Sentences with phrase «state and nation such»

LHG: Would you favor BDCC taking positions on issues confronting our City and State and nation such as affordable housing, immigration, police accountability.

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Fossil fuel prices are squeezing budgets in several states that rely heavily on severance taxes, such as Alaska, North Dakota, Wyoming and Oklahoma — even as OPEC nations consider cutting production to boost prices.

This capture of international sales is due to Beijing's geopolitical ambitions, along with a willingness to sell arms to nations that other countries may not feel comfortable dealing with — sanctioned states and human rights abusers such as Iran, Angola, and Sudan.

For now, the best response is that a program such as the above — applied when necessary beyond Iraq, Syria, and ISIS to other challenges against the international order — would buy the Middle East time for the modernization and internal transformation needed to anchor the nation - state principle and provide homegrown disincentives to violence and upheaval.

The top U.S. diplomat said Washington would carry out «stabilization initiatives» such as clearing landmines and restoring basic utilities in areas no longer under Islamic State control, while making clear that» «stabilization» is not a synonym for open - ended nation - building or a synonym for reconstruction.

In his recent post, he cited data which show that the average amount of hours worked annually has declined in developed nations such as the United States, France, Germany and Singapore.

However, in competitor nations such as the United States and Britain, Angel investors or investor networks are more widespread and more experienced than in Canada.

Mr. Page, a former Merrill Lynch banker who founded an investment company in New York, Global Energy Capital, drew attention during the summer for a speech in which he criticized the United States and other Western nations for a «hypocritical focus on ideas such as democratization, inequality, corruption and regime change» in Russia and other parts of the former Soviet Union.

Caracas says it hopes to draw investment from oil - rich Middle Eastern countries, Turkey and Western nations, such as the United States.

Some of the nation's biggest investment firms such as BlackRock and State Street Global Advisors are lobbying for more women board members.

Important factors that may affect the Company's business and operations and that may cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward - looking statements include, but are not limited to, operating in a highly competitive industry; changes in the retail landscape or the loss of key retail customers; the Company's ability to maintain, extend and expand its reputation and brand image; the impacts of the Company's international operations; the Company's ability to leverage its brand value; the Company's ability to predict, identify and interpret changes in consumer preferences and demand; the Company's ability to drive revenue growth in its key product categories, increase its market share, or add products; an impairment of the carrying value of goodwill or other indefinite - lived intangible assets; volatility in commodity, energy and other input costs; changes in the Company's management team or other key personnel; the Company's ability to realize the anticipated benefits from its cost savings initiatives; changes in relationships with significant customers and suppliers; the execution of the Company's international expansion strategy; tax law changes or interpretations; legal claims or other regulatory enforcement actions; product recalls or product liability claims; unanticipated business disruptions; the Company's ability to complete or realize the benefits from potential and completed acquisitions, alliances, divestitures or joint ventures; economic and political conditions in the United States and in various other nations in which we operate; the volatility of capital markets; increased pension, labor and people - related expenses; volatility in the market value of all or a portion of the derivatives we use; exchange rate fluctuations; risks associated with information technology and systems, including service interruptions, misappropriation of data or breaches of security; the Company's ability to protect intellectual property rights; impacts of natural events in the locations in which we or the Company's customers, suppliers or regulators operate; the Company's indebtedness and ability to pay such indebtedness; the Company's ownership structure; the impact of future sales of its common stock in the public markets; the Company's ability to continue to pay a regular dividend; changes in laws and regulations; restatements of the Company's consolidated financial statements; and other factors.

Investors holding this debt include US citizens, state and local governments, the Federal Reserve, domestic private investors such as banks, and international investors such as foreign nations.

The first digital weapon discovered in the wild, Stuxnet shone a light on the potential for such attacks in the U.S., and what could happen if nation - state adversaries, terrorists or anonymous hacktivists were to launch destructive digital attacks against U.S. critical infrastructure.

Starting in the 18th century, nation - states increasingly used precious metals such as gold and silver to back their paper money, creating a monetary system called the gold standard.

As well as creating a full - blown cryptocurrency economy inside the app, it would also insulate it against the attacks and accusations of nation - states such as Iran, where it now accounts for 40 % of Iran's internet traffic but was temporarily blocked amongst nationwide protests against the government.

And can you please explain to me why when they specifically stated, such as the Treaty of Trippoli, that the US is not, in any way, a Christian nation..

«That this House expresses profound concern that, despite voting 279 in favour and none against the motion calling on the Government to refer genocidal atrocities of Daesh to the United Nations Security Council on 14 April 2016, still, no such referral has been made; recalls the words of the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs in an article in the Telegraph on 27 March 2016, Daesh are engaged in what can only be called genocide of the poor Yazidis, though for some baffling reason the Foreign Office still hesitates to use the term genocide; and calls on the Government to ensure that the unanimous will of Parliament is implemented with urgency.»

In fact, the Blaine Amendments are among the clearest examples in the nation's history of a state establishment of religion — and the only reason they have not been recognized as such is that they establish a theologically liberal vision of religion.

When, in the great movement of modern liberalism, we demythologized the state and rejected most of the metaphysical foundations of politics, we gained much» but we also lost something, and one of the things we lost is any coherent theory about the nation's continuing authority to enact such metaphysically fitting punishments as the death penalty.

Kimelman, a professor at Brandeis University, concludes in his analysis of the commission's report that «It remains to be seen whether a modern nation state, beseiged on so many fronts, can maintain such a demanding moral standard... If the Israeli effort to admit and rectify errors bears fruit, the lyricism «a light to the nations» may yet become reality.»

Gradually the nation state took over such services as education and care for the sick and indigent that had previously been the responsibility of the church.

A state responsible for maintaining order and defending the nation can not accede to such a request.

At the same time, nation states are slowly recognizing their interdependence and that great issues, such as global warming, poverty, drug abuse and international terrorism can not be dealt with by one country on its own.

If democracy is to have any relevance and influence in such a time, the people of the United States and other democratic nations must demonstrate their understanding and practice of democratic ideals in the field of race relations.

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.

After 80 %, expect daily intimidation and violent jihad, some State - run ethnic cleansing, beheadings, stoning, and even some genocide, as these nations drive out the infidels, and move toward 100 % Muslim, such as has been experienced and in some ways is on - going in:

The doctrine of sovereignty though, shows that the Church is accepted as an autonomous person / state among nations and is not subject to levies by other such persons / states.

Certainly, such a bankruptcy would mean a drastic lowering of our standard of living, a further loss of control over international affairs, a sudden need to adjust to the rise of other powers, including China and India, and a further discrediting of the notion that the United States is somehow exceptional compared to other nations.

That choice is to recognize what the Bible and such exemplars of the Christian tradition as Augustine have taught us: to see and trust that the church and not any nation - state is preeminently the social agent through which God works God's will in history.

The platform planks for «32 embodied a number of Century concerns: U.S. adherence to the World Court protocol; U.S. entry into the League of Nations, provided that its covenant be amended to eliminate military sanctions; U.S. recognition of the Soviet Union (which was granted a year later); the safeguarding of the rights of conscientious objectors (including those denied citizenship, such as Canadian - born theologian D. C. Macintosh of Yale Divinity School); the abolition of compulsory military training in state - supported educational institutions other than military and naval academies; emergency measures for relief and public - works employment; the securing of constitutional rights for minorities; the reduction of gross inequality of income by steeply progressive rates of taxation on large incomes; «progressive socialization of the ownership and control of natural resources, public utilities and basic industries»; «the nationalization of our entire banking system»; and so on (June 8, 1932).

But romanticism eventually recoiled from this self - glorification (all but Nietzsche) and replaced the individual with a collective individual such as the state or nation.

In any case, ease, luxury, and wealth that in Solomon's days attained a relatively fabulous level, public respect that became adulation, full opportunity to indulge his whims such as easily descends into self - indulgence, and not least the position of king per se all combined to set the king apart from the simple state of the nation's leaders of only a little before.

Such a logic elevates as supreme the abstract notion of the perpetually abiding nation - state, outlasting its citizens and being more valued than the lives of individual humans.

Organizations such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank have been formed by the powerful nation states to foster globalization.

The United States and other Western nations already allow terminating such individuals by withholding tube - supplied sustenance — as vividly exposed in the legal and cultural conflagration over the court - ordered dehydration death of Terri Schiavo.

But theology also involves reflection on the productive task of mission activity that locates and circulates religio - cultural resources of such minorities for developing more pluralistic frames of collective living in the nation - state.

In the resolutions adopted by the Evanston Assembly there is stated as one of the «two conditions of crucial importance which must be met, if catastrophe is to be averted»: «The prohibition of all weapons of mass destruction; including atomic and hydrogen bombs, with provision for international inspection and control, such as would safeguard the security of all nations, together with the drastic reduction of all other armaments.

In my work for the Institute for Global Engagement, I come across many official documents — such as a State Department action plan on women and security or a United Nations treaty on ending racial discrimination — that barely mention religion, despite the fact that a vast majority of the world's population (84 percent, according to Pew Research) believes in a higher power.

On the one hand, Israel is a state claiming all the rights and privileges of modern nations, so that no special conditions such as exceptional ethical requirements should be placed upon it.

In an ambitious project to assess the correctness of Talcott Parsons» theory of evolutionary universals, Gary Buck accumulated masses of data for 115 contemporary nation - states from every part of the world.7 He developed elaborate indices (as of 1960 wherever possible) of the ten variables Parsons discussed: (1) communication, (2) kinship organization, (3) religion, (4) technology, (5) stratification, (6) cultural legitimation, (7) bureaucratic organization, (8) money and market complex, (9) generalized universalistic norms, and (10) democratic association.8 Information was taken from such sources as the United Nations Statistical Yearbook, the Yearbook of Labor Statistics, and UNESCO's World Survey of Education.

He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become... In every improved and civilized society this is the state into which the labouring poor, that is, the great body of the people must necessarily fall, unless government takes some pains to prevent it» (The Wealth of Nations Vol.

While such views are not prevalent in the dominant culture in the United States, they are widespread in oppressed communities both in this nation and abroad.

Appliances such as the telephone and the radio, and a school system from which the teaching of Christianity is excluded and the ideals of the nation and loyalty to them are stressed, give the state a more intimate access to all its citizens than at any previous time.

Doering says the partnership has helped EcoLogic Solutions make sales inroads with other Native American nations who own and operate casinos and resorts throughout the United States, such as the Cherokee, or Oneida Nnations who own and operate casinos and resorts throughout the United States, such as the Cherokee, or Oneida NationsNations.

Countries such as the United States are already leading, with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency setting the nation's first ever food waste goal: a 50 percent reduction by 2030.

As a result of such nonleague victories as Ball State's over Purdue, Marshall's over Georgia and Miami's over Notre Dame, the MAC had the ninth - best conference RPI in the nation on Jan. 1.

He burst onto the scene with a 689 - yard, 10 - TD debut to earn regular mention throughout the state and the nation via outlets such as Cal - Hi Sports and MaxPreps.

In the United States, more than 400 such hospitals believe that «human milk fed through the mother's own breast is the normal way for human infants to be nourished,» according to Baby Friendly USA, an organization that implements the Baby - Friendly Hospital Initiative by the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children's Fund.

The Catch - 22 is that human studies on the effects of ultrasound in the United States and other Western nations are discouraged and virtually banned because such research is considered unethical.

This year, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei claimed that «the Iranian nation has never pursued and will never pursue nuclear weapons», and linked the issue to religion, stating that «the Islamic Republic, logically, religiously and theoretically, considers the possession of nuclear weapons a grave sin and believes the proliferation of such weapons is senseless, destructive and dangerous».