Sentences with phrase «more global sense»

JC: All this is true enough, except that The Shining belongs in a more global sense to the horror film genre.
This idea of a consciousness which posits itself in positing its contents undoubtedly constitutes the strongest resistance to any idea of revelation, not only in the specific sense of the religions of the book, but also in the larger, more global sense that we have just connected to the poetic function of discourse,

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Even among audiences traditionally sympathetic to the big banks, there is more and more a sense that something is deeply wrong in global banking, something that can not be settled by the institutions themselves.
Capital raise after capital raise obviously signals an intense cash burn rate, but if Tesla is going to change the world and push electric cars to a point where they constitute more than 1 % of global auto sales, chilling out on the spending and letting the balance sheet take a breather doesn't make much sense.
Still, Deboo suggests that there's a sense Polman has morphed into the classic Davos Man, more intently focused on fixing global problems than the nitty - gritty details of operations.
Perhaps it makes sense to conclude with the more general observation that changes in the size of global capital flows and the accompanying imbalances increase the importance of sustaining the credibility of monetary policy, because they increase the costs of a loss of credibility or a negative shock to credibility.
With the rise of China and India particularly, it also makes sense for Canada to be more visible and broadly engaged in the region where decisions are increasingly being made that determine global outcomes.
In a larger country with a smaller population, Canadian evangelicals are more likely to support sharing resources and welcoming immigrants and refugees; they are less likely to feel a sense of «manifest destiny» or to see their country as a Christian nation, according to Brian Stiller, the Ontario - based global ambassador of the World Evangelical Alliance.
One gets the distinct sense that the commissioners think the Obama administration should make global religious freedom more a priority.
What we call sense perception is a rather late and somewhat abstract version of a much more global feeling we have, at a visceral level, of the entire universe entering into our experience.
Harrington means by «socialization» the idea that the future is bringing, and will bring in geometrically increasing ratios, a deeper sense of increased human interdependence in a corporate environment, one marked by international demands for mutuality, by global communication and transportation, and by interpenetrating systems of production, distribution, and consumption, all of them interlocked and increasingly inclusive of more and more nations of the world.
Mr Hoon said politicians should worry about people's «sense of disillusionment» about the union and act to make it more effective as a single market and as a global player, and ensure it interacted better with its citizens.
«Previous studies have shown that black people are more likely to have a poor sense of smell than whites and yet may be less likely to develop Parkinson's disease,» said Chen, who is part of MSU's Global Impact Initiative, an effort to help accelerate research in key areas affecting the world such as health and energy.
For example, managing a given watershed may make more sense than managing the amount of global freshwater consumption to stay below an arbitrary, sustainable «limit» of 4,000 cubic kilometers per year.
The techniques are, in a sense, complementary to the «global» methods which Penrose pioneered: they can not handle «generic» collapse, where there is no special degree of symmetry, but they do produce a more quantitative picture of what would happen if a black hole were perturbed (for instance, by, a smaller object falling into it or orbiting close to it).
The more scientists understand about how insects respond to and sense heat, the better they can understand insect migration in response to rising global temperatures and the spread of disease through insect bites.
Carbon Engineering is testing the premise that, on a global scale, direct air capture makes more sense.
The research team, led by Gregory Asner of the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology, used innovative remote sensing technology on aircraft to survey the impact of invasives on more than 220,000 hectares (850 square miles) of rain forest on the island of Hawaii.
To others, it's a more general sense of the sacred, or a collective consciousness, a shared global purpose, or the interconnectedness of all life.
In a global sense, the more middlemen we cut out, the better our economy will be, IMO.
To this, Ross tells us, she answers, «My own sense, looking across the board, is that outside of highly experimental, academic, or avant - garde work, fully accessing the potential for global readership and having a reasonable output of titles are more central to sales success than which genre a book is in.
HTC Droid Incredible 2 is having both CDMA and GSM radio inside and it will support global roaming for more than 220 voice and 200 data services countries, and sporting a 4 inch Super LCD display, running with Froyo, skinned with HTC Sense UI 2.0, on a 1GHZ Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, an 8 - megapixel rear - facing camera, and 1.3 - megapixel front - facing camera for video chats.
To give a sense of that, we recently did a global screen of nearly 5,800 non-financial companies with market values greater than $ 300 million, positive free cash flow over the past 12 months, at least an 8 % return on equity over the past 12 months, net debt to EBITDA of no more than 2.5 x and a trailing EV / EBIT multiple of no more than 8x.
Personally, I think Cramer's views on industry selection are more complex than that, largely for the reason that I don't follow the «playbook» in any strict sense: global demand is more important than US demand alone for many industries.
Which makes perfect sense: You really can't find a more basic business model than a large pan-European (& increasingly global) fruit & vegetable distributor, who passes along volatile price changes to customers almost on a real - time basis.
Combined with more widespread use of Capcom's feted MT Framework multi-platform engine technology, it makes for a global strategy in every sense.
So this leaves the question of why more isn't done to reduce emissions in a global sense?
If your goal is to enable the long - time survival of the human race, and to reduce potentially devastating environmental risks to society (drought, floods, famine, heat waves, sea level rise, etc) then focusing on global warming mitigation would make more sense.
Rather» push a golf ball» or a tennis ball, I am in my own small way pushing the idea of» polar cities» to house future survivors of global warming in year 2500 or so (google «polar cities» to see more info) out of a sense of obligation and care for the future.
My sense is that they take green tech seriously as a global business sector and a way, internally, to limit coal and oil demand and dependence, but I don't perceive the Chinese taking low carbon seriously as an internal policy goal (if that means a carbon intensity trajectory more than a nudge below what will happen anyway for other reasons).
But I'm less concerned now that I have read the paper over more carefully, because I think that Figure 1a and 1b give a pretty good sense of what features of higher resolution reconstructions (specifically, our ’08 global reconstruction which is shown) are potentially captured.
Perhaps I should be more sympathetic to those not understanding what global warming is really all about, but at times it is pratically amusing to see how some of the local denizens go floundering about while trying to make sense of their misunderstandings of both fact and fiction.
According to the Remote Sensing Systems» satellite global - temperature dataset, there has now been no global warming at all for more than the past 18 years.
Trenberth argues that since science / physics has already established the human influence on climate, oceans, etc. (and Curry would not say otherwise) it makes more sense for Curry to have to show that there is no influence on water vapor and precipitation (i.e., intensification of storm activity / heavy precipitation) than to show that there is, because of basic physics / physical systems / physical relationships that constitute the global climate cycle.
More interesting to decide what we can do, «can» in the sense of what do we know how to do, and what can we get through the political global process to actually achieve.
Given the time period until new leases are required, and that new leases are only required in a scenario incompatible with the United States» commitment to taking actions consistent with limiting global warming to levels well below 2 °C while pursuing efforts to keep warming to no more than 1.5 °C, it makes sense to continue the moratorium for the foreseeable future.
The climate models, on which the whole global warming scare is based, are built without regard to the natural 60 and even more important 1000 year periodicities and lack even average common sense.
«The RSS (Remote Sensing Systems) satellite dataset shows no global warming at all for 219 months from October 1996 to December 2014 — more than half the 432 - month satellite record.»
When I say recovery from the Little Ice Age in some sense «explains» global warming, I mean to say that the current warming trend began when the LIA ended and has been proceeding more or less apace ever since.
More than neat arguments from first principles, this may require specially talented people, with strong diplomatic skills working on the ground, who can foster a sense of building bridges, and a feel for working together on a global problem.
In a perverse sense, the Trump administration might be just the bitter medicine that's needed to make global climate change efforts more effective
To be energy or more properly, heat transferred, the one - way upwelling radiation from the surface absorbed by the air should be reduced by subtraction of the down - welling radiation of the air absorbed by the surface Note that by subtraction of the (about 20 W / m ² in global average) flow surface to cosmos of both terms of GH, GH expression becomes GH = (radiation from the surface absorbed by the air) minus (outgoing longwave radiation from the air) which has absolutely no physical sense!
UAH satellite data has shown no significant global warming trend in more than 15 years — the Remote Sensing Systems satellite dataset shows no warming for more than 18 years.
More frequent observations of bleaching events may be partially due to the advent of remote sensing satellites that have allowed greater global coverage only since the 1980s.
Natural gas, generally, emits half the amount of CO2 per unit of electricity as oil does, so it makes sense for big petroleum companies to lean on this resource more as a way to position their respective asset mixes as lower carbon and secure an even larger piece of the global carbon budget.
This is the sense that it is not acceptable to consider adaptation to more than 2 °C of global warming, because it is seen to weaken the negotiating position on emission reductions (e.g. [44]-RRB-.
Though I've got to roll my eyes a bit at Monsieur Vie's own sense of the scale of the current economic woes — the crisis is affecting and is going to affect millions more than «a few people» — his larger point that the environmental crisis and its global implications can not be allowed to take a backseat to the economic one in global agendas is valid.
In a crude sense, to the extent that GCMs either replicate an AMO - like phenomenon, or produce large but nonperiodic fluctuations in sea - surface temps (AMO - like in size but not periodicity), then implicitly, the alternative hypothes in those studies (a world without global warming) has a lot more variation in it than this study does.
While most of us have yet to sense the extent of global warming's immediate and more long - term effects on the planet's physical geography, others - mostly in the northern regions of the world - have not been so fortunate.
It does make more sense that a long period of atmospheric cooling would lead to a lowering of sea level, but that correlation has NOTHING to do with CO2 emissions, which were skyrocketing while global temperatures either fell or remained steady.
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