Sentences with phrase «of challenges facing our nation»

«This administration is not unaware of the enormity of the challenges facing the nation but we are up to the task,» Mohammed said in an emailed statement.

This Administration is not unaware of the enormity of the challenges facing the nation, but we are up to the task.

He said, «The modern Kakanfo does not need bows and arrows, guns and daggers, but requires courage, boldness, bravery, focus, application of native intelligence to international issues, and the brilliance and adaptability to respond to the myriads of challenges facing our nation and our world today.

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Mary Miller, assistant Treasury secretary for financial markets, said: «We believe S&P's negative outlook underestimates the ability of America's leaders to come together to address the difficult fiscal challenges facing the nation.»

Los Angeles, for instance, faces one of the nation's toughest challenges with homelessness, seeing an 11 % year - over-year increase as of January.

Earlier this year, in his most direct comments on the issue, President Obama said in a speech at the National Cybersecurity Communications Integration Center that cyber threats pose «one of the most serious economic and national security challenges we face as a nation,» and acknowledged that hacking is ongoing.

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), formed more than half a century ago, has historically struggled with challenges facing the region because it works only by consensus and is reluctant to get involved in any matter deemed to be internal to any of its members.

Over this century our nation's economic output and standard of living has increased greatly, but the United States also faced many different challenges — ranging from the Great Depression of the 1930s to the Great Inflation of the 1970s and most recently the financial crisis.

Higher food prices could pose a challenge to the government of the nation's president, Jacob Zuma, who is confronting widening public anger over rising income inequality and whose party, the African National Congress, is expected to face serious challenges in municipal elections this year.

According to The Times newspaper Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta said after meeting with Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu: «Kenya and Israel, just like other nations of the world, are facing the challenges of terrorism and today was a great opportunity to discuss ways of dealing with the issues.

In a YouTube video introducing his book, Most Revd Sentamu said: «One of the greatest challenges that faces our nation has to do with income inequality.

For example, after explaining how their research shows that three - quarters of young outsiders and half of young churchgoers describe present - day Christianity as «too involved in politics,» this is what Kinnaman concludes: «To address the deep challenges that are facing people in our nation and around the world, Gabe and I have come to the conclusion that being politically engaged is more important than ever.»

The same holds of many of the other challenges the nation and the world face in the coming decades.

Operators are facing four big areas of challenge that Technomic sees as transformative, bound to drive changes in how operators approach business: 1) coping with supply chain challenges, including driver shortages; 2) meeting consumer demand for «food with integrity»; 3) dealing with «regulation nation» where industry - disrupting changes may include a higher minimum wage; and 4) incorporating innovations into operations, including new delivery models, variable pricing, self - ordering systems, and robotics.

Our nation faces serious challenges with our children and their parents with rising rates of depression, anxiety, aggression, abuse and other serious emotional and behavioral problems.

He said the economic challenges facing the country are unsurmountable as a result of bad leadership, promising that a PPP government needed just 4 years to change the fortunes of the nation.

The Executive Governor of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, has called on blooming Nigerians to support governments at all tiers in the face of the present economic challenges the nation is going through.

We must invest ourselves not only in the achievements our nation has chalked, but also in the challenges because each of us is the face of Ghana.

Deputy Commissioner John Miller said earlier this month that because the pope's visit will precede the United Nation's General Assembly and a planned trip of President Barack Obama to New York, police face «one of the most significantly challenging security environments maybe in the history of major policing.»

Mrs. Mahama said the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), report in the year 2015, indicated that sub-Saharan Africaremains the home to the largest out of school population of children in the world and although Ghana continue to face its our own challenges, it had achieved universal enrolment of children in primary school.

«This is because Mr President spends every waking hour tackling the enormous challenges facing the nation, most of which were bequeathed to his administration by successive past administrations,» he added.

He urged President Muhammadu Buhari to aggressively look into the issues of security and other challenges facing the nation.

You built huge infrastructure, provided solid roads, installed various power generation capabilities to resolve the power challenges this nation faced as a result of deficits handed down.

The Governor of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola on Thursday told officials of the United Nation's International Children's Emergency Fund and 16 states of Nigeria that he vied for position of Governor in the state in order to put an end to the societal challenges facing the people of the state.

Relations with the EU We agree that the British Government will be a positive participant in the European Union, playing a strong and positive role with our partners, with the goal of ensuring that all the nations of Europe are equipped to face the challenges of the 21st century: global competitiveness, global warming and global poverty.

«We're going with expectations that there will be an open and productive discussion on the challenges that are facing the nation from the threat of emerging contaminants.

Speaking at the Nigerian Army Resource Centre's Seminar with the theme «Repositioning Nigerian Army Command School for Quality Education in the 21st Century in Abuja on Thursday, Buratai who was represented by Major General Lincon Ogunewe, Chief of Policy and Plans, Army HQ, noted that children who were deprived of quality education would be ill - equipped to face the challenges of life while other nations preoccupied themselves in preparation for the 22 century.

I know firsthand the struggles young men of color face in this nation, and I know how challenging it can be to both lead one's own life on the right path while also guiding others in that same direction.

Investigative Post Editor Jim Heaney interviewed Niagara Falls Mayor Paul Dyster on the impact of the Wallenda Walk, the numerous challenges faced by Niagara Falls, and how the standoff between state and Seneca Nation officials is costing the city money that would otherwise be helping to promote economic development.

«We must invest ourselves not only in the achievements our nation has chalked but also in the challenges because each of us is the face of Ghana,» President Mahama said.

According to him, the ruling political party, All Progressives Congress, had identified three major challenges facing the nation as insecurity, poor economy, and corruption, noting that corruption was the most debilitating of all the ills.

The voters of Westchester and Rockland will have a clear choice in this election between a political outsider, who is laser - focused on addressing the considerable economic and fiscal challenges facing our nation, versus someone who continues to kick the can down the road.»

It also presented a chance to double down on his credentials and position himself as a progressive leader for New York — and perhaps the nation — as he faces a primary challenge from the left and a crescendo of voters across the country, at least within his own party, who seem to have little appetite or patience for moderates.

The Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Gabriel Olonisakin, said the military was aware of the security challenges facing the nation.

Former President of Nigeria, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, was one of the participants at this roundtable, and his contributions to the discussion were very insightful and revealing of the challenges and opportunities facing Nigeria, the world's most populous black nation, when considering policy options in the education space.

I condemn it in its entirety and urge all stakeholders coming up with any policy to address the security challenges facing the nation, to tackle them within the confines of our constitution.»

We agree that the British Government will be a positive participant in the European Union, playing a strong and positive role with our partners, with the goal of ensuring that all the nations of Europe are equipped to face the challenges of the 21st century: global competitiveness, global warming and global poverty.

This is because Mr. President spends every waking hour tackling the enormous challenges facing the nation, most of which were bequeathed to his Administration by successive past Administrations.

On the issue of restructuring, the governor pointed out that agitations for the restructuring of the country would intensify until the Federal Government decided to take the right steps to address developmental challenges facing the nation.

Jessica Wyndham, director of AAAS» Scientific Responsibility, Human Rights and Law program, represented the world's largest general scientific organization at the meeting and laid out the meaning of science, the benefits it contributes to human rights, the obligations of nations that are party to the underlying agreement and the challenges facing implementation.

«The solution to many of the greatest challenges faced by our nation will depend to a large degree upon advancements in the fields of science and engineering.

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.

Some of the lowest - ranking nations face broader challenges, such as civil unrest, but the low scores for others can be attributed to weak governance, they note.

Expanding Underrepresented Minority Participation analyzes the rate of change and the challenges the nation currently faces in developing a strong and diverse workforce.

The bipartisan passage of the America COMPETES Act represents a major milestone on this Nation's path to building an innovation economy for the 21st century — an economy that harnesses the scientific and technological ingenuity that has long been at the core of America's prosperity and applies that creative force to some of the biggest challenges we face today.

The study, published in the journal PLOS ONE, explores key challenges that face this burgeoning area of Chinese higher education as the nation pushes to become an academic superpower.

Kessler Foundation, a global leader in rehabilitation research, and Children's Specialized Hospital, the nation's leading provider of inpatient and outpatient care for children facing special health challenges, are actively recruiting participants for research studies.

Kessler Foundation, a global leader in rehabilitation research, and Children's Specialized Hospital, the nation's leading provider of inpatient and outpatient care for children facing special health challenges, are actively recruiting research participants with brain injury or autism.

March 24, East Hanover, NJ / New Brunswick, NJ — Kessler Foundation, a global leader in rehabilitation research, and Children's Specialized Hospital, the nation's leading provider of inpatient and outpatient care for children facing special health challenges, have renewed their collaboration by signing a three - year agreement, with a funding level of $ 2.1 million, to continue their research program for children with disabilities.

Children's Specialized Hospital is the nation's leading provider of inpatient and outpatient care for children from birth to 21 years of age facing special health challenges — from chronic illnesses and complex physical disabilities like brain and spinal cord injuries, to developmental and behavioral issues like autism and mental health.