Sentences with phrase «shifting political climates»

Even more so in light of shifting political climates.

Even more so in light of shifting political climates.

New York, NY — Reshma Saujani, founder of the national nonprofit Girls Who Code and a Democratic candidate for New York City Public Advocate, today launched Up to Us, a new campaign to empower women voters to shift the political climate and conversation away from the sex scandals that have turned New York City's summer campaign season into a national spectacle.

While these characters are all rightfully compelling in their realistic day - to - day, it's how they react to external social expectations and their nation's shifting political climate that really packs the emotional punch.

What is the role of documentary photography in the quickly shifting political climate and morphing process of self - identification through artistic practice?

Defending criticism of the government for not sufficiently supporting the Human Rights Act, the Justice Secretary Jack Straw blamed the atrocity of 9/11 in New York in 2001 for shifting the political climate and public opinion against the protection of traditional freedoms.

Not exact matches

So the political climate seems to be shifting against the deal.

We have evidence to show that gun purchasing trends tend to shift with the political climate.

Ever since, our capital markets have been in a perpetual state of transformation fueled by innovations in brokerage services, advisory tools, investment products, retirement plans, financial technology, and shifts in both the political and economic climates.

(CNN)- In remarks Tuesday touting the Obama administration's progress in addressing gun safety, Vice President Joe Biden vowed to revisit gun control legislation that failed in the U.S. Senate earlier this year, and warned legislators that the political climate shifted after the mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut last December.

There will be no certain answers about the future for the Republicans; there never are in a political climate that can shift as dramatically as it has from 2004 to 2006 and 2008 and now to 2010.

«Unfortunately, that isn't the case with many other river systems, where a variety of factors come into play, including strong nationalism, political contentiousness, and drought or shifting climate conditions.»

But she said she wonders if the recent shift in political climate, where students are targeted because they are Muslim or even appear that way to perpetrators, could boost that number.

Divestment creates the social and political will to shift public discussion on climate change and raise awareness of the risks that come with a hotter planet, they said.

While all 50 states allow exemptions for children who have a valid medical reason, and almost all states allow nonmedical exemptions for parents with either religious or philosophical objections, the political climate has recently shifted in favor of making exemptions more difficult to obtain.

Professor Doherty explains: «Systems of food production, trade and consumption are increasingly vulnerable to interconnected political, economic and ecological shocks associated with climate, environmental changes, shifts in farming practices and consumer lifestyle changes.

Alex Randall, project manager of the Climate Change and Migration Coalition, says that the link between climate change and conflict is still fairly weak, and that it shouldn't shift the responsibility of the war away from political or diplomatic faClimate Change and Migration Coalition, says that the link between climate change and conflict is still fairly weak, and that it shouldn't shift the responsibility of the war away from political or diplomatic faclimate change and conflict is still fairly weak, and that it shouldn't shift the responsibility of the war away from political or diplomatic failures:

Westwood's primary political concerns have shifted over the years; she is now predominately an activist for climate change, nuclear disarmament and civil rights, especially that of freedom of speech.

Raiden's initial role as mirror to the player shifts as he struggles with his own past and a changing political climate.

In today's polarized politics, such appeals are less likely and less effective — meaning an educational comeback may depend on a broader shift in the political climate.

This shift in orientation occurred for diverse reasons, including growing public concern about the level of violence and disorder in public schools, the changed political climate following the end of the Vietnam era, and a pattern of increasingly conservative judicial appointments during the Nixon, Reagan, and Bush administrations.

Ever since, our capital markets have been in a perpetual state of transformation fueled by innovations in brokerage services, advisory tools, investment products, retirement plans, financial technology, and shifts in both the political and economic climates.

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Echoed in these works are the migratory shifts and political climates of Cold War America, from suburban sprawl to the Red Scare.

Gaining gradual resonance with shifting political landscapes and social climates, art created by the late Felix Gonzales - Torres during his short life was the subject of an impressive exhibition at David Zwirner's 20th street location.

From trade winds and Schumpeter's Gale, to political storms and racial climates, meteorological invocations occur in conjunction with systematic shifts in economics and politics.

Exhibiting this new suite of tintypes in New York in summer 2017, one can measure the shifting meaning of the works against the shifting status of their subjects within the wider political climate.

Taking place just days after the United States presidential elections, FIELD MEETING: Thinking Practice seeks to explore how art practitioners can maintain sovereignty over their own voice as world citizens and commentators amidst the pervasively hostile political climates and marginalising forces of conservatism around the globe, in addition to contending with art world prescriptions, cultural impositions and shifting market demands.

In this climate of crisis and shifting political winds it is all the more important to keep faith with those who share our values and our visions and who strive and struggle to build that different world created by community rather than privilege.

Yet again, it seems the political imperatives surrounding high energy prices are trumping building climate concerns and the inevitable need for a shift away from fossil fuels.]

Perhaps once the economy recovers and we rein in our foreign troops (and Democrats again take control of the House) the political discussion will shift back to climate change.

Jamail adds, «There is nothing to indicate in the political or corporate world that there will be anything like a major shift in policy aimed at dramatically mitigating runaway anthropogenic [human - caused] climate disruption.»

Write to your political leaders about shifting subsidies away from environmentally destructive activities to climate - benign energy sources.

Fifteen experienced young people identified social political upheaval and climate shifts as the two most important challenges they'll face.

With political shifts from Brexit, Trump and the rise of divisive far right populism, alongside increasingly devastatingthe terrifying increase of climate impacts, it's easy to feel that despite our best efforts, change isn't happening fast enough.

The analysis conducted in the Climate Shift report is the first publicly released academic study to assess coverage of climate science during the key political period of 2009 anClimate Shift report is the first publicly released academic study to assess coverage of climate science during the key political period of 2009 anclimate science during the key political period of 2009 and 2010.

Yet, we find that consensus - messaging does not increase political polarization on the issue (perhaps partly due to the neutral scientific character of the message) and shifts the opinions of both Democrats and Republicans in directions consistent with the conclusions of climate science.

With fundamental issues of trust such as those illustrated above still far from being resolved, and political will on financing performing a fine balancing act in Europe and the United States (with the former dealing with a snowballing resurgence of the financial crisis, and the latter with an incoming legislature planning to dissolve the House of Representatives panel on climate change), the time has truly come for wealthy nations of the world to fundamentally shift their modes of thinking.

Guardian: Guardian / ICM poll reveals public perception of climate change remains consistent despite political shift during financial crisis.

Climate negotiations just concluded in Bonn, and negotiators delivered a clear message: International climate action will not be deterred by shifting political winds in any one cClimate negotiations just concluded in Bonn, and negotiators delivered a clear message: International climate action will not be deterred by shifting political winds in any one cclimate action will not be deterred by shifting political winds in any one country.

Fossil fuels companies should also fully disclose the financial and physical risks of climate change, invest in low - carbon and renewable energy resources, support policies to shift away from fossil fuels, publicly disclose their direct and indirect political spending, and pay for their share of the costs of climate - related damages and climate preparedness.

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While a Trump administration will focus on implementing its own ambitious energy policies, while likely diminishing President Obama's energy and climate agenda, the realities of political and global ideologies and the inevitability of political transitions should be accounted for in order to avoid an unsustainable shift in energy policy that is short - lived and introduces more uncertainty for the U.S. power sector.

Human migration and socio - political ramifications are also to be considered further strained as droughts and other weather events change with the shifting climate due to the forcings human industrial output has imposed on the climate system.

Yet because «political winds can shift quickly,» he adds, the Kerry - Lieberman bill «appears far closer than any of its predecessors to a climate bill that corporate stakeholders might actually want to pass.»

Shifts in public opinion on climate change are tied to efforts of political leaders and advocacy groups.

This requires change to happen at a large scale through social and technical innovation; political shifts that minimize risk and vulnerability; or personal changes in belief systems that lead to climate change responses.

If you look at the Swiss Lake study I googled at zero dark thirty last night, they actually have some mathematics and say that most of what the varves tell them (for that area) is land usage, pasturing, etc. which is not purely climate driven but had independent shifts based on human technology and political issues.

But this domestic political drama, absorbing in its own right, may obscure a more important, even radical, shift in the global politics of climate change that Francis has helped to advance.

Paradigm shifts never come easy, but I think it is a shame that climate science is under so much political pressure, but that's the way it is today.