Sentences with phrase «currently challenging the world»

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After losing out to Bell for FIFA World Cup rights in October, CBC's executive director of sports, Jeffrey Orridge, whose network had also lost out on rights to the Canadian Football League and Canadian Curling Association, told The Globe and Mail, «It's a challenge for the sports media landscape in general, to sustain these types of levels, what rights are currently commanding.»

South Korea, Taiwan and the European Union and China currently have challenges to the tariffs pending before the World Trade Organization.

Timeless Cities: An Architect's Reflections on Renaissance Italy calls to mind Berger's caution because the governing ambition of the book» though expressed sotto voce» is to challenge its readers to promote and build cities that aspire to equal if not surpass the most beautiful cities of the Western world» and because its author, David Mayernik, is as aware as anyone that the culture and institutions of modernity are not currently conducive to the creation of such cities.

The focus will be on the challenges that the world of spirits packaging is currently facing, as well as the opportunities that come along with them.

De Gea has conceded just 16 goals in the league this season, making 80 saves — some of those have shown his abilities as a goalkeeper who is currently challenging to be the best goalkeeper in the world.

It's currently third in the world rankings — a fantastic achievement given the challenges national players face to combine training with work or study.

Trump blamed the problems the country and world currently face on the «mess» he «inherited» as president, but pledged to «tackle these challenges.»

«Making this data available to the entire world will help give nonhuman great apes in the U.S. the individuality they deserve and will challenge those who currently believe they are entitled to own, abuse or otherwise oppress these individuals,» according to the GAP Web site.

«This study is unique in the sense that it looks at a very common problem, currently intensively studied around the world, and examines this challenge through an innovative method,» says investigator Frank Schwab, MD, chief of the Spine Service at Hospital for Special Surgery.

Identifying victims of human trafficking remains a challenge around the world; between 12 million and 27 million individuals are currently enslaved.

Professor Richard Murnane, the student - selected faculty speaker, reflected on five decades of education and the five challenges currently facing all educators around the world: make equality a reality for all children; use money so it affects students» daily experience; create schools that prepare children for the future; make school choice work for the most disadvantaged; and create school accountability systems that improve education for all our children.

Critically, challenges that call on young people to use their STEM skills to shape a brighter future for the world could also provide a fresh approach to reaching those who currently feel the most disenfranchised and ready to dismiss STEM subjects as «not for them».

I would also suggest that if schools currently have an offline peer - to - peer mentoring solution, they look at bringing that into their online strategy too, because if children are behaving badly online, they need to be challenged in exactly the same way as they would be in an offline context — the bystander principle needs to operate in the online world too!

Additionally, ICPSJ has achieved national recognition through external rankings: this campus is currently ranked as the 28th Most Challenging High School in America by The Washington Post and # 20 Best High School in Texas by US News and World Report.

The president also told students that getting into college isn't enough, challenging their generation to help the United States regain its first - in - the - world status as the country with the highest proportion of college graduates (the nation currently ranks 16th).

The dawn of the 2011 race season is upon us: NASCAR just kicked off its year with the Daytona 500, F1 teams are presently testing in Europe, Le Mans hopefuls are currently starting their training — and, of course, Cadillac Racing is prepping its new CTS - V Coupe racer for the SCCA World Challenge GT

Eriksen said if they go the GT3 route, the NSX could serve as the replacement to the all - wheel - drive Acura TLX - GT, which is currently on the second of a two - year agreement to race in Pirelli World Challenge.

Baldwin currently drives a Porsche Cayman S for GTSport Racing in the Pirelli World Challenge and is the most successful Porsche Cayman S driver in the world with seven wins, over a dozen pole positions and twenty - plus podium finiWorld Challenge and is the most successful Porsche Cayman S driver in the world with seven wins, over a dozen pole positions and twenty - plus podium finiworld with seven wins, over a dozen pole positions and twenty - plus podium finishes.

He currently drives the # 73 GTSport Racing Porsche Cayman S in the Pirelli World Challenge Series.

Drissi also competed in the SCCA World Challenge series between 2006 and 2010; in 2003, he had begun competing in the sports cars of the American Le Mans Series, [2] where he would make his primary effort in racing outside of Trans - Am; he currently drives in the series for RSR Racing, competing in the Prototype Challenge class, co-driving an Oreca FLM09 with Bruno Junqueira and Roberto González.

Daniel Morad and CRP Racing both currently sit fifth in the Pirelli World Challenge GT SprintX Championship, a 60 minute race format to be shared by two drivers.

While set to feature for the full SprintX season, Alec Udell says he's currently taking a «race - by - race» approach to the Pirelli World Challenge Sprint rounds but is hopeful of potentially completing the remainder of the season.

Callaway Competition USA will miss the next three Pirelli World Challenge races while it switches to a new engine block currently undergoing testing.

The Avezzano GT4 is currently racing in the Pirelli World Challenge.

Acura currently campaigns a pair of Acura TLX GT cars with Real Time Racing in the Pirelli World Challenge.

«The 911 GT3 R and Cayman GT4 Clubsport MR that currently compete in the Pirelli World Challenge Sprint, and Sprint X format, make ideal endurance race cars.

With the first event weekend in the Pirelli World Challenge Sprint - X now behind them, David Ostella and Dion von Moltke currently sit second in the championship title chase.

Really want to hitchhike across the states, currently on a world trip and want to do something challenging, the US has always interested me!

-- The underwater world is currently facing major changes and challenges.

«In rolling out a reenergised Caribbean Travel Marketplace, we look forward to showing the world how the courage, determination and hard work of the Puerto Rican people and tourism industry has prevailed in view of the challenges they are currently facing,» said Frank Comito, director general of the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association.

There are currently three worlds and you must complete challenges in a current world to unlock the next one.

As a free - to - play title, PvZ 2 will release regular updates with new plants, worlds, zombies and challenges — three of which are currently available in the game.

Conan Exiles, a Steam game currently in Early Access, aims to change that by placing players in the Hyborian Age of the classic Conan the Barbarian stories, and challenging them both to survive and to explore the world's mysteries.

San Francisco Richard T. Walker Born in the UK and currently living in San Francisco, Richard T. Walker's tender and provocative videos challenge the presumption that the natural world revolves around us.

Currently, around 15 percent of the world's population lacks access to electricity, mostly in rural areas of the developing world, where providing power infrastructure is more challenging.

Dr. Frederick Seitz, a legendary figure in the world of physics (recipient of the National Medal of Science, NASA's Distinguished Public Service Award, and other honors; a former president of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and president emeritus of Rockefeller University), wrote a letter accompanying the petition in which he challenged the Kyoto treaty as «based upon flawed ideas,» and declared it «would have very negative effects upon the technology of nations throughout the world, especially those that are currently attempting to lift from poverty and provide opportunities to the over 4 billion people in technologically underdeveloped countries.»

The purpose of this paper is to provide a layman's critique of the Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) theory, and in particular to challenge the fairly widespread notion that the science and projected consequences of AGW currently justify massive spending and government intervention into the world's economies.

The startling magnitude of the challenge to the world from climate change becomes apparent upon reflection that the world is currently increasing greenhouse gas emissions during the last decade of an average annual increase of 2.7 %.

Resolution to Highlight Challenges and Opportunities in the US - India Trade Relationship Summary The United States and India are the world's two largest democracies and are currently experiencing their largest bilateral trade and investment flows ever recorded, with total goods and services traded in 2011 recorded at $ 100...

With 70 % of global energy demand currently met through the burning of carbon - based fuels, and demand predicted to double by 20351, the world faces a growing challenge: reducing climate change causing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions while not damaging a fragile global economy that is sustained by these abundant fossil fuels.

They say the technological fixes also distract from more challenging social reforms like slowing the rate of population growth, shifting away from crops like corn ethanol that don't put food on the table, or ending subsidies for livestock production, which currently eats up an appalling 75 percent of the world's agricultural land.

I currently co-chair the CLIVAR working group on Decadal Climate Variability and Predictability and the World Climate Research Program (WCRP) scientific team responsible for the Grand Challenge on Near Term Climate Prediction.