Future generations are counting on it.

Finally, future generations would not be asked to bear the entire burden of rebalancing.

All countries will have to shoulder their responsibilities to the rest of the world and to future generations.

Debt, however, is a burden imposed by current citizens on future generations.

Let our gathering be remembered by posterity as the one that made a difference in people's lives.

And she said they would literally visualize the faces of children for seven generations into the future, looking at them from the Earth, and they would look at them, holding them as stewards for that future.

Most of us, I believe, do not knowingly make choices that adversely affect future generations.

But high return public investments that more than pay for themselves can actually improve the well being of future generations, and it would be doubly foolish to burden them with debts from unproductive spending and then cut back on productive investments.

The future generations that are to foot the bill may simply not be there.

All of that will have to change. All countries will have to shoulder their responsibilities to the rest of the world and to future generations.

To do otherwise is to infringe upon the rights of members of future generations, to whom natural assets also belong.

Unlike eugenicists, proponents of altering mitochondrial DNA simply hope to free future generations from deadly diseases.

But this ignores the fact that holders of the very same debt will be among the supposedly burdened future generations.

When the burden of past turpitude is too heavy, there may be no other way to protect future generations.

Indeed, our era will likely be remembered as the time when a new global order, with China at the helm, was born.

Otherwise, the violence would continue, spawning new hostages to history and ensuring that future generations would be taught new wrongs to set right.

The national debt is a burden on future generations. This fallacy is repeated so often that it has entered the collective unconscious.

Future generations of GM crops will bring even more benefits but only if they are allowed to flourish.

Thus far, the quality of our choices has been unimpressive, reflecting little sensitivity to sustainability and the impact of our choices on future generations.

Committing to massive cuts in carbon emissions will leave future generations poorer and less able to adapt to challenges.

After all, crossing that two degree threshold implies condemning future generations to global warming s most devastating consequences.

Our livelihoods, not to mention those of future generations, should not be held hostage by our ongoing addiction to fossil fuels.

But extending that leniency to human germline genetic modification may well cause future generations to view their actions very differently.

The longer this unusual environment persists, the greater the risk that the disruptive ramifications of the 2008 crisis will continue to reach far and wide, including to future generations.

In reality, underinvestment and investment with debt financing are equivalent in one crucial respect they both transfer costs to a future cohort.

Given that SWFs primary objective is to transfer wealth to future generations, their high level of exposure to fossil fuel markets is unsustainable.

But this view neglects a crucial factor in the debate the techniques being developed involve permanent genetic alterations passed on to future generations.

I started to worry about the fact that a lot of people don't get their portraits painted anymore, and they're amazing people, and we want to deliver them to future generations.

For almost three decades, sustainable development has been defined as development that meets the needs of the present, without compromising future generations ability to meet their needs.

This may be bad for the distribution of wealth and income, because it will enrich the creditor at the expense of the debtor, but there will be no net burden on future generations.

To that end, none can be uncommitted otherwise posterity will rightly point its finger at us all.

He wished to highlight the importance of the Moot, which afforded a unique opportunity to introduce future generations of lawyers around the world to the work of UNCITRAL.

There is a discussion of how much of the burden to pass on to future generations. In this war, there was no such discussion.

The famous Brundtland Commission Report of 1987 defined sustainable development as ... development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

Moreover, animal studies have shown that changes in stress or diet can alter the behavior and genes of future generations.

The fact that children and adolescents were among those most vulnerable to poverty reinforced the poverty cycle, as it affected human and social capital and the well being of future generations.

Let future generations remember this moment as a time when world leaders rose to the occasion to lay the foundation for a healthy and progressive global village this remains our destination in the new millennium.

As human affairs become increasingly complex and morally exigent, future generations will need both scientific and humanistic learning and they will need them more than ever.

Investing in R D of non carbon emitting energy technologies would leave future generations able to make serious and yet economically feasible and advantageous cuts. A new global warming treaty should mandate spending 0.05 of GDP on R D in the future.

With the increasing pattern of internal, rather than international, armed conflicts, and the rising regularity of extreme weather events affecting millions of people, internal displacement poses an even greater challenge to future generations.

As matters currently stand, when future generations place our leaders in historical perspective, they will most likely reproach them, above all, for their lack of institutional imagination.

However the Chinese leadership responds, future generations may remember 2009 less for its global economic and financial crisis than for the momentous transformation that it caused in China.

For example, the World Bank claims that in order to be green, we need to take into account that consuming fossil fuels will deprive future generations of those resources.

Failure would expose future generations to catastrophic climate risks, while trapping millions of people in poverty as a result of more frequent, intense, and protracted droughts, floods, and storms.

But the power to tax has practical limits, and governments moral or legal right to bind future generations of citizens to repay foreign creditors is questionable.