Unless we confront the challenges of the Horn of Africa at their root causes – the poverty and vulnerability of pastoralist and agro-pastoralist populations – we will face burgeoning violence in the Horn of Africa, Yemen and beyond.
As we confront the challenges of climate change, marine conservation also must become increasingly urban.
As we enter our next century of service, we seek to inspire a new generation of giving as we confront the challenges that lie ahead.
I'm proud to be celebrating Right Wing Watch's tenth anniversary this week, and I'm so glad that we're stronger than ever as we confront the challenges ahead.
As we confront the challenges of public school overcrowding through an ambitious $19.2-billion construction and repair program, I have the vision of every school in the district becoming the center of its community... providing green space, meeting space and recreational facilities.
But the problems of energy waste storage continue as we confront the challenge of how to make coal clean.
(How many of the self-styled feminists who chastised Jenna Franklin for buying into a "beauty myth" were willing to criticize Olivia Newton-John for not embracing her scar?) Yet once we reject the naturalist fallacy that we are making some women "whole" while merely "enhancing" others, we confront the challenge of whether we are willing to fund breast surgery for any women or men who desire it?
2. When we last gathered in April, we confronted the greatest challenge to the world economy in our generation.
However, full realization of the promise of plant-derived engineered proteins requires that we confront the dual challenges of bioequivalence and product consistency, challenges that are largely related to post-translational protein modifications (PTMs) that are crucial to the structure and function of most eukaryotic proteins.
"Femi will help guide us to build on our existing strengths to have a library that continues to give outstanding service to faculty and students as we confront the library challenges of the 21st century," said Stewart J. Schwab, The Allan R. Tessler Dean and Professor of Law.
This was very much in evidence at the joint UK-US press conference last week, where David Miliband outlined how "transatlantic co-operation is going to be at a premium as we confront the shared challenges and the shared opportunity".
