Sentences with phrase «urgent questions about»

Reporters were quizzing experts at scientific meetings and telephoning them with urgent questions about one or another discovery that was about to be published.

Taking the guise of a video game, «Factory of the Sun» is loosely based on a fictional light and information dependant hegemony that raises urgent questions about the proliferation of reality - based news programming, the tyranny of public opinion, the pitfalls of corporate sponsorship, and the increasing unavoidability of mass surveillance.

That retreat was another turning point in the odyssey of turning my family's story into a documentary film that asks urgent questions about our judicial system and the un-interrogated fear that runs through it.

According to the jury, the installation / performance «Faust» is... a powerful and disturbing installation that poses urgent questions about our time» the jury said.

One of the most talked about show since the opening of Biennial, it has been described by the president of the jury, Manuel Borja - Villel, as «a powerful and disturbing installation that poses urgent questions about our time».

The artists pose urgent questions about the systems of power that can devalue the lives of minorities in the United States.

David Castillo Gallery will present works that raise urgent questions about representations of race, sexuality and gender in today's society, including a live performance by Kalup Linzy (b. 1977), as well as photographs by Lyle Ashton Harris (b. 1965) and Xaviera Simmons (b. 1974).

Ai Weiwei's art posed challenging and urgent questions about human rights and freedom of expression — and responded to the potent and layered history of Alcatraz as a place of detainment and protest.

Ai's artworks in @Large raise urgent questions about the social implications of incarceration and the definitions of liberty, justice, individual rights, and personal responsibility as interpreted through the lens of the artist's personal experiences.

There are, obviously, deep and urgent questions about the future of the Union and «devolution».

This raises the most profound and urgent questions about the future.

We were asking urgent questions about whether women, people of color, religious minorities, immigrants, would ever be treated with dignity and respect.

That means I won't be covering this afternoon's events in the Commons, where Philip Hammond, the defence secretary, is taking questions (partly about the Olympics) and Theresa May, the home secretary, is answering an urgent question about Olympics security.

Boris Johnson has faced accusations of cowardice and discourtesy from Labour MPs after he failed to appear in the Commons to answer an urgent question about reports that he privately argued a hard Irish border was possible after Brexit.

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Vaden says, «When you ask yourself that question, you will find that you immediately feel less pressure to only focus on the urgent things that are pressing today or this week and you instead gain a perspective to start thinking about what you can be doing now to make a positive impact on the future.

By focusing on strategy, it may be that questions about the turning of the cycle become a little less urgent.

This question becomes urgent as cultural elites grow more hostile, and orthodox Christian beliefs (shared by most other traditional faiths and by many with no faith) about sex and marriage are redefined as hatred and bigotry.

Still, if one brackets the nonetheless important question as to where, if anywhere, Heidegger's substitute divinity resides in the registers of historical religion, there remains the perhaps more urgent query about the relation of his system to those ethical decisions that his - and our - time demands.

Labour MP Andy Burnham will ask an urgent question in the House of Commons about the government's decision not to hold an inquiry into the events at Orgreave in 1984.

Further to my report earlier and that of Lee Rotherham on Monday about Herman Van Rompuy's Task Force on EU Economic Governance, Treasury MInister Mark Hoban came to the Commons this afternoon to answer an Urgent Question from Bill Cash on the issue.

One Urgent Question today from @johnmannmp on regulating complaints about fellow #MPs.

Blowing his top My MP was quite keen to get in on an Urgent Question that saw a certain PM hauled before the Commons to make a statement about a certain culture secretary and a certain deal to buy BSkyB.

John Denham, Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, tabled an urgent question yesterday evening, following news about off - quota university places.

Tory MP John Baron, who asked Hammond the urgent question, interrogated foreign secretary William Hague about the changes during a committee hearing earlier today.

No MP stood up to ask the home secretary about the case in the one hour allotted to Home Office questions and an urgent question request by Liberal Democrat MP Julian Huppert was not selected.

«While there is an urgent operational need to ascertain information from Musa Kusa with respect to the present conflict in Libya, the relevant authorities, including the police, should in time be able to ask him all the necessary questions about Libya's violent history, not least on British soil.»

The urgent question is still going on, and more Tory Brexit MPs have been complaining about Cameron's rules relating to what ministers can and can not see.

Members of the New Paltz Town Board have questions they'd like answered about the Ulster Regional Gang Enforcement Narcotics Team (URGENT) before renewing a contract under which a town officer is assigned to work with the task force several days a week.

Andrea Leadsom, the leader of the House of Commons, pledged that incidents of sexual harassment would not go unpunished, as she responded to an urgent question raised by the Labour MP Harriet Harman about allegations that have emerged in recent days.

At a time when «disturbing thoughts were beginning to dawn in the public mind about the nature of humanity in the scheme of things,» as he says, wild animals and mutants gave Victorians something to stare at in safety while asking themselves the big and suddenly urgent question: What, if anything, makes me different from that?

Based on going though all the information of the site about probiotics and microbiome, three questions that came up repeatedly and really need an urgent answer for someone on a whole food plant based diet:

Windham Federation of Teachers President Randall Prose said: «We're concerned about much more than test scores, but these latest numbers provide an urgent opportunity to ask some tough questions.

As time marches forward, questions about the future of the classic car hobby become not just more varied, but also more urgent.

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Since anyone with a smartphone has become an accelerated source of image production, distribution and alteration, the questions posed by the artist about the futility of authorship are increasingly urgent.

Author Jordan Amirkhani notes: «If the studio has traditionally been a place of solace from reality's complications, this exhibition seems to respond with urgent ambiguity by asking important and unresolved questions about the place of artistic practice within today's society, and the traditions of Western art making that have not (and will not) go away.»

Their works fuse traditional cultural knowledge with contemporary art forms, pose urgent political questions, and push the boundaries of how we think about art, history and culture more broadly.

If the studio has traditionally been a place of solace from reality's complications, this exhibition seems to respond with urgent ambiguity by asking important and unresolved questions about the place of artistic practice within today's society, and the traditions of Western art making that have not (and will not) go away.

Author Jordan Amirkhani notes: «If the studio has traditionally been a place of solace from reality's complications, this exhibition seems to respond with urgent ambiguity by asking important and unresolved questions about the place of artistic practice within today's society, and the traditions of Western -LSB-.....]

The most urgent question today's column raises is not about Will, but about how media organizations decide how to present science to the public.

There is no longer any question about «whether» human activities are changing the climate; instead research must tackle the urgent questions of: «how fast?»

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.

Comment: One commenter questioned under what circumstances proposed § 164.510 (k) would apply instead of proposed § 164.510 (f)(5), «Urgent Circumstances,» which permitted covered entities to disclose protected health information to law enforcement officials about individuals who are or are suspected to be victims of a crime, abuse, or other harm, if the law enforcement official represents that the information is needed to determine whether a violation of law by a person other than the victim has occurred and immediate law enforcement activity that depends upon obtaining such information may be necessary.

Facebook's current privacy crisis and questions about how Google gathers, uses and stores our personal information demonstrate an urgent need to review and replace inadequate and outdated ways to...