Sentences with phrase «world faces up to»

AS THE world faces up to the worst global financial crisis since the 1930s, the economic case for tackling the global climate crisis is more compelling than ever.

Not exact matches

And it has expanded its outward - facing goal: To serve up all of the world's best entertainment.

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, a leading candidate to be the next World Health Organization director - general, is facing a stunning allegation: covering up three cholera outbreaks in his home country of Ethiopia while he was its health minister.

Originally, students would be assigned to teams in January, they'd examine a real - world issue facing an international business, draw up their recommendations, and then deliver their conclusions overseas during a seven to 10 - day trip.

General Electric's deal with Baker Hughes to create the world's No. 2 oilfield services business is the clearest signal yet that consolidation is picking up in the energy sector as companies face long - term lower oil prices.

Brought into the world as part of Microsoft's Office 97 software suite, he was supposed to present a friendly face to users, popping up frequently onscreen to waggle his eyebrows and offer assistance with life's little tasks.

As the European Union tries to tackle the biggest migrant crisis it has been faced with since World War Two, it also seeks Turkey's help to stem the flow of refugees and is pressuring Ankara to hold up its part of a $ 3 billion (# 2.3 billion) deal struck a few months ago.

In this new world, federal funding is likely to dry up, and social entrepreneurs will probably face hostility to their missions.

The fear is that Japan, with the largest government debt burden (relative to its GDP) in the industrialized world, could end up facing a euro - zone - style debt meltdown.

But it also spoke to me in my little world about faith and pressing on when one wants to give up due to facing hardships.

@grist how many times has the world pushed their stuff on christians saying we cant pray in school saying we cant you persecute us all the time you take GOD's name in vein right in our faces all the time and we come out and stand up for our beliefs and we are the bad guy i'm sorry sir but you are extrtemly wrong funny everything us christians do is wrong telling us what to preach and what not to preach and you say we are pushing our beliefs on people

So everyday before my husband wakes up, I go into the bathroom to shave my face because I am not strong enough to face the world the way that God made me.

In fact such leadership might free the group up — allow them to stop constantly be looking inwards to their own structures and face out to the world that needs people with the balls to speak out for injustice.

A way to lift up their ego that helps them even face the horrible things that happen in the world.

The bible did get one thing right: this world is often a veil of tears and some need the crutch of religion to hold them up when facing it.

Dr Rowan Williams told Radio 4's World at One that the UK has to «face up to the fact» that some of its citizens do not relate to the British legal system.

We shall have the root of the matter in us; we shall have come to recognize that in the history leading up to our Lord, and with the coming of Jesus himself, there were released into the world, and that in what we may rightly call an unprecedented fashion, energies for good which have changed the lives of men and through them the face of nature too, and that these same energies are still available whenever men turn, in faith and with utter self - surrender, to the Lord of all life.

He reiterated that he had written a piece in The Times four years ago, saying: «the world must wake up urgently to the plight of the ancient churches throughout the region who are faced with the threat of mass murder and mass displacement».

The so - called aggiornamento (bringing up to date) of the Roman Catholic Church was expressed in ecumenical openness, biblical and liturgical renewal and greater consideration of the huge social problems facing the world.

Well lets see there faces in the end when GOD rises up on satan for the whole world to see.

(p. 111) So long as such an anti-war stance, with its own sort of heroic aspirations, does not, through the sorts of errors mentioned above, condemn or spit upon the more tangible heroic feelings stirred up by the real wars that inevitably will come (and thus demand, as C.S. Lewis put it, «long - faced» warriors even for just wars), and so long as it does not plug its ears against the geo - strategic and national considerations that must remain part of all politics, she would broadly endorse it, and would encourage all of us, whether theists or not, to yearningly quest for a world without war that we nonetheless know can never fully arrive.

William Greider, strongly critical of global capitalism in his book One World Ready or Not, still believed there were remedies available if we were prepared to face up to them boldly.

In the image of Psalm 82, the world is given over by God to judges who «judge unjustly» and «lift up the face of the wicked.»

It was no less reassuring to realize that the actual world they had faced — the world of mountains and microbes — though it had brought death to their bodies had first yielded up some of its secrets to their minds, for other men to use.

We are now witnessing a transcending of the ideological positions of conservatism, which made religious «ideology» of the «opium of the people» and the change is the result of the new way the church is facing up to modern world.8

But in the world to come they must face God and face up to what they have done.

Without necessarily saying that the «built - better» argument is always wrong, we need to face up to the growing discord between Catholic Christianity and the new world liberalism that is building in America.

Yet from all sides today modern knowledge of the human creature and his world is forcing us to face up to the finiteness of human existence, to which, in so many ways, Israel pioneered the road.

I have three reasons, each of which is directly related to the context faced by Paula and other young people growing up in a postmodern world.

Oh the insane things that pop into my head in the middle of the night and make me get up from my warm bed and leave my wife to scrawl in pencil on a blank sheet of paper in the pitch blackness the silliest images that seem to perplex and plague me just so I can hopefully bring a smile to your face and maybe occasionally make us think a little bit world without end.

Some in more cult - like environments face the prospects of leaving a cult in which they grew up to face a bewildering world with no life skills, no finances, no experience, no home, no friends....

As our world faces the worst refugee crisis in recorded history, I believe that our country ought to do more, not less, and I am confident that local churches throughout the country will step up to welcome these carefully - screened individuals who have fled persecution and reached our shores.

But they wanted people to face up honestly to the logical, ethical and cultural implications of a godless world.

Michelle Williams has celebrated a decision by Christian actor Mark Wahlberg to donate his 1.5 million dollar (# 1.1 million) pay cheque for reshoots of All The Money In The World to the Time's Up campaign in the face of criticism.

Organized religion is still the most dangerous thing facing man kind and it will likely be what ends humanity... not some fictional judgment day... not some made up «rapture»... insane christanists and islamists (yes «ists» as they are both «isms») are going to blow the world to the proverbial kingdom come.

It was only after World War II that we began to face up to the severe limitations of the unity we had sought.

The large - scale compilation of data of the nineteenth century and up to World War I has in the twentieth century and particularly since World War II been supplemented by a living encounter — a large - scale face - to - face meeting between persons of diverse faith.

As early as World War II, the political leaders of the Free French forces had known that France would have to face up to the question of whether it was going to allow the decline of a system of schools preferred by the parents of one - sixth of all French pupils, or whether it was going to accept the hazards of open political discussion aimed at developing a new and creative solution.

«We must face up to a world that has been made into one interdependent community, less by political or ideological ideas than by scientific and technological facts.»

In The Stand, King's magnum opus — or at least his best book, since he would probably give the magnum - opus nod to his bloated, interminable seven - volume Dark Tower saga — the survivors of a global superflu face off in an apocalyptic battle royale, but the superflu itself is an entirely human creation, a dark thing conjured up by the just - doing - our - job good men in the U.S. military and released into the world by simple human error.

Admittedly the heads of the world economy are also becoming worried as they take stock of the situation, and face up particularly to the presence of the Asian tigers, the irrational growth of the financial bubble and the extreme poverty in the world.

Consider the benefits of improved circulation, smooth + hydrated skin, and positively looking like you woke up ready to take on the world with that fresh, bright face of yours.

The films all have very similar and slightly confusing names, but this one, The Fate of the Furious, ups the ante with Charlize Theron as a mysterious cyber-terrorist with terrible hair, who «seduces Dom back into a world of crime that he can't seem to escape,» forcing the fast fam to «face trials that will test them as never before.»

There are a number of mouth - watering clashes to kick things off, incuding Scotland's trip to face world champions Germany, England's match up with Switzerland in Basel, with Spain also looking to get back to winning ways as they host FYR Macedonia.

wenger is a legend in his own mind so other peoples opinions... fans, ex players, journalists, etc... have no bearing on his greatness or the righteousness of his own decisions... from end of last season it was clear we needed two quality attacking options to put up a serious challenge (getting rid of walcott and campbell or ox and bringing in a serious upgrade over giroud) instead he brought in another midfield option (having done the same in the winter window) which only makes sense in his own delusional world rather than the reality of facing up to serious and strengthening competitors and which defines the job at hand....

Bale really stepped up his game to world class levels this season, scoring 26 times in all competitions in a new role under Villas - Boas, and the club will now face a big fight to keep the likes of Real Madrid away.

we should not be in this position if we had a manager that faced up to the reality that in today's world if u want to get world class CBs, you need to fork over the money.

It really has been a hero's tale for the young Welshman, in the face of criticism, pessimism and failure, he rose up to the challenge and showed the world exactly what a professional sportsman and hero is made of.

Clubs and agents always use Arsenal to start the biding war, they lead us in to a false belief that we can pick up a player for a reasonable amount then a club like Chelsea, Manchester's, Barca, Reals's of this world come in with a huge offer to seal the deal and Arsenal fall flat on our faces, some of those teams buy players even if they don't need them just so not to go to the competition, they even unsettle players by pretending to want them for a higher salaries but often never put in a offer

Yeah... But Henry had the swagger and confidence in himself to face up, and look anyone in the world in the eye and say «I'm having you!!»