Sentences with phrase «urgency of addressing»

acknowledges the urgency of addressing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health inequality, although it does not set a timeframe, targets or benchmarks for achieving the goals and aims of the Framework; and

It also can help spur people to action when they might not realize the urgency of addressing their particular legal needs.

If they can, the argument goes, then the urgency of addressing the problem becomes incontrovertible; if it doesn't, then it allows countries to continue delaying action or reducing their commitments.

We understand the urgency of addressing these threats because we experience the effects every single day,» Nikki Silvestri, executive director of Green For All, said in a statement.

The new evidence is encouraging, but must not be allowed to undermine the urgency of addressing maternal mortality and health as a basic human right.

Below is a personal account from an expeditioner who saw the urgency of addressing climate change firsthand.

Understand the urgency of addressing student poverty in the United States and how poverty affects classroom engagement and academic achievement.

Of course, objective social and economic shocks and the intervention of socialist politics and political analysis play the decisive role, but an especially vivid sense of a society's ills, its psychic ills among them, and the human urgency of addressing them come from visual images and drama.

We can not afford to have an EPA administrator who fails to grasp the urgency of addressing climate change.»

Considering the urgency of addressing the current diabetes and obesity epidemics, their article is also a call to action for researchers and health systems to develop successful interventions to increase physical activity among women of reproductive age.»

But the urgency of addressing this issue did not translate into legislative agreement.

The goal should be to uncover a new problem that the prospect didn't fully understand, and to increase the urgency of addressing the problem.

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Trend essays that address the global connectedness of startup founders, concentration of respective value creation, and the urgency for cities to invest now.

5:46 pm ET: Sen. Cory Booker used all of his time to address specific issues of discrimination, including a «lack of urgency» that some believe Facebook is showing when it comes to diversifying its workforce.

Wallerstein (whose book is coauthored by journalist Sandra Blakeslee) addresses marriage and family life with a sense of urgency.

I have tried thus far to demonstrate that the secular part of Western culture has itself raised the community question with unprecedented urgency and that the religious are best situated to address the question with authority based upon both tradition and experience.

The issue is not some poor results, its a decade of complacency — no urgency to address defensive issues, a boring possession game that is too easily countered, little development of young players, etc etc..

There have been some positives for the season but overall it has been disappointing and if the club wants fewer white seats to turn up to games next year they need to address the disjointed team issues as a matter of urgency.

Schneiderlin, 25, is the club's first choice for the defensive midfield role that needs addressing as a matter of urgency in the current transfer window.

BY PAUL SCHINDLER A January 28 panel on LGBT youth homelessness highlighted familiar concerns about the right model for delivering services to that population, but also focused on the dramatic link between poverty in a youth's family of origin and their risk for homelessness and on the urgency of better addressing the needs of youth -LSB-...]

The East River Blueway Plan is a model for resiliency as it provides a vision of an accessible and dynamic waterfront that also addresses the urgency of climate change and its effects.

The PM needs to address this as a matter of urgency.

David Cameron said in a speech earlier this year that access to porn was «frankly difficult for politicians to talk about but that I believe we need to address as a matter of urgency» adding that «Government is going to play its part too.»

It is figures like these that have informed the urgency with which the government has pursued its Free SHS policy to address inequality and ensure equal opportunities for all students through the removal of cost barriers.

The Federal Government should, as a matter of urgency, bring all the aggrieved groups in the Southsouth of the country to the negotiation table whereby all their genuine agitations can be addressed because Nigeria as a country currently in recession can not continue to lose millions of barrels of oil daily as a result of their incessant bombings of our oil installations in the region.

Some branch executives who were present at the press conference also appealed to the party to as a matter of urgency address their concerns raised in the petition to avoid any problems in the constituency in the very near future.

Addressing a meeting of Queen Mothers in Sunyani on Friday the Akyempem Twafohenemaa of Dormaa, Nana Akosuah Kumi Yeboah further asked Sir john to as a matter of urgency use the same FM Station through which he made the disparaging comments to retract and apologize or have himself to blame.

«I can not overstate the urgency of the need for all parties to come together to negotiate a realistic, responsible budget that addresses our state's fiscal issues, distributes education aid equitably and balances without the use of illusory gimmicks,» he wrote.

The urgency to address the dangers of construction are ever present.

On the relocations of poling units, INEC should as matter of urgency, educate and announce addresses of the new locations to voters to avoid confusion on election days.

Heaney explained to Susan Arbetter of The Capitol Pressroom why he thinks the rail extension is a bad idea and chastises city and county officials for their failure to address lead poisoning with a greater sense of urgency.

We addressed the urgency of the situation, Mayor de Blasio's affordable housing plan, and ways that average citizens can fight back against the deepening crisis of homelessness.

CODEO calls on all stakeholders, including the political parties, security agencies, and the public at large to as a matter of urgency, address this growing menace.

As a landlord, NYCHA recognizes the urgency and enormity of the problems that affect our residents» quality of life, and the de Blasio administration has made it a priority to address this since day one,» NYCHA said in a statement, cited by the newspaper.

«To this end, we call on President Buhari to, as a matter of urgency, publicly address the nation on the state of his health and other national issues.

«The assumption seemed to be that once individuals are led to believe in the urgency of environmental issues and have stronger concerns about sustainability, they will change and act to address the issues,» explains Eom.

His comments yesterday are more accommodating of the impacts of greenhouse gases from cars, power plants and buildings, but they don't show an urgency to address the risks of rising temperatures, said Alex Bozmoski, director of strategy and operations at republicEn, a conservative group that supports taxing carbon.

«We feel an urgency to address blindness and cognition impairments of dementias because of their heavy burden on patients, families, care givers and the health care system.»

Caring for these underlying chronic health disorders can reduce the urgency of health - care needs by addressing health holistically from early on.

The problems that NCLB flagged have not gone away, but states now have a chance to address them using tools and techniques that better equip parents to demand change and maintain a sense of urgency about the needs of the disadvantaged students the Elementary and Secondary Education Act was crafted to help!

He deserves our admiration and respect for bringing a renewed sense of urgency to addressing America's persistently failing schools.

Though I am not yet sure what role I will play in shifting paradigms, I am heartened by the growing awareness of the need for trauma - sensitive schools and urgency for addressing inequities.

While the government is to be commended for the actions taken so far... stubborn digital exclusion and systemic problems with digital education and training need to be addressed as a matter of urgency in the government's forthcoming digital strategy.»

President George W. Bush started things off in January, when he delivered a ringing address at a suburban D.C. high school about the urgency of reforming American high schools and offered a bold $ 1.5 billion plan for doing so.

Mellor, ACER Senior Research Fellow and co-author of the review, says The Case for Urgency reveals we have not successfully addressed the major issues facing Indigenous students in their learning.

The Gonski Report concluded that too many children were missing out on the education they needed due to insufficient resourcing, and this must be addressed as a matter of urgency.

In his opening keynote address, Steven Levy, a longtime PBL advocate from EL Education, underscored the urgency of efforts to transform education in Colombia.

Earlier this month the Chairs of the Education, Skills and Economy Committee slammed the Government's failure to address inadequacies in careers guidance as «unacceptable», demanding that Ministers act to improve provision as a matter of urgency to ensure young people are equipped with the right skills to succeed in the modern economy.

Says Pittinsky, the most honest strategy for addressing academic inequities today is «an approach that involves not just giving adult family members a sense of security that the school is working for their children, but an «all hands on deck» sense of urgency — of just how important education is and how helpful and important it is for education to be reinforced at home by the most important adults in any particular child's life.

All faculty and staff became advocates in the pursuit of equity and excellence, designed lessons with a purpose, and articulated an urgency to address critical issues that lead to the successful outcomes outlined in the campus improvement plan.