Sentences with phrase «with political efforts»

The world is now nearly certain to warm by up to 2C compared with pre-industrial levels, with political efforts concentrated on holding the potential temperature rise to no higher than that limit.

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«Horowitz will call this an effort to be «transparent,» but the response from the public will be the same — that it is a response to political pressure,» said Frank Montoya Jr., a former FBI special agent who retired in 2016 and worked closely with the former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe.

Greg Priddy, an analyst with political - risk consultancy Eurasia Group, noted in a recent commentary that «the Alberta and federal governments, along with the oil and gas sector, broadly support the effort to diversify Canadian energy exports to high growth markets in Asia.»

Greece's political leaders, more accustomed to screaming abuse at each other in parliament, issued an unprecedented joint statement after a day of talks at the president's office backing efforts to reach a deal with creditors.

Schultz's efforts and other instances of CEO activism should be commended, whether we agree with their sentiments or not, because they are seeking to exert political influence in an unusually transparent and delimited way.

However, such efforts must also be complemented with a redoubling of Western efforts to support strong political systems and respect for rule of law in the region in order to foster more resilience among regional states to withstand Chinese influence.

As a result of CPA's efforts, political disclosure has been adopted by 130 large companies and is becoming a mainstream corporate practice.In his work with CPA, which he founded in 2003, he has drawn on his three decades of experience in journalism, Congress, and strategic public affairs.

In an effort to help plan sponsors and retirement plan professionals communicate more effectively with participants, Invesco Consulting teamed up with the political consultants and word specialists, Maslansky + Partners, to conduct one of the largest, most comprehensive studies of its kind on financial language.

More than three years before he served as Trump's chief political strategist, Bannon helped launch Cambridge Analytica with the financial backing of the wealthy Mercer family as part of a broader effort to create a populist power base.

Efforts to salvage CETA will undoubtedly continue, but my Globe and Mail column points out that the underlying problem with the agreement is not the complicated European political system that requires support from all member states.

The moves announced Tuesday are the latest in a series of efforts to restore public trust after 87 million people had their data taken without their consent by Cambridge Analytica, a British political firm with ties to Donald Trump's presidential campaign.

LONDON — Iran will start reporting foreign currency amounts in euros rather than U.S. dollars, state media said today as part of the country's effort to reduce its reliance on the U.S. currency due to political tension with Washington.

The video game, combined with government board games and cartoons, is part of an «effort to spread a certain world vision,» said Jorge Todesca, a former deputy economy minister turned political consultant.

And after working on various low - profile GOP political efforts in 2014, Cambridge landed a major job with a Mercer - funded Super PAC supporting Ted Cruz's presidential candidacy.

Roari has vast experience working with National and Provincial Organizers, coordinating the outreach efforts of NDP MPs, and managing and supporting political engagement campaigns at the municipal, provincial and federal levels.

That earlier effort culminated in an August 1980 religious - political rally with Republican presidential nominee Ronald Reagan that helped Reagan mobilize conservative pastors for his victory.

«Mitigation» and control efforts that have been proposed will enrich a favored few with good political ties — at the expense of the great majority of mankind, including especially the poor and the citizens of developing nations.

With opposition to abortion often playing out in voting for candidates — at least in part — based on their reproductive stances, and efforts to fight abortion often playing out in courtrooms and legislation, the pro-life movement has taken on a distinctly political direction.

In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, Cook addressed the trend, in which websites fabricate stories and headlines in an effort to draw large amounts of Internet traffic and sway political opinions.

Its present success is due to the fact that the collective effort and strong centralized authority associated with it are producing dramatic improvements in the economic, political, and military position of nations hitherto impeded by traditional systems unsuited to industrial civilization.

Again it is used broadly so that even such apparently non-political activities as efforts to re-think Christianity in the light of discussions with Buddhists can be viewed as political activity.

Nongovernmental organizations can provide a way for those who are not satisfied with their elected representatives to continue their efforts to influence the political process.

Kristol's concern with the shaping of the soul of man under the influence of various regimes was reflected also in his interest in the insights of ancient political philosophy, and particularly in Leo Strauss» efforts to recover those insights.

The aspirations of subject peoples today for political and spiritual freedom should be viewed with understanding and sympathy by those who prize their own liberties, bought by the effort of their fathers.

Equally so, a civilized society, as one whole and regardless of its particular political orientation, exerts its influence solely in terms of the individual effort of persons, acting either alone or in concert with one another.

The political society presently guiding laws and policies in Scotland has done much damage to family and community life with efforts to reengineer our understanding of family life.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

«We call upon the world's religious and political leaders to unite in their efforts to come up with an effective response to extremism.»

Bound up, as it was, with the urgent and divisive issue of slavery, there was no avoiding the issue — despite the best efforts of even the most agile political types, such as Stephen Douglas.

If the Court does not claim to act merely in its own name, but for the common good and the rule of law, how then should citizens regard the effort to link abortion with the legitimacy of the Court itself and thus, it would seem, with the legitimacy of our current political regime?

In the case of Harpur's theory (that Jesus didn't exist, and that deliberate efforts have been made to choose to make the myths interpreted literally), his evidence is not as convincing or as extensive as the evidence for Jesus having been a real person, on whom a certain religious and political systems have been formed and which have embellished, perverted, and developed certain aspects, with intentions both deliberate and unintentional.

Even with all the political nonsense associated with the BCS and bowls, there does seem to be an effort to create competitive games.

Much more recently (a decade perhaps)-- when one established political party, group, or media outlet — creates another mouthpiece to disseminate its» ideas — this is conversely, and with negative connotation, known as an «astroturf» or artificial group or effort.

Keep in mind that in writing this kind of editorial (and in making her White House statement on Monday), the First Lady is engaging in an unusually political discourse, in that she's specifically taking issue with Republican - backed efforts to gut the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act.

I'm hardly Bettina's biggest fan, but her point seemed very straightforward: that despite the Bush administration's efforts, the initiative is associated with the current administration in the common political consciousness, and thus likely to be on a list of partisan targets.

But with new leadership in the village and another effort planned this fall to seek Gov. Jim Edgar's support, authority Chairman Lawrence Mazzeffi said Arlington Heights would bring political muscle to the convention center's cause.

Sex Positions The MSI Partnership, in collaboration with Interact Worldwide, has launched a campaign to put pressure on the UK government to take the lead in ensuring that the international donor community fulfils promises made a decade ago to support global efforts to achieve sexual and reproductive health and rights for all by 2015; and to lead opposition to those political and ideological forces in the USA, Europe and elsewhere that are actively seeking to undermine and even reverse progress made in the last decade.

There seems to be a current vogue for political films dealing with heavyweight subjects but Frost / Nixon eclipses efforts such as Oliver Stone's humorous but ultimately pointless Bush biopic W.

The political programme, which is being developed through a pan-European effort with contributions from citizens all over Europe, is putting the emphasis on what Europeans are asking Europe to deliver.

As Maggie Haberman reports, de Blasio has had discussions in recent weeks with Google on the heels of his successful effort to get Goldman Sachs to agree not to spend on political ads in this election cycle — even though a recent US Supreme Court decision allows corporations to drop unlimited amounts of cash to try to elect of defeat candidates running for federal office.

The governor says legislators should reveal their outside income even further in an effort to avoid federal investigations like the one that ended Leibell's 28 - year - career, along with so many others in both political parties.

Perhaps, far from being apolitical, demands across the political spectrum to empower the 99 % with real democracy are republican in spirit, as are pragmatic efforts to share control of our wealth and workplaces.

Author's Note: In Part One of this series, I discussed the importance of using technology in political efforts not just to build a better persuasion tool, but to scale meaningful relationships with an infinite number of people.

And Percoco, who has managed Cuomo's political campaigns for more than a decade and shared an office with Howe during Cuomo's 2014 re-election effort, received at least $ 50,000 in consulting fees from COR that year — something Cuomo has said he did not know.

Clinton became governor again at 34, and Hillary forever stepped into the spotlight as a political wonk in her own right, spearheading efforts on education reform (previously, Hillary's feminist, Midwestern background, lack of accent, and thick - rimmed glasses did not sit well with Southern Democrats).

Sweeney's efforts on behalf of Gingrich puts him at odds with most of the Republican establishment in New York, which is backing former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, not to mention his former colleagues in the Pataki administration, who are very pro-Romney (Pataki's longtime political aide, Rob Cole, worked on Romney I in 2008 and is also on this campaign).

«Your efforts in taming troops from polling stations and any form of political engagement, warding off criminals, political thugs and disgruntled elements to the peace, security and success of the election is highly appreciated and widely commended and reported, we hereby urged you to continue with the good work» — Nweze stated.

The Graham - Cassidy bill is an obvious attempt to contain the political damage done by July's failed effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act, and it should be rejected along with planned cuts to services provided by hospitals for low - income and uninsured patients.»