Sentences with phrase «people faced levels»

The report shows that, in 2017, almost 124 million people faced levels of acute food insecurity or worse.

Not exact matches

The report contends that while many regions of Canada face high unemployment levels, people are still not relocating to areas where jobs are available.

For instance, couldn't a test that asks people to match pictures of faces with words for emotions end up measuring people's verbal knowledge rather than their level of empathy?

We're also a leading advocate for kids facing homelessness, defending the rights of young people at a local, state, national, and international level and working to affect the issues that drive youth homelessness.

We do not know whether persons in this group, while moved by the presence and claims of individuals with whom they are in face - to - face relations, may, on another level, be oblivious to and unmoved by more impersonal social structures and practices that consistently put and keep persons in situations of oppression and deprivation.

Beyond the rewiring of a person's brain and body, most individuals healing from trauma will also face toxic levels of shame about who they are and their story (van der Kolk).

Lets face it, that person is trying to drag us down to their level, as if by proving atheism to somehow be a legit religion like their own they can point out we're ridiculous as they are.

They are the most provincial, two faced, double talking / dealing people who are just plain disagreable on every level..

While they're known as the faces and go - to people for this the MPBA league, few know about all the late nights that they spent manually entering stats, and coordinating and making sure that player experiences were at optimal levels.

As the Twittersphere and today's Boston Globe reported, and as I was glad to make it back to Boston to hear him say in person, Goodell recognized that changing the culture of the NFL was not only his most important mission as commissioner but also the «biggest challenge» the league, and by extension, football at every level, faces.

«Unlike the many documentaries that have exposed this problem over the years, this movie will not only entertain, but will reach many more people at a very personal level — showing the pressure on those who work for these transnational corporations and the realities we face in our work when trying to stop human rights abuses.

Mental illness, personality disorders, substance abuse... it is draining on a level that is difficult to describe to people who have not faced it themselves.

The UK's leading fuel poverty charity National Energy Action (NEA), which is this week launching its Warm Homes Campaign with energy company E.ON, will be publishing a report illustrating «The Many Faces of Fuel Poverty», showing the range of people that are impacted by living in cold homes, and offering strong practical information at a community and neighbourhood level on where households can get advice and help, including how to access grants for free home insulation, reduced energy tariffs and special payments.

She said the legislation went beyond Congress» authority and will force more people to buy a level of insurance coverage they may not want or face penalties, she said.

12:36 - «I'm going to level with people about the difficult economic circumstances we still face.»

Clinton said other necessary reforms include proper treatment for the mentally ill and drug addicted who make up an increasingly larger percentage of the prison population, sentencing reform so people with low level offenses do not face long prison terms, and tackling income inequality, which is often at the root of the problem for many people caught in the criminal justice system.

«This is a demeaning slap in the face to them because this law says even if you are trying to transition off of regular cigarettes and lower the nicotine level gradually, which a lot of people do, you can't do that, so I do have some issues,» Tyner said.

Given the Labour Party's geography of support, but also given the increased level of opposition the party faces on the left of the political spectrum from Sinn Fein, Solidarity - People Before Profit, the Social Democrats and other left - wing groupings / independent candidates, it was argued that Labour would struggle to convert votes into seats if their national support levels fall below the 10 % level, as indeed proved to be the case with the February 26th election.

«If both job opportunities and education places continue to be squeezed, teachers will face a tough challenge to keep young people in school motivated to achieve the continued levels of success we have seen over recent years.

The IRR is not comparing black and white death rates, but there is evidence to show that because of stereotyping - for example expectations that black people will be irrational, inordinately strong or angry — they face a disproportionate level of force.

And because renters find themselves needing to move so regularly — whether the landlord wants an unaffordable new level of rent, or the tenant can't face another year in a badly maintained property — they have to contend with the pain of letting agent fees and trying to get their deposit back more frequently than any person should reasonably be expected to.

Andy Burnham said it was a «slap in the face for young people» that under - 25s would be excluded from the compulsory level.

People naturally pay attention to things they find interesting, so Washington at least faces a high level of public scrutiny.

Emphasing his commitment to continuing to make the rich pay more in tax, Mr Clegg said: «The priority for me, and for the whole coalition government, will be to provide real help to people of middle to low level incomes who face higher prices [and] who've had to face great difficulties because of the economic enclosure she and her colleagues presided over in government.

«What we're faced with presents challenges in being able to provide a high level of service to the people of New York,» he said, adding that the Department will be evaluating ways to reduce costs without impacting response times.

For years Labour presided over a labour market where the number of foreign people in jobs rocketed to record levels — while thousands of British workers were left on the sidelines, facing the prospect of long - term unemployment.

Whilst I have been able to use the experience and the clout which came from having been a cabinet minister for the benefit of the constituency in getting a hearing, contributing to policy and providing a voice for local people and for Sheffield at national level, it is clear that the leadership of the party wish to see new faces in ministerial office and a clear break with the past.

A researcher investigating how the stress levels of people in non-industrialized societies differ from those of modern Americans found himself in a different kind of stressful situation when he came face - to - face with a killer.

«People are likely to react with little fear to certain types of objectively dangerous risk that evolution has not prepared them for, such as guns, hamburgers, automobiles, smoking, and unsafe sex, even when they recognize the threat at a cognitive level,» says Carnegie Mellon University researcher George Loewenstein, whose seminal 2001 paper, «Risk as Feelings,» (pdf) debunked theories that decision making in the face of risk or uncertainty relies largely on reason.

People working for extended periods on the International Space Station, however, do not face the same level of bombardment with galactic cosmic rays because they are still within the Earth's protective magnetosphere.

«Psychotropic medications may help a lot of people, and I think some do see them as a relatively easy and potentially quick fix, but I think others view their problems as more complex and worry that medications will only provide a temporary or surface level solution for the difficulties they are facing in their lives.»

An algorithm that estimates someone's pain levels by looking at their face could help stop doctors prescribing painkillers to people who don't need them

What Girard has found is that «it's almost better to sit down and talk face to face with certain people,» to discuss broad topics like sea - level rise or the threat of storms like Superstorm Sandy at the local level, project by project rather than systematically.

«People have tried to explain the Neanderthal face as designed to produce high levels of bite force and trying to explain the rest of a wide nasal breath as part of a larger tend,» he says.

To, [what] I thought the most sophisticated level was, one of the doctors who participated was against the death penalty; but he thought right through the problem he was faced with, he observed a couple of executions before he gave any kind of answer, and he felt that, you know, if people are going to be executed, and that's not going to be stopped, that he would help to make sure that this person doesn't suffer.

People with worrisome levels of obesity and poor control of their type 2 diabetes face two dramatically different options to substantially improve their health: bariatric (weight loss) surgery or intensive lifestyle management.

Interestingly, people with a high level of general Internet skills — who may understand the importance of online reputations — also reported more severe reactions to face threats, Birnholtz noted.

Skin conductance rose in step with the apparent level of threat, just as it does when a person faces a genuine possibility of physical harm.

«Placebo power: Depressed people who respond to fake drugs get the most help from real ones: Different levels of brain response to sham treatment could predict resilience in the face of depression, help lead to new treatments.»

The researchers are able to achieve a high level of compression through what they call «skin mapping» algorithms that can analyze pixel color to distinguish a person's face and hands in an image.

Re # 8: «We need to understand why people are emitting GHGs at such high levels, and why they do not cease & desist (or at least reduce) in the face of scientific evidence that GW may harm them and / or their progeny & others on planet earth.»

Once people understand that sea - levels will continue to rise, will eventually make most major cities uninhabitable, and the glaciers which feed much or Asia's agriculture will disappear, marine life will face an acid catastrophe, and nobody can see how a net food deficit can be avoided, we all know that the political option of «just adapt to it when it happens» will melt away as fast as the glaciers.

This isn't news to top climate scientists around the world (see Hadley Center: «Catastrophic» 5 — 7 °C warming by 2100 on current emissions path) or even to top climate scientists in this country (see US Geological Survey stunner: Sea - level rise in 2100 will likely «substantially exceed» IPCC projections, SW faces «permanent drying») and certainly not to people who follow the scientific literature, like Climate Progress readers (see Study: Water - vapor feedback is «strong and positive,» so we face «warming of several degrees Celsius»).

When reading into research I feel many people (and I find this in my clients) need to relate available material the specific situation they face and put their own level into context.

When a hormone doctor prescribes testosterone therapy and anxiety levels decline, a person can once again face life head - on.

If steroids and HGH disappeared off the face of the earth, the same people would still win the contests at the top level.

In a study of overweight but otherwise healthy people, those with loneliness showed higher levels of inflammation when faced with stressful activities; another set of subjects experienced more inflammation, pain, depression and fatigue than normal, plus a reactivation of dormant viruses in the body.

The biggest problem with hair tests is not the test itself but the fact that far too many people — including doctors and other health practitioners — misread the initial hair tests and take the low levels in the initial readings at face value.

In this analysis, people who were tagged in and posted more photos — suggesting higher levels of offline, face - to - face social activity — tended to live the longest.

One of the challenges you may face as a yoga teacher is working a private corporate gig and having people with different levels of experience attend...