Sentences with phrase «trying human cost»

His Three Gorges Project series consists of huge paintings and is one such example: in this work, Liu chronicles not only the construction of the highly controversial dam along the Yangtze River but also the trying human cost of the project.

Not exact matches

Trying to minimize costs, instead of maximize income, quality, loyalty, happiness, connection, and all those other wonderful things that come from real human attention.

The human tendency to hope for the best and try to avoid failure at all costs gets in the way, and organizational hierarchies exacerbate it.

I didn't start globalization, I can't stop it — except at a huge cost to human development — and I'm not going to waste my time trying.

In the eyes of nostalgic Russians, Cuba is almost home territory, a last outpost of a lost Soviet empire that Putin is explicitly trying to reconstruct at great political expense and human cost.

The church has not been able to live with the results of such extreme formulations; so it has kept reintroducing human responsibility, but often at the cost of allowing for the self - righteousness the theologians were trying to exclude.

Part of the cost we pay as citizens and people trying to advance our civilization is the burden of looking out for all the other humans as well.

So researchers trying to measure the human cost of the wars have had to turn to other data sources.

'' (T) error» examines the human costs of counterterrorism efforts on the homefront, as an FBI informant tries to befriend a terror suspect.

With chatbots, online brokerages could conceivably add software - based resources at a fraction of the cost of a human service agent which could then provide coverage and support to clients trying to reach support personnel.

Many pet owners try to compare the cost of veterinary medicine to their own healthcare cost - Please remember that the true, total for your (human) health care costs are rarely seen due to insurance and government subsidies.

You are in control of the planet's shield as it tries to find its way between its own natural well - being and the cost of human technological progress.

Things that look safe on paper have a nasty habit of being derailed by wear and tear as they age, by human error, and by greedy operators trying to cut operating costs to fluff up the bottom line.

After the biggest and most expensive propaganda campaign in human history, leading to the biggest tax increase in human history, trying to stop «global warming» that isn't happening anyway and won't happen at anything like the predicted rate is the least cost - effective use of taxpayers» money in human history, bar none — and that's saying something.

While environmental activists and some politicians claim «the debate is over» and call for immediate action to reduce man - made greenhouse gas emissions, others say the science points to only a very small human impact — too small to warrant concern — and the costs of trying to prevent global warming far exceed the benefits.

We humans are a funny bunch, at least when we're trying to balance risks vs. costs.

That's understandable too, but when tech executives speak blithely of «headcount alignment changes», they're trying to distract us from the human cost of their cock ups.