Sentences with phrase «scale actions aimed»

As a result of the large - scale actions aimed at alleviation of poverty, the size of poor populations in rural areas of China decreased from 250 million in 1978 to 82 · 49 million in 2010.

Consequently, after the president was overthrown, the former rebels started mass scale actions aimed at the humiliation of the troops.

Not exact matches

Yet the scale of the air war has gone far beyond the UN authorization, as did the continuing escalation of the war aims so that by February 15 Pentagon projections were assuming the demand for unconditional surrender rather than withdrawal, and by February 25 flanking actions were undertaken to prevent withdrawal.

DEADLINE — Hard to imagine there will be a hotter film package unveiled at Cannes next week than 355, a large - scale espionage film that Simon Kinberg will direct with an all - star international spy cast of Jessica Chastain, Marion Cotillard, Penelope Cruz, Fan Bingbing and Lupita Nyong» o. They'll play international agents in a grounded, edgy action thriller that aims to alter a male - dominated genre with a true female ensemble, in the style of spy franchises The Bourne Identity, Mission: Impossible and James Bond.

Now it's not that I'm a killjoy, some of my favourite games deal with adult themes, but when this is a 16 - rated game (it has been an 18 - rated game in previous forms) that aims its humour at those at the lower end of the puberty scale (there are trophies for standing in poo and tipping strippers) it begs the question whether the Duke really is a parody of the action heroes of the Eighties and Nineties as many people believe him to be or just a poorly - judged lead character for a video game.

This guidance document aims at calling to scale up action in order for countries to deliver zero - carbon economic growth and development for all.

Indeed, in a future update of the calculator, Global Footprint Network aims to show the effects of scaling individual action to a larger national or even global level.

With large scale downsizing and mass layoffs, class action lawyers have also taken aim at group wrongful dismissal claims.

In efforts to minimize the arbitrariness of how courts define the worst of crimes, and to eliminate potential bias in capital and other criminal sentencing, the Depravity Scale research aims to distinguish the specific evidence — that is, the intents, actions, and attitudes of a given crime — that warrants the most severe sentences.