Sentences with phrase «world discussion points»

The films seem to have an identity problem where they are unsure if they want to be a scary, violent thriller, or offer some real - world discussion points.

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What it's about: «Sargeant York» may have been about World War I — a sharpshooter becomes an unexpected hero after attacking and capturing a German position using the same strategy as turkey hunting — but the American - proud movie became a point of major discussion in the United States over the merits of entering World War II.
Privacy, freedom of speech, and financial security remain major discussion points as the Government dips its feet into the world of virtual currency.
Can you imagine a world in which the definition of every object or point of discussion had to be clarified before moving forward with social intercourse?
Anyone who followed in the slightest the discussions before and at the Evanston Assembly of the World Council of Churches on the main theme «Christ — the Hope of the World» will recognize the disparities of judgment among Christians today at this point.
Whether in private conversation, group discussion, a sermon or a speech, or in the interaction within the community, the question is whether there is, on the one side, conviction about what the gospel means and, on the other side, unqualified readiness to hear the other people and see the world from their point of view.
The point is not that the preaching is to be a discussion of moral issues, such as might be entirely appropriate in a lecture or discussion - group; rather, the preaching is both a challenge to and a demand for a response which will represent in act that requirement of love in action in the world.
Patriarch Pimen of Moscow wrote to the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches pointing out the misgivings of the Russian Orthodox Church with regard to the salvation discussion at Bangkok.
Those whose interest in the religions of Asia has been aroused to the point that they want to consider some of the comparative problems raised by the study of religions other than one's own will find thoughtful and searching discussions in two books recently published: World Religions and World Community, by Robert Lawson Slater, and The Meaning and End of Religion, by Wilfred Cantwell Smith.
For a more detailed discussion of this point, see my book The Restructuring of American Religion: Society and Faith since World War II (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988).
«The FIFA ExCo has the power to make decisions and if at the FIFA ExCo this issue starts to be a real point for discussion then why not, and then again maybe the FIFA ExCo will say based on medical reports or whatever we really have to look at playing the World Cup not in summer, but in winter,» he said.
At some point in the discussion the real world comes knocking at the door.
To an alternate topic of discussion i will just like to point out n remind arsenal fans dat ARSENAL is a top top club and shud be compared to only the likes of man u, chelsea, barca, real, bayern n maybe liverpool, we hav acceptd medocrity 4 far 2 long, finishing 4th n elimination in d 2nd stage of UCL is a failure, we shud be aiming for top2 and d semi finals of UCL... wenger has taking us so low... after d FA cup win we shud hav sign 3 world class players n bloster our squad, if we hav per, olivier, ramsey on the bench as back up 4 world class players then we know were movin forward
Your well - considered post does say this, my point is to push us further into our own process as I believe this (and the discussions unfolding on blogs such as this are part of this evolving consciousness) helps move us toward a one - world consciousness that is secure enough to tolerate diverse opinion and at the same time wise enough to recognize, and lovingly steer away from, that which is harmful to ourselves.
Meanwhile, those of us in the advocacy world will be trying to spread perceptions and talking points via our own online channels to try to shape those discussions as they occur.
I mention them not merely to be hip but because they are relevant to our discussion here today in that they tolerate no cockfuckery — in fact, they are militantly anti-cockfuckery to the point of going on arson sprees or bat - wielding rampages when such are called for by the idiocy of the world.
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3) This point is irrelevant to the individual investor because there is nothing actionable he can do — but wouldn't it be nice to live in a world where tax policy did not force these discussions of dividend versus buyback on us?
On Holiday Group Chief Executive Steve Endacott, who chaired the discussion, pointed out that 50 % of all consumers in the developed world have no idea where they want to go on holiday when they start researching online.
The lack of official forums has been a particular sticking point with the Secret World Legends community, which has been forced to scrounge around on Twitch, Reddit, Twitter, and the occasionally updated website for official information and discussion.
In the mid-1970s, Hilton Kramer took note of an inflection point in art, with painting and sculpture on the one side and photography on the other: «At a moment in our cultural life when the imperatives of formalism seem to be on the wane in the discussion, if not in the actual practice, of painting and sculpture, a vigorous restatement of the formalist position has come from a surprising quarter — from the world of photography.»
With its 3 per 5 meters size Paule Hammer's Dreamed World Map (Geträumte Weltkarte), painted between 2010 and 2013, attracts a lot of attention and is the starting point for a discussion with the artist about encyclopedic strategies in his artistic production.
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Summary Title: «At the still point of the turning world...» Date: Saturday 21st February, 2015 Time: 15:30 - 21:00 (Doors open at 15:00) Venue: SHIBAURA HOUSE ( Level 5, 3 -15-4 Shibaura, Minato - ku, Tokyo ) [Access] Admission: Free (refreshments will be available for purchase) Capacity: 50 people No reservations needed Organisers: Arts Initiative Tokyo [AIT], Camden Arts Centre Supported by: Agency for Cultural Affairs Government of Japan in the fiscal 2014, British Council, SHIBAURA HOUSE Curator: Gina Buenfeld (Camden Arts Centre) Time table 15:00 Doors open 15:30 - 17:00 Introductory presentations and discussion - Intermission - 17:30 - 18:30 Act 01 Theme: Noh (screening)- Intermission - 18:45 - 20:00 Act 02 Theme: Butoh (screening, live performance) 20:00 - 21:00 Open Discussion Participating artists Live Performance: Mildred Rambaud Talk: Caroline Achaintre Jesse Wine Screening: 1: Theme / Noh (45 min) Hiraki Sawa Jeremy Millar Jefford Horrigan Ursula Mayer Manon de Boer Joachim Koester 2: Theme / Butoh (45 min) Mildred Rambaud Simon Martin Trisha Brown Babette Mangolte Fernanda Muñoz Newsome and Ina Dokmo Sriwhana Spong [Artisdiscussion - Intermission - 17:30 - 18:30 Act 01 Theme: Noh (screening)- Intermission - 18:45 - 20:00 Act 02 Theme: Butoh (screening, live performance) 20:00 - 21:00 Open Discussion Participating artists Live Performance: Mildred Rambaud Talk: Caroline Achaintre Jesse Wine Screening: 1: Theme / Noh (45 min) Hiraki Sawa Jeremy Millar Jefford Horrigan Ursula Mayer Manon de Boer Joachim Koester 2: Theme / Butoh (45 min) Mildred Rambaud Simon Martin Trisha Brown Babette Mangolte Fernanda Muñoz Newsome and Ina Dokmo Sriwhana Spong [ArtisDiscussion Participating artists Live Performance: Mildred Rambaud Talk: Caroline Achaintre Jesse Wine Screening: 1: Theme / Noh (45 min) Hiraki Sawa Jeremy Millar Jefford Horrigan Ursula Mayer Manon de Boer Joachim Koester 2: Theme / Butoh (45 min) Mildred Rambaud Simon Martin Trisha Brown Babette Mangolte Fernanda Muñoz Newsome and Ina Dokmo Sriwhana Spong [Artist Profile]
>> > Japanese «At the still point of the turning world...» - a salon event curated by Gina Buenfeld (Camden Arts Centre, London) Saturday 21st February, 2015 Time: 15:30 - 21:00 (Doors open at 15:00) Venue: SHIBAURA HOUSE (Tokyo) For this two - part salon event, curator - in - residence Gina Buenfeld (Camden Arts Centre, London) will present a programme of live performance, screenings of artists» film, encounters with sound and objects with open discussion in the incomparable setting of SHIBAURA HOUSE, designed by Kazuyo Sejima & Associates.
Something of their assured abandon seems instep with the generation of artist emerging now who are increasingly producing things that, formally and conceptually, don't point outward to «art world» discussions, but inward to the larger dialogue of making, thinking, and being
When the Heartland Institute held its gathering in New York City last year celebrating climate skepticism, Exxon Mobil made a point of saying it had stopped contributing money to that group, explaining that it did not want to support groups «whose position on climate change could divert attention from the important discussion about how the world will secure the energy required for economic growth in an environmentally responsible manner.»
Given some of the ongoing discussion, it obviously still needs to be pointed out that year - to - year fluctuations in any of the key metrics of planet's climate are mostly a function of the weather and can not be expected to be captured in climate models, whose «weather» is uncorrelated with that in the real world.
IMO, your discussion of the Robock graph is beside the point, because you attempt to deal with real - world data in terms of an «aerosols only» case — which, however, doesn't actually exist in the real world.
As the world's highest yielding oilseed, the crop generates substantially more vegetable oil per acre than soy, canola (rapeseed), or corn, meaning that palm oil can help meet future demand for vegetable oil with less land, a point palm growers are quick to mention in any discussion over the environmental impacts of palm oil.
Numerous attempts (such as the very carefully researched NIPCC reports) to point out the inconsistencies between the CIC fantasy science world and the real world have not always convinced the alarmists, however, perhaps because the public finds the technical discussion of the many areas of science involved too difficult.
Taking a neutral stance at this point on work from «NIPCC» (Fred Singer et al.), suggesting that this kind of effort «competes» with the work of several of the world's climate scientists and a large number of multidisciplinary specialists contributing to IPCC reports combined with the additional scientists and many others who raise real questions that result from reading, reviewing, evaluating and evolving the information in both IPCC summaries and domestic science and discussion of the science, is just not credible, in my humble opinion.
Taking a neutral stance at this point on rehashed work from «NIPCC» (Fred Singer and friends), well known for serial, serious errors in overall interpretation, analysis and communication of the science and transparent but largely unexamined ideological bias at play in their playground «reports» — never mind suggesting that this kind of effort «competes» with the work of the world's climate scientists and the 2,500 multidisciplinary specialists contributing to IPCC reports combined with the tens of thousands of additional scientists and many others who raise real questions that result from reading, reviewing, evaluating and evolving the information in both IPCC summaries and domestic science and discussion of the science, knowledgeably and in good faith and with open identification of the nature of the social and political issues — is just not credible.
In a normal world, on any other subject, the points made by Ben and Robin would be the subject of widespread media discussion among journaists, politicians and academics, and the dissenting view of a Freeman Dyson would be front page news.
Want to get something off your chest, want to get involved in the discussion or need to tell the world your point of view?
Assuming (for the purposes of discussion) a sea level rise of, say, 3 meters at some point in the distant future, which parts of the world would be impacted the most severely?
Our cover story this month, which profiles lawyers who have helped free clients imprisoned abroad, helps highlight a key point that often gets lost in these discussions: Canada's justice system is a shining star on the world stage.
As a result, our recent report, the Hays Global Skills Index, was a hot discussion point about how the world is facing a global talent mismatch and employers need to start looking for candidates from outside of their backyard.
By making use of varying modes of presentation including handouts, small group discussions, visuals, power points, and videos, the session stays vibrant and fresh as important concepts are covered in - depth, including: contributing factors to challenging behavior; who challenges you and why; your own emotional reactions to behavior; why children engage in challenging behavior; reflective tools and techniques; and how t implement these practices successfully in the «real world
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