Sentences with phrase «larger global history»

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History plays a large role, says Algernon Austin, senior research fellow at Washington, D.C. - based think tank Center for Global Policy Solutions.

Global warming is affecting oceans, food and water supply, coastal areas and biodiversity, and creating what Gore calls «the largest business opportunity in world history, as the global economy decarbonizes and becomes hyper - efficient.&Global warming is affecting oceans, food and water supply, coastal areas and biodiversity, and creating what Gore calls «the largest business opportunity in world history, as the global economy decarbonizes and becomes hyper - efficient.&global economy decarbonizes and becomes hyper - efficient.»

Some of our actual and potential competitors have advantages over us, such as longer operating histories, significantly greater financial, technical, marketing or other resources, stronger brand and business user recognition, larger intellectual property portfolios and broader global distribution and presence.

This was the largest bank bailout in global banking history.

If sustained, it would be the largest surplus ever generated in the history of global financial markets.

In 2008, Fir Tree joined the hedge funds that are part of the Ad Hoc Group of Puerto Rico to support the investment bank in the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy, an entity that took refuge in Chapter 11 of the Federal Bankruptcy Law, the largest bankruptcy in the history of the United States and a symbol of the global financial crisis.

The next 30 years will see the total value of global high net worth wealth transferred down through generations estimated to reach nearly US$ 16trn — the largest transfer of wealth in history.

If you take a look at the global corporate history, you will see that the large cap stocks, also known as Blue Chip stocks are by and far the most consistently high performers in the market, even when you average them across decades of performance data.

In what is believed to be the largest venture - backed funding round in the Kansas City area's history, C2FO is lighting the fuse on its global expansion with a $ 100 million capital raise.

The «STAND UP» event seta national and global record in the Guinness World Records for the largest number of people to stand up for a cause... Lutherans across the U.S. participated in the event organised as part of «ONE: The Campaign to Make Poverty History», in cooperation with the United Nations» Millennium Campaign.»

For 25 years, we've been setting the global standard for our profession as the first, largest and most respected doula organization in the world (read more about our history).

Even though the actual rate of global warming far exceeds that of any previous episodes in the past 14,000 years, large changes in global climate have occurred periodically throughout Earth's history.

Choosing the right approach is vital as the scale of human impact on the planet becomes so large that scientists are calling this new epoch in Earth's history the Anthropocene (when human activity alters global climate and ecosystems).

A research group led by the American Museum of Natural History and global wild cat conservation organization Panthera has published the largest gene - based survey of its kind on wild jaguar populations in Mesoamerica.

When our grandchildren write the history of global warming — how we discovered and debated it, and what we finally did about it — the stinkbugs that ate Maggs's tomatoes may not loom large.

URS is among the largest architect - engineers based in the U.S., with over fifty thousand employees and a long and productive history as an EPC contractor in the global power industry.

Electronic Arts and FIFA to Bring eSports to Millions Through the EA SPORTS FIFA 18 Global Series on the Road to the FIFA eWorld Cup 2018 The Largest Competition in FIFA History Will Exponentially Expand the Global Audience With Accessible Competition and Features Top - Flight Football Leagues and Clubs 10/27/2017 - Electronic Arts

It's not his job, he said, to influence their opinion, but to help them understand their history in the larger context of global movements.

It represents a significant step forward for Honda in the C - segment, benefiting from the largest single model global development programme in the company's history.

«Design has always played a large role in Buick's rich history and recent success,» said Bryan Nesbitt, executive director, Buick Global Design.

«These new models will build on the incredible success of the BlackBerry Curve line and further expand the largest global launch of BlackBerry smartphones in our history,» said RIM Co-CEO Mike Lazaridis in a statement.

«This is the largest global launch of BlackBerry smartphones in our history,» said RIM president and co-chief executive Mike Lazaridis.

Both smartphones feature Research In Motion's latest BlackBerry 7 OS and are part of the largest global launch in RIM's storied history.

With a 500 - year - old history, the Frankfurt Book Fair of today is acknowledged to be the world's largest book fair, attracting a global audience of book publishing industry professionals and a total of more than a quarter of a million visitors each year.

Canada's Research in Motion on Wednesday announced plans for five new BlackBerry smartphones, the largest global product launch in the company's history.

«This is the largest global launch of BlackBerry smartphones in our history,» Mike Lazaridis, RIM's president and co-CEO, said in a statement.

«This is the largest global launch of BlackBerry smartphones in our history,» said RIM Co-CEO Mike Lazaridis in a statement.

Under Tamara's direction, Vancity achieved the highest profits in the organization's 70 - year history and became the first Canadian financial institution (FI) invited to the Global Alliance for Banking on Values; the first carbon - neutral FI in North America; the largest Canadian private - sector living wage employer, and one of the first to create an alternative product to high - interest payday loans.

In our final blog post of 2017, we argued that the 2018 investment «vintage» would likely be defined by history as marking a cyclical turning point within a much larger secular bull market for global risk assets.

In 1992, after striking a deal with famed global investor Sir John Templeton for the acquisition of Templeton, Galbraith & Hansberger Ltd., Charlie was named Fund Leader of the Year for spearheading what was then the largest merger of an independent mutual fund company in history.

Also shown is how this technique has been successfully used in his five decade long history of acquisitions, which built and sustain Berkshire Hathaway as one of the largest and most profitable global enterprises.

Myrmikan Research chronicles the collapse of the current, global credit bubble — the largest and broadest in history — analyzing current events from the perspective of Austrian economics and placing them in historical context.

Hotels will comprise a fifth of the total show area at Arabian Travel Market 2018, the largest exhibition of regional and global hotel brands in the history of the event.

In 2014, Dallas created the Chopra Center Global Meditation, a program that leverages the collective power of shared intention for social change, and set the Guinness World Record for the largest meditation gathering in history.

With the largest operational footprint in the assistance industry and decades of large volume and case history, we offer clients unparalleled global expertise and experience.

Given our commitment and long history in the travel assistance space, Generali Global Assistance has been on the front lines of numerous global crisis and has the proven ability and resources to handle large - scale eGlobal Assistance has been on the front lines of numerous global crisis and has the proven ability and resources to handle large - scale eglobal crisis and has the proven ability and resources to handle large - scale events.

In order to meet the ever - changing needs of its guest, IHG invested in the $ 1 billion Holiday Inn global brand relaunch, the largest in hospitality history.

All three hotels are designed with the Holiday Inn brand family's $ 1 billion global brand relaunch in mind; the largest project of its kind in hospitality history.

The partnership builds on the expansive and important histories of both Pace and Futurecity, bridging Pace's extensive global resources with Futurecity's innovative approach to developing large scale commissions for artists in the public realm.

This seminar seeks to establish an expanded definition of Institutional Critique connecting it to a diverse history of dissent, and underscores the relations within the larger context of global Institutional Critique initiatives.

To Future Women uses the platform of art to historicize one of the largest networked protests in global history while creating a time capsule for the next generation of women.

Part art and part history, these letters will be archived for twenty years by participating national cultural institutions in Washington DC and re-exhibited on 21st January, 2037, historicizing one of the largest networked protests in global history while creating a time capsule for the next generation of women.

The news comes just a day after LACMA announced that collectors Gérard and Dora Cognié will give the museum its largest gift of contemporary Chinese and global ink - related art in the museum's history, burnishing its position as a global player with a large collection Asian art.

SCOPE is one of the largest and most global art fairs in the world, with more than a decade long history and over 65 art fairs held in Miami Beach, Basel, New York and London, over million visitors and more than $ 800 million in sales.

This exhibition will pay tribute to that history and vision through both site - sensitive and site - specific works that highlight Storm King's relationship to the land, while speaking to larger issues that affect regional, national, and global ecological health.»

But Arunanondchai goes beyond questions of gesture and the body or art's social embeddedness to author a mash - up of global popular culture all his own, one that includes music, textiles, personal histories, large - scale installation, and more.

One of the country's wealthiest cities and a global industrial powerhouse once, the city's ongoing financial crisis has led to its 2013 bankruptcy, regarded as the largest municipal bankruptcy filing in the history of the country.

She was co-curator of the 5th Berlin Biennial in 2008 with Adam Szymczyk, and has edited or co-edited a number of anthologies on global exhibition histories, including «The Artist as Curator: An Anthology» (Mousse Publications, 2017), «The Biennial Reader: Anthology on Large - Scale Perennial Exhibitions of Contemporary Art» (Hatje Cantz, 2010), and «The Manifesta Decade: Debates on Contemporary Art Exhibitions and Biennials in Post-Wall Europe» (MIT Press, 2005).

Jointly curated by Zhang Qing (Founding Director of the Shanghai Biennial, currently Curatorial Head of the National Palace Museum in Beijing) and Roger M. Buergel (Artistic Director of documenta 12 (2007) and current Director of the Johann Jacobs Museum in Zurich), the inaugural Suzhou Documents: Histories of a Global Hub is a large - scale exhibition of contemporary art held at several venues across the city of Suzhou, China.

Focused on promoting established and emerging artists whose work is rooted in a Latino experience and history, but inclusive of global and multi-cultural movements, we see contemporary Latino art as part and parcel of the larger American experience.