Sentences with phrase «on building these bridges»

Surrounded by this beauty, there were made dozens of strategical decisions on building a bridge between Asian and Global Markets.
I find myself spending a lot of time picking apart fundamentalism, when I ought to be focusing on building bridges and seeking common ground..
It would be nice if we could get started on building these bridges so that we can make room in the picture for a few more that has been left out.
As the fifth John Bahcall Public Policy Fellow, Josh focused his energies on building bridges between the astronomical science and policy communities through writing, speaking, and member - focused programs.
Doing so would require suspending some of our ideological predispositions and focusing on building bridges between those capable of providing scientific insight into how children learn and the educators responsible for imparting that learning.
From day one, President Obama and the U.S. DOT have focused on building bridges between Americans who need jobs and jobs that need doing.
As witnessed by Rob Hopkins» response to Alex Steffens» critique of Transition Towns, this is a movement that is intent on building bridges and making friends.

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The book, which focuses on how to bridge the chasms that occur in the transition from a market solely for innovators and early adopters to one that reaches a mainstream audience, proved to be my personal manual for building disruptive companies.
Industry needs to co-ordinate on strategy and build bridges for talent and investment.
Street estimates finally look safe while Y / Y compares on iPhone units and overall AAPL revenue are bottoming in [calendar] Q1 and should turn flat to up as soon as [calendar] Q4 additionally fueled by less severe [currency exchange] headwinds... iPhone 7 will benefit if nothing else from the 6/6 + «echo» effect as these units enter the upgrade base, OLED in ’17 solves growth concerns and builds a bridge to new «dreamy» form factors.
That's because those who make decisions on the front end (buying property, building bridges) do not bear all the costs when things go wrong on the back end,» he wrote in an email.
In a terrific 1985 book, To Engineer is Human — The Role of Failure in Successful Design, Henry Petroski argues that every structure that engineers build is a hypothesis — an educated guess to the effect that «yes, indeed, this bridge is strong enough to bear the weight of all that traffic on a daily basis.»
Again last December, there were assurances from the federal government the $ 4.2 - billion bridge and surrounding corridor would be built within cost and on schedule.
Instead of buying into the «Moses myth» — venerating a small cluster of genius individuals with the power to part waters — companies can tap on design thinking to systematically build a bridge, according to University of Virginia Darden School of Business professor Jeanne Liedtka, «It's not one or the other — you can do both.»
Any strong bridge must be built on a solid foundation — and for relationships, that foundation is trust.
On Wednesday afternoon, protesters tried to build a wooden pedestrian bridge across a creek to enter the property, then attempted to swim or boat across when officers dismantled the bridge, Morton County Sheriff's spokeswoman Donnell Hushka said.
Industry groups say the president's plan, which he's set to expand Tuesday, would raise prices on construction materials, making it more expensive to build oil pipelines, bridges, highways, homes, and schools.
Mr. Wang recalled a story of how on a long drive near his hometown years earlier his father pointed out all of the tunnels and bridges in China built using his cement.
A massive, long - range infrastructure commitment on the part of the federal govt to support building / rebuliding highways and bridges, interstate train service and hi - speed rail, city mass transit systems, and ports and airports, over minimum 10 years and even better 20, with requirement that majority of manufactured metal components be US - made.
Camden submitted a proposal to Amazon Thursday which calls for building its second headquarters on the city's waterfront, on either side of the Ben Franklin Bridge, facing rival applicant Philadelphia.
Located in the burgeoning neighborhood of Brooklyn Bridge Park and inside of a residential condo building, Ben and his partners focused on growing the business organically during the first year.
So as you said link building is like a bridge to build real audience and engage with them will help businesses climb the top on the websphere.
«We've got enormous gravel demand on the horizon for the Gateway Project and other public building priorities moving forward,» said Mike Proudfoot, spokesman for the Ministry of Transport, who expects the Pitt River Bridge / South Perimeter Road to enter Environmental Assessment as soon as this summer.
FIU had overall responsibility for the project building the pedestrian bridge that collapsed on SW 8th St. FDOT said they had a role in the project but did not oversee it.
I put my own personal dough in and we start Sky Bridge in this building that we're speaking from on the sixth floor in a hedge fund hotel, literally in a very small room.
«When I met Bill on July 5, 1991, I said to him, «Will a computer be built that can beat the best bridge players?»
You basically need to build a spreadsheet to model percentage ownership of the bridge investor depending on the valuation in the next round of financing.
It is also not uncommon for ICCR to invite other stakeholders to the conversation including representatives from NGOs and community groups as well as subject matter experts advocating on any given issue as a way to build bridges between companies and the communities impacted by their operations.
Musk has been working with Hawthorne officials for about a year on plans to build either a pedestrian bridge or tunnel for employees, Hawthorne City Manager Arnie Shadbehr said.
It reflects a years - long campaign by liberal Catholic activists to push back against the leadership of their church on controversial political matters - and years of White House bridge - building with a spectrum of Catholic groups.
The future of the people of North Korea rests on our ability to build bridges, not walls, according to a new book by Lord Alton of Liverpool and Christian writer Rob Chidley.
People of different faiths are working together on common concerns, building bridges of peace and understanding, and reducing violence while solving problems shared by all humanity.
But Truth and Method opens with a verse of Rilke on the «eternal partner» and «the great bridge - building of God» for good reason: «establishing the ontological background of the hermeneutical experience of the world» was the work's ultimate objective.
What do we do to grieve, to heal, to build bridges, to open up some tables, and to move on?
In a very real sense, Brightman's metaphysics has been reduced to his epistemology49 which he then, ignoring Hume's skeptical warnings, tries to extend out into the metaphysical world — building a bridge over the river of doubt with an abutment on only one side.
To build bridges assumes that one has firm footings on both sides.
They will fight for us on the Internet and from the hallowed halls of institutions of learning and advancing civilization, of interdependence not separatism, of building bridges with other faiths, not destroying them.
In a Guardian article on November 3rd the prominent Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan wrote concerning the «debate between faith and reason, and over the virtues of rationalism»: «The Pope's remarks at Regensburg have opened up new areas of inquiry that must be explored and exploited in a positive way, with a view to building bridges and, working hand in hand, to seeking a common response to the social, cultural and economic challenges of our day.»
I do hope you will change your ways, build bridges, show love for your neighbors etc, and let there be peace on earth...:)
We obviously can't have this with everyone we interact with on social media, but the more we are able to, the more we will build true, bridge - building relationships with those who believe differently than we do.
He built a superb bridge and kept the morale of his men on a high level, but realized too late that his technical success had aided his country's enemy.
So if you don't like to give to government so it can spend it on bridges and roads to help employ folks to build them or help the poor and disabled to keep their heads above water, because as conservatives including Beck himself has said, all it does is perpatuate «laziness»... how do you suppose a person with that kind of mentality is going to approach «charity»?
Allyson is one of my favorite speakers, not only on topics related to gender and sexuality, but also on topics related to science, faith, doubt, and bridge - building.
If an engineer builds a bridge, he must rely on faith until the bridge is finished.
Some atheist activists are trying to seize the holidays as a time to build bridges with faith groups, while other active unbelievers increasingly see Christmas as a central front in the war on religious faith.
It certainly isn't a fair representation of available choices, nor is ND in anyway theologically neutral which is one route that could be legitimately taken if you have a solid theological stance but truly want to build bridges and open spaces for people who see things differently rather than feeling the need to sell your particular take on things.
You're not likely to convince me on evolution or global warming, but appealing to my love of God's creation and my desire follow His command to care for it, will go a long way to building a bridge strong and wide enough for us both to cross.
The waqfs were created for a great variety of services, such as the building and upkeep of water conduits, fountains, wells, roads, sidewalks, bridges, kitchens for the distribution of free meals, guest houses, homes for widows, schools, libraries, mosques, tekkes, cemeteries, open — air places for prayer, caravansaries to lodge full caravans of men and animals, clock - rooms for telling time, bakeries for distributing bread and cakes to the poor, dispensaries, hospitals, public baths, shaded land on the roadside.
The functioning of an ecumenically oriented, clinically trained clergyman on the mental health center staff is essential to the bridge - building process by which such reciprocity grows.
Building on the observations of H. Richard Niebuhr, Bellah shows how the gap between the religious pluralism of Ernst Troeltsch and the absolute distinction between the revelation of God in Christ versus other religions can be bridged by the Christian without being unfaithful.
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