Sentences with phrase «global movements during»

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During the last decade, you can see this profound flavor change in what I call a «local to global market movement.»

During the decade of the 1990's, the Innocenti Declaration provided momentum for the global breastfeeding movement, particularly in launching the Baby - Friendly Hospital Initiative and strengthening implementation of the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes.

During the current global financial crisis, and through the Occupy movement, public attention has increasingly turned to the top 1 per cent who now own approximately one fifth of all personal wealth in the UK.

Van Avendonk mentioned this problem during a casual conversation with Joshua «Bud» Davis, a Ph.D. student in UTIG's plate tectonics research group and co-author, who said that the group could investigate both of the explanations using computer models of plate movement since the Jurassic and a global database of hotspots.

Artists, architects, researchers and filmmakers explored global infrastructure and the movement of people, things and information during An Evening on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

Together, these artists and movement represent the astounding burst of artistic genius that emerged in Italy during the post-war era, a microcosm of the wider reach of the global art world.

This exhibition tells another story: from Latin American to Asia and from Europe to the Middle East, see the global response to the art movement during the 60s and 70s.

In his comments, Gore equated the fight against global warming to a religious - based, moral crusade similar to the civil rights fight, women's suffrage, and the abolitionist movement during the Civil War era.

During his distinguished tenure, he has tripled its membership, broadened its influence, and cemented its role as a leading voice in the global sustainability movement.

A submission made to this Review by Andrew Montford and Tony Newbery (both active in the anti ‐ global ‐ warming movement, and the former the author of The Hockey Stick Illusion: Climategate and the Corruption of Science) devotes much of its content to criticising not the data on temperatures but the membership of a BBC seminar on the topic in 2006, and to a lengthy discussion as to whether its Environment Analyst was carrying out BBC duties or acting as a freelance during an environment programme at Cambridge University.

In a 2009 study, the authors used GPS measurement to correct for local vertical movement of the Earth at key tide gages, finding a «global rate of geocentric sea level rise of 1.61 ± 0.19 mm / yr over the past century» Their study shows no acceleration and no changes in rate during warm or cold periods of the last 110 years.

He was writing about the drug war and whether Obama will address that global crisis during his second term and framed the question in the context of the gay rights movement and the many successes it has achieved during the past four years.

In a first for the global cryptocurrency movement, Sierra Leone has tested out voting on the blockchain during last week's presidential election, and the milestone has implications for the rest of the world.

Four physiological measures were obtained from each spouse during the first session's baselines and interactions: (a) heart rate, measured by the interbeat interval (IBI); (b) pulse transmission time (PTT) to the finger; (c) skin conductance level (SCL); and (d) general somatic activity (ACT), a global measure of bodily movement.