Sentences with phrase «american building world»

Americans build the world's largest gingerbread house in time for Christmas

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Capitalism — that is, open, transparent, American - style capitalism — is still the best bet we have for building a broadly prosperous world.

The airline, the world's largest, said it urged Chicago officials to build three additional gates for American to «re-level playing field.»

Like them, Charney has built a powerful brand known in many parts of the world, which is why American Apparel is an attractive acquisition target in its weakened state.

It's hardly revolutionary for an airline to own or build traveler accommodations — Pan American Airways did it right after World War II, when founder Juan Trippe opened the carrier's first hotel in Brazil.

That's because none of the world's fleet of almost 500 tankers meets the requirements of the 1920 Jones Act, which mandates that vessels moving between U.S. ports be built and registered in the country, and crewed by Americans.

As Henry Kissinger emphasizes in his new book World Order, the fundamental building block of all American and international engagement over the past hundred years — namely, the nation state and the Westphalian system in which states are embedded — is particularly weak in the Middle East due to fragile national roots and competing local and universalist identities, including pan-Arabic movements and messianic religious calls from the likes of Iran's ayatollahs and ISIS.

In the end, Trump, McDougal, and Daniels are three Republicans who are happy to build, inhabit, and impose upon all of us a heartless world, untroubled by the one consistently compelling notion that the GOP used to offer: that the American institution most worthy of respect was the family, the home, the shelter of one another.

Looking ahead, Korea and a Canada can continue to provide each other with «gateway» partnerships — linking the dynamism of Korea and Asia with the strengths of Canada and North American business — that promote economic growth and prosperity for our citizens, build a safer world, and ensure a strong global economy with effective governance systems.

This hope - filled story of a Christian Korean American doctor who built and staffed a hospital in Pyongyang offers proof that Christians can still significantly impact the people of the world's most restricted country.

Ignatieff argues, and I agree with him, that the world needs the American Empire as a guarantor of security and the basis for building new institutions in shattered nations.

He consistently opposed what he called «nation - building» as an American responsibility and called for more «humility» in our relation to the rest of the world, striking an isolationist chord that has been perennial in our tradition.

The publisher's promotional material appears to build on the expectations associated with this sort of story, describing Mariette in Ecstasy as «a powerful portrayal of the disturbing world beneath the placid daily life of an American convent.»

Americans will believe he could have been voted in again after all he did catch the boogieman who magically melted 3 steel structure buildings with jet fuel (which burns much cooler than the melting point of a steel Ibeam) and penetrated one of the worlds most secured biuldings without getting caught on cam.

When you think about what Americans accomplished, building these amazing cities, and all the good its done in the world, it's kind of disheartening to hear so much hatred of America, not just from abroad, but internally... For some reason, nobody seems to be talking about who we're up against, and the sixth century barbarism that they actually represent.

Then these formerly oppressed, poor Europeans built their economy by inaugurating, on American soil, one of the worst forms of slavery the world has known.

The four concepts were praxis, the poor, oppression, and socialism, and the Latin American proposition was that through the practical work of building socialist societies, the poor of the third world would throw off the oppression they suffered at the hands of the first world, especially the United States.

With wood - fire cooking and a selection of nearly 500 whiskeys from around the world, the rustic American restaurant has built a solid reputation in less than a year.

American Forests is pleased to announce that in collaboration with Bacardi, the world's largest privately held spirits company, it will launch forest restoration initiatives with two projects in Idaho as part of the industry - leading Bacardi environmental sustainability initiative «Good Spirited: Building a Sustainable Future.»

Please join us at our newly restored historic winery, built by the pioneering Carbone brothers in 1886, for an evening reveling in our Napa Valley wines — Cabernet Franc and Cabernet Sauvignon may hail from the Old World, however ours are decidedly American!

They believe that by leveraging American sports business knowhow — from a multi-tiered digital marketing strategy to an enhanced stadium experience — they can build one of the biggest brands in the world.

I have this argument with my dad everyday, I really don't care we are the fifth richest club in the world, football in my opinion is all about what happens on the pitch not in the accounting department, we as fans were sold a dream by the people at the top of our club including wenger that basically said after Ashburton grove was built we'd compete on the pitch with the best in Europe, guess what we haven't, the only thing we've done is make a rich American and his associates even richer, wenger has been a willing participant in this.

The Selecao romped to qualification as winners of the South American group, with Tite building an exciting side featuring the world's most expensive player Neymar and new Barcelona signing Philippe Coutinho.

Just as it's meaningless to re-fight World War 2 academically without noting that the Soviets built five times as many tanks as the Germans or that the Americans built even more, we can't talk about Obama's victory last night without considering the incredible resource imbalance that assured it.

American Media Inc, which owns the National Enquirer, reportedly gave Dino Sajudin, the ex-doorman of one of Trump's buildings, $ 30,000 for a story about the now - president fathering a love child with a Trump World Tower employee, and then never ran with it.

As a military history nerd, I'm reminded of the tanks of World War 2 — the Russians built a standard model (the T - 34) that was good enough, easy to manufacture in huge numbers and easy for draftee farmboys to learn to use (the Americans solved the same problem with the Sherman).

The bridge is being designed and built by Tappan Zee Constructors, LLC (TZC), a consortium of some of the world's best - known and most highly - regarded design, engineering and construction firms, including Fluor, American Bridge, Granite, and Traylor Bros., along with key design firms HDR, Buckland & Taylor, URS, and GZA.

Marines and friends joined to view a 9 - 11 memorial where the U.S.S New York marine ship, built with steel from the World Trade Center, was celebrated alongside some real American heroes.

«A number of them that drove the planes into the — 9 - 11 — into the building at World Trade Center that killed 3,000 Americans — are you ready for this?

Alan taught the first - ever college course on digital politics (1995), created and built the Center for American Progress's social media program (2007 - 13) and has trained more than 15,000 people across the world in digital & social media strategy, including civil society leaders across the Arab world in 2009; key staff at leading advocacy groups and news media outlets; Members of Congress and their staff; as well as political and business leaders from several countries, including a couple future kings.

Reported in Scientific American, This Week in World War I: January 16, 1915 Before the First World War, Simon Lake designed and built some innovative submarines for the U.S.

Scientific American was the conference media partner and our executive editor, Fred Guterl, joined them for a conversation about the future of the technological world that we're building today.

Reported in Scientific American this week in World War I, November 7, 1914 Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, the man who built up the Imperial Navy of Germany, had dismissed submarines as a waste of money back in 1901.

New York artist Klara Hobza organized the event, inspired by a Scientific American — sponsored paper airplane contest held in the same location (originally called the Great Hall and built to display rockets for the 1964 World's Fair) more than 40 years ago.

Last week the U.S. Forest Service rejected the Smithsonian's request to build a $ 16.6 million telescope array — what would be the largest array of ground - based gamma ray telescopes in the world — on national forest land near the base of the mountain, citing the proximity of a Native American sweat lodge.

He directed a team that built a 40,000 - cubic - foot rain forest for the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, and he has engineered everything from replicas of the leaves and buds of a groundnut vine at the Montauk Point Lighthouse Museum to the skeletal mount for Sue, the world's largest T. rex, at the Field Museum in Chicago.

Meanwhile, ESO's current main facility, the Very Large Telescope (VLT) at Cerro Paranal in Chile, continues to be the world's most productive ground - based instrument, and the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA), a new radio observatory built jointly with North American and East Asian countries, is opening up this previously little - studied window on the universe.

Based on what Bachrach reckons is the world's only complete collection of American - English «morphemes» — word building blocks like «neo» and «sol» — NameLab's system has named more than 200 things to date.

«This launch system will create good - paying American jobs, ensure continued U.S. leadership in space, and inspire millions around the world,» NASA Administrator Charles Bolden Jr. said at a news conference this morning at the U.S. Senate Dirksen building.

In this second article of a four - part series commemorating the World Wide Web's 20th birthday, Scientific American editor Mark Fischetti explains how online games and other Web - enabled social machines build machine intelligence — and help us, too

American companies now build about 70 per cent of the world's commercial communications satellites.

In 2006, American and British scientists built the world's first invisibility cloak.

Instead, the game really comes alive via the nuanced world - building (fantastically detailed environments depicting American small towns and ruined cities) and diverse ethnic cast (the chain - smoking, breast - feeding Black Panther is my favourite).

Here's a synopsis of the movie: As a darkness builds at the center of a world - renown dance company, its artistic director (Swinton), a young American new to the troupe (Johnson), and a grieving psychotherapist become entangled in a bloody, sighing nightmare.

That stylish introduction is immediately followed by a flashback to Oakland in 1992, where a Wakandan spy embedded in American society is caught trading arms made of Vibranium, the meteoric ore on which Wakanda built its superior new world.

Not so much a sequel as another stultifying character drama set in a world overrun by aliens, this 10 - years - later spinoff switches directors and genres, as first - timer Tom Green (building on experience from British TV's «Misfits» and «Blackout») helms a taxingly over-earnest war movie set in an unspecified Middle Eastern country, where American soldiers deal with insurgents while the menacing MTRs (as they're now called) lumber about in the background.

Oliver Stone (U Turn, JFK) is no stranger to controversy, and making World Trade Center only five years after many Americans had witnessed the most disturbing sight in their lifetimes certainly ripped open wounds in the minds of some people out there not ready to handle knowing what it must have been like to be inside the building on September 11, 2001.

It's highly likely they'll also build the fourth chapter, Overlord, and its story of American paratroopers during World War II fighting off Nazis and their supernatural tools.

Marc Tucker is president of the National Center on Education and the Economy and editor of Surpassing Shanghai: An Agenda for American Education Built on the World's Leading Systems (Harvard Education Press, November 2011).

Corey Engstrom's fifth - grade students built an early American colony this year, populating it with figures from history — but instead of using clay, cardboard, and glue, they made the colony digitally, inside a virtual world.