In my view, the biggest challenge facing this country is that we are not living within our means. Spending cuts can only get us halfway there.
The onset of more severe climate impacts overseas may also open up temporary opportunities, or 'policy windows.' These would allow legislators the licence to take specific bold actions which they ordinarily believe would not otherwise be possible or politically acceptable...In effect, envisaged solutions can become rapidly translated into practical options for action following a major disaster or near-miss.
This is probably the biggest environmental disaster we have ever faced in this country. It is certainly the biggest oil spill and we are responding with the biggest environmental response.
This idea that there is generality in the specific is of far-reaching importance.
Whenever you think you're writing what other people want to hear from you, and that it'll be commercial, you're doomed to disaster. Writing has to be as truthful and specific as we can make it. The minute we think that we're reaching more people and pleasing them, we get general. And audiences sense that and turn away, shun us.
Know more about the situation you're facing than a reporter who is writing a major article would.
Global climate change has a profound impact on the survival and development of mankind. It is a major challenge facing all countries.
If I had train someone to fight Anderson Silva that would probably be my biggest challenge yet as far as being prepared for a striker.
Whatever each individual woman is facing - only she knows her biggest challenge.
AIDS is big business, maybe Africa's biggest business. There's nothing else that can generate as much aid money as shocking figures on AIDS. AIDS is a political disease here, and we should be very skeptical.
Music, because of its specific and far-reaching metaphorical powers, can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.
The biggest challenge for newspapers has been that the public has far more choices for news, information, and diversion than in the past.
The spread of nuclear weapons is the greatest threat facing the country-and I would argue facing humanity.
The major challenge facing most foundations is that they are risk averse. This inhibits their ability to experiment and commit to the experimentation and innovation process.
The fight against HIV/AIDS requires leadership from all parts of government - and it needs to go right to the top. AIDS is far more than a health crisis. It is a threat to development itself.
When you study, as I did, every theatrical beginning in this country, none of them have been greeted well. The Royal Shakespeare Company was a disaster, Peter Hall was a disaster, Richard Eyre was a disaster, Trevor Nunn was always a disaster.