Sentences with phrase «change challenge calls»

Yet, the magnitude of the climate change challenge calls for proactive adaptation and technological and social innovation, areas where Canada and the U.S. have abundant capacity.

Not exact matches

This tendency to retreat to the familiar when challenging times call on us to change is not the only unhelpful mental habit we have to contend with.

The activists who sponsored that 1970 protest — the first Earth Day — called it «a day to challenge the corporate and governmental leaders who promise change, but who shortchange the necessary programs.»

Each challenge ends when you «turn on the lights,» meaning the small, brightly - colored squares (called lights) change from empty to filled.

When Mahatma Gandhi challenged Indians with the statement, «If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change,» it was a rallying call for the country to inspire change across the globe by looking first introspectively at...

From our first call, her questions challenged me to change my perspective, revisit all my assumptions and own my triggers.

But that desire is often selfish underneath, because once the group challenges you or calls you to change your mind, you can leave.

I don't think the Pope was challenging governments to change philosophy, but is merely calling on his followers to re-prioritize their lives from money and material things to spiritual wealth.

It's a big change they'll be lots of challenges and at times you'll think «what am I doing» but if it's a true calling as it was in my case, it works out.»

In brief, social change — this rapid, turbulent, accelerating scene — is more than a professional challenge; it is a total human challenge, and to deal with it as human beings, be we professionals or nonprofessionals, we must unashamedly call upon the full range of our human capacities and interests — scientific, artistic, and religious.

But sometimes I get the idea that, particularly with the younger folks, it's become something of a fad - like, they've read one Shane Claiborne book, changed their Facebook profile to «Christ follower,» made a few protest signs, and called themselves pacifists, without really wrestling with some of the challenging implications of this position.

Simply Organic is also running an awesome challenge called Cook For A Change that will donate one meal to the Ceres Community Project Healing Meals Program for every use of #cookforachange on social media!

Santi Cazorla has called for Arsenal to make changes for the new campaign, in order to mount a serious title challenge for the Premier League title.

- Wenger is out of contract and having not won the EPL in the last 12 years and not challenged for UCL since that ’06 final is it time to call for a change maybe not in style of play but in resolving those recurring problems and hurdles that hurt us every year with a new manager?

When they internalize the idea that their intelligence is a static asset, impervious to change, they develop what Dweck calls a fixed mindset, and they tend to shy away from challenges that might expose their perceived intellectual shortcomings.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie on Monday said it was unlikely Democratic lawmakers will take up changes to the SAFE Act, calling amendments to the gun control law in his chamber «challenging.»

«We recognize the challenges we've had in recent years, but I'm hopeful with this changed federal landscape, this will serve as a real awakening, a real wake up call,» she said.

In local authorities elsewhere, where Labour has been in power for 25 years or more, the LibDems have (very properly IMO) challenged this as entrenched power and called for change.

Washington (CNN)- Newt Gingrich is amplifying his call for Secretary of State John Kerry to resign over his comments that climate change represents the biggest challenge «of our generation.»

After having analysed the above mentioned aspects and focused on the role of China in the shaping of the climate change regime, this Occasional Paper gives some suggestions on how the EU may cope with this changing environment, and calls on the EU to draw a «European Grand Strategy» able to put into perspective its challenges and strengths for this first half of the twenty - first century.

Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California beat back a challenge from a fellow Democrat who said the party had lost its connection to the American working class, quashing increasingly anxious calls for a change in the House leadership she has directed for 14 years.

«Despite a call to respect my family's privacy during this difficult, challenging ordeal as we handle — as a family — a personal situation with our child, the media reports continue to change and promote falsehoods in spite of the facts,» Morse said.

Ajimobi called for attitudinal change in Nigerians to make people interested in being productive, urging the University to look into this to surmount the myriad social challenges the nation is battling with

The decisions the current Government takes on transport to tackle the dual challenges of climate change and rising oil prices could have significant repercussions for many years to come... Friends of the Earth is calling on the Government to: «Change direction on transport policy - and aim to rapidly move towards a low - carbon transport system... Vehicle Excise Duty must be changed to make road tax on gas - guzzlers more expensive - and cheaper for greener cars...&change and rising oil prices could have significant repercussions for many years to come... Friends of the Earth is calling on the Government to: «Change direction on transport policy - and aim to rapidly move towards a low - carbon transport system... Vehicle Excise Duty must be changed to make road tax on gas - guzzlers more expensive - and cheaper for greener cars...&Change direction on transport policy - and aim to rapidly move towards a low - carbon transport system... Vehicle Excise Duty must be changed to make road tax on gas - guzzlers more expensive - and cheaper for greener cars...»

The Faso campaign called the challenge grandstanding, and tried to change the subject to support for Teachout in the Communist newspaper The Daily Worker, both of which show that they have no answer for her claims.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, one of the 17 challenging Trump's move to end DACA, called the ruling a «win,» but added «it also does not change the fact that we need a permanent solution to preserve DACA and protect Dreamers.»

On foreign affairs, Mr Blair called for the West to take a more active role pushing for democratic change in the Arab world and said that Europe needed an elected leader to challenge the role of China in the world.

Governor Cuomo, in a statement, called the President's plan a «visionary step», and agrees that New York has already «embraced the challenge of climate change.»

A spokesman for Royal Dutch Shell called climate change a «complex societal challenge» to be addressed by governments, «not by the courts.»

Scientists from the Biogerontology Research Foundation (BGRF), a UK - based charity founded to support aging research and address the challenges of a rapidly aging population, propose a new concept for signalome - wide analysis of changes in intracellular pathways, called OncoFinder, which allows for accurate and robust cross-platform analysis of gene expression data.

An open letter calls on Barack Obama and Mitt Romney to address the challenges posed by rising seas as a result of climate change

Wang Feng, a leading expert on demographic and social change in China, called the change an «historic event» that would change the world but said the challenges of China's aging society would remain.

There is a small minority, including people like Gene Koprowski, marketing director at the Heartland Institute, which has consistently produced research challenging the science behind climate change, who have called into question the pope's wisdom in taking up the issue, even suggesting that he was inspired by «pagan remnants.»

But exacting measurements of these properties — the so - called «equation of state» involved as matter changes from one phase to another in these collisions — have proven challenging.

During the event Anna Shiweda, Deputy Minister for Agriculture, Water and Forestry, called for collaborative efforts to fight climate change and Kiki Gbeho, UN Resident Representative in Namibia, reconfirmed UN Namibia's commitment to finding answers to the environmental challenges of the country.

It's called the Strong & Shredded Challenge for a reason: because you'll experience life - changing results in the first 28 days.

Twelve tasks, which Red calls «gifts,» each challenging Jason in an improbable way, the accumulation of which would change him forever.

From Academy Award ® - winning executive producer Brian Grazer, executive producer Chad Hodge (Tru Calling) and director Alan Taylor (Mad Men) comes a provocative new series about a time and place that challenged the social mores, where a visionary created an empire, and an icon changed American culture.

Calling for something to be done «to change our circumstances in the school, the workplaces, the bureaucracies, the government» and insisting on man's «unrealized potential for self - cultivation and self - direction,» the statement issued a challenge to modern society built on a critique that had begun six years earlier with William Whyte's The Organization Man.

Educators in both PreK - 12 and higher education face relentless demands and challenges — calls to do more with less, enhance student learning, address the conflicting concerns of multiple constituencies, and grapple with constant change.

For example, last year I designed a gamification platform for an insurance call center where the business challenge was customer retention, the goal was one - call resolution, and the desired behavior changes were to have call center agents stop putting customers on hold, stop transferring calls, and strategically question and actively listen to customers.

The position statement, called «The Early Childhood Challenge: Preparing High - Quality Teachers for a Changing Society,» is the Washington - based membership group's effort to weigh in on the preparation of early - childhood...

The many challenges and complex changes in our schools today call for a different kind of leader.

The second wave of reform took the form of school restructuring, and combined three complementary elements: (a) a call for higher and common expectations for ALL students, (b) an emphasis on new and more challenging teaching practices, and (c) dramatic changes in the organization and management of public schools (Elmore, 1990).

To be a diverse, connected community of curious problem solvers, caring innovators and creative change makers that challenges students to take ownership of their learning and find their calling.

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Facilitated sessions and individual coaching calls throughout the year bring together teams to deepen their learning around Academic and Personal Behaviors, share strategies and approaches to help students persist in the face of rigorous learning challenges, and build capacity both within and across schools to implement changes and share learning.

After three years of repeating 12 - week change cycles that focused on overcoming a specific teaching challenge with technical assistance from Education Northwest, Springdale has realized significant student achievement gains in reading and mathematics through an approach called Success Now!

Amid all these challenges, a call to change grading policies can seem particularly unrealistic.

They acknowledge the challenges that must be addressed in creating political conditions to support new finance systems and call for an aggressive research and development agenda to guide the process of change with good evidence about what works to improve student learning.