Sentences with phrase «question confronting»

The prime climate question confronting societies around the world remains as Ralph Cicerone, an atmospheric scientist and the president of the National Academy of Sciences, framed it in 2007: «Does it take a crisis to get people to go along a new path or can they respond to a series of rational, incremental gains in knowledge?»

This evolving picture of a clarifying, but still uncertain, threat leads back to a persistent question confronting scientists who eager for action by society.

The question confronting those interested in accountability is this: How can federal, state, and local agencies ensure that schools actually do the job that IDEA authorizes and commands them to do?

The question confronting politicians throughout the world, in other words, is not whether they want the planet to warm: It is to what degree.

«NASA says the greatest question confronting us is, are we alone?»

The big question confronting Sanders: Can he turn grass - roots donors» enthusiasm into votes in states that will decide the nomination?

The question confronting us is how do societies get over the evils in their past and how do they change for the better?

This is the question confronting the nation in the aftermath of President....

Strategic Planning offers a systematic process to ask and answer the most critical questions confronting a management team — especially large, irrevocable resource commitment decisions.

Beautifully and honestly written, The Crowd, the Critic, and the Muse explores some of the toughest questions confronting artists these days, particularly in our increasingly loud and cluttered creative culture.

Third, many women theologians are using insights and practices from feminist theology in order to address broader social and ethical questions confronting the church, such as globalization, care of the earth, and the shifting patterns of work and family.

Many questions confront a serious student of the Gospels.

It is clear from all this that it will be one of the great duties of the Church to take perhaps more account than before of the moral questions confronting the Christian in his daily life and to approach them frankly and courageously.

The question I confront about myself finally is not whether what I am or do is acceptable to this person or that, although that matters greatly to me.

In the year 1165, an agonizing question confronted Moroccan Jewry.

It is, however, impossible to reflect on the historical setting and the significance of Nostra Aetate without touching on one of the thorniest questions confronting the Church.

One of the hardest questions confronting Christians defending the biblical record is, «How could a good God commission Israel to destroy women and children when they're fighting their battles?»

You said, «The reason I follow Christ is because the question he confronts me with is whether or not love and goodness as he explained it is worth dying for.

Hugely difficult questions confront the party.

He explores how finding DNA - based life on the Red Planet could offer clues about our distant evolutionary past, and grapples with the profound moral and ethical questions confronting us as we prepare to introduce an unpredictable new life form — ourselves — into the Martian biosphere.

It's a valid question we confronted when hybrid - electrics arrived in the late 1990s and again when the first battery - electrics went on sale three years ago.

As I said earlier, whether you are an atheist, a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Jew, a New Ager, an agnostic, or a Christian, the questions confronting the human family are the same.

In particular, there are four big questions confronting investors, and the uncertainty will likely make for volatile markets and muted long - run returns.

They slip from her subconscious that has been indelibly impressed with memories of political and social complexities in her native Iran, fueling the profound world questions she confronts, and emerging in a body of work that has great aesthetic and emotional impact.»

The thread that connects my work is an engagement with sharp social questions confronting humanity and a desire to push formal and conceptual boundaries as part of contributing to artistic development.

«Artists have a relative luxury of being able to work with ideas and therefore I think I have a real responsibility to stand with humanity and make work that hopefully embodies people's biggest dreams and aspirations for radical, fundamental change on some of the big questions confronting us all.

Common questions confront the campaign sponsor, like where to start, what to promote, and how to reach the right audience.

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I personally, and repeatedly, have confronted the big question mark here — commercial viability — and I started with a big problem common to open heart surgery, which is how to remove the clots that restrict blood flow to the lungs and threaten cardiac arrest.

Here's my question: When can the repeated assertion of falsehoods despite being confronted by factual evidence be considered «lying»?

We're in a position to put the issues on the table, ask the hard questions, and engage our colleagues and stakeholders in addressing the critical issues surrounding diversity that confront our firms and society.

The ethical question here is not just a matter of whether to confront the CEO, but how to do it.

When Munk (her father is Barrick Gold founder Peter Munk) confronted him about Russia, he became outraged, called it a «tired question» and stormed out of the room.

On Tuesday the iPhone 6 Plus was forced to confront a question near the hearts of many new owners: will it bend?

Confronted with questions about his involvement in Wintris by Sweden's SVT, Gunnlaugsson was visibly shaken.

And it would not be until they questioned their own most basic assumptions about «the way Magellan's was managed» — the company's dependence on them, the heroic - leader model they'd brought into the company from day one — that they would have a shot at doing what few founders can when the wall confronts them: getting through it.

But last year, when a new set of growth challenges confronted the company, he began to ask those questions with even greater concern.

As his final question, O'Donnell asked Redstone if he confronted her about why he wanted her to leave his house.

The Harvard Business Review offers some advice for the business owner confronted with this (perhaps all too) common question.

In recent months, Google has confronted a new and unsettling trend: Its top search results for questions about the Holocaust lead to neo-Nazi sites while queries about different ethnic groups direct users to racist or inflammatory material.

That's the question that confronts officials at the Federal Reserve and institutional investors everywhere ahead of March 15, when the U.S. central bank will decide whether to raise short - term interest rates for the first time since December.

Jerome H. Powell, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, which is confronting the question of how quickly to raise interest rates.

The question is whether Mr. Draghi, 63, can satisfy his competing constituencies as he confronts a euro - zone crisis that keeps testing the limits of policy - making.

A personal favorite question to ask when confronted with a soft objection is «how do you mean exactly?»

Retiring early means confronting a host of sensitive and significant planning questions.

Month after month, Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs) are confronted with a question.

The Tribune may have missed it in their own reporting, but the answer to the question is, «Yes, we expect kids to confront shooters.»

Such questions are among the «fundamental issues of principle» that have to be confronted «sooner rather than later,» said Alden.

The Black Church in the African American Experience by C. Eric Lincoln and Lawrence H. Mamiya Duke University Press, 519 pages, $ 47.50 When we cut through the many good reasons that lead social scientists to study religion, we find ourselves in the end confronting questions about politics.

The real question with which I am confronted when I approach the sacrament of penance is whether I believe that Christ speaks the truth when he says that whatever the Church shall loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.

Milosz was wary of the comfortable abstract formulas offered by the academic theologian; they seemed to have little to do with the horrible questions his life story had forced him to confront.