Sentences with phrase «confronting the realities faced»

To adapt that tool for mothers of limited means, Murkoff and the foundation created Baby Basics, a guidebook that offers a warm and engaging accessibility, while confronting the realities faced by low - income parents.

From President Obama to GE's Jeff Immelt, leaders are confronting the reality we face: The global population will hit 9 billion by 2050, and we need our resources to scale and stay within our finite and dwindling carbon budget.

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Rather, I try to do here the same thing I do in all my books: face, alone, this world I live in, try to understand it, and confront it with another reality I live in, but which is utterly unverifiable.

These words epitomize the unyielding difficulty confronting classical theism, for it can not seem to reconcile God's goodness with his power in the face of the stubborn reality of unexplained evil.

The traditional scheme of the last things will no longer serve us, I have said; yet that scheme did confront men with the Christian faith and it did make them face «reality» with honesty and humility.

It was in confronting the younger churches in the mission field that Jerusalem came to face the reality of the church in missionary thinking.

Earlier this week County Executive Ed Day confronted reality and bit the metaphorical budget bullet by facing up to the fact that the County owed millions of dollars, was running a multi-million dollar deficit, had overtaxed homeowners, and had police services that the County could not afford and did not need.

In 2014, after her first attempt at getting an INSERM position came to no avail, Bigorgne was confronted with a reality that many early - career scientists eventually come to face: Despite her passion, years of training, and personal sacrifices, she wouldn't necessarily be able to secure a permanent position and stay in academia.

But disturbing in a good way because it confronts the viewer with a reality of capital punishment that its strongest advocates mostly are not willing to face.

Since the site is where the suicide took place, Rossiger believes that confronting the scene will force the young woman to mentally face the reality of her father's death.

This is a film that challenges your understanding of the world and forces you to confront harsh realities that you yourself may never face.

Confronting unresolved romantic feelings toward her ex-flame Jack (William Mapother), who went on to marry close friend Zoey (Ione Skye), Valinda is forced to face down her current reality, which includes the possibility of starting a family with uptight husband Will (Tate Donovan), who wishes his wife would stop letting what he views as petty teenage nostalgia rule her daily life.

«This Legislature needs to face the economic reality that confronts us,» Rooker said.

«The case forces California to publicly confront the inequitable reality so many of our students face in schools across the state.»

«That day, I confronted for the first time the reality of what I was facing,» Beals writes.

Not one to shy away from the grisly realities of middle age, the «slyly subversive» (O, The Oprah Magazine) Gurwitch confronts the various indignities faced by femmes d'un certain age with candor, wit, and a healthy dose of hilarious self - deprecation.

But once the trend turns and you are confronted with the reality of what taking risk in the stock market means and are faced with losses, you may have a different answer.

The seeming about - face in Guston's work that was announced by his first, and only, exhibition at the powerful Marlborough Gallery — representing many other Abstract Expressionists or their estates — resulted from the acute discrepancy he felt existed between the transcendental qualities of his abstract work and the harsh, down - to - earth realities of America in crisis, and his need to confront that strife head on.

The wealth of data and provocative arguments presented here make «Smart Solutions to Climate Change» a valuable resource for policy - makers, NGOs, academics, students, and everybody who is interested in learning more about the economic realities that face us as we confront this challenge.»

Yet the disconnect between that reality and government action to confront the greatest crisis humanity faces is astounding.