Sentences with phrase «u.s. people and nation»

Defeat in Vietnam presented the U.S. people and nation with an opportunity for repentance.

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And yet, as painful as such events are, and as much as they seem to increasingly define America's uniquely violent profile among developed nations, they account for just 1 - 2 % of all gun - related deaths in the U.S. «We lose upwards of 90 people a day on average to firearm violence, to suicide and homicide,» says WintemuAnd yet, as painful as such events are, and as much as they seem to increasingly define America's uniquely violent profile among developed nations, they account for just 1 - 2 % of all gun - related deaths in the U.S. «We lose upwards of 90 people a day on average to firearm violence, to suicide and homicide,» says Wintemuand as much as they seem to increasingly define America's uniquely violent profile among developed nations, they account for just 1 - 2 % of all gun - related deaths in the U.S. «We lose upwards of 90 people a day on average to firearm violence, to suicide and homicide,» says Wintemuand homicide,» says Wintemute.

Tens of thousands of people rallied in U.S. cities and at airports on Sunday to voice outrage over President Donald Trump's executive order restricting entry into the country for travelers from seven Muslim - majority nations.

While meal kits represent less than 1 % of total food and beverage retail sales in the U.S., the nation's largest food manufacturers are paying attention to how this new subcategory can change how people buy their food.

«Banning people of a particular faith or creed, race or identity, sexuality or ethnicity, from entering the U.S. is antithetical to both Lyft's and our nation's core values.

Although traditional large importers like the U.S. and Europe continue to imbibe consistently, emerging nations like China and Vietnam are also gaining a taste for coffee as their people gain more disposable income.

In 2014, founder and managing director Neal K. Aronson was ranked fourth on a Nation's Restaurant News list of the 50 most influential people in the U.S. restaurant industry.

Maduro's administration has pointedly claimed that the people who will be hurt most by the sanctions aimed at stymieing the nation's ballooning debt will be shareholders in the U.S. Indeed, there is outcry that the potential banning of oil imports from Venezuela — the 3rd biggest supplier of oil to the U.S. behind Canada and Saudi Arabia — will dramatically drive up gasoline prices and hurt the U.S. job market.

«Costa Ricans have higher wellbeing than the residents of many rich nations, including the U.S. and the U.K., and live longer than people in the U.S..

It's a sad day when Puerto Rico's governor has to take to the airwaves to remind Americans that the 3.4 million people living in the U.S. territory are citizens of their nation, too, but that's exactly what Gov. Ricardo Rosselló has been reduced to — repeatedly — in the wake of Hurricane Maria and the suffering it has caused.

«It's a strong message for the people of Venezuela and it's a strong message to Maduro,» U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley told reporters at a briefing.

As the measure now moves to the U.S. Senate for further consideration, perhaps the upper chamber would be wise to remember that this nation was founded as a democracy — and that its actions would be by, for, and of the people.

The Transportation Department regulates the nation's vehicles, airplanes, railroads, pipelines, ports and highways - including whether to allow the use of small unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, over people and whether U.S. fuel efficiency standards should be revised.

2) The notion of the U.S. as a «Christian Country» is revisionist history that started during the Cold War (when, for example, «under God» was inserted into the Pledge of Allegiance, where for sixty years prior it had been absent) and continues today with people like Rick Santorum «wanting to vomit» at the notion of a secular nation.

When she was Ambassador to the United Nations and President Bush had appointed me to a commission examining U.S. policy toward that organization, she came across in meetings as a very capable and no - nonsense sort of person.

Hailemariam rose to power in the southern region, becoming the Ethiopian equivalent of a U.S. governor over the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples» Region in 2002 before advancing to the national government.

The «STAND UP» event seta national and global record in the Guinness World Records for the largest number of people to stand up for a cause... Lutherans across the U.S. participated in the event organised as part of «ONE: The Campaign to Make Poverty History», in cooperation with the United Nations» Millennium Campaign.»

In the case of Nicaragua, U.S. - managed terrorism was meant to punish a nation that had freed itself from the empire and had begun improving the living standards of its people.

A Pew Global Attitudes Survey in April - May 2003 found that between 67 and 97 percent of people in six out of eight Muslim nations (Turkey, Indonesia, Pakistan, Lebanon, Jordan, Kuwait, Morocco and the Palestinian Authority) opposed U.S. action, and only one — Kuwait — was in favor.

Not only are its people more polarized than ever over Puerto Rico's status question — whether to become a sovereign nation, become a state of the U.S. or stay as it is; it is the most impoverished North American territory, with an external debt of over $ 7 billion, an unemployment rate of more than 20 per cent, 65 per cent of its people on federal food stamps and 38 per cent who have an income below the poverty line.

The president has repeatedly said that the U.S. response is not aimed at a nation or a way of life, but at those who drag their own people into harm's way, defame their religion, and perpetrate an ideology that has as its end the deaths of innocent people.

They know the U.S. for what it is; a violence loving, war mongering, power hungry Imerpialist nation seeking world domination and wealth by the blood of other peoples.

People who want to travel to third - world nations such as Mexico, the Philippines, the countries in Central America and the Mideast with the specific purpose of exploring the causes of poverty and the impact of U.S. policies can contact the Center for Global Education, Augsburg College, 731 - 21st Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55454.

The U.S. food, beverage and consumer packaged goods industry plays a unique role as the single largest U.S. manufacturing employment sector, with 2.1 million jobs in 30,000 communities across the country that deliver products vital to the wellbeing of people in our nation and around world.

The greatest drought in the nation's history continued last week to blight the lives of people throughout a vast region in the central and southwestern part of the U.S., bringing withered crops, emaciated cattle, dead or dying trees, waterless streams and the decimation of wildlife.

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Cuomo and Port Authority Executive Director Pat Foye said six to eight people remained detained Sunday afternoon at John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens under Trump's order, which temporarily barred citizens from seven Muslim - heavy nations from entering the U.S.

«As a company employing more than 15,000 people, and as the nation's 6th largest U.S. Small Business Administration lender, it's important for M&T Bank to maintain continuing dialogue with our local, state and federal government leaders to help them understand our vital role in creating jobs and economic growth in communities we serve.»

New York continues to lead the nation in Zika cases, with 811 people testing positive for the mosquito - borne virus, according to figures released Friday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

KINGSTON, N.Y. >> U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and about 450 people who came to see her at George Washington Elementary School on Saturday were largely on the same political page, concluding that President Donald Trump is a danger to the nation and that the Democratic party needs to find a way to meet the needs of its citizens.

Science diplomacy will play a large role in how indigenous people, the eight circumpolar countries, and other interested nations negotiate complicated economic, security, and environmental interests while attempting to maintain strong scientific ties, particularly with the new U.S. administration.

Evacuees will probably go to the U.S., Rudiak - Gould notes, because the nation's compact with the U.S. allows Marshallese people to live and work in the U.S. easily.

The authors contend that the Parkinson's community must come together and focus its activism in support of: developing a better understand the environmental, genetic, and behavioral causes and risk factors for Parkinson's to help prevent its onset; increasing access to care — an estimated 40 percent of people with the disease in both the U.S. and Europe do not see a neurologist and the number is far greater in developing nations; advocating for increases in research funding for the disease; and lowering the cost of treatments — many patients in low - income countries do not have access to drugs that are both lifesaving and improve quality of life.

Both systems are beset by ballooning costs and, especially with a presidential election on the horizon, calls for reform, but a recent study could put ammunition in the hands of people who believe it is time the U.S. ceased to be the only developed nation without universal health coverage.

A recent NTSB report revealed that sleep - deprived air traffic controllers played a role in at least four near - fatal incidents on the nation's runways since 2001, and the controller on duty in one of the worst U.S. accidents in five years — the 2006 crash of a Comair flight that killed 49 people in Lexington, Kentucky — was working on only two hours of sleep.

Any pledges to lower emissions by a uniform percentage among industrial countries will be much harder for the U.S. to achieve, simply because it is gaining people so fast through immigration and a birthrate that is higher than average for a developed nation.

Getting U.S. manufacturers to come up with ways to keep people cool while using less HFCs and energy could spur other nations to act.

Today, more than 32 percent of U.S. housing units and one - tenth of all land with housing are situated in the nation's 89 million hectares (220 million acres) of WUI, putting approximately 72,000 communities and more than 120 million people at risk.

Released by the White House in 2015, the NHAS was designed to bring U.S. HIV / AIDS policies in line with those of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV / AIDS — which calls for diagnosing 90 percent of HIV - infected persons worldwide, linking 90 percent of identified cases to ART, and achieving virologic suppression among 90 percent of ART recipients.

The nation's opioid epidemic kills 91 people a day, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Today nearly 50 million people in the U.S. are alive because of various forms of artificial organ therapy, and one in every five people older than 65 in developed nations is very likely to benefit from organ replacement technology during the remainder of their lives.

Suja Juice is the nation's # 1 Organic, Non-GMO, Cold - Pressed juice brand and among the fastest growing beverage companies in the U.S. Suja began from a shared dream to help people...

Suja Juice is the nation's # 1 Organic, Non-GMO, Cold - Pressed juice brand and among the fastest growing beverage companies in the U.S. Suja began from a shared dream to help people transform their lives through conscious nutrition.

Eda has extensive experience working with 4 - H, which is the nation's largest positive youth development and youth mentoring organization, empowering six million young people in the U.S..

Percentages as given in «Poor People in Rich Nations: The United States in Comparative Perspective,» Timothy Smeeding, 2006 (Using data from 1999 - 2000 and calculating poverty as 125 % of U.S. poverty line)

The Fourteenth Amendment represents a deliberate decision by the people of this nation to make the U.S. Constitution — not state constitutions and not state officials — the primary guardian of liberty in America.

Some people - including President - elect Donald Trump - believe that to improve U.S. education, the nation should stop spending so many tax dollars on public schools and instead invest in alternatives, including charter schools and taxpayer - funded vouchers for private and religious schools.

Building a better world for all of us begins with a few simple actions and American Humane, the country's first national humane organization, is challenging people to commit to protecting and improving the lives of millions of animals during this year's «Be Kind to Animals Week ®» (May 6 - 12), the oldest commemorative week in U.S. history, and the nation's longest - running humane education campaign.

WASHINGTON, May 5, 2018 / PRNewswire - USNewswire / — Building a better world for all of us begins with a few simple actions and American Humane, the country's first national humane organization, is challenging people to commit to protecting and improving the lives of millions of animals during this year's «Be Kind to Animals Week ®» (May 6 - 12), the oldest commemorative week in U.S. history, and the nation's longest - running humane education campaign.

Registered as the nation's first «green» animal shelter (U.S. Green Building Council) for its environmentally minded, sustainable design, the facility is «good for people, good for animals, and good for the planet.»