Sentences with phrase «changing force whose»

Stanton is Stanton, MLB's preeminent dinger monster, a lineup - changing force whose only equal offensively this winter is J.D. Martinez, who will also be expensive, is older, and comes without the ability to play defense.

Not exact matches

His father was an engineer whose jobs required the family to move often — to America, then to Africa, then back — forcing Thiel to change elementary schools seven times.

The prize will be an achievement award held annually that will celebrate a chef of any nationality who demonstrates how gastronomy can be a powerful force for change: those men or women whose impact can be felt «beyond the kitchen.»

There are frequent rail accidents and pipeline explosions, evidence of long term water contamination esp around Dimock PA and in WY, non disclosure agreements forced on people whose health has been damaged from exposure to toxic emissions, secrecy about all of these issues, and climate changes caused by too much fossil fuel emissions.

The driving force behind the call for increasing legislative pay, which hasn't changed since early 1999, has come from downstate lawmakers whose cost of living is considerably higher than that of their upstate counterparts.

General the Lord David Ramsbotham, a former chief inspector of prisons whose campaigns have forced the government to make numerous changes to legislation, said he had argued with Nick Clegg over the issue.

In fact, climate change may mean migration — and the loss of a sense of place for folks as disparate as Pacific islanders whose homelands drown, to herders forced to abandon their pastoral ways in the Sahel.

This was a minor disruption compared to the previous year, when the festival was nearly cancelled due to a political conflict between the city and the festival organisers, relating to the screening of an anti-government documentary in 2014.1 Much has changed in the past year, most notably the impeachment of right - wing President Park Geun - hye, whose government the documentary had targeted, and the election of the left - liberal party headed by Moon Jae - in.2 While the contentious political atmosphere has not entirely dissipated, as evidenced by the student protest groups still demanding an apology from the local city government, this year's festival was an attempt to return to normalcy, despite the untimely death of one of the festival's driving forces, deputy director Kim Ji - seok, a much beloved figure within the community.3 Although the festival had a strong selection of international entries, including some of the best this year has to offer, such as Ruben Östlund's Palme d'Or winner The Square and Sean Baker's The Florida Project, I have decided to focus my report on the Korean films.

The performances are fine: Will Smith, who can do no wrong, changes from a rah - rah charismatic force to an image of seemingly incurable depression; Edward Norton, is a divorced father whose daughter won't talk to him; and Michael Peña faces an existential crisis that he hides from his family.

Not so, says the Task Force, calling instead for systemic change that will hold schools accountable, give parents more choices, and provide citizens with a transparent education system whose accomplishments they can assess.

Stability is good, but adequate learning facilities are better — even if boundary changes tend to upset those parents whose kids are forced to switch schools.

It makes perfect sense that an author whose goal is to change the way we view the current practices of our lifestyles would join forces with a publishing house that wants to incorporate all the ways the people read into its network of business models.

Among those caught up in the ruthless forces of change in Dickens's London are the archetypal innocent Noddy Boffin, who «inherits» a dustheap where the trash of the rich is thrown; Silas Wegg, a grotesque, one - legged man with unlimited fantasies of grandeur and power; Mr. Veneering, Member of Parliament, whose house, furnishings, servants, carriage, and baby are all «bran - new»; and Alfred and Sophronia Lammle, who marry one another because each wrongly believes the other is rich.

This might remind Cupertino of the first time a credible challenge arose to the iPod from SanDisk and others, whose competing devices never amounted to anything, but did force big changes in the iPod lineup.

The Department of Defense can also help members of the Armed Forces who had a permanent change of station and whose homes lost values during the mortgage crisis, with certain qualifications.

While there is good data over the last century, there were many different changes to planet's radiation balance (greenhouse gases, aerosols, solar forcing, volcanoes, land use changes etc.), some of which are difficult to quantify (for instance the indirect aerosol effects) and whose history is not well known.

With climate change of course, we have no such confidence, because of the enormous and rapid increase in GHGs, whose physical basis as a radiative forcing agent is well understand, and quantified.

And through conversations with others in the growing climate justice movement, I began to see all kinds of ways that climate change could become a catalyzing force for positive change — how it could be the best argument progressives have ever had to demand the rebuilding and reviving of local economies; to reclaim our democracies from corrosive corporate influence; to block harmful new free trade deals and rewrite old ones; to invest in starving public infrastructure like mass transit and affordable housing; to take back ownership of essential services like energy and water; to remake our sick agricultural system into something much healthier; to open borders to migrants whose displacement is linked to climate impacts; to finally respect Indigenous land rights — all of which would help to end grotesque levels of inequality within our nations and between them.

Unfortunately the same can't be said for DBS and OCBC, whose substandard policies and commitments mean they still have no qualms about polluting Vietnamese lungs and worsening climate change,» said Market Forces executive director Julien Vincent.

Less than a year after it was adopted, the Paris Agreement on Climate Change came into force on 4 November 2016, following ratification by 55 countries whose economies account for 55 per cent of all global greenhouse gas emissions.

Indigenous peoples of the Arctic are among the first that are being forced to relocate entire villages and whose food security is threatened by not only the negative impacts of climate change but by the pollution caused by oil, natural gas spills, and mining operations in our critical ecosystems.

However, this statement in the initial post was particularly interesting to me, «The algorithm (whose code can be downloaded here) is conceptually simple: it assumes that climate change forced by external factors tends to happen regionally rather than locally.»

The strength of the magnetosphere is regulated by the sun (whose activity changes in synchrony with the planets), but perhaps the strength of the Earth's magnetosphere is also regulated directly by the gravitational / magnetic forces of Jupiter and Saturn and the other planets whose gravitational / magnetic tides may stretch or compress the Earth's magnetosphere in some way making it easier or more difficult for the Earth's magnetosphere to deviate the cosmic ray.

Still more obviously, the comparison between the enormity of suffering within forced marriages on the one hand and the disruption to innocent couples within the 18 - 21 age group whose desire to live together in this country is temporarily thwarted by the rule change, is essentially one for elected politicians, not for judges.»

Changes (i) to (v) came into force on 6 April, but commencement of change (vi)(the most important in the longer term) is delayed until October (actually, in relation to a woman whose expected week of childbirth begins on or after 5 October).

Trump nominated Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court — a judge whose views are so outside of the mainstream that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell had to change the rules in order to force through his confirmation.

On the other hand, for women who did not want to go to work but were forced into work by the economic changes of the 1980s and 1990s (that Friedan, of course, did not predict) and for women who went to work and whose husbands did not pitch in at home or were not supportive of their work, marriage has become more difficult.