Sentences with phrase «damaging issues in our communities»

This is particularly in relation to dealing with the hardest and most damaging issues in our communities - child abuse and family violence.

Not exact matches

In addition, DEC has also participated in public outreach events to discuss the city's deer management issues and offer damage abatement recommendations to homeowners and community plannerIn addition, DEC has also participated in public outreach events to discuss the city's deer management issues and offer damage abatement recommendations to homeowners and community plannerin public outreach events to discuss the city's deer management issues and offer damage abatement recommendations to homeowners and community planners.

He is the first BAME politician to hold the role and his appointment could offer hope to critics that the government is aware of how damaging the issue has been for community relations and trust in the immigration system.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Transportation's Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) announced today that it is issuing $ 2,488,497 in grants to state entities, local communities, and non-profit organizations to address pipeline safety challenges related to damage prevention and to promote more involvement in local pipeline safety initiatives and awareness efforts.

Problem debt is not just an issue for individuals, but goes much further - it damages families and communities and costs in excess of # 8 billion a year.

The articles in this special issue show how climatic stressors affect communities, what measures households take to prevent loss and damage, and what the consequences are when they are unable to adjust sufficiently.

Also, though it's not directly relevant to the issue of the most productive approach in terms of our own long term interests (which I think if people really understood this problem would involve a lot more fealty to moving off of FF now, and the idea of building even more coal plants — which are also responsible for most of the excess that allows bio accumulation of the serious neurological toxin mercury in our food supply, damages watersheds, mountain tops, sometimes whole communities and ecosystems, and, CC aside, is also very polluting — would be more apt to be seen as the idiocy it is), in some sense, no one has a full inherent right to anything really we as a world have built up: It has been a collective effort and you can only drive a Ferrari for instance, because of the hard work of countless others before you and along side you.

As part of our contribution, CSW commented that the document might carry greater relevance for decision - makers who want to advance a needed adaptation agenda to an unconvinced or climate - skeptic audience (a very real possibility) by including more explicit language on the ways in which climate change issues can be framed to appeal to diverse groups — for example, emphasizing the potential damages to people and property to one community, the negative impacts to industry in another.

There are many issues at stake here over and above the obvious human consequences involved whichever side is shown to be correct, not least of these it the credibility of the scientific community in the eyes of the public and the resulting damage that it could cause.

One such conventional legal principle is the duty of care, and in the recent case of Ogale Community v Royal Dutch Shell plc, the key issue was whether the parent company could be liable for damage caused by the actions of its subsidiary.

Though now illegal, lead paint was widely used in Baltimore City communities prior to 1978, and has been the cause of brain damage, stunted growth, and other serious medical issues.

Piers advised on probate issues in relation to the recent Mau Mau claim and was responsible for trust and property law and wayleave damages in the team of Counsel acting in large scale group litigation for the Bodo community against Shell Petroleum, that reached the landmark settlement in the Bonny - Bomu oil pipeline litigation.

Chamber Founder and President Perianne Boring has acknowledged the urgency of dealing with patent trolls (companies that buy patents not to use them but to demand royalties and sue for damages) but also stresses the importance of creating an industry body that is organized and ready to deal with all intellectual property issues as they arise in the future and bringing the community together to foster collaboration and a healthy ecosystem.

• Demonstrated expertise in securing premises and performing patrolling duties, aimed at ensuring community and premises safety • Track record of monitoring surveillance equipment and following up on nefarious or suspicious activities • Focused on preventing losses and damages by «keeping an eye open» at all times and recording and following up on abnormal occurrences • Proficient in coordinating information security compliance activities and implementing security policies and procedures • Documented success in performing information security risk analysis aimed at deriving data for security processes • Demonstrated good judgement and problem - solving skills to deal with security issues of variable natures within standardized situations • Adept at physically controlling violent or unruly individuals along with the ability to subdue individuals after running in pursuit • Skilled in coordinating and implementing disaster recovery programs and managing security incident responses • Familiar with conducting armed stationary, foot and vehicle patrols, targeted at deterring criminal activity, misconduct and breach of community rules • Knowledge of initiating and monitoring informal investigations of security infractions and violations

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