Sentences with phrase «growing international efforts»

It is part of a growing international effort to understand the Martian climate and to use its atmosphere to determine whether the planet is or ever was friendly to life.

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With the White House ramping up efforts to derail the ambitions of Chinese tech companies in the U.S., electronics giant Huawei said it would increasingly look to Europe to grow its international market share in high - end devices.

The progress on both deals is a sign that Canada's efforts to diversify its international trade portfolio have paid off in the face of growing uncertainty with its top trading partner, the United States, said Pickerill.

President Vladimir Putin is contemplating an effort to repair relations with the west as sanctions and growing international conflict obstruct...

To overcome production constraints through collective research efforts, the first planning meeting of the Temperate Rice Research Consortium (TRRC) was organized by the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) at Suwon, Korea, on 2 - 3 May 2007 with the participation of scientists from 12 temperate rice - growing countries.

According to a growing number of Arsenal transfer rumours, the summer transfer window looks likely to see a determined effort to sign our England international midfielder Jack Wilshere from at least one Premier League rival Man City.

There is growing pressure for international efforts to be directed at ensuring peace negotiations in Geneva.

The World Health Organization Global Network of Age - Friendly Cities and Communities began as an international effort to help communities prepare for a growing aging population.

HMS Cumberland, Britain's contribution to the international effort acting against the growing piracy problem in the region, was attempting to apprehend a dhow when the incident took place.

The growing effort by universities in Australia, the United Kingdom, and Canada to attract international students may have also contributed to the U.S. decline, says Peter Syverson of the Council of Graduate Schools.

Instead of trying to change its stripes, Kamen suggested, NSF should leverage its money by supporting efforts like FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology), a student robotics competition Kamen began in 1992 that has grown into an international extravaganza through corporate backing.

The nonprofit IVI grew out of the Children's Vaccine Initiative, a 1992 effort by several international organizations to stem the scourge of childhood diseases worldwide.

In 2004, these early principles were tried out by students during a synthetic biology competition, now known as the International Genetically Engineered Machines (iGEM) contest, an effort that grew out of Endy's and Knight's labs.

The IBPGR is now coordinating an international effort to grow the Somalian seeds in order to obtain large quantities of new seeds.

Despite national and international efforts to reduce anthropogenic emissions, growing concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide will yield planetary warming and associated impacts for the foreseeable future.

In the past decade, the rapid spread of aggressive strains of yellow rust, and the emergence and spread of Ug99, have demonstrated that only combined, international efforts may solve or reduce these serious problems, which are threatening the daily bread supply in many wheat growing areas in Asia and Africa.

Coordination between NASA and the NSF can be advantageous because (1) the sheer scale of many modern astronomical investigations requires a coordinated national, if not international, effort; (2) the enormous increase in technical, computer, and Web - based capability reduces the barriers to cooperation; and (3) the growing sophistication of researchers» investigations implies that coordination across wavelength bands and across disciplines is required to produce a deeper and more fundamental understanding of the objects and processes under study.

Second, there is growing international interest in, and demand for, the assessment of a broader range of skills and attributes than those addressed in most current assessment efforts.

The outcome of our past efforts is a predominance of high - quality suppliers exhibiting at Pet Fair Asia, boosted by the competition with a fast - growing proportion of international brands and manufacturers coming from Europe, Japan, India, Latin America, etc..

Along with the locally organized Hong Kong International Contemporary Art Fair, Art HK 08 is part of a growing effort to entice international galleries and collectors to the island - city, which has become the third largest art auction market in recent years after New YorInternational Contemporary Art Fair, Art HK 08 is part of a growing effort to entice international galleries and collectors to the island - city, which has become the third largest art auction market in recent years after New Yorinternational galleries and collectors to the island - city, which has become the third largest art auction market in recent years after New York and London.

«Julia has been a relentless innovator and pioneer, and in the process has created the very blueprint for all the marketing efforts that are now necessary to effectively run and grow a large - scale, international art gallery», David Zwirner wrote in an email to staff.

In recent e-mail exchanges he alerted me to a building protest effort in Nepal following an announcement in September by the United States Agency for International Development that it was teaming up with Monsanto and Nepali agricultural agencies to promote the benefits of high - yielding hybrid corn varieties and to train Nepali farmers how to grow such crops.

«We show that, despite international efforts to reduce CO2 emissions, total remaining commitments in the global power sector have not declined in a single year since 1950 and are in fact growing rapidly,» their paper says.

In Issues, a pioneer in geoengineering has laid out the framework for a comprehensive US research plan, saying it should be part of a coherent climate policy agenda that includes vigorous support for climate science, increases efforts to cut emissions, helps the most vulnerable populations to adapt, develops negative emission technologies, and renews a commitment to growing international governance on climate matters.

Global methane emissions are growing rapidly, and according to international experts, the surge is threatening the world's efforts to fight climate change.

The groups are shifting their funding efforts away from carbon - based fuels amid growing international awareness of climate change.

For the next decade — as the emerging science was becoming increasingly robust, and as international efforts to curb heat - trapping emissions gained steam and calls for action grew more urgent — the company persisted in emphasizing the lingering uncertainties of climate science and the costs of ambitious policies, the documents show.

Released as officials from 190 countries meet in Durban, South Africa for the 17th UN Summit on Climate Change to discuss the future of international efforts on climate change, the study is just the latest to argue a growing urgency for slashing emissions in the face of rising extreme weather incidents and vanishing polar sea ice, among other impacts.

In this context, «learning by doing» at pilot - scale facilities (see Figure 3) and through targeted international collaboration is particularly important in the next decade as part of a broader effort to ensure that necessary expertise is grown to facilitate effective global rollout of CCS in the longer term.

In an effort to determine whether the need to know about foreign or international law is growing, we also asked about the frequency of need to know foreign and international law more than five years ago.

Shovein was recognized for her efforts and leadership within the State Bar of Michigan's Intellectual Property Law Section, various International Trademark Association (INTA) Committees, volunteer efforts for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, as well as her successful and growing practice.

According to Steves, the value of the blockchain technology market is also growing due to international remittances — the sending of payments overseas is currently estimated at half a trillion dollars per year — «fat protocol» layers that increase in value as the applications grow, and throughput scaling efforts, such as the Lightning Network, which «appear on track to deliver scaling that accommodates higher transactions / second, ultimately driving higher utility and network value.»

The term, infant mental health also describes an expanding field of study and practice that has grown into a broad - based multi-disciplinary and international effort to focus on the social emotional well - being of infants and toddlers (Heffron, 2000).