The professional rather than the patient view dominates the NCD agenda and there is a lack of a broad, engaged, and independent NGO community.
The lack of a broad, engaged NGO community in the NCD agenda-setting is said to be one reason why the industry view is so strong (30); others have observed how the rise of the 'corporate now' now dominates civil society participation in the NCD space, effectively crowding out more progressive, independent, community-based organisations (David Sanders, personal communication).
But in the context of the democratic uprisings of the Arab Spring, Sunni Islamists are a broad spectrum, engaged in their own debate over the objectives of their movement.
"I've reached the conclusion, retrospectively, now that the inadequate intelligence and faulty conclusions are being revealed, that all things being considered, it was a mistake to launch that military action, especially without a broad and engaged international coalition," he wrote.
"FourTwoNine is going to appeal to a broad and engaged readership," Kevin Sessums, the magazine's editor-in-chief, said in a press release.
For this and other reasons, the time is ripe for the field of environmental health science to consider the benefits of establishing a broad, vigorous, engaged scientific society.
The former governor of Montana said a dumb thing to the National Journal, but he may have said something useful to a broader, less engaged swath of the American people.
He memorized Jamie's rules for living: "Greet girls with a broad smile; be engaged at the beginning, indifferent at the end... be friendly to the loneliest kid in school because the loneliest kid in school needs friends".
We will continue to build our presence among Chinese speaking populations around the world and seek to foster a broader and more engaged user community.
A broad group of people engaged in the fight in Syria — including opposition activists, community organizers and outside analysts — said they had noticed a jihadi mind-set and vocabulary among opposition fighters.
The first group's training focussed on reasoning, planning and problem solving, while the second engaged a broad set of mental abilities commonly seen in commercial brain training games.
