Sentences with phrase «of national characters»

«Donald Trump's demagoguery has undermined the fabric of our national character.»

This archetype is part and parcel of our national character and it is important to hold fast to this mythology to inspire our next generation of Coopers as we confront the new frontier of space.

Conservative HP boss Meg Whitman defied her political party to call Trump a demagogue that «undermined the fabric of our national character.»

Regardless of whether it is framed in its religious or its secular context, regardless of whether the object of one's energy is external or internal, America's understanding of her national character continues to place work at the forefront.

In a piece entitled «The happiness of pursuit», in Time magazine July 2013, we read: «All human beings may come equipped with the pursuit - of - happiness impulse — the urge to find lusher land just over the hill, fatter buffalo in the next valley — but it's Americans who have codified the idea, written it into the Declaration of Independence and made it a central mandate of the national character.»

It can set the tone and become the embodiment of the nation, of national character.

He argued that a Britain that was Catholic again would be able to offer the «genius» of our national character to the wider Church, thereby «enriching» it.

Indeed, with the capacity to keep milk fresh for days rather than hours, America plunged into a near - obsession with milk - drinking that came to be part of the national character: Three glasses of milk a day turned into a staple of the diet for city dwellers along with farm families already close to the source; kids with red - and - white milk cartons became as common in school cafeterias as mystery meat.

«For the first time in a poll on voting intentions in an election of a national character, the NF is clearly ahead,» an Ifop spokesperson said.

Plaintiff avers that as a duly registered political party in the Republic, she is entitled to participate in shaping the political will of the people, to disseminate information on political ideas, social and economic programmes of a national character, and sponsor candidates for election to any public office subject to the Constitution and other laws consistent with the Constitution of Ghana.

Subject to the provisions of this article, a political party is free to participate in shaping the political will of the people, to disseminate information on political ideas, social and economic programmes of a national character, and sponsor candidates for elections to any public office other than to District Assemblies or lower local government units.

A respect for evidence is not just a part of the national character.

Through the central image of the frontier, the meeting point of wilderness and civilization, Ford explores the divisions of our national character, with its search for order and its need for violence, its spirit of community and its quest for independence

In this connection, it has been noted above that group care challenges some typical American ideological notions, but success is also an American value; to the extent that we can demonstrate effective work, the pragmatism that seems to be part of our national character can prevail to rekindle public interest and support.

We know from several studies of national character strengths that hope and optimism fall quite a long way down the list.

Not exact matches

HARWOOD: But there are ideological principles, there are principles of character, there are principles of national security.

There has to be way more tank - filling than tank - draining,» says Ruben Nieves, former Stanford University men's volleyball coach and current national director of training for the Positive Coaching Alliance, a nonprofit organization based in Mountain View, Calif., that focuses on teaching and encouraging positive character - building in youth and high school sports.

As the National Post's Andrew Coyne recently put it, Ford is a man of «limitless ego and unformed character.»

«You look at what Trump says about America First, and most of it is very international in character and has a great deal of continuity with, say, US national security policy under Clinton, Bush, and in many ways even under Obama,» he says.

For Dish, today's comments reveal merely a change in executive linguistics; the company, in its advertising, has been directly targeting traditional cable for some time, evidenced by its national campaign of TV ads starring tough - guy character actor Danny Trejo.

They thus are more in the character of medieval debts to Europe's kings and princes than national debts to which the people are committed to repay under the rules of parliamentary democracy.

In A Higher Loyalty, fired FBI Director James Comey brings to front - and - center of our national discourse the idea of President Trump as a kind of organized crime boss speaking to both his character and his Administration.

Putting this in the most politic light possible, the National Liberal League resolved that «the Christian or anti-Christian character of this movement is solely a question of private interpretation.»

He was speaking not of the price of constructing the rapidly developing housing units and actual cities on the West Bank, but of the cost to the national character.

And while most of the population is made up of nonobservant Jews, even these people are willing to take note of the writings of Deuteronomy and the Talmud in reaching judgments about the national character.

David Potter has perhaps most forcefully argued that the competitive spirit has been the major determinant of America's national character.

While not denying the impetus that abundance gives to the spirit of competition, I think it is more enlightening in this context to stress the similarity of focus in both the religious and the secular versions of America's national character.

It is, I think, necessary to question what it takes for one to stand truly equal among one's fellows; to explore the limits of a rights - oriented approach to the problem of inequality between racially distinct populations in our contemporary national life; to deal with issues of dignity, shame, personal responsibility, character and values, deservingness.

The Council fathers knew, of course, that there would always be differences of social status, talent and national character, but in their view great genuine culture does not presuppose the existence of a large number of men who are poor, socially weak and exploited.

If there is such a thing as a national character, and we think there is, the character of America is now being tested as perhaps it has not been since 1941, and an awful lot has happened to us as a people over those sixty years.

She is delicate (like a barracuda) in her maneuvers around the third main character in Leaf's drama, a graduate student who is writing her dissertation about the moment in 1973 when Margolies lost an election for the presidency of a national feminist association to a rival supported by Feinberg.

Does the change in me represent anything more than this: that the practical relevance, the struggle and the confessional character of my theological teaching have become visible to many, and now for the first time to most, against the background of a time which has taken shape at the hands of National Socialism?.

And having done so without the necessity of altering to any degree their social economic patterns, they saw no reason for changing their traditional notions of the federal character of the national government, the benefits of Negro slavery, or the superiority of a rural - agricultural way of life.

By the same token, conflict between rival groups within a society may be intensified by differences in their net reproduction rates; such differences may have implications for the tenor of civil life or the composition and character of the national directorate, factors that may play a decisive role in determining the climate for development.

Every national character, as Erik Erikson has pointed out, is constructed out of polarities.1 In America the polarities have been so extreme that they have often seemed impossible to reconcile in a single picture.

«Nationalism shows its character as a faith whenever national welfare or survival is regarded as the supreme end of life; whenever right and wrong are made dependent on the sovereign will of the nation, however determined; whenever religion and science, education and art, are valued by the measure of their contribution to national existence.»

The opening chapter on Emerson, whose thought created «most of the context of these five books,» criticizes him for extolling the virtues of unrestrained individualism to the point of romanticizing a national character prone to hubris.

But they risk everything — their national character and their capacity to succor the downtrodden — by permitting uncontrolled mass migration of peoples who know nothing of their culture, in such huge numbers and at such speed that they can not possibly be assimilated and integrated into this or any future generation.

Hence the development of these qualities in the American national character.

In the study of theology proper the whole - church orientation of the schools may be less evident, yet differences are less of a denominational or national than of a party character.

This is due in part to the fact that the character of our national culture and the traditions of American Protestantism have made them both peculiarly susceptible to fusion.

At least some of our citizens have come to see that the present organization of our economic life, including the corporation, threatens not only our democratic government, because of its inordinate political influence, but also our national character and form of life, because of its propagation of the idea of wealth as merely the accumulation of consumer goods.

In an interview recently published in the National Review, Robert P. George remarked that, as a Catholic, Richard retained something of the character of the Lutheran pastor he once had been, but I do not think that that was so.

Ancient churches, through centuries of intimate relations with the cultures and aspirations of their people, have proved the powerful witnessing character of this rooting of the churches in the national soil.

It is increasingly clear that Deuteronomy and the Priestly writings contain at least some material much older than is indicated by the usual dating of the documents.9 Increasingly, too, it would appear that scholars are disposed to accept the substantial reliability of the persistent tradition which sees Moses as a lawgiver.10 That law was an early and significant aspect of Israelite culture is further attested not only by ancient Near Eastern parallels but even more strikingly in the life, the work and the character of the first three great names in Israel's national history: Moses, Samuel and Elijah.

The suffering of Belgium, as a whole, may plausibly be interpreted as punishment for national sin, but when individual personality is singled out and the character and fortunes of Cardinal Mercier, let us say, are clearly visualized and deeply cared about, then the formula, «all suffering is deserved punishment,» becomes precarious if not incredible.

The metaphysical character of today's populist revolt is clearest in calls for renewed national identity in the face of perceived threats.

They are: rationalization, which tends toward sterile intellectualization and robs life of its character and vitality; estheticism, which cuts off true communication by maintaining an esthetic distance in order to dominate, rather than to support, others; capitalism, which tends to deper - sonalize people by providing for their hedonistic needs in order to support production and consumption regardless of its human utility; and nationalism, which tends to make national things sacred and in doing so to create idols out of them.31.

During the scandals of the Clinton administration, Richard John Neuhaus warned us about the consequences of a national acceptance of a public loss of character.

Regional integration and the construction of the African Union (which imply the deconstruction of the modern paradigm of national sovereignty): they appeal to Africans who have suffered from the colonisers» imposition of borders they often consider artificial and they seem to respond to their desire to recover their African character and unity.