Sentences with phrase «second big commitment»

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Just last week, Syria joined the Paris climate agreement, making the United States — the world's second - biggest emitter of greenhouse gases — the only nation whose commitment to the plan remains in question, after President Trump announced his intention to withdraw from the agreement earlier this year.

Movie stardom had long been considered the holy grail for a TV star to aspire to, and actors on the rise would agitate to get out of their small - screen contracts — or schedule their blossoming big - screen gigs around those infernal commitments — in order to make that second act happen.»

While the New York Working Families Party talked big about standing up for principle and running a candidate against Cuomo, in the end, the union - connected political party endorsed him without getting any commitment that he'll stop denigrating teachers or their professional rights during a second term in office.

The second discount brokerage looked at a big commitment of another kind as they launched their new career oriented social media channel.

Second Nature represents the first survey of Los Angeles sculpture from this period — and a bigger commitment to sculpture for the Hammer, following the museum's significant 2005 exhibition Thing: New Sculpture from Los Angeles, in which several of the artists in Second Nature made an appearance.6 It also marks a sort of «snapshot,» as Valentine describes it, of a decade of exceptional, medium - intensive artistic production in Los Angeles.7

It would be hard to imagine, speaking for the United States, that there could be the level of financial commitment that I have just announced in the absence of transparency from the second biggest emitter — and now I guess the first biggest emitter, and now nearly, if not already, the second biggest economy.

Developed countries weren't doing anyone a big favour by coming together to discuss a second commitment period.

Second, it appears that the European Union, South Africa and the Climate Action Network — the latter representing big international NGOs mostly without any commitment to climate justice — are pushing what is called a «new mandate».

In an announcement that originated in a ministerial level meeting in Tokyo, Japanese negotiators reiterated a position they have been making for a year now: they will not sign onto a second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol, setting new and more ambitious targets for binding emission reductions among the parties of that treaty beyond 2012, unless the biggest carbon polluters do as well.

One of the goals of the curricular overhaul was to strengthen the required legal analysis, writing, and research components of the curriculum.20 After discussing a number of ways to do so, the committee recommended that the required curriculum be changed by replacing first - semester Legal Method and second - semester Introduction to Appellate Advocacy with an expanded three - semester sequence21 of courses entitled Legal Analysis, Writing, and Research (LAWR) I, II, and III.22 These expansions retained Maryland's commitment to having the first - semester course taught by full - time faculty, but a big change in the new first - semester course, LAWR I, was that it was not joined to another first - year course.

June 29, 2017 — Hughes Hubbard maintained one of the top spots in The American Lawyer's annual pro bono special report, ranking second among Big Law firms for U.S. pro bono commitment in 2016.