Sentences with phrase «scale of its predicament»

The more radical, the better — Nick Clegg's party needs to meet the scale of its predicament with a proportional response.

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Equally, I am still convinced that we can resolve our predicament only through a revolution of sentiment, comparable in scale to the revolution that procured the neo-liberal ascendancy of the last thirty years; and that we can not make such a revolution unless we first dig deep into what I called the «buried riches of our culture».

Labour needs to have a frank exchange with voters about fiscal responsibility and the scale of the economic predicament the whole of Europe is now in The authors of the pamphlet, «In the Black Labour», are to be congratulated.

Labour needs to have a frank exchange with voters about fiscal responsibility and the scale of the economic predicament the whole of Europe is now in.

Indeed, one could say that Hoovey's predicament is a precursor of Horton's — people may laugh at him and say he's nuts, but Horton ultimately winds up facing what is basically a full - scale witch hunt, and for exactly the same reasons.

Though no stranger to climbing mountains by himself, he is especially unprepared for the predicament he faces, his location unbeknownst to the rest of the world, his sustenance limited to a chicken burrito and bottle with 500 ml of water, and his supplies consisting of some scaling rope, a camcorder, and a dull multi-tool.

In my exploration of the human predicament these days, I keep stumbling back on the idea that we've been locked into what amounts to the species - scale equivalent of an adolescent binge for the last century or two.

The point you are trying to make is so vital, so incredibly significant, that I would hope others could be encouraged to set their subjective discomforts aside, to put their ignorance and / or denial of reality aside, and acknowledge the ominously looming, human - driven predicament before humanity, the one apparently induced by the huge scale and skyrocketing growth rate of global human over consumption, overproduction and overpopulation activities now overspreading the surface of the wondrous planetary home upon which God has blessed us to live so well.

In the early twenty - first century, with its very high rates of fossil fuel production, the scale of depletion, particularly of oil and gas resources, creates a particular predicament here.