Sentences with phrase «failed states where»

As Roger Short of the University of Melbourne writes in the introduction, «The inexorable increase in human numbers is exhausting conventional energy supplies, accelerating environmental pollution and global warming, and providing an increasing number of failed states where civil unrest prevails,» among other faults.

Two failing states where overpumping and security - threatening water shortages loom large are Pakistan and Yemen.

Not exact matches

Some are likening Michigan State to Penn State University, where three senior officials, including the school's president, were sentenced to jail last year for failing to tell authorities about a sexual abuse allegation involving coach Jerry Sandusky.

Establishing a business is a challenging feat in the United States, a place where eight out of ten businesses fail in the first 18 months.

The result of all this is that fully one third of humanity is situated in countries where «failed state» conditions exist, and increasingly, those voids are being filled by Islamist extremism, with all its book burning, homosexual hanging, and adulteress burying.

Plaintiffs and investigators question why the U.S. Olympic Committee, USA Gymnastics and Michigan State University, where Nassar also worked, failed to probe complaints about him going back years.

«Seeing Islamic State celebrate victory in the villages where our friends bled or died fighting the insurgency... makes many of us wonder if our war was for nothing, that perhaps we failed,» he wrote.

That places us in a state of flux, where our willingness to grow and change will decide whether we fail and stay stuck or we make progress through the conflict.

In many states, including North Carolina where Kelly practices, it is a crime not to report child abuse, so you could be arrested for failing to report.

I happen to live in Britain where the welfare state, despite its obvious failings and inadequacies (to which reactionaries are always calling attention), has had and still does have as its chief concern the provision to everyone of those absolute necessities that are required if the citizens are to lead better, healthier, and more satisfying lives because they have been delivered from nagging fears and worries about illness and old age and much else that can be so dreadfully threatening to them.

Obviously the State failed to prove their case or Zimmerman would be exactly where I believe he should be... in jail.

However, it's not a trick question (as stated in first response), but a trick answer... Not saying you do this, but sometimes I think people get too caught up in the intellect and fail to meet people where they are.

The only game they failed to cover was the opener against Idaho State where the Sun Devils closed -20.5 and won 94 - 74, off by just a half - point or else they'd be a perfect 9 - 0 ATS this year.

Ohio State failed to notch a first down in a scoreless first quarter, which set the tone for a game where every inch of yardage seemingly would cost a pint of blood.

Companies are only subject to legal sanctions for failing to abide by the Code where it has been incorporated into the legislature of a nation state.

There's a drought in the Horn where the rains have failed for the second year running, a crisis in Zimbabwe, a new state to be built in South Sudan, piracy off the coast of Somalia, and International Criminal Court investigations in Kenya.

Lazio got the Republican nod at the convention, where Democrat - turned - Republican Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy, who was backed by state GOP Chairman Ed Cox, failed to get onto the ballot.

In some cases, this might involve finding ways to fill in and provide services where the state has failed.

In a situation where the state has failed and armed groups proliferate, events on the ground could escalate in such a way, which no doubt is one of the factors prompting the speedy assertion of Russian military control in Crimea.

I give credit where credit's due; Gaddafi did an awesome job, and Libya is flirting with status as a failed state, with refugees drowning in the sea.

The public accounts committee warned that officials at the Department for International Development had failed to lay out their plans for mitigating against malpractise in the fragile states where the UK's aid budget is to be spent.

Not only could Akamai automatically fail between them without the end user noticing, but we had a system in place where we could choose which states used which system proactively.

Notably, unlike the UK which suspended elections during WWII, the US has never failed to hold an election every two years for federal office (although Union govt elections were suspended in the Confederate states where Confederate election were held instead, until the states were readmitted to the union).

De Blasio failed to notch any notable victories this year at the state level, where he dispatched top aides to help Democrats reclaim the State Senate, but saw most of his preferred candidates defeated by double digit marstate level, where he dispatched top aides to help Democrats reclaim the State Senate, but saw most of his preferred candidates defeated by double digit marState Senate, but saw most of his preferred candidates defeated by double digit margins.

400,000 students, or approximately 15 percent of all students in New York State attend nonpublic schools, providing an important educational alternative in virtually every corner of New York State — and especially so in communities where the existing public schools are failing.

De Blasio's endorsement failed to tip the scales in state Senate District 19 (Canarsie, Brownsville, Mill Basin, East New York), where he stumped for Dell Smitherman in his challenge to Sen. John Sampson.

Sen. Jack Martins (R - Mineola) said that as the state has fast - tracked the project, it has failed to provide essential information, such as where construction would begin, how the new track would be aligned, how it would affect LIRR service, and how close it would be to homes along the 9.8 - mile path.

After the governor's proposals to elevate the threshold of adult criminality to 18 years and to create a special monitor to review cases where a grand jury decides not to indict a police officer for killing a potentially unarmed civilian failed to make headway in the State Senate, Mr. Cuomo rolled out a pair of executive orders.

Failing to do so is not an option, as it would shamefully leave New York as one of only two states where 16 year olds are charged as adults and would perpetuate bad outcomes with increased likelihood of youth re-offending and decreased public safety.

Cuomo should invite him to tag along — and then drop by a few of the 371 New York City public schools where 90 % or more of the pupils fail to meet minimal state standards in reading and math.

State lawmakers where able to agree on $ 52 million in pork - barrel grants, but failed to renew mayoral control of city schools.

The split in the SPD is exemplified in another western state — Hesse — where local SPD leader Andrea Ypsilanti narrowly failed to oust CDU premier Roland Koch in elections in January, leaving the state legislature without a clear majority and Koch in power at the head of a caretaker administration.

While Lord West's review has found no systematic failings in our procedures for checking potential suspects, it has highlighted the importance of enhancing existing cooperation to share more information between police and immigration services and internationally across countries: - within the EU to enable British law enforcement authorities to access immigration information on existing EU databases; - bilaterally with other member states to mutually exchange information; - and joining up criminal records databases throughout the EU so that our authorities can quickly identify individuals charged with crimes, no matter where in Europe they are convicted.

This year, Mr. Cuomo left the fight to the post-budget legislative session, where the measure passed the Democrat - dominated Assembly but failed in the State Senate, which is controlled by the Republicans and the breakaway Independent Democratic Conference.

Anthony J. Picente Jr. said «It has been only two days since Governor Cuomo was in Herkimer announcing that the State would step up where the federal government had failed to do so.

400,000 students, or approximately 15 percent of all students in New York State attend nonpublic schools which provide an important educational alternative in virtually every corner of New York State — and especially so in communities where the existing public schools are failing.

The new government ran into immediate trouble, failing to trigger the COBRA emergency committee for the Grenfell Tower fire disaster, where the initial state response had compounded the catastrophe.

-- The Office of the State Comptroller said the Jersey City Municipal Utilities Authority increased sewer and water rates over an eight - year time period, a time where it had multimillion budget surpluses, after failing to conduct yearly financial reviews.

The judge held that the evidence cited by the prosecution failed to prove that governors who attended a meeting on March 15, 2010 in Warri, Delta State, where another blast occurred, were also intimidated.

See British Rail as a key exemplar where the state took over a failing essential industry where private capitalism had failed.

He was said to have been rushed to the Critical Care Unit of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja, where efforts to revive him failed.

Sani - Bello said this in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, in Kaduna where he also claimed that the All Progressives Congress, APC, administration in the state had sidelined the people and failed in giving them hope.

If we fail to get it right in this state, I don't know where we are going.

In terms of ship building, we wouldn't even be able to provide a raft for people to go to because we will have failed to get ballot access in crucial states and will have lost ballot access in states where the CP is ballot qualified because we will have not provided a presidential candidate.

«He sees limits on what the voluntary sector, social enterprises and community groups can do... Gordon Brown looks at area where the state has failed and thinks the answer is more state intervention, more of the same.

Steve Kornacki, MSNBC political correspondent, shows Rachel Maddow the dynamics of the voting in Virginia where Democrats took the top state offices and flipped many state delegate seats as Trump - style campaigning failed with suburban Republicans and

«The people have spoken tonight and they have been loud and clear,» said Cuomo, who has vowed to succeed where 2006 gubernatorial winner Eliot Spitzer failed, insisting he'll grapple with the state's notoriously intractable legislature without using «Steamroller» tactics.

Former Governor of Anambra State, Mr Peter Obi has kept mum over recent news reports where he was said to have failed in his bid to...

In June, Mr. Cuomo signed an executive order granting Attorney General Eric Schneiderman jurisdiction over cases where a police officer kills a civilian who may have been unarmed, after the State Senate failed to support his proposals for an independent monitor to investigate such situations.

The federal government ought to respect the truth that marriage is the union of one man and one woman, even where states fail to do so.»