Sentences with phrase «nature of a crisis»

He correctly pointed out the systemic nature of the crisis and the serious risk of contagion not just for Europe, but also for the world economy.

The nature of that crisis, however, remains a question.

The others seem to have been in a mood of mingled exaltation and bewilderment; they felt they were in the midst of momentous happenings, but had little inkling of the real nature of the crisis that was upon them.

At the same time that the counselor is assessing the nature of the crisis, he will also be assessing the strengths of the person's resources.

Two differing perspectives on the nature of that crisis and its appropriate remedies emerge.

This in essence - though no doubt somewhat different and more complex in the literal situation - is the nature of the crisis: Egypt imposes death on the Hebrew, either in the form of minimal existence, or in the form of extinction!

The response of Parliament would depend heavily on the nature of the crisis, the balance of the political parties, and the personalities involved.

Frederick Kempe, in Berlin 1961: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth (Penguin, # 12.99) has used declassified documents from the US and Russia, personal papers, diaries and interviews with many of the leading players to explain the origins and nature of this crisis.

Brown counters with more on the global nature of the crisis.

Introduction to issue of Human Ecology that focuses on the interrelated nature of crisis in human and environmental systems and argues that the right to a healthy environment is a fundamental human right.

That is the nature of the crises that we face today.

The nature of the crisis has also changed.

While many of the solutions to the climate crisis will be found within the political system, there should be bipartisan and transpartisan agreement on the basic nature of the crisis and the sense of urgency that is appropriate for us to solve it.»

To a wide segment of the American public, the dramatic increase in world oil prices may not have immediately registered, but skyrocketing gasoline prices brought home the nature of the crisis, prompting a recognized need for a national energy policy.

They will continue the struggle to communicate the nature of the crisis and advocate for solutions.

The U.S. State Department has a very specific role when an overseas crisis occurs, and the actions they take depend on the nature of the crisis.

Often the very nature of a crisis is such that it's hard to believe it's actually happening.

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The CEO responding to a crisis must likewise work from knowledge: knowledge of the nature of ethical obligation, knowledge of her company's own values, and knowledge of the interests of various stakeholders.

The improvisational nature of ethics is particularly plain when a company is faced with an organizational crisis.

But an imminent debt crisis seems unlikely, due to the different nature of China's current debt.

The nature and importance of that role in the run - up to these and other crises is the subject of ongoing research and debate.2

Make no mistake: when the next crisis strikes, especially one of a monetary nature, it'll be more than just the silver price that soars.

Eric Janszen, Interview with Dr. Michael Hudson 6 November, 2010 Janszen (E): What I'm noting, starting with the gold crisis over the last few weeks, and the public nature of some of the complaints that we're hearing out of Brazil and China and the front page of the Financial Times, we seem to be heading into a pretty serious currency crisis.

The issues at play here, such as some easing in concerns regarding the crisis in the eurozone and the prospects of slowing growth in emerging markets, look to be much more global in nature, relative to the natural - gas market.

Given the credit crisis and the fragile nature of the recovery, specific opportunity, particularly in the areas of real estate and corporate debt, await the keen investor.

In the United States, I think a big part of this recent global equity market selloff, particularly the violent nature of it in October, is an indicator that perhaps the scars from the 2007 — 2009 financial crisis still are fairly deep.

An investigation that began after the crisis over sexual abuse of children in the Boston Archdiocese fully emerged in 2002 has pored over records dating back more than 60 years, with subsequent decisions on who to name based on the nature of the accusations and other factors, according to O'Malley.

When the ecological crisis gained attention in the late sixties, people found that «God» was the enemy of nature as well.

But the urgent question is the question of a better alternative when the nature of our present crisis is such that our option is a forced option.

In comedies as diverse as Shakespeare's and those on prime time television, life progresses from a state of crisis created by some illusion to a harmonious recovery brought about by discovering the true nature of the circumstances.

If it is true, as Holloway argues, that the very foundations of matter and the identity of human nature are aligned upon the coming of the Word made flesh, then a society which is uncertain about the existence of God and whether Man has any meaning or purpose must be subject to crisis, alienation and chaos even more inevitably than CiV is able to show.

Writing in The Christian Century nearly two decades ago, educator Richard Baer noted: «So far the church has not sufficiently grasped the nature of the present [ecological] crisis, has not understood how powerfully dehumanizing is man's wanton exploitation of his natural environment, has not appreciated the degree to which man - made ugliness and the fouling of natural beauty are corroding man's mind and spirit» («Land Misuse: A Theological Concern,» October 12, 1966, p. 1240).

But neither the science texts nor the standards address religious interpretations of nature or of the environmental crisis.

In the latter regard, H. Paul Santmire whose study of the history of Western attitudes toward nature is one of the best available, provides perspective when he writes: «The theological tradition of the West is neither ecologically bankrupt, as some of its popular and scholarly critics have maintained and as numbers of its own theologians have assumed, nor replete with immediately accessible, albeit long - forgotten ecological riches hidden everywhere in its deeper vaults, as some contemporary Christians, who are profoundly troubled by the environmental crises and other related concerns, might wistfully hope to find» (Santmire, 5).

One way of viewing the religious crisis of our time is to see it not in the first instance as a challenge to the intellectual cogency of Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, or other traditions, but as the gradual erosion, in an ever more complex and technological society, of the feeling of reciprocity with nature, organic interrelatedness with the human community, and sensitive attention to the processes of lived experience where the realities designated by religious symbols and assertions are actually to be found, if they are found at all.

The rationale for the Charter is apocalyptic: «The prevailing development patterns in both the South and the North are leading the Planet to an economic, social, and environmental crisis which threatens the existence of human life and the integrity of Nature.»

Last June Pope Benedict suggested that, in response to modernity's «prolonged crisis» and posing of «an «anthropological question»» Catholic thought must take account of modernity's «more exact understanding of human nature».

Christianity, they say, is a religion of crisis, a judgment which regards even the highest achievements of human culture as vitiated by man's fallen nature and doomed to destruction.»

When Dorothee Sölle wrote in 1971 of the indivisible salvation of the whole world, she and her readers assumed without reflection that the whole world is the world of human beings.1 But as the seventies progressed and the environmental crisis forced itself on public attention, more and more Christians became troubled about the separation of humanity from the rest of nature.

The first manifestation of this dilemma or contradiction leading to possible mortality is the ecological crisis — the threat which an expanding technological and industrial culture poses to the nature system and the natural resources on which all life depends, including the life of a technological and industrial society itself.

New cultural building will begin only when more men and women recognize the religious nature of the cultural crisis.

Because the crisis of decision in the present moment gives man his essential character, he can not console or justify himself by viewing his sin as a weakness which forms no part of his true nature, or as a mistake which is an exception to be outweighed by appealing to his normal self.

It may be enlightening to observe that in its history Christianity has undergone several crises of a similar nature.1 They all were successfully overcome, but each of the crises of the past has led in some direct way to the critical state of affairs in the church of the present day.

The present ecological crisis is partially the practical consequence of the old Newtonian philosophy of nature as dead, insensitive, and mechanical; and Hartshorne's panpsychism should aid man's efforts to rethink his relation to the cosmos.

We do not need the grace of God to withstand crises — human nature and pride are sufficient for us to face the stress and strain magnificently.

At the core of the environmental crisis is a great divide between mind and body, between head and heart, between human and nature.

The method of crisis intervention can be organized into four steps: the assessment of the problem, planning the nature of the intervention, the intervention itself, and the resolution and withdrawal.

For the philosophically and theologically inclined, it is important to keep the nature of James's crisis in mind.

The super-normal incidents, such as voices and visions and overpowering impressions of the meaning of suddenly presented scripture texts, the melting emotions and tumultuous affections connected with the crisis of change, may all come by way of nature, or worse still, be counterfeited by Satan.

They reflect the confusion of the national debate over the nature and extent of the «energy crisis» and the remedies needed.