#facing

The stark reality facing us today is that without the labour reforms, workers will get neither the income nor jobs in the face of cut-throat global economic competition. ↗

— Kim Y. Sam

#economic #face #facing #get #global

As grateful as we are for all the work the community health centers do, it is also important that we recognize that they cannot solve the health care crisis facing our Nation by themselves. ↗

— Jan Schakowsky

#cannot #care #centers #community #crisis

We are passing through a very sensitive time, and on the whole, this country is facing very big problems. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#big problems #country #facing #passing #problems

We are like the herb which flourisheth most when trampled upon ↗

— Walter Scott

#facing-problems #adversity

Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing a psychoanalyst. ↗

— Italo Calvino

#data #declare #even #facing #like

A fascinating challenge facing today's environmental movement is how to best approach the reversal of past decisions that altered once-pristine environmental spaces for the sake of urgent man-made needs. ↗

— Matt Gonzalez

#approach #best #challenge #decisions #environmental

I do think that we are facing a crisis in our democracy. As true patriots, each and every one of us has to speak up, speak out, and change those in charge. Our democracy depends upon it. ↗

— Robert Greenwald

#charge #crisis #democracy #depends #each

For a year, Johnny lived the new, brutal truth that he was on his own. But that's the way it was. What had been concrete one day proved sand the next; strength was illusion; faith meant shit. So what? So his once-bright world had devolved to cold, wet fog. That was life, the new order. Johnny had nothing to trust but himself, so that's the way he rolled - his path, his choices, and no looking back. ↗

— John Hart

#facing-reality #jaded #faith

When a company is facing a problem, it always takes a stance and takes a decision, but at the same time it wants to make sure of what it can learn from it, what enhancements it can make. ↗

— Carlos Ghosn

#company #decision #facing #learn #make

It's kind of nice in some ways having an Olympic Trials where I finished second. You can kind of go in more under the radar facing a 2:03 guy and facing a lot of dudes who are faster than I am, whereas, before Beijing, I had one of the top 10 times in the field, or something like that. ↗

— Ryan Hall

#before #beijing #dudes #facing #faster