Sentences with phrase «american citizens of that nation»

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WASHINGTON, March 7 - A Venezuelan state governor made an unusual visit to Washington this week, seeking meetings in Congress to discuss the fate of a U.S. citizen imprisoned in the South American nation, U.S. sources said on Wednesday.

The move also drew condemnation from the League of United Latin American Citizens, the nation's oldest Hispanic civil rights organization.

As America turns once again to our perennial celebration of the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a full year of Donald Trump on full Technicolor display has cast its inimitable shadow over the legacy of one of the greatest American citizens in this nation's history.

It's a sad day when Puerto Rico's governor has to take to the airwaves to remind Americans that the 3.4 million people living in the U.S. territory are citizens of their nation, too, but that's exactly what Gov. Ricardo Rosselló has been reduced to — repeatedly — in the wake of Hurricane Maria and the suffering it has caused.

It's a sad day when Puerto Rico's governor has to take to the airwaves to remind Americans that the 3.4 million people living in the U.S. territory are citizens of their nation, too, but that's exactly what Gov. Ricardo Rosselló has been reduced to — ...

We think, in contrast to Saverin and Loyola, of Christopher Hitchens» moving essay «For Patriot Dreams,» written after 9/11, when he announces his desire to become a citizen of this country, not because he seeks any gain» he was already successful as an expatriate Brit» but because the murder of so many Americans had made him realize that he already felt the citizen's love for this nation.

It has indeed caused «severe embarrassment» to the nation, as he laments, for the Senate investigation has laid before the public the elements of a terrible irony: that acts which are illegal and unethical for citizens to engage in at home are condoned, even aggressively pursued, by American law - enforcement officers and secret agents both at home and abroad.

As followers of Jesus, we can enjoy America and the Constitution and all that comes with being a citizen (that's another conversation), but our primary allegiance is not to a nation; our goal is not to persuade the world of the American way of life.

But the American principle of expansion remained political; the intention was almost always that new territory be incorporated into the nation and that its inhabitants take on the rights and duties of American citizens.

The government of the Philippines has both the legal and moral authority to enact laws to protect the health of its citizens, and the action taken by American companies amounts to an attack on the sovereignty of the Filipino nation.

American citizens, including American citizens who have emigrated from countries they wish to adopt from, represent the majority of international adoptive parents, followed by Europeans and those from other developed nations such as Australia.

«Mark will ensure the U.S. House of Representatives keeps its eye on what matters — putting Americans back to work, protecting Medicare and Social Security for senior citizens, and helping the nation's middle class regain lost ground.

But, as some evidence, 1 in 3 Americans (citizens of one of the wealthiest nations on Earth) have no retirement savings at all.

Based on my own time spent in America and interacting with US citizens over the years, I find it's tightly related to the level of sophistication: Very sophisticated Americans usually understand Europe as a collection of nations, each with their own culture, language, government, etc., and grok that the EU is kind of a federation without really being one...

Cuomo continued with phrase upon devastating phrase, asking the president to consider those left behind, pleading with the American people to see the poor and the disenfranchised not as failures and losers, but fellow citizens of the same city, of one city and a single nation.

As a newly naturalized U.S. citizen, Shenoi accepted the challenge, launching the University of Tulsa's Cyber Corps Program in 1999 to train «the best and brightest» American students to protect the nation from cyber attack.

Whether it is American senior citizens driving into Canada in order to buy cheap prescription drugs or Canadians coming to the U.S. for surgery in order to avoid long wait times, the relative merits of these two nations» health care systems are often cast in terms of anecdotes.

In a 1985 address to the nation days before meeting with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev for the first time, President Ronald Reagan stated «We can find, as yet undiscovered, avenues where American and Soviet citizens can cooperate fruitfully for the benefit of mankind....

Polls show a vast majority of Americans want to know what's in their food and how it is grown — the right enjoyed by the citizens of 64 other nations.

In a 1996 Phi Delta Kappa / Gallup Poll, 86 percent of Americans reported that they feel «preparing students to be responsible citizens» is a «very important» purpose of the nation's schools; just 76 percent considered it very important that schools «help people become economically self - sufficient.»

«America is moving backward, not forward, in its efforts to achieve the full participation of minority citizens in the life and prosperity of the nation,» said Frank H. T. Rhodes, president of Cornell University and chairman of the Com4mission on Minority Participation in Education and American Life.

The first international survey of adult literacy shows that Americans» reading skills — as poor as they may be — are on par with those of citizens of some of the world's other richest nations.

Nationally, somewhere between one - quarter and half of Americans volunteer every year.1 This spirit of volunteerism is one of the ways Americans are unique when compared with citizens of other nations.2 Perhaps this is why the idea of service opportunities for young people has been popular in the United States at least since former President John F. Kennedy called on his fellow Americans to «Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country.»

The publication of A Nation at Risk in 1983 alarmed citizens with its claim that the American public education system was failing.

As part of this larger process, the Mvskoke Creek Nation created extensive public education programs — primary schools, secondary academies, college scholarships, and teaching training — for their Native, Afro - Native, and African American freedmen citizens.

Increasingly disillusioned with American politics and the government's abandonment of its poorest citizens, Guthrie was compelled to speak out, tirelessly crisscrossing the nation to entertain and advocate for the nation's poorest people with his songs, eventually earning himself a permanent place as one of America's great folk heroes.

Whatever happened to the American Dream?America II is the story of a great nation that is now, for the first time since its birth, failing to live up to its promises to a majority of its citizens.

While the tightening of travel restrictions to Cuba for American citizens has dampened enthusiasm, adventurous travelers can still visit the island nation and may continue to travel independently.

The Montclair Art Museum will be the final stop of the national tour of Kay WalkingStick: An American Artist, the first major retrospective of the artistic career of Kay WalkingStick (b. 1935), a citizen of the Cherokee Nation and one of the world's most celebrated artists of Native...

Art for a New Understanding: Native Voices, 1950s to Now is organized by Crystal Bridges, and curated by independent curator Candice Hopkins (Tlingit, citizen of Carcross / Tagish First Nation), Crystal Bridges Curator of American Art, Mindy Besaw, and Manuela Well - Off - Man, Chief Curator at the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Darren J. Ranco, PhD, a citizen / member of the Penobscot Nation, is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and Chair of Native American Programs at the University of Maine at Orono.

The exhibition is organized by Crystal Bridges and curated by independent curator Candice Hopkins (Tlingit, citizen of Carcross / Tagish First Nation), Crystal Bridges Curator of American Art, Mindy Besaw, and Manuela Well - Off - Man, Chief Curator at the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Then, with their freely - chosen support, the sky is the limit: reallocate sections of the defense budget to selective nation - building; change agricultural policy to favor sustainable home - grown food where possible in the interests of health and national security; create programs that encourage Americans to help with sanitation, agriculture and birth control in developing countries; slice away the parts of government that get in the way (thereby freeing up the budget); protect citizen and consumer's rights; strictly regulate pollution; shut down destabilizing financial schemes, and eventually earn enough respect in the world that we're not the only ones on the bandwagon.

Majorities of Americans say that global warming and clean energy should be among the nation's priorities, want more action by elected officials, corporations, and citizens themselves, and support a variety of climate change and energy policies, including holding fossil fuel companies responsible for all the «hidden costs» of their products.

Proceeds of up to $ 1.75 million (that's a whole lot of bags) from the bag campaign will go to American Forests, the nation's oldest non-profit citizens conservation organization, to plant trees to restore forests and offset CO2 emissions (we mentioned that program here).

«Even in a down housing market, homeownership remains a core American value, with the vast majority of citizens who do not currently own a home saying they want to buy a home,» said Bob Nielsen, president of the National Association of Home Builders and a home builder from Reno, Nev. «Those running for office in November need to understand that voters will not look kindly on any candidates who seek to dismantle the nation's long - term commitment to homeownership.»