Sentence examples for theme towards from inspiring English sources

In the context of the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR, 1990-2000), a Regional Meeting for Africa was held in May 1999 at the headquarters of the United Nations Environment Programme UNEPP) in Nairobi, under the theme "Towards Disaster Reduction in the 21st Century".

We mistake almost anything for a relationship, a community of sorts, and yet, when we are with our families, in our communities, we are clueless, we short-circuit and immediately dive back into the digitised version …" The "loss of the human touch" in everyday life is a recurring theme; towards the end, Harry is told: "You're human now".

In each instance, the common theme towards extirpation or control becomes the disruption of the cognitive toolkit of cancer.

No wonder Corvis managed to steal the thunder from other startups such as Nexabit Networks, Pluris, and Sonus, all which are introducing big routers with a theme towards multiservice IP, or cell-based infrastructure.

By October, the thematic fleets loyal to Thomas had finished assembling at Lesbos, and Thomas's army began marching from the Thracesian Theme towards Abydos, where he intended to cross over into Europe.

Acting as delegates of UN member-states, children simulated the discussions of the UN General Assembly and Security Council, and drafted and adopted two resolutions under the overarching theme "Towards the World Fit for Children".

We review medical apps themed towards cardiothoracic surgery in terms of medical professional involvement in their content and design.

The conference was themed "Towards a public institution for the development of science in Chile" and its main aim was to talk with the Commission on Science and Technology in the House of Deputies.

We move instead away from sculpture as a fully embodied object, or one that wrestles with big ideas and grand themes, towards fragility, impermanence, an anxiety of making things that count.

When they write that "settled back in Paris in 1859, Degas progressed slowly from pictures based on historical themes towards works more appropriate to a 'Painter of Modern Life' in Baudelaire's term," the curators neither take into account the advanced pastel landscapes of the 1860s nor the painter's classical interests.

The scenarios, when ordered from most informal to most formal (see Table 3), display common contextual themes towards both poles of a formality continuum.