Sentences with phrase «more urgent issues»

Maybe that's because, again, it's taking a backseat to some of these other more urgent issues that are economics related.

Instead, he argues that there are many more urgent issues which we should be focusing on, e.g., malaria prevention, reducing malnutrition, trying to prevent HIV / AIDS.

Not to mention that those warned will have much more urgent issues to deal with than the climate in 2112, and will very sensibly ignore such warnings.

But are there not more urgent issues to be addressed?

Voting reform is not something that came up on the doorstep during the election campaign and there are many more urgent issues that people want resolved.

Genetically engineered babies raise a host of disturbing, science fiction - worthy ethical questions, but we have a more mundane and much more urgent issue to consider: safety.

Not exact matches

«On behalf of the hundreds of employees at Apple whose futures are at stake; on behalf of their colleagues and on behalf of the millions more across America who believe, as we do, in the power of dreams, we issue an urgent plea for our leaders in Washington to protect the Dreamers so their futures can never be put at risk in this way again,» Cook said in the note to his employees.

And while these more urgent challenges are largely cyclical in nature, the issue of social licence will not go away.

Within hours of the presidential election, Washington politicians turned to the most urgent issue facing them: the fiscal cliff looming on Jan. 1, when more than $ 100 billion in automatic spending cuts and $ 500 billion of tax increases will be triggered.

The crown prince told the crowd that Saudi Arabia has «has much more urgent and important issues to deal with,» including curbing Iranian influence in the region, though he was clear that in order to normalize relations between Israel and the Arab world, a formal peace agreement must be advanced.

Early in Larson's leadership, Packard made a massive bet on curbing climate change — an issue that has only become more urgent since then.

«On behalf of the hundreds of employees at Apple whose futures are at stake; on behalf of their colleagues and on behalf of the millions more across America who believe, as we do, in the power of dreams, we issue an urgent plea for our leaders in Washington to protect the Dreamers so their futures can never be put at risk in this way again,» Cook said in the note obtained by Recode.

We conservatives know that the human issues involved in all of the above are more urgent than global warming and related concerns.

The present volatile situation, worrying because of the deliberate lack of ideological depth and clarity, and annoying because of the language of messianic self - righteousness from both sides, continues to throw up the issues of peace and reconciliation in an even more urgent manner.

Though some are already addressing environmental issues, they will need to adopt a more urgent theological stance and course of action if we are to avoid the prognosis offered by...

Since most social problems are vastly more complicated than the uninformed person even suspects, disciplined study in small groups, focusing on a particularly urgent social issue, can prepare people to act wisely.

Just as in Bultmann's analysis the questions of belief and truth that theology now faces can be adequately answered only by way of radical demythologizing and existentialist interpretation, so it is now clear to me that what is required if theology is to deal satisfactorily with the issues of action and justice (which for many persons are even more urgent) is a theological method comprising thoroughgoing de-ideologizing and political interpretation.

The issue of power and its correct use is becoming more and more urgent in India, including the need not only for an inculturation but also for a de-culturation of oppressive and religiously legitimized structures.

Is man, with his urgent desires and yearnings, no more than an irrelevancy, like the smoke that issues from a locomotive but has nothing to do with making the engine operate?

The research revealed that the less people know about a complex or urgent issue — ranging from the economy to oil shortages — the more they want to remain uninformed.

The issue has only become more urgent since then, with groups such as the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) lobbying this year for the First Amendment Defense Act, which «prevents the federal government from punishing an individual or faith - based business because they can not in good conscience accommodate same - sex marriage in certain situations.»

Just as in Bultmann's analysis the question of belief and truth that theology now faces can be adequately answered only by way of radical demythologizing and existentialist interpretation, so it is now clear to me that what is required if theology is to deal satisfactorily with the issues of action and justice (which for many persons are even more urgent) is a theological method comprising thoroughgoing de-ideologizing and political interpretation.32

(Unless you have an addiction issue, in which case you have a more urgent problem than determining a safe level of consumption.).

Among the changes is a rehabilitation of the «urgent question», a piece of procedure which allows MPs to raise topical issues more quickly.

Arising from the issues outlined above, among others, we request for an urgent meeting with the Leader of the party, and the Party Executive leadership to find lasting solutions to the issues raised so as to prepare the party as a fighting force to deliver more pungently on its manifesto and face the 2019 General Elections with even greater commitment.

If this campaign is not to become the most depressing in modern times the central issues, apart from sovereign debt, should be these: urgent reform of the City; the need to build a more balanced economy; youth unemployment; poverty in an era of spending cuts and pay freezes; electoral reform and a new constitutional settlement; the European Union and Britain's place within it; withdrawal from Afghanistan and a multilateral foreign policy.

But he has not tackled many of the more urgent questions and issues (such as electoral reform).

Environmental groups, less wealthy but more enthusiastic, helped politicize the issue with urgent cries of alarm.

If Judy truly were female, she definitely had other endocrine issues to discuss that might be slightly more urgent than her diabetes.

Meanwhile, WHO and Doctors Without Borders (MSF) today issued fresh and even more urgent calls for immediate, massive international action to contain the West African outbreak, which is spiraling out of control.

Citing polls showing that the majority of the U.S. public does believe that climate change is taking place, Holdren said the real problem is that the issue isn't as urgent as other concerns that many people have: «We need to be more in the business of persuading people this needs to be higher on their priority list.»

We are losing more soldiers to suicide than to war, so there's no ignoring the fact that the mental health of the members of our armed forces is an urgent issue.

«The victory is that we are not losing but we are certainly not gaining,» he said, expressing frustration that education continues to be «shelved» as an important issue, often in the face of other issues deemed more urgent.

Those were significant issues when I wrote the original article in 1999, and the changes since then have made it even more urgent that educators at all levels begin seriously to address these critical challenges.

And Neil Carmichael, chairman of Parliament's education select committee, who raised the issue in an urgent Commons question, asked why more delay was necessary.

If we are to ensure that we tackle the increasingly urgent issues around teacher retention and wellbeing then we need to focus on a sharp shift away from top - down leadership and toward more supportive and bottom - up cultures.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration this morning issued an urgent public plea for owners of model - year 2006 Ford Ranger and Mazda B - Series pickup trucks to have... Read more

These differing approaches kept coming to mind as I read Ron Childress» And West is West, a novel that addresses some serious, even urgent, social questions but which seems at times more interested in scoring quick points for being socially conscious than really exploring the issues it raises in a thoughtful and thorough way.

Media Release from Cats Protection Following news last week that the UK has slipped back into recession, a national cat charity has issued an urgent appeal as more cats are being given up than ever before.

Female cats can also get this and it should be also treated, but vets tend to see the issue in male cats as more urgent.

Vomiting in these animals requires urgent veterinary attention as it may be a sign of a more serious issue.

Throughout the Brooklyn Museum's history, our exhibitions and public programs have confronted difficult and urgent issues because we believe that great art and courageous conversations contribute to a more just, civic, and empathetic world.

«As the world in which we live becomes more pluralistic — and issues such as global peace, environmental health and economic justice become more urgent — institutions with strong interfaith and intercultural commitments such as the Rothko Chapel become increasingly important.»

In light of recent events in which the demand for societal reform has become an urgent issue both abroad and at home — from the Arab Spring to the Occupy movement — Ezawa's portrait of democracy could not be more timely.

There's never been a more urgent time to engage your communities on important issues like Sustainability, Simplicity, Food Systems, and Climate Change.

This administration's refusal to constructively address the urgent issue of climate change amounts a lot more to a «high crime» than Clinton's lying about a sexual dalliance.

Environmental groups, less wealthy but more enthusiastic, helped politicize the issue with urgent cries of alarm.

«This issue of climate emergency is only becoming more urgent.

«Politicians need to understand that the issue is more urgent than previously realized,» Hansen said.

But this is, at least in my experience, the first time that «warmers» - those who, like Dr Romm, believe climate change is taking us to hell in a handcart and who lobby for more urgent action on the issue - have resorted to the internet equivalent of taking banners onto the street in an attempt to influence reporting of the issue.