Sentences with phrase «in serious conversations»

Likewise, the CDC is engaging in serious conversations about how the industry can continue to mitigate the impact of future outbreaks.

«Sex and the City» actress Cynthia Nixon is in serious conversations about jumping in to Democratic gubernatorial primary race in New York, setting off alarm bells in Gov. Andrew Cuomo's orbit.

The «Sex and the City» actress is in serious conversations about jumping in and has begun reaching out to potential campaign staffers, according to a person familiar with her plans, though she has not yet pulled the trigger.

Not long ago, I was dining out and sitting next to a table of women who were involved in a serious conversation about diet and losing weight.

Don't waste anymore of your precious time, as you could be engaged in serious conversation with other singles for Christ right now at ChristianCafe.com.

«He never engaged you in serious conversation — it was always irony.»

I also applaud their willingness to invite others to engage in a serious conversation about that Contract.

In a serious conversation, they raise futher awareness about the stats and real situations of harassment and assault women face and why it matters.

Not exact matches

«It's urgent to engage in a serious, adult conversation about mutual security concerns.

To emphasize this point, in the past year I've published a book, spoken at Google, maintained one of the most popular business podcasts on iTunes, and am having serious conversations about creating a television show about my life.

«There are always conversations going on, but nothing like a serious discussion,» he said in February.

In a fascinating post on The Conversation blog, Maynard makes an argument that won't surprise anyone who has read any fictional account of human's interplanetary future — colonizing other planets probably won't bring out the better angels of our nature, and any attempt to put people on Mars will require overcoming serious social and political problems, such as:

But as more apps, fun or serious, begin attaching our locations to our messages, related privacy issues will remain a hot topic of conversation, perhaps forcing us to reexamine our views about how much privacy we need to maintain in our digital lives.

But while that is a crucial national conversation, the heated pipeline debate sometimes means we pay a lot less attention to the kinds of things we should build in Canada if we're serious about reducing carbon emissions.

It's been written in a way that just knows «where to put the hinges» to give a wide and smooth sweep over the subject... a must have for people who are serious about knowing «how to make genuine conversation, build lasting relationships and influence others and that's EVERYONE!»

SoftBank's Vision Fund is also serious enough about China that it had been scouting last year for a new local partner to lead its investing in Chinese companies, two people familiar with the conversations tell Recode.

(5) The most urgent ecumenical dialogue between Russia and Rome today must focus on a new generation of Russian Orthodox thinkers: those who, having looked hard at the crisis in Ukraine and their Church leadership's propaganda activities on behalf of the Putin regime, have concluded that Russian Orthodoxy needs a new theory of Church - and - state — and should develop one in vigorous conversation with serious scholars of Catholic social doctrine.

It is excellent to the extent that precisely because it is guided by interest in God for God's own sake, it honors the inevitable pluralism of understandings of God by serious engagement in conversation with differing understandings.

In the first round of conversation, we affirmed that, despite serious disagreements, we who recognize one another as brothers and sisters in Christ are called to the missionary task of proclaiming his lordship to the worlIn the first round of conversation, we affirmed that, despite serious disagreements, we who recognize one another as brothers and sisters in Christ are called to the missionary task of proclaiming his lordship to the worlin Christ are called to the missionary task of proclaiming his lordship to the world.

The de-Stalinization campaign, the changes in the Roman Catholic Church following the Second Vatican Council, and the growth of the ecumenical movement all contributed to bringing Marxists and Christians together for serious conversations about critical issues.

America needs many serious conversations in this age of the demagogic tweet and the rabid talk - radio sound - bite.

That conversation is not advanced when, as happened after the CNN broadcast, smug partisans attack a serious Catholic public official by suggesting that he's deficient in both his moral commitment to the poor and his understanding of Catholic social doctrine.

Putting aside the more serious question of whether Trump's words in his conversation with Bush accurately describe real actions he has committed (something he denied when pressed by Anderson Cooper in Sunday night's debate), let's consider the notion that all this is «just locker room talk.»

Judith Wolfe tells us about the origins of the journal: «As an Oxford theologian, I was surprised again and again that C S Lewis was widely read, and very much enjoyed, by theologians and philosophers, but that he wasn't felt to be presentable in polite society — he wasn't regarded as the sort of person who could be drawn into a serious theological or philosophical conversation.»

Thus we understand ecumenical organizations making great strides in «Life and Work» projects long before serious conversation about «Faith and Order» can get underway.

One that I find especially difficult to endure is the climactic conversation between Raskolnikov and Sonya in book four of Crime and Punishment, with its unremittingly forced portentousness and the embarrassingly obvious (but entirely unconvincing) device of Raskolnikov asking Sonya to read the story of the raising of Lazarus in John's gospel — which culminates in one of the most egregious displays of authorial heavy - handedness in the history of serious literature.

So, Bill Hinson, if you are serious about getting a real conversation going about separating our denomination in order to rescue it, save me a place at the table.

To my mind, Gioia is on much firmer ground when he criticizes the state of the public conversation in serious journals, newspapers, and other venues.

Except it was a non-discussion, or at least a non-starter, for until recently, the religion - and - society debate in Israel meant ultra-orthodox Jews vs. thoroughly secularized Jews, which didn't leave a whole lot of room for serious conversation.

These led me to his earlier works, which consistently vindicated Kass's self - description in his justly acclaimed Towards a More Natural Science: «The author of this book is by reading a moralist, by education a generalist, by training a physician and biochemist, by vocation a teacher» and student» of philosophical texts, and by choice a lover of serious conversations, who thinks best when sharing thoughts and speeches with another.»

Eschewing the extremes occupied by the loudest voices in the national concussion and youth sport conversation, the ones who either deny there is a serious issue that needs to be addressed (who they characterize as the «just a knock to the head» crowd) or have become so convinced that contact sports inevitably result in lifelong disability that they are so fundamentally unsafe that they should be abolished, they opt instead for the common sense middle ground - a place where MomsTEAM and I have been all along - a magical place where it is possible to have a «more thoughtful, science - based» dialog about the role of sports in our kids» lives.

And please tell what are the «serious implications» of OBs controlling (I'd say guiding and advising, since patients are free to ignore advice without penalty, but happy to adopt your words for this conversation) and intervening in pregnancy and childbirth?

She already knows that daddy is in pain and that sometimes he needs to cry and that often he goes to the doctor, but she is finding it hard to understand that daddy can not play wildly like before and that sometimes mommy and daddy are having serious conversations and sometimes we are sad.

When kids are growing up, some of the best conversations can be had in a car, when looking straight ahead and not at each other offers a sense of anonymity that can open... MORE up conversations to more serious or intimate levels.

You've probably heard the warning «never shake a baby» in parenting advertisements or in conversation with friends, but many people are not aware of just how serious an issue this is.

«I think ultimately we will have to have in this state, sooner or later, a serious conversation and debate about moving to a full - time legislature, from the perspective of banning all outside income,» said the senator.

I expressed my views in this regard on WhatsApp last weekend, «Any country in which its elites consider re-electing a president like Buhari just as thousands of citizens are murdered across the country with not a single person arrested; a president who can not make an intelligent conversation on any policy or global issue with other global leaders; a president whose EFCC and DSS engage in open confrontation; a regime which crippled the economy and relies on cyclical movements in oil prices as its sole economic lever; a regime under which 10 million jobs are lost; and key accusations against top officials are treated with levity; just as the regime appears complicit in the invasion of its senate by thugs and seizure of mace... such a country is in serious trouble, that is if it isn't doomed.

Teachers want a serious conversation about what's needed in this next chapter for the state's public education system.

«For quite some time, Education Commissioner John King has closed off all meaningful conversation with parents, educators, administrators, and elected officials who have highlighted serious deficiencies in State Education Department policies,» Abinanti said.

He's neither made any plans nor had serious conversations about running, though he's heard the speculation that he could run either in the Democratic primary or as an independent in the general election.

«He still kept insisting but I thought he was joking until later in the conversation that I realised he was getting serious.

«It's unfortunate that we regularly see these desperate tactics seeking to do nothing but distort the truth and create confusion while a serious conversation is taking place in Albany about fair, comprehensive rules for home sharing that would finally protect responsible New Yorkers.»

International diplomacy is, it seems, little more than a succession of polite faces - handshakes, kissing cheeks, delighted expressions - punctuated by conversations in which the main aim is to look as serious as possible.

As a result of my recent conversations with several of the community leaders in Rockland, it was clear that they would be most happy if their former and current congresspersons would join together to help to solve this very serious problem concerning the purchase of used vehicles.

NYPA would be wise to sit down with the people that are going to be breathing in this air pollution and have a serious conversation about renewables --

If the mayor is going to have control of our schools, then his office needs to engage in a serious, respectful, and sustained conversation with our community about what we truly need so that all our district schools are places where all children thrive.

«I think we're at a point in the state where we need to have serious conversations about how we interact with one another in ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to live independent, safe and successful lives, and really invest in those services and support.»

He said that in any conversation with other parties, «although the economy must be the number one priority, political reform — serious political reform, not a conversation about it — must be part of the priority package too».

Still, he noted, climate negotiators are not generally experts in finance, and if nations are serious about raising big bucks to protect low - lying islands from sea level rise, to develop distributed solar generation or to do other much - needed work toward both mitigating emissions and building resilience against weather disasters, the conversation needs to shift.

In general, these are the times I seek medical care for a fever, but a parent's intuition / research and conversation with your own doctor are important for determining when a fever is serious.