Sentence examples for the common future from inspiring English sources

On Thursday, Mr. Tsipras sent letters to European leaders urging an overhaul of the European strategy of austerity and stating that "the common future of the European nations is threatened by these catastrophic choices".

It represents a person's farthest future that one can see alive, which is also the common future of the two generations.

To continue this walk towards the common future there is no need to stop the technological progress, but there is a need to acquire adequate knowledge in respect of underlying processes of biosphere stability and to include the technology in a way which preserves this stability and doesn't transform it irreversibly.

If this is the case, then translation can be understood to revitalize or rejuvenate a language, when introducing a foreign text into it, precisely because it thereby awakens within that language possibilities which that language already has dormant within it, possibilities rooted in both the common ground and the common future that language shares with all others.

The term sustainable development was coined in the paper Our Common Future, by the Brundtland Commission (1987, p. 43) which defines sustainable development "as development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs".

It also details the contribution of the published reports, 'Our Common Future' and 'The Earth Summit', towards furthering this concept.

Not yet two decades after the publication of Our Common Future, the world's political and environmental landscape has changed significantly.

French commentators accuse the UK of "pointing a gun" at the continent's common future.

In 1983 she became chair of the UN World Commission on Environment and Development, which in 1987 issued Our Common Future, the report that introduced the idea of "sustainable development" and led to the first Earth Summit.

"We are always talking about the past instead of our common future," the foreign ministry official said.

When presenting the groundbreaking report "Our Common Future" to the U.N. General Assembly in 1987, former Prime Minister of Norway and current Deputy Chair of The Elders Gro Brundtland spoke out on the need for a new way of doing business.