Sentences with phrase «widespread conflict in»

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The CIA has confirmed that Mike Pompeo, that agency's current director and current nominee for Secretary of State, was not deployed in the first Gulf War, despite widespread statements that he served in that conflict.

Though 76 percent of millennials emphasized that business was a positive force in the world, the majority believe that large corporations can — and should — do more to alleviate widespread concerns such as conflict, inequality and corruption.

«Based on the extensive public comments and evidence garnered during that process, the department determined that such conflicts of interest are widespread and could cost investors in individual retirement accounts (in one segment of the market alone) between $ 95 billion and $ 189 billion over the next 10 years,» wrote the Justice Department lawyers.

The emerging understanding of how widespread sexual violence is, especially in conflict situations, also points to transmission routes; the potential for moral and pragmatic leadership by faith leaders is enormous.

They work to distort our view of the causes of these problems and they hope to obscure the direct relationship that exists between implementation of low - intensity - conflict strategy and widespread suffering in Nicaragua.

In this phase of human history there is widespread conflict between our conception of ourselves and our conception of the world.

There is widespread agreement among futurist writers with respect to the most crucial world problems — issues of such magnitude that failure to resolve them will result in enormous destruction, conflict, and misery on a global scale.

Hannah Arendt, in her illuminating book On Revolution (Viking, 1965), exalts the American Revolution as the most successful one and traces that success to the fact that «it occurred in a country that knew nothing of mass poverty and among a people who had a widespread experience of self - government;» She says that one of the blessings in the American situation was that the revolution grew out of a conflict with a limited monarchy, for «the more absolute the ruler, the more absolute the revolution will be which replaces him.»

The U.S. low - intensity - conflict project in El Salvador received widespread support from both Republicans and Democrats, who described a country at war against its own people as an exemplary democracy.

When we look at it in this way, the problems of our world — internal and international conflicts, delinquency, terrorism, widespread violence — do not appear any more as strange and mysterious phenomena, due to the irrationality and wickedness of a few, but as the «logical» and foreseeable expression of an «unviable» family, organized in a perverse and self - destructive way;

Israel's Yahwism was from the beginning in tension or even sometimes in bitter conflict with the widespread indigenous fertility cults of Canaan.

Barr ably puts the case against the idea, widespread among historians of science, that science and religion have been in open and active conflict for many centuries.

If that power has seemed to be on the wane in recent history, it is due in large part to the widespread assumption that reason and faith belong to different realms, or represent different, even conflicting, dimensions of human experience.

In the years prior to the 2014 Gaza conflict, far left - wing and Islamist traditions came together and cross-fertilized each other in the context of the failure of the Israeli - Palestinian peace process, the Second Intifada, the Durban conference, the 9/11 attacks, and widespread and fierce public protests against the wars in Afghanistan and IraIn the years prior to the 2014 Gaza conflict, far left - wing and Islamist traditions came together and cross-fertilized each other in the context of the failure of the Israeli - Palestinian peace process, the Second Intifada, the Durban conference, the 9/11 attacks, and widespread and fierce public protests against the wars in Afghanistan and Irain the context of the failure of the Israeli - Palestinian peace process, the Second Intifada, the Durban conference, the 9/11 attacks, and widespread and fierce public protests against the wars in Afghanistan and Irain Afghanistan and Iraq.

The Saudi regime is heavily involved in the current conflict in Yemen that is blamed for causing widespread famine in that country.

«This intensified pattern of assassinations and executions reinforced the widespread perception of Afghan civilians that they are becoming more and more the primary target in this period of conflict,» Staffan de Mistura, the UN's special representative of the secretary - general, said.

Burning food crops for power is the worst use of scarce land imaginable, and has already led to a situation where there is a direct conflict between food and energy: a significant proportion of the food - price spike in 2008 (and a further spike in early 2011), which led to widespread hunger and bread riots in many poorer countries, was driven by crops being withdrawn from international markets to produce biofuels for transport.

This has led to widespread conflicts between those who want to protect large grazing birds and those invested in farming.

In addition to the armed conflict and resulting humanitarian crisis currently impacting the country, widespread natural resource pillaging (specifically mining, wildlife poaching and trafficking, and pastoralist pressures) involving armed groups has been widely reported.

And it could have helped avoid widespread conflict about the precise weighting of student growth in teacher evaluation systems and the adoption of additional tests to measure student performance.

In these and many places, the threat of dismissal caused widespread political conflict without districts getting much upside in terms of removing low performerIn these and many places, the threat of dismissal caused widespread political conflict without districts getting much upside in terms of removing low performerin terms of removing low performers.

They include Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson, who are using their skills and intellect to turn oil rigs into coral reefs; Nate Parker, the activist filmmaker, writer, humanitarian and director of The Birth of a Nation; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

Widespread poverty and the failure to redress the injustices of the past have contributed to an environment in which anxiety, unrest and conflict predominate.

This widespread conflict overshadowing the region has tended to obscure the remarkably vibrant contemporary art scene that is alive and well in the countries of the Middle East and its diaspora.

The Prosecutor has understood the reasons for the deterioration of the situation in Darfur and the security vacuum which led to attacks on police stations and the ensuing events, including tribal confrontations and conflict among political factions and elements, which led to an escalation of the situation and the consequent widespread violations, of which everyone is aware.

Nevertheless, the growth in the training and provision of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) methods to resolve conflicts by a number of professional bodies and institutions has led to widespread use by practitioners in a variety of disciplines including lawyers.

Jones Day's failure to understand the new rules of conduct in an electronic age led to widespread speculation about whether the firm was hiding a conflict of interest and nearly forced the recusal of FTC Chairwoman Deborah Platt Majoras, as described in these news stories, here and here.

The rule seeks to eliminate any conflicts of interest from retirement investment advisors, brokers and agents; we reported earlier that it's a problem so widespread that it's allegedly led to more than $ 17 billion in losses for consumers.

In clinical trials and real - world evaluations, Triple P has been shown to have long - lasting and widespread effects for families and communities: building stronger family relationships, improving children's problem behaviour and ADHD symptoms, reducing parental stress and partner conflict, reducing rates of child maltreatment and foster care placement, and reducing anxiety and / or depression in children and parentIn clinical trials and real - world evaluations, Triple P has been shown to have long - lasting and widespread effects for families and communities: building stronger family relationships, improving children's problem behaviour and ADHD symptoms, reducing parental stress and partner conflict, reducing rates of child maltreatment and foster care placement, and reducing anxiety and / or depression in children and parentin children and parents.