Sentences with phrase «long global histories»
Even still, I love history — big, long global histories with tons of details.
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So Evans made it his mission to turn the short - term excitement around the Make Poverty History concerts into a longer - term movement, and founded the Global Poverty Project in 2008, which eventually became Global Citizen.
By studying the long history of Chinese energy companies in the global marketplace, study author Margaret Cornish determined «their organization and strategy reflect and respond to their global rivals rather than the Chinese state.»
«Europe has a long, if occasionally somewhat troubled, history of being strongly engaged in global affairs — aid and development is a part of this,» Bond, a network of over 400 international development organizations and the U.K. Aid Network, said in a statement to CNBC this week.
Pinker's extensively researched thesis is that global violence has decreased throughout human history, as wrong as that may feel given the 24 - hour news cycle that came into being not long after two world wars and matured during an age of regular terrorist attacks and mass shootings.
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.
Having taken short rates to zero, for the first time in history, the global central banks sought to lower the long end of the curve by buying bonds.
The global apparel industry that I hail from has built up a particularly long history of attempting to address concerns from civil society, organized labour and governments about the industry's negative social and environmental impacts.
As such, the papers could come to mark a major milestone for ethereum in that, while Casper has long been proposed as a better and greener way to keep the global network in agreement about the blockchain's transaction history, the industry has been waiting for details to be put on paper.
In fact they were in conflict, the long history of environmentalism showing a disdain for the aspirations of the poor, and in our time strongly opposed to economic development in the weaker countries lest global environmental harm result.
The very idea of a global society is, of course, a religious vision which has already had a long history.
god is not real, the GLOBAL flood never happened, and jesus was just a delusional schizophrenic in a long line of delusional schizophrenics who left him a legacy of delusions to base his off of... The legacy is known today as jewish mysticism, jesus was after all a jew and he grew up like every other jew did — by learning his culture and history of his people — they keep records, RELIGIOUSLY!
Drawing on its global expertise and long history of packaging innovations, DuPont works with packaging converters, manufacturers, and brand owners to match form and function in plastic closures for bottles and cups, from store labels to upscale water brands.
With a long history of personal interest in sustainable food, Paul recently called upon the Doha climate conference to take into account the impact of the livestock sector on global warming.
The longer - term implications for one of the most significant coalitions in global history — transatlantic relations — are potentially profound, and potentially profoundly disruptive.
Colombia's armed conflict, the longest - running in recent global history, left more than 220,000 people dead and about 6.7 million displaced within the region.
The global financial and economic crisis of 2008 was the second most devastating in the long history of capitalism.
Transcultural understanding, cultural cross-fertilization, and historically - based cultural commonality have a long and rich history, one that has been forgotten or downplayed by the Western collective memory, as demonstrated by rhetoric such as that espoused in the framework of the global war on terror.
The same GIMPS software just uncovered a flaw in Intel's latest Skylake CPUs, and its global network of CPUs peaking at 450 trillion calculations per second remains the longest continuously - running «grassroots supercomputing» project in Internet history.
There was much public debate about the role of climate change in the aftermath of Harvey, and many Republicans were quick to dismiss links to global warming, pointing out that states like Florida and Texas have a long history with deadly storms.
To inform its Earth system models, the climate modeling community has a long history of using integrated assessment models — frameworks for describing humanity's impact on Earth, including the source of global greenhouse gases, land use and land cover change, and other resource - related drivers of anthropogenic climate change.
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.
With the world now in the midst of the longest and probably worst global coral bleaching event in history, it's boom time for Vevers.
An accomplished leader, Macnair has a long history of global research development and innovation in the food industry.
Ford Foundation Professor Fernando Reimers, director of Global Education at HGSE and co-organizer of the conference along with Cordero, said when he and staff members were contemplating the conference they thought immediately of partnering with the Arias foundation in light of Oscar Arias» «long history» with the university, including an honorary Harvard doctorate.
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Facing History has a long tradition of working with independent and parochial schools across the country, with over 1,500 independent schools in its global network.
The College of Education and Behavioral Sciences has a long history of excellence in professional preparation, research and global educational leadership.
We can no longer pull the old, «We are all Americans» view of history, because American has become a global nation with every culture in the world being represented in the populace of the United States.
«Chevrolet is proud to have helped restore this extremely significant car in Corvette's long, storied history,» said Mark Reuss, GM executive vice president, Global Product Development, Purchasing and Supply Chain.
This weekend's event is billed as a doubleheader between the Pirelli World Challenge, which will conclude its season finale in the Touring Car division on Saturday, and the SRO Intercontinental GT Challenge, which brings global competitors together for the longest endurance race by a professional series in track history — Sunday's California 8 Hours held between 9:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m..
While the BlackRock Global Allocation Fund has added value for investors over its long history, its performance in 2008 shows that it may quickly lose a lot of that value in a market downturn.
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.
CL: I sought to demonstrate to an audience of interested laypeople, both in Australia and other countries, that there's little new under the sun: the «Global Financial Crisis,» as the events of 2007 - 2009 are commonly known in Australia, is merely the latest in a long series of economic and financial crises that have punctuated the history of the past 250 or so years.
«With the unveiling of our new global brand strategy in 2015 we set the foundations for an exciting new era in Best Western's long and distinguished history.
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.
Internationally - renowned interior designer Alexandra Champalimaud was inspired by Jakarta's long - established position on the global stage, and by its commercial trading history and the influence of many cultures on its character, in particular Indonesia's Dutch colonial period.
Saint Lucia has both a long history and a soaring momentum in the global tourism industry, and few people know its secrets and stories better than the Saint Lucia Tourist Board.
Valve have a long history of having to do the same with their games, particularly Counter-Strike, in Germany, and the upcoming Counter-Strike: Global Offensive will be censored as well.
His long - standing relationships with artists across the region, history of mounting groundbreaking exhibitions, and his global perspective will allow us to create exhibitions that continue to raise the profile of Latin American artists worldwide.
«I think of this participation as a conversation between two curators — Ingrid and I — within an institution that has a long - standing history of an exhibition series that is a site of global artistic exchanges.
New Owners DECOR magazine is now owned by Redwood Media Group — purveyors of fine art exhibitions, events, education and editorial with a decades - long history of serving the global fine art community.
«Contemporary African art has been present on the global art scene long enough for imaginary forms stemming from creative minds to be apprehended first and foremost through the intrinsic nature and the intricate relations between form, medium and space, before being loaded with the burden of history and cultural specificity.»
New Orleans» geographic position and economic history have made it a gateway for trade and travel between the United States, Europe, and the Global South, and it has long been considered a site for indulgence, hedonism, and no - holds - barred fun.
According to UBS chief investment officer Mike Ryan, «an obvious appetite for art right now, especially in the ultra high net worth space,» has combined with a near - unprecedented eight - year expansion in global equity markets (currently the third - longest in history), providing the liquidity to feed that appetite.
★ «Taiping Tianguo»: A History of Possible Encounters: Ai Weiwei, Frog King Kwok, Tehching Hsieh, and Martin Wong in New York» (closes on Saturday) New York is network city, and this invaluable nugget of an art historical show uncovers hitherto unexplored local links among four artists of Chinese descent in the 1970s and»80s, before most of them had developed significant reputations and long before contemporary Chinese art had become global news.
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.
«Weems links a seemingly innocent celebration of spring with a call to social action... May Days Long Forgotten examines the history of revolution and human rights on a global scale.»
Like Ritual and Revolution, May Days Long Forgotten examines the history of revolution and human rights on a global scale.»
This hybrid art that is a mix of contemporary western style and Arabic ideas is, Kanoo insists, part of the global history of art, just the latest movement in a long tradition of East - meets - West visual culture, and he talks knowledgeably and enthusiastically about the mutual influence of Constantinople and Venice before the Renaissance, of Andalucian Spain, of Baghdad, destroyed by the Mongol invasion, the Golden Horde.