And Ukraine is increasingly looking west: recent Russian bullying has prompted normally pro-Russian leaders in Ukraine to call for a reduced reliance on their giant neighbour.
In your call for a reduced emphasis on testing ("The Trouble With Testing Mania," editorial, July 14), you refer to a review of teacher education programs by the National Council on Teacher Quality, noting that, in contrast to Finland, the United States "has an abysmal system of teacher preparation".
Then President Obama, in his address to a joint session of Congress on spurring job creation, reiterated his call for a plan reducing long-term debt with both changes in entitlement programs and taxes from the wealthy.
It is his call for "a strategy that reduces the wellspring of extremism," his recognition that extremism is fed, in part, by "underlying grievances and conflicts," which need to be accurately understood and addressed as an integral part of U.S. security policy.
Which brings us to yesterday -- three months after the massacre, the launch of a new beginning -- The Sandy Hook Innovation Initiative designed a "call for ideas" to reduce gun violence and a commitment by leading venture capitalists and angel investors to fund promising innovations in gun safety, mental health research and related new technologies.
At the First WHO Ministerial Conference on Global Action Against Dementia in March, 2015, 160 delegates, including representatives from 80 WHO Member States and four UN agencies, agreed on a call for action to reduce the global burden of dementia by fostering a collective effort to advance research.
The MDGs, a set of internationally recognized targets for reducing poverty worldwide, call for reducing the maternal mortality ratio by three-quarters by the year 2015.
The MDGs, a set of internationally recognized targets for reducing poverty worldwide, call for reducing the global under-five mortality rate by two-thirds by the year 2015.
The MDGs, a set of internationally recognized targets for reducing poverty worldwide, call for reducing global under-five mortality by two-thirds by the year 2015.
Graeme Pearman, left, the former director of atmospheric research at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Australia's main science agency, said he had been reprimanded after backing a call for action to reduce greenhouse gases.
Daniel Ellsberg's "The Doomsday Machine" is a passionate call for reducing the risk of total destruction.
