Sentences with phrase «reconstruction efforts in»

Gorbachev would go on to found Green Cross and Global Green USA, a celebrity - heavy organization that has most recently led green reconstruction efforts in New Orleans.

To this day, reconstruction efforts in New Orleans are paralyzed and many poor communities there have been abandoned.

We may never really know: For only the second time since the beginning of the reconstruction effort in 2002, US Forces - Afghanistan has classified and restricted once - public information regarding the state of Afghan security forces, including «casualties, personnel strength, attrition, capability assessments, and operational readiness of equipment» — all key measures of the country's security woes.

Not exact matches

For example, consumer durables that need to be replaced in the US could also see heightened demand in China as the consumer strengthens, and raw materials might be lifted by increasing demand in China and as well as the reconstruction and repair efforts in the US infrastructure and housing sectors.

Vox's Alexia Fernández Campbell reported that the Puerto Rican government's own missteps in the reconstruction effort, including botching a massive recovery contract with Whitefish Energy, have further hampered the power restoration effort.

In this second conclusion, Schweitzer boldly demands a moratorium on all further efforts to achieve a scholarly, historical reconstruction of the life of Jesus; He claims that his research has proved the futility of all such attempts, and in any case, such studies are not what the modern world or Christianity needIn this second conclusion, Schweitzer boldly demands a moratorium on all further efforts to achieve a scholarly, historical reconstruction of the life of Jesus; He claims that his research has proved the futility of all such attempts, and in any case, such studies are not what the modern world or Christianity needin any case, such studies are not what the modern world or Christianity needs.

This was notably the case in the successful campaign against Negro slavery, in the many efforts, not so successful, to curb war and bring about international peace, in the Red Cross for ministering to the sufferers from war and from natural disasters, in the inauguration of the modern nursing profession, in the fight against the excessive use of alcohol, in the efforts to improve the care of prisoners and the insane, in the multiform endeavors, never before so numerous, to give larger opportunities to the underprivileged, and in some of the many programs for the thorough reconstruction of society.

Yet if all just wars aim at the establishment or recovery of the peace of order, then vigorous truth - telling about the American decision to go to war, about America's conduct of the war, and about America's postwar efforts at reconstruction and pacification in Iraq is an important component of the pursuit of a just peace.

And he stressed that Britain would continue to help in this fight, by providing troops but also in supporting reconstruction efforts.

We are extremely grateful for your government's support in the reconstruction and rehabilitation efforts in the North East of Nigeria, as well as humanitarian assistance to the Internally Displaced Persons, through agencies such as the United States Agency for International Development and other international partners.

Analysts say Mr Miliband's trip is a vital one for relations with the Afghan government, whose reconstruction efforts are perceived to be as important as improving security in the ongoing battle against the Taliban.

We must not ignore the commitment and relentless efforts of Governor Shettima, who is pumping large chunk of state's share from the Federation Account to address the security challenges, the plight of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) as well as the rehabilitation and reconstruction of infrastructure destroyed by the terrorists in the state (Link: https://goo.gl/P6n5XH).

He thanked President Goodluck Jonathan for all his efforts in ensuring that the three «Rs», declared after the Nigeria - Biafra war, which had for long remained only in theory, was now being demonstrated through the reconciliation, rehabilitation and reconstruction of the South - East.

A resolution sponsored by Rockland County Legislator Ilan Schoenberger will call upon the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to expedite the release of Advisory Base Flood Elevations (ABFEs) for Rockland County that will provide up - to - date information that Rockland property owners and municipalities can utilize to support and formulate reconstruction plans and efforts in light of the devastation caused along the Hudson shoreline by Hurricane Sandy.

«We expressed gratitude for the US support in the reconstruction and rehabilitation efforts in the North - East of Nigeria, as well as humanitarian assistance to the Internally Displaced Persons, through agencies such as the United States Agency for International Development and other partners.

«While there were many successes, the reconstruction efforts did not always pan out as intended,» concluded McCaughey and the team of researchers from the Earth Observatory of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and Syiah Kuala University in Banda Aceh.

As part of this initiative, the CAMERA team combined efforts with Ruslan Kurta, a physicist at the European XFEL (X-ray free electron laser) facility in Germany, to analyze angular correlations from the experimental data and use CAMERA's multi-tiered iterative phasing (M - TIP) algorithm to perform the first successful 3D virus reconstructions from experimental correlations.

Academics have been frequent targets of killings and abductions in Iraq the past year — part of a campaign that appears aimed at thwarting reconstruction efforts and silencing intellectuals; some estimates put the death toll in the hundreds.

In this excerpt journalist Jonathan Katz tells the story of the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti and the chaotic events of the nation's formation, history and largely failed reconstruction efforIn this excerpt journalist Jonathan Katz tells the story of the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti and the chaotic events of the nation's formation, history and largely failed reconstruction efforin Haiti and the chaotic events of the nation's formation, history and largely failed reconstruction efforts

There are many efforts to identify dinosaurs excavated from sites in many parts of the world but being able to identify new species and seeing full - sized reconstructions of the ancient creatures are always exciting to experience.

As someone else noted above, the failure of Mann et al reconstructions means that there are serious limitations in the current data - set and a significant effort will have to be undertaken to expand the data set.

In addition, European efforts to shift ceasefire talks from Cairo to the United Nations in New York are more sympathetic to Hamas» demands for a lifting of the siege and international supervision of border crossings and reconstruction of Gaza — the very steps that could reduce Israeli control of the procesIn addition, European efforts to shift ceasefire talks from Cairo to the United Nations in New York are more sympathetic to Hamas» demands for a lifting of the siege and international supervision of border crossings and reconstruction of Gaza — the very steps that could reduce Israeli control of the procesin New York are more sympathetic to Hamas» demands for a lifting of the siege and international supervision of border crossings and reconstruction of Gaza — the very steps that could reduce Israeli control of the process.

His latest volume offers readers a peerless reconstruction of the sausage factory of federal education policy between 1983 and 2008, with emphasis on the setting of national education goals by Bush I and the governors in Charlottesville in 1989, and subsequent efforts by Bill Clinton and both

In 2011 he traveled to Haiti to document reconstruction efforts following the previous year's earthquakes.

Arte Povera emerged from an atmosphere of growing civil unrest in the aftermath of Italy's post-war reconstruction effort.

Well, the work that ultimately led to the so - called Hockey Stick — this reconstruction that demonstrates recent warming to be unprecedented in a long time frame — arose from an effort that really had nothing to do with climate change per se.

Another scientist at the heart of the temperature - reconstruction effort, Michael Mann of Pennsylvania State University, said that if Mr. McIntyre wants to be taken seriously he has to move more from blogging to publishing in the refereed literature.

These and other criticisms, explored briefly in the remainder of this chapter, raised concerns that led to new research and ongoing efforts to improve how surface temperature reconstructions are performed.

Here's the paper's abstract (my emphasis): Considerable efforts have been made to extend temperature records beyond the instrumental period through proxy reconstructions, in order to further understand the mechanisms of past climate variability.

So if the Thelon River cores were similar to other field efforts in being 60 % subfossil, the reconstruction discarded ~ 200 subfossil cores that lacked the recent rings to show divergence.

New CFR methods, forward models, improved age - depth modeling, and improvements in incorporating age uncertainty will bring consistency to efforts by the regional groups, as well as benefits to the reconstructions themselves.

The latest massive effort in paleoclimatology is the PAGES 2k project which has produced a global temperature reconstruction for the past two millennia - check out my article on it here: http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/07/08/2261531/most-comprehensive-paleoclimate-reconstruction-confirms-hockey-stick/ Their results look identical to the original «hockey stick» reconstruction of 1999.

The concentration of the CRU's effort at historical temperature reconstruction around tree ring data seems overly focussed, given that there are proxies with more stable surrounding factors, such as speleothems in deep caves.

In an effort led by current and former Lamont Tree Ring Lab scientists, the N - TREND consortium (Northern Tree - Ring Network Development) was created to develop a global database of tree - ring research that improves on efforts for developing large - scale temperature reconstructions across the Northern Hemisphere.

This in the face of the efforts of some paleos to «get rid of the MWP» so the shown MWP which is already substantially higher than the model reconstruction, may have been artificially flattened.

In China's Sichuan province, near the city of Guangyuan, almost two dozen carefully designed buildings have been erected by Rural Urban Framework, a research and design collaborative based at The University of Hong Kong, as part of reconstruction efforts after the 2008 earthquake there.

And going off - topic myself, many thanks to you and your co-authors for the intelligence to work out what was wrong in the Steig reconstruction, the effort to improve upon it and expand the understanding of the methods, and even more for the perseverance to see the article through into publication.

Our efforts to discover the negligence behind the cause of a fatal accident involve working with investigators, accident reconstruction experts, and other specialists in engineering, manufacturing, forensics and medicine.

«Empowerment Voice» is exhibited in an actor possessing, at various degrees of capacity, an ability to command the institutional form and language of the power structural arrangements in which the conflict arises, sufficient to effect long term distributive concessions, sometimes permanent, however, like Protest Voice, actors engaged in Empowerment Voice are unlikely to achieve reconstruction of the power structural arrangements, instead they are more likely to engage in an effort to preserve the existing power structural arrangement to maintain perceived socioeconomic advantage, or to be unable to identify how the power structural arrangements might be reconstructed in a way that does not perpetuate the underlying source of conflict, namely the imbalances of inclusion and equity resulting from the hyper - segregated hierarchical power regime.