Sentences with phrase «from areas of conflict»

Biggs» work has taken her from areas of conflict in the Horn of Africa to Mars (as a crew member of one of Mars Desert Research Station's simulation missions).

Not exact matches

Conflict diamonds are defined as those which originate from areas under the control of forces in opposition to elected and internationally - recognised governments.

Part of his work with the YPO Peace Action Network is to connect members from conflicting areas of the world in order to seek out resolution.

Across the country from Quintana Roo, the idyllic resort area of Los Cabos, in the municipality of the same name at the southern tip of Baja California Sur, drug - related conflict has continually pushed homicides to new levels.

The outcome of a war will not only lead to a sharp escalation in human casualties and displaced families, who have yet to come to terms with the death and destruction from the conflicts in Iraq, Yemen and Syria, but the region itself may no longer be the landscape it currently is as most countries in the area will struggle to recuperate from the large - scale devastation caused by a war.

Unfortunately, Leontine's story is far from uncommon in areas of conflict.

Our difficulty in speaking about cross-cultural principles of right and wrong is compounded by the fact that international organizations, from the United Nations to the World Court, are fragile and nearly helpless in many of the most critical areas of conflict.

When you experience conflict in your marriage, try these steps as a way of interrupting the negative cycle: (a) Clarify, in your own minds and with each other, what you aren't getting from the marriage (e.g. affirmation, affection, sexual satisfaction), (b) Concentrate, not on the areas in which your needs are mutually exclusive or contradictive, but on the «areas of overlap» (20) of your two need systems.

You can expect within the first 100 days of his presidency that he will curtail immigration from conflict - prone areas of the world in some way and make moves to begin building a wall along the Mexican border.

It is important to remember that non-relating or conflict in the spiritual area frequently occurs even between spouses from the same religious tradition, but who have basically different value systems and world - views derived from their respective families - of - origin.

How we get from that to conflict is my area of interest.

As with all areas of co-parenting, operating from a place of respect establishes a good foundation and models how to sort through conflict constructively for your children.

The process seemed to be abnormally long (up to 3 days and 3 nights) in the areas where opposition enjoys strong support, and was marked with constant conflicts, strange power cuts in the polls and international observers or observers from opposition parties not being let into the polls at all: all symptomatic of possible attempts to alternate the results and change the voting papers.

A recent workshop in Stockholm brought together work as varied as West European attitudes to Eastern Europe from the eighteenth century to 1989, Israeli students» knowledge of the Palestinian areas of the country, the conflicting mental maps of 20th century Lebanon, mental maps of Europe based on quantitative evidence from surveys of European and extra-European students, and comparative work on mental maps in the Baltic and Mediterranean regions.

Legislative committees, specifically assigned to various areas, do the research, with assistance from the executive branch, debate often - conflicting points of view at public sessions, and typically offer consensus recommendations to the full body.

The agency recently drew criticism for failing to flag potential conflicts of interest in Percoco's financial disclosure form, including substantial payments he reported from the Syracuse - area firm COR Development while on leave from the government.

He promised to turn the fortunes of the district from a conflict ridden area into a business center.

Production of tantalum from conflict areas has since fallen by 75 per cent.

Giraffes are at risk from the expansion of farmland to feed a rising human population and from killings for their meat, often in areas of conflict such as South Sudan, according to the IUCN, which groups scientists, governments and activists.

And because US electronics companies — the biggest buyers — are going elsewhere, the price of minerals from such conflict areas has dropped by two - thirds, making them less appealing to rebel groups as a source of funds.

That order of sea level rise would result in the loss of hundreds of historical coastal cities worldwide with incalculable economic consequences, create hundreds of millions of global warming refugees from highly - populated low - lying areas, and thus likely cause major international conflicts.

On top of that, if you're open to constructive criticism from your partner (which is crucial to resolving conflict), you'll become aware of weak areas in your character that you may not have recognized on your own.

Many dating singles have a lack of communication in the area of conflict - resolution because they're too busy thinking about their argument response rather than listening from the heart.

Tom Gjelten covers issues of religion, faith, and belief for NPR News, a beat that encompasses such areas as the changing religious landscape in America, the formation of personal identity, the role of religion in politics, and social and cultural conflict arising from religious differences.

We group students based on an area of need ranging from academic to personal and social, such as conflict resolution, stress management, and self - management skills.

Internal layout of play equipment areas should aim for prevention of conflicts between: • Moving equipment (e.g. track glides) and running children; • Play traffic (e.g. from a slide, out of a tunnel) into the path of other activities; • Quiet play (e.g. sand pits) and boisterous games (football match); and, • Active, boisterous groups (late primary ages and older) and «littlies» and pre-schoolers.

In areas recovering from conflict or natural disaster, it may be of an emergency nature and thus not explicitly aligned with broader Ministry of Education goals and strategies.

The idea of locating discipline problems in areas beyond the individual student, such as trouble at home, conflicts with peers, or disengagement from academics, is critical to improving school culture.

From that required secret, I feel Cait's transparency in other areas of her life get muddled and because of that, she sets on a course of struggle and internal conflict that ends up affecting other areas of her life.

Another sense of assurance customers get is the pledge by both companies that they offer conflict - free diamonds — meaning, they will not sell diamonds that come from an area of the world known for human rights violations, environmental destruction or rebel - backed war zones, among other crimes.

At the height of the wars, it was estimated that about 4 % of the world's diamonds were from conflict areas.

We offer free consultation with one of our experts to resolve neighborhood community cat conflicts, along with information about humane deterrents to keep cats away from areas where they are unsafe or unwanted.

Aside from completing missions you can also venture into the Global Conflict area or do a wide range of side activities within the city.

According to the Art Newspaper, the International Alliance for the Protection of Heritage in Conflict Areas (Aliph) has so far raised $ 75m of a planned $ 100m, most of which has come from France, the UAE and Saudi Arabia.

Diebenkorn's Bay Area figurative years from the mid 1950s through the mid 1960s marked a shift from the artist's early abstractions and set him apart from the prevailing movement of the time and many of his contemporaries, for whom the movement of abstraction was thought to be in direct conflict with figuration.

The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, is planning on making the French capital a safe haven for cultural heritage objects from areas across the globe threatened by armed conflicts.

In Robbery in Area A, Khalili points towards a whole series of cases — from the clearly defined criminal to others in which the criminal may be a state official — in which the colonial conflict in Palestine is being used by a number of individual, corporate and state agents for their own financial benefit.

Titles such as TCOM KUWAIT and DURAND LINE reference aerial military surveillance and conflict areas; others — ALPHA ANDROMEDAE, TIAMAT, PANGEA ULTIMA — are borrowed from constellations, ancient mythologies, and a potential supercontinent of the distant future.

There are enormous issues managing these burgeoning populations and spreading urban areas — ranging from managing garbage, sewage and water to resolving conflicts when millions of informal settlers are pressed by waves of gentrification, as my students chronicled in a Rio de Janeiro hillside settlement last spring.

So perhaps these neo-environmentalists are just going to have to finally make a choice between their conflicting goals of «saving» the Planet from CO2, «saving» the «pristine» or «wild and senic» areas, «saving» the Pacific Northwest Salmon, and so on.

Farmers abandoned their homes — school enrollment in some areas plummeted 80 percent — and flooded Syria's cities, which were already struggling to sustain an influx of more than 1 million refugees from the conflict in neighboring Iraq.

Additionally, to aid the evaluation of the impacts of the proposed withdrawal of the lands encompassed by the SEZs from potentially conflicting uses, a mineral potential report has been prepared for the proposed SEZs in each of the six states in the study area.

Through this process, the groups representing broad interests from local town officials and chambers of commerce to the Department of Defense and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, sought to identify the areas that balanced high suitability for wind development and potentially conflicting uses, such as artificial reefs, areas of high boat traffic, military activity, and areas of high bird activity like Cape Romain National Wildlife Refuge and around Winyah Bay.

As climate change makes vulnerable parts of the world more susceptible to weather - related problems, people move from an afflicted region to neighboring areas, bringing them into conflict with the existing populations.

That order of sea level rise would result in the loss of hundreds of historical coastal cities worldwide with incalculable economic consequences, create hundreds of millions of global warming refugees from highly - populated low - lying areas, and thus likely cause major international conflicts.

The IPCC has already concluded that it is «virtually certain that human influence has warmed the global climate system» and that it is «extremely likely that more than half of the observed increase in global average surface temperature from 1951 to 2010» is anthropogenic.1 Its new report outlines the future threats of further global warming: increased scarcity of food and fresh water; extreme weather events; rise in sea level; loss of biodiversity; areas becoming uninhabitable; and mass human migration, conflict and violence.

She stepped on one of the many landmines that remain from violent conflicts in the area.

So if these characteristics sound familiar, whether you're separating from a high - conflict person or you have a high - conflict person in another area of your life, this episode is for you.

Family law is a unique species of civil law for many reasons, but primarily because of: the frequency with which disputes brought to court concern social, psychological and emotional issues rather than legal; the almost complete absence of circumstances in which a specific legal conclusion invariably and inevitably results from a particular set of facts; and, the range of other areas of the law that may be concurrently applicable, such as contracts, tax, conflicts, real property, negligence, torts and trusts.

He adds: «Clients are increasingly looking for firms which, alongside a network of contacts, can offer conflict - free advice and assistance on deals and operations across Francophone Africa in a wide range of legal practice areas, from employment to banking and finance, property to pensions.