Sentences with phrase «major social importance»

The Polaris Climate Change Observatory (PCCO) aims to inform public perception of the role of science in issues of major social importance.

The PCCO is a state - of - the - art venue for contextualising the role of polar science in issues of major social importance, through innovative installations that possible responses to climate change.

Not exact matches

In comparing and contrasting the two social media platforms, importance must be placed on the major features that makes each distinctive.

As in past years, we ranked these women on four major criteria: the size and importance of the woman's business in the global marketplace; her clout inside her company; her career trajectory; and in certain cases her cultural and social impact.

The importance and influence of Professor Trefler's work has been recognized through numerous distinctions including the 2016 Killam Prize in Social Sciences (Canada's «Nobel Prize»), the 2016 Bank of Canada Fellowship Award, a Canada Research Chair, and all three major awards of the Canadian Economics Association.

The «communal tensions» between the groups were «of major importance in the life of the nation,» Herberg added, suggesting that they began non-divisive discussions about the limits of American democracy and allowed all 96 percent of Americans who identified as Protestant, Catholic, or Jew to have some social, political, and cultural recognition in America.

Its attitudes are found in every branch of Christendom: the quest for negative status, the elevation of minor issues to a place of major importance, the use of social mores as a norm of virtue, the toleration of one's own prejudice but not the prejudice of others, the confusion of the church with a denomination, and the avoidance of prophetic scrutiny by using the Word of God as an instrument of self - security but not self - criticism.

Serra reported the findings, «Gender differences in the choice of major: The importance of female role models,» on Jan. 6 in Philadelphia at the 2018 annual meeting of the Allied Social Sciences Association.

In the time it takes major dating sites to recognise the increased importance of using photos to help build up a client profile, daters will turn to social media sites such as Instagram, either creating a separate «dating» Instagram account — one they are willing to share with random people they meet online — or share their own regular Instagram account to help tell the story of who they are.

Social satire oftentimes needs to have less whimsy and more importance to get up for major Oscars.

WHY IT MIGHT NOT SUCCEED: Social satire oftentimes needs to have less whimsy and more importance to get up for major Oscars.

Students of all majors learn about the importance of social and ecological sustainability through coursework that stresses critical thinking, analysis and written expression.