Sentences with phrase «growing area of concern»

Atmos use in movies and music is also on the increase, so it's going to be a growing area of concern over the coming years.

Kevin Courtney, Joint General Secretary of the National Education Union, said: «Air pollution is a growing area of concern for members of the National Education Union.

According to the National Education Union, air pollution is «a growing area of concern» for their members.

Although the campaign is part of a larger war on cybercrime and fraud, online dating fraud was recognized as a growing area of concern.

Double the usual size, packed with stunning images and gripping fathers» tales, it introduces projects from Siberia to Sweden, Brazil to Cameroon, South Africa to Australia, and reveals the extent to which fatherhood is a growing area of concern all over the world.

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But officials and lawmakers of both parties have grown increasingly concerned with Chinese purchases in high - tech areas, like semiconductors and artificial intelligence.

One area that remains a major concern for the central bank is the growing share of uninsured mortgages, those with loan to value ratios at or below 80 per cent, which is being fuelled by higher Toronto and Vancouver home prices and tighter qualification rules for insured mortgages.

Another area of growing concern globally is the impact on financial markets of US protectionist measures.

As far as the media is concerned, this is an area where the dominant forces continue to accumulate «victory upon victory» (whether it is TV privatisation and programming, the concentration of shares, the growing commercialisation of the internet...).

Homework has long inspired strong feelings — and creative excuses — in children, but it has more recently become an area of growing concern for parents in a scholastic system increasingly focused on high - pressure, high - stakes standardized testing.

I even voted for it last time,» said Pradel, who grew concerned about the congestion in the area and the safety of the youth who would be using the park.

DEC Commissioner Basil Seggos said that while the agency encouraged the use of public land, concern over the Blue Hole — a popular swimming spot in the Catskills — had grown, as the «postage stamp - sized area» recently began drawing up to 1,000 visitors a day, resulting in new regulations.

The officials fear negative impact of the ever - growing protest on businesses in the area, as well as concerns raised by community members.

The traditional leader talked about the provision of potable water in the district that was of grave concern to the people, saying water delivery was in short supply in the district because of the growing population He further called for a senior high school to be cited at Gbentri in the East Mamprusi District and Sanguli in the Tatale - Sanguli area in order to bring secondary education to the doorstep of the people living around that area.

Most macro trends show long - term and recent improvements; but this broad «broken society» claim simply misses the areas which should be of most concern in a more forensic and accurate account; there are important issues and pressures arising from growing inequality and other factors.

This comes amid growing concerns over the safety of residents in the area.

The major concerns of the people in the cocoa growing areas are the bad roads and the lack of mobile telephone network.

No one is more concerned than the Japanese, who are surrounded by seas; about 73 % of Japan is forested, mountainous, and unsuitable for agricultural, industrial, or residential use, as a result, the habitable zones are mainly located in or near coastal areas, so much so that, there are growing concerns in Japan of the impact of climate change on their coastal surroundings, prompting the Japanese government to set up an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to undertake a study on climate change, to provide future projections of coastal erosion based on representative concentration pathway (RCP) scenarios.

Despite that, there's growing concern that the expansion of biofuel crops into new land areas could have significant environmental and economic drawbacks — something a new, nationwide study appears to confirm.

Safety continues to be a big area in which the world must be extra cautious and with online everything growing it is even more an area of concern.

About 1 million school - age children still can not go online at home and while that number is steadily reducing it remains an area of concern due to the growing assumptions that all children are now connected to the Internet.

According to the teachers» union, NASUWT, the main concern for staff in schools in all areas, is the growing pressure from «low - level disruption», which is recognised as the most common form of poor behaviour.

Despite growing concern over teachers» ability to live comfortably where they work, we know little about the systematic impacts of affordability on teachers» well - being, particularly in highcost urban areas.

Nationwide, concerns about teacher shortages and the retention of experienced teachers, particularly in certain subject areas and states, have been growing in recent years.

«I have received strong support from school districts, homebuilders and other concerned parties in the Inland Empire and Central Valley, where aging schools need upgrades and growing areas will need new, modern school construction,» Liu, D - La Canada Flintridge and chair of the Senate Education Committee, said in an email to Cabinet Report.

Over the past few years, there has been growing concern in the area that the Detroit show is losing clout, with the Los Angeles auto show becoming home to a growing number of new car debuts.

This area of growing concern to consumers and business owners alike is one that is often overlooked by their well - meaning financial and business advisors, until now.

Heartworm disease is an increasingly growing concern for all areas of Canada.

As concerns grow that many of the beachside businesses may be shut down by authorities, development in this area is growing as many seek to ensure their Plan B is in place, just in case.

Global climate change risks are high to very high with global mean temperature increase of 4 °C or more above preindustrial levels in all reasons for concern (Assessment Box SPM.1), and include severe and widespread impacts on unique and threatened systems, substantial species extinction, large risks to global and regional food security, and the combination of high temperature and humidity compromising normal human activities, including growing food or working outdoors in some areas for parts of the year (high confidence).

«There has been growing concern that switching land use to rubber cultivation can negatively impact the soil, water availability, biodiversity, and even people's livelihoods,» she says, «But this is the first review of the effects on biodiversity and endangered species, and to estimate the future scale of the problem in terms of land area.»

His view accords with that of a growing number of scientists concerned about the pursuit of «intensely political» areas of science, such as the debate over climate change, amid fears that views contrary to government policy were unwelcome.

Du Toit has been growing increasingly concerned about the international outcry, which has led to a suspension by the Zimbabwean government of all hunting - related activities in the area where Cecil was killed, and what this means for the endangered black rhino:

These include the growing concern in commodity markets on the environmental performance of ranchers and farmers; greater investment in fire control mechanisms among owners of fire - sensitive investments; emergence of a carbon market for forest - based offsets; and the establishment of protected areas in regions where development is fast - expanding.

Beyond the rise of compensation for ecosystem services, there are other signs that deforestation can be slowed, including improved fire management by large - scale landholders, growing concern in some commodity markets about the environmental performance of developers, new opportunities for sustainable development and gains in productivity, and establishment of protected areas in regions where development is expanding rapidly.

The Bay Area Seed Interchange Library (BASIL) Project is part of a growing network of concerned farmers and community gardeners dedicated to conserving the remaining genetic diversity of our planet's seed stock.

There is growing concern over the decline of fisheries and the overall health of the ocean: scientists estimate that 90 % of stocks are fished at or beyond sustainable limits, habitats like coral reefs are threatened by ocean acidification, and large areas of ocean and coastlines are polluted.

In a series entitled Growing Sustainable Biofuels over at WorldChanging, Patrick Mazza, Research Director of Climate Solutions, argues that while the recent studies do highlight areas for concern, they have also been subject to sensationalist reporting and selective quoting.

59 percent of kids in metro areas are more concerned that the Earth won't be as good a place to live when they grow up compared to non-metro kids (47 percent).

The demonstrations grew from a few concerned Burnaby residents to many hundreds of people, some from other coastal areas of BC and some from across Canada and generated largely sympathetic local and national media coverage.

But it remains concerned about the rising numbers of private hire vehicles in London — noting that the number has increased from 59,000 in 2009/10 to more than 95,000 now, and adding: «This has contributed to wider challenges for London such as growing traffic congestion, illegal parking and areas of poor air quality.»

The cities of Oakland and Palo Alto, and the Bay Area Rapid Transit board are also considering similar measures in response to growing community concern about unchecked surveillance.

The Committee notes its concerns in the findings which include the abolition of ATSIC; the continuing gap between Indigenous peoples and others in the areas of housing, employment, health and income; the continued existence of mandatory sentencing in Western Australia; the over representation of Indigenous peoples in prison, continued deaths in custody, Aboriginal women as the fastest growing prison population; and the Government's rejection of most of the recommendations adopted by the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation in 2000.8

Other areas of concern discussed include: the state's infant mortality rate, lack of widespread early screening and intervention for developmental delays, and a growing number of young children in the child welfare system.

Now, with congestion and air quality worsening, open space disappearing, and concerns growing over the abandonment of urban areas, many people are saying enough is enough.

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