Sentences with phrase «concept in a global world»

So long as political pressures are «to do whatever it takes to create prosperity» at home in the short - run, governments will target spending to domestic firms (an increasingly squishy concept in a global world).

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Today Popeyes is one of the world's largest quick service restaurant chicken concepts with over 2,600 restaurants in the U.S. and 25 other countries around the world and its global footprint will complement RBI's existing portfolio of over 20,000 restaurants in more than 100 countries and U.S. territories.

The Charles E. Smith division of global real estate trust Vornado recently asked six world - class architectural firms to design and construct the «office of the future» as part of the unique Crystal City DesignLab project, which sought to re-envision six suites in a centrally located Arlington, Virginia office building in the Washington, D.C. office market and demonstrate how new design concepts can immediately benefit office tenants going forward.

The Halal Guys grew from its humble beginnings as a food cart on the streets of New York City to a global icon known as the largest American Halal street food concept in the world.

What can we do as educational and cultural workers, at this crucial moment in history, when corporate revenue expands as the job market shrinks, when there is such a callous disregard for human suffering and human life, when the indomitable human spirit gasps for air in an atmosphere of intellectual paralysis, social amnesia, and political quiescence, when the translucent hues of hope seem ever more ethereal, when thinking about the future seems anachronistic, when the concept of utopia has become irretrievably Disneyfied, when our social roles as citizens have become increasingly corporatized and instrumentalized in a world which hides necessity in the name of consumer desire, when media analyses of military invasions is just another infomercial for the US military industrial complex with its huge global arms industry, and when teachers and students alike wallow in absurdity, waiting for the junkyard of consumer life to vomit up yet another panacea for despair?

Real world contexts and problems — such as designing sustainable energy systems, bio-medical engineering, maintaining biodiversity in areas where conflicts arise between local and global needs — demand knowledge, concepts and skills from several disciplines.

In a time that calls for a more sustainable global world, Senge, who has spent the bulk of his career examining how globalization has impacted the world and what we can learn from it, pointed out that adults often have a harder time understanding this concept than children.

Linda is best known for her creation of the concept of the Double X Economy - a perspective which describes the global economy of women in both the developed and developing world, and the roles of women not only as consumers, but as investors, donors and workers.

As a result of the power of this visionary concept, and of the leadership of the global institutions that were created to work on behalf of those rights, the world changed dramatically in the subsequent 60 years.

The concept of «global citizenship» or «world citizen» has been the subject of study and debate since the Stoic philosophical movement approached it in the Greece of the third century BC, in the Hellenistic period.

In a world where the relations of production and trade are becoming more global, the need to disseminate the concept of Circular Economy becomes increasingly present, large - scale, including the consumer population.

Built on specific English and world history state standards, the project covered concepts including the pre-World War II global economic crisis, the rise of totalitarianism, and the societal moral dilemmas that world leaders at that time faced, and then had students draw parallels to similar fictional themes in the book.

The Shooting Brake concept, which adds a more practical hatch styling to the rear of the sporty coupe, has been revealed to the world in Sydney by the Toyota 86 global chief engineer Tetsuya Tada.

The Holden Design Studio is an important part of General Motors global design network, as one of only three facilities in the world with the capability to design and build prototype concept vehicles for exhibitions and international auto shows.

Moreover, at the automobile section, Honda will exhibit the world premiere of the N - WGN, the 4th model of the N Series of mini-vehicles, as well as the world premiere of the planned production model of the second model of the Global Compact Series which is based on the URBAN SUV CONCEPT, unveiled at the 2013 North American International Auto Show in January of this year.

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The first Land Rover to be manufactured at Halewood 2008 LRX concept car previews design language of a new luxury compact SUV 2009 Fourth generation of the Land Rover Discovery introduced 2010 Range Rover Evoque, the world's first luxury compact SUV, makes global debut 2012 Fourth - generation Range Rover introduced — the first all - aluminium SUV 2013 New generation of Range Rover Sport unveiled at New York Motor Show 2014 Special Vehicle Operations (SVO) division is officially launched 2014 Range Rover Sport SVR debuts, the fastest, most agile, most powerful Land Rover 2014 Discovery Vision Concept previews design vision for new family of Discovery vehicles 2014 Launch of Discovery Sport, a new premium compact SUV with 5 +2 seating 2015 Trio of end - of - line Defender editions revealed with biggest sand drawing in UK 2015 Exclusive Range Rover SVAutobiography long wheelbase launched in New York 2015 Evoque Convertible becomes world's first luxury compact SUV convertible 2015 One - of - a-kind Land Rover «Defender 2 000 000» sells for # 400 000 at charity auction 2016 Last Defender rolls off the production line 2016 All - new Discovery with world - first remote Intelligent Seat Fold technology launched 2017 Land Rover launches the fourth Range Rover, the Velar 2018 Limited Edition Range Rover SV Coupé debuts at Geneva Motor Show

Mr. Kholeif, who was previously artistic director of the Arab British Centre in London and founding director of the U.K.'s Arab Film Festival, said, «the concept of the Global South has increasingly started to proliferate in the art world — in museums, the marketplace, and in criticism.»

The Global Citizen Year model is not an entirely new concept; in the 1980s and 1990s, there was a college based south of San Francisco called World College West.

The fact that so many people in the world believe, without understanding even the basic concepts, that global warming is indeed an issue should be a point of concern, not cause for celebration.

The World Coal Association released a concept paper in December 2014 on establishing a global Platform for Accelerating Coal Efficiency (PACE).

Additionally, this solution includes the concept of «offsetting» meaning that by carrying out «green» projects in the developing world, the global North is not only absolved of its historical responsibility, but is also allowed to pollute further as an add - on benefit.

Inductees in 2010 were Gro Harlem Brundtland, former Prime Minister of Norway and chairperson of the United Nations» World Commission on Environment and Development, whose 1987 report, «Our Common Future,» advocated the concept of sustainable development; Syukuro Manabe who developed a model used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Global Climate Change to project global warming; and Wangari Maathai, 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, for her untiring efforts to promote coexistence with the enviroGlobal Climate Change to project global warming; and Wangari Maathai, 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, for her untiring efforts to promote coexistence with the enviroglobal warming; and Wangari Maathai, 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, for her untiring efforts to promote coexistence with the environment.

«This concept has already been demonstrated through features like World of Warcraft Gold and Counter Strike [where] Global Offensive skins are being used as value stores in their respective game economies.»