Sentences with phrase «society leaders from»

Instead, they form an accumulating stream of negative news that slowly alters the landscape and discourages policymakers and civil society leaders from taking steps to stanch the erosion and begin the process of reclamation.

DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA — Today — Civil society leaders from across Africa, with support from global movements, launched a letter to climate negotiators that warns that focusing on launching a new mandate at the Durban talks risks backtracking on promises to the poor and the planet.

Titled «Creating a Regional Framework for Prosperity and Peace through Public - Private Cooperation», the 2015 World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa bring together more than 800 key government, business, and civil society leaders from the region and beyond, to support a comprehensive and forward - looking vision for prosperity and peace.

The fundamental building block for CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation was the 1991 decision of a group of civil society leaders from across the world to reinforce and support the virtual expansion of citizen participation in every region of the globe.

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Leaders from all parts of society, including business, politics, academia, and civil society have one common task: Building resilient and sustainable societies.

Eight Opportunity Panels with thought leaders from business, civil society and government will point to opportunities that can put societies on a path towards a more sustainable future.

Leaders from all parts of society - including business, politics, academia, civil society - have one common task of building resilient and sustainable societies.

Next week the World Economic Forum (WEF) will host its 48th annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, drawing together a large number of leaders from governments (including President Trump), international organizations, business, academia, and civil society.

Each of them will consist of 25 - 30 creative, innovative, and solution oriented leaders from Business, Academia, Civil Society / NGOs and youth organisations.

At Techonomy NYC, leaders from across industries strategize about the fast - moving trends transforming business and society.

«America's strengths include [the fact it is a] society that attracts talent from around the world and assimilates them comfortably as Americans; and a language that is the equivalent of an open system that is clearly the lingua franca of the leaders in science, technology, invention, business, education, diplomacy and those who rise to the top of their own societies around the world.»

Never mind that a cheap currency makes it more expensive for Chinese households and businesses to buy things from the outside world, depressing standards of living and hampering the transition to a consumer society that China's leaders ostensibly want.

Sara Sutton Fell led a competency workshop on «Mobilizing Your Remote Workforce» as well as a discussion group on Digital Changes in Society focused on Employment to an international group of leaders from corporate, nonprofit, NGO, and educational organizations.

In fact, the Tanach is very clear to the Jews that the only covenant they have (and will ever have) is the one pounded out between G - d and the Jews on Mt. Sinai (which, if you read the fine print AND the NT is allowed to be understood / interpreted by designated leaders in the Jewish society; Jesus believed those people to be the Pharisees and told his JEWISH followers to adhere to Pharisee teachings... the Pharisees were the honorable, compassionate end of the theology spectrum in the first century instead of the bad rap they get from a mis - reading of the NT (done generally with no comprehension of Jewish culture or history).

I brought up the idea that had he been a contemporary of Jesus, he probably would have viewed the Messiah as a failure because Jesus went from teaching leaders to having a mass following to being followed by what our society would deem «losers» (prostitutes, tax collectors, demon possessed, lepers, etc.) to having 12 by his side to 11 to 3 to none.

When the mass insecurities fostered by a society in rapid transition reinforce the feeling of vulnerability derived from personal autonomy, people tend to «escape from freedom»; they lose their anxiety but also their freedom by overidentifying with some authoritarian ideology, leader, or system, political or religious.

«Join 1,000 remarkable leaders from all channels of culture as we gather in Nashville to consider how to advance the common good in a pluralistic society.

In such a materialistic society, the Church MUST reclaim the strong language used by early church leaders to warn of the potential dangers of wealth, and we MUST be more careful of proclaiming all wealth as an undisputed blessing from God.

In Florence, where the greatest «Magdalena was carved, prostitutes were in plentiful supply to fascinate the leaders of society and mildly threaten ecclesiastical discipline, and a saint who was thought to have been a prostitute was bound to get attention from every group with money for the arts.

While much of the revival of Roman Catholicism was through leaders from Italy, it was from the Iberian Peninsula that Ignatius Loyola, the founder of the chief organization of the Roman Catholic Reformation, the Society of Jesus, came, and it was from Spain and Portugal, only recently emerged from the Moslem yoke and where in the seventh and eighth centuries Christianity had suffered some of its worst defeats, that the next chief geographic expansion of Christianity issued.

For this reason, teaching about television becomes a high priority for the church — teaching pastors how to function in an informational rather than an industrial society, teaching denominational leaders how to deal with the new kinds of ethical situations that have resulted from the dominance of this new institution, with its new kind of power, and, above all, teaching parishioners how to cope with the enormous wave of exciting.

The historian of non-violence, William Robert Miller, says that the first explicit reference to non-violence in the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott came from a white librarian, Juliette Morgan, who compared the boycott to Gandhi's salt march in a letter to the Montgomery Advertiser on December 12, 1955.35 The development of non-violent strategies in the civil rights movement of the 1950's and 60's arose partly from belief in pacifism as an expression of love in the Fellowship of Reconciliation and Society of Friends from whom many leaders of the movement for racial justice came.

’25 Moral concern can not be separated from inner transformation, but, as twentieth - century religious leaders of several traditions have insisted, such inner transformation also embraces a concern for the well - being of the whole society.

I am sure that the socialism being preached by the radical sectarians on the far left, modeled on the ideas of Fidel Castro or the thought of Mao Tse - tung, leaders of two societies about as different from the United States as it is possible to be, is not the answer.

The leaders of what would become the New Age Movement confidently anticipated salutary effects from the breakdown of American society, which they called a «broken - back» technocracy.

Unless the general public — not just the highly educated leaders of church and society, but the general public — knows about these problem with all their pros and cons, and are able to weigh and consider alternatives and solutions from every standpoint — left, right and center — unless that happens, our nation will never be able to fight its way back toward solutions that will build us up, strengthen our resolve, and re-create the nation I used to love and I now would love to reform.

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

The Ukrainian leaders with whom I'm in regular contact give the post-Maidan government grades ranging from B - minus to C - minus; they give Ukrainian civil society an A, for both its steadfastness and its patience amidst sluggish reform, Russian aggression, and a massive refugee crisis.

The Consumer Goods Forum key contributor to event that brought together leaders in business, international institutions, academia, faiths, the media and civil society Roundtable had strong endorsement from the Vatican,...

Speeches were given by about 50 experts, mostly academic professors and researchers, but also from leaders of civil - society organizations, the private sector and government officials.

«Oscar Mayer's plan for eliminating gestation crates from its supply chain sends a strong message to pork industry leaders who are resisting change,» said Paul Shapiro, vice president of farm animal protection at The Humane Society of the United States.

Dave Lewis, chief executive of Tesco, was recently appointed chair of a coalition of leaders from government, businesses, international organisations, research institutions, and civil society called Champions 12.3.

Champions 12.3 brings together CEOs, politicians, leaders from global institutions and civil society to accelerate progress towards the fulfilment of United Nations Sustainable Development -LSB-...]

The new publication, SDG Target 12.3 on Food Loss and Waste: 2016 Progress Report, was released on behalf of Champions 12.3, a unique coalition of leaders from government, business and civil society around the world dedicated to inspiring ambition, mobilizing action, and accelerating progress toward achieving SDG Target 12.3.

PARIS and WASHINGTON, 21st June 2016 — The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) has agreed to join Champions 12.3, a coalition of leaders from governments, businesses, farmer groups, and civil society organisations dedicated to inspire ambition, mobilise action, and accelerate progress toward achieving Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Target 12.3 by 2030.

As societies change, however, in particular with urbanization, support for mothers from a wider circle is needed, whether it is provided by trained health workers, lactation consultants, community leaders, or from friends who are also mothers, and / or from fathers / partners.

Nurturing parenting and related practices — like mindfulness, emotion coaching, collaborative work environments, healthy conflict resolution, nonviolent communication, overall questioning the status quo — are coming from all directions, not only from Attachment Parenting International (API) but also schools, workplaces, health care providers, community leaders, and other major sectors of society.

With Ina May as their leader, the women taught themselves midwifery from the ground up, and, with their families, founded an entirely communal, agricultural society called The Farm.

Last month, Finnegan and his lawyer from the Thomas More Society sent a complaint letter to the Arlington Heights Park District and village leaders.

The Ghana + Peace Campaign is an initiative by the Obiba Foundation; a non - profit organization that provides humanitarian needs to the less privileged in society was launched on the 18th of August 2016 and had its delegatesembark on a peace tour to all the regions taking endorsements of peace from opinion leaders in Ghana with the final event having taken place at the Efua Sutherland Park.

Richard Reeves, a former adviser to the Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg, chastised me for sins varying from my opposition to the coalition Government's threefold increase in student fees to my suggestion that British society is the second most dysfunctional in the rich developed world.

Published in May 2011 after a series of seminars in London and Oxford, the text contains a foreword from Labour leader Ed Miliband, and was supported by Labour's key pressure groups The Fabian Society, Progress, Compass and the Christian Socialist Movement.

«In a time when national leaders fail to value our environment and what it means for our health and our economy, it is all the more important that New York leaders (from both sides of the aisle) work together to demonstrate true green leadership,» write the Environmental Advocates of New York and the Long Island Pine Barrens Society.

The 19 leading figures from groups such as Fabian Society, Compass, Policy Network and Progress expressed unease that Labour's leader may not secure a mandate for the kind of reforms they believe Britain needs.

Alan taught the first - ever college course on digital politics (1995), created and built the Center for American Progress's social media program (2007 - 13) and has trained more than 15,000 people across the world in digital & social media strategy, including civil society leaders across the Arab world in 2009; key staff at leading advocacy groups and news media outlets; Members of Congress and their staff; as well as political and business leaders from several countries, including a couple future kings.

The currencies of the international partnership, trade and aid are at risk unless we stand together, with one voice, and demand that these systemic issues be addressed,» he told the gathering of leaders from civil society organisations (CSOs), businesses, religious bodies and diplomats.

«Even in our own lifetimes we can recall how Britain and her leaders stood against a Nazi tyranny that wished to eradicate God from society and denied our common humanity to many, especially the Jews, who were thought unfit to live,» he said.

The Hansard Society says the monarch does not possess any reserve discretionary powers to act as a broker between party leaders in difficult situations: «It is essential for the future of the monarchy that its detachment from the political process is maintained.»

What should we expect from any party political leader in the 21st century to help build a good society, whether they are Labour, Green, SNP, Plaid Cymru or any party with progressive potential?

During their stay in Ghana, the observers will participate in briefings on the Ghanaian political and electoral processes from Ghanaian experts, political leaders, election administrators, representatives of civil society, as well as NDI staff.