Sentences with phrase «for extreme efforts»

But I do not see the need for extreme efforts that will lead to industrial destruction and control over our lifestyles.

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And although they seem to be making efforts to address complaints, the same can't be said necessarily for the new batch of lenders, where interest rates on loans can be exorbitant, and repayment terms extreme.

The company recently started a sponsorship program for extreme - sports athletes and hired a former top Red Bull marketing executive, Paul Crandell, to head the effort.

Truly exceptional CEOs are driven to extreme effort by passion for the particular project they're working on.

A performing arts program for teens in foster care, service dogs for children with disabilities and a global effort to help children in extreme poverty are among the 27 charities that will receive a $ 25,000 grant as winners of the Upstanders Challenge.

Action: Approach VPNs with extreme caution Who is this for: All web users — unless free Internet access is not available in your country How difficult is it: No additional effort Tell me more: While there may be times when you feel tempted to sign up and use a VPN service — say, to try to circumvent geoblocks so you can stream video content that's not otherwise available in your country — if you do this you should assume that the service provider will at very least be recording everything you're doing online.

In addition to calling your representatives, consider attending a town hall, writing letters the editor of your local paper, connecting with the local Democratic Party to help with voter registration efforts and to challenge voter suppression / gerrymandering, and (because it's becoming painfully obvious that progressives have ceded local politics to the extreme right for too long), running for office or helping a better candidate get the job.

A society that is almost enamored by social innovation for innovation's sake faces in virtual helplessness a situation that requires — not for the sake of a traditional national interest but for the survival of civilization, if not of mankind itself — an extreme effort of bold, innovating imagination.

I have been sorting, packing and cleaning like a mad woman (hence the extreme lack of posting, due to an extreme lack of cooking) as we have been trying to prepare our house for going on the market and making a cross country move and I just didn't feel like putting a lot of effort into my breakfast but I knew it still needed to be healthy and delicious.

Woods provided 27 goals in 44 league outings for the Peacocks last term, but despite his extreme efforts, the Yorkshire club missed on the playoffs owing to a patchy form in the dying stages of the campaign.

When arranging staff housing Mount Snow makes every effort to consider location and proximity to the MOOver route, however staff should be prepared for walking moderate terrain and possible extreme weather conditions.

On a positive note his liberalisation efforts, which include finally allowing woman to drive and promises to shift towards a more moderate Islam, are a much - needed step in the right direction for a Kingdom where extreme and reactionary implementations of Islamic laws have for far too long restricted and repressed the basic rights and freedoms of its people.

«Leading efforts to reduce extreme poverty, food insecurity, and preventable deaths with initiatives such as Feed the Future and the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.»

Given the extreme inconvenience and disruptions caused by the prolonged outage and the dearth of information to 60,000 of its customers, a partial refund of a few dollars for the day is more insult to injury than a good faith effort to make customers whole.

Next, they developed a list of measures to evaluate the five factors they believed should account for the changing levels of concern: extreme weather events, public access to accurate scientific information, media coverage, positions of political elites and efforts by advocacy groups.

«The responses of fish species to extreme weather events will need to be considered when planning management strategies to ensure efforts are appropriately targeted to maintain key population segments and critical evacuation routes,» said Dave Secor, the study's co-author at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science's Chesapeake Biological Laboratory.

Longer, hotter fire seasons where extreme fire behavior has become the new norm, as well as increased development in forested areas, is dramatically driving up the cost of fighting fires and squeezing funding for the very efforts that would protect watersheds and restore forests to make them more resilient to fire.

In an effort to understand how extreme weather causes structural damage, four Japanese organisations — the National Institute for Land and Infrastructure Management (NILIM), the Building Research Institute, the University of Tokyo and the Disaster Prevention Research Institute at Kyoto University — have been developing a tornado simulator.

As for whether the world's recent extreme weather was made worse by human influence, that answer likely won't be available for years — and only if a research effort similar to the one that analyzed the 2000 U.K. floods is undertaken.

But the U.K. Met Office (national weather service), the U.S.'s National Center for Atmospheric Research and other partners around the globe aim to change that in the future by developing regular assessments — much like present evaluations of global average temperatures along with building from the U.K. flooding risk modeling efforts — to determine how much a given season's extreme weather could be attributed to human influence.

Science, business, and other groups are weighing in on an Australian Senate effort to assess the country's readiness for extreme weather.

And the National Sea Grant College program pays for university - based efforts to shore up coastal economies and communities against the ravages of climate change and extreme weather.

Noah Diffenbaugh, a senior fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University, said the new analysis represented a «valuable step» in attribution work, a field of climate science that's developed in the past decade in an effort to understand the role of climate change in specific extreme events.

We're also gathering anecdotal information, noting shortcomings in the system for assisting individuals, so we can use that in our ongoing efforts to educate and mitigate accessibility issues in these extreme situations.»

«Hurricane Harvey has presented extreme and unique challenges for the city of Houston and the surrounding areas in Southeast Texas and Louisiana, warranting an unprecedented response effort, including that by local industry.

The research concentrates on the interplay of ecology and geography, as well as the expansion of military advancements and forecasts that choice for ultra-social institutions that allow for mutual effort in large groups of genetically unrelated individuals and large - scale sophisticated states, is better where warfare is more extreme.

The scale may budge for a second yet extreme efforts always end up harming.

There's no denying that during the short work out the calorie burn is extreme, and for individuals who have type II diabetes or are pre-diabetic, the body's reaction to stop insulin resistance or even roll it back is a powerful additional bonus that will only help all other weight loss efforts from managing appetite to other workouts.

When we're low in any one of these because we are following any kind of extreme diet that doesn't work for the body — our appetite will scream at us in an effort to have its nutrient needs met.

Don't go to any extremes, try to get a feel for it first and practice some moderation before attempting max effort.

Easy to blend, this foundation makes for a cool makeup base that can restrain extreme weather Since it has a thick consistency, blending requires some effort.

A threshold at either extreme is likely to be irrelevant for large schools, since they are unlikely to experience such large swings in performance regardless of their efforts.

For those of you familiar with Malcolm Gladwell's research in the book Outliers, you may have heard that it takes 10,000 hours of practice / effort / research to demonstrate extreme proficiency in an activity.

James Perse — High end designer and animal advocate, James Perse, collaborated with The Animal Recovery Mission with a Limited Edition shirt in it's efforts to raise funds for investigations into extreme animal cruelty.

Extreme Sheepdog Trials HD Edition is the iPad version of UK based developer Green Custard's take on shepherding for iDevices and «extreme» couldn't be more appropriate as your sheepdog goes from paddock to spaceship in an effort to keep those sheep under control.

Every year the Canadian HR Awards search all across Canada for businesses that show exemplary efforts made in Human Resources; and it comes with great pride for us to announce that Digital Extremes has received The Halogen Software Award for Canadian HR Team of the Year for 2014.

Back in 2010, France was named hosts for the finals of the first 24 - team tournament and has put extreme efforts into ensuring that the event will be sustainable and socially responsible.

In order to foster international cooperation, it is also essential that the United States rejoin the global community and lead efforts to secure an international treaty at Copenhagen in December of next year that includes a cap on CO2 emissions and a global partnership that recognizes the necessity of addressing the threats of extreme poverty and disease as part of the world's agenda for solving the climate crisis.

For anyone wanting more detail on efforts to clarify such questions, a superb resource is the batch of presentations given at a 2010 Paris workshop on research methods in assessing extreme events.

Related In case you missed it last week (as I did), Christiana Figueres, the head of the United Nations office facilitating the climate treaty negotiations, made some pretty inept efforts in a Guardian interview to cite extreme weather patterns in making the case for action on greenhouse gases.

Also see Hansen et al. (2011) and Rahmstorf and Coumou (2011) for efforts to quantify the increased frequency of extreme weather events, and the IPCC SREX for an overview of the subject.

n a fresh effort to generate fervor for a far - reaching new global climate agreement, a U.N. agency is releasing videos featuring «imaginary but realistic» weather reports set in 2050, to illustrate the type of extreme conditions it predicts we will face by mid-century.

Building on previous efforts, this three - day workshop will use the outcomes to guide synthesis efforts, coordinate on - going research to fill out key gaps, and provide specific recommendations for accelerating scientific progress — with the aim to improve our understanding and predictability of 1) high - to mid-latitude climate variability on subseasonal - to - seasonal and on interannual - to - decadal timescales and 2) climate extremes.

In terms of the implications of climate change for soil conservation efforts, a significant realisation from recent scientific efforts is that conservation measures must be targeted at the extreme events more than ever before (Soil and Water Conservation Society, 2003).

In a recent post, after reviewing the extreme Arctic warming event of late 2015, Professor John Baez quotes an earlier interview with Dr Gregory Benford, who is arguing for a geoengineering effort to restore the frozen Arctic.

Released as officials from 190 countries meet in Durban, South Africa for the 17th UN Summit on Climate Change to discuss the future of international efforts on climate change, the study is just the latest to argue a growing urgency for slashing emissions in the face of rising extreme weather incidents and vanishing polar sea ice, among other impacts.

This report discusses our current understanding of the mechanisms that link declines in Arctic sea ice cover, loss of high - latitude snow cover, changes in Arctic - region energy fluxes, atmospheric circulation patterns, and the occurrence of extreme weather events; possible implications of more severe loss of summer Arctic sea ice upon weather patterns at lower latitudes; major gaps in our understanding, and observational and / or modeling efforts that are needed to fill those gaps; and current opportunities and limitations for using Arctic sea ice predictions to assess the risk of temperature / precipitation anomalies and extreme weather events over northern continents.

AHMEDABAD (March 11, 2014)-- Building off of last year's successful launch of South Asia's first - ever early warning system and preparedness plan for extreme heat events, the Indian city of Ahmedabad, along with the Indian Institute of Public Health, Gandhinagar and partners, is developing the 2014 Heat Action Plan to continue its pioneering efforts.

This report uses examples provided in the literature to illustrate the potential connections between extreme climate events and abrupt climate change, and highlights the need for a focused research effort to explore these climate events with high societal consequences but low probability.

Turn Down the Heat: Climate Extremes, Regional Impacts, and the Case for Resilience (Read it in Issuu, Scribd, Open Knowledge Repository) takes the climate discussion to the next level, building on a 2012 World Bank report that concluded from a global perspective that without a clear mitigation strategy and effort, the world is headed for average temperatures 4 degrees Celsius warmer than pre-industrial times by the end of this century.