Sentences with phrase «more widespread movement»

I knew about the tiny house movement, but I wasn't aware of the more widespread movement to downsize everything from possessions to clothes to finances.

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But the potential to inspire more widespread and passionate empathy and sympathy through these demonstrations could crack the key problem facing the gun control movement today.

It is fuelled by a great many legitimate grievances such as poor administration and the evidence of corruption made public by the Car Wash Operation, but it is also led by the prejudices of a privileged social class which discourages more widespread support for the movement.

The #MeToo movement has focused on sexual harassment, but in a survey of parliamentary staff, the Commons leader Andrea Leadsom's working group found that bullying was the more widespread problem in parliament.

Widespread publicity of the opt - out movement last spring, when about 20 % of New York students in grades three through eight boycotted the federally mandated tests, made more families aware of the option.

While there is a movement underway to reform the industry to be more responsible, there are not yet widespread good practices in place for conscious, sustainable palm oil harvesting.

The Common Core education movement has been accompanied by a rapid and widespread interest in the use of standards - aligned, research - supported comprehensive assessment systems to help guide local edu... Read More...

While the concept of digital textbooks at the higher education level became a widespread topic of discussion in the past couple of years, new movements in digital publishing have made digital textbooks a more viable option in even public education.

Although many abstract artists maintain that Abstraction is a community, there is widespread interest in exploring the artists of the movement who lived outside of its more globally recognized regions and schools.

Before you bid on this week's lots, take a look back at the groundbreaking and remarkable auctions for now - renowned contemporary artists like Jasper Johns, Rachel Whiteread, Tracey Emin, Damien Hirst, and more, for whom mainstream auction success can signal or inspire widespread acceptance of once controversial methods and movements.

One happy discovery I've made is that the zero waste movement is much more popular and widespread than I thought.

For more than 40 years he has set the terms and defined the principles of the sustainability movement through his companies — McDonough Innovation, William McDonough + Partners, and MBDC — creating its seminal buildings, products, texts, enterprises and preparing the ground for its widespread growth.

Although the 1970s «back - to - the - land» movement (which coincided with historic energy crises) largely fizzled, perhaps due to cheap oil flowing from the North Sea and Alaska during the 1980s and 1990s, we may be on the cusp of similar, more widespread, and possibly more desperate trends today.

Widespread networks of observers are especially well - suited to detecting global change — shifts in weather patterns; movements in the ranges of species; large - scale transformations of eco-systems — and that, unfortunately, is something we will need to know far more about if we are to mitigate and adapt to the fateful effects we are having on the planet.

He claims that movement founder Rob Hopkins (see my interview with Rob Hopkins for more on his philosophy) talks «almost cheerfully about passing peak oil, widespread food shortages and the idea of globalization crashing suddenly» and he quotes Jennifer Gray, founder of the US arm of Transition, as telling the New York Times that she expects a «a big population die - off.»

The global conservation movement is little more than a century old and, throughout its life, has displayed a consistent and defining characteristic: a brave and worthy but often futile struggle against the forces of growing human consumption, typified by persistent and widespread declines in species» populations, habitats, and natural resources, and the rising specter of climate change.

Since then, each January has served as an annual kickoff of the widespread movement to connect more of the nation's young people with caring adult mentors.

Widespread anger and concern about the threatened closure of remote Aboriginal communities in Western Australia have galvanised a national movement of opposition, as has been seen in a serie... Read more

But as other vendors follow IBM's lead and consumer awareness about wireless becomes more widespread, the lack of a single standard for wireless communication in all types of products could slow the movement toward a completely wireless world.