Sentences with phrase «own human vulnerability»

Palihapitiya has repeatedly criticized social media in general, saying it preys on human vulnerabilities and that he doesn't allow his children to use it.

Even within their formal edifices, Astrue reveals someone who — like Lord Byron or the late Bill Matthews, and (perhaps more to the point) Jonathan Swift — has learned to manifest his own too human vulnerability while at the same time protecting himself with his savage wit.

Vanier, the founder and inspirer of L'Arche communities, where people with and without intellectual disabilities share daily life together, is particularly interested in relationships, human vulnerability and fragility.

They represent to us, not human vulnerability before nature, but human ascendancy over it.

Renowned for her pure, powerful songwriting and clear voice, Beth Nielsen Chapman has become one of the most distinctive portrayers of resilience and human vulnerability with an astoundingly diverse and extensive array of songwriting credits.

This does not encompass all humans in need, wherever they are located and however uneconomic or sociopolitically excluded, nor does it consider the subtlety of understanding human vulnerabilities in context, with sociocultural drivers (beyond markets and data); nor does it attend especially to those who remain disconnected in communications terms, which raises new questions of who is more remote and more vulnerable (including acknowledging sociocultural barriers to speaking up).

«With or without mitigation, there is no quick - fix, single - cause solution for the problem of human vulnerability to socio - environmental change, nor is there a reasonable prospect of attenuating high - impact weather.

Anniversary coverage was much more likely to bring up policy problems connected to the systemic causes of human vulnerability to wildfire hazards — development in the wildland - urban interface, legacies of wildfire suppression and climate change, to name a few examples.

Growing human vulnerability (due to growing numbers of people living in exposed and marginal areas or due to the development of more high - value property in high - risk zones) is increasing the risk, while human endeavours (such as by local governments) try to mitigate possible effects.

With a larger than life persona outshining even the calculated theatricality of the royal costumes, she effortlessly conflates the dual nature of Elizabeth's personal and private lives, the keen intellect, the touchy egotism, and the achingly human vulnerability that manifests in the acute jealously and peculiar pride she feels in having forsaken husband and children.

Director Sam Mendes is playing a dangerous game here, afflicting an icon of invincibility and cool with human vulnerability and self - doubt.

The only effective moment of human vulnerability is used for comic relief, when Woodcock and Alma mercilessly undress a corpulent, middle - aged drunk who disgraces his green Margo Channing gown.

But its sunny exterior conceals some sharp observations on human vulnerability and how easily self - preservation can calcify into mere selfishness.

In his first collection of short stories, Bream Gives Me Hiccups, Eisenberg's sharp comic timing lends plenty of laugh - out - loud moments to stories that span a wide variety of subjects from arguments between college roommates to reimagined historical scenes, but there are also an astonishing amount of introspective moments and tender displays of human vulnerability.

Read this book for the audacious and brave perspective that McKeon shines on our very human vulnerabilities.

Inside, readers will discover first - hand insights from experts who share their successes as well as their failures in their attempts to identify and measure human vulnerabilities across the life course.

By learning the basic ways in which developers structure their games, we can learn to identify the human vulnerabilities they seek to exploit in order to create an emotional connection.

The New York Review of Books observes how, in her later portraits, Neel was able to «unflinchingly depict the gamut of human vulnerabilities, emotions and attitudes.»

As a revisionist study of post-World War II art, the exhibition offers a rejoinder to the modernist orthodoxies of the mid-to-late 20th century by contending that paint's material properties make it well suited to convey metaphors of human vulnerability.

In both videos, as speakers engage with technical processes and bureaucratic systems, human vulnerability is gently drawn out, suffusing the works with an atmosphere of existential comedy, wrought from a present governed by opaque systems of control.

If De la Cruz's paintings have in the past paralleled some of Parrino's formal gambits and deconstruction of painting's surface and support, she recast the idea of the wounded, damaged painting in terms of her own body image and sense of human vulnerability.

Most interestingly, the weather depicted in Wilson's paintings provides an immersive experience for the viewer, steeped in human vulnerability and anomie, an inspired tradition which extends back to epochal paintings like J.M. Turner's «Sunrise with Sea Monsters» (1845) and Gustave Caillebotte's «Rainy Day» (1877).

Digitally erasing the show's host, prizes, and other narrative trappings, Pfeiffer hones in on the facial expressions and body language of the game show's contestants, elucidating their shared human vulnerability.

Greece, brings together works by both well - known and rarely seen artists who address questions of identity, desire and human vulnerability.

Human vulnerability is continually — and viscerally — expressed.

Using a variety of techniques, Hazem Harb deals with a number of core themes including war, loss, trauma, human vulnerability and global instability.

These sculptures almost seem to tremble with a sense of human vulnerability and sensitivity whilst also alluding to the constant presence of the development's processes and machinery churning at the landscape.

To the contrary, much of the work manifests a rediscovered attention to physicality in various ways: in its preoccupation with human vulnerability, in its juxtaposition of figuration and geometry, or simply in its palpable materiality.

In her oeuvre, the artist reflects upon the world and the human vulnerability, focusing particularly on violence.

Paint Made Flesh examines the ways in which European and American painters have used oil paint and the human body to convey enduring human vulnerabilities, among them anxieties about desire, appearance, illness, aging, war, and death.

But whereas Arbus exposed «freaks», Neel revealed human vulnerability in all its rawness and tenderness.

My response would be that it is irresponsible not to mention the need to reduce inherent and avoidable human vulnerability to tornadoes in the crowding South, particularly in low - income regions with flimsy housing.

As I explained earlier this week, questions related to any impact of human - driven global warming on tornadoes, while important, have almost no bearing on the challenge of reducing human vulnerability to these killer storms.

Before interpreting the upward trend in the occurrence of weather - related disasters as «completely unprecedented» and «due to global warming», one has to take into account the complexities of disaster occurrence, human vulnerabilities and statistical reporting and registering.

I've written an essay for Wednesday's Op - Ed page offering a short look at extreme weather in a warming world and the two prongs of the climate challenge — the need to limit human vulnerability to the worst the climate system can throw at us and to curb emissions that are steadily raising the odds of unwelcome outcomes, particularly extreme heat and either too much, or too little, water.

I've been writing a lot about human vulnerability to inevitable disasters on a crowding planet.

While warnings of an exploding global «population bomb» have not played out, high fertility rates are still a big driver of rising human vulnerability to environmental threats in the world's poorest places.

The climate community did a great service to the country in 2006 in putting out a joint statement on the enormous human vulnerability in coastal zones to hurricanes — setting aside questions about the role of greenhouse - driven warming in changing hurricane patterns.

The inclusion of climate variability and change in understanding human vulnerability and adaptation is being increasingly explored at household and community levels, as well as though regional agro-climatological studies in Africa (e.g., Verhagen et al., 2001).

Attainment of the Millennium Development Goals, particularly the first goal of eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, in the face of climate change will therefore require science that specifically considers food insecurity as an integral element of human vulnerability within the context of complex social, economic, political and biophysical systems, and that is able to offer usable findings for decision - makers at all scales.

The authors also considered many recent peer - reviewed publications29, 30,31,32,33,34,35 that describe how human vulnerabilities to climate hazards in the region can be increased by socioeconomic and other factors.

This will most likely increase human vulnerability in concerned areas, and have major impacts on food security.

Sociologist Zygmunt Bauman says that «human vulnerability and uncertainty is the foundation of all political power».

We also need to call on local officials to do some intense creative thinking focused on freeing up resources being spent on maladaptive programs (i.e. those that increase GHG emissions and / or threaten human vulnerability to climate change impacts) for worthy causes such as those being presented by ICLEI USA through Climate Communities.

In the end, there are two climate threats: one created by increasing human vulnerability to calamitous weather, the other by human actions, particularly emissions of warming gases, that relentlessly shift the odds toward making today's weather extremes tomorrow's norm.

Kroemker, D. and Mosler, H. J. (2002) Human Vulnerability — Factors Influencing the Implementation of Prevention and Protection Measures: An Agent based Approach, Global Environmental Change in Alpine Regions: Recognition, Impact, Adaptation and Mitigation, Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc., 93 - 112.

This highlights the vulnerability of many agricultural systems and associated human vulnerability to future climatic changes, as necessary adjustments to farming practices (e.g., using more tolerant crop varieties, irrigation, etc.) are likely to be costly and some of the most extreme reductions in plant growing days are expected in tropical countries with limited economic capacity (Figs 2 and 5).

Here, we assessed human vulnerability to changes in the number of suitable plant growing days by using a common method that distinguishes populations depending on their (i) «exposure» to environmental change, (ii) «dependency» on potentially impacted goods and services, and (iii) social «adaptability» [41 — 44].

Human vulnerability is quantified as the combined effect of dependency, exposure, and adaptability, which are displayed along a red - green - blue gradient (colors in the triangle correspond to colors in the map).

Since spear phishing attacks go after human vulnerabilities instead of digital ones, it is critical that employees be made aware of the types of breaches they may encounter.