Sentences with phrase «modern governments place»

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«While there is no modern precedent for an adult child of the president [in the West Wing], I will voluntarily follow all of the ethics rules placed on government employees,» she said.

There's Arkansas, bounty hunters, snakes real, human, and symbolic, being rescued from a snake pit by a very errant knight, a display of the gratuitous slaughter that comes when you take the law in your own hands, a deep commentary on place, displacement, the state of nature, and the techno - forces of the modern world and modern government, solidly American thoughts on law, property, justice, and keeping your word, and so forth and so on.

They are finding great value in Burke's understanding of tradition, ordered liberty, natural law, and the place of religion in a modern constitutional government.

May 2015 — Following the general election, the new Conservative Government keeps the cap in place, stating that it «helps tackle segregation and ensures young people will experience the diversity of beliefs that make up modern Britain.»

In a 2014 op - ed in the New York Times, Terry Golway, author of «Machine Made: Tammany Hall and the Creation of Modern Politics» argued that although Tammany «has a well - deserved place in the annals of urban misgovernment in the United States» because it stole elections, intimidated political antagonists, and shook down contractors and vendors, it also delivered social services at a time when New York City government and Albany did not.

Given the central place of oil - based energy in the modern world, it is critically important that governments should base their policies on realistic depletion profiles, despite ambiguous definitions and lax reporting practices.

A guerrilla war took place through the 1980s and 1990s in which much of the countryside was evacuated, thousands of Kurdish - populated villages were destroyed by the government, and numerous summary executions were carried out by both sides.However they were later driven out of Hazza by pagans, and settled in Tamanon, which according to Abdisho was in the land of the Kurds.Tamanon lies just north of the modern Iraq - Turkey border, while Hazza is 12 km southwest of modern Erbil.One of the earliest records of the phrase land of the Kurds is found in an Assyrian Christian document of late antiquity, describing the stories of Assyrian saints of the Middle East, such as Abdisho.When the Sasanian Marzban asked Mar Abdisho about his place of origin, he replied that according to his parents, they were originally from Hazza, a village in Assyria.The region came under Persian rule during the reign of Cyrus the Great and Darius I.

I think one of the conceits of the modern era is the degree of trust we place in governments.

«The establishment of the rule of law is most obvious in underpinning individual liberty and democratic government, but the development of successful modern economies can not take place without it,» says Lord Justice John Thomas.

Boston government investigations and white collar defense counsel Robert Fisher is quoted in this article discussing how modern - day forensic analysis could be the key in solving the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum art theft that took place 27 years ago.