Sentences with phrase «political systems around»

The temporary or contractor worker sector of the economy is growing at a rapid rate and will continue to affect the economies and political systems around the globe.

The discovery suggests that not only did this spectacular site in the Greek Bronze Age (between 3500 and 1100 BC) recover from the collapse of the socio - political system around 1200 BC, but also rapidly grew and thrived as a cosmopolitan hub of the Aegean and Mediterranean regions.

Not exact matches

Khodorkovsky was stripped of the bulk of his assets but is using his remaining fortune — around half a billion dollars — on a plan to re-imagine the Russian political system.

As one who came to upend and reorient the power structures around a system of love and selfless sacrifice, it's hard to imagine Jesus entrusting the hope of His Kingdom agenda to the agenda of Rome's political systems and power players.

Recognizing that economic and political systems and cultural practices explain persistent poverty in LDCs, they might argue that personal conversion is a prelude to social reform, rather than the other way around.

They divide the people based on faith, spoils the political system and are trouble makers around the world.

A few of the obvious drives that pack us off, daily or weekly or episodically or, for some, in hope, permanently, are fear or even terror in the particular given set of circumstances; the sheer discouragement and exhaustion of facing questions without answer; profound disillusionment — it takes many forms — with the pertinent, prevailing system or systems; deep and bitter contempt for one's own society, bred of the abysmal failure to attain in consistent practice even a semblance of the justice professed and acclaimed; despair — so it was with the college generation of the late sixties — over the formidable obduracy of a political establishment in going its merciless way quite apparently deaf to the cries of anguish of its empathetic and real victims, victims by the tens of millions here and around the world.

The political and economic system created by the United States and its allies after World War II — a system built around common defense measures and free trade — rescued Europe from the self - inflicted catastrophe of 1914 - 1945, prevented nuclear war, preserved the peace until the collapse of the Soviet empire, and allowed once - captive nations to reclaim their liberties.

Without waiting around for any top - down permission, my school has already instituted many of the bill's guidelines, but we know first hand that it's going to take some real political muscle to move the current system.

There has been a lot of infrastructure built around US military spending, and there is a lot of vested interest in maintaining this infrastructure as a contraction in military spending sends out ripples to these industries, so this creates significant political pressure to keep the whole system afloat.

Finally, strategically, the two key issues around which Blair will seek to fundamentally re-draw the map of the British political system are entry into the European Single Currency and electoral reform.

In a political system organised around the dominance of the Conservatives, Labour's periods in office served primarily to head off and demoralise the waves of working class discontent which shook British society in the 1920s, after the Second World War and at the end of the post-war boom in the 1970s.

Mr Cameron and his ministers insist the process of lifting the «cloak of secrecy» around government is essential to win back voter trust after the expenses scandal and a breakdown of public belief in the political system.

As the chances of creating a system of publicly financed political campaigns wanes, 115 organizations from around the country are putting pressure on Gov. Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders to create a system of publicly financed campaigns.

The many democratic electoral systems in use around the world attempt to strike a balance between mathematical fairness and political considerations such as accountability and the need for strong, stable government.

In general, our political system regularly puts around the table people who are not the best equipped to find deep solutions to our problems.

Around the world, innovative genomic - medicine programs capitalize on singular capabilities arising from local health care systems, cultural or political milieus, and unusual selected risk alleles or disease burdens.

From the opening scenes, with Marco's crew crouched around a poker game in the back of a military vehicle, with Wyclef Jean's «Fortunate Son» blaring from the sound system, it is clear that this film has a political head on its shoulders.

Centred around the corruption in the political and banking systems, the film...

Washington — The new education block grants are a «political football» that state departments of education and local school systems risk fumbling to state legislators and governors around the country unless they act quickly.

«Oiling the wheels» to making apprenticeships work best for employers was clearly needed, Mr Way explained: «We need to focus on specific opportunities, such as ensuring the levy works for employers, using the political consensus around apprenticeships to secure stability in the skills system and defining a role for the new Institute for Apprenticeships that will provide everyone with confidence that apprenticeships are achieving their ambitions for productivity growth and social mobility.

In a symbiotic and mutually reinforcing way, a robust public school choice system can help to attract young families to an urban area while an influx of young families can also create political momentum around more robust systems of public school choice.

French elections are just around the corner and it can be tricky to explain to our students how the whole political system works.

French elections are just around the corner and it can be tricky to explain in French how the whole political system works.

The case of Greece is only one example among many other countries around the world that have been lost in the abyss due to poverty and corrupted political systems.

Two mayors and the city council gave these leaders the political cover, generous funding, and, perhaps most important, the time to make the improvements in people, systems, curriculum, and culture that are needed to turn around a failing institution.

Look at what is going on all around us; from the political system, business and the economy to education.

Part of the political problem around accountability is that it sometimes feels to educators and the community that the message from the state or from the federal government is, «We're going to use this accountability system to tell you you're bad or that your school is inadequate, and tell you that you're a D or an F.» And somehow knowing that is going to be so motivating that outcomes are going to change.

The hummingbird challenges us to organize, to hold our political leaders and global industries accountable and demand that they, and we, accept the potential difficulties, even sacrifices, that we'll have to make to transition from a fossil fuel - based and extractive global system to one that's organized around genuine sustainability and responsibility.

Organized in seven sections, Chaos and Awe begins with «No Place,» a meditation on complex technological systems that have enhanced the connectedness of people and cultures around the world, but also led to a heightened vulnerability in our social, political, and technical infrastructures.

Fabri's artistic practice seeks to create a space for discourse around social and political systems of oppression through artworks that manifest in a range of mediums, including drawing, performance, photography, sculpture, and video.

Corresponding to her critically acclaimed exhibition Harriet Tubman and Other Truths [which was co-produced by Grounds For Sculpture and Goya Contemporary, with guest curators Patterson Sims and Lowery Sims], this latest exhibition [curated by Amy Eva Raehse] further develops narrative around social and political injustices, sexism, racism, violence, systems of power, and biases within the artist's personal history, and our collective experience.

The group exhibition aims to complicate and implicate conversations around the theme by co-opting Anderson's own way of contextualizing Nationalism, ``... nationalism has to be understood by aligning it, not with self - consciously held political ideologies, but with the large cultural systems that preceded it, out of which - as well as against which - it came into being».

Through drawing, performance, photography, sculpture, and video, Fabri seeks to create a space for discourse around social and political systems of oppression.

The purpose of CITYFOOD is to raise awareness on resilient city - region food systems and (intra - and peri --RRB- urban agriculture, create an advocacy platform for cities to gain political recognition and support from national governments and international support organizations, to provide information to cities around the world, stimulate exchange of experiences, identify and disseminate important lesson and good practices, and facilitate cooperation between cities worldwide and between local governments and civil society in this area.

Building on this critique, Speth goes on to conclude in his book that: (1) «today's system of political economy, referred to here as modern capitalism, is destructive of the environment, and not in a minor way but in a way that profoundly threatens the planet» (2) «the affluent societies have reached or soon will reach the point where, as Keynes put it, the economic problem has been solved... there is enough to go around» (3) «in the more affluent societies, modern capitalism is no longer enhancing human well - being» (4) «the international social movement for change — which refers to itself as «the irresistible rise of global anti-capitalism» — is stronger than many imagine and will grow stronger; there is a coalescing of forces: peace, social justice, community, ecology, feminism — a movement of movements» (5) «people and groups are busily planting the seeds of change through a host of alternative arrangements, and still other attractive directions for upgrading to a new operating system have been identified» (6) «the end of the Cold War... opens the door... for the questioning of today's capitalism.»

In the current U.S. political environment, a cap - and - trade system is unlikely to result in a sufficiently high market price for CO2 (around $ 30 per ton) in the early years of a carbon control regime to assure that all coal plant developers adopt CCS systems.

The ICLEI Resilient Cities Congress 1 June 2013 featured for the first time a special one - day food systems forum for urban stakeholders to come together to discuss and put into action the implementation of resilient food systems within cities around the world and to generate heightened awareness and strengthened political commitment in local governments in order to create resilient urban food systems.

The hummingbird challenges us to organize, to hold our political leaders and global industries accountable and demand that they, and we, accept the potential difficulties, even sacrifices, that we'll have to make to transition from a fossil fuel - based and extractive global system to one that's organized around genuine sustainability and responsibility.

And it is worth remembering here that the objectives of political Environmentalism are to divert our ambitions away from economic development, to end our «dependence» on technological solutions to our day - to - day problems, and to reorganise society around small - scale, localised systems of production.