Sentences with phrase «climate of acceptance»

Tools and ideas for all staff members to create an overall school climate of acceptance and break down walls of diversity

Even when talking about an area of continuing disagreement, their relationships demonstrated a rich climate of acceptance, humour and interest in one another.

It does this by creating a climate of acceptance — of feelings and impulses (around which irrational guilt often forms)-- and by confronting the young person with the need to change irresponsible, self - other hurting behavior (the source of appropriate guilt).

It's important for pastors to feel and to create a climate of acceptance of persons that respects their right to differ on sexual standards.

Not exact matches

Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

Even though the intellectual climate within the Reserve Bank and other economic policy agencies was already moving in favour of deregulation in the early 1970s, wider community acceptance of the case for change did not come until after the Government set up a broad - ranging inquiry, conducted by a group of independent experts.

A useful group - life checklist allowing participants to rate a group on communication, acceptance of persons, leadership, climate of relationships, and other aspects can be found in Philip Anderson's Church Meetings that Matter.10 Evaluation is not a frill; rather it is essential to discovering what you are accomplishing in groups and how you can do better.

Alcoholism education aimed at developing a climate of understanding and acceptance.

A basic factor which influences the acceptance - climate of the relationship is whether or not the pastor really accepts the sickness conception of alcoholism.

Despite any clinical evidence for or against the therapy, the APA denounces such therapy because, «In the current social climate, claiming homosexuality is a mental disorder stems from efforts to discredit the growing social acceptance of homosexuality as a normal variant of human sexuality.

Through a program known as Project Unify ®, Special Olympics assists schools in initiating Unified Sports and whole - school involvement activities, where general education and special education students create climates of inclusion, acceptance and respect on campuses and in communities.

In terms of proving progressive credentials to the Left my guess is that the Conservative leadership would also point to the party's acceptance of homosexual rights, efforts to promote women and ethnic minority candidates and the significant emphasis that the party has placed on civil libertarianism and combating climate change.

Leonardo DiCaprio used his Oscar acceptance speech last night to declare that climate change «is real» and to blast what he called the «politics of greed.»

Still, the Senate results this week mark some progress in advancing the GOP's acceptance of the climate science, said Julian Zelizer, a history professor at Princeton University who studies the presidency.

Traditional fossil - fuel energy is so abundant and inexpensive that climate - friendly substitutes have little hope of acceptance without robust policy support.

He also asked about comments she made that likened acceptance of climate change science to a «kind of paganism» and suggested that top United Nations climate policy advocates were effectively supporting communism.

Explicit recognition of citizen science in published papers could promote the communication linkages necessary for broader impacts by helping shift public discourse associated with modern climate change from controversy to acceptance.

In his acceptance speech, the 70 - year - old took the opportunity to encourage young writers and directors to be unafraid to speak their mind, especially in regards to the tumultuous political climate in the U.S. following the election of President Donald Trump in November (16).

Visibility is very important in gaining trust and acceptance - key components of a school's climate.

By encouraging empathy, respect, and acceptance and giving students tools for communicating their feelings and confronting conflict positively, an effective social - emotional learning curriculum will likely improve school climate and culture beyond just the mitigation of bullying.

Education specialists identify school climate as the sense of acceptance, safety, and contentment experienced among both teachers and students within a school setting (Freiberg, 1998; Peterson & Skiba, 2000; Marshall, 2004; Jones, Yonezawa, Mehan, & McClure, 2008).

The principal sources of our returns (and risk) are security selection, the acceptance of aggressive investment positions during market climates characterized by both favorable valuations and market action, and the acceptance of defensive investment positions during market climates characterized by neither.

«But there are encouraging signs that we are turning a corner in 2017, and whilst growth is more muted, there is definitely an acceptance of the new normal, with a desire to move forward again in a climate of lower - valued currencies, less government spending and lower GDP growth.

A global network of art protest groups, including G.U.L.F. (Global Ultra Luxury Faction), Occupy Museums, Guerrilla Girls, Liberate Tate, People's Climate Arts, Not an Alternative, The Yes Lab, Peng Collective, and many others, has been working hard to highlight the art world's complicit acceptance of the status quo, no matter how immoral or unethical it may be.

It's something of an abstract concept, but with real world implications, and the universality of such physical models, based on things like radiative balance, atmospheric composition and density, distance from the local Sun, etc., is a very strong argument in favor of general acceptance of the results of climate models and observations on Earth.

I tend to agree that it's a huge but last - ditch effort to stave off the inevitable acceptance of the reality of climate change.

There was a really interesting article in Physics Today this past October on the parallels between the slow acceptance of the idea of anthropogenic climate change and of the idea that the earth circles the sun.

In his acceptance speech, Obama identified climate change as one of the three principal threats of this century.

Adam»S (# 4) thought (that we are doomed) ignores acceptance of # 1 (that we can and are changing the climate).

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I agree that cultural cognition — the idea that we shape our views so they agree with those in the groups with which we most closely identify, in the name of acceptance by our group and thus of safety — powerfully explains the polarized passions over whether climate change is «real,» the «debate» that gets most of the attention about public opinion.

A plan: See: http://climateprogress.org/2010/11/28/winning-climate-messages-combine-dire-scientific-threat-with-solutions-for-a-just-world/ «New psychological research finds that dire messages about the threat of global warming will strengthen people's acceptance of climate science when combined with solutions, which is the approach taken by leading climate activists.

We can therefore anticipate that a stronger cultural cohesion could make it even harder for ideas that challenge existing worldviews to be voiced or accepted - creating even further obstacles for the acceptance of climate change in societies that are currently skeptical.

Read on for some important sections, starting with Francis's reference to, if not direct acceptance of, scientific reports concluding that humans are the dominant driver of recent warming of the climate.

«In the past five years, the dynamic of the global warming debate has shifted away from exaggerated acceptance of the worst possible implications of what a majority of climate scientists tell us, towards a more balanced and questioning approach.»

There's more symmetry than parallel between the Copernican revolution and the acceptance of anthropogenic climate change.

At the PlaNYC press conference on the waterfront earlier this year, I noted Mayor Bloomberg's acceptance of the scientific consensus on the reality of climate change, as evidenced by the City's efforts to reduce carbon emissions.

It should proclaim its acceptance of IPCC climate science and begin to plan its response to climate change.

And yet, the acceptance of the basic science of climate change has cleaved across partisan lines — a political reality that would have my grandfather, a construction engineer and businessman, aghast and angered.

More disappointingly, the authors also seemed to have forgotten that the hockey stick was jsut the immediate symptom, that both they and M&M had raised more fundamental issues regarding paleo - climate science core culture — the lack of full disclosure, the acceptance of journal unenforced policy, the lack of informed and robust peer reviews, etc..

The 27 - nation bloc is pushing for acceptance of its position at the UN climate summit in Doha, where negotiators from more than 190 countries are due to conclude two weeks of talks today.

Recent social - science research has shown that the acceptance of the existence of the expert consensus on climate change is a gateway belief.

Still, it was a key component of his acceptance piece, and whether or not the US throws itself into international climate change negotiations with renewed vigour, or contemplates a domestic carbon price, his success is certainly good news for the clean energy industry.

If the question was posed in such a way, would it show a much broader support in the science community for the acceptance of climate change and the need to act?

A number of papers were written, people thought about it, but it never gained the acceptance that the current climate change scenarios have.

While I don't always agree with his point of view, I certainly respect his belief — and the reasoning behind it — that only widespread acceptance of nuclear, where no large - scale «clean» alternatives exist, can help us manage climate change.

``... warming of the climate system is unequivocal... most of the global average warming over the past 50 years is very likely due to anthropogenic greenhouse gases increases...» — Rajendra Pachauri, Chairman of the IPCC, Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Dec. 10, 2007

Earlier this month, a New York Times article by Andy Revkin voiced concern over a gap between «the consensus» of climate scientists and public acceptance of the theory of human - caused global warming.

The Straw Man is easily clarified - your position is that the paper is being presented as a measure of the consensus on AGW in the climate science community, hence consideration of papers not primarily on the topic shouldn't count, whereas the reality, clearly laid out in the methods is that it is at attempt to quantify the breadth and depth of acceptance and endorsement of the AGW concensus in the scientific literature as a whole, hence any scientific paper that states or implies such acceptance is fair game.

We are heartened that despite the domestic and international political challenges that have limited actions to address climate change, the year brought broader recognition and acceptance of the science of climate change along with a greater understanding of its likely costs.