There is a growing awareness that the shift is a shift in the management paradigm, not just about adopting some new tools or processes.

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There is a growing awareness that languages play a vital role in development, in ensuring cultural diversity and intercultural dialogue, but also in strengthening cooperation, building inclusive knowledge societies, preserving cultural heritage and providing quality education for all.

UNESCO: EDUCATION

As a result, there is a growing awareness that we must begin shifting business towards a more collective and socially responsible mentality in which companies and consumers think about building a better world as much as they think about profits.

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For the Revolutionary Guards and the business world, while sanctions may have offered the chance to monopolise the economy in the short term, there is a growing awareness that as the economy shrinks, so will their share of the profits.

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But there is also a growing awareness that modern intensive farming methods have much to answer for.

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But there is also a growing awareness here that the policy's success, as well as the strength and effectiveness of Sunni Arab opposition to Iran's nuclear ambitions, may hinge on America's ability to show substantive progress on Israeli-Palestinian and Israeli-Arab peacemaking.

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Built-in measures to make vessels more efficient are increasingly important believes Knudsen, as there is a growing awareness in the industry that it needs to take a long view on its environmental impact.

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The BBC's Jim Muir, in neighbouring Lebanon, says that as fighting continues there seems to be a growing awareness on both sides that a stalemate is setting in and a political solution may be the only way out.

BBC: Middle East