Sentences with phrase «world in a state of crisis»

Film Synopsis: When the crew of the Enterprise is called back home, they find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization has detonated the fleet and everything it stands for, leaving our world in a state of crisis.

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Senator Bernie Sanders, a sponsor of the resolution, said the United States, a major provider of weapons to Saudi Arabia and intelligence and logistical support to the Saudis in Yemen, should not be involved in the three - year - old war that has unleashed the worlds worst humanitarian crisis.

The Conservatives, including Prime Minister Stephen Harper, have said Canada is feeling the sting of economic problems around the world, including the crisis in Europe and slower - than - predicted growth in the United States.

After the housing bubble burst in the United States, it grew into a financial crisis that spread to the rest of the world.

This explains why the crisis has spread since 1997, beginning in the emerging countries of Asia which were hit one after the other through a domino effect, and their ailment then being transmitted to the rest of the world, starting with Japan, then the United States, then more recently Europe, Russia and the European Union.

«As information about these attacks continues to pour in, we ask that Christians and churches across the United States continue to pioneer the way for a compassionate response to the ongoing refugee crisis,» said Stephan Bauman, President and CEO of World Relief.

To many, who go so far as to agree with the observation that religion finds itself in a state of crisis (and there are, indeed, many who will not even admit the justice of such an observation) a new theological movement, which has attracted the attention of the whole Christian world, appears to be the only savior.

In my time of crisis (if that is the right name for the devastation of a child's richly peopled world during the war of 1914) death superabundant and the rest of life endlessly disordered induced at last a suicidal state and swept away all but the verbalisms of the creed trustingly learned earlier.

At Save the Children, she built a media program in a newly created public affairs department, and led the U.S. agency's media response to major humanitarian crises, including post-9 / 11, the Indian Ocean Tsunami and Haiti Earthquake as well as the agency's first advocacy - awareness campaign, Every Mother, Every Child and its signature research report, The State of the World's Mothers.

During his speech at the summit, he said: «It is precisely the gap between the United States» formal role in the world economy and its real capabilities that was one of the key reasons for the current crisis,» said Medvedev, who came to power last month.

``... Different jobs have different responsibilities, and in my world, we have an economic crisis in the state of New York.

That's less than a tenth of the United States's science stimulus package, but that's a still a lot of money in the United Kingdom, which has arguably been hurt even worse than the United States in the world economic crisis.

When we look at food crises around the world, the citizenry and the government of the United States feel that it's in our interest to step up to the plate even if it ends up costing taxpayer money.

There's no denying that we are in a state of health crisis in the Western world.

But that was 2014 (or 2015 here in United States, where the movie opened as the rare quality mid-January family release), a pre-Brexit, pre-Trump world whose anxieties about a growing refugee crisis were gently ridiculed by the film and its good - humored portrayal of the modern, multicultural British capital.

A 21 - minute «Special Report» that attempts to evoke what news coverage of a crisis like this would be like in the real world is equally fun and cheesy but also frequently enlightening, especially when the President of the United States gives a radio address to the people in his country left behind to die while he and his cabinet head to a top secret bunker.

In the process, lives have been affected irreversibly — but what we take from the episode is a sense that life in this film's world, whatever crises may occur, always tends back to a state of inertiIn the process, lives have been affected irreversibly — but what we take from the episode is a sense that life in this film's world, whatever crises may occur, always tends back to a state of inertiin this film's world, whatever crises may occur, always tends back to a state of inertia.

Meanwhile, state responses to the economic crisis are privileging private capital at the expense of citizens, and accordingly people around the world have risen up to resist poor governance, inequality and corruption, and to demand a change in the circumstances in which they live.

Instead of breakthrough that would lead to overcoming the global economic crisis, the scenario of the global economic collapse was predicted by the great thinker and French economist Jacques Attali (2010) who predicts the occurrence of four steps to the unfolding economic crisis that erupted in 2008 in United States and that spilled over the world: 1) the public debts become heavier; 2) the failure of the euro and the global depression; 3) the failure of the Dollar and the return of global inflation; and, 4) the depression and ruin of Asia.

The aim of this paper is to analyze the international legal obligation assumed by states in the area of economic, social and cultural rights (ESCR), and to what extent these obligations can be modified in response to the global financial crisis which has engulfed the world economy since August 2008.

There she was — a state - of - the - art killing machine in the middle of an existential crisis: Was the spider world, she thought, an inherently - fickle, uncontrollably - vicious and doomed butchery - arena, or was it something that could transfigure beautifully into a spidery - love - web of universal unitedness?

Built on specific English and world history state standards, the project covered concepts including the pre-World War II global economic crisis, the rise of totalitarianism, and the societal moral dilemmas that world leaders at that time faced, and then had students draw parallels to similar fictional themes in the book.

And even though European states» leaders struggle to manage and act responsibly towards the crisis, people from all around the world have shown compassion by asking the European leaders to take action and by offering their help to those who need it most.In the celebration day of volunteering, IWB and CRW come together to ask you to join us in raising public awareness on the current European refugee crisis and in mobilising and engaging governments and communities to take collective action against human suffering.

With a recent U.S. & World News Report ranking the state # 50 in education coupled with the staggering ACT statistic of 1 in every 50 Black students being college - ready — we know that high - quality charter schools can be a solution to this crisis.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 — April 12, 1945) was the 32nd President of the United States and a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic crisis and world war.

Duncan opened the meeting by describing a «tremendous urgency to get better educationally,» noting the country's fall from first to 16th place in the world in college graduation rates, the national high school dropout rate of 25 percent, and his belief that the United States has a skills crisis — not a jobs crisis — and must better prepare students for their transition to a career.

In this groundbreaking book, veteran science correspondent Fred Pearce focuses on the dire state of the world's rivers to provide our most complete portrait yet of the growing world water crisis and its ramifications for us all.

Many US States and Municipalities are in a world of hurt, because they compromised their long - term financial position to solve short - run budget crises.

My adopted home of Charleston might have been ranked the «Best City in the World,» but the state of South Carolina is earning a less distinguished label as a harbinger of the country's worst pension crises.

Although financial leaders in the United Kingdom, as in the United States, vastly underestimated the extent of the crisis that would ensue, it soon became clear that the world's economies were more interconnected than ever.

If you want to see what that world looks like, read the book Nomadland, which depicts the dire state of thousands of North Americans who lost their homes and wealth in the financial crisis and have taken to the roads to live in RVs and do temp work for Amazon.

Bruce Nauman's exercises for functioning in an uncertain world may be one of the answers to this state of crisis.

In order to foster international cooperation, it is also essential that the United States rejoin the global community and lead efforts to secure an international treaty at Copenhagen in December of next year that includes a cap on CO2 emissions and a global partnership that recognizes the necessity of addressing the threats of extreme poverty and disease as part of the world's agenda for solving the climate crisiIn order to foster international cooperation, it is also essential that the United States rejoin the global community and lead efforts to secure an international treaty at Copenhagen in December of next year that includes a cap on CO2 emissions and a global partnership that recognizes the necessity of addressing the threats of extreme poverty and disease as part of the world's agenda for solving the climate crisiin December of next year that includes a cap on CO2 emissions and a global partnership that recognizes the necessity of addressing the threats of extreme poverty and disease as part of the world's agenda for solving the climate crisis.

Launched in 2001 in response to the 2000 - 2001 energy crisis and market failure that resulted in widespread grid outages across the state, California's SGIP is one of the longest running distributed, «green» energy incentive programs in the world.

The United States is not only responsible for the current crisis because, as President Obama noted, it is the second highest emitter of ghg in the world behind China, it has historically emitted much more ghgs into the atmosphere than any other country including China, it is currently near the top of all nations in per capita ghg emissions, and the US has been responsible more than any other developed nation for the failure of the international community to adopt meaningful ghg emissions reduction targets from the beginning of international climate negotiations in 1990 until the Obama administration.

With fundamental issues of trust such as those illustrated above still far from being resolved, and political will on financing performing a fine balancing act in Europe and the United States (with the former dealing with a snowballing resurgence of the financial crisis, and the latter with an incoming legislature planning to dissolve the House of Representatives panel on climate change), the time has truly come for wealthy nations of the world to fundamentally shift their modes of thinking.

What makes it especially bad right now, however, is the fundamentally fragile state much of the world is still in, eight years after the great financial crisis... So we are very probably looking at a global recession, with no end in sight.

It was Gorbachev who stated in 1996 that the «threat of environmental crisis will be the «international disaster key» that will unlock the New World Order.»

(03/16/2009) The global economic crisis has slowed demand for timber products and may undermine efforts to improve the environmental performance of forestry, reports the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in its biannual «State of the World's Forests 2009», released today.

This reflects greatly in the current state of the global conversations and actions to combat climate change, which are currently doing very little to address the root cause of the crisis and transform the systems in order to ensure a more just and equitable world for all, but most importantly for women.

What I believe is that as long as the world remains in a state of economic crisis, there is not going to be any political action which exacerbates this crisis, which a reduction of the use of cheap fossil fuels would certainly do.

The broadcast returns to the United States to take stock of where the world stands in combatting the climate crisis today, looking at the challenges ahead and celebrating the millions rising up to speak truth to power.

THE «extreme» cold has seen Iguanas frozen solid in Florida, alligators in a state of cryogenic freeze, sharks washed up in Cape Cod «stranded due to cold shock», the coldest Super Bowl on record, Niagara Falls frozen over, a thermometer in the world's coldest village breaking as temperatures plunge to -62 C, the lowest temperature ever recorded in Bangladesh, frozen crops creating a food crisis in Europe, even a mass die - off of sea creatures as UK ocean temps plunged 1 - 3 degrees centigrade, cold temperatures smashed across Saskatchewan's central and south regions in the spring of April, and the list of non-heat «extremes» goes on.

The United States is responsible «many times more» than India for the world food crisis because of its higher food consumption, said Ramesh Chand, an economist with the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, which advises India's government on farming policy, in the International Herald Tribune.

In other parts of the world, notably in the United States and the United Kingdom, the crisis gravely undermined public faith in financial institutionIn other parts of the world, notably in the United States and the United Kingdom, the crisis gravely undermined public faith in financial institutionin the United States and the United Kingdom, the crisis gravely undermined public faith in financial institutionin financial institutions.

As Tom Calma, in his role as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner and Race Discrimination Commissioner, pointedly stated in 2008: «It is not credible to suggest that one of the wealthiest nations in the world can not solve a health crisis affecting less than 3 per cent of its citizens.