Sentences with phrase «most public challenges»

Those were the words Jimmy Connors used in the seventies to issue one of the most public challenges in sports history to Sweden's Bjorn Borg.

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Comments: «We are entering the fifth year post «The Great Contraction» with considerable progress made in deleveraging the financial and household sectors; however, the most complex stage - stabilizing public sector debt - remains a formidable challenge.

Most startups face a major challenge when it comes to public relations.

[109][110][111] Corzine later wrote that only after the proposal was released did he discover «the harsh reality: the public intensely disliked the idea» and that, in retrospect, he «should have pressed harder to identify the most salient arguments against the plan and developed a strategy to get in front of and respond to those challenges.»

«Assembling a workable public consensus on energy and climate change is the most challenging agenda item in Canadian politics today.

CHAPTER NINE: Part D — The decision to go public can be one of the most important ones in a company's history; and one of the most challenging.

And this secular culture challenged a church (and most theologians) concerned with private and personal, «existential» problems to become active and involved in the more serious public Issues of a segregated and an imperialistic America.

Most of these lectures aim at bringing the insights of Hinduism and Buddhism closer to Indian and Western Christians as well as philosophers, to deepen their understanding of faith and expand it to other forms of belief.43 His anthology «The Vedic Experience» which has been accepted and respected by many Hindus, tries to present texts from the Veda and the Upanishads in such a way that they become open towards other beliefs and transparent for the depth of faith.44 An important aspect of his literary production, already central at the beginning, but gaining prominence again lately, has been to address a Western public that faces the challenge of having to seek its religious identity and not being able to take it for granted.

The churches at this point have a great responsibility not to advocate over-all idealistic solutions but to emphasize the distinctively Christian message that is relevant to these issues, to help their members to see the world without the characteristic American ideological blinders, to challenge many of the prevailing assumptions about the cold war and nuclear armaments, and to encourage the debate on public questions about which most people prefer to be silent.

Our challenge is to present better educational offerings, using what - ever tools are most efficacious, which no doubt would include public schools.

Several Jewish religious organizations, most notably Chabad - Lubavitch, a pietistic Brooklyn - based sect with a highly developed and zealous outreach program, are currently challenging the American Jewish consensus on public religious invisibility.

Why the public loves New Mexico State: New Mexico State is the most popular 12 - seed to advance to the round of 32 in ESPN's Tournament Challenge brackets.

To make matters worse, they argued that many in the media - most especially, in my personal experience, those active in social media - not only ignore and / or severely criticize research findings that don't fit the football = CTE and CTE = suicide narrative, but label anyone who dares to challenge that narrative or call for further study a «CTE denier» or a «shill» trying to advance their own vested interests, * confuse the public and conflate the issues, or all the above.

According to the DoH, smoking is the biggest preventable cause of death in England, accounting for more than 80,000 premature deaths each year and tobacco use is one of the most significant public health challenges.

The UK public should object to Trump's divisiveness and they should challenge his vulgarism, but they should do so through the most effective methods at our disposal.

It builds on a challenging, if intuitively persuasive, premise: that we really can identify what, in its most recent Inquiry, the Committee called «best practice in promoting good behaviour in public life».

On Friday 26th April, the Oxford Union hosted another in the series of «Head to Head» programmes, organised by and filmed for Al Jazeera, where this time interviewer Mehdi Hasan challenged one of the world's most famous public intellectuals, Bernard - Henri Levy, on whether foreign military intervention could ever be justified,

On Mark's broader arguments, it is important that political movements seek to challenge and change public attitudes on issues that they think most important.

«Previous studies have also noted that the financial condition of the most troubled institutions is, to a large extent, a product of an inefficient expense structure, revenue challenges associated with a patient mix that approaches 90 percent public payers and charity care, and overwhelming liabilities (including debt issued long ago for physical plant improvements that, in some cases, are obsolete),» the health department said in its announcement.

But their evidence (and a complementary public debt analysis by Kenneth Rogoff and Carmen Reinhart) were quickly challenged by most economists who re-examined it, with Paul Krugman throwing a last stick of Nobel dynamite onto the pyre.

Collective bargaining agreements would have to be modified for covered employees, perhaps most challenging for the public sector and in situations with agreements for future increases already in place.

«This coming year is going to be one of the most challenging years for the trade union movement - and public sector trade unions in particular - as the coalition government seeks to make the public sector and its workforce pay for the crisis, through cuts to jobs, services, pay and pensions.

The latter have long been on the public health agenda, but we are arguing that in order to make the most effective challenge to health inequalities, in addition a much wider range of intervention needs to be brought into play.

The government is hiking the costs of the process so much that most people simply won't be able to afford to mount a legal challenge against the executive - whether that's a government minister, your local council, or any other public sector area where busybody officials look to take shortcuts.

In launching what became confidently rated and endorsed by the public as the most comprehensive ranking in Ghana so far, Prince Akpah, MD of Avance Media stated, «even though 2015 was marked as a year coupled with lot of challenges, it also turned out to be a motivating one attested by the massive involvement of young people in various activities bringing at par their works and impacts.»

The BHA's Head of Public Affairs Naomi Phillips commented, «Recent years have seen some of the most compelling challenges to the law and policy on assisted dying in the UK and, if successful, this case could be key in affecting some change in this area.

Progress has always been the part of the party most in tune with the British public, rather than Labour members or supporters, and has been unafraid to challenge Labour to engage with new voters, rather than preach to the converted.

Science and technology will be critical in our efforts to tackle the most urgent societal challenges, be it climate change, food security, or public health.

In an age when science influences every aspect of life — from the most private intimacies of sex and reproduction to the most public collective challenges of climate change and the economy — and in a time when democracy has become the dominant form of government on the planet, it is important that the voters push elected officials and candidates of all parties to explicitly state their views on the major science questions facing the nation.

The AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowships (STPF) is the premier opportunity for outstanding scientists and engineers to learn first - hand about public policy while using their knowledge and analytical skills to address today's most pressing societal challenges.

As Japanese officials consider whether and when to reactivate most of the country's 54 nuclear plants, a year after the Fukushima reactor disaster, they continue to face challenges to public confidence in the nuclear industry and its regulator.

The remaining few infections are often in the most rural or challenging spots — ongoing conflict between Islamic militants and counterterrorism forces in Mali, for example, has made it difficult for public health advocates to safely work in the area.

Given aging U.S. infrastructure, limited public resources and the challenges created by a changing climate, the need to understand the most cost - efficient approach to the design, construction and maintenance of structures is more important than ever.

Back in June, the public chose antibiotic resistance as the most worthy challenge, and since then a lot more attention has been paid to the huge problem posed by declining efficacy of antibiotics.

Through annual giving, members of this group foster community engagement in some of the most pressing public policy challenges while interacting with world leaders, national decision - makers and leading researchers.

The Center for Energy Studies at Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy and the Qatar Leadership Centre hosted a roundtable on February 15 - 16, 2017, in Doha, Qatar, to discuss some of the most pressing challenges facing market participants in the global energy landscape, with a focus on several issues of paramount interest to Qatar and the broader Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).

BodyImageHealth confronts many of today's most challenging public health concerns — poor eating and fitness habits, rising rates of obesity, weight stigma, body dissatisfaction, and eating disorders — with a new, evidence - based model for prevention of body image, eating, fitness and weight concerns before they start.

From her first moment on the public stage, she has challenged traditional American notions about what it means to be beautiful, to be strong, to be fashion conscious, to be healthy, to be First Mom, to be a caretaker and hostess, and to be partner to the most powerful man in the world.

The World Health Organization (WHO) regards childhood obesity as one of the most serious global public health challenges for the 21st century.

What struck me most during my initial conversations with Jean - Claude — and since — was on full public display during his most challenging times in Rochester and Chicago.

And our best public charter schools are demonstrating that tremendous success is possible even in the most challenging of circumstances.

In most traditional public and private schools, only the strongest students are admitted to the most challenging AP classes in math and science.

His most recent book, A Mission from God: A Memoir and Challenge for America, reflects on Meredith's personal life but also dares Americans to overhaul the public education system so that all people can overcome poverty.

Obesity, along with mental health, is now one of the most serious public health challenges that our society faces in the 21st century.

The meetings will invigorate a national public dialogue about how to take the most promising school and community innovations to scale, and address potential challenges that arise.

The systematic evidence clearly shows that school officials dominate special education, parents rarely challenge school officials» decisions, schools win most of those challenges from parents, and parents very rarely get their children placed in private schools at public expense.

Public - school boards have over most of their history faced challenges from education professionals on the one hand and from larger units of government on the other.

Most of these proposals seriously challenge the defining features of the American public school system that developed after World...

As he noted in a 1967 essay for The Public Interest, his report's most startling finding — that students» achievement appeared to be more strongly related to their family background than their schools» resources — posed a challenge for policymakers seeking to narrow racial gaps in achievement.

Tenth - grade world history students interview Chinese immigrants and record their stories; ninth - grade physical science students design and strength - test mock airplane wings; junior English students research, write, and illustrate children's nonfiction picture books; algebra students of all grades investigate a public - transit problem and propose solutions to city officials; sophomore geometry students build scale models of museums they've designed; students across the grades in an environmental - stewardship class raise public awareness of a polluted river — all are examples of academically challenging projects that also manage to engage the minds, hands, and hearts of most high school students across a wide range of abilities and interests.