Sentences with phrase «of reconstruction efforts»

In China's Sichuan province, near the city of Guangyuan, almost two dozen carefully designed buildings have been erected by Rural Urban Framework, a research and design collaborative based at The University of Hong Kong, as part of reconstruction efforts after the 2008 earthquake there.

We may never really know: For only the second time since the beginning of the reconstruction effort in 2002, US Forces - Afghanistan has classified and restricted once - public information regarding the state of Afghan security forces, including «casualties, personnel strength, attrition, capability assessments, and operational readiness of equipment» — all key measures of the country's security woes.

Not exact matches

He also warned that the reconstruction effort must not become «a political fight or a looting of various forms».

In this second conclusion, Schweitzer boldly demands a moratorium on all further efforts to achieve a scholarly, historical reconstruction of the life of Jesus; He claims that his research has proved the futility of all such attempts, and in any case, such studies are not what the modern world or Christianity needs.

Even reconstruction efforts, when handled by the IMF / WB, wind up being subcontracted to (mostly) American businesses, cutting out the locals not only from wages but also from any sense of control over teh reconstructions of their devasted nations.

This was notably the case in the successful campaign against Negro slavery, in the many efforts, not so successful, to curb war and bring about international peace, in the Red Cross for ministering to the sufferers from war and from natural disasters, in the inauguration of the modern nursing profession, in the fight against the excessive use of alcohol, in the efforts to improve the care of prisoners and the insane, in the multiform endeavors, never before so numerous, to give larger opportunities to the underprivileged, and in some of the many programs for the thorough reconstruction of society.

Yet if all just wars aim at the establishment or recovery of the peace of order, then vigorous truth - telling about the American decision to go to war, about America's conduct of the war, and about America's postwar efforts at reconstruction and pacification in Iraq is an important component of the pursuit of a just peace.

We are extremely grateful for your government's support in the reconstruction and rehabilitation efforts in the North East of Nigeria, as well as humanitarian assistance to the Internally Displaced Persons, through agencies such as the United States Agency for International Development and other international partners.

, is saddled with the responsibility of coordinating reconstruction efforts of the region which has been ravaged by insurgents.

We must not ignore the commitment and relentless efforts of Governor Shettima, who is pumping large chunk of state's share from the Federation Account to address the security challenges, the plight of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) as well as the rehabilitation and reconstruction of infrastructure destroyed by the terrorists in the state (Link: https://goo.gl/P6n5XH).

Erie County Executive Chris Collins, Legislator Lynne Dixon and Public Works Commissioner Jerry Sentz announced today that the first phase of a total reconstruction effort on Eden Evans Center Road has begun.

He thanked President Goodluck Jonathan for all his efforts in ensuring that the three «Rs», declared after the Nigeria - Biafra war, which had for long remained only in theory, was now being demonstrated through the reconciliation, rehabilitation and reconstruction of the South - East.

A resolution sponsored by Rockland County Legislator Ilan Schoenberger will call upon the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to expedite the release of Advisory Base Flood Elevations (ABFEs) for Rockland County that will provide up - to - date information that Rockland property owners and municipalities can utilize to support and formulate reconstruction plans and efforts in light of the devastation caused along the Hudson shoreline by Hurricane Sandy.

«We expressed gratitude for the US support in the reconstruction and rehabilitation efforts in the North - East of Nigeria, as well as humanitarian assistance to the Internally Displaced Persons, through agencies such as the United States Agency for International Development and other partners.

«While there were many successes, the reconstruction efforts did not always pan out as intended,» concluded McCaughey and the team of researchers from the Earth Observatory of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and Syiah Kuala University in Banda Aceh.

As part of this initiative, the CAMERA team combined efforts with Ruslan Kurta, a physicist at the European XFEL (X-ray free electron laser) facility in Germany, to analyze angular correlations from the experimental data and use CAMERA's multi-tiered iterative phasing (M - TIP) algorithm to perform the first successful 3D virus reconstructions from experimental correlations.

Academics have been frequent targets of killings and abductions in Iraq the past year — part of a campaign that appears aimed at thwarting reconstruction efforts and silencing intellectuals; some estimates put the death toll in the hundreds.

In this excerpt journalist Jonathan Katz tells the story of the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti and the chaotic events of the nation's formation, history and largely failed reconstruction efforts

There are many efforts to identify dinosaurs excavated from sites in many parts of the world but being able to identify new species and seeing full - sized reconstructions of the ancient creatures are always exciting to experience.

As someone else noted above, the failure of Mann et al reconstructions means that there are serious limitations in the current data - set and a significant effort will have to be undertaken to expand the data set.

The Pitch: Six months after the end of «28 Days Later,» the United States Army announces that the British Isles have been purged of the virus that wiped out the population, and that reconstruction efforts may begin.

In addition, European efforts to shift ceasefire talks from Cairo to the United Nations in New York are more sympathetic to Hamas» demands for a lifting of the siege and international supervision of border crossings and reconstruction of Gaza — the very steps that could reduce Israeli control of the process.

His latest volume offers readers a peerless reconstruction of the sausage factory of federal education policy between 1983 and 2008, with emphasis on the setting of national education goals by Bush I and the governors in Charlottesville in 1989, and subsequent efforts by Bill Clinton and both

This is a check on the consistency of our lottery reconstruction effort since both instruments should be valid, though the initial offer sample is smaller.

However, the recovery effort had been performed to bring back the glory of this complex of water palace by holding a reconstruction and revitalisation project on it.

Construction has finally started on the massive reconstruction of New York's LaGuardia Airport — a multi-billion-dollar, multi-year effort — and The New York Times is reporting that it is not going smoothly.

The effect is curious, as if a huge amount of effort has been spent to impose an order on a chaotic event, like an official reconstruction of an accident.

A grotesque neologism, the title of «Dereconstruction,» Matthew Higgs's recent curatorial effort for Gladstone Gallery, was — according to the catalogue essay — both «a hybrid term, one that conflates notions of «construction,» «reconstruction,» «deconstruction,» and «destruction,»» and a reference to «The New Reconstructions,» Pace Gallery's 1979 exhibition of work by Lucas Samaras.

Arte Povera emerged from an atmosphere of growing civil unrest in the aftermath of Italy's post-war reconstruction effort.

That understanding will be advanced by new and more extensive data collection efforts, improvements to methods used to synthesise that data, and more extensive and collaborative use of climate model simulations over this period — both to understand the forcing / response of the climate, but also to serve as testbed for the various reconstruction methodologies.

Another scientist at the heart of the temperature - reconstruction effort, Michael Mann of Pennsylvania State University, said that if Mr. McIntyre wants to be taken seriously he has to move more from blogging to publishing in the refereed literature.

The history of such efforts follows a mostly standard path — local chronologies are put together, different «standardisation'techniques are applied, more data is collected, wider collations are put together, and then regional reconstructions start to appear.

The irony is of course that the demonstration that a regional reconstruction is valid takes effort, and needs to be properly documented.

These and other criticisms, explored briefly in the remainder of this chapter, raised concerns that led to new research and ongoing efforts to improve how surface temperature reconstructions are performed.

Here's the paper's abstract (my emphasis): Considerable efforts have been made to extend temperature records beyond the instrumental period through proxy reconstructions, in order to further understand the mechanisms of past climate variability.

With about 30 minutes of effort he could have proven this to himself... not only for his reconstruction, but also for ours.

The latest massive effort in paleoclimatology is the PAGES 2k project which has produced a global temperature reconstruction for the past two millennia - check out my article on it here: http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/07/08/2261531/most-comprehensive-paleoclimate-reconstruction-confirms-hockey-stick/ Their results look identical to the original «hockey stick» reconstruction of 1999.

The concentration of the CRU's effort at historical temperature reconstruction around tree ring data seems overly focussed, given that there are proxies with more stable surrounding factors, such as speleothems in deep caves.

After McCintyre and McKitrick's efforts to replicate the methodology of the iconic «hockey - stick» graph and subject it to the scrutiny it deserved, the US congress asked the National Research Council (NRC) of the United States National Academy of Sciences to investigate the plausibility of such historical reconstructions (the North Report).

In an effort led by current and former Lamont Tree Ring Lab scientists, the N - TREND consortium (Northern Tree - Ring Network Development) was created to develop a global database of tree - ring research that improves on efforts for developing large - scale temperature reconstructions across the Northern Hemisphere.

Instead, a great deal of effort goes into defending the current reconstructions as «good enough».

My take is that Frank is mostly criticizing BEST for using the same data as the other purveyors of temperature reconstructions and getting the same results, that they have not made the effort that he has made to liberate a ton of original data that makes a difference.

On the other hand, the effort of world governments to pass legislation to cut carbon to pre-industrial levels can not proceed without the consent of the governed and historical reconstructions from paleoclimatological models have indeed proven persuasive and effective at winning the hearts and minds of the populace.

This in the face of the efforts of some paleos to «get rid of the MWP» so the shown MWP which is already substantially higher than the model reconstruction, may have been artificially flattened.

We tried to demonstrate that this was not a problem of the tree ring data we used by re-running the reconstruction with & without tree rings, and indeed the two efforts were very similar — but we could only do this back to about 1700.

The reconstruction of radiative fluxes from atmospheric properties is a very difficult and tedious job and both the ISCCP and ERBE / CERES groups are putting a great deal of effort into producing detailed and carefully evaluated radiative flux datasets.

And going off - topic myself, many thanks to you and your co-authors for the intelligence to work out what was wrong in the Steig reconstruction, the effort to improve upon it and expand the understanding of the methods, and even more for the perseverance to see the article through into publication.

Our efforts to discover the negligence behind the cause of a fatal accident involve working with investigators, accident reconstruction experts, and other specialists in engineering, manufacturing, forensics and medicine.

«Empowerment Voice» is exhibited in an actor possessing, at various degrees of capacity, an ability to command the institutional form and language of the power structural arrangements in which the conflict arises, sufficient to effect long term distributive concessions, sometimes permanent, however, like Protest Voice, actors engaged in Empowerment Voice are unlikely to achieve reconstruction of the power structural arrangements, instead they are more likely to engage in an effort to preserve the existing power structural arrangement to maintain perceived socioeconomic advantage, or to be unable to identify how the power structural arrangements might be reconstructed in a way that does not perpetuate the underlying source of conflict, namely the imbalances of inclusion and equity resulting from the hyper - segregated hierarchical power regime.

The challenges of ̳failed states «will lead to continued efforts at state reconstruction.