Sentences with phrase «current crisis began»

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Roubini has been consistently cited as one of the world's top global thinkers after he was able to accurately describe the current economic crisis that began in 2008, many years prior to it happening.

Although compassionate in its intent to allow those who came to the United States unlawfully as children and through no fault of their own to begin the process of integrating legally into United States society, it contributes to the current crisis at the border by further signaling United States policy not to enforce its immigration laws against low priority targets.

Mr. Cohn - Bendit began the debate by characterizing the current climate as «a turning point in European history, because the European Union is confronted with one of its most serious crises, caused by the financial crisis».

Ghana's power crisis has been cyclical but the current round began in 2011 after a boat on the high seas damaged parts of the West African gas supply pipeline.

On this he's allied with Republican Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos (Joe Bruno's successor), and he's reliving a fight Bruno and Spitzer had with Silver back in March when the effects of the current crisis were beginning to take shape.

She suggests that one way to begin to emerge from the current crisis is to commit to a developmental definition of literacy, emphasizing how the skills...

The current era of corporate education reform began with the 1983 publication of the Reagan administration's report A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Education Reform, prepared by a committee of prominent professors, politicians, teachers, and business executives.5 Not only did the report attack many of the equity - minded federal education reforms that preceded it, A Nation at Risk also manufactured a narrative of public education in crisis, steeped in the language of Cold War military paranoia: «If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war,» the authors wrote.

While reporting just outside of Darfur, Stephan Faris discovered that climate change was at the root of that conflict, and began to wonder what current and impending — and largely unanticipated — crises such changes have in store for the world.

Since the current credit crisis began more than a year ago, we have seen credit card issuers take dramatic measures to protect themselves by sacrificing cardholders» interests.

In 2011, Bokaer began to work with Soundwalk Collective, a group of nomadic composers of Mediterranean descent, to create a live performance work addressing the urgency of the current Mediterranean migration crisis, including the displacement of people.

Starting from the latest of Cirio's artworks, Loophole for All, MoCC will present a series of images that will attempt to decode the current financial and social crisis, as well as re-present the larger social issues that have characterized the last part of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century.

The collection on display at the State Hermitage Museum, which includes two diptychs and two triptychs, spans the breadth of Griffiths» artistic concerns for more than a decade, beginning with an ode to corporate greed (21st - Century Boy, 2006), musings on the impact of war upon individual souls (Finest Hour, 2015) and the most recent, never - before - seen The Things They Carried (2016) which references the current refugee crisis with breathtaking urgency.

The United States is not only responsible for the current crisis because, as President Obama noted, it is the second highest emitter of ghg in the world behind China, it has historically emitted much more ghgs into the atmosphere than any other country including China, it is currently near the top of all nations in per capita ghg emissions, and the US has been responsible more than any other developed nation for the failure of the international community to adopt meaningful ghg emissions reduction targets from the beginning of international climate negotiations in 1990 until the Obama administration.

In the current climate crisis we face, advancement of carbon sequestration programs parallel to healthy energy policy will enable us to begin the process of undoing the damage already evident.

The AGs arguments on both issues, first on the distinction between economic and monetary policy and second on the prohibition of monetary financing, lead us to a much more fundamental question: Given the development of the monetary union, the lessons from the banking crisis and the current economic situation in several Member States, can one really maintain the separation between monetary and economic policy — that was artificial from the beginning — and the prohibition of monetary financing (as well as the prohibition of bailouts) in this form?

I can meet you in your current crisis, or uncomfortable life situation, provide a safe and accepting place for you to begin to explore your feelings and experience, and then together we can work towards bringing you into personal fulfillment and healing.»