving under this current ownership / management team... instead we are currently experiencing a «stagnant» phase in our club's storied history... a fact that can't be hidden by simply changing the formation or bringing in one or two individuals... this team needs fundamental change in the way it conducts business both on and off the pitch or it will continue to slowly devolve into a second tier club... regardless of the euphoria surrounding our escape act on Friday evening, as it stands, this club is more likely to be fighting for a Europa League spot for the foreseeable future than a top 4 finish... we can't hope for the failures of others to secure our place in the top 4, we need to be the manufacturers of our own success by doing whatever is necessary to evolve as an organization... if Wenger, Gazidis and Kroenke can't take the necessary steps following the debacle they manufactured last season, their removal is imperative for our future success... unfortunately, I strongly believe that either they don't know how to proceed in the present economic climate or they are unwilling to do whatever it takes to turn this ship around... just look at the current state of our squad, none of our world class players are under contract beyond this season, we have a ridiculous wage bill considering the results, we can't sell our deadwood because we've mismanaged our personnel decisions and contractual obligations, we haven't properly cultivated our younger talent and we might have become one of the worst clubs ever when it comes to way we handle our transfer business, which under Dein was one of our greatest assets... it's time to get things right!!!

Arsenal fans in the Transfer Tavern enjoyed a thrilling final day of the Premier League as they beat Tottenham to second position but it hasn't erased their demands for wholesale changes this summer and transfer talk continues to be on the agenda.

Well if your agenda pushes you to say Fabio Borini is as good as Zlatan Ibrahimovic, then live in your cloud coo - coo land with your fairies and expectation that changing manager will mean instant success.

They are particularly skilled at «agenda matching» as well as listening and responding to «change talk» and picking up on subtle disengagement cues.

Second of all, I spoke with the principal last week, and apparently it is on the district's agenda as of last year to change the birthday celebration treat options.

Imagine the change this could bring if just a few of us decided that we will stand against bullying, unintentional and intentional, as part of breastfeeding support and simply be the safe community that respects each woman without condition of conforming to our own breastfeeding agendas and principles.

Trump's infrastructure agenda has foundered amid setbacks for other efforts, such as health care changes and tax reform, which have struggled to gain traction.

I think it's far worse than that, with shades of Gentile's corporatism); that it has continued the conversion of competing and / or divergent centres of power into a recursive bureaucratic autarchy, emptying out the wider polity of any sort of dialogue or dialectic, shades of Gentile again, and that socially and fiscally it has been profoundly regressive, continuing the marketisation of the severely wounded NHS and of education, also badly bleeding, treating school and university students as «product», not as people; adopting a broadly Powellite attitude to migrants (useful economic fodder, mustn't change the culture, «British jobs for British people»); devising the catastrophe of PFI / PPP within a broader neo-liberal agenda, and so on.

Desperate for fresh ideas as way back into power, the New Labour leadership cottoned onto Charter 88's shiny new agenda of constitutional change.

Culture is ingrained within each of us and is strong enough to persist even when situations change such as when new states emerge or new issues — including climate change or nuclear war — come to the forefront of the agenda.

As the deeper thinkers of the centre - left — for example, Jon Cruddas — have recognised, this agenda of progressive Conservatism poses new challenges and changes the terms of trade in British politics.

The «Democracy Agenda» calls for significant changes regarding transparency for online political advertising as well as measures the governor said will eliminate unnecessary voting barriers.

In his own state of the city address Tuesday evening, Common Council Majority Leader Rennie Scott - Childress (D - Ward 3) offered up a ringing defense of Mayor Steve Noble's progressive «One Kingston» agenda and called on Kingstonians to embrace local government as a force for positive change and economic growth.

As a youth activist who understands the geopolitical dynamics of the Tamale Metropolis, an elated Iddrisu Musah Superior reaffirmed his commitment to change the area in line with the New Patriotic Party's (NPP) transformational agenda.

Mr Brown's own change agenda must build on areas the Government got right during his decade as Chancellor.

He therefore called for the entrenchment of unity and peaceful co-existence among Nigerian people, adding that there is an urgent need for Nigerian government to build on the solidarity required across religious and ethnic lines as part of improving its change agenda.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo in a news conference this morning did not mention the women's agenda as potential measures he'd like to push in the spring, but did note the Dream Act, public financing of political campaigns and changes to the teacher evaluation law were items he wished were in the budget.

Modernisation is too often caricatured as privatisation in this book, and fails to grasp that New Labour's reform agenda was not in opposition to social justice, but the only way in a changing world to achieve it.»

Cuomo has been laying the groundwork for an aggressive education agenda as he begins his second term, signaling that he will seek several major changes that, atypically for a Democrat, will put him in direct conflict with teachers» unions.

Expressing dissatisfaction with Buhari's leadership, the priest noted that 2017 was one of the most horrible years in Nigeria's history, and demanded that the President change his «change agenda», which he described as questionable.

Ibrahim explained that the appointment of Shittu as Board of Trustees chairman was a proof of the minister's capability, diligence and commitment to the change agenda of the present administration.

His observations, come as his kid brother and friend, John Dramani Mahama, storms Cape Coast on Sunday to plead for four additional years to continue his `' Changing Lives and Transforming Ghana» agenda, because like ex-President Kufuor and ex-President Rawlings, who both served eight uninterrupted years, a four - year term is not enough.

The organization said that, «As a government presumably pursuing a change - agenda, Buhari should do things differently from the former Jonathan administration including by proactively engaging the Nigerian people in an honest conversation about the fight against Boko Haram and the use of the public funds so far invested to prosecute it.»

The opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) has welcomed the ruling of the Court that upheld its suspension of the party's National Chairman, Paul Afoko, as lawful, saying it gingers them to pursue their «change» agenda.

This very action of the government is therefore not only undermining and defeating the noble objectives of the country's climate change policy and that of the Paris Agreement on climate change but also a demonstration of no practical commitment to the global development agenda such as the Africa Agenda 2063 and the Sustainable Development Goals agenda such as the Africa Agenda 2063 and the Sustainable Development Goals Agenda 2063 and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York has been laying the groundwork for an aggressive education agenda as he begins his second term, signaling that he will seek several major changes that, atypically for a Democrat, will put him in direct conflict with teachers» unions.

In 2017, Cuomo released a 10 - point government ethics and voting reform agenda, which included early voting, automatic voter registration, same - day voter registration, and campaign finance changes such as closing the LLC loophole, which allows anonymous donors to flood candidates» campaign coffers in New York.

The mayor has had little luck moving his agenda through Albany this year — though as recently as this morning he has argued there was still time to get the greater tenant protections and changes to the 421a tax credit that he wanted.

After sidestepping press inquiries and making a last - minute changes to its agenda, the Erie County Water Authority board Thursday morning unanimously appointed its former chairman, Earl L. Jann Jr., as executive director at a salary of more than $ 145,000.

For instance, Zoe Williams (Opinion, 15 August) takes to task those she dismisses as Blairites who failed to encapsulate a radical agenda of change.

This seems to work for politicians promising change through a right - wing agenda, such as Donald Trump, as well as a left - wing agenda, such as Bernie Sanders.