Sentences with phrase «volatile region»

Both of them have shown incredible leadership in historically volatile regions of the world where men have traditionally dominated the political sphere.
They're the only practical means of rapidly addressing two crises — global warming and our dependence on finite energy resources largely derived from the world's most volatile regions.
Obtaining timely intelligence on hostages has always been difficult, especially in volatile regions where the United States has limited access and where militants have well - established operations.
A U.S. withdrawal from the Iran agreement would raise tensions in an already volatile region, possibly prompting an arms race involving Saudi Arabia.
The beans (actually seeds) are imported from often volatile regions with little infrastructure, grown by small farmers with few resources.
In as electorally volatile a region as Sicily, few ministers can resist doing something, usually spectacular and expensive.
Zones of Contention: After the Green Line presents eight contemporary artists who address the history and consequences of the ongoing disputes in this highly volatile region of the world.
Studying Chinese at university gave me the opportunity to move and settle in the most geographically volatile region in the world, the Asian ring of fire, and pursue my passion of documenting nature's tantrums on video.
This is disappointing news: here at Treehugger, we've repeatedly driven the point home that the president has almost no control over the price of gas in the short - term — a cocktail of global demand, oil speculation, and political instability in volatile regions determines the price of gas more than anything else.
But that cost differential is nothing compared to the kind of resources it will take to protect shorelines, adapt infrastructure to changing climes, orchestrate organized evacuations in coastal regions, shepherd climate refugees to new homes, exert military resources to maintain stability in newly volatile regions stricken with food shortages and droughts, and so on and so forth.
In the event of a significant deterioration in the security environment, you may have to temporarily move employees from a particularly volatile region into a capital city or neighbouring region, returning only when the situation stabilises.
They warn of what 11 retired generals and admirals wrote about in 2007 — climate change becoming a «force multiplier for instability in some of the most volatile regions of the world.»
The United States has a problem: runaway climate change, which will degrade or damage agriculture, biodiversity, coastal cities, and the social politics of some of the most volatile regions of the world.
Industry gets tax breaks, subsidies, military support in volatile regions, the right to use our air and water like a sewer, and assurance that the government will clean up its environmental messes.
«Cyprus is the easternmost frontier of the EU, an island of stability in a volatile region,» he says.
Such a war is likely to bring long - term instability to a sensitive and volatile region and inflame Islamic extremism.
I was reading an article on a developing situation in one of the most volatile regions in the world and the strained ties between US and Pakistan.
As the situation in Pakistan and Afghanistan seems headed from bad to worse, Greg Mortenson, co-author of the blockbuster Three Cups of Tea (140 - plus weeks and counting on the New York Times bestseller list), and his Central Asia Institute are building more schools in that volatile region than ever before.
«Patterson does an excellent job of delineating the very complex politics in the Middle East from all sides, but the result is that the book is more informative than it is pulse - pounding... But the threat Patterson imagines is frighteningly realistic, and the result is a thoroughly engrossing look at a complex and volatile region
Seeking long - term growth in a volatile region.
Africa's population could easily double by midcentury, and recent research has shown that its most volatile region, along the south flank of the Sahara, faces the inevitability of epic droughts.
It focuses on how climate change «can act as a threat multiplier for instability in some of the most volatile regions of the world,» in part by causing water shortages and damaging food production.
~ Climate change acts as a threat multiplier for instability in some of the most volatile regions of the world.
When you are a tiny country with almost no oil, located in a volatile region, and your gasoline consistently sells for over $ 6 a gallon, electric cars are an especially attractive option.
Many people in volatile regions are suffering unspeakable horrors that fall outside the reach of media cameras.
Considering the Midwest has typically been the most volatile region, the slight slowdown in growth doesn't sound alarms.
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