Sentences with phrase «developing nations building»

Can we really insist that our teen spend the summer working at Target when his friends are off to developing nations building water treatment plants and school buildings?

Not exact matches

The fact that Jobs led the company that developed all of them»» and built the nation's coolest retail outfit in his spare time»» is truly remarkable.

Over the next three years, it will focus on continuing to grow its massive user base, especially in developed nations, and over the next 10 years it will look to build new technology to get more people online and using Facebook through internet - beaming drones.

If the new administration is serious about its promises to restore manufacturing and fix the nation's trade deficits, it should naturally focus on helping to develop new technologies and products that we can build and export.

If Ireland skipped a step in its development, leaping from barely developed to hyper - globalized in a heartbeat, it now «has to undertake some quite oldfashioned exercises in nation building,» he argues, founding a Second Republic from the ruins of the first.

Our country's success is built on our openness to trade but we are also a nation of innovators — from Sir Frederick Banting and Charles Best, the co-discoverers of insulin, to the Montreal researchers who helped develop the revolutionary HIV / AIDS treatment known as 3TC.

Hospitals, in particular, were mission products, as were a wider range of health - care, and social - service institutions, In many — perhaps most — of the developing nations, the missions provided the base on which national programs aimed at social welfare have been built.

She will be building on the achievements of our previous Chief Executive, Mary Lewis» and will look to develop the Institution's profile, and the reputation of the industry with governments and the nation ``.

We are developing and building a nation.

«We further acknowledge the great advancement of the nation of Ghana and West Africa due to his commitment as a servant leader to build a trust, prosperous, and technologically developed nation for the people of Ghana,» the citation read in part.

The lawmaker decried the situation that Nigeria was still grappling with developing its human resources while other nations have moved ahead in modern human capacity building.

A citation from the Superintendent of the New York Ministers Network of the Assemblies of God Church, Dr. Duane Durst, recognized President Mahama for his exemplary achievements in presidential office, acknowledging «the great achievements in the nation of Ghana and West Africa due to his commitment as a servant - leader to build a just, prosperous and technologically developed nation for the people of Ghana.»

Programs that build satellites from commonly available electronics are making satellite manufacture available to developing nations.

While developing and developed nations must cooperate to build capacity, richer nations must respect the need of developing nations for self - determination.

Nations must also approach this issue from multiple angles — moving beyond investing in renewable energy to also build up efficiency and electrification efforts domestically and finance adaptation efforts for developing nNations must also approach this issue from multiple angles — moving beyond investing in renewable energy to also build up efficiency and electrification efforts domestically and finance adaptation efforts for developing nationsnations.

Still, he noted, climate negotiators are not generally experts in finance, and if nations are serious about raising big bucks to protect low - lying islands from sea level rise, to develop distributed solar generation or to do other much - needed work toward both mitigating emissions and building resilience against weather disasters, the conversation needs to shift.

Genome Canada is negotiating with two other nations to build a consortium to map the potato genome, Godbout says, and with Norway to develop a consortium in fisheries.

Even without the money to build these expensive systems, developing nations may still have another option: encourage growing populations to settle in safer areas.

Yet, even if every planned reactor in China was to be built, the country would still rely on burning coal for more than 50 percent of its electric power — and the Chinese nuclear reactors would provide at best roughly the same amount of energy to the developing nation as does the existing U.S. fleet.

Still, he noted, countries like Canada, Australia and Japan would still need to build on Kyoto with some concessions from major developing nations like China in order to extend it — another delicate discussion.

No single entity is capable of addressing the vast needs for improved climate services in these nations: for everything from projections of future sea - level rise that help planners identify places to build and develop that are out of harm's way, to maps that overlay population, infrastructure, and climate data to help decision makers target resources to areas of greatest vulnerability.

Although built by Boston Dynamics, the ATLAS project is unique in that multiple robotics teams around the nation can get their hands on one to test the extent of their programming skills in preparation for the DARPA Robotics Challenge, which «aims to develop semi-autonomous ground robots that can do «complex tasks in dangerous, degraded, human - engineered environments.

Rather than reconfigure the heritage of Nigeria or South Africa in order to tell its story of heart - shaped superpower plants, retractable bulletproof suits, and the technologies built upon the alien metal vibranium, the film shows how the world sees Wakanda, as a hidden, developing nation low on resources.

For instance, when I first began building my Superhero unit, a unit based on developing everything from origin stories to advocacy speeches presented to a mythical United Nations, I didn't think at all about the Common Core Standards until my checklists and lessons were designed and in front of my face.

They include Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson, who are using their skills and intellect to turn oil rigs into coral reefs; Nate Parker, the activist filmmaker, writer, humanitarian and director of The Birth of a Nation; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

They role - play as cartographers, policy makers, economists, and contractors to develop the infrastructure and constitution that help build a successful nation.

Mostly the plan builds on work the nonprofit has already been doing to develop what Harris said is the nation's first incubator for educational entrepreneurs and to invest in programs that bring more teachers and educational leaders to Indianapolis.

What reformers should do is develop the tools that can allow families to make school overhauls successful; this includes building comprehensive school data systems that can be used in measuring success, and continuing to advance teacher quality reforms (including comprehensive teacher and principal evaluations based mostly on value - added analysis of student test score growth data, a subject of this week's Dropout Nation Podcast) that can allow school operators of all types to select high - quality talents.

«This was a golden opportunity for the government to develop a historically rich and forward - looking curriculum, but it has become a crass bit of backward - looking, ideological nation building.»

Through the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers, states could come together and develop accountability measures that build upon the best aspects of No Child (as well as expand accountability to include the nation's university schools of education), and align with Common Core; this could include setting uniform proficiency targets and cut scores that are also benchmarked to those of NAEP in order to ensure that they set high expectations.

This presentation shares insights based on AIR's scan of states» ESSA plans across the nation and experience in providing support to building leaders through collaborative coaching to develop and sustain highly effective strategies, procedures, and protocols to ensure success for all students in their buildings.

That's why The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is building on their work to foster a network of test beds across the nation that will: focus on helping students achieve desired learning outcomes by developing personalized learning products and accelerating their adoption; put teachers and school decision - makers at the center of the shift toward personalized learning; lower risks and barriers to all parties of adopting new, potentially transformative products; and encourage the rapid development of a healthy, transparent market for highly effective learning technologies.

The School Finance Research Collaborative brought together the nation's two leading school funding research firms to develop the report, which provides the most complete data available on school funding and gives policymakers the building blocks to reform the school funding system in Michigan.

Clever move, and emblematic of the shift happening in our world where resource - and cheap labor - driven nations grow rapidly, and build up trade surpluses against the developed world.

The statistics are reported via the Asilomar Accords which were developed by a group of animal welfare industry leaders from across the nation»... for the purpose of building bridges across varying philosophies, developing relationships and creating goals focused on significantly reducing the euthanasia of healthy and treatable companion animals in the United States.»

Shelter Animals Count The Asilomar Accords — In August of 2004, a group of animal welfare industry leaders from across the nation convened at Asilomar in Pacific Grove, California, for the purpose of building bridges across varying philosophies, developing relationships and creating goals focused on significantly reducing the euthanasia of healthy and treatable companion animals in the United States.

The U.S. based group Ethical Traveler has come up with a list of ten developing nations it considers ethical destinations for 2010 travel, based on everything from promoting natural environments to building tourism industries that benefit locals.

This addition allows you to peacefully develop your nation and build a «tall» empire, whilst also giving you the tools to execute grand diplomacy.

Schlingensief's commitment to developing nations later took him to Burkina Faso, where he was awarded a concession to build an opera house, arguably his most ambitious project.

Then, with their freely - chosen support, the sky is the limit: reallocate sections of the defense budget to selective nation - building; change agricultural policy to favor sustainable home - grown food where possible in the interests of health and national security; create programs that encourage Americans to help with sanitation, agriculture and birth control in developing countries; slice away the parts of government that get in the way (thereby freeing up the budget); protect citizen and consumer's rights; strictly regulate pollution; shut down destabilizing financial schemes, and eventually earn enough respect in the world that we're not the only ones on the bandwagon.

«It may be better to some extent for a rich nation to help a poor nation develop clean energy infrastructure than to replace it's own ``... includes building designs, urban planning, appliances, etc..

Let's do a thought experiment regarding the issue of the developed nations lowering their emissions so that the developing nations can build wealth.

Developed nations are — just barely — able to build and maintain these devices with an acceptable (assuming the complete destruction of reactor units at Three Mile Island and Chernoybl are ok) level of catastrophic accidents using the quality of human resources available in the U.S. and Russia, two relatively advanced nations.

We will need to sacrifice a significant amount of profligate energy usage in order to reduce our carbon footprint to a level that will a) have a positive consequence wrt climate change, and b) allow developing nations to build some quality of life, especially in health care, education, and minimal comfort.

We want energy production technologies that make coal power plants and coal mining look ever more archaic and unfashionable so that no developed or developing nation can build another one with any pride, and so even energy companies will shut down existing plants with a sense of relief, rather than regret.

Today's meeting (you can track it via the Twitter hashtag #gnh) reflects a global build - up of this notion under other names, as an array of nations and agencies develop systems for measuring well - being that go well beyond what can be measured in dollars.

I understand their sentiment that CO2 build up attributes to developed nations and why not us doing the same.

Re # 1: What??? All the economic growth we have seen since 1950 was built on confidence that practical nuclear fusion was only 20 years in the future??? Most of the world's population growth since 1950 has been in developing nations, where most people have never even heard of nuclear fusion.

The course was jointly developed by the United Nations Institute of Training and Research (UNITAR), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and funded by the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Society, Germany (BMUB) as part of the National Adaptation Plans (NAP - Ag) Programme.

Second, to help the most vulnerable countries including small island nations adapt to climate change by building barriers against rising seas or developing drought - resilient crops.