Sentences with phrase «american civil society»

Latin American civil society groups reject the sale and purchase of these monitoring programs without adequate controls and that put human rights at risk in the region, for the following reasons:

Here are reactions from some North American civil society organizations to the release of the reports.

These factors all indicate a weakening of American civil society, but they are not unique to Trump.

The same imprecision has long made it difficult to assess the health of American civil society, as was evident in the backlash against Robert Putnam's Bowling Alone.

The pan-Canadian coalition, which emerged from the North American civil society gathering on NAFTA in Mexico City in May 2017, is made up of labour, environmental, farmer, social justice and other civil society groups across English - speaking Canada and Quebec.

These charities all help strengthen American civil society by promoting private initiatives rather than government programs as the solution to the most pressing issues of the day.

Not exact matches

The American Society of Civil Engineers has given our nation's infrastructure a near failing grade of «D» overall.

The American Society of Civil Engineers rates our nation's 100,000 miles of levees with a grade of a D -.

In testifying before Congress, Barry Steinhardt, director of the Technology and Liberty Program for the American Civil Liberties Union, has cited biometrics as yet another example of America's movement toward becoming «a surveillance society.»

According to the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), the U.S. faces an infrastructure funding gap of more than $ 2 trillion between now and 2025, resulting in potential losses of nearly $ 4 trillion in gross domestic product (GDP), or $ 34,000 per household.

The ex-director of mission operations for Space X, Marco Villa, and Patricial Galloway, former president of the American Society of Civil Engineers are spearheading the project.

If this financing can't be raised, says the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), each American household could lose an estimated $ 3,400 per year.

The problem is: these millions of hardworking men and women behind the wheel are traversing roads that receive a «D» grade from the American Society of Civil Engineers; moreover, the ASCE found nearly one - third of our roads are in «poor or mediocre» condition, and one in nine of the nation's bridges are structurally deficient.

May 15th - 19th has been designated «National Infrastructure Week» by the US Chambers of Commerce, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), and over 150 affiliates.

Last week, I shared with you that the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) just gave our nation's infrastructure a dismal grade of D +, adding that we face a huge funding gap of nearly $ 3 trillion between now and 2025.

That same year, the American Society of Civil Engineers gave US infrastructure a «D +» overall grade.

When the North American Free Trade Agreement was concluded there was concern about Mexican labour and environmental standards; side agreements were established around these topics, allowing civil society to raise complaints under the terms of the agreement.

Given this growing consensus, what's provocative about Renewing American Compassion is not that it argues for returning social welfare functions to civil society, but that it dares to offer specific and useful proposals for how this might happen.

It is no coincidence that the American political scientist who has written most extensively on Ibero - Latin corporatism, Howard Wiarda, also wrote an exasperated book aimed at would - be exporters of American - style democracy called Civil Society, which would better have been called Against Civil Society as Tocqueville Understood It.

For Wells, the pervasive moral stupor characteristic of late - twentieth - century North American culture, to which much social criticism in recent years has been directed, demands a response from the Church before any thoroughgoing moral reconstruction of civil society can take place.

This means we need to see that we are defending more than religious liberty: We are defending the very idea that our government exists to protect the space in which various institutions of civil society do the work that enables Americans to thrive, and we are defending the proposition that this work involves moral formation and not just liberation from constraint.

For instance, inasmuch as the founders» notion of free self - government rests on an essentially Lockean conception of freedom as power outside and prior to truth (however much God or truth imposes an extrinsic obligation to obey, and however reasonable it is to do so in view of future rewards and punishments), then American liberty will eventually erode the moral and cultural foundations of civil society inherited from Protestant Christianity.

Writing from Budapest, Seligman discusses whether the Western European — more precisely, Anglo - American — concept of civil society has relevance to the Eastern situation.

In his second chapter, he concentrates on «ascetic Protestantism» (i.e., American Puritanism) as the movement that gave the most explicit and enduring historical shape to civil society.

In their statement, Catholic bishops accused American political leaders of launching «an attack on civil society.»

The Kenyan President stood up to the American President after his chastisement, and pointed out that Kenyans do not agree with the enlightened superiority of the superpower in question, and are concerned with much more basic aspects of civil society, and affirmed their right to govern their own nation.

The two civil religions correspond in a general way with the ambivalent character of the state in American society.

By holding that the statute did not have an impermissible purpose, that its primary effect was not the advancement of religion, and that it did not require «excessive entanglement» between church and state, the Court sent a signal to the political branches that more creative uses of the structures of civil society (including churches) may now be permissible in the American welfare state.

To Empower People: From State to Civil Society Twentieth Anniversary Edition by Richard John Neuhaus and Peter Berger American Enterprise Institute, 244 pages, $ 25

Dannin also introduces what he admits is a «taboo» subject: that a portion of «African - American society has always been unchurched,» that African - American lodges have traditionally been centers of unchurched religious practices and beliefs,» and that since the end of the civil rights era unchurched African - Americans «have been moving more rapidly toward Islam.»

The dilemma of the Protestant Churches in America as they seek to serve the American people and American society is most clearly revealed in the civil rights struggle since World War II.

For what Blackmun and his supporting colleagues did was to read into the American Constitution a thoroughly modern metaphysic, one that celebrates individual autonomy as the summum bonum of civil society (provided, that is, you manage to get yourself born first).

I can't speak for the artist but American non-believers focus more of their attention on Christianity because it is Christians who are continually imposing their religion on US civil politics, laws, and society.

It is our hope that the present comparative treatment will deepen the understanding of American civil religion at the same time it opens up issues that can be explored in many other societies.

Indeed, through the pressure of such groups as the American Civil Liberty Union, philosophical liberalism is rapidly becoming our orthodox civil religion, if I may indulge in a contradiction in terms, and traditional American views of the relation of religion and society are declared unconstitutiCivil Liberty Union, philosophical liberalism is rapidly becoming our orthodox civil religion, if I may indulge in a contradiction in terms, and traditional American views of the relation of religion and society are declared unconstituticivil religion, if I may indulge in a contradiction in terms, and traditional American views of the relation of religion and society are declared unconstitutional.

It is my contention that the trivialization or corruption of the American civil religion has been an important factor in the explosion of cults in this society during the last fifteen years.

5 Consecutive years that Wisconsin - Madison has won the American Society of Civil Engineers» National Concrete Canoe Competition; the Badgers beat out 21 other schools in Seattle last Saturday.

Conservatism, after the halcyon days of Anglo - American Thatcher - Reagan 1980s, deemphasizes its closeness to markets and emphasises the need to protect civil society.

Senator Andrea Stewart - Cousins will hosted the rally in partnership with other elected officials and community groups throughout Westchester County including the Immigration Justice Clinic at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University, the Lower Hudson Valley Chapter of the New York Civil Liberties Union, Cabrini Immigrant Services, Community Voices Heard, the Yonkers Islamic Center, the Muslim American Society of Upper New York, St. Catherine AME Zion Church, Calvary Baptist Church, the Minister's Fellowship Council of White Plains and Vicinity, the Westchester Black Women's Political Caucus, and Temple Beth Shalom in Hastings - on - Hudson.

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.

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The American Society of Civil Engineers issued gave New York's infrastructure and gave an overall grade of C - on its 2015 report card.

«The American Society of Civil Engineers projects the United States will lose nearly four trillion dollars in economic growth by 2025, and 18 trillion dollars between 2016 and 2040, averaging over 700 billion dollars in losses for each year,» the congressman said.

He cited a «report card» from the American Society of Civil Engineers, which earlier this year gave the nation's infrastructure a D + grade, then declared that failing is no longer an option.

New York's highest grade was a B - for its parks which Beth Ann Smith of the New York State Council of American Society of Civil Engineers said is a success story.

Meanwhile, the transportation network in New York barely mustered a passing grade Tuesday from the American Society of Civil Engineers.

American Society of Civil Engineers, American Chemical Society, and AAAS, panelists, Council of Engineering and Science Society Executives session on Science and Human Rights, 2011

Thomas A. Lenox, senior managing director, American Society of Civil Engineers, former professor of engineering at the U.S. Military Academy.

The study, co-authored by Dichtel, Damian Helbling, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Cornell University, and members of their research groups at Northwestern and Cornell, recently was published by the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

The American Society for Civil Engineering gives U.S. bridges a C +, estimating that $ 123 billion is needed to clear the maintenance backlog.