Sentences with phrase «more immediate crises»

Still, for many people, the effects of climate change seem like a future problem — something that falls by the wayside as we tackle what seem like more immediate crises.

In cities around the world, forward - thinking governments, spurred often as not by more immediate crises and exercising their intrinsic subsidiarity, have found their way to sustainable solutions to problems of energy use, transportation, air quality, resilience and waste.

Not exact matches

Cash is emerging as a more efficient, immediate form of charity for refugees in crisis regions like Aleppo, Syria.

Vanguard, TIAA, Transamerica and others, she wrote, «expressed their support for the rule, and BlackRock emphasized that: «We need immediate action, as the longer we wait the deeper and more difficult» the retirement crisis «problem becomes.

As such, facing a massive and immediate liquidity crisis, they would be in more need of a federal bailout than before the bankruptcy legislation was seriously mooted.

The letter to Garneau called for «a more pro-active and more predictable response to rail capacity issues,» adding that «speedy passage (of Bill C - 49) will do nothing to alleviate the immediate crisis for grain or any other commodity.»

These immediate crises may, of course, also become symbols that stand for positions on more general issues.

Tolstoy, for instance, is an epic writer, whose books overflow with physical details and frequently threaten to overflow their own narrative structures and become as vast and as inconclusive as life itself, while Dostoevsky is a dramatic writer, whose books are full of fraught and urgent voices, at times almost disembodied, trapped in situations of immediate and pressing crisis, and surrounded by a physical world usually having no more substance than a collection of painted canvasses or pasteboard silhouettes at the back of the stage.

«The initiatives I am announcing today will result in immediate results and help to fortify us from a multitude of threats and to respond more efficiently in the event of a crisis.»

Even as the world staunches the immediate crisis, there will be more wrenching dislocations as drought, heat stress, pest infestations and other climate - induced shocks occur increasingly often.

Some believe the refugee crisis is to blame — that as more resources are pulled to address the immediate needs of health, food, and shelter for asylum seekers, education is neglected.

It might get you through the immediate crisis but, over time, you'll end up even more debt.

Auto loans to people with tarnished credit have risen more than 130 percent in the five years since the immediate aftermath of the financial crisis, with roughly one in four new auto loans last year going to borrowers considered subprime — people with credit scores at or below 640.

Taking precautions and planning can make the possibility of a hurricane less of an immediate crisis and more of a manageable situation!

(More cynically, even if we «do nothing» about the crisis de jour and nothing happens said alarmists may have the gall to claim that by «raising awareness of the problem» they still somehow managed to avert it - «and you can make the check out to...») Even worse, alarmists project out that terrible things will happen if we don't take IMMEDIATE (and highly expensive) action to avert the crisis by assuming the worst - case scenario.

Environment Expert: More than 75 % of the countries in Asia and the Pacific are experiencing a serious lack of water security, with many of them facing an imminent water crisis unless immediate steps are taken to improve management of water resources, says a new study prepared jointly by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Asia - Pacific [continue reading...]

Consider the tremendous response to immediate human crises like the Asian Tsunami and Katrina — as contrasted to the more tepid response to the Apollo Alliance.

It would take more immediate signs of crisis — e.g. a January heat wave in Washington — to get Congress to put aside regional differences to act forcefully on climate change.

With all the immediate measures in place, Juncker outlines the foreign policy objectives of the EU as an effective means to «address the root causes» of the present crisis and suggests a more sustained and «assertive» presence in the EU's neighboring countries, beset with war and instability.

With the immediate fiscal crisis abated, Tom played an important role in managing and directing the administration's focused efforts on job creation, improving Delaware schools and making state government more efficient.

Taking precautions and planning can make the possibility of a hurricane less of an immediate crisis and more of a manageable situation!

I can work with you in a more immediate solution - focused way to address a crisis, or at a deeper level to meet goals for long - term issues.