Sentences with phrase «urgent issues of our time»

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 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.

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.»

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.

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.

Climate change is the most urgent issue of our time.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

The French dramatic theorist Antonin Artaud, in speaking about the French classical theater, which had become formal and aloof from the issues of human hope, wrote, «In the anguished, catastrophic period in which we live, we feel an urgent need for a theater in which events do not exceed, where resonance is deep within us, dominating the instability of the times.»

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.

Tzivoni also noted that none of the tasks were lifesaving and could have waited for another time (although health authorities might disagree — a blood test could uncover an urgent medical issue).

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.

If this campaign is not to become the most depressing in modern times the central issues, apart from sovereign debt, should be these: urgent reform of the City; the need to build a more balanced economy; youth unemployment; poverty in an era of spending cuts and pay freezes; electoral reform and a new constitutional settlement; the European Union and Britain's place within it; withdrawal from Afghanistan and a multilateral foreign policy.

We commend Secretary Clinton for calling out climate change deniers and effectively illustrating the urgent need to act on a defining issue of our time.»

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.»

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.

It laments the increasing lack of public, political and media attention to environmental issues, especially at a time when some very crucial ones, like global warming, need urgent action.

But this is, at least in my experience, the first time that «warmers» - those who, like Dr Romm, believe climate change is taking us to hell in a handcart and who lobby for more urgent action on the issue - have resorted to the internet equivalent of taking banners onto the street in an attempt to influence reporting of the issue.

Last week, 200 of the world's leading climate scientists - meeting at Tony Blair's request at the Met Office's new headquarters at Exeter - issued the most urgent warning to date that dangerous climate change is taking place, and that time is running out.

It's called the climate crisis for a reason: global warming is the biggest and most urgent global issue of our time.

Patrick is currently leading Global Witness's research into the failure of the predominant economic model to address inequality and environmental damage - two of the most urgent and critical issues of our time.

Rachel provided urgent advise in relation to contractual issues (waybills, BIFA terms and conditions, limitation of liability, time bar and jurisdiction).

Linky understands that when a business or a senior executive has an employment related issue, it frequently requires immediate and urgent attention and Linky is consistently praised by clients for her speed of response and turn around time.

At a UN Human Rights Council debate on the report on 29 May, more than two dozen countries spoke on the issue for the first time and all agreed that the prospect of fully autonomous weapons requires urgent international action.

Take a step back and absorb Unless there are urgent issues to deal with, it helps take some time to acquire the information you need, to gain a real sense of the organisational culture.

Skills / Qualifications: • Computer, verbal and communication skills • Some knowledge of managed care principles • Some knowledge of health care financial and payer issues • Ability to work independently, yet work cohesively within a team to achieve results • Time management and prioritization skills • Ability to balance a high volume of work and variety of tasks and prioritize urgent issues • Strong problem solving skills

These include health, safety and welfare issues and also if one parent is incarcerated or on deployment or out of the State of California or the United States for an extended period of time since decisions may need to be made which are urgent.

This is an especially urgent challenge for policy - makers today, because a report issued just this month shows that for the first time, a majority of public school children come from low - income families.