Sentences with phrase «hand as world leaders»

For Obama, however, killing the pipeline allows him to claim aggressive action on the environment, potentially strengthening his hand as world leaders prepare to finalize major global climate pact within weeks that the president hopes will be a crowning jewel for his legacy.

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Howard Schultz, the leader of Starbucks, said on Thursday he would step down as chief executive next year, handing over to his personally selected successor the management of the company he built into the world's largest coffee business, with over 25,000 stores in 75 countries.

The two countries even did a joint rehearsal of their two leaders meeting, shaking hands, and walking around the grounds of the Demilitarized Zone using stand - ins to make sure every second was calibrated as best as possible for the world's cameras.

I know first hand of one of the world's most celebrated wealth management companies that charges clients roughly 1 % of assets each year, and then parks a great deal of the money into S&P 500 index funds with expense ratios of 1 % to 1.25 % (compared to less than 0.10 % for an industry leader such as Vanguard).

Among those attending the event were Bobby Ghosh, TIME Magazine's world editor, veterans Fahad Khan and Matt Gallagher, and Rev. Dr. James A. Forbes, Jr., of the Healing of the Nations Foundation, who delivered a healing prayer before inviting all interfaith leaders to the front of the chapel to link hands as a sign of solidarity.

So, in honor of the new addition to Team Evans, I'm joining Melinda Gates, Amy Grant, Michael W. Smith, Kay Warren, Desmond Tutu, Jimmy Carter and host of other Christian advocates in their support of an organization called Hope Through Healing Hands, and in particular the Faith Based Coalition for Healthy Mothers and Children Worldwide, which seeks to galvanize faith - based leaders and their constituencies around the issues of maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) as well as healthy timing and spacing of pregnancies (HTSP) to improve maternal health and reduce child mortality around the world.

Bill Frist, MD, is a former US Senate Majority Leader, surgeon, and chairman of Hope Through Healing Hands, a global health organization committed to improving the quality of life for communities around the world using health as a currency for peace.

This rewriting of history often goes hand - in - glove with attempts to celebrate Pope Francis's welcome stress on the divine mercy — another key John Paul II theme — by subtly reinforcing the secular world's stereotypes of Catholicism's pre-Francis leaders as hidebound, rule - obsessed reactionaries.

As some ex-Arsenal guy said: that hands of approach works if you have a locker room full of the world's best players and leaders, but that is no longer the case.

At Wisdom 2.0 in San Francisco this past February, leaders from Silicon Valley and the mindfulness community joined hands in an attempt to «discuss how to use technology more wisely,» as Tony Schwartz writes in How to Be Mindful in an «Unmanageable» World, an article for Harvard Business Review.

On the other hand we have the worlds leaders slowly moving towards a target of 2C AGW based on various levels of emmissions restraint that are -50 % to -80 % emmissions reductions by 2050 type of figures, resulting in perhaps as much cumulative emmissions by 2050 as we have had since the start of the Industrial Revolution.