Sentences with phrase «of failing the state»

These are lines we can not cross if we want to hold on to a functioning human civilization — not a collection of failed states, desperate environmental refugees and collapsing food systems.

They are victims of failed states — a reminder of the importance of well - governed societies for any global system of justice.

Six field goals allowed is a different sort of fail state, but also one that should be able to be overcome on a balanced team.

As Roger Short of the University of Melbourne writes in the introduction, «The inexorable increase in human numbers is exhausting conventional energy supplies, accelerating environmental pollution and global warming, and providing an increasing number of failed states where civil unrest prevails,» among other faults.

So in the May issue, Lester Brown of the Earth Policy Institute, he writes an essay in which he raises sort of the specter that potentially, in the decades to come, that if we are not careful, that these problems with maintaining a sufficient food supply could get bad enough that it actually would threaten the state of civilization globally; that it just could cause widespread chaos, cause a large number of failed states and trigger [an] enormous number of problems down the line.

Rather, they were successful at raising the performance of students who were otherwise at risk of failing the state test without sacrificing the performance of lower - and higher - performing students.

Staffers also conduct summer, fall, and spring home visits between and during the sophomore and junior years to students who are at risk of not graduating because of deficiencies in course credits, the possibility of failing the state high school exit exam (a condition of graduation), or poor grades.

«NCLB asked states and districts to focus their efforts on interventions for students in Title I schools that were failing or at risk of failing the state's academic achievement standards, as measured by annual assessments.

The relaxing music, vibrant visuals and the lack of a fail state lull you into a relaxed state where hours can pass by unnoticed.

Ultimately, this makes for a much more relaxed affair than most games and when coupled with the lack of fail state in the game, Fragments of Him just over two hour duration makes it an easily digestible prospect if not one that represents especially good value for money.

But there's a lot of failed states out there that went bankrupt from their PMC habits... And they owe a shit load of money.

I am not convinced that the number of failing states is growing.

Yes, there are a lot of failing states.

The countries at the top of the lengthening list of failing states are not particularly surprising.

In many ways, the most basic indicator of our plight is the number of failing states.

Our future depends on reversing both the spread of hunger and the growing number of failing states, but this will not happen if we continue with business as usual.

As the number of hungry people has risen, so too has the number of failing states.

Indeed, the inability to do so is one of the hallmarks of a failing state.

Each year the list of failing states grows longer, leaving us with a disturbing question: How many failing states before our global civilization begins to unravel?

Not exact matches

The coup attempt failed within a day, and Erdogan was quick to use the opportunity to solidify his already increasingly authoritarian rule by implementing a three - month state of emergency, temporarily suspending the European Convention on Human Rights, and removing tens of thousands of employees from military and government positions.

The terms of service of crowdfunding sites state that they aren't responsible for campaigns that fail to deliver on their promises.

If your state fails to set up a SHOP exchange in time, the federal government will be obligated to provide an alternative, most likely one of its own.

THE OFFICIAL REACTION: Finance Minister Vítor Gaspar said the ratings cut failed to reflect broad political support for the country's latest financial rescue program, and also a new income tax which he portrayed as «proof of the government's determination» to meet stated deficit targets.

With Erdogan cracking down on thousands of people in the judiciary, education, military, and civil service after last weekend's failed coup, a lawmaker from the main opposition party warned that the state of emergency created «a way of ruling that paves the way for abuse».

The state government's failed shared services scheme will be completely decommissioned and its managing office shut down by the end of 2013 at a cost of $ 90 million.

Filed in a Los Angeles federal court, the suit states that «Uber failed to implement and maintain reasonable security procedures and practices appropriate to the nature and scope of the information compromised in the data breach,» according to Bloomberg.

Nor is Trump likely to fill the fiscal - responsibility vacuum: The President failed to even mention fiscal «deficits» or «debt» a single time in his 5,866 - word State of the Union Address.

The president failed to even mention «deficits» or «debt» a single time in his 5,866 - word state of the Union address.

UNITED NATIONS / TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters)- The United States threatened unilateral action against Iran on Monday after Russia vetoed a western bid for the United Nations Security Council to call out Tehran for failing to prevent its weapons from falling into the hands of Yemen's Houthi group.

She plans to revisit the idea once in office, with an eye to addressing some of the failings of the current law, which allows for private insurers to vie for customers on federal and state - run health insurance exchanges.

I reviewed an article recently that stated that almost ninety percent of small businesses failed to follow up quotes that they send out.

Ljung and cofounder Eric Wahlforss accepted «no ownership of the responsibility and no admittance of fault,» the source claimed, adding that they also failed to state whether there would be any repercussions for the executives that have led SoundCloud into the sticky position it now finds itself in.

The current electricity providers and the electricity grid have failed a number of times over the extremely hot summer, leaving the entire state without power.

The department, conducting an antitrust review stretching more than a year, so far has failed to persuade any of the states to join a potential lawsuit but has sent them a draft of the complaint, according to the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

«The Liberal government remains busy tinkering with eco fees and tweaking with failed recycling programs while we ship a third of our province's waste — or four million tonnes — to the United States every year,» he said.

The problem with sensitive men is they fail to meet perceptions of how a CEO should act, according to Mark Frame, a Middle Tennessee State University psychology professor.

That suit alleges that the distributor failed to identify, report, and stop the shipment of suspicious orders of opioids in the state from 2007 to the present in violation of West Virginia's controlled substances act.

Italy opened the bidding process for state - controlled airline Alitalia on Friday, hoping private investors will succeed in reviving the unprofitable carrier after repeated injections of state aid failed to do so.

And there are plenty of instances in which member states have failed to deliver on bold promises made on a global stage.

Similarly, Jerry Moran of Kansas has expressed worry over the repeal of Obamacare's individual mandate and his own state of Kansas» failed history with tax cuts.

Jon Levs, author of All in: How Our Work - First Culture Fails Dads, Families, and Businesses — And How We Can Fix It Together, studied the effect of paid leave in California and New Jersey, which have paid family leave programs, and found that the majority of businesses reported that their state's paid leave programs had either no effect or a positive effect on their business.

But again last month at the NATO summit, Trump failed to publicly reaffirm Article 5 of the alliance's treaty, which states that an attack on one ally is an attack on all.

In its largest market, the United States, cost savings pushed up profits but volumes fell as the growth of higher - end beers failed to compensate did not make up for falling sales of Budweiser and Bud Light.

In early January, Ant Financial, the electronics payment affiliate of China's Alibaba Group, and MoneyGram, a Texas - based money transfer company, announced that it had been forced to abandon a proposed deal after failing to win approval from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), a congressional panel that reviews foreign purchases of American companies.

The first paragraph of the story states, «Brave Vladimir Putin was the subject of a failed assassination attempt in Moscow as the New World Order attempted to silence their most formidable enemy.»

Jacobson is only the latest high - profile departure from the State Department, which has shed many of its most senior officials under Trump and failed to fill many vacancies.

Then, a week before the opening ceremony, one of its four circuits transmitting the TV signal back to the United States failed.

The cases of the Angola 5 — a group of men who failed to escape from the maximum - security prison and killed a guard in the process — have caught the attention of Louisiana lawmakers who are studying the costs of capital punishment in their state.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson added his voice to the push when he warned that if talks failed, «our military option will be the only one left.»

Most statistics state that eight out of every 10 new businesses fail.