Sentences with phrase «most vulnerable places»

It focused on a substantial intensification of efforts to boost resilience to climate shocks, particularly in the poorest, most vulnerable places, and to curb emissions of greenhouse gases.

But there are vast volumes of studies concluding that rising concentrations of greenhouse gases are already influencing the climate and will continue to raise the odds of fiercer floods, drier droughts and other disruptive changes, including a quickening pace of coastal retreats (and all as human populations soar in some of the world's most vulnerable places).

You'll appear in the most vulnerable places and there are already players who have memorized the terrible spawn spots and exploit them.

With harsher systemic punishment doled out in our most vulnerable places, we need to recognize that classrooms are often the first place where students see inequity, and it's usually not in the resources but in their treatment.

She sees my most vulnerable places and loves me because of them.

Amber sees counseling as «a special invitation by the people stepping into my office to sit with them in their most vulnerable places.»

The report comes as the reef, considered one of the most vulnerable places in the world to the impacts of climate change, is at risk of having its status downgraded by the UN cultural organization UNESCO to «world heritage in danger».

«My sport is a very public thing, and I feel like the most vulnerable place for me is on the starting line of a race.

Not exact matches

Many of the most vulnerable seats House Republicans will have to defend in 2018 are in places like Orange County, California, or affluent suburban areas of New Jersey.

It goes straight to the emotions — in a place we may be vulnerable — loneliness that most people have experienced at one time or another — rather than seeking to appeal to our intelligence.

He is doing what he became a doctor for in the first place: helping others, and the most truly vulnerable at that: children.

I am ashamed that the Church has become the scariest place to come out instead of the safest, that it routinely shuts out the most vulnerable, the most hurting, the most despised, when those were the people Jesus started with, the people he loved most.

Additionally, in a 2009 letter to the United States Senate, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops called on the legislative body to «place the needs of poor families and the most vulnerable in our nation and around the world first in setting priorities in the federal budget resolution.»

It was a revolutionary piece of legislation that placed real consequences on countries preying on the most vulnerable.

The best place and time to witness to someone involved in this is after the high is over and when the consequence of sin kicks in - because thats when a person feels the most vulnerable.

In recent years, Stearns has called the Church to engage in the global refugee crisis and to follow Jesus into the most difficult places in the world to alleviate human suffering and care for the world's most vulnerable children.

Facebook is «a place for good news, not the place where you talk about your most vulnerable self,» says psychologist and author Sherry Turkle.

As apart of this rich annual event, BMBFA is excited to partner with Henry Ford Health System to launch Mommy - Friendly Detroit ™ — a celebration of black motherhood that helps Detroit to become a place where systems, policies and practices align to achieve racial and health equity on behalf of all women, with an emphasis on Detroit's most vulnerable women, their babies, families and communities.

This amazing transformation from an egg and a little swimmer, to a fertilized egg and, ultimately to a tiny, but fully formed baby takes place in a matter of weeks, and while your baby is developing during this period, she is at her most vulnerable to outside influences.

We just need the domestic violence laws already in place to protect adults to be extended to protect our most vulnerable, voiceless, voteless citizens, our children.

When hospital staff refuse to listen to your concerns or respect your wishes, it makes the hospital a frightening place to be when you're already at your most vulnerable.

It also offers evidence that economic growth with commensurate investments in evidence - based programmes that place emphasis on the most vulnerable children and households hold the key to reducing child stunting at scale.

Andrew Griffiths, principal policy officer of the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH) argued: «This survey emphasises the importance for local authorities to have clear enforcement strategies in place to deal with the worst properties and the most vulnerable tenants.»

«New York City must remain a place where progressive policies and laws protect the most vulnerable among us,» said 32BJ President Hector Figueroa.

The State must seize this opportunity to make New York a more affordable place for some of our most vulnerable residents.

We expect every locality to continue to adhere to the standards put into place to protect the most vulnerable among us, moving forward,» Berner said.

«There will be significant cuts, but they must be thoughtful, deliberate, and not place an unfair burden on the backs of seniors, our children, veterans or our most vulnerable citizens.»

It is unacceptable that in 2007, 62 of the most vulnerable patients died while in hospital - somewhere that is meant to be a safe place for them to recover.»

delivers for the most vulnerable among us,» Cuomo said, «including the NYCHA tenants who have had to live with mold, lead and no heat and were placed at risk by a failed bureaucracy.»

A decent, safe and secure place to live is the absolute starting point for success in life, not just for the most vulnerable in society - but all of society.

«The state is committing nearly $ 23 million to improve homes and make New York a better place to live, especially for some of our most vulnerable citizens,» said Governor Cuomo.

County Executive Joanie Mahoney said: «A compassionate government looks to serve all constituents, but holds a special place for those who are most vulnerable.

In the last ten years the failed ideology of «inclusion» and the drop in special school places have left the most vulnerable more exposed,» he said.

«Their organ systems aren't mature and their detox methods are not in place, so cord blood gives us a good picture of exposure during this most vulnerable time of life.»

We must instead explore what makes certain individuals — our own citizens in most cases — so vulnerable to infection in the first place.

Equipped with this sort of information, city planners can better design cities by creating green spaces or building «cooling centers» — places where those lacking air conditioners can shelter during extreme weather — in the most heat - vulnerable neighborhoods.

Here you have an opportunity to fine - tune the position of your spinal curves and support them in a place where they are the most vulnerable.

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But, most importantly, I want to thank the Brierley family for putting themselves in such a vulnerable place and sharing their story with the world.

The case study illustrates how three groups of charter management organizations (CMOs)-- High Tech High in San Diego; Uncommon Schools, KIPP Foundation, and Achievement First in New York; and Match Education in Boston — saw big gaps in the traditional teacher education programs that left their aspiring teachers with no place to learn how to teach effectively in their specific schools or in a way that would allow them to succeed in working with the country's most vulnerable students.

These actions ranged from simpler ones such as finding a safe place to stow student records, to more complex contingency planning, such as mapping of most vulnerable structures, planning for evacuation of children and their families, and provision of temporary schooling alternatives.

«Content is one of the places that teaching is most vulnerable to assumptions and stereotypes.

To reach these ambitious and important goals, appropriate financial flows will be put in place, thus making stronger action by developing countries and the most vulnerable possible, in line with their own national objectives.

For example safe places to play, early learning opportunities, health and nutrition; to us these seem like easy and simple things but the campaign has special emphasis on the poorest, most marginalized and vulnerable children.

Dropout rates of 30 percent in inner city schools no longer seem to shock.And we have allowed this downward definition to take place among our most vulnerable citizens — our poor.

ESSA ends a troublesome era of No Child Left Behind where a one - size - fit - all approach to testing, teaching and school improvement dominated our professional landscape placing unrealistic pressures on our most vulnerable students and those who serve them.

Rather, if we want teachers to use meaningful data to figure out what's happening for their students — especially those most vulnerable and marginalized often by the system itself — we have to attend to the conditions that must be in place for effective adult learning to occur.

The schools of today are not really the places most of us remember from our younger and more vulnerable years — gone are the old chalk - suffering blackboards, cardboard class schedules to carry around in your pocket and the photocopied piles of handouts and learning materials.

We don't mean to scare you in the first place but in this article we have managed to gather some of the most common financial mistakes that people do in their 20's that can end up making them financially vulnerable in the near future.

According to bankruptcy and advisory firm BDO, similar legislation to curb misleading debt settlement practices is already in place in B.C., Alberta, Manitoba and N.S. «The Stronger Protection for Ontario Consumers Act passed by the Ontario government will help safeguard those struggling with debt, when they are most vulnerable, from making rash decisions with no way out,» BDO's Brian Pritchard said in a press released Monday.