Sentences with phrase «urgent problems such»

Specifically, most urgent problems such as resource depletion, environmental pollution, over-population, deforestation, the Greenhouse Effect, unchecked militarism, and rampant nuclear proliferation are studied to provide our students with a better understanding of the complexity of these interrelated issues.

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For some urgent societal challenges, such as climate change, the problem may lie in generating social momentum to begin with.

But as these and other studies suggest, if one's mind is constantly occupied with urgent problems, such as finding food or shelter or paying bills, there will not be much capacity left to come up with long - term solutions to better one's livelihood.

Several years ago lots of frauds used dating sites to wring money out of naïve users but today such problem is not so urgent due to spreading of Skype and video chats.

But then one would recall that other public functions exist, such as health, transportation, and higher education, that make large and urgent claims on the budgets of state governments; that problems other than a lack of money afflict the schools, such as students who arrive unprepared for learning or life in a classroom; and that evidence for the efficacy of money per se is at best mixed.

They employ a dedicated on - site manager who is on hand to deal with any problems that may arise, such as urgent response, spillages or providing labour for events.

Hospitals: The Emergency Department at UCSF Medical Center provides care to patients with urgent medical conditions ranging from complex problems such as heart attacks and strokes to simple but pressing conditions such as cuts and broken bones.

The point of this little rant is to suggest that our society has urgent problems that may actually be amenable to solution, and that we shouldn't waste our time and energies in futile debates over inherently shape - shifting pseudo-words such as «God» and «religion», as they are commonly used.

And it frustrates them that skeptics and «deniers» refuse to acknowledge the «science» of such an urgent, manmade problem.

Human societies need energy — turn it off and chaos would result: But if we could fix the ratio without obliterating other life forms, we'd be giving ourselves enough breathing space to tackle other urgent global problems, such as clean water supply, food sufficiency, and the preservation of health - giving natural areas.

And if climate change is an urgent problem, why spend such a paltry amount as $ 150bn a year on it?

Accordingly, over the next few decades the focus of climate policy should be to: (a) broadly advance sustainable development (particularly in developing countries since that would generally enhance their adaptive capacity to cope with numerous problems that currently beset them, including climate - sensitive problems), (b) reduce vulnerabilities to climate - sensitive problems that are urgent today and might be exacerbated by future climate change, and (c) implement «no - regret» emission reduction measures while at the same time striving to expand the universe of such measures through research and development of cleaner and more affordable technologies.

Such a policy would help solve current urgent problems facing humanity while preparing it to face future problems that might be caused by climate change.

They take away money and attention from other problems that are more urgent and more important, such as poverty and infectious disease and public education and public health, and the preservation of living creatures on land and in the oceans, not to mention easy problems such as the timely construction of adequate dikes around the city of New Orleans.

CLSMF helps low - income people resolve urgent, non-criminal legal problems that make a difference in their everyday lives, such as protecting the elderly from unlawful evictions, making sure women and children are protected from violence in their homes, and helping veterans receive financial benefits they have earned and need.

For instance, one might expect comments: 1) identifying ethical problems in legal scholarship that are given too little attention; 2) identifying the most important or urgent ethical problems in legal scholarship, even if they are already given attention; 3) asking questions about the definition of «scholarship» or «legal scholarship,» what counts as legal scholarship, and what kinds of norms, if any, should apply to writing by law professors as law professors but outside scholarly forums, such as tweets, blog posts, «law professors» letters,» op - eds, and so on; 4) proposing specific ethical norms for legal scholarship, especially those that might, as it were, be part of a Restatement or code of the ethics of legal scholarship; and 5) raising general questions, positive or critical, about what the conference should try to achieve or whether it is possible to achieve anything at all.

The family services agency would be able to refer families to court when orders relating to the wellbeing of the family or members of the family are required on an urgent basis and a court order is necessary, as might be the case where a problem requires the involvement of third - parties such as schools, doctors and therapists, banks, the police and border guards.

recognize that the problems affecting Aboriginal juveniles are so widespread and have such potentially disastrous repercussions for the future that there is an urgent need for governments and Aboriginal organizations to negotiate together to devise strategies designed to reduce the rate at which Aboriginal juveniles are involved in the welfare and criminal justice systems, and, in particular, to reduce the rate at which Aboriginal juveniles are separated from their families or communities, whether by being declared to be in need of care, detained, imprisoned or otherwise.

Such an approach indicates a failure to move beyond the policy paradigm of throwing palliatives in the form of quick - fix, short - term solutions at the urgent problems experienced by Indigenous people an approach which often serves only to manage and even perpetuate enduring cycles of disadvantage, at the expense of resourcing more holistic and far - reaching solutions.