Sentences with phrase «americans at every point in our history»

But there have been Americans at every point in our history who have tried to pick up the broken pieces, tried to start again, tried once more to build an ethical society in the light of a transcendent ethical vision.

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We are at a point in American history where most people understand this enforcement of marijuana laws has violated our principles and our ideals.»

You might be surprised to know that the business world was strongly in favor of profit sharing at many points in American history, typically when the concentration of wealth was a major public worry or the country was trying to come together after a crisis.

The study drew on data from nearly 6,000 millennial renters (age 18 to 34) at a time when homeownership for Americans under 35 years old is at its lowest point in the history of Census recorded data dating back to 1984.

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross plans to ask Congress for a major increase in funding Thursday to salvage the 2020 Census, a program beset by cost overruns, poor preparation and a population of Americans who are less likely than at any point in recent history to self - report their existence to the...

The average modern American has far more biblical knowledge than they would have at any point in history.

At certain points in Latin American history, these prophets have been catalytic agents in mobilizing those who have accomplished intermediate goals in building that new society.

(At this point, the Democrats» keeping the House would end up as one of the greatest upsets in American poliitcal history.)

I mean, at the end of the day, could you ever imagine that the non-functionality of a website for a few weeks could ever approach having the status of an inflexion point in American history.

A church that is the largest voluntary association in the country; a church whose universal pastor has, over the past decade, definitively answered Stalin's cynical query about the pope's divisions; a church that is, demographically, at its strongest historical point of leverage in American society — this is a church that would seem well positioned to seize what Richard John Neuhaus and others have seen as a possible «Catholic moment» in American history, pro Deo et patria.

The Congregational Church was the largest and most influential Church at this point in American history.

The sometimes ugly anti-Catholicism that helped prompt JFK's 1960 speech is noted by several writers and echoed at many points in American history.

(left to right, Tom Casey, secretary of the East Bronx History Forum, Philip Panaritis, Project Director of Teaching American History and Justin Czarka, teacher at the Joseph Rodman Drake School in Hunts Point) Three years ago, when I first -LSB-...]

«We're at a point where we need to restore democracy,» said the soft - spoken yet determined Reform Party candidate who, unlike most of this year's third - party aspirants, is looking neither left or right, but forward in the tradition of John F. Kennedy's presidency — one of the most prosperous periods in American history.

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.

The research team, led by Sabrina Sholts, a curator in the Department of Anthropology at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, and Sebastian Wärmländer at Stockholm University, used digital 3 - D models to scrutinize the angles and contours on the surfaces of North American projectile points.

This election season, pundits have been fond of pointing out the near - 50 / 50 split of the electorate and talking about how the American people are as deeply divided as at any other time in our history.

In fact, more than at any point in American history, economic and social mobility depends upon having higher - order skillIn fact, more than at any point in American history, economic and social mobility depends upon having higher - order skillin American history, economic and social mobility depends upon having higher - order skills.

«A Point of View: Selected Gifts from the Laurence A. Rickels Collection,» Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, February 13 — March 11 2012 «Blues for Smoke,» Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, October 21 — January 7, 2013; traveled to the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, February 7 — April 28, 2013, and Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH, September 21 — January 5, 2014 «Group Face,» Paradise Garage, Venice, CA, September 22 — October 24, 2012 «DECADE: Contemporary Collecting 2002 - 2012,» Albright - Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, August 21, 2012 - January 3, 2013 «Prima Materia,» Gladstone Gallery, Brussels, Belgium, March 30 — April 28, 2012 «Intimate Immensity: The Susan and Larry Marx Collection,» Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, February 14 — May 6, 2012 2011»... there is a crack in everything,» Michael Janssen, Berlin, Germany, November 12 - December 20, 2011 «Under Destruction,» Swiss Institute, New York, NY, March 15 — May 28, 2011 «Paul Clay,» Studio 94 Bowery, New York, NY, June 23 — July 30, 2011 «De-Building,» Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna O Waiwhetu, Christchurch, New Zealand, February 5 - 22 2010 «The Artist's Museum,» Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, October 31, 2010 - January 31, 2011 «Under Destruction,» Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland, October 15, 2010 — January 23, 2011; traveled to the Swiss Institute, New York, NY, April 6 — May 8, 2011 «The Jewel Thief,» Tang Museum at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, October 9, 2010 — February 27, 2011; catalogue «Immaterial,» Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX, October 1 — February 20, 2011 «The Artist's Museum,» Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, September 19 — January 31, 2011 «Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection,» Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, July 3 - January 30, 2011 «Collecting Biennials,» Whitney Museum, New York, January 16 - November 28, 2010 2009 «Collection: MOCA's First Thirty Years,» Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, November 15, 2009 - July 12, 2010 «Collecting History, Highlighting Recent Acquisitions,» Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, July 12 — October 19, 2009 «Abstractionists Unite!»

By reinterpreting American abstraction through the prism of their own varied cultural backgrounds and artistic heritage, the artists urgently reaffirm the diversity and openness in American culture, at a pivotal point in the nation's history.

In a new «Off the Wall» feature, Katie Pfohl, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the New Orleans Museum of Art, discovers a painting by Colombia - born artist Fanny Sanín that points to the museum's history of collecting Latin American art.

He has exhibited in numerous exhibitions in the UK and internationally, including the landmark exhibition «Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power» at Tate Modern in 2017 that traces the contribution of Black artists at a major turning point in American Art and history.

At the California African American Museum in Exposition Park, a more pointed history takes center stage.

Early in the country's history, Americans bought much of the food they didn't grow themselves from local farmers at public markets that were a focal point of their communities.