Sentences with phrase «of urgent change»

Assisted in the completion of urgent change requests, retrieving data or signatures necessary for the swift processing of these documents.

A 2015 OECD report on Sweden warned the country's school system was in «need of urgent change» and that its accountability measures were «weak and unclear.»

«There is no failed policy more in need of urgent change than our government - run education monopoly,» Trump said.

Nevertheless, the fact that many environmentally favorable actions can be profitable indicates, at least, that goodwill, environmental sensitivity, and moral concern among corporate leaders can lead to some of the urgent changes without violation of their responsibility to stockholders.

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Many such experts say the disasters in the sprawling suburban and petro - industrial landscape around Houston and along the crowded coasts of Florida reinforce the urgent idea that resilient infrastructure is needed more than ever, particularly as human - driven climate change helps drive extreme weather.

While that in itself may be cause for action, the extraordinary rapidity of the change we now observe makes action even more urgent.»

The VC industry is in the dark ages and in urgent need of radical change.

Church leader and theologian Steve Holmes wrote: «I agree profoundly with Steve in his concern that our pastoral practice in this area has often been appalling, and needs to change... his diagnosis of a real and urgent problem is spot on... [He] names a pastoral scandal that we have swept under the carpet for too long.»

It is really urgent that we tackle climate change for the sake of the poorest people in the world who are being hit by it right now.»

To change our basic way of perceiving the natural world and all its human inhabitants is an urgent expression of compassion.

The introduction to notes that the book's essays «focus on the urgent and far - reaching changes in ecclesial governance, administrative style, and financial accountability called for if the congregation of the faithful in the future is to fulfill its hallowed aspiration to be the salt of the earth and the light of the nations.»

Mention of that great saint brings to mind what he said about change: he sharply cautioned against changing law — any law — even when some improvement is possible, unless there is some «urgent necessity or substantial and obvious benefit», since «the mere fact of change in law itself can be adverse to the public welfare and lessen the restraining power of the law».

The murder of Jesuit priests in El Salvador, the electoral defeat of the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, the invasion of Panama, the «war on drugs,» and changing East / West relations add urgent weight to our need to confront the U.S. strategy of «low - intensity conflict» (LIC).

The Archbishop of Canterbury has urged world leaders meeting in Germany this week to recognise combatting climate change as an «urgent priority».

However, the urgent necessity of today is that the sort of principles science has worked with so successfully in relating established order to changed knowledge may be applied in these other areas.

In recognition of the urgent challenges posed by climate change and population growth, the two organizations are now planning a merger that will enable us to scale up critical sustainability interventions in the global agricultural supply chain.

IFOAM — Organics International is attending the COP22 climate talks to speak out on behalf of the organic food and farming community and to raise awareness of the urgent need to make organic agriculture part of a climate change solution.According to Gabor Figeczky, Advocacy Manager at IFOAM — Organics... more

But as one of 8,000 Sulawesian smallholder cocoa farmers participating in a climate - smart program of the Rainforest Alliance and Olam Indonesia (under Millennium Challenge Account — Indonesia), Syamsuddin soon came to understand the new reality of a changing climate, and the urgent need to adapt his farming practices.

The urgent threat climate change poses to Sri Lanka's people is certainly one of Giri's central motivations.

Meeting the world's future food and nutritional needs in a sustainable way presents critical development challenges, underscoring the urgent need for action to enhance production while minimizing the environmental footprint of rice systems and their vulnerability to climate change.

Global climate change is considered one of the most urgent environmental problems.

Br must change his stupid philoshy to one of high tempo urgent ball retention offensive football.

So if the various permutations and Blackpool's urgent need for points weren't already promising a thrilling contest in Manchester, the very first encounter between the two in the Premiership back in January, when Blackpool squandered a two - goal lead before losing 3 - 2, would certainly suggest another thrill - a-minute contest despite the likelihood of United manager Sir Alex Ferguson making wholesale changes to his starting XI.

None of my external circumstances have really changed - The items I was frantically ticking off my to - do list were replaced with just as urgent tasks.

The UK Climate Change Risk Assessment 2017 evidence report, prepared for the UK Government by the the Committee on Climate Change, identifies where more effort is necessary, and urgent, to address the risks of climate cChange Risk Assessment 2017 evidence report, prepared for the UK Government by the the Committee on Climate Change, identifies where more effort is necessary, and urgent, to address the risks of climate cChange, identifies where more effort is necessary, and urgent, to address the risks of climate changechange.

At the operational level, information communication failures mean that information on urgent and fast - changing needs is not easily transmitted, including from affected populations to existing providers of public goods.

In the light of the crash in global crude oil price, which is Nigeria's main foreign exchange earner, the devastating actions of aggrieved militants on oil and gas infrastructure in the oil - rich Niger Delta which has resulted in lock - in or leakages of crude oil, sometimes in excess of one million barrels that could have been exported daily, and the consequential rapid decline in the well - being of the masses, the urgency to fix the Nigerian economy by changing tactics from sole reliance on oil, becomes more poignant and urgent, hence the need for international experts to aid diversification efforts of the government.

urgent action on climate change, mobilising the resources of public and private sectors in a way unprecedented in peacetime;

Unfortunately, it hasn't kept up with those changes and now needs urgent review if it not to become a «talking shop» of little consequence.

This need became even more urgent following the March discount rate change when it dropped to its lowest in history and immediately doubled the cost of some high value claims.

The evidence is stark as to the serious and urgent nature of climate change and the consequences we face from our every - day actions.

ALBANY — When he unveiled his new Common Core task force Monday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo called for a «total reboot» of the state's system, citing an urgent need for change amid a growing protest movement.

Initiatives like the Power 4 Puerto Rico Coalition, a direct response to the urgent need to mobilize in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, are bold signposts that change is afoot.

«We write to direct your urgent attention to the destructive role of these companies in the current crisis in Puerto Rico, in which massive hurricane damage and economic loss is being exploited by private equity funds seeking huge profits from human suffering,» says the letter, which was also signed by groups including New York Communities for Change and the Center for Popular Democracy.

«The unions are still going to be major players after this, but it will change their revenue picture and it will force them to dial back some of their activities that don't reflect urgent concerns of the members,» said the Empire Center's Ken Girardin, who is rooting for a decision adverse to organized labor.

He therefore called for the entrenchment of unity and peaceful co-existence among Nigerian people, adding that there is an urgent need for Nigerian government to build on the solidarity required across religious and ethnic lines as part of improving its change agenda.

Among the changes is a rehabilitation of the «urgent question», a piece of procedure which allows MPs to raise topical issues more quickly.

«Add to this the disastrous effects of climate change, and we are looking at a highly unstable global system by the middle years of the century unless urgent action is taken now.»

As the need to deal with the threat of climate change becomes ever more urgent, they're also a vital source of diversity and renewables in our energy mix.

«I fundamentally disagree that this is an issue that isn't urgent to address in terms of climate change,» Mr. de Blasio told Senator Simcha Felder, a Brooklyn Democrat who caucuses with Senate Republicans and had brought the groceries.

Advocates for electoral reform say that the outcome has again exposed the limitations of the first - past - the - post system, prompting urgent calls for a change to the way Britain votes.

Lib Dem Treasury spokesman Vince Cable added: «This was a chance for the chancellor to match the brilliant analysis of climate change by Sir Nicholas Stern, who argued for urgent preventative measures costing one per cent of GDP.

«I have spoken with the de Blasio Administration about the urgent need for reforms and called for substantive changes that include splitting the responsibilities of ACS into different agencies; implementing rigorous oversight over contract agencies; adequately training and supervising caseworkers; and providing deeper ongoing supports to children in foster care or child preventative services.»

The Governor of Osun State, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, on Tuesday said the dearth of infrastructural development in Osun State before 2010 necessitated the urgent need to borrow and change the face of the state.

«It will be for the party executive to decide whether it accepts the reforms proposed, but a party in such urgent need of reform blocks those changes at its peril.»

Commenting on Jeremy Hunt's announcement that the A&E at Trafford General is to be downgraded to an Urgent Care Centre, and in the longer term a Minor Injuries Unit, and on other changes to services at Trafford General Hospital, Kate Green, Labour Member of Parliament for Stretford and Urmston said:

Over the past thirteen months, the unending series of controversies and scandals that has rocked Albany and the preliminary findings of the Moreland Commission illustrate the urgent need for comprehensive and systematic changes.

David Davis will formally launch his campaign tomorrow and publish a personal mini-manifesto «summarising the urgent policy changes he wants to see to halt the Government ¹ s erosion of historic British rights and liberties».

Spano, a Democrat who campaigned for mayoral control last year and even convinced the Senate majority conference to include the change in its state budget proposal, said the issue isn't as urgent for him now because the city recently merged some of its administrative offices with the school board.

In a thoughtful aside, Paterson told Gay City News that he thinks it's urgent that progressives develop the «patience» to learn how to organize and change the minds of many who voted for Trump.