Sentences with phrase «nations people requires»

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This is what apprenticeship is all about, and in modern Western nations schooling is the way by which young people are apprenticed in the skills of citizenship required of adults.

When Senators Leverett Saltonstall and Edward Kennedy, both from Massachusetts, presented a bill in the Senate to give public recognition to God through requiring the post office department to cancel all postage with the words «For God and Country,» Century editors replied: «If the nation really wants to give public recognition to God let it abandon its unjust crushing of the aspirations of little peoples in various parts of the world» (April 6, 1966).

The Caliph, in Islamic practice, is subject to control by the nation; he has no authority other than that given to him as a representative of the people and that which is required of him as the enforcer of supernatural laws.

The result is that America is a nation deeply divided between people who are concerned about real - life issues — war and peace, social justice, the health and welfare of people — on one hand, and other people who are concerned, instead, about «values,» by which they mean adherence to ancient taboos, dependence on a magical God, enforcing acceptance of ancient creeds, requiring everyone to believe as they do, and finding safety in raw (though often hidden) social and economic power.

For our ethical considerations on peace, peace - ministry, conflict resolution, Christians may profit from reading the Old Testament, our Holy Scripture, as a witness to the experience of a people in war and peace with other nations and as a reflection on what peace requires of the community.

The author was convinced that a nation requires some commonality among its people in order to fulfill its proper functions.

It can remind us that those who so cherished liberty for themselves were willing to enslave and exploit others; that a civil war and long years of struggle were required before the nation legally ended slavery, segregation and discrimination and attempted to redress the harm done to the conquered native people.

I want to suggest, however, that these horrors are a direct consequence of the idea that development requires poor nations to limit their populations — which also explains, I believe, the pronounced indifference in the West to practices that would provoke outrage were they applied to people in Scarsdale or San Francisco instead of Shanghai and Bombay.

At the same time, many Britons are troubled by reports that as a nation their fondness for sugar and disdain for exercise will eventually bankrupt the NHS; there is considerable support for the idea that very overweight people should be required to lose weight before being treated.

The fact that it is a very difficult process requiring 2 / 3rds of both Houses of Congress and 3 / 4ths of all States means that it actually has some legitimacy to the document that which remains is accepted as vital to the nation, and that which was changed was accepted as being rigorously vetted and accepted by the majority of the people via representation.

And starting on March 1, New York City will be the only city in the nation requiring all commissioners and people who report directly to the mayor to disclose every meeting they have with a lobbyist.

We live in a world where so many issues require cooperation across national boundaries, but where people's fundamental political identity remains the nation state.

«To own one's own house, or business, or the capital which produced one's retirement income extended freedom of choice, gave people a stake in the nation's wealth, and required less tax - payer's money to be spent on them.

528 Minimum amount of water, in gallons, required to produce a day's worth of food for one person, according to United Nations estimates.

Enter Secretary of State Thaddeus Ross (Hurt, Race), who pushes forward the Sokovia Accords, a law that requires United Nations approval and oversight when engaging in future world - saving battles that might jeopardize the lives of helpless people.

A settlement could also void so - called most - favored nation clauses in Apple's contracts that require book sellers to provide the maker of the iPad with the lowest prices they offer competitors, the people said.

That includes extending the time required for the people of developing nations to rise out of poverty, and the likely reduction of resources supplied from developed nations to help provide clean water and reduce disease.

Steve Reynolds wrote that mitigating anthropogenic global warming will lead to ``... extending the time required for the people of developing nations to rise out of poverty, and the likely reduction of resources supplied from developed nations to help provide clean water and reduce disease.»

So if you've ever wondered why foresighted all - nation all - age all - gender teams of scientists are publishing articles like Assessing Dangerous Climate Change: Required Reduction of Carbon Emissions to Protect Young People, Future Generations and Nature — especially now that «the Pause» is over — well now yah know!

This strong ethical and moral responsibility is derivable both from the universally accepted moral principles including the widely accepted golden rule which requires people to treat others as they wish to be treated, and international law including, but not limited to the «no harm» rule which is a widely recognized principle of customary international law whereby a State is duty - bound to prevent, reduce and control the risk of environmental harm to other states and a rule agreed to by all nations in the preamble to the UNFCCC, the «polluter - pays principle» agreed to by almost all nations in the 1992 Rio Declaration, human rights law which requires nations to assure that their citizens enjoy human rights, and many other legal theories including tort law.

Those nations who have consistently emitted ghgs above their fair share of safe global ghg emissions are responsible for the reasonable adaptation costs and damages of poor nations and people who have not caused climate change.These responsibilities are required both by basic ethics and justice and international law.

This is so because in addition to the theological reasons given by Pope Francis recently: (a) it is a problem mostly caused by some nations and people emitting high - levels of greenhouse gases (ghg) in one part of the world who are harming or threatening tens of millions of living people and countless numbers of future generations throughout the world who include some of the world's poorest people who have done little to cause the problem, (b) the harms to many of the world's most vulnerable victims of climate change are potentially catastrophic, (c) many people most at risk from climate change often can't protect themselves by petitioning their governments; their best hope is that those causing the problem will see that justice requires them to greatly lower their ghg emissions, (d) to protect the world's most vulnerable people nations must limit their ghg emissions to levels that constitute their fair share of safe global emissions, and, (e) climate change is preventing some people from enjoying the most basic human rights including rights to life and security among others.

In the absence of a court adjudicating what equity requires of nations in setting their national climate change commitments, a possibility but far from a guarantee under existing international and national law (for an explanation of some of the litigation issues, Buiti, 2011), the best hope for encouraging nations to improve the ambition of their national emissions reductions commitments on the basis of equity and justice is the creation of a mechanism under the UNFCCC that requires nations to explain their how they quantitatively took equity into account in establishing their INDCs and why their INDC is consistent with the nation's ethical obligations to people who are most vulnerable to climate change and the above principles of international law.

This is so because: (a) it is a problem mostly caused by some nations and people emitting high - levels of greenhouse gases (ghg) in one part of the world who are harming or threatening tens of millions of living people and countless numbers of future generations throughout the world who include some of the world's poorest people who have done little to cause the problem, (b) the harms to many of the world's most vulnerable victims of climate change are potentially catastrophic, (c) many people most at risk from climate change often can't protect themselves by petitioning their governments; their best hope is that those causing the problem will see that justice requires them to greatly lower their ghg emissions, (d) to protect the world's most vulnerable people nations must limit their ghg emissions to levels that constitute their fair share of safe global emissions, and, (e) climate change is preventing some people from enjoying the most basic human rights including rights to life and security among others.

These features include: (a) it is a problem caused by some nations and people emitting high - levels of ghgs in one part of the world who are harming or threatening tens of millions of living people and countless numbers of future generations throughout the world who include some of the world's poorest people and who have done little to cause the problem, (b) the harms to many of the world's most vulnerable victims of climate change are potentially catastrophic, (c) many people most at risk from climate change often can't protect themselves by petitioning their governments; their best hope is that those causing the problem will see that justice requires them to greatly lower their ghg emissions, and, (d) to protect the world's most vulnerable people, nations must act quickly to limit their ghg emissions to levels that constitute their fair share of safe global emissions.

This strong ethical and moral responsibility is derivable both from the universally accepted moral principles including the widely accepted golden rule which requires people to treat others as they wish to be treated, and international law including, but not limited to: (a) the «no harm» rule which is a widely recognized principle of customary international law whereby a State is duty - bound to prevent, reduce and control the risk of environmental harm to other states, and a rule agreed to by all nations in the preamble to the UNFCCC, (b) the «polluter - pays principle» agreed to by almost all nations in the 1992 Rio Declaration, (c) human rights law which requires nations to assure that their citizens enjoy human rights, and (d) many other legal theories including tort law.

It would appear that these people believe that if nations can not agree on what equity requires it is unproductive to discuss equity in climate negotiations.

Each nation should be required to identify what policy steps it is taking to provide, protect, and fulfill the human rights that may be adversely affected by climate change to both people in their own country and vulnerable people around the world.

The water footprint of a person, family, community, nation is the total volume of fresh water used to produce the goods (including food) and services consumed, in other words, the water footprint is the volume of water required to sustain a personal or family lifestyle or indeed a global population;

Robin also noted that there is little evidence in contraction of consumption in the developed world (or globally) and that «contraction and convergence» (ie less overall consumption and emissions matched with greater equality between nations across the world) will require lower numbers of people across the board.

As the torrential rains of Typhoon Hagupit flood thePhilippines, driving millions of people from their homes, the Philippine government arrived at a United Nationsclimate change summit meeting on Monday to push hard for a new international deal requiring all nations, including developing countries, to cut their use of fossil fuels.

The international document, although not legally binding, could provide moral leverage for First Nations, says Metallic, who notes it contains a provision requiring governments to consult with indigenous peoples on matters of public policy that could have a detrimental effect.

The second and, for now, my last example of a misplaced burden of proof is the one that requires First Nations people to demonstrate that a practice extends back to a time before British declarations of sovereignty.

This field is currently in critical demand and the numbers are expected to continue to increase exponentially over the course of the next decade as the nation ages and more people require care.

This will require the full participation and engagement of Indigenous peoples in decision - making at all levels, from the local level to providing ministerial advice, and it will require governments to change their attitudes towards Indigenous peoples as stakeholders in the nation.

To address this global public health issue requires full collaboration with First Nations people.

As ILUAs require agreement between the parties, not simply consultation, they are also consistent with Australia's international human rights obligations, in particular the rights affirmed by the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples).

For the Government and their institutions to work effectively with Aboriginal people, a form of governance is required that involves positive relationship building between communities and government institutions and how they operate within the laws of the nation, rather than just how the Commonwealth Constitution implements a formal framework to implement their own laws (Reilly 2006; Sullivan 2007; Hunt & Smith 2007).

The agreement sets out an Aboriginal heritage protection protocol that requires developers to notify the Narungga Nations Aboriginal Corporation of when and where they plan to develop infrastructure so that the Narungga people can take steps to protect their cultural heritage sites.

The United Nations Guidelines on engaging the marginalised which requires participation of Indigenous peoples based on the principle of free, prior and informed consent.

And it definitely will require government officials to change their attitudes towards indigenous peoples as stakeholders in the nation.

This requires the nation, to come to terms with a history of exclusion and the violations of the rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Despite the growing guidance through the United Nations mechanisms on effective engagement with Indigenous peoples, a consultation and negotiation framework that clearly outlines the steps necessary, meets international standards, and ensures effective participation in decision making, is required.

He contributes to reports that Australia is required to submit to United Nations» committees on human rights issues affecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, as well as making independent submissions to these committees.