Sentences with phrase «global force of»

COP 23 Special Advisor for States Regions California Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. said: «The state of Virginia is joining a global force of states, regions and cities to combat dangerous global warming.»

In just a few millennia, humanity has emerged as a global force of nature — a networked system of billions of individuals creating and sustaining an entirely new global ecology.

If there's anything more complicated than the global forces of thermal expansion, ice sheet melt and ocean circulation that contribute to worldwide sea - level rise, it might be the forces of real estate speculation and the race - based historical housing patterns that color present - day gentrification in Miami.

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The vibrant global marketplace of today, increasingly driven by daily technological advancements, is constantly forcing marketers and advertisers to evolve their strategies for achieving higher sales, and currently the most valuable skill to possess relates to content marketing.

Rudd's $ 43bn fast web gamble The global recession has forced Kevin Rudd to scrap plans for a high - speed national broadband network funded by the private sector and wager at least $ 21.9 billion of taxpayers» money to fund his election pledge to bring internet speeds into the 21st century.

Despite the massive (and, at the time of this writing, unextinguished) forest fire that ravaged parts of Fort McMurray, Alta., forced the evacuation of 90,000 residents and took an estimated 1.2 million barrels of daily capacity — 1.4 % of the global supply — offline, it has been quick to resume operations, even while the town remains deserted.

My guess is that one of these problems will cause a more pronounced problem in the global economy in the coming years and force real change.

He said the journals, Global Witness and Fatal Transactions, had highlighted that violent rebel forces were, in many cases, financed by profits from diamonds, oil and agricultural products and had accused the diamond industry of inaction on the issue.

China's Chengdu J - 20 stealth fighter has just officially entered active service with the People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF): «China's latest J - 20 stealth fighter has been officially commissioned into military service, Ministry of National Defense spokesperson Wu Qian told global media in a September 28, 2017 press release on the Xinhua.net and the official state defense media website.

For years, home - sharing giant Airbnb has had a quiet side project involving asking its hosts to offer temporary housing — for free — to displaced people, citizens forced out of their homes due to natural disasters and other emergencies or, increasingly, the global refugee crisis.

«It's about being better connected with the knowledge of the world and democratizing forces,» says John Lagerling, director of global partnerships for Android.

In the days to come the Fed will have to prove that a new set of tools for managing interest rates will work as expected; see how higher U.S. rates affect domestic and global financial conditions; and hope that weak world demand and commodity prices do not lead to an overall bout of deflation and force the Fed to reverse course.

The survey of 16,000 people in 15 countries highlights the changing global retirement landscape as economic pressures and longer life expectancy force people to work longer.

«After achieving its historic opening weekend at the global box office, Star Wars: The Force Awakens continues to thrill audiences and break records in Imax theatres worldwide,» said Greg Foster, CEO of Imax Entertainment.

A wearable technology company founded by Perth entrepreneur Justin Miller and an Israeli medical cannabis company are the latest businesses planning to join the rush of backdoor listings on the ASX, though the news is not all positive with Voyager Global Group becoming the seventh company forced to cancel an announced deal in the past 18 months.

«Boards need to spend a bigger proportion of time looking forward to where global forces are moving their markets,» says Wiseman.

BAE recently showed off a prototype of an armed robotic combat vehicle, or ARCV, at the United States Army's Global Force Symposium in Huntsville, Alabama.

At Google, perks such as free lunches and the 20 % rule (where workers spend 20 % of their time on personal passion projects) have helped it recruit and retain enough top talent for the company to become a global force in just 10 years.

According to the Deloitte Millennial Survey, millennials will constitute 75 percent of the global work force by 2025.

The global WannaCry cyber attack in May highlighted the vulnerability of medical systems when it caused major disruption to X-ray machines and other computer equipment in Britain's National Health Service, forcing hospitals to turn away patients.

Indeed, when one ponders the changes that the global economy has had to digest over the past 25 years, from the fall of the Iron Curtain to the flowering of the Internet - based economy to the entrance of 1.3 billion Chinese into the labor force, it would be surprising if the effects weren't felt by American workers.

The killing of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri has catapulted the quiet, yet steady, militarization of police forces across the U.S. to global attention.

It's a global cultural force with roots back as far as can be traced, and the rise of blogs and social media has expanded the audience further than ever before.

In addition, she was one of the forces behind Darden's partnership with 1776, a global incubator located in Washington, DC.

The velocity of the move will be based on the movement of the dollar in conjunction with other major global currencies; A fast move higher in the U.S. dollar will force the price of crude lower quickly (crude is denominated in dollars globally) and force selling by those who need capital.

Now, thanks in part to Kuwabara's leadership, KPMB has grown into a global force, winning major international bids and becoming a leading exporter of a particularly Canadian brand of design thinking.

Regardless of your feelings about them, these people will account for 75 percent of the global work force by 2025.

On Monday, the company announced a new vice president of operations and technology: Tina Bhatnager, who has spent the last five and a half years at Twitter, where she helped scale the company's customer service team from a basement operation to a global force.

Since taking the reins of the group in 2010, he has transformed it from a local branch of al - Qaida into an independent transnational military force, positioning himself as perhaps the pre-eminent figure in the global jihadi community.

The corporate headquarters of the new global company will be in Canada but, despite much speculation about the possible tax benefits of such a deal, Behring said taxes weren't a motivating force for the move.

The gradual shift to a strong culture of individualism and self - betterment, the role of technology in driving the transition from boardrooms to basements, the more global and interconnected markets that require greater specialization, flexibility and speed, as well as small - business friendly demographic trends are among those forces that are likely to support a net creation of 150,000 new businesses in Canada in the coming ten years.

That sort of promotion of global enterprise provides the driving force for the Business without Borders project, which will roll out over the next year in the pages of this magazine, in The Globe and Mail and online (bwob.ca).

Megatrends, per Bradford's PowerPoint, «are global, sustained, and macroeconomic forces of development that impact business, economy, society, culture, and personal lives, thereby defining our world and its increasing pace of change.»

At US urging, and with backing from Britain, France and Germany, a global financial watchdog, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), last month decided to place Pakistan back on its watchlist of countries with inadequate terrorist - financing controls, potentially hurting Pakistan's fragile economy.

Carrie Rich is the force behind many of the founders profiled here: She's CEO and co-founder of the Washington, DC - based nonprofit The Global Good Fund (GGF).

«Irreversible structural forces,» including a strong culture of individualism and self - betterment, technology, global markets and small - business - friendly demographics, mean the next decade will see this startup wave continue and accelerate:

«They don't have the money to support us, and the pressure to continue [growing coca] is fierce,» a community leader in the isolated southwest municipality of Tumaco — a global hub for coca — said in late 2016, after a deadly clash between state security forces and farmers protesting efforts to destroy their coca.

«But at the end of the day they could, because of this global growth surge, the central banks including the Fed could very well be forced to hike... faster than the market expects,» he explained.

«The 21st Space Wing, using its global Space Surveillance Network of ground - and space - based radar and optical sensors, is tracking Tiangong - 1,» Diana McKissock, a flight lead with the US Air Force's 18th Space Control Squadron, told Business Insider in an email.

«This work will encourage responsible energy exploration and production, in order to advance the United States» position as a global energy force and foster security for the benefit of the American citizenry.»

China, long dismissed as a copycat and pirate of technologies invented elsewhere, is fast emerging as a driving force of global innovation.

Derek Thompson of The Atlantic interviews Economist columnist Ryan Avent about his new book on how technology is reshaping the global labor force.

That some of the forces governing capital flows and asset values are driven not by market - determined expected return but by policy measures directed at, for example, an exchange rate objective means that at least some of what we observe in global capital markets may be attributed to these distortions.

As I said at last year's Forum, the emergence of Asia as a major force in the global economy has shifted world relative prices and this underlies many of the changes that are occurring in the Australian economy.

What was not stressed was that the main source of global inflation was the United States, whose war in Southeast Asia had created a budget deficit and forced the world off gold.

A global map published by the company shows users» movements and is said to expose data about bases and personnel, including those of U.S. forces in Iraq and Syria.