«I do believe that we need to reduce emissions, but it needs to be done in a commonsense way that takes into account the economic and
global realities of the issue.»
- Thomas Perry, New York Times bestselling author of Forty Thieves «Few authors capture
the global realities of drug smuggling as Hoffman does in this remarkable novel - the logistics, the tensions, and the inevitable replaceability of all links in the chain.
Both films reflect the scientific and
global realities of the cold war era.
This work in its wider context is of course a metaphor for the hidden historical
global reality of child sex abuse.
Not exact matches
In 2011, I said «no» more and worked hard for four years to make my dream
of being a
global lifestyle entrepreneur a
reality.
And while the
global scope
of the attack galvanized intense media coverage, the
reality is that health care has grown increasingly susceptible to this specific kind
of malware, which demands digital payment in exchange for sensitive personal and financial patient data.
The
global tech titan's patented design would put your iPhone directly in front
of your eyes — and perhaps eventually position Apple at the front
of the virtual
reality race.
But the
reality is, women have been contributing big time to the American and
global business world for hundreds
of years.
These bitter
realities don't show up in the footnotes
of those glowing, sanitized profit statements or in the rosy accounts spewed by apparatchik economists about the «benefits
of global capital flows.»
If you think
of the assembly line in a fantastic manufacturing plant or the
global presence
of McDonald's, they both seem complex, but in
reality, they are a series
of incredibly simple functions.
With a focus on the gap between the American Dream and what is, for the majority
of people, the American
Reality, the third - annual meeting
of Clinton
Global Initiative America kicks off today in Chicago.
The new
reality of the
global mining industry is that most
of the large, high - grade mine operations located in favourable jurisdictions are getting long in the tooth.
The report said that businesses are still figuring out ways to make money off
of virtual
reality technology, a topic explored by a panel
of VR experts during Fortune's
Global Forum conference.
So the group committed to making that a
reality — working with their
Global Forum colleagues and others in the private and nonprofit sectors to fund a corps
of 750,000 community health workers in sub-Saharan Africa and other underserved rural areas
of the globe.
While the WTO rules are very valuable, they were formed two decades ago and have failed to catch up with the times and
realities of the
global economy, such as massive government subsidies that create overcapacity and competition from state - owned enterprises.
Lee Applbaum,
global chief marketing officer at Patrón Spirits, believes virtual
reality paves the way to opening up a dialogue about how most anything is intricately produced, particularly for brands that are interested in a high level
of transparency.
The relative lack
of minority employees at Twitter was particularly galling, say Luckie and Miley, because the platform had become such an important tool for the
global black community, through a vibrant and dedicated subset
of users known as Black Twitter — who speak to one another about the
reality of blackness in America and who often contribute original reporting, spreading news through ad hoc hashtag communities like #BlackLivesMatter.
Promoting other paradigms
of fighting
global jihad or making the world safe for democracy ignores the
reality that no military strategy has succeed in that far - away land.
They Care About Their Friends «In
reality, people don't want to «Like,»» Michael Pranikoff,
global director
of emerging media at PR Newswire, told the audience at the panel on social media, referring to Facebook.
This report is a direct product
of this
reality, born out
of a determined belief that behind every
global risk the world faces hides multiple opportunities to innovate and create better, more prosperous, and sustainable societies.
Behind that skepticism lie the messy
realities of combat, as well as a half - century
of global antimissile failures.
Edwards added that he believes the recession is now here (hence his «ultimate» adjective), «just as it was in the fall
of 2011 until
global coordinated easing injected trillions and masked its impact, and will manifest itself unless the
global central banks step up far more aggressively and tune out
reality once again.»
Geopolitical risk and the
reality of surging U.S. and
global oil demand sent oil on a tear to a three - week high.
The collapse
of the
global economic - political paradigm that was fostered and nurtured by neo-classical economic theories built on childish abstracts which failed to embrace the physical and mathematical
realities of existence defined by universal laws
of matter and energy.
While there are some signs
of recognition such as the Fed's reduction in its estimated neutral rate from 4.5 percent to 3.0 percent during the last 2 years, the IMF's explicit use
of the term secular stagnation in its World Economic Outlook, ECB president Mario Draghi's call for
global coordination and greater use
of fiscal policy, and Japan's indicated interest in fiscal - monetary cooperation, policymakers still have not made sufficiently radical adjustments in their world view to reflect this new
reality of a world where generating adequate nominal GDP growth is likely to be the primary macroeconomic policy challenge for the next decade.
While there's still a lot
of work to be done, we believe that the combination
of our
global ridesharing network with the cutting - edge software and hardware being built by our teams will make this vision a
reality — and we couldn't be more excited about what's next.
Ed Perks: To pick up on that theme, when we reflect on how we viewed
global markets at the end
of last year and heading into 2016, we looked at the perception versus the
reality.
The initial public outcry, coordinated
global response, and swift market pull - back caused by the tariff tantrum all foreshadow the possibility
of a similarly disturbing
reality should Trump's protectionist push turn into a series
of Mayweather - like blows.
Lost in all
of this doom and gloom is the
reality that while emerging market growth has slowed, the longer term thesis
of more individuals joining the
global middle class remains intact.
In a world where
global central banks manipulate the cost
of risk the mechanics
of price discovery have disengaged from
reality resulting in paradoxical expressions
of value that should not exist according to efficient market theory.
«With the great strides we have made in our goal to be both a Quebec and Canadian player on the
global stage, nevertheless we still have to deal with the
reality of the current business environment in Canada, which presents real challenges to a company like ours,» the engineering giant's chief executive, Neil Bruce, said in prepared comments he made to the Montreal Council on Foreign Relations Tuesday.
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of Startacus - The Self Start Society, we thought we'd better give you the heads up on this annual
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According to Leonardo Maugeri, in his December 2014 paper Falling Short: A
Reality Check for
Global LNG Exports, Australian LNG producers, to drive volume, may price on their operating costs to make their delivered prices competitive, rather than include in their price recovery
of their capital costs.
Too often, the Church fails to connect the dots and sees the oppression
of women as something far removed from our
reality: something that happens abroad as a result
of extreme political regimes, or cultural assumptions that are restricted to the
global South.
Indeed, this Enlightenment view
of nature and human nature is foundational for the industrial west (and now for everything from the
global economy to the sexual revolution), in which the over-riding objective is, in the words
of C. S. Lewis, «to subdue
reality to the wishes
of [human beings].»
The power
of knowledge, information and coqunication are increasingly the most formidable power
reality that dominates the people in the
global scale.
If the effects
of unemployment, such as poverty are a
global reality it is not an inevitability.
(c) Today there is a sense
of urgency when we talk about
global realities.
Books which give a sense
of a new age include Bede Griffiths, A New Vision
of Reality (Collins, 1989); Leonard Swidler, The Meaning
of Life at the Edge
of the Third Millennium (Paulist Press, 1992); Charlene Spretnak, States
of Grace (HarperCollins, 1991); Keith Ward, A Vision to Pursue (SCM Press, 1991); and Hans Küng, Theology for the Third Millennium (HarperCollins, 1991), and
Global Responsibility, to which reference has already been made.
How do we live with
global awareness regarding our faith and not just within the narrow mind
of our own false
realities and freedoms?
51t is easy to recognize how that
global notion
of substance, characterized by Paulsen as Isolated, fixed bits
of reality,» also holds Whitehead's thought fixed.
Where such a
reality (as spelt out in 1) does not exist, either practically or experienced as such by those living in an illusory construction
of the present («our inviolable shores» ideology) the talk
of peace tends to take on impractical («brotherhood and sisterhood
of all humankind») and essentialized («the
global village») colours.
In a time
of a
global transformation
of consciousness, the church needs to engage the world based on its radical roots in God's revelation, but informed by current views
of the nature
of reality.
Given the
reality that the 20 %
of the world population owns 85 %
of the
global resources, production is naturally geared to satisfy the interest
of the rich.
Schweiker and Shriver introduce frameworks, each based on the respect due to all people as created in the image
of God, to judge
global realities in terms
of Christian ethics.
It is important that religion does not allow its otherworldly concerns to anaesthetize people to the
reality of the
global dangers.
Girl power is an incredibly Americentric aspiration in light
of the
reality of our
global sisters.
The times are favourable to self - determination, a return to
reality, de-hijacking the «
global normative consensus» built not by real people, but by the enlightened despots
of our
global age.
Writing Searching for Sunday forced me to consider that perhaps real maturity is exhibited not in thinking myself above other Christians and organized religion, but in humbly recognizing the
reality that I can't escape my own cultural situatedness and life experiences, nor do I want to escape the good gift
of my (dysfunctional, beautiful, necessary)
global faith community.