Sentences with phrase «efforts at conflict»

Itegboje said Nigeria had consistently been in the vanguard of supporting and participating in international efforts at conflict - prevention, peacekeeping, peacebuilding and sustaining peace both sub-regionally, regionally and globally.

Not exact matches

«A hiring freeze at the FDA would conflict with and do significant damage to these bipartisan efforts to fill vacant positions and expand the scientific and technical workforce needed for a robust review of drugs and medical devices,» wrote Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

At the United Nations, Russia said the U.S. - led strikes would complicate U.N. efforts to broker a political solution to the conflict in Syria.

We can applaud the courageous perseverance of Assistant Secretary Phyllis Borzi and her team at the Employee Benefits Security Administration, as well as the efforts of many professional organizations and consumer groups, for bringing the «conflict of interest rule» this far.

In effect, many of the basic economic and ideological conflicts of the country were built into the commission from the outset, and the process of writing a report inevitably became an effort at consensus building.

Bernanke publicly acknowledged this week a policy conflict with the Treasury over its move to lock in low borrowing costs, which is working at odds with the central bank's efforts to lower long - term interest rates.

The conflict must continue until the secular and religious groups arrive at a compromise which accepts the best in both points of view, but this will require a sustained effort to liberalize the popular concept of Islam.

So we worked for months on a cover story looking at the conflict in the Holy Land — why it's happening, peacemaking efforts, the (forgotten) story of the Church there and the eye - opening narratives our generation has to grapple with.

By understanding the powerful and often conflicting forces at work as you take on fatherhood and a family, you'll increase your prospects for pulling through and coming out the other side a stronger man, with a stronger marriage, and a family that makes all your efforts and sacrifices incredibly worthwhile.

Lamb's 2009 effort in Afghanistan was no spectacular success like in Iraq and probably came too late, at a time when the foreigner's urge to extract themselves from the conflict was already far too apparent.

While some members of Congress — including Pruitt's fellow Oklahoman, Representative Frank Lucas (R)-- have said the current system creates at least the appearance of a conflict of interest, critics of Pruitt's approach warned that it could undercut efforts to keep the agency's work grounded in top - notch research.

Corine Wegener, cultural heritage preservation officer for the Smithsonian Institution, said that organizing an international research community to study the primary causes of damage to cultural heritage in times of conflict will be critical to intervention efforts in Syria — a goal to be discussed at the September 19 meeting.

He worries that missing that opportunity to make crucial contacts could jeopardize his team's efforts to fight the disease in conflict - laden regions of the country at its border with Ethiopia and South Sudan.

Highlighted by yet another excellent audio commentary by writer / director Craig Brewer, the single - disc effort also includes a making - of featurette («Conflicted»), a behind - the - scenes look at the filming of the «Black Snake Moan» musical sequence, and another on the film's musical influences («Rooted in the Blues»).

Following Kronk's conflicted efforts to finish off the task, Kuzco winds up alive at the home of Pacha, his pregnant wife ChiCha (Wendie Malick), and their two hyper children.

We can resolve conflict with force rather than persuasion, because in the short run at least, it is always possible to conquer with violence, but peaceable solutions take time and effort.

And while conversations about agent - publishing in the USA were somewhat curtailed at that time amid concerns about conflict of interest, Ed Victor's effort in London, like Scott Waxman's in New York, moved ahead.

While at UCSB, she participated in conflict resolution efforts related to fishing, oil development, and marine mammal interactions.

At the current rate of deforestation, the country could be a desert within 20 to 50 years, according to the Armenia Tree Project, which has been working to rebuild and revitalize the nation and its people, one seedling at a time.Villagers uprooted during the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan are among the beneficiaries of the group's environmental effortAt the current rate of deforestation, the country could be a desert within 20 to 50 years, according to the Armenia Tree Project, which has been working to rebuild and revitalize the nation and its people, one seedling at a time.Villagers uprooted during the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan are among the beneficiaries of the group's environmental effortat a time.Villagers uprooted during the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan are among the beneficiaries of the group's environmental efforts.

The intersection of biological and abiotic resources of interest is likely to guide identification of any «last refuge», and without at least considering those potential areas of conflict, such an effort seems fraught with difficulty.

That EPA letter certainly played a part — as did sustained grassroots advocacy efforts, exposes on conflicts of interest between State and the pipeline's profiteers, and relentless debunking of false jobs and energy security promises — in the State Department's move to punt the decision for a year, take a fresh look at the proposals, and go back to the drawing board to create a new supplemental environmental impact statement.

Maladaptation or greenhouse gas mitigation efforts at odds with local priorities and property rights may increase the risk of conflict in populations, particularly where institutions governing access to property are weak, or favour one group over another (Barnett and O'Neill, 2010; Butler and Gates, 2012, McEvoy and Wilder, 2012).

On a previous visit, Empowered by Light also helped install solar power at tourist towers that allow visitors to stay in the park overnight, generating income for conservation projects and for people - protection efforts designed to minimize conflicts between villagers and wildlife.

But the good news for tropical forests was tempered by developments including Indonesia announcing its intentions to open up more than 2 million hectares of carbon - dense peatlands to old palm development; the collapse in law enforcement in Madagascar, contributing to an explosion of commercial timber (and lemur) harvesting in that country's spectacular rainforest parks; a breakdown at the RSPO meeting over efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from palm oil production; violent conflict in Peru between government security forces and indigenous groups over land rights and resource extraction; massive foreign land acquisitions in the Congo Basin; dodgy REDD dealings in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea; and large - scale expansion of oil palm agriculture in the Amazon.

Carly Oboth of Global Witness said: «Questioning the enforcement of supply chain due diligence requirements puts the US at odds with global responsible sourcing efforts and undermines a critical requirement of the Conflict Minerals Rule.

At the center of efforts to bring down greenhouse gases — efforts that must involve the world's two highest - emitting countries — aren't just issues of politics and security, but the curious conflicting desires of both of

Although she stepped down from her position at the International Crisis Group on June 30, under Arbour, its efforts toward the prevention of deadly international conflicts, including publishing approximately 90 reports and briefings annually to help recommend policies that will create peace in targeted regions, has become much more well known.

My departure was greatly assisted by the lawyer at the client, who worked to have his company consent to my joining a firm where there would otherwise have been a serious conflicts problem; I know he understood why I was leaving, and I know he had to make real efforts internally to get that result.

«Empowerment Voice» is exhibited in an actor possessing, at various degrees of capacity, an ability to command the institutional form and language of the power structural arrangements in which the conflict arises, sufficient to effect long term distributive concessions, sometimes permanent, however, like Protest Voice, actors engaged in Empowerment Voice are unlikely to achieve reconstruction of the power structural arrangements, instead they are more likely to engage in an effort to preserve the existing power structural arrangement to maintain perceived socioeconomic advantage, or to be unable to identify how the power structural arrangements might be reconstructed in a way that does not perpetuate the underlying source of conflict, namely the imbalances of inclusion and equity resulting from the hyper - segregated hierarchical power regime.

«If they really made a concerted effort at understanding the other person's perspective, or reframed the conflict in a more positive or lighthearted way, those strategies were protective,» she says — regardless of whether they'd lost sleep the night before.

At the time, we had no idea if mediation would work, especially with high conflict couples, but our beginning efforts were generated by a growing realization that there must be a better way for divorcing families to get through this most difficult time of their lives.

Thus, through the efforts of its proponents, mediation has become widely adopted as a process for dispute resolution, but at the cost, some would say, of healthier and deeper conflict resolution.