Sentences with phrase «many of the third world nations»

Balasuriya argues that the underdevelopment of the third world nations was a European creation.

In reality, advanced information technology is not the real solution to the current social problems of the Third World nations.

Think of the numerous forms of captivity entrapping a poor inhabitant of a Third World nation — economic, social, environmental, spiritual and appreciate the promise of liberation and loosing presented in Jesus» inaugural sermon in the Nazareth synagogue.

Consider this myth in terms of the demands of Third World nations to be forgiven part of their crushing debts to First World banks.

«[I] f the dictator of a third world nation threw open its prison doors and granted voting rights to the criminals right before a re-election, we all would be appalled,» he said in a statement.

«If the dictator of a third world nation threw open its prison doors and granted voting rights to the criminals right before a reelection, we all would be appalled,» Molinaro wrote on Twitter.

«But if the dictator of a third world nation threw open it's prison doors and granted voting rights to the criminals right before a reelection, we all would be appalled.»

It also ends up destroying the local fishing economies of third world nations that do not pay such subsidies.

Not exact matches

But the world has changed a great deal since the height of OPEC's power in 1979, when member nations accounted for 50 % of global oil production, compared with less than one - third today.

Mindful of the growth in Latin American disposable income and a proliferation of bilateral trade agreements in the mid-1990s, Walker used his experience in the Mexican market to expand into brokering agricultural trade to Third World nations that were newly industrializing.

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) suggests, «Roughly one - third of the food produced in the world for human consumption every year — approximately 1.3 billion tonnes — gets lost or wasted.»

The Port of Chicago is one of the nation's largest inland cargo ports, and the city is the world's third - largest handler of shipping containers (after Singapore and Hong Kong).

Alexis Tsipras was on course on Monday night to sway radical - leftist Syriza MPs to accept the most draconian rescue of a sovereign nation since the second world war, after the Greek prime minister accepted a third bailout programme that one analyst said came after a weekend of «gunboat diplomacy».

The United Nations Environment Programme reports that roughly one third of the food produced in the world for human consumption every year — approximately 1.3 billion tons — gets lost or wasted.

This compares with China's current rank as the third largest trading nation in the world, accounting for around 6 per cent of world merchandise trade.

The nation already is being reduced to Third World status, dependent on America and Europe for its food and even its means of payment.

The nation is not only the third largest by race in the world, but because of the miss of unchanging and tangible sovereign regulations, states are generally giveaway to take their possess position on the matter.

Since leaving office, Mr. Martin and the former President of Mozambique, Joaquim Chissano, co-chaired a high level panel responsible for submitting a report on a new strategic vision for the African Development Bank, following upon an earlier United Nations panel report on private sector investment in the Third World of which he co-chaired with former Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo.

Wow.Mr.Limbaugh's belated «apology «aside, I find myself stunned at the level of vitriol, rudeness, and sheer hatred we seem determined to spew at each across the web nowadays; its advent has obviously unleashed some deeply - buried, long - simmering resevoirs of hate, scorn, and opprobium that has finally boiled over among many of us.If we spent even a third of that energy seeking solutions to righting the badly - listing ship - of - state called America... Well.The politicians aren't going to do it, fellow citizens.As clever as we think we are venting over folly and nonsense on these websites, we had better get busy getting our nation's affairs in order, or we'll become the laughingstock of the world, with tiny,no - name third world countries thumbing their noses at us and telling us to «Get lost, America, you silly, Hollywood has - been.

Today we can see the same action of pride destroying nations and bringing others to the brink of a Third World War

The Global Restrictions On Religion report finds that only about one - third of the world's countries impose high restrictions on religion, but these 64 nations contain 70 percent of the world's 6.8 billion people (thanks to India and China).

As it became clear that the ideas of development advocated by Third World nations in the UN General Assembly involved some shift of power from the industrial nations to developing ones, the United States moved the power to act in this field away from the United Nations to the IMF and the Worlnations in the UN General Assembly involved some shift of power from the industrial nations to developing ones, the United States moved the power to act in this field away from the United Nations to the IMF and the Worlnations to developing ones, the United States moved the power to act in this field away from the United Nations to the IMF and the WorlNations to the IMF and the World Bank.

Also, in a recent missions newsletter that I read, the writer made this statement, «Of the hundreds of thousands who make decisions for Christ in the evangelistic crusades in the third world nations (like Africa), only a tiny fraction end up regularly attending any church.&raquOf the hundreds of thousands who make decisions for Christ in the evangelistic crusades in the third world nations (like Africa), only a tiny fraction end up regularly attending any church.&raquof thousands who make decisions for Christ in the evangelistic crusades in the third world nations (like Africa), only a tiny fraction end up regularly attending any church.»

Another issue is «Third World debt», and many Christians with others are campaigning through the Jubilee 2000 Coalition for the cancellation of unpayable debts by the poorest nations.

But we are exposed to a torrent of monstrous statements about Israel from Libyans, Syrians, the PLO, and communist and Third World nations.

That theme is a hidden, burning fuse in all the rhetoric pumped out of Arab countries (even Egypt), and in much of the propaganda of communist and Third World nations.

Third, the context has shifted: in contrast to the traditional Catholic conception of the political community, and politics within such communities, as the means of achieving real if limited justice for human life in the world, and a corresponding theory of international relations, recent Catholic thought on war often treats the state as a locus of injustice and the goals of particular states as inherently at odds with the achievement of common human goals, while an internationalism defined in terms of the United Nations system is proposed as the best means to those common goals.

Large capital investments in the Third World on the part of multinational business will increasingly require political commitments from the host nation — and such commitments are most easily secured in such rightist dictatorships as Brazil and Chile.

This moral superiority of the liberalized Western nation over «third - world» nations and their ability to self - govern was seen this weekend when President Obama lectured the president of Kenya on gay rights.

We have used the Bretton Woods Institutions and trade agreements to force third world nations to give up subsidies of their products and to open their markets to our highly subsidized ones.

Eyeing but one party and leaving alone all those rich elders and their sons of high society going to third world nations / countries seeking acts of sensualistic desires with enslaved «children» seems to have slipped thru your reason abilities...

This passage will have a different impact and significance for persecuted Christians behind the Iron Curtain and in the impoverished nations of the Third World than it has for affluent Christians in the West.

When we read this passage in the light of the situation today, our eyes are opened to the amazing inroads of the church of Christ in the Third World nations, which may indicate a new Pentecost, a sign of the last times.

At the end of the United Nations Development Decade, almost all of the Third World countries had met their growth targets in terms of increased Gross National Product, but despite more than 35 years of «development,» absolute poverty was on the increase.

The gross domestic output of Turkey, a nation of sixty - four million people, is ranked twenty - third in the world, the highest of any Muslim country.

Thus the Second World support for «balance» is little more of a political ploy to appear to be aligned with the Third World nations than it is genuine support for the concept of open communication.

A second issue has to do with justice — in this case, justice for the emerging new nations of the Third World.

Third World nations should be allowed to develop their own self - reliance in news, information, and entertainment, progressing at a rate and in a manner appropriate to their needs rather than in conformity to the marketplace needs of the industrialized nations.

But the computers, data banks, terminals, programs, and software of multinationals provide them with the power to move money, labor, parts, and natural resources in ways to emphasize profits without consideration of the welfare of any nation, especially the new Third World nations and their peoples.

We ought consciously to reject the temptation to take communication models of the developed nations and try to make them «fit» the Third World.

Three guiding ethical principals are suggested, including allowing Third World nations to develop their own self - reliance in news, information, and entertainment, progressing at a rate and in a manner appropriate to their needs rather than in conformity to the marketplace needs of the industrialized nations.

The second view, supported primarily by the new Third World nations, questions this de facto dominance of communication by the West, and calls for a «balanced flow,» which means that laws would establish a greater balance between the interests of the First World and Third World.

People who want to travel to third - world nations such as Mexico, the Philippines, the countries in Central America and the Mideast with the specific purpose of exploring the causes of poverty and the impact of U.S. policies can contact the Center for Global Education, Augsburg College, 731 - 21st Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55454.

Third, U.S. advertising invaded virtually every nation of the world, bringing with it values and images of indulgence and selfcenteredness.

The third - world nations, recognizing that continuation of media domination made economic domination all the more inevitable, sought to buttress the UNESCO New Economic Order statement with a New International Information Order statement.

The author analyzes the ethics of international trade and concludes that we should withdraw support from the move toward transnational trade and seek to strengthen the ability of nations, especially in the Third World, to control their own affairs.

Mikhail Gorbachev warned his own people that by the beginning of the twenty - first century the Soviet Union was at risk of becoming a third world nation (at about the level of India).

But note that this greater evil is variously identified — by some, as the spread of communism; by others, as the exploitation of the Third World by the capitalist nations.

The United Nations Environmental Program warns that one - third of the entire land surface of the world is now in danger.

One hopes that they will serve as well to make us — religious and nonreligious people alike — increasingly aware of the inequities and oppression created and perpetuated for nations of the «underdeveloped» Third World by the «overdeveloped» nations East and West.