Sentences with phrase «pressing issue of our day»

Cook, who took over from the late Steve Jobs in 2011, hasn't been shy about confronting pressing issues of the day.
These charities all help strengthen American civil society by promoting private initiatives rather than government programs as the solution to the most pressing issues of the day.
It's a substantial magazine of the old sort, which one reads for the pleasure of reading and of learning, covering subjects with no obvious immediate cash value but of great value to those who believe in humane learning — though it also dealt well with the pressing issues of the day.
Perhaps more than any other, it remains the most pressing issue of our day as well.
First, this segment remains on the frontlines dealing with some of the most pressing issues of the day.
Each piece of content that we create — from 3 - 1 blown lead memes to explaining how a little guy beats the big guys to nuanced commentary on the pressing issues of our day — is an invitation for sports fans to join us in our corner of the internet and marvel at what we're seeing.
This ambition is informed by a sense that conventional politics has failed to address the pressing issues of the day.
Such frequent get - togethers might be seen as proof of a desire to get to grips with Europe's pressing issues of the day.
Staying in would enable the UK to play an active role in tackling the most pressing issues of the day, from tax evasion to terrorism, the former PM argued.
Ms. Timoner, who lives in Park Slope with her wife and two sons, is eager to attack what she sees as the pressing issues of the day — poverty, racism, violence, deep inequality — with a kind of communitarian approach to Judaism.
The Leveson inquiry raised some interesting questions about how an individual's right to a private life could co-exist with the necessity of the press to hold those in power to account without fear or favour, and to report on the pressing issues of the day without being super-injuncted into silence.
He says he and his fellow reporters work together to avoid repeating questions and to ensure they address the pressing issues of the day.
The political fallout from the crisis of Gordon Brown's leadership continues to overshadow the government's attempts to deal with the pressing issues of the day — the recession and the reform of the political system.
Encourage dialogue between scientists and non-scientists on some of the most pressing issues of our day.
These are in certain corners; this is not necessarily people in the tavern were talking about it, but in certain corners these were like the most pressing issues of the day.
If our students are to understand the pressing issues of the day, they must be exposed to myriad viewpoints and able to synthesize information from multiple sources.
The exhibition will feature 20 works made between 1957 and 1967 covering his development as an artist from the late 1950s through his transition from Pop in the early 1960's to a politically engaged, topical artist whose works tackled the most pressing issues of the day in the later half of the decade.
Parker's work is an attempt to illustrate his overall take on the most pressing issues of the day through aggressively youthful and rebellious fast - paced mark - making, compositional intensity, strident colors, and an anti-authoritarian approach to established ideologies.
The Northwest Earth Institute (NWEI) based in Portland, Oregon explores some of the most pressing issues of our day, and offers courses that can help one come to a deeper understanding of terms like sustainability.
They toss out facts and figures on the green carpet: «Cities account for 70 % of greenhouse gasses,» said Kyra Sedgwick and television producer Norman Lear stated categorically, «Global warming is the most pressing issue of the day
As with many other pressing issues of the day, Vermont has once again taken unprecedented steps toward addressing problems that Washington has not been able to concern themselves with.
Together with Louise Phipps Senft, Esq., he serves as a Trustee on the Board of Convergence, Center for Policy Resolution — a bi-partisan non-profit organization based in Washington DC, dedicated to bi-partisan dialogue and policy reform in pressing issues of the day, such as K - 12 education reform, healthcare and nutrition, and US - Pakistan relations.He is a past member of the Leadership Council of the Environment and Public Policy Section of the Association for Conflict Resolution, the ADR Section Council for the Maryland State Bar Association, and the American Bar Association Committee on Use of Collaborative Processes by Federal Agencies to Improve Citizen Participation.

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As a follow - on to Inc's February 2002 cover story, we bring you more ideas from our panel of experts as they address the most pressing sales - management issues of the day.
The very next day, I met with career department officials, including a senior ethics official, to discuss some things publicly reported in the press and that might have some bearing on the issue of recusal.
(In November of that year, for example, Shop.ca issued a press release announcing the site had its first «million - dollar day,» meaning more than $ 1 million in revenue earned over 24 hours.)
According to a press release issued jointly by several South Korean government agencies on December 20, the country's Fair Trade Commission (FTC) has sent representatives on a three - day «field survey» of the country's 13 «major» cryptocurrency exchanges.
Along with new openings and signed franchise agreements in a variety of markets, CMIT Solutions remained at the forefront of the media's attention in 2016 as we continue to act as an expert source on the most pressing technology issues of the day for businesses and consumers.
With that, Morneau's press secretary urged us to get on to the issue of the day, which was the day after Morneau's second budget.
Part one of the U.S Federal Reserve press conference will entail the chairperson reading the statement that has been issued by Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) earlier during the day.
Only after a free press was finally admitted to Grenada did we learn that many of the statements issued by the White House during those four days had been incorrect.
Muslims in general if left alone with out your intervention might end up fighting each other due differences of views in their faith, but if west keep on applying pressure causing starvation, harassment and confrontation against Muslims and against their faith, this will only lead them to leave behind their differences and jointly or individually confront their enemies, those who wants to deprive them from their rights of faith and belief and the more they are pressed the more they would complain by reacting and not by words and cries since words and cries seem does not reach, heard or work out now a days since being their judges and executors are all of non religious such as atheists, infidels, polytheists who consider their vast interests above all humanity and faith issues such as mercy, leniency, compassion, pity, sympathy, kindness all that of human mutual heavenly code of conduct.!?
The watching world is tired of empty answers to important issues, and instead wants us to engage them in real conversations about the pressing questions of our day.
Once it became clear that the Republicans had won power on November 8, 1994, it took only seven days for the serious thinkers in the liberal press to rediscover the issue of poverty.
I guess it is the most pressing important issue of our day?
His five - point agenda for post-fundamentalist evangelicalism included: (1) clarification of the philosophical implications of biblical theism, (2) Christian engagement with the pressing social issues of the day as well as concern for individual salvation, (3) refusal to divide over secondary matters such as the details of biblical prophecy, (4) openness to the possibility of a biblically faithful ecumenicity, and (5) the development of a truly biblical theology that took into consideration the whole sweep of salvation history.
The show should premiere sometime in August and Malik will announce a list of his top schools (which will include Arkansas, he's said) on The Raw Report a few days or weeks after a press release is issued, Marcus says.
In addition, while the Rebels have the luxury of a long coaching search, they have the pressing issue of the new early signing day rule, which will see talent sign elsewhere as uncertainty swirls around Ole Miss..
Third, acknowledging that some of the blame for the biased and one - sided media reporting on head injuries rests with some members of the scientific community who issue one - sided press releases and feed cherry - picked results about their findings to selected members of the media, the authors look to a day when the «harsh division and polarization» in the research community (an almost inevitable byproduct, unfortunately, of the intense competition for grant money in Concussion, Inc.), gives way to greater collaboration among researchers and a more «cordial discourse» between scientists via letters and responses to journal editors and back - and - forth debates at large academic conferences.
At his fourth consecutive press conference on an AG issue (for the record, I can't recall a time when he has been this visible this many days in a row), Cuomo was asked how big of a priority he would make the legalization of gay marriage, assuming he's elected.
Mustapha Ussif, in a press statement issued last week, had claimed that the he was on the expensive 3 - day workshop with Stephen Amoah, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Microfinance and Small Loans Centre (MASLOC), but The Herald's findings, have established that he is rather in Ghana.
Late in the day Friday, Sen. James Seward of Oneonta issued a press release taking credit for compelling the «first ever changes to governor's gun control law.»
In the wake of Paterson's announcement that he would ask the Legislature for power to furlough state workers one day a week until the budget is passed, Donohue issued a press release that said simply: «Nuts.»
As part of the Department of Politics and International Relations» «Engagement with Theory» alumni conference day (full audio here), aimed at bringing theoretical scrutiny to bear on pressing modern political issues, Professor McLean presented a paper entitled «A Codified Constitution for the (Rest of the) United Kingdom» (Podcast).
The Governor issued a press release announcing the approval of the loan ten days before the EFC board vote and three days before EFC board members recieved briefing materials.
One day after a Q poll found that most New Yorkers would like to hear more specifics from AG Andrew Cuomo about how he'd solve the state's fiscal woes, the Democratic candidate for governor weighed in on some of the more pressing budget issues during a stop in Buffalo this morning.
A new Siena College poll released this morning — the same day of former state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's sentencing — finds corruption the most pressing issue among New York residents.
Up for a third term and issuing what seems like a press release a day, Sheriff Paul VanBlarcum has resisted all inquiries on information surrounding one of his deputies shooting a young motorist (twice) after a high - speed chase that started in Marbletown and ended in Hurley on Route 28 a month ago.
GII issues this Press Release to mark the day and draw Ghanaians» attention to the scourge of corruption in Ghana and the need for us to fight it.
And while his opponents were a constant presence on the grassroots circuit — engaging in meetings with voters, roundtable discussions and rubber chicken dinners — Boyajian instead appeared to be more comfortable issuing press releases on the political issues of the day.
Mike Derrick, a Democrat, engaged in what his campaign referred to as a «full court press» in the final week before Election Day, including a whirlwind schedule that saw him stump at over a dozen locations around the state's largest congressional district, including Willsboro, where he hammered Stefanik on residency issues and the role of outside money in politics.
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