Sentences with phrase «scale of the challenge»

Are you compassionate and brave enough to recognise the true scale of the challenge and the opportunity we face?

But I think here we do need to make sure that we are serious, sober, pragmatic about the absolute scale of this challenge.

A key comparison illustrates the daunting scale of the challenge.

Impatient speculating about the fate of the coalition and bickering over the economy mask the true scale of the challenge facing Britain's politicians in 2013.

«The EPI's analysis shows the eye - watering scale of the challenge in having enough teachers for the soaring number of pupils over the next eight years.

And the Tories, who have spent the week avoiding the sheer scale of the challenge ahead in 2015, are ready to fight hard for it too.

Judge the contenders to replace Ed Miliband on whether they see the epic scale of the challenge facing Labour

In a speech to the Resolution Foundation last week, he set out the dizzying scale of the challenge facing his commission:

Although the current draft contains a number of compromises, the WBG has reached a deadlock, adopted a cone of silence about the process, and refuses to be held accountable to its own analysis of the problem, that: «sustainable development through clean energy is still being addressed through short - term financing and regulatory frameworks that are not aligned to the immense scale of the challenge facing the globe.»

Responding to today's update on the Goddard inquiry into allegations of historical child sexual abuse in public institutions in England and Wales, law firm Bevan Brittan underlined the huge scale of the challenge facing Justice Goddard.

We knew M1 would have a challenging season, with many core players leaving Oxford at the end of 2016 - 17, but the scale of the challenge has become apparent over the course of Michaelmas as our boys faced off against a series of highly skilled and rigorously trained teams.

As a nation which is currently unable to keep its mothers and children safe and healthy, we must urgently seek solutions to the scale of the challenge we are about to face.»

The scale of the challenge is reflected in the fact that over 22,000 new Data Protection Officer roles are expected to be filled in the coming months.

External affairs director Marie - Claude Hemming said: «Not only must we undertake urgent repairs to local roads, but the scale of the challenge is such that the Government must rethink how repairs and maintenance of this national asset are funded.

What is the scale of their challenge?

Both carried military risk, but the scale of the challenge was much smaller.

Shadow Welsh Secretary, Owen Smith, has described the PISA results for Wales as «disappointing» but says that «the Welsh Labour Government has already recognised the scale of the challenge we face and has put in place the measures required to turn things around.»

To understand the scale of challenge, it's worth reflecting on a salutary fact: at the last general election on May 3rd, YouGov surveyed people on their preference for prime minister.

The duo at the top of the whips office, Patrick McLoughlin and John Randall, are experienced, shrewd and grasp the scale of the challenge.

No one can deny the scale of the challenge which the Conservatives face in 2015, just to maintain our current position, let alone secure an overall majority.

And the scale of the challenge will be in direct proportion to the electoral wipeout that comes next year: it may be they must find a way to regenerate that matches New Labour's revivifying achievement.

«We remain committed to our overall housing target as the right long - term goal, whilst recognising the scale of the challenge this entails.

While Ms Owers praised the prison workers who were «committed to improvement and who are working hard to achieve a decent environment», she hoped the investigation would provide «the pointers for what needs to be done, as well as indicating to ministers and the public the scale of the challenge in our overcrowded and pressurised local prisons».

Commenting on the proposed National Funding Formula for Schools and High Needs, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, said: «The delay in publishing the consultation on the national funding formula for schools indicates that even the Government recognises the scale of the challenge involved in creating a funding formula which enables schools to secure the educational entitlements of all children and young people.

you see a very strong recognition of the scale of the challenges and a very strong recognition of a need to act,» he said.

Shadow chief secretary to the treasury, Phil Hammond, said: «This shows the scale of the challenge that the Government faces in attempting to meet its target of halving child poverty by 2010 - and it exposes the fundamental failings of Gordon Brown's approach, which has been to tackle the symptoms of poverty instead of its causes.»

Earlier today Michael Bates of the Conservative Party's Campaign North told ConservativeHome that the party understood the scale of the challenge and had already taken a number of steps to steadily rebuild:

Darling was doing what Labour does at our best: being honest with the country about the scale of the challenges that confront us and providing leadership to meet them.

These polls, detailed though they may be, are just a snapshot and the SNP are taking nothing for granted — hard work and good policies are what win votes and we know the scale of the challenge we face if we are to make gains.

This necessitates candidness about the scale of the challenge, sophisticated policy thinking and communication that cuts through the vandal narrative that the coalition and the media will run against us.

The scale of the challenge facing David Cameron in keeping the Conservatives from imploding over Europe is underscored in a Guardian survey of constituency party members from across the country.

The scale of this challenge is not yet at U.S levels, but given that Britain under 18 is considerably more diverse than the current electorate, it will become increasingly unlikely at each election there will be a future Conservative majority government without making considerable progress among ethnic minority voters.

Andrew Rawnsley: At all of the party gatherings none of the politicians could find the words to match the scale of the challenges

A YouGov poll for The Times yesterday showed the scale of the challenge facing former Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary Mr Smith - who was among dozens of Labour frontbenchers to resign in the wake of the EU referendum.

«The scale of the challenge we face and the need for rethinking and re-modernisaton of the party is akin to the sort of the scale of challenge we faced in the late 1980s,» he told Andrew Marr.

A YouGov poll for The Times today showed the scale of the challenge facing former Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary Mr Smith - who was among dozens of Labour frontbenchers to resign in the wake of the EU referendum.

Moreover, such solutions are often not commensurate with the scale of the challenge because they can bring huge adverse ecological consequences.

But to give you a sense of the challenge, here are his estimates of the scale of the challenge: six billion metric tons of coal burned every year, producing 18 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide and requiring an underground storage volume of 30,000 cubic kilometers per year with untold consequences on subsurface pressure, mineral composition and the like.

Suddenly you see the scale of their challenges.

«However, I am concerned that we have underestimated the scale of the challenge.

Due to the scale of the challenge, no technology should be ruled out, and different strategies may need to be employed in different regions and circumstances.

Given the scale of the challenges we face, we must exploit all the available knowledge, skills, diversity, and creativity that humankind can bring.

LocatED's chief executive Lara Newman MBE said: «We understand the scale of the challenge and the property landscape.

Sir Richard Lambert, chair of the Fair Education Alliance commented: «Inequality in education is still deeply entrenched in our country and our Report Card is a stark reminder of the scale of the challenge.

It also highlights the scale of the challenge.

The start schools have made is impressive, but, given the scale of the challenge, there is still some way to go to provide all young people with access to the computing education that will able them to take on active roles in the digital world as digital citizens and in the workplace.

«We understand the scale of the challenge and the property landscape.

Kevin Courtney said: «We are pleased the Government is beginning to recognise the scale of the challenge in teacher recruitment and retention and says it is willing to work with us to tackle these related problems.

The plans are an inadequate response to the scale of the challenge we face in securing for every child the education that they deserve

The scale of the challenge requires that we must all work together.»