Sentences with phrase «most challenging nature»

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As a result, many people believe Carson is a flat - out mass murderer - not a hero who beautifully blended care for human health and nonhuman nature in one of the most important and challenging books of the 20th century.

The snowboard business comes with inherent cash challenges, most of which are due to the seasonal nature of the sport.

It can be a challenge to get even the most enthusiastic of employees to participate in team - building activities, and the announcement of mandatory events of this nature often prompts further complaints.

TJN is an extensive and multi-sectoral network uniting environmental, civil society, student, Indigenous, cultural, farming, labour and social justice groups whose aim is to challenge the scope and secretive nature of most free trade agreements.

One of the most dramatic changes in my own denomination is the shift away from the adult midnight service on Christmas Eve to a wildly popular «family» service at an earlier hour, which by its very nature can not offer much in the way of a sermon or more challenging music.

For some reason, the nature and the growth of thought that are necessary for the elaboration of great stones, great histories, great myths — or even ordinary ones — have not seemed very attractive or challenging to most of us.

However, the traditional Western - Christian paradigm of nature is being challenged by new ecological models and theoretical explanations of the interconnectedness of humanity with nature developing within the natural sciences.2 Recent Christian theological discussion, most notably process theology, also focuses on these same scientific models in recognition of the inadequacies of traditional Christian and secular views of nature.3 Of course, there are a number of Western versions of this emerging ecological paradigm; no two of them are exactly alike in their technical details or explanatory categories.

History and nature, nature and history, are inter-related most intimately and directly; and although much may be wrong with Professor Toynbee's discussion of history, he is surely right in insisting that climate, situation, and natural phenomena in all their great variety have played a genuine role in what he describes as the «challenge - and - response theme which for him is the basic historical motif.

From the perspective of the International Rice Research Institute this will present a major new challenge to how we organize our breeding programs, the nature of the products we produce, and perhaps most importantly, how we relate to our partners.

In fact, I've always felt that the most impressive gauge of his triumph, and the best insight into the nature of the Channel's challenge, is that before the next man successfully swam it again 36 years went by.

@Almir, everyone knows how the PL is the most physically challenging league in world and prob only Scotland can compare with the fighting nature and battle for every 50/50 ball..

«The Nature Conservancy in New York applauds Governor Cuomo for his continued leadership on combating climate change, the most pressing environmental challenge facing our world,» said Jessica Ottney Mahar, the group's policy director.

On the subject of antigravity (19 April, p 34), understanding the essential nature of forces that act at a distance, such as magnetism and gravity, must be one of the most exciting challenges in science.

But as Al - Khalili points out, most apparent paradoxes are no such thing — they are misconceptions that challenge and often improve our understanding of nature.

The challenge received 37 submissions, most from people who knew nothing about ALS, says Neta Zach, Prize4Life's scientific director in Tel Aviv, Israel, and an author on the new paper, published online on 2 November in Nature Biotechnology.

However, in most situations occurring in nature particles interact with each other, which makes it challenging to understand and calculate the angular momentum properties even for small systems.

Whereas most empirical and theoretical work has considered populations evolving to a single challenge, in nature, these challenges often are multiple and sometimes orthogonal.

Attribution of hurricane characteristics to climate change is extremely challenging, and the authors have focussed only on the precipitation response, which is perhaps the most well understood, and is particularly important given the nature of the flooding in Texas due to Harvey.

I'm sure not all of them bloom but for the most part, Nature has both the challenge and the reward of growth built in.

They're one of the most sustainable and nutritious protein sources found in nature and could be part of a solution to all the challenges around food and feed security as the world's population continues to rise, and with it, the demand for food.

Even in this, the most original Marvel movie, there's a sameness to the rhythm of the storytelling and the nature of the CGI, which is just money thrown at creative challenges.

Composed of interviews with some of the game's most famous brawlers, like Dave Semenko, Dave Schultz and George Parros, ICE GUARDIANS gives these players a rare chance to reflect on the precarious nature of their position as well the challenges they faced in trying to make it to the NHL.

All ideas are challenged, and the nature of belief is explored in a way that no one but Scorsese — the Catholic filmmaker who helped forge the hedonistic excesses of New Hollywood, and who once made the most controversial but fundamentally reverential film about Jesus Christ — ever could.

The challenge might as handily have been provoked by numerous interpersonal events of a more explicitly private nature (but these lack the cachet of apparent social comment); for the most compelling relationships in the film and the narrative turns they generate are satisfyingly free of 1:1, paint - by - the - numbers cause and effect.

It's a challenging film that goes against convention as most of it relies on man vs nature rather than forced internal struggles to bring about tension within the script.

Cathy Moriarty and Bridget Everett, also forces of nature, support Macdonald in one of the most intimate and touching family stories in a while that challenges our thinking about many social issues.

This is also considered one of the most challenging points for online education programs due to the nature of learning and its delivery system.

The chassis again impressed, and despite the challenging nature of the roads — more demanding than most family errands or vacations would require — the Highlander remained unfazed.

For some, it's all about the adventure and challenge of piloting a vehicle through terrain that would stop most automobiles in their tracks, while for others it represents a chance to get away from the hustle and bustle of the world and relax in the peacefulness of nature.

Selecting from options such as healthcare, manufacturing, technology and the financial sector is no easy challenge, especially given the increasing economic uncertainty and fluctuating nature of most market sectors.

This was a challenge within the materials sector because of the cyclical nature of most of its constituents.

The roads can be startling for their steep and winding nature, but the challenge is rewarded with the most astonishing vistas.

Italians have been slow to embrace online travel purchases for diverse reasons: broadband penetration is low and still relatively expensive; they are by nature hesitant to release personal information over the Internet; traditional offline players have powerful ties and still sell the vast majority of travel related products; tour operators have been cautious about challenging conventional distribution channels; credit card usage is still relatively low and most credit cards have limited spending margins per month and the country's population is aging rapidly, resulting in slower adoption of the Internet than other markets.

Sipadan is the ideal place to take these courses as you will be able to make the most of the beautiful and dramatic dive sites at depth and fully equipped for the sometimes challenging nature of diving at this location.

Koster said some players probably appreciated the challenge and how it showed the interconnected nature of Galaxies, but «most just macroed their way» through content.

This probably felt like second nature to Japanese players, but for North American players, they were one of the most challenging enemies in the game.

«The attention to detail, historical accuracy and physical nature of Mike Nelson's sculptural practice guarantee that his new installation for the British Pavilion will be one of the most challenging solo presentations ever mounted in over 70 years of exhibitions organised by the British Council in Venice.»

It was met with a response from Joe Scanlan that underscores the tone - deaf nature of the whole undertaking, in which he justifies the «Donelle Woolford» project by extolling the educational value that producing the work has had for him personally: «I only want to say that the experiences I have had working on Donelle Woolford have been some of the most intellectually challenging and humanly rewarding experiences of my life.»

In building their collection of photographs since 2007, Robert Meyerhoff and Rheda Becker turned to the most innovative contemporary work that challenges accepted conventions of the nature of photography — in scale, subject matter, and method of creation — and has helped to ensure the medium's prominence in the contemporary art arena.

One of Britain's most original and inventive sculptors, Penelope Curtis, former director of Tate Britain, has described Flanagan as «a maverick figure but a maverick who was absolutely central to the artistic conversation of the 1960s and 70s».2 One of the influential generation of artists studying at St Martin's School of Art in the early to mid-1960s, Flanagan reacted against the formal rigidity of sculpture at that time, challenging the nature of the medium and contributing to a new understanding of the practice.

One of the founders and most prominent practitioners of the «land art» or «earth art» movement, Michael Heizer has, since the 1960s, challenged the art world to escape the confines of the gallery or the museum and inhabit nature itself — and dared viewers to experience art on a super-human scale.

One question: on «Most will be aware, for example, that the conclusion that the past few decades are likely the warmest of the past millennium — i.e. the conclusion of the best - known of Mike's papers in Nature and Geophysical Research Letters — has never been seriously challenged.»

Most will be aware, for example, that the conclusion that the past few decades are likely the warmest of the past millennium — i.e. the conclusion of the best - known of Mike's papers in Nature and Geophysical Research Letters — has never been seriously challenged.

If we quiet human cleverness and follow nature's lead, says Janine Benyus, we see that most of our challenges have

Peter Kareiva, the chief scientist of the Nature Conservancy and perhaps the most prominent critic of the conservation movement from within its own ranks, has had his arguments sharply challenged.

By continually hammering on climate change or global warming — a challenge for sure, but abstract and not immediate to most people's experience — we've disconnected from most people who have more immediate concerns; we've virtually stopped talking about the impacts of air and water pollution on their children's health, the psychological damage all of us experience when nature around us is destroyed, and so on.

There is also the thought (for someone who is sceptical by nature) that the most important thing for a scientific orthodoxy is for it to be ruthlessly, mercilessly challenged in every way imaginable.

Note that even among this extensive list, while the most serious «challenge» is the U.S. - centric nature of the list / discussion, here are two examples of serious «missing» items:

There are significant risks, uncertainties, and challenges surrounding most carbon removal solutions, but these risks are similar in nature and scope to the risks of conventional climate mitigation approaches.

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