Sentences with phrase «constructive role»

She concludes by noting hints that the oil powers appear to be shifting these days to a more constructive role.

This is the only way to regain its positive and constructive role for the global effort to tackle climate change.

Nonetheless, given today's «anything goes» liberalism of the arts establishment, one wonders what sort of constructive role remains for «found objects» and the like.

South Africa, however, has adopted a more balanced view of the risks posed by climate change and mitigation measures, translating into a far more constructive role in the negotiations.

While core funds are more at risk than shorter - dated bonds, «a core bond fund can still play a very constructive role in a diversified portfolio,» says Toms.

The more constructive role Orthodoxy can play is captured in another story; Protestant and Catholic theologians decided that they needed help in adjudicating their disputes.

In addition to the many constructive roles the church plays vis - à - vis the elderly, it could help very specifically in this context, and yet it often does not — for many of the same reasons that block others from doing so.

Perhaps the Church would play a more constructive role if it articulated and tried to bring to fruition its vision of a welfare society buttressed by the principles of solidarity and subsidiarity in the pursuit of human dignity and the common good.

Some observers recognize intuitively and resent that such resistance amounts to minimizing their own constructive role in encounters with art.

«The other thing I have noticed in the past few years is that BASIC are playing a more constructive role [at UN talks].

Particularly when communities come together to offer youth a continuum of programs and services, and provide youth the opportunity for supportive and sustained relationships with caring adults, and the chance to assume constructive roles in the community, the effect on youth can be appreciable.

What is clearer to me now is that the precedent of the King James Version has played a decisive and constructive role in directing readers of English to a rather literal experience of the Bible, and that this precedent can be ignored only at considerable cost, as nearly all the English versions of the Bible done in recent decades show.

In past negotiations, India has been identified as playing a less - than - constructive role.)

But I also think that the Federal Reserve is a very important institution, which has in general played a constructive role in our economy.

One hopes the churches will have a constructive role here.

He notes that the subsequent years have brought disillusionment and deep uncertainty, but ends on the note that Christians once so inspired by the teachings of such as Dietrich Bonhoeffer will surely play a constructive role when the former East Germany finds its future.

The alleged idea of purely negative facts plays no constructive role in science (Sir Karl Popper recognizes this in his doctrine that the datum of scientific observation is always something positive).

But nationalism in the emerging nations has a constructive role — so long as it avoids idolatry and is open to accommodation and cooperation with neighboring states.

Education broadly is the way children are socialized into the culture and prepared to play a constructive role within it.

The videos and discussions in class do a really great job of giving men a constructive role to play during childbirth at the same time it desensitizes them.

Manufacturers and distributors of industrially processed foods intended for infants and young children also have a constructive role to play in achieving the aim of this strategy.

The definition of the Alliances role, whether it be seeking a wider thematic and constructive role or a more focused, regional, and potentially confrontational role, is central to understanding the tension, the uprising of energy security challenge in NATO's strategic role.

Javid said: «Trade unions have a constructive role to play in representing their members» interests but our one - nation government will balance their rights with those of working people and business.

«We will continue to put the national interest first and play a constructive role in providing the stable and good government people deserve.

«As a peace - loving leader of the party, the former president's interest is to help reposition PDP to enable it play a constructive role in the affairs of the nation, in view of the imperative of deepening the nation's democracy,» the statement added.

«Trade unions have a constructive role to play in representing their members» interests but our one nation government will balance their rights with those of working people and business,» he said.

Unsuccessful US Senate contender David Malpass sent an e-mail out late last night touting the «constructive role» his new political action committee, GrowPac, played in at least three of the House races in which GOP contenders were victorious: NY - 19 (Nan Hayworth), NY - 20 (Chris Gibson), and NY - 24 (Richard Hanna).

Despite these credentials, McGovern insists that she was determined to play a constructive role working alongside the new Labour leadership.

«Trade unions have a constructive role to play in representing their members» interests but our one - nation government will balance their rights with those of working people and business.

«I'm very keen that the Liberal Democrats should play a constructive role at a time of great economic uncertainty to provide a good government that this country deserves.

But we expect to be able to play a constructive role within the party itself and stand up for our values, which are the same as the Labour party's values.

He talks about a Britain that will play a constructive role in Europe while aligning the Tories in the European parliament with some of the continent's wackier xenophobes.

The mayor called Turco's letter «thoughtful» and said he has «played a productive and constructive role.»

Now that the primary is at hand, ESPA is banking on Klein and Avella playing a constructive role in a prospective Democratic majority next year.

Meanwhile, politicians, who could and should be playing a constructive role, are nowhere to be found, aside from Erie County Legislator Betty Jean Grant.

«I hope that I can bring experience and play a constructive role in providing the strongest possible opposition to this Tory Government.»

Business Secretary Sajid Javid said: «Trade unions have a constructive role to play in representing their members» interests but our one nation government will balance their rights with those of working people and business.

Instead, they suggest that organisms play active, constructive roles in their own development and that of their descendants, so that they impose direction on evolution.

Science is committed to playing a constructive role in making available to the scientific community the data underlying articles in the print journal, in cases when such data can not be accommodated in an established public database such as Genbank or PDB.

Now it seems that black holes debuted in a constructive role and appeared unexpectedly soon after the Big Bang.