Sentences with phrase «states be a civilized»

Why can't the United States be a civilized country like, say, the Netherlands and fully affirm women's reproductive rights?

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They also acknowledged that the Seven Laws of Noah are the foundation upon which civilization stands and that recent weakening of these principles threaten the fabric of civilized society, and that justified preoccupation in educating the Citizens of the United States of America and future generations is needed.

It was the economic and productive unit of society, tilling the land together; it was the political unit of society, with parental authority as the supporting microcosm of the state; it was the cultural unit, transmitting letters and arts, rearing and teaching the young; and it was the moral unit, inculcating through cooperative work and discipline those social dispositions which are the psychological basis and cement of civilized society».

In a press release, organizers said the event was focused on promoting Pancasila, Indonesia's state philosophy, which encompasses five basic principles that include belief in one God, just and civilized society, unity and democracy.

The break will then be rendered wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilized state, as we may hope... the Caucasian, and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as at present between the Negro or Australian and the gorilla.

A new U.S. National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence, headed by Milton S. Eisenhower, stated: «Violence on television encourages violent forms of behavior, and fosters moral and social values about violence in daily life which are unacceptable in a civilized society.»

The move away from reliance on Yahweh as warrior toward state military institutions is often seen today as a step toward more civilized behavior, but in the biblical view it was clearly a move toward chaos and away from shalom.

It can, in other words, position itself as a pedagogue, upstream of the actual member state legislatures, declaring as a matter of Europe - wide policy what is or is not a human right, and «calling on» member states to bring their legislation into line with what are now the human rights norms that every civilized nation agrees on.

The state knows something of mercy; for no civilized penal code is without its gesture toward the possible restoration of the wrongdoer to society.

Or alternatively stated, a civilized society is simply a special case of the generic type.

It is quite another to call the fight by civilized nations against terrorism, including state sponsored terrorism, an act of terrorism itself whether you agree with the fight or not.

The empire which it governed was made up chiefly of city - states and embraced some of the oldest of civilized peoples.

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.

In its summary, the Commission stated: «Violence on television encourages violent forms of behavior, and fosters moral and social values about violence in daily life which are unacceptable in a civilized society.»

Incidentally, in 1993, the Illinois State Senate passed a resolution proclaiming that Illinois was to be the «Chilli [sic] Capital of the Civilized World,» a move that outraged Texans.

What readily comes to mind at the mention of ROPAA or diaspora voting is enfranchising Ghanaian citizens in United Kingdom, the United States of America and other civilized nations in Europe, not African countries like Nigeria, Togo, Benin, Gambia etc..

Nation is a way of feeling, thinking and living, it is a psychological condition of the mind which emphasizes the consciousness of unity due to spiritual or other feelings.while the state emphasizes political unity and objectivity which is a condition of law, the state is an enforceable obligatiory condition inseparable from all civilized ways of living

Lagos and Ogun state is the western part of Yoruba land and it's the most developed, civilized and enlighten.

Nkanga has cited a most tragic example in civilized democracy and it's most unfortunate that elders could canvass a replica of barbaric brutish dark days experience in today's Rivers State.

Ultimately, Falk and Hildebolt found that people living in small - scale societies are not inherently more violent that those living in «civilized» states, and that war deaths scale similarly with population sizes across all levels of human society.

Resorts emerged as aristocratic fun; nowadays the resort is a sign of a civilized state, transforming vacation in socially meaningful work.

The film is set in a post-apocalyptic United States, where those who are deemed not good enough, smart enough, or cool enough are dumped in a «Texas wasteland fenced off from civilized society.»

In the words of one Connecticut Supreme Court justice, public education is vital «not only because our state constitution declares it as such, but because education is the very essence and foundation of a civilized culture... it is as necessary to a civilized society as food and shelter are to an individual.»

From the Five Civilized Tribes, to the Humane Society of the United States, and to such groups as Save the Illinois River and many others, we are working to protect Oklahoma's water and natural resources and maintain Oklahomans» right to determine animal welfare standards — not foreign corporations.

I think wilderness is, to some extent, a state of mind, and to some extent a necessarily paradoxical state of mind, because it's about a place that exists by your denial of it; the more you as a civilized person are in it, the less wild it is, because you are there.

If the industry leaders involved were civilized people, they would be just as concerned as everyone else with public health and the state of the planetary climate and environment.

This used to be the case and is still the case in some civilized countries like the United States, but other countries with a less well developed sense of public interest, such as England and France, hold environmental data as proprietary.

1844 — Bagot Commission finds reserve communities in a «half - civilized state»; recommends assimilationist policy, including establishment of boarding schools distant from child's community, to provide training in manual labour and agriculture; portends major shift away from Royal Proclamation of 1763 policy that Indians were autonomous entities under Crown protection.

First of all, the United States continues to be one of the most litigious nations in the civilized world.

In some states on the East Coast, it is common to write a letter of intent to purchase and, in many ways, it seems the more civilized way to buy a home.