Sentences with phrase «pressing problems of poverty»

How can you be so certain that future generations would not say we panicked on very little information, ignored the many unknowns and allowed ourselves to be diverted from real and pressing problems of poverty, much of it caused by lack of energy — to chase a phantom problem that could be resolved as technological progress followed the wider prosperity achieved as poor countries developed?

The same goes for the pressing problems of poverty and development.

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If she claims the mayor's seat, Perez Williams will be confronted with some of Syracuse's most pressing problems, with poverty at the top of the list.

In the years ahead such collaborations can be expected to help solve the world's most pressing problems — poverty, energy shortages, climate change — and to promote the type of fundamental political transitions seen in Cairo that recently astonished the world.

And again, while there are other pressing societal problems affecting the country's schools, like child poverty and infrastructure and funding (to say nothing of what or how students are taught), so far much of the debate has focused on these teacher evaluations.

But while this poverty is at the root of many of the pressing problems Africa faces, so is the powerlessness of the poor.

Roberta Smith stated in a 1993 review of the Whitney Biennial: «With its persistent references to race, class, gender, sexuality, the AIDS crisis, imperialism and poverty, the work on view touches on many of the most pressing problems facing the country at the dawn of the Clinton Administration and tries to show how artists are grappling with them.»

Compiled by 21 past winners of the prestigious Blue Planet Prize, a new paper recommends solutions for some of the world's most pressing problems including climate change, poverty, and mass extinction.