Sentences with phrase «greatest challenges facing our nation»

One of the greatest challenges facing our nation is the increasing stronghold that family income has in determining college attainment.

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Over this century our nation's economic output and standard of living has increased greatly, but the United States also faced many different challenges — ranging from the Great Depression of the 1930s to the Great Inflation of the 1970s and most recently the financial crisis.

According to The Times newspaper Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta said after meeting with Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu: «Kenya and Israel, just like other nations of the world, are facing the challenges of terrorism and today was a great opportunity to discuss ways of dealing with the issues.

In a YouTube video introducing his book, Most Revd Sentamu said: «One of the greatest challenges that faces our nation has to do with income inequality.

«Today, our nation still faces great challenges, but this last decade has proven once more that, as a people, we emerge from our trials stronger than before,» Obama said in a statement Friday.

New York's Republicans have tackled not only the great challenges facing the Empire State, but led the way in forging new solutions that would help our nation grow.

«The former Vice President identifies nation - building as the greatest challenge facing the country at this present time because Nigerians still need to improve the way they relate to one another, adding that there is the urgent need for the people to begin to see themselves first as Nigerians, rather than one ethnic group or the other.

5) We face great challenges as a nation and I believe I can still make a difference serving in the United States Congress.»

«The solution to many of the greatest challenges faced by our nation will depend to a large degree upon advancements in the fields of science and engineering.

This is likely the greatest peacetime challenge that the United Nations and its agencies have ever faced.

The Mission's initial roll - out is a major step in the UN's expanding effort to tackle what World Health Organization chief Dr. Margaret Chan has declared to likely be «the greatest peacetime challenge that the United Nations and its agencies have ever faced.»

For the next 25 years, Dockterman tested and created dozens of educational programs, among them the award - winning Science Court, an animated television show that aired on ABC Kids that taught the fundamental concepts of elementary and middle school science; the Great Ocean Rescue, a computer application where students face four challenging rescue missions that take them deep into the world's oceans; and Decisions, Decisions, a game that teaches students the complexities of topics like immigration, the constitution, environment, or building a nation through role - playing and informed discussion.

The struggle to desegregate America's schools while ensuring equal educational opportunities for students of all races is one of the greatest social challenges the nation has faced over the last half century.

«The greatest challenge facing Kosovo — which declared independence from Serbia two weeks ago — may not be opposition from Russia and Serbia, but may come from Western environmental groups opposed to mining what The New York Times on March 5 called the nation's «vast amount of minerals.»