Sentences with phrase «widespread change on»

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Proposed changes to the legislation introduced on Monday may actually lead to even more widespread coverage losses.

«The bright line on a map is an illusion,» he said, particularly in flat places like Houston, where a slight change in flood waters can result in far more widespread inundation.

Trump's stance on the environment contradicts thousands of scientists and decades of research, which has linked many observable changes in climate, including rising air and ocean temperatures, shrinking glaciers, and widespread melting of snow and ice, to an increase in greenhouse gas emissions from human activities.

On Tuesday, facing rising political heat after the Parkland massacre, Trump, as he often does, blamed his predecessors for a lack of action and said he would be different, despite widespread skepticism among gun control activists about his sincerity and capacity to make the case for change.

Analysts said the lower ceiling on gold sales was a belated recognition that central banks have grown less willing to sell their reserves, reflecting a change in thinking at central banks at a time when the dollar is in decline and inflation worries are widespread.

«My personal opinion is that whomever is proposing the change, the onus is on them to demonstrate widespread support,» Lombrozo said during his talk on protocol changes.

When he left, the Republican right was «unleashed,» poised to drive the party in its own direction (and that of the Reagan presidency) by capitalizing on widespread hostility toward the cultural changes of the 1970s that many believed had been foisted upon America by ideological liberals.

• Revising how subsidies are allotted to producers, and how different practices are taxed across the value chain; • Influence the evolution of production standards so that they guide producers toward increasingly sustainable practices; • Refining public education regarding what are best practices of production systems (and accounting for them), and how to make them more widespread; • Studying the effects different practices and production systems have on society - wide challenges such as public health (and health insurance, whether it is publicly or privately provided), climate change mitigation, job creation and family income, etc..

Well for those Arsenal fans clamoring for Silent Stan to grow a set and make widespread changes to the club based on performancel keep this in mind.

Since I am (as you now know from last week's Civil Eats post) more of a realist than an idealist, I'm not especially hopeful that our elected officials will suddenly find the courage to defy Big Food — and forgo its campaign contributions — nor am I hopeful that industry will change its ways voluntarily on a widespread basis.

Although the situation does not include a public keen for constructive change — there is no positive consensus on change in any particular direction — neither is it one of widespread happiness and trust in the existing system.

While the omission of any question on climate change during the three Presidential debates garnered widespread attention, the legislation of this soft drug was the second major absentee in the televised clash between Hilary Clinton and Donald Trump.

Despite the widespread public alarm over the effects of the new tax law's capping of state and local tax deductions at $ 10,000, that tax change had little effect on Schumer and Weinshall and the Gillibrands.

Ministers are understood to have been enraged by the Met's failure to get a grip on the situation on Monday but there was widespread understanding of why it would have adopted a public order approach to fast - changing and unique circumstances, even if it proved ineffective.

Kim and the institution itself have won widespread praise for squarely taking on climate change.

The freely available datasets will allow scientists to get a handle on how widespread and how significant changes to the frozen landscape might be in this ecologically sensitive region.

Tinkering with the genes inside people has been limited to gene therapy, where the changes don't get passed to the next generation (see «Is a new dawn of widespread gene therapy on the horizon?

Climate change can have a different impact on male and female fish, shellfish and other marine animals, with widespread implications for the future of marine life and the production of seafood.

Temperature is a funny thing in that changes can have widespread, even global effects on climate.

Looking beyond the 2030 timescale of the SDGs, scenario analysis highlights that continuation of past and current trends in drivers of change will inhibit the contribution of the region to the widespread achievement of the SDGs, while scenarios which focus on achieving a balanced supply of nature's contributions to people and incorporate a diversity of values are more likely to contribute to achieving the majority of the SDGs.

«To think that a simple decrease in calories caused such a widespread change, that was remarkable,» says Don Ingram, a gerontologist at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, who designed the study almost three decades ago while at the National Institute on Aging (NIA) in Bethesda, Maryland.

But there is widespread disagreement among scientists on whether climate change is to blame (ClimateWire, Jan. 3).

The new report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), published on Sunday in Berlin, Germany, says «widespread» use of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) will probably be needed to stop the world warming by 2 °C, the politically agreed danger threshold.

Dramatic changes in the relationship between water and society will be widespread, as emphasized in the new report from Working Group II of the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change.

Western Wildfires — The increasingly destructive and widespread fire seasons of recent years are likely to continue due to a combination of increased drought and land development encroaching on naturally burning landscapes, along with a climate change — induced fuel boom (enhanced plant growth and a shift to more woody species) exacerbated by fire - suppression efforts leading to more abundant plant matter to fuel violent blazes, according to ecologist Dominique Bachelet of Oregon State University in Corvallis and The Nature Conservancy.

The pact, announced on 30 November, will give scientists time to understand the region's marine ecology — and the potential impacts of climate change — before fishing becomes widespread.

Severe coastal flooding and widespread power outages have prompted many to ask if it's a new normal brought on by climate change.

«We observed widespread changes in gene expression profiles in more than 4000 genes following nanoparticle exposure, something that had not been reported on previously,» say first authors Jake Carrow and Lauren Cross.

A determined, widespread effort to weaken or destroy the institution teachers are counting on to protect them economically will force them into retirement or to hunker down and wait in brooding resentment for a change in the political weather.

To enable more widespread, successful turnarounds in education, state and district leaders need to focus on two critical policy changes.

Mobile phones with cameras had already produced a major change in cyberbullying behaviour when they became widespread a few years ago, but now we are moving on to a world of constant internet access, GPS location devices, Bluetooth and Apps which even allow companies to harvest personal information from a children's game.

I think for there to be long - standing change in American education that is widespread, rather than just on the margins, first of all, people have to see examples of places that are like their own places where the new kind of education really works, where students are learning deeply, where they can exhibit their knowledge publicly, and where everybody who looks at the kids says, «That's the kind of kids I want to have.»

Last month it was revealed more than half a million pounds of public money is to be spent on explaining the new numerical system, following widespread confusion over what the changes mean in real terms.

Although there is widespread consensus that teacher evaluation in the United States needs serious attention, simply changing on - the - job evaluation will not, by itself, transform the quality of teaching.

Still others, focused on innovative curricula (in science and mathematics, for example), typically address one part of a school's program and aim for widespread implementation, while innovative approaches to instruction, such as cooperative learning, hope to change teachers» practices one teacher at a time.

In this case, it is our hope to expand on these ideas to create more widespread change throughout the state.

While the city has received extensive coverage on the implementation of education reforms, as well as on the upheaval immediately following the widespread changes, scant analysis of the actual effectiveness of these reforms has been published.

As policymakers begin work on a major overhaul to the federal tax code, which could include eliminating or changing the deduction, and amid widespread concern about rising student debt levels, leaders should bear in mind that altering the provision would have implications for higher education and tax policy across levels of government.

A new phenomenon of widespread negative equity — homeowners owing more on their mortgage than the underlying property is worth — has wrought a sea change in borrower behavior.

Veterinarians, pet - shop owners and humane society officials said Tuesday that widespread changes proposed for Orange County's animal control law could do more harm than good.Those changes were first unveiled in November by the county's animal control committee.Commissioners took no vote on the proposal, which would add 80 pages to the county's 14 - page animal control ordinance, but will discuss the matter Monday.Several of the speakers praised the county's animal control committee for working hard on the proposal, but said some of its changes were uninformed and unreasonable.

Conservation Status Since the island scrub - jay occurs only on one island that makes it susceptible to any major disaster, a disease outbreak, or widespread land - use changes, any of which could potentially extirpate the species or cause a severe population decline.

It might seem like a strange thing to focus on, but this seemingly minor difference is symbolic of the widespread change that Capcom has employed for its familiar cast, as it has tweaked and twisted established convention for Street Fighter V. Dhalsim's fireballs are useful for air control and set - ups rather than ground control, being used alongside his long - reaching limbs to harass opponents from a safe distance.

The attitudes from some gamers towards games journalism have also changed quite significantly, with some intent on «exposing» some sort of ethics - based scandal they're adamant is a widespread issue.

I contributed a commentary on the abysmal representation of women artists in contemporary institutions, and the widespread artist activism mobilizing for change.

The paper suggests that these physicists joined the environmental backlash to stem changing tides in science and society, and to defend their preferred understandings of science, modernity, and of themselves as a physicist elite — understandings challenged by on - going transformations encapsulated by the widespread concern about human - induced climate change.

Although Holocene climate events are relatively minor on a glacial / interglacial perspective, the small Holocene changes in the polar vortex and atmospheric storminess documented by O'Brien et al. (1995) would probably cause widespread disruption to human society if they were to occur in the future (Keigwin and Boyle 2000:1343).»

Directed by Academy Award - winning filmmaker Fisher Stevens and presented by National Geographic, it features DiCaprio in his current role as a U.N. Messenger of Peace, on a three - year quest to learn about climate change and emphasize the need for urgent, widespread solutions.

Global climate change risks are high to very high with global mean temperature increase of 4 °C or more above preindustrial levels in all reasons for concern (Assessment Box SPM.1), and include severe and widespread impacts on unique and threatened systems, substantial species extinction, large risks to global and regional food security, and the combination of high temperature and humidity compromising normal human activities, including growing food or working outdoors in some areas for parts of the year (high confidence).

``... the GCR flux undergoes a statistically significant decrease (1.2 GU) centred on the key date of the composite; these changes correspond to widespread statistically significant decreases in cloud change (3.5 CU, 1.9 CU globallyaveraged)...» Laken et al «Cosmic rays linked to rapid mid-latitude cloud changes», Atmos.

In the talk, Victor, trained in political science, warns against focusing too much on trying to defeat those denying the widespread view that greenhouse - driven climate change is a clear and present danger, first explaining that there are many kind of people engaged at that end of the global warming debate — including camps he calls «shills» (the professional policy delayers), «skeptics» (think Freeman Dyson) and «hobbyists.»