Sentences with phrase «political climate including»

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Given recent political developments, including the election of Donald Trump, who has called climate change a hoax created by the Chinese, Patagonia decided to take their donations to a new level.

Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

This new program recognizes and supports young Canadians who work in the international arena on the most pressing challenges of this century including political unrest, climate change, human rights and global health pandemics.

This book explores the political economy of transition cost mitigation strategies in a wide variety of policy contexts including public pensions, U.S. home mortgage interest deductions, immigration, trade liberalization, agricultural supply management, and climate change, providing tested examples and realistic strategies for genuine policy reform.

This raises serious concerns about the role and responsibility of companies working for political campaigns in Kenya's volatile political climate, particularly considering The Real Raila's incendiary claims include that rival opposition candidate Raila Odinga's administration would «remove whole tribes», for example.

In what seems to be a particularly bitter political climate, many people seem to be disillusioned, and that includes Christians.

FDR was working, notes the reviewer, Ira Katznelson of Columbia, «in light of the order of his priorities, his perception of the political climate, and his navigation of conditions not of his choosing,» including the political impossibility of changing American immigration policy.

However, the members of the synod voted not to include his proposal as part of the church's official response to the current political climate.

Several important influencers affected the foodservice industry's performance last year, including the country's unstable political climate and increased labor challenges.

Social context includes many elements, including geographic location and climate, religious beliefs, economic circumstances, and political history.

The White House's public schedule of events for Thursday does not include a press briefing or any public events for President TrumpDonald John TrumpMexican presidential candidate vows to fire back at Trump's «offensive» tweets Elizabeth Warren urges grads to fight for «what is decent» in current political climate Jim Carrey takes aim at Kent State grad who posed with AR - 10 MORE a day after a mass shooting at a Florida high school.

SOL also represented a community response with sense of urgency to find reachable solutions to pressing issues facing the Latino community, including the hostile political climate, crisis of affordable housing, threats to immigrants rights, low graduation rates and lack of access to higher education, and lack of job opportunities.

Last month a Guardian investigation revealed police were targeting thousands of political campaigners in surveillance operations at events including the Climate Camp, and storing their details on a database for at least seven years.

Trends might include factors like improved solar energy technology to combat climate change, she said, while political events such as the recent United Nations climate meeting in Durban play a role as well.

Projects such as these illustrate the growing role that social scientists, including economists, sociologists, and political scientists, have begun to play in climate change.

«Unfortunately, that isn't the case with many other river systems, where a variety of factors come into play, including strong nationalism, political contentiousness, and drought or shifting climate conditions.»

An expensive political football Critics of throwing billions of dollars at the technology, including Australia's Green Party and some conservative coalition members, argue it will be developed too late to address climate change and is too expensive.

Interestingly, the Marvel film included a jibe at Trump despite Coogler revealing that the film wasn't necessarily impacted by the political climate in the country.

Covers a rnage of sub topics including human and physical geography, climate, political geography, energy resources, migration, rebranding and natural hazards.

This shift in orientation occurred for diverse reasons, including growing public concern about the level of violence and disorder in public schools, the changed political climate following the end of the Vietnam era, and a pattern of increasingly conservative judicial appointments during the Nixon, Reagan, and Bush administrations.

Given the political climate and opportunities for change — the availability of stimulus funds (including Secretary of Education Arne Duncan's commitment of $ 350 million in stimulus funding to support assessment work), the movement toward common standards, and the upcoming reauthorization of No Child Left Behind — we can bypass the debate between the two flawed options of either maintaining the status quo or returning to performance - based assessment systems of the 1990s.

Radio show guests include Fae Ellington, a Lecturer at the University of the West Indies, who will shed light on the current political climate in Jamaica and explain how locals actually feel about tourists.

The summit is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, October twenty - five and is expected to provide a platform for dialogue at the highest political level on issues of mutual importance, including CARICOM / Mexico trade relations, cooperation on agriculture, climate change, sustainable development, natural disasters and disaster management.

The company will do its best to minimize the effects of matters outside its control, but can not accept any liability, nor will issue any refunds for these matters which include political disputes, border closures, refusals of visas, industrial action, delayed flights, unforeseeable climate, earthquakes, acts of god, etc..

Any serious look into the backstory and lore of the Fallout Universe has to at least include a dive into the real world post-WW2 political climate of the United States, the USSR, and China, as well as the science fiction and the whole «World of Tomorrow» aesthetic that was popular in the 1950s.

ABOUT CURATOR INDIRA CESARINE Indira Cesarine's work as a curator for The Untitled Space gallery includes exhibitions (HOTEL) XX for SPRING / BREAK Art Show 2018,» Secret Garden,» presenting the female gaze on erotica; «SHE INSPIRES,» a group show of 60 artists exhibiting works honoring inspirational women; the internationally - celebrated group shows «UPRISE / ANGRY WOMEN,» and «ONE YEAR OF RESISTANCE» responding to the political climate in America since the election of Donald Trump as well as numerous other critically - acclaimed exhibitions.

Also making our list of gallery shows to note include installations that question the human condition and photographs from the past that mirror the current political climate and more.

The current socio - political climate broadly embraces different feminine identities, including queer and transgender.

Claudia Parducci's investigation of survivalist strategies as a rational reaction to a political climate of fear began in 2007 in response to rhetoric around the Iraq war, leading to her multi-pronged Survival Project, which includes a series of drawings titled Disaster Manual.

The week includes workshops by writers and artists whose work focuses on social and political issues, including the environment, climate change, gun violence, racial violence, police brutality, violence against women, racial equity, homophobia, and immigration, all through the lens of creative action.

The first exhibition organized by TBA21 — Academy, Tidalectics offers a thought - provoking exploration into the cultural, political, and biological dimensions of the oceans, including the effects of climate change and sea - level rise, through the work of 13 artists, nine newly commissioned pieces, and artworks carefully selected from the TBA21 collection.

[20] This exhibit included over 60 artists addressing social and political issues, including human rights and equality, immigration, foreign relations, the environment, and climate change, and continued Bui's curatorial activation of Peter Lamborn Wilson's concept of the Temporary Autonomous Zone, «a space wherein the fluctuation of artistic energy establishes the flow of information, and in so doing aligns — however fleetingly — a great collective imagination.

One might include «We Wanted a Revolution» in this, which considers a historical moment — black women working within movements of avant - garde art and second - wave feminism — between 1965 and 1985 but is mounted in 2017; evidence, perhaps, that nuance and ambiguity are less palatable in this political climate.

The political climate added an unexpected dimension to the experience, including occasional detours to avoid areas of unrest.

The statue includes stenciled portraits of activists, among them the foundational Chicana writer Gloria E. Anzaldúa, as well as, on its back, a powerful statement and reflection on the ways in which many people of color continue to feel in this intense political climate: RADICAL ANTI-RACISM FOR STOPPING LA VIOLENCIA CONTRA NUESTRAS COMUNIDADES NOT FOR YOUR WHITE POLITICAL CORRECTNESS.

Addressing issues of labour, agriculture and humanity's treatment of - and dependence on natural resources in his work, this tour includes a discussion of the socio - economic and political climates that impact on these concerns.

Many of the works included here depict socioeconomic and political climate and contradictions, including vast discrepancies in wealth and social status, and actions of political protest and social unrest.

There are eye - popping installations (by Samara Golden, Raúl de Nieves, and Ajay Kurian), transporting video works (by Anicka Yi and the Postcommodity collective, among others), and works that channel the current socio - political climate of frustration and outrage (including by Henry Taylor, Celeste Dupuy - Spencer, and An - My Lê).

Largely informed by the contentious political climate and the socioeconomic issues dividing Americans, the exhibition will explore themes including «formation of self and the individual's place in a turbulent society.»

Shown in his London studio, Shonibare is working on his first series of drawings in twelve years, taking as his subject: climate change — political, economic, environmental — and dedicating a work to «the architects of the present economic disaster» including Henry Paulson, Ben Bernanke, and Milton Friedman.

I would be interested in the experiences of others regarding text material, including the political pressures that affect inclusion or exclusion of climate change.

As with so many issues, including climate, Obama is clearly weighing a broad range of costs and benefits, both political and environmental, in every move.

Compare the year - to - year scale at which humans make policy decisions, reflected in our political frameworks, to the multi-millennial consequences of today's energy choices, as delineated in «Consequences of twenty - first - century policy for multi-millennial climate and sea - level change,» the important recent commentary in Nature Climate Change by a host of top climate scientists, including Pierrehclimate and sea - level change,» the important recent commentary in Nature Climate Change by a host of top climate scientists, including PierrehClimate Change by a host of top climate scientists, including Pierrehclimate scientists, including Pierrehumbert.

It disturbs me when anyone, including climate scientists, (1) fails to distinguish between matters of empirical fact and matters of values and political opinion, and (2) speaks with an air of authority on topics about which they are largely ignorant.

Raymond Pierrehumbert, a longtime climate scientist now at Oxford, stopped by The New York Times earlier this month for a long fruitful chat on climate change science and solutions and the hurdles — mostly internal and social (including political)-- that impede progress.

In the talk, Victor, trained in political science, warns against focusing too much on trying to defeat those denying the widespread view that greenhouse - driven climate change is a clear and present danger, first explaining that there are many kind of people engaged at that end of the global warming debate — including camps he calls «shills» (the professional policy delayers), «skeptics» (think Freeman Dyson) and «hobbyists.»

A Times story earlier this week on social and political factors behind the climate change silence included a telling bit of data from Yale's Program on Climate Change Communiclimate change silence included a telling bit of data from Yale's Program on Climate Change CommuniClimate Change Communication.

This paper is an engaging deconstruction of the many emerging views of this age (including mine) by Simon Dalby, a CIGI chair in the political economy of climate change at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario.

Desirous of building upon the commitment of leaders at the recent United Nations High - Level Summit on Climate Change in New York in addressing the needs of those countries most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change as well as other political commitments, including the AOSIS Declaration and the African Common PoClimate Change in New York in addressing the needs of those countries most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change as well as other political commitments, including the AOSIS Declaration and the African Common Poclimate change as well as other political commitments, including the AOSIS Declaration and the African Common Position,

Many people (including me) who are involved in science and technology perceive that climate science is influenced by political thinking, personal priorities / values, and desires for specific public policies, and that has caused (and continues to cause) delay in progress toward a more complete and accurate understanding of Earth's climate.