Sentences with phrase «communities grappling»

While originally intended for the community members we work with in southern Pennsylvania, I hope this story map becomes a useful tool for many different communities grappling with fracking.

In some cases, we'll see a mental health provider come in as a partner in communities grappling with certain social issues.

Many stories feature schools and communities grappling with challenges around equity and inclusion.

A rural community grapples with the supply - side of the United States» problem with pills.

The town of Petersburgh in Rensselaer County will receive a carbon water filtration system as the community grapples with the chemical PFOA in its drinking water.

That's a burden of proof that much of the community grapples with.

Filmed over three years, in their monastery in rural France and on the road in the USA, this visceral film is a meditation on a community grappling with existential questions and the everyday routine of monastic life.

The community grapples.

The lawsuit comes as the school community grapples with changing leadership, financial concerns, divisions among parents regarding the course of the school and questions about the board's governance.

As the international community grapples with the question of how and where to try captured pirates, the Netherlands and France have led the way by prosecuting them in their own courts.

As policy makers, systems, researchers, health professionals and communities grapple with how to respond to the rapidly emerging health threats of climate change, the knowledges and practices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people must be central.

Raines noted that as many communities grapple with the need to provide adequate affordable housing, they also are instituting growth controls that limit local housing expansion and drive up housing costs.

Not exact matches

We know that every industry, every community, and every city grapples with safety issues and no one has an absolutely perfect record, but that's what we strive for and we'll keep working as hard as we know how to make our community safer for everyone.»

And yet, the community banks are grappling with thousands of pages of new regulation that kicks in January 2014 — 3,500 pages from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau alone, according to the American Banker.

Long before they were rocked this month by local police killings of black men, the two U.S. cities were grappling with similar problems — police forces viewed by many as overly aggressive and unrepresentative of black communities.

«Balancing the budget for a fourth year in a row --- while other provinces grapple with debt, deficits, and economic uncertainty — is an accomplishment that gives the business community reassurance that B.C. is on the correct course,» said Iain Black, President and CEO of The Vancouver Board of Trade.

I want rather to emphasize that if we are going to work for the renewal of our polity and local communities, we need to grapple with the fact that real human community requires more unanimity of thought and practice than we have realized.

Your disillusionment with the Church may seem like a petty wound to nurse right now, with Latino children getting taunted by their classmates, Muslim communities facing religious persecution, and black families grappling with a world in which white nationalism has been validated and emboldened, but grief is grief.

These men and women were invited to grapple with a massive, urgent issue currently confronting the whole Christian community and contemporary culture — in an ecumenical spirit of worship and dialogue, within an atmosphere of the warm hospitality of a great Christian university.

Not only policymakers but also the growing number of people, particularly those in religious communities, who are grappling with the role of religion in resolving conflicts and in nation - building in postconflict societies.

I console myself with the knowledge that I have a tremendous number of resources and a strong community of parents who have grappled with similar challenges.

You may also want to get support from moms in BabyCenter's community who are also grappling with the aftermath of a difficult delivery.

Tough shows even the most naïve reader how difficult it is to grapple with the question of how to take an entire community of mostly disadvantaged children and mostly undereducated parents without financial resources and transform them — or at least the children as they grow — into fully functioning members of the middle class.

For more than a year, Naperville officials have been grappling with the problem facing many communities with what to do with teenage skaters who often are banned from skating on the streets, sidewalks or any part of downtown.

Debby Irving brings to racial justice the perspective of working as a community organizer and classroom teacher for 25 years without understanding racism as a systemic issue or her own whiteness as an obstacle to grappling with it.

It must try to earn leadership through argument in open debate with others — including trade unions, religious groups, community organising initiatives and anti-cuts campaigners.It is encouraging to see that Labour is starting to grapple with the need for serious economic reform.

The focus comes as communities across the state are grappling with water contamination problems, including Hoosick Falls, Petersburgh and Newburgh.

«New York and the nation as a whole is grappling with how to combat heroin and opioid addiction and, with this comprehensive plan, we are continuing to take decisive action to end this epidemic and protect our families and communities,» Cuomo said in a statement.

Empathy and a sense of community are replaced with fear, with one man's grapple to restore tolerance the centre of the play.

Petersburgh, the latest community in upstate New York to grapple with contamination, is now distributing bottled water to residents.

The community near the Vermont border has been grappling with the chemical PFOA in its public water supply.

This is certainly the case at Old County Hall, as the County Legislature grapples with a number of issues vital to our community's future.

The company's manufacturing operations once employed thousands more in New York, and in some cases, communities are still grappling with the environmental and economic consequences of previous downsizings.

Buffalo's University Heights community is grappling with a problem familiar to most city residents: What to do with a vacant landmark school right in the middle of a residential area?

The councilman also spent months grappling with critics in the community and then in City Hall over his shifting stance on the mayor's proposed zoning changes at Sherman Plaza, which he ultimately did not support.

The Democrat joined a coalition of bipartisan leaders from across the Capital Region whose communities are grappling with failing infrastructure.

Sean Ryan [email protected] Small southeastern Wisconsin communities are grappling with how to balance budgets for mandated long - term sewer maintenance without increasing taxes or fees.

She said the conference being held by the Samaritan Counseling Center is recognition that the religious community needs to play a larger role in grappling with a growing problem.

Like Sheridan Hollow in Albany, waterfront neighborhoods in communities along the Hudson often grapple with contaminated sites.

Many communities in other parts of the country are also grappling with a transition from fossil fuels to renewable sources of energy.

He also said that fracking serves as an excellent example of how community activists grapple with contentious energy issues and the environment, particularly because of recent legislation that makes local fracking bans illegal in states such as Texas.

The scientific community has long grappled with how to address bias.

Balancing these concerns is a problem that the international community has grappled with for decades.

Weathering through hostile reactions from the medical and legislative communities, and grappling with low attendance and anemic resources, Pizzorno, with a dedicated group of volunteers, steadily and resolutely built Bastyr into one of the leading naturopathic schools in the world.

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Interracial Marriages and couples are some of the societal challenges that the communities have grappled with for ages.

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Also debuting towards the end of the month is Barry, a dark new comedy starring Bill Hader as an assassin grappling with a sudden desire to be a small - town community theater actor.

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«I've seen work done with high school students that can convey very complicated ideas or allows space to grapple with huge community or social problems through the arts that students aren't able to do in conventional models of education,» she says.