Sentences with phrase «great global concerns»
Since that time, while many internal divisions persist, the United Church of Canada has been able to get on with other things, including great global concerns of social justice that must have a certain priority over personal morality and church polity.
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Steven Wood, CFA, founded GreenWood Investors in late 2010 based on core beliefs that great retruns are generated through a concentrated global portfolio of special situations and deep value opportunities, and can not be generated by being overly concerned with month - to - month returns.
The views of a visiting pope, respected by Catholics and many non-Catholics alike as a moral and spiritual leader of great prominence, will not make persons now unconcerned about global warming suddenly begin to grow concerned, nor even make skeptics of religious freedom begin to take its claims more seriously.
Consumers» concerns about rising health care costs, a focus on preventative care and a greater desire for balance and wellness are just a few of the factors contributing to global nutraceutical sales, expected to reach $ 278.96 billion by 2021
Although increased global concern about the environment is largely focused on single - use plastics at present, the importance of sustainable design will play a much greater role in all packaging decisions; returnable and 100 % recyclable glass, with its well - established collection infrastructure across Europe, is well placed to provide customers with fresh options for all their food and drink products.
As a global citizen concerned with infant health, I noted with great appreciation your statement on the occasion of the 2005 World Breastfeeding Week indicating UNICEF's continued commitment to the implementation of the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes.
«This gives the global community great concern about the commitment of Nigeria to the anti-corruption drive.
It's an exciting and unique discovery that has great global commercial potential to resolve some of the most challenging human health and food concerns facing us today.»
«They confirm that the scale of the illegal wildlife trade — including trade in plants — is much greater than we had previously thought, and that wildlife trafficking concerns many more species than the charismatic rhinos and elephants which tend to receive global attention.
«Although the results of this study cause us a great deal of concern» said Ekwoge Abwe, coauthor of the study and manager of San Diego Zoo Global's Ebo Forest Research Project, «we are encouraged that it highlights the importance of the proposed Ebo National Park where we have been conducting a long - term and ongoing research and conservation program geared towards the protection of primate species and the reduction of the bushmeat practices that directly affect them.»
Lead author Dr Helena Legido - Quigley, Lecturer in Global Health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, said: «Our analysis is the first to look at the overall impact of austerity measures in Spain on the healthcare system and the findings are of great concern.
William M. Gray wrote... I judge our present global ocean circulation to be similar to that of the period of the early 1940s when the globe had shown great warming since 1910, and there was concern as to whether this 1910 - 1940 global warming would continue.
In the paper Gray makes many extravagant claims about how supposed changes in the THC accounted for various 20th century climate changes («I judge our present global ocean circulation conditions to be similar to that of the period of the early 1940s when the globe had shown great warming since 1910, and there was concern as to whether this 1910 - 1940 global warming would continue.
Still, the greatest news concerning this potent form of protein come from a pool of new scientific data that dubs whey protein as one of the most promising tool in the global fight against certain forms of cancer, especially prostate and colon cancers.
As the global marketplace makes economic competition and concern about career prospects far more acute, the NCTM's call for a greater concentration on critical thinking is a timely one.
• A great book for anyone interested in education or who thinks schools should produce students that are intellectually and socially confident, work - place and life - ready with a global outlook and a concern for others
Clearly, religious organizations have long sponsored missionary and humanitarian efforts in the developing world in ways far more extensive than educators have done.So often these have been inspired by women, making me wonder why concern for global poverty has become a gendered activity.In their important book, Half the Sky (2009), (required reading for Ghana participants), authors Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl Wu Dunn argue that the lack of global attention to the plight of women is the greatest, challenge in the world today.
C. M. Rubin's global education report from Latin America, Canada, Africa and China This past month in The Global Search for Education, I talked to global education leaders working at the frontiers of their fields to gather new perspectives on some of our greatest concerns in education global education report from Latin America, Canada, Africa and China This past month in The Global Search for Education, I talked to global education leaders working at the frontiers of their fields to gather new perspectives on some of our greatest concerns in education Global Search for Education, I talked to global education leaders working at the frontiers of their fields to gather new perspectives on some of our greatest concerns in education global education leaders working at the frontiers of their fields to gather new perspectives on some of our greatest concerns in education today.
To the extent Global Warming is concerned it is the greatest issue confronted by our planet that is the reason we are here with a mission to advance eBooks.
Speaking today at London's World Travel Market, the leading global event for the travel industry, Ufi Ibrahim, chief executive of the British Hospitality Association, said the idea was one «that gives great concern».
Moving beyond any single medium or trend, Displacement offers nuanced, thought - provoking perspectives on a project of great social, environmental, and global concern.
Moving beyond any single medium or trend, Displacement offers nuanced, thought - provoking perspectives on an issue of great social, environmental, and global concern.
Also, as you know, my much greater concern is with the paper's (The New York Times, the paper) coverage of the matter, i.e., global warming.
It's noteworthy (and great news) that all three of the candidates, mentioned above, say that they are seriously concerned about global warming, and all three support some form of carbon «cap - and - auction» or «cap - and - trade» system, or carbon tax.
The Union of Concerned Scientists; Citizens and Scientists for Environmental Solutions, / / www.ucsusa.org, offers great information for all aspects of our global challenge ahead.
It's great to see the Union of Concerned Scientists offering nonpartisan criticism of elected officials for distorting — in both directions — what's known about the role of human - driven global warming on several fronts, from tornado ferocity to hurricane losses.
You confuse polls Measuring public concern with global warming (which varies according to a great many factors and critically depends on how you phrase the question, as Krosnick has shown)-- with public support for strong climate action.
«The threat to global salamander populations from a new fungal strain is very real and of great concern to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,» Laury Marshall Parramore, a spokeswoman for the wildlife agency, wrote in an email.
The threat to global salamander populations from a new fungal strain is very real and of great concern to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Your colleague Thomas Friedman is one of the most respected and influential people in the world, and he has for years expressed great concern about the global warming problem.
The individual I speak of here is self - described «concerned citizen» Dave Rado, the person I've detailed over the past 4 blog posts as being someone beset with problems surrounding the official complaint he filed in 2007 over the UK Channel Four Television Corporation video «The Great Global Warming Swindle.»
Even though this series of blog posts concerns a prominent complaint filed in 2007 against the UK Channel Four Television Corporation video «The Great Global Warming Swindle,» my objective is to show how a thorough analysis of any given accusation about skeptic climate scientists being «paid industry money to lie» shatters the accusation to bits no matter where the hammer strikes.
Extinction of plant and animal species and global warming are of great concern to just over a third of Americans.
And they are pursuing this agenda despite global warming again being dead last in the latest Gallup poll of 15 issues of greatest concern to Americans: only 25 % say they worry about it «a great deal,» despite steady hysteria; 24 % are «not at all» worried about the climate.
The recent dramatic losses of thousands of honey bee colonies due to colony collapse disorder (CCD) and other causes [6], [7] has not only created great concerns in the scientific and agricultural community but has also highlighted the ever increasing risk of future crises in the global food supply due to our sole dependence on single pollinator species [8].
The people of Earth need fresh water and we all need to be more concerned about having more of it, even it takes more energy to make it or having to listen to the fearmongering of Leftist opinion - makers like Obama and Kerry who claim respectively that, «no challenge — poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change,» and, that global warming is, «perhaps the world's most fearsome weapon of mass destruction.»
Nevertheless, these rates concern times with much greater ice volume than today, and with intense global climate fluctuations.
While climate change is the greatest threat, there are many other threats that, if we do not reverse them, could cause the collapse of our present global civilisation; yet far more people are concerned with beliefs that are entirely without evidentiary support than are trying to move the World toward sustainability.
I don't tend to write much about this, but my concern over global warming is based, to a great extent, on the losses in biodiversity that will inevitably result from climate change, even at rates that don't greatly damage human economic activity in general.
On the other, you acknowledge that, despite a great deal of press attention, «global warming» still ranks at the very bottom of voters» concerns.
«The world's greatest natural icon and largest living structure needs our help more than ever, and unless we act as a concerned global population, nothing will be done,» he concluded.
Chief among those is what policy makers will actually do with a document that voices concern over climate change with even stronger language than before, and with greater resolution on predictions about global sea - level rise.
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The great concern of scientists today is that the potential global temperature changes projected over the next century approach those that took place 252 million years ago.
It remains one of the greatest ironies of the environmental movement that those most concerned with global warming, like Ms. Collard, are opposed to nuclear energy, the only non-greenhouse gas - emitting power source that can effectively replace fossil fuels while satisfying Canada's growing demand for energy.
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters)- Researchers and officials concerned about global warming have focused on oil usage, but scientists on Wednesday said liquefied coal could have a greater affect on global climate change.
In a 2007 report, the Union of Concerned Scientists described the GMI as a «clearinghouse for global warming contrarians» funded by Exxon Mobil Corporation and employing the same strategy formerly used by the tobacco industry, repeatedly attacking the science behind the theory and insisting that there was actually a great deal of uncertainty and disagreement among scientists.
WITHOUT a shadow of a doubt, the greatest scientific hoax ever perpetrated against mankind is that human's modern life (including your sandwich) is causing catastrophic «climate change» or «global warming» or «climate disruption» or «climate breakdown», depending on the day and the activist concerned.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Public concern about global warming is evident across all age groups in the U.S., with majorities of younger and older Americans saying they worry about the problem a great deal or fair amount.
That's Why the Cause of Global Warming is a Fundamental Concern If global warming is only part of a greater climatic fluctuation, perhaps partially influenced by human activity, then there is less need to address human - caused carbon emisGlobal Warming is a Fundamental Concern If global warming is only part of a greater climatic fluctuation, perhaps partially influenced by human activity, then there is less need to address human - caused carbon emisglobal warming is only part of a greater climatic fluctuation, perhaps partially influenced by human activity, then there is less need to address human - caused carbon emissions.