Sentences with phrase «pressing human concerns»

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«In RE pupils have the opportunity to engage not only with the most profound metaphysical questions concerning human existence and the nature of reality, but also with the most pressing ethical problems of our day.

First, the U.S. and others who share its purpose can employ their resources in pressing the concerns mandated by the 1998 act and related human rights agreements.

When used in the historical terms with which I prefer to use it, globalization in so many ways sums up the dominant and encompassing reality (note that I underscore this word) of the collective life of people and nations in our time, so potent and full of issues and questions for or against human development, so that it presses upon everyone who wants to make sense of the times in which we live, or who wants to be concerned about «keeping and making life more human».

That social mobilization for human rights can have an impact even where such powerful actors are concerned is exemplified by the adoption of a resolution by the Human Rights Council in June 2014 to move towards the elaboration of a binding treaty to prevent human rights violations by transnational corporations Click here for full WABA Press Release See Right To Food and Nutrition Watch 2014 Press Release Download the Watch 2014 report For more information also see: rtfn - whuman rights can have an impact even where such powerful actors are concerned is exemplified by the adoption of a resolution by the Human Rights Council in June 2014 to move towards the elaboration of a binding treaty to prevent human rights violations by transnational corporations Click here for full WABA Press Release See Right To Food and Nutrition Watch 2014 Press Release Download the Watch 2014 report For more information also see: rtfn - wHuman Rights Council in June 2014 to move towards the elaboration of a binding treaty to prevent human rights violations by transnational corporations Click here for full WABA Press Release See Right To Food and Nutrition Watch 2014 Press Release Download the Watch 2014 report For more information also see: rtfn - whuman rights violations by transnational corporations Click here for full WABA Press Release See Right To Food and Nutrition Watch 2014 Press Release Download the Watch 2014 report For more information also see: rtfn - watch.

The Poverty of Historicism by Karl Popper - by far the best reminder that all dogma is suspect and that all models, theories and doctrines concerning human affairs become flawed if pressed too far and should always be treated with healthy scepticism.

«Mr Whittingdale: Is my right hon. and learned Friend concerned about the possibility that the large number of injunctions that appear to be being granted on a routine basis suggests that the courts are paying insufficient regard to section 12 of the Human Rights Act 1998, which was intended to protect press freedom?

The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Amnesty International, the Committee of Concerned Scientists, Nobel laureates and other organizations publicly pressed for his release.

Letter from AAAS CEO Rush Holt to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein Regarding Fingerprint Reporting Guidelines [March 28, 2018] AAAS Statement on FY 2018 Omnibus Bill Funds for Scientific Research [March 23, 2018] AAAS Statement on FY 2018 Omnibus Funding Bill [March 22, 2018] AAAS CEO Rush Holt Statement on Death of Rep. Louise Slaughter [March 16, 2018] AAAS CEO Urges U.S. President and Congress to Lift Funding Restrictions on Gun Violence Research [March 13, 2018] AAAS Statements on Elections and Paper Ballots [March 9, 2018] AAAS Statement on President's 2019 Budget Plan [February 12, 2018] AAAS Statement on FY 2018 Budget Deal and Continuing Resolution [February 9, 2018] AAAS Statement on President Trump's State of the Union Address [January 30, 2018] AAAS Statement on Continuing Resolution Urges FY 2018 Final Omnibus Bill [January 22, 2018] AAAS Statement on U.S. Government Shutdown [January 20, 2018] Community Statement to OMB on Science and Government [December 19, 2017] AAAS CEO Response to Media Report on Use of «Science - Based» at CDC [December 15, 2017] Letter from AAAS and the American Physical Society to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani Regarding Scientist Ahmadreza Djalali [December 15, 2017] Multisociety Letter Conference Graduate Student Tax Provisions [December 7, 2017] Multisociety Letter Presses Senate to Preserve Higher Education Tax Benefits [November 29, 2017] AAAS Multisociety Letter on Tax Reform [November 15, 2017] AAAS Letter to U.S. House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee on Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (H.R. 1)[November 7, 2017] AAAS Statement on Release of National Climate Assessment Report [November 3, 2017] AAAS Statement on EPA Science Adviser Boards [October 31, 2017] AAAS Statement on EPA Restricting Scientist Communication of Research Results [October 25, 2017] Statement of the Board of Directors of the American Association for the Advancement of Science on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility [October 18, 2017] Scientific Societies» Letter on President Trump's Visa and Immigration Proclamation [October 17, 2017] AAAS Statement on U.S. Withdrawal from UNESCO [October 12, 2017] AAAS Statement on White House Proclamation on Immigration and Visas [September 25, 2017] AAAS Statement from CEO Rush Holt on ARPA - E Reauthorization Act [September 8, 2017] AAAS Speaks Out Against Trump Administration Halt of Young Immigrant Program [September 6, 2017] AAAS Statement on Trump Administration Disbanding National Climate Assessment Advisory Committee [August 22, 2017] AAAS CEO Rush Holt Issues Statement On Death of Former Rep. Vern Ehlers [August 17, 2017] AAAS CEO Rush Holt and 15 Other Science Society Leaders Request Climate Science Meeting with EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt [July 31, 2017] AAAS Encourages Congressional Appropriators to Invest in Research and Innovation [July 25, 2017] AAAS CEO Urges Secretary of State to Fill Post of Science and Technology Adviser [July 13, 2017] AAAS and ESA Urge Trump Administration to Protect Monuments [July 7, 2017] AAAS Statement on House Appropriations Bill for the Department of Energy [June 28, 2017] Scientific Organizations Statement on Science and Government [June 27, 2017] AAAS Statement on White House Executive Order on Cuba Relations [June 16, 2017] AAAS Statement on Paris Agreement on Climate Change [June 1, 2017] AAAS Statement from CEO Rush Holt on Fiscal Year 2018 Budget Proposal [May 23, 2017] AAAS thanks the Congress for prioritizing research and development funding in the FY 2017 omnibus appropriations [May 9, 2017] AAAS Statement on Dismissal of Scientists on EPA Scientific Advisory Board [May 8, 2017] AAAS CEO Rush Holt Statement on FY 2017 Appropriations [May 1, 2017] AAAS CEO Statement on Executive Order on Climate Change [March 28, 2017] AAAS leads an intersociety letter on the HONEST Act [March 28, 2017] President's Budget Plan Would Cripple Science and Technology, AAAS Says [March 16, 2017] AAAS Responds to New Immigration Executive Order [March 6, 2017] AAAS CEO Responds to Trump Immigration and Visa Order [January 28, 2017] AAAS CEO Rush Holt Statement on Federal Scientists and Public Communication [January 24, 2017] AAAS thanks leaders of the American Innovation and Competitiveness Act [December 21, 2016] AAAS CEO Rush Holt raises concern over President - Elect Donald Trump's EPA Director Selection [December 15, 2016] AAAS CEO Rush Holt Statement Following the House Passage of 21st Century Cures Act [December 2, 2016] Letter from U.S. scientific, engineering, and higher education community leaders to President - elect Trump's transition team [November 23, 2016] Letter from AAAS CEO Rush Holt to Senate Leaders and Letter to House Leaders to pass a FY 2017 Omnibus Spending Bill [November 15, 2016] AAAS reaffirms the reality of human - caused climate change [June 28, 2016]

«There is no question that plant scientists have a tremendous potential to help address — and possibly alleviate — some of society's most pressing concerns, such as food production, human health, protection of the environment, and renewable energy,» said HHMI President Robert Tjian.

There is no question that plant scientists have a tremendous potential to help address — and possibly alleviate — some of society's most pressing concerns, such as food production, human health, protection of the environment, and renewable energy.

We exclude from our portfolios those countries with the worst records according to Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index, governments that are classified as «not free» by Freedom House, countries that fail to adequately protect freedom of the press, as defined by Reporters Without Borders, and countries with significant human rights concerns, as defined by the U.S. State Department of Human Trafficking Rehuman rights concerns, as defined by the U.S. State Department of Human Trafficking ReHuman Trafficking Report.

[4] I'm becoming more concerned about the non - infectious / inactivated vaccines with aluminium adjuvants, (e.g. bordetella bronchiseptica with aluminium) that are given to many dogs every year, and now humans are being pressed to have regular revaccinations with aluminium adjuvanted vaccines (e.g. DTaP and HPV).

Overall, I think cats should be ranked with dogs for the amount ofresources allocated to help them, I love cats and things like what I read in this article just make me so sad, even if you can't foster a cat there are shelters out there that will let you come in and just hold and love them all the time, just get started and within a week they willrecognize you and won't say anything when you come in to do your love work with the cats, even no kill shelters need people to do this, they have more pressing concerns than this so they don't advertise it but trust me, you will have both the recognition and warm feelings of the cats and the recognition and warm feelings from the humans who work there....

Cecilia Vicuña (b. 1948 in Santiago, Chile; lives and works in New York and Santiago) integrates practices of poetry, performance, Conceptualism, and textile craft in response to pressing concerns of the modern world, including ecological destruction, human rights, and cultural homogenization.

Action to reduce greenhouse emissions is one of the most urgent and pressing concerns that humans can do at the moment.

In addition, IPCC carefully removes from summaries given to the press and politicians any doubt expressed in its massive assessment reports concerning the human source and disastrous consequences of climate change, thus ensuring only the alarmist perspective is heard.

If only we'd seen one press release this year or last from any of the major publishers even vaguely alluding to the fact that they have to work within various strictures and that there is a desire, however minimal, over time to develop a dialogue with China's authorities to talk about legal issues such as human rights environmental rights issues and a myriad of other social rights concerns, as well as other issues in the PRC, from housing law to dealing with the fallout of local government mismanagement after disasters such as the earthquake in Sichuan.