The coalition's focus on so-called short-lived pollutants won't replace efforts to slash carbon emissions, for which "the world has not yet done enough," Ms. Clinton said. ❋ Tennille Tracy (2012)
The good news is that tackling black carbon, and other so-called "short-lived climate forcers" such as methane, could be a quick win in terms of tackling climate change. ❋ Unknown (2011)
A double-dip recession refers to a short-lived recovery from one recession and then a new plunge back into economic contraction. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Past partnerships between the Brotherhood and secular parties had been top-down short-lived agreements born of political necessity. ❋ Charles Levinson (2011)
NYCB's visionary founder George Balanchine, who died in 1983, staged the German-language Parisian premiere of "Sins" just before emigrating to the U.S. In 1958, he reworked the contorted concoction, which puts a sardonic twist on Christianity's septet of most grievous sins, for a short-lived English-language production at NYCB. ❋ Robert Greskovic (2011)
Bisecting Budapest and Belgrade Streets, a wide boulevard lined by bedraggled trees commemorates Béla Kun, the Hungarian revolutionary who in 1919 founded the short-lived Hungarian Soviet Republic and was later executed by Stalin for his pains. ❋ Daniel Treisman (2011)
Here's what they said in their press release: ... if there is no progress on increasing the statutory debt limit in coming weeks, they expect to place the US government's rating under review for possible downgrade, due to the very small but rising risk of a short-lived default. ❋ Adam Hanft (2011)
Claire was content just driving with her husband and daughter together in their separate thoughts, but the silence was short-lived, because Alice began to sing Woody Guthrie songs. ❋ Cara Hoffman (2011)
Airbus won some U.S. customers in the 1970s but the victories were short-lived as those early customers, including Pan American World Airways and Eastern Airlines, disappeared. ❋ Daniel Michaels (2011)
Another, short-lived plan would have sent Tim Kosnoff and Joel Salmi to Chicago, from which they would drive alternately to Racine and Grand Rapids during the same week. ❋ Lisa Davis (2011)
But his satisfaction was short-lived when he glanced at his watch. ❋ Howard Gordon (2011)
Councillor Doucet warrants some admiration for breaking ranks, but that was remarkably short-lived. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Though the tempest was short-lived, it left fresh tragedy in its wake and provided a bitter reminder of the helpless predicament in which Haiti's displaced continue to live. ❋ Rep. Yvette D. Clarke (2011)
The intense separatist nationalism of the early 1990s was a relatively short-lived phenomenon, cooked up by local politicians from convenient myths and misremembered history. ❋ Daniel Treisman (2011)
But Andrea's time back in the game was short-lived and she was quickly voted out when she tried to urge the two other remaining girls to vote out returning player "Boston Rob" Mariano. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Even if you set aside the short-lived but massive price bubble back in 1980 — around the time of a similar bubble in gold and many other commodities — the results have still been abysmal. ❋ Brett Arends (5000)
She obtained an education in computer security on the fly and left Excite to run security for a short-lived start-up. ❋ Steven Levy (2011)
A Kanata road project that could severely harm several protected species of plants and animals is being fast-tracked so the city can get millions of dollars from short-lived economic stimulus programs to help build it. ❋ Unknown (2009)
No amount of soapy lather could squeeze those thighs into that molded rubber seat, and my carefree days of certain cleanliness were short-lived. ❋ Jack Canfield (2011)
