Sentences with phrase «urgent issue of»

If this was the grand solution to the urgent issue of climate change, you would think we would be seeing more projects coming on line, not fewer.

The goals of the organizer will be to recruit new volunteers, develop leaders, and collaborate with allies on behalf of Friends of the Earth, and focusing that organizing on the urgent issue of stopping Trump, his friends in congress, and the fossil fuel industry from dismantling our environmental and social justice laws.

This administration's refusal to constructively address the urgent issue of climate change amounts a lot more to a «high crime» than Clinton's lying about a sexual dalliance.

Climate change is the most urgent issue of our time.

Launching on November 20, 2015, this multi-faceted program aims to highlight the urgent issue of cultural heritage preservation and the empowerment of women artists in Saudi Arabia's Southern Asir...

The letter is part of an international collective call to action with authors» groups around the world to address the serious and urgent issue of contract terms in falling author earnings... We ask publishers to take responsibility for their role in authors» income by reviewing their contract terms and treatment of authors.

Apart from that, there is a not - so - urgent issue of the Streak being unable to awake from its slumber whenever it isn't plugged in — this means you will need to turn it on again or go ahead for a reset.

Earlier this week, the NFER blog focused on the urgent issue of school funding.

Soon a new president will occupy the White House, and there will be a renewed opportunity to address the urgent issue of the U.S.'s nuclear waste.

Of course, we hope to see a similarly constructive approach from the Liberal Democrats - not least on the urgent issue of tackling the deficit.

Yet on the urgent issue of providing sanctuary to those who have arrived in Europe, it is clear we are failing to do our part.

Beginning in the sixties there have been waves of protest both against the transformation of the university into an economistic institution and against academic disciplines that are not geared to the urgent issues of our time.

The theology of the twenty - first century will take as its starting point the urgent issues of the day, and it will bring to bear upon them multiple traditions, but of these the great tradition of European theology will be one, and a very important one.

The moral legitimacy of using violence is among the most urgent issues of our time, and yet its discussion slips quickly into an exchange of stereotypes.

I have done this because I believe that ethics loses significance when it is not engaged with the urgent issues of the day.

At such a gathering as the World Conference on Church, Community and State — the title currently used almost to the exclusion of «Life and Work» - in such a place as Oxford, it requires a little time for the mid-American participant, even if he is not unfamiliar with the scene, to adjust his mind to the serious and urgent issues of the conference.

Working with these thoughts and questions we realize that one of the most urgent issues of our time is the caring for the human surroundings and the quality of the adult relationships around the child, to provide a warm, safe and free space for the child's development.»

The issue is not, in my view, about its desirability but about the usefullness of pressing this issue at this time when urgent issues of party unity will be on Corbyn's to do list if / when he is re-elected.

We focus our work now on the refugee crisis, one of the most urgent issues of our time.

ESOF offers a window to the world, tackling the urgent issues of our time: from pandemics to artificial intelligence, big data to doping in sport — and media attending ESOF will have the opportunity to report on wide range of stories and announcements.

Including «Phantom Thread» on his 2017 top - 10 list, the New York Times critic A.O. Scott wrote, «There are movies that satisfy the hunger for relevance, the need to see the urgent issues of the day reflected on screen.»

Starting in 2012, seven of the largest animal welfare organizations in Phoenix came together specifically to address the urgent issues of pet over-population in our community.

Provocative, moving, and always compelling, his work never shies away from confronting the urgent issues of our times.

«The Other Architect» presents 23 case studies that emphasize the potential for architecture to identify the urgent issues of our time.

The program offers a platform for artistic experimentation that responds to and reflects urgent issues of our time.

I'm of the opinion that it's actually a perfect time for artists to use the world stage of the most respected and long - standing international art exhibition, to address some urgent issues of world politics: In particular migration which is the subject of Vik Muniz's «Lampedusa» (Pace Gallery), a fragile paper boat floats around the Venetian canals, printed with headlines about migrants who died at sea in recent months after attempting to make the treacherous journey from Libya to Lampedusa in Italy.

The Socrates Annual — formerly known as The Emerging Artist Fellowship Exhibition — is an annual exhibition of new public art that addresses the most urgent issues of today.

Defending Mother Earth brings together important Native voices to address urgent issues of environmental devastation as they affect the indigenous peoples throughout the Americas.

Not exact matches

At the end of the year, several urgent fiscal issues will converge, including the expiration of lowered individual income tax rates enacted a decade ago under President George W. Bush.

«On behalf of the hundreds of employees at Apple whose futures are at stake; on behalf of their colleagues and on behalf of the millions more across America who believe, as we do, in the power of dreams, we issue an urgent plea for our leaders in Washington to protect the Dreamers so their futures can never be put at risk in this way again,» Cook said in the note to his employees.

An architect by training and the author of Design for Good, Cary delivered a presentation on Wednesday at the inaugural Fortune, Time and Wallpaper * Brainstorm Design conference held in Singapore, making the case that the same principles of design fundamental to the private sector should be applied social sector to address some of the world's most urgent issues.

And while these more urgent challenges are largely cyclical in nature, the issue of social licence will not go away.

Gender diversity and leadership in tech is an urgent issue to address, not merely to offer balance to a male - dominated industry, but because of the strength and impact of its ripple effect.

Within hours of the presidential election, Washington politicians turned to the most urgent issue facing them: the fiscal cliff looming on Jan. 1, when more than $ 100 billion in automatic spending cuts and $ 500 billion of tax increases will be triggered.

We partner with governments and the public and private sectors, and foster greater public awareness of urgent global issues.

I liked it, in terms of convincingly arguing the limits of the Fed, but beyond that, there's wasn't a lot in terms of actually... you know... preparing for the next downturn — other than his closing sentence that the issue ``... demands urgent attention from fiscal as well as monetary policymakers.»

With half of all U.S. adults already in police facial recognition databases and the 2018 midterm election season upon us, the issue of political data mining feels urgent to Black activists.

Against the background of MiFID II, fund managers are also focusing on a number of other urgent issues, with stewardship at the head of the list, as Cynthia Alers explains.

Transport Canada told Postmedia News that it identified the transportation of flammable liquids, such as crude oil, as an «emerging» issue in 2011, and that it is now reviewing new safety recommendations received in recent weeks from three industry - led committees «on an urgent basis.»

Conquering Pagination — A Guide to Consolidating Your Content — The issue of pagination and how it affects SEO efforts is one that periodically comes up to remind us that we do need to pay attention to how we handle it, even if it seems less urgent than some other concerns.

One could argue that EK's under - funded pension liability is not an urgent issue because the company has lots of time to pay off that liability.

Food waste is an urgent global issue, with substantial repercussions in terms of both food security and the environment.

«On behalf of the hundreds of employees at Apple whose futures are at stake; on behalf of their colleagues and on behalf of the millions more across America who believe, as we do, in the power of dreams, we issue an urgent plea for our leaders in Washington to protect the Dreamers so their futures can never be put at risk in this way again,» Cook said in the note obtained by Recode.

We conservatives know that the human issues involved in all of the above are more urgent than global warming and related concerns.

I am hopeful that in some cases this may lead to reordering their lives in light of the most urgent issues.

«The protection and improvement of the human environment is a major issue which affects the well - being of people and economic development throughout the world; it is the urgent desire of the people of the whole world and the duty of all Governments.

There it appears, at best, as a side issue of legitimate interest to specialists, at worst, as a distraction from the truly urgent priorities.

The present volatile situation, worrying because of the deliberate lack of ideological depth and clarity, and annoying because of the language of messianic self - righteousness from both sides, continues to throw up the issues of peace and reconciliation in an even more urgent manner.

These men and women were invited to grapple with a massive, urgent issue currently confronting the whole Christian community and contemporary culture — in an ecumenical spirit of worship and dialogue, within an atmosphere of the warm hospitality of a great Christian university.

The issues raised by the abuse of advertisements are real, even urgent, but they are issues long with us and long understood.