Sentences with phrase «of vulnerable nations»

Have they articulated any position on climate justice issues that arise in setting ghg emissions policy or in regard to the adaptation needs of vulnerable nations or people?

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«Many drug companies are lining their pockets at the expense of some of the most vulnerable families in our nation,» Rep. Elijah Cummings (D - Maryland) wrote in a statement accompanying the memos.

The law would provide justice to some of the most vulnerable people in our nation: young people who do not have homes and do not have the strong family support needed to keep them free from people who would exploit them.

As a nation, we have a responsibility to our most vulnerable, and the richest of our citizens and the most profitable of our institutions should give more of their wealth to help those who don't have it.

Bonds of Europe's most - indebted nations slumped as speculation resurfaced that the euro region remains vulnerable to shocks as it emerges from the sovereign debt crisis.

Court rulings around the nation have also reduced the effects of partisan gerrymandering, leaving the G.O.P. potentially more vulnerable to the effects of a wave election.

Cambodia joins a lengthening list of nations around the world that are reassessing big hydropower dams in an era when wind and solar power are less expensive, much easier to build, less damaging, and far less vulnerable to droughts and floods.

The inquiry was welcomed by Jeff Morris, a financial planner who in 2013 exposed a culture of corruption and coverup in the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, the nation's largest bank, that targeted vulnerable customers.

The four - term Missouri Democrat continued his Twitter diatribe against the deal to raise the amount of money the nation can borrow and make a down payment on the federal deficit saying, «This debt deal is antithetical to everything the great religions of the world teach, which is take care of the poor, aged, vulnerable.»

The culture of consumerism and the chase for material symbols of wealth and security have sometimes come to be dominant; the pursuit of spiritual fulfillment in many has slowly begun to degenerate into empty and sterile ritualism; the legitimate thirst for education has often become perverted into an obsessive drive to acquire with the greatest speed the formal diplomas necessary to gain entry to jobs offering the easiest opportunities to make the quickest rupees; political statesmanship in some areas has begun to depreciate into an opportunities race for power and position; the spirit of SEVA (Service) to the nation has intermittently begun to be suffocated in many, by the abuse of discretions, sometimes mediated by a bloated bureaucracy itself enmeshed in a vast network of multiplying paper and self - proliferating regulations; menacingly many good and decent people even in public life, have come to be corroded by a culture of demanding corruption; and some potentially creative lawyers, have begun to take perverted pride in mere «cleverness», rendering themselves vulnerable to the prejudice that they are a parasitic obstruction in the pursuit of substantive justice.

This means that communities, and even nations, organized around existing industries and types of employment are increasingly vulnerable to dislocation and disintegration.

And there are modern instances of nations enjoying the legitimacy provided them in a relationship with a single denomination, but they, being dependent on a church, are vulnerable to an inhibiting particularism.107 The strategy advocated by Rousseau, in other words, has not been commonly adopted.

This is gravely immoral and in open contradiction to the principle, recognised also in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, that the best interests of the child, as the weaker and more vulnerable party, are to be the paramount consideration inevery case.»

«Reducing the federal deficit is critical for our nation's long term health but it should not be done at the expense of the most vulnerable.

«We had set out way back in... 2015 that our strategic goal would be putting those children at the core of our work, increasing protection [and] their participation in building the nation of Kenya and ensuring that the wellbeing of 2.6 million vulnerable children is taken into consideration.»

Additionally, in a 2009 letter to the United States Senate, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops called on the legislative body to «place the needs of poor families and the most vulnerable in our nation and around the world first in setting priorities in the federal budget resolution.»

And the recent decision in Canada to deregulate many aspects of the marketplace and increase U.S. trade has made that nation much more vulnerable to American economic exploitation.

«The time to stop the House's cuts in vital services and supports for the nation's poorest and most vulnerable families is now, before they become part of the final budget resolution,» said Renwick.

Vulnerable House incumbents in some of the nation's top battleground districts are stockpiling cash to insulate themselves early from prospective challengers.

But the Brexit vote has made Gibraltar, a nation proud of its British heritage, much more vulnerable.

«She had concluded plans to run off to a Caribbean Island to live off the blood money she stole, not hauled from the poorest and the most vulnerable citizens of this nation.

Former Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson defended his experience and credentials to serve as the nation's new housing secretary, turning to his life story to show that he understands the needs of the country's most vulnerable.

«The Justice Center for the Protection of People with Special Needs will give New York State the strongest standards and practices in the nation for protecting those who are often the most vulnerable to abuse and mistreatment,» Cuomo said in a statement.

«Senator, as the #metoo movement sweeps the nation, calling out those who failed to protect the vulnerable, you do not want to be on the wrong side of history,» the coalition's founders, Marci Hamilton, Stephen Jimenez and Kathryn Robb wrote.

«What Rivera Schatz did not only blatantly violate the island's anti-discrimination law, it goes against the very core values of this nation — to respect, to be inclusive, and defend its most vulnerable.»

Washington (CNN)- The CNN 100, a list of the nation's 100 most vulnerable House races, has been updated to reflect the latest developments in the battle to control the chamber this November.

The UK is not signing up to take a quota of refugees under the United Nations sanctuary scheme to resettle up to 30,000 vulnerable Syrians in Western nations, but Nick Clegg said the UN High Commission for Refugees backs the Government'sNations sanctuary scheme to resettle up to 30,000 vulnerable Syrians in Western nations, but Nick Clegg said the UN High Commission for Refugees backs the Government'snations, but Nick Clegg said the UN High Commission for Refugees backs the Government's plans.

It is a shocking indictment of our priorities as a nation that we should take such poor care of these extremely vulnerable children.

«We know and we feel the plight of those that are most vulnerable, and we are here today to let everyone know that our solidarity, our strength, lies in our diversity, and our mission is to make sure that everyone receives justice and that this is truly an indivisible nation,» said Afaf Nasher, the executive director of CAIR New York.

Until change comes, the most vulnerable of the nation's academic researchers will continue to bear the brunt of the pain.

As a first step, in 2012, nations that are party to the convention will provide data on two measurable indicators: the proportion of the population in vulnerable areas living above the poverty line and the area of land covered by vegetation.

The US offered cash to persuade climate - vulnerable nations like the Maldives to sign up to its favoured Copenhagen accord, a ploy that Pablo Solón, head of this year's Bolivian delegation, describes as «blackmail».

«Rather than putting America's health first, this budget instead puts the health and safety of all Americans — but especially our nation's most vulnerable, such as lower - income Americans, children and those living with a lung disease like asthma — in jeopardy.»

Knowledgeable observers are divided on what this torrent of short - term cash will mean for science agencies» most vulnerable charges: the nation's graduate students, postdocs, and other early - career scientists.

Mozambique is among the African countries most vulnerable to climate change, with over 1,550 miles of coastline, more than half of its population living along the ocean, and cities that function as the nation's economic hubs.

But islands say they're still looking to Fiji's «Islands Conference of the Parties» to provide a turning point on assistance to vulnerable nations.

Miami is one of the nation's most vulnerable cities to sea - level rise, and it already experiences nuisance flooding on sunny days.

«It improves international security by allowing nongovernmental actors to monitor the actions of nations,» says Hitchens, who points to Amnesty International; that group has launched eyesondarfur.org, a Web site that broadcasts satellite imagery of 12 vulnerable villages in war - torn western Sudan, empowering the public to document atrocities and track the movement of refugees and troops.

The story of the 2010 flooding in Pakistan is a warning to other vulnerable nations that experts believe will bear the brunt of the gradual shifts in climate and weather patterns expected over the coming decades.

But it's also a sign of how much of the developing world is willfully making itself more vulnerable to climate change, even as poor nations ask rich ones to spend hundreds of billions per year on helping them to adapt.

Geden, meanwhile, said he believes that island nations and other vulnerable countries demanding that politicians raise the bar and stick to a maximum 1.5 - degree rise of global mean temperatures are «morally right.»

Many of them have long advocated a maximum temperature rise of 1.5 °C to prevent disaster for the most vulnerable nations, such as the Marshall Islands and the Maldives.

That leaves him vulnerable under an executive order, signed by U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday, that calls for the rigorous vetting of applicants for U.S. visas from Iran and six other predominantly Muslim nations, and bars the entry of any citizen from those nations for 90 days while procedures for that vetting are put in place.

The National Physicians Alliance, one of the doctors groups that opposes Price's nomination, has said his interest in moving to «privatize Medicare would end the healthcare guarantee for our nation's 57 million seniors and drastically hurt our most elderly and vulnerable patients.»

America the Vulnerable by Joel Brenner A public service announcement of the most urgent sort, this engrossing book reveals how our lack of cyber savvy, both as individuals and as a nation, is exposing us to extraordinary risks, including viruses that could destroy the power grid, simple hacks that have harvested millions of credit card numbers from retailers, and security breaches that are hemorrhaging classified intelligence through the Net.

These nations are extremely vulnerable to rising oceans — their fate is tied to the success of the Paris accord.

Together these programs serve more than a hundred million of the nation's most vulnerable people — low - income children and adults, people with disabilities, and older persons.

«Community health centers have the unique ability to help fulfill the promise of health reform by providing much - needed primary care to our nation's most vulnerable populations,» said Feygele Jacobs, president and CEO of the RCHN Community Health Foundation.

«Community health centers can only fulfill the promise of health reform if they have the resources to provide much - needed care to our nation's most vulnerable populations,» said Feygele Jacobs, president and CEO of the RCHN Community Health Foundation.

Remote island nations in the Pacific and Indian Oceans have for many years been considered extremely vulnerable to the effects of climate change and, in particular, rising sea levels.