Sentences with phrase «urgent questions as»

The movie depicts a counselor who seems to be on call around the clock for Mitty (to answer such urgent questions as «should I send her a wink?»

That's two month's running Fox has been hit by urgent questions as his rushed strategic defence and securityreview (SDSR) continues to unravel.

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As Twitter's growth has sputtered and stalled in recent months, one question has become increasingly urgent: How can the social media platform become more accessible to new users without alienating hardcore fans?

As much as we may like to ignore the fact, one day we'll all face the urgent question at the center of this memoir - how to die welAs much as we may like to ignore the fact, one day we'll all face the urgent question at the center of this memoir - how to die welas we may like to ignore the fact, one day we'll all face the urgent question at the center of this memoir - how to die well.

«Sending a message to someone who uses Shortwhale means being directed to a webpage with a few questions such as «How urgent is this?»

The earlier tendency to dismiss these questions as irrelevant to the «truly urgent» issues is fading.

If the pressure toward globalization of our thinking in practical matters continues to increase, as it almost inevitably will, it can only intensify the spiritual questions that our common fate on this earth raises in new and urgent ways.

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.

It is urgent because it foregrounds the question of whether we would have been better off with a women's movement that respected the family, the complementarity of men and women, and the satisfactions of having and raising children — or, alternatively, with a form of feminism that derides men as oppressors and champions alternate sexualities.

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.

Just as in Bultmann's analysis the questions of belief and truth that theology now faces can be adequately answered only by way of radical demythologizing and existentialist interpretation, so it is now clear to me that what is required if theology is to deal satisfactorily with the issues of action and justice (which for many persons are even more urgent) is a theological method comprising thoroughgoing de-ideologizing and political interpretation.

As the years go on, and the Church continues to flounder in the West and to be split over fundamental questions of morality, Fr Holloway can be seen as a prophetic voice, whose message is becoming more and more urgent if we are not to lose the battle with atheism completelAs the years go on, and the Church continues to flounder in the West and to be split over fundamental questions of morality, Fr Holloway can be seen as a prophetic voice, whose message is becoming more and more urgent if we are not to lose the battle with atheism completelas a prophetic voice, whose message is becoming more and more urgent if we are not to lose the battle with atheism completely.

In the next few years, as our society descends deeper into the abyss, we shall find this question of legitimacy to be increasingly urgent.

Just as in Bultmann's analysis the question of belief and truth that theology now faces can be adequately answered only by way of radical demythologizing and existentialist interpretation, so it is now clear to me that what is required if theology is to deal satisfactorily with the issues of action and justice (which for many persons are even more urgent) is a theological method comprising thoroughgoing de-ideologizing and political interpretation.32

No contemporary theological question is so urgent as the question of the nature and function of the church.

There is an urgent need to question this trend as it should be clear to everyone that the interests of corporations do not always align with public interests.

It was there again on Tuesday, as he answered an urgent question from Tory rising star Tom Tugendhat on the Salisbury poisoning and Britain's relations with Russia.

Mr. Speaker: I am not responsible for as and when Ministers come to give statements to the House, except when hon. Members ask for an urgent question.

As the evidence session took place, immigration minister Damian Green was forced to answer an urgent question on the row in the Commons, prompting accusations of cowardice from the home secretary.

But we're going to make this a very urgent effort, and Aimee will have the ability to track each and every one of the schools, the ability to call in the school leaders on a rotating basis as is done at CompStat, question them, find out what they need, push them harder, make sure they're doing their job, and if she doesn't see what she likes, just as at the NYPD, there's a whole host of actions that can be taken to improve the situation and to address the leadership dynamics,» Mr. de Blasio said.

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.

But he has not tackled many of the more urgent questions and issues (such as electoral reform).

The case is becoming ever - more urgent as our economy contracts and, potentially, heads into a depression as our public spending spirals out of control; there are not enough jobs to go around as it is, and Jacqui Smith's plan to let in thousands of Zimbabwean refugees begs the question: where the hell are we supposed to put them?

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?

If we accept such a sustainable future as an important, even urgent, goal, some big questions loom for us in the developed...

For information processing, the question of completing computing operations as efficiently as possible in thermodynamic terms is becoming increasing urgent — or to put it another way: how can we conduct the greatest number of computing operations with the least amount of energy?

As a physicist whose career is divided between universities in Pakistan and the US, Pervez Hoodbhoy's personal experiences have given him a unique insight into a number of urgent questions at the very heart of this crisis.

True, these findings are exciting, but they also pose some urgent questions: Do scientists need to change the theory of black holes to accommodate their large sizes, their large numbers as well as their proximity to each other?

I have to give Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky a lot of credit, not just as documentarians carrying microphone on their hands and camera on their shoulders pointing and focusing to its unwary subject, but as urgent human beings, not there just to cyclically perform «ask and hear», «question and answer», but to «listen and heed», «immerse and absorb».

Endo's perspective in the novel, at once questioning and urgent, has been replaced by what I read as a less complicated martyr's travail in Scorsese's hands.

I hope that as the Carnegie Foundation continues to wrestle with this work, it invests time in tackling a far more interesting and urgent question on the horizon: how should we measure time within emerging competency - based systems?

She answers all the urgent questions paraprofessionals have as they navigate their complex job in the inclusive classroom, showing readers how to:

«A team of documentary filmmakers began following affected families and educators, policymakers, and advocates as the closures unfolded — and their stories became a jumping - off point for exploring so many urgent questions facing public education today.»

The test was valid and had gone ahead as planned, Mr Gibb told MPs in response to an urgent question on the matter.

For example, if classroom routines, procedures, responses, and pedagogical strategies are established as habits through sustained and deliberate practice, teachers might be better able to attend to the urgent discipline problem building in the back row, implement a complex new lesson format, or respond to a student's question in order to provoke students» higher - order thinking.

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

These differing approaches kept coming to mind as I read Ron Childress» And West is West, a novel that addresses some serious, even urgent, social questions but which seems at times more interested in scoring quick points for being socially conscious than really exploring the issues it raises in a thoughtful and thorough way.

Brilliant, illuminating, and immensely absorbing, Collapse is destined to take its place as one of the essential books of our time, raising the urgent question: How can our world best avoid committing ecological suicide?

As ebooks continue to take market share away from printed books, a process that is slow but inevitable, these questions will become more urgent.

Answer the veterinarian's questions as accurately as possible and insist that the situation is urgent.

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.

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.

Question Bridge is the kind of superficially simple in scope, but intellectually complex, work that serves as a reminder of how urgent these issues remain.

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).

The artists take as their medium the debris of mass culture to address the urgent question: what are we to do with reconstruction in a time where history and all its material ephemera have been subjected to extreme fragmentation?

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».

While world leaders debate the erection of walls or the deportation of refugees, and as our political rhetoric grows increasingly divisive, die level of critical and ethical engagement that the exhibition performs — with questions of nation and migration, community and cosmopolitanism, and the aftermath of colonial violence — is more urgent now than ever.

«As Baltimore's civic museum, we believe it is incumbent upon us to use our exhibitions, collections, and public programs as platforms to engage the most urgent questions of our time,» said BMA Director Christopher BedforAs Baltimore's civic museum, we believe it is incumbent upon us to use our exhibitions, collections, and public programs as platforms to engage the most urgent questions of our time,» said BMA Director Christopher Bedforas platforms to engage the most urgent questions of our time,» said BMA Director Christopher Bedford.

In the main section, many curated shows explore urgent contemporary questions, such as Chi - Wen Gallery's (Taipei) group show addressing natural disaster, from global warming to nuclear contamination.

As televisions and computers have found their way into the privacy of our living rooms, and smart phones are now our constant companions, how these devices virtually restructure our personal, emotional and psychic lives has become an urgent question.