Sentences with phrase «pressing problems of today»

Apart from the obvious issue of compensation, this attitude is perhaps most clearly demonstrated by those who generally regard the «raking over» of the past as unhealthy and backward looking: that it will do Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people no good; they should get ahead and concentrate on the many pressing problems of today.

Then: «As a liberal progressive I support large - scale (government and NGO) efforts to address the pressing problems of today.»

... As a liberal progressive I support large - scale (government and NGO) efforts to address the pressing problems of today.

Evan: You being a «liberal progressive in many ways», does that mean you believe in ``... [supporting] large - scale (government and NGO) efforts to address the pressing problems of today.»

Not exact matches

Jansen is adamant that giving control is the real remedy to one of the most pressing problems in business today.

With the size and complexity of many of today's most pressing social and environmental problems, governments and communities struggle to overcome the challenges we face.

Teachers of Christian origins today are faced with a problem not unique to them — it is shared in some fashion by all teachers in the humanities — but nevertheless of pressing urgency.

«At the official press conference that unveiled Caritas in Veritate, Cardinal Mgr Renato Martino, President of the Pontifical Council of Peace and Justice -LSB-...] said that Cold War ideologies «have been replaced by the new ideology of technology,» and that the «arbitrary nature of technology is one of the greatest problems of today's world.»

Today we read in the press that the true problems in Spain are the uncontrolled spending of its «autonomous regions» like Valencia or Catalonia, unsustainable levels of private debt, which could impose significant pressure toward deleveraging over the coming years, and the structural lack of competitiveness of an economy that lacks the ability to devaluate its own currency.

What kinds of pressing national problems today would be solvable with this strategy?

The most pressing problems we face today are «rooted in the demands and stresses placed on our planet's natural systems by a population of 7 billion growing toward 9,» Sullivan said.

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LONDON — Women with a single copy of the X chromosome from their mothers are more likely than those with a copy from their fathers to have problems coping with social situations, scientists reported at a press conference here today.

Tim Donohue, a UW — Madison bacteriology professor and director of the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, joined 17 other scientists from around the world and representing a wide range of disciplines today (Oct. 28, 2015) to lay out a case for an organized approach to harnessing the power of microbes to tackle many of the world's most pressing problems.

Antibiotic - resistant bacteria, or «superbugs,» are one of the most pressing problems facing humanity today.

4) Much - travelled food «Among the most pressing public health problems in the U.S. today are obesity, environmental degradation and health disparities,» said Alice Ammerman, director of the U.N.C. Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.

Importantly, Drew cares deeply about the pressing problems facing education today, and I am confident that she will work effectively with the Harvard Graduate School of Education community to improve student opportunity, achievement, and success.

Signs of such deterioration abound, as conservatives push to loosen the grip of governments and unions so as to maximize the freedom of families and schools to chart their own course, and as liberals redefine education reform into a «social justice» crusade, construe today's problems in race and gender terms, and press government to do more to advance and protect selected subgroups — a trend that's been welcomed and in fact quickened by the Obama administration's eagerness to nationalize these endeavors and institute federal regulations that further them.

As described by the US Department of Education, ``... it's more important than ever for our youth to be equipped with the knowledge and skills to solve tough problems, gather and evaluate evidence, and make sense of information... to think deeply and to think well so that they have the chance to become the innovators, educators, researchers, and leaders who can solve the most pressing challenges facing our nation and our world, both today and tomorrow....

Then today, May 5, 2014, print copy, New York Times, full court press, «Minimalist Retrospective Gets a Master's Touch,» installation of the show at Dia, Carl Andre is depicted completely differently, as perfectly sharp, no memory problems, totally on top of the installation of the show, «he is as quick - witted and dryly caustic as he was said to be in his youth.»

Other variations are not so obvious and I expect there have been numerous studies about the local effects of humidity and deforestation to local climates as this is one of the pressing problems in many areas today.

Abrantes et al., 2017 (DOI: 10.5194 / cp -2017-39, 2017): «Today's climate goes through a warming shift caused by the increased release of human - generated greenhouse gases, such as CO2, and poses a pressing problem on societies» sustainability»

And plug - in hybrids is one of the best short term solutions to those problems that I know of and I'm just grateful to have all these good people here today at this press conference.

Doppelt believes climate change as well as many of today's pressing social and economic problems result from outdated and flawed assumptions about the way the world works and what it means to live a decent and honorable life.

There does seem to be a persistence of low - grade enviro - journalists, some of whom still trot out the «declining temperatures» assertion, but I think that this is more indicative of a much broader problem with the standards in journalism today and the guff that exists between the environmental journalists» scientific understanding and the motives of the scientists / pseudo-scientists they either hero - worship or (cripplingly uncritically) pen - push press releases on their behalf.