Sentences with phrase «course of global efforts»

By aligning ourselves with the Bush Administration in this way we have excluded ourselves from the negotiations that will determine the course of global efforts to protect the climate.

Not exact matches

Together over the course of the past year, Uber and Lyft have spent up to $ 9 million in a vain effort to overturn the city's proposed safety measure, viewing Austin as an important test case in the broader struggle between local regulators and Silicon Valley upstarts with novel business models and global ambitions.

Prevention of mother - to - child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV has been at the forefront of global HIV prevention efforts since 1998, following the success of the short - course zidovudine and single - dose nevirapine clinical trials in reducing transmission.

Thanks to the distribution of 400 million mosquito nets coated with insecticide, and hundreds of millions of testing kits and treatment courses, made possible by the committed efforts of the world's largest investors in the malaria effort, notably, the United States, the United Kingdom, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, and the World Bank, malaria deaths in sub-Saharan Africa have decreased by one third over the past ten years.

Idyllic settings and lush greens at golf courses are the product of a global research effort working hard to prepare the industry for global warming

As part of an effort to promote the inclusion of financial education in state standards and required courses, the Washington - based nonprofit group Jump $ tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy, and Citi, a global financial - services company, have mapped whether students are required to study financial education.

Throughout PADI courses, divers learn the importance of protecting fragile aquatic ecosystems and are encouraged to become involved in local and global conservation efforts.

-LSB-...] of course, served with great distinction in the Obama Administration where, among other things, Summers helped sabotage progress on Climate Change mitigation (much as he had undermined Global Warming mitigation efforts in the Clinton Administration).

If periods of horrific volcanic activity and horrendous meteor strikes barely budged global temperature from its cyclic course of transitions between Ice Ages and Warm Periods, man's puny efforts are surely lost in the noise.

If you're wondering about global trade physically slowing down, due to efforts to reduce fuel consumption and emissions from container ships, the point - to - point speed today is not that much different than the fastest clipper ships — assuming constant wind of course.

Of course the effect of solar and cosmic activity and the well - recognized 800 - year global heating and cooling cycle keep happening, despite our completely insignificant efforts to affect climate changOf course the effect of solar and cosmic activity and the well - recognized 800 - year global heating and cooling cycle keep happening, despite our completely insignificant efforts to affect climate changof solar and cosmic activity and the well - recognized 800 - year global heating and cooling cycle keep happening, despite our completely insignificant efforts to affect climate change.

If and when that happens, we will have lost all effective influence on global warming — barring, of course, the heroic effort of massive «geo - engineering,» such as injecting sulphate aerosols into the stratosphere.

As he points out, Mann has been cleared of all wrongdoing multiple times by multiple independent agencies (like here, and here, and here, and here, and of course here), despite the efforts of the global warming deniers to do whatever they can to take him down.

Several law schools have experimented with introducing foreign and international issues into basic LRW instruction.68 Some have responded to these arguments by creating either upper - class elective seminars with a global LRW focus, 69 or by creating a specialized foreign / international section of the basic LRW course.70 Typically, this has been accomplished in a largely ad hoc fashion through the creative efforts of individual instructors, who sometimes offer a special «international» section of the basic LRW course.71 Additionally, LRW professors whose primary responsibility is to educate foreign students have naturally gravitated toward incorporating global dimensions in their problems and assignments.72 Faculty specializing in teaching legal English have observed that English is increasingly the language of choice for transnational negotiations and legal instruments, even in circumstances where the underlying transactions do not involve Anglo - American law.73 Consequently, they also emphasize a transnational approach that responds to the needs of their students.