Sentences with phrase «issues confronting society»

Among the most serious Earth science and environmental policy issues confronting society are the potential changes in the Earth's water cycle due to climate change.

It needs to expand this approach to present an overall progressive alternative on all the core issues confronting society.

Climate change is an important issue confronting society, and it is hoped that the work contained in this thesis will aid climate change modeling by focusing attention to realistic fossil fuel production projections.

Not exact matches

We're in a position to put the issues on the table, ask the hard questions, and engage our colleagues and stakeholders in addressing the critical issues surrounding diversity that confront our firms and society.

The balance that I strive for is an awareness of, and Biblical response to, the issues of society that confront us while being anchored in the unwavering promise of God's redeeming love made complete in Jesus.

... Our society has mixed up the word acceptance with love, turning many important issues into grey areas simply because we don't want to confront real problems.

Thus, many women who «wouldn't be caught dead» in a women's liberation meeting can have the opportunity to deal with the issues which inevitably will confront them as sex roles change in our society.

I wish that Lepard had written more about this problem, exploring the issues confronted by non-Muslims in societies where Islamic shari'a law has been adopted, for example, and considering the current debate about this among Islamic human rights scholars such as Abdullah An - Na» im.

Others of us are so preoccupied with skirmishes within our homes, churches or seminary communities that we do not have the energy to confront the larger issues of our society.

The notion «Bigger is Better» along with the lack of «movement» in our society is certainly among those issues we need to confront.

I'm glad I was confronted with these questions because it has opened my eyes to issues in society today, helped me gain confidence, and become closer to my amazing mothers who continue to be my biggest role models every day.

We support our educational staff and their endeavors to bring issues to our students that confront our country and society today.

They say their school environments allow them to work out many of the issues of race they will confront them later in the larger society — even when those issues are complicated.

In this 2004 article in the Stanford Social Innovation Review, Ronald Heifetz, John Kania, and Mark Kramer show how foundations can confront society's most pressing challenges by exercising adaptive leadership to focus attention, generate positive distress, frame the issues, and mediate conflict among stakeholders.

We as individuals and a society are constantly confronted with issues of injustice, intolerance, and abuse; sometimes it is directed at our fellow humans and even more commonly towards non-human animals.

Operating across the public and personal realms — as well as using their own bodies as central motifs — these artists sought to address broad political issues and confront patriarchy and sexism in art and society.

Through a large variety of media - installations, performances, etc - she now confronts us with the complexity of the personal in relation to universal issues of our society and environment.

According to the gallery, the assemblage «addresses the darker sides of twentieth - century Western society, confronting issues of religion, politics, war, sex, and death.»

Titled «Negotiating the Future», the Biennial addresses universal issues which confront human society.

«COMM ALT SHIFT» brings together over a dozen video artists each confronting a different issue within contemporary society.

The group's mission is to encourage art students to pursue «pragmatic social engagement, asking them to confront issues that will directly impact American society and their own lives.»

Yale Climate Connections is a nonpartisan, multimedia service providing daily broadcast radio programming and original web - based reporting, commentary, and analysis on the issue of climate change, one of the greatest challenges and stories confronting modern society.

How our government and we, as a society, address the issues that confront people with disabilities and their families — from transportation, to employment, to education, to full and equal access to services — defines us as a people.