Sentences with phrase «global race for»

Andrew Watts — Letters to the Editor — Welland Tribune — August 30, 2012 Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty is winning the global race for economic disaster hands down.

Patrick Barta, «Jatropha Plant Gains Steam in Global Race for Biofuels,» Wall Street Journal, 24 August 2007; «Shell Boosts Stake in Iogen Cellulosic Ethanol,» Reuters, 15 July 2008; FAO, State of Food and Agriculture 2008 (Rome: 2008), p. 47.

It's time to put America back in the driver's seat in the global race for clean energy jobs and technology.

Despite the dramatic rise in Internet users, new technologies have contributed to a global race for knowledge (see Mark Malloch Brown and Richard Jolly's Human Development Report, 1999), which has enticed resource rich countries to add technological pursuit of knowledge to their goals, while developing countries remain poorly connected.

«We are at risk in the global race for leadership in innovation,» FCC chairman Julius Genachowski said recently.

«The global race for the clean energy economy is on.

According to ex-President John Agyekum Kufuor, in view of the global race for development, a Ghanaian president, needs time to implement his programmes and also plan the economy.

He has argued that in view of the global race for development, a Ghanaian president needs time to implement his programmes and also plan the economy At International Society for African Philosophy and Studies (ISAPS) conference on the theme «Democracy Justice and Development in Africa: 50 Years after Independence», former president Kufuor criticized the framers of the Constitution for failing to undertake adequate research before deciding on the duration for Presidency.

«We know we are in a global race for our economic future so we are backing our businesses, seeking new markets and banging the drum for Britain to show we are a first - class destination for trade and investment.»

The global race for AI chip dominance heats up: We're seeing a Cambrian explosion of applications for artificial intelligence, from recognizing faces in videos for security purposes to detecting diseases in medical images at scale.

Not exact matches

According to the terms of the partnership, Lego manufactured Shell - branded gas stations and racing cars in exchange for the oil giant making those products available through its global network.

That's not exactly NASCAR money or Formula 1 prestige, but for ESPN the deal offers an opportunity to get in on the ground floor of a growing new competitive sport — as well as to influence which emerging drone racing league becomes the sport's preeminent global organization.

Since the 2008 debut race, the event has generated S$ 150 million in tourism receipts every year on average, except for 2009 at the height of the global financial crisis.

** Three global companies are in the race to buy a stake in leading Turkish health insurer Acibadem Sigorta, sources familiar with the matter said, underscoring appetite among international investors for the fast - growing sector.

These gifts combined with a free university education to so many people for whom there were then no appropriate jobs, as well as a civil war, led to the failure of the experiment failed, but in a time when it is clear, at least to me, that global pursuit of more and more wealth is suicidal for the human race, I think it would be worthwhile to study such efforts.

It seems likely that for several generations, indeed, for the foreseeable future, the global economy will continue the current «race to the bottom,» moving production to those places where labor is cheapest and most docile.

Huntington, for example, contends that «far more significant than the global issues of economics and demography are problems of moral decline», an «increase in antisocial behavior», decay of family structures, weakening of the «work ethic», and decreasing commitment to intellectual activity.12 Similarly Brzezinski refers to a current global crisis of spirit which has to be overcome if the human race is to regain some control over its destiny.

Tribalism was an asset for human societies before globalization, but its persistence now constitutes a threat to the future race, if it prevents the evolution of one global society.

In a post — Cold War, post-9 / 11 world strewn with conflicts involving competing religious postures and contradictory global views, where supposed divisions on lines of race, culture, and faith are loudly promoted and violently exploited, the example of past wars fought in pursuit of religious idealism has proved seductive for some seeking false assurance from continuity with history.

There was no global flood, the entire human race didn't come from two people in a garden who ate a fruit and got kicked out, there is no archaeological evidence of an exodus of over 1 million Israelites coming out of Egypt and wandering the desert for 40 years.

Since the demand exists for so much information transfer, developed nations are racing to construct the global interconnected networks to carry the data load.

Global private equity firm Carlyle Group is inching closer to making a final decision about whether it should join the race for Treasury Wine Estates.

We were sitting two seats below Monaco fans sitting laughing and taking the piss, and no one seemed to think that that's wrong, I've been to away grounds to watch Arsenal sat in the home team stand and respectfully stay quiets if we score, as a punch in the mouth often offends, I'm amazed at our home games, so many people who don't even speak English and seem to treat the game as a Sunday afternoon tea party, where are the old Arsenal fans born and bred Arsenal, I'm all for a multi cultural look but let's not lose anyone in the race to become global.

OddsShark aims to become the global authority for online sports betting odds, whether it be in sports betting, poker, casino games or horse racing.

With no global championships to aim for in 2018, double Paralympic champion Richard Whitehead has set himself a new challenge of doubling up in the longer sprints and racing over 400m as well as 200m this year.

Taken together this is a revolution in the sources of finance for upgrading Britain's infrastructure and equipping Britain to win in the global race.

Patel told the Daily Telegraph in 2013: «A long - term strategic assessment is required, including the consideration to replace DfID with a Department for International Trade and Development in order to enable the UK to focus on enhancing trade with the developing world and seek out new investment opportunities in the global race.»

This is why I believe that the creation of the 99 % as a related group with global reach, superseding but not ignoring the old lines of class, race and gender, is our single greatest hope for a future political, social and economic organisation worthy of its constituents.

Countries which focus on purely national strategies will create a «race to the bottom», he warned, as he emphasised the need for American leadership on crafting the framework of rules to ensure global recovery from recession.

«For him the global free market equates to a race to the bottom with the gains being shared among a smaller and smaller group of people,» said Osborne in his 2013 Tory conference speech.

He and his team rolled out the global race narrative at his October party conference speech, and for the first time since the Big Society, the PM and his advisers in No 10 felt they had a key message.

«Next week in Fermanagh, we will show the world an increasingly outward looking Northern Ireland, that is open for business and focusing on the steps it needs to take to succeed in the global race,» Cameron said.

«Taken together this is a revolution in the sources of finance for upgrading Britain's infrastructure and equipping Britain to win the global race.»

David Davis [Minister for Leaving the EU] said the UK wanted to lead a «global race to the top» in rights and standards not, as some feared, a «competitive race to the bottom».

For him the global free market equates to a race to the bottom with the gains being shared among a smaller and smaller group of people.

Alasdair Reisner, CECA director of external affairs, said: «If we are talking about a global race, we are giving our competitors a ten yard head start and that can't be sensible for our economy.»

The Tories have been talking about the «global race» for a few years now — but Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt's unguarded comments have revealed that it's a global race to the bottom.

So I urge you to ensure the unity and stability of the Yoruba race within the territory of Nigeria, interface with the Yoruba inside Africa continent and network the Yoruba in the Diaspora for global collaboration in the areas of cultural integration, skills development, mental enrichment and social interaction.

Governor of Osun State, Rauf Aregbesola, has said he wants the Aare Ona Kakanfo - designate, Otunba Gani Adams, to unite the Yoruba race all over the world for «racial global collaboration».

Meeting this challenge is imperative if Britain isn't to fall behind in the global race, for while the Western economies have stalled in recent years, the emerging economies such as India, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Brazil, Mexico and Turkey have been surging forward.

That shiny, white product, which turned out to be the Powerwall, will be a great addition to Tesla, said Tillemann, the author of a «The Great Race: The Global Quest for the Car of the Future,» due out this year.

«We need a planning process that is equal to the scale and complexity of the challenge, rather than continuing to depend on piecemeal efforts that put wildlife species and human communities at higher risk in the face of global pressures like climate change and a race for resources.»

Given the nature of the challenges the country faces in global economic competitiveness, energy, and health, the President will call for the U.S. to surpass its record investment in research and development, set in 1964 at the height of the space race, exceeding three percent of GDP.

The RBC Race for the Kids in Chicago is one of RBC's global initiatives focusing on the needs of children, and was established as part of RBC's commitment to creating a culture of integrity and social responsibility.

But gene banks are more than just a global backup system for the next time the human race accidently deletes an important file.

While experiments have raced ahead at a breathtaking pace, the likelihood of global spread once released into the wild may prove a formidable barrier to deployment due to the need for international public support, field trials, and subsequent regulatory approval.

But it's also notable as the first Disney release to come out explicitly against a program for global race war — or to admit that a character could argue for that program seriously.

As mankind teeters on the verge of global war, Banks and the team race against time for answers — and to find them, she will take a chance that could threaten her life, and quite possibly humanity.

Geostorm: When the network of satellites designed to control the global climate starts to attack Earth, it's a race against the clock for its creator to uncover the real threat before a worldwide Geostorm wipes out everything and everyone.

As mankind teeters on the verge of global war, Banks and the team race against time for answers.