Sentences with phrase «about less state»

«The left must avoid the trap of countering an argument about less state by making a case for more state,» he writes.

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In states lacking non-discrimination policies for LGBT people, gay men tend to be penalized most, Klawitter's research indicates, with gay men in same - sex couples earning about 30 percent less than their counterparts in opposite - sex couples.

Some are, as five states, including Mississippi and Louisiana, have no official minimum wage, and two more, Georgia and Wyoming, have a minimum wage of $ 5.15, or about $ 10 less an hour than full - time employees would need to make to be able to afford a two - bedroom.

The value of Kaspersky's software sales to the U.S. government totaled less than $ 54,000, or about 0.03 percent of its U.S. subsidiary's sales in the United States, according to the complaint.

But they are going to have to dismantle some of their welfare state, create labour market flexibility, stop being terrorized by organized labour and the farmers, accept real austerity in the offender countries, abandon this imbecility about leading the world, raise the birth rate and develop less meddlesome and authoritarian institutions.

Of the almost 5.4 million votes cast in 2012, only about 430,000 came from that part of the state — less than 10 %.

In the United States, women are paid about 20 % less than men.

The State Department and a number of Washington think - tanks have long indicated that the real story about Keystone XL is a lot less exciting than most of its supporters and opponents seem to believe.

A roundup of gun control and violence studies by writer German Lopez at Vox shows Americans represent less than 5 % of the world population but possess nearly 50 % of the world's civilian - owned guns, police are about three times more likely to be killed in states with high gun ownership, countries with more guns see more gun deaths, and states with tighter gun control laws see fewer gun - related deaths, among other sobering statistics.

Last year, on HBO, Lena Dunham's Girls, arguably the cultural hit of the year, drew about 630,000 viewers an episode, or less than one in every 450 people in the United States.

According to one study, there may be statistical proof that Canucks really are less nervous about the state of the world than their southern counterparts.

Of those investors whose advisors had talked to them about a crash, 62 percent believe their loss would be less than what their stated exposure to equities would suggest, the survey found.

In addition, the median listed home price in Super Tuesday states has risen about 50 percent during the last four years and is now 7.7 percent higher than the median home price in states not holding contests — the Super Tuesday median home was worth 2.8 percent less in 2011.

So the markets have continued to go up but the things that have been leading have been less about the small - cap stocks in the United States, or U.S. stocks leading international.

The impact of Facebook's News Feed changes on the media is far less interesting than what the changes — and their stated purpose — say about Facebook itself.

Investors in risk assets seem to have renewed their focus on the fundamental strength of the United States and become less worried about the global outlook.

Likewise, the median annual property tax payment in the state is $ 4,784, about $ 2,400 less than the state average.

Many prominent economists, including Paul Krugman, Joseph Stiglitz and Dani Rodrik, feel that the trade impacts of TPP are far less important than the serious concerns it raises about excessive intellectual property rights, regulatory harmonization and investor - state dispute settlement (ISDS).

The median annual property tax payment in northern New Hampshire's Coos County is $ 2,817, about $ 2,000 less than the state average.

Nevertheless, that did not stop Jia from stating that the FF 91 will cost less than 2 million yuan in China, which is equivalent to about $ 290,000.

Charles Hugh Smith talks about the disparity in the government's CPI index that states the cost of living is less than 2 % per year when reality is different.

People who are nervous about money backed by a central bank with unclear controls — such as China's — have become attracted to bitcoin, an open source currency that is less influenced by the state of the economy or any looming geopolitical risk.

Perhaps core states should become less sniffy about a Europe - wide deposit protection scheme.

During a portion of an interview with NBC News National Political Reporter Heidi Przybyla, former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D - NV) stated, «the less we talk about impeachment, the better off we are as a country.»

I care much less about how Israel has profited from all of this chaos as I do about how much the United States has lost and is currently struggling after having spent trillions to pump up Israel.

I resent them because I believe them to be less about what is stated to be accountability's purpose — my spiritual growth — and more about an unScriptural motive underlying the questions — playing God in someone else's life.

I could care less about his religion because I care most about the United States of America!

Less polemically but still in the Enlightenment tradition, Montesquieu used the example of the reducciones in his Spirit of the Laws to work through questions about the common good and the role of the state in procuring human happiness.

In my book «Religious Literacy,» I argued that the United States is one of the most religious countries on Earth, and yet Americans know very little about their own religions and even less about the religions of others.

much less have all those present... second... I still sick and tired of this abuse of separation of church and state... you people need to get a history lesson in how it all came about and the intentions..

It also assess monetary value for humans with women being about half... It also states any child less than a month has no monetary value... There are certainly better books in the bible...

That more or less squares away with the current state of politics so when the rumors first started circulating, everyone chuckled about how crazy these days are getting.

Less than half the state's eligible voters bother to register, but Mormons almost always do, which gives them about a quarter of the likely turnout.»

He made wise proposals about steps the United States could take to become a less unsustainable society.

For Chapman, our own internal state, our feelings and our own reflection on our feelings, is no measure of our progress as Christians — in fact, he goes out of his way to counsel people to think about their internal state as little as they possibly can («The less we look into ourselves the better»).

In fact, although the United States is one of the most religious developed countries in the world, most Americans scored 50 percent or less on a quiz measuring knowledge of the Bible, world religions and what the Constitution says about religion in public life.

And, like I've already stated, I don't need anybody that believes a 600 year old man even existed, much less built a floating zoo, tell me anything about anything of any relevance.

Maybe there would be less resentment towards immigrants if if they truly cared about the United States.

One hundred thousand is less than one fifth of one percent of the Catholics in the United States, which might confirm some church authorities in their belief that that is about the percentage of Catholics supporting the agenda of the manifesto.

The promotional materials for the Festival of Hope state that «Canadians today know less about Jesus than at any other time in Canadian history.»

Non-Muslims make up less than 1 percent of the population in Turkey, where the US State Department estimates there are only about 7,000 Protestant Christians.

Although the presenters indicated that they had received a less - than - enthusiastic reception in some of the places where they had spoken recently, the many positive comments I heard from my brother priests following the workshop are another encouraging sign about where liturgical practice is going in the United States at the beginning of the 2010s.

It might sound hypocritical, but, I can honestly say I meant my words of intent about or for the person, and if the act of praying for them (and lighting candles no less) has meaning for them, than the fact that I can give them some kind of comfort is the answer to my prayer, to my state of being.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

All these comments go to show that we are very far away from what is suppose to SEPERATION OF CHURCH AND STATE... all you religious zealots get a clue... if your god is so powerful why doesn't he put your man in office... I'll tell you... he could care less about the piddly human contest to rule the world... really, please, use some logic in determination of who is best for this country...

God could had it been both ways is possible for him... created of all livings from chemicals to full creatures... in the book if looked so simple is because God message was to people with less knowldge premitive whether in the east or west... and had to be in simple examples but that might hold big meanings in today's knowldge and facilities... about mankind God created at it's best, but never in the Quran it was stated that men had been given his (God's) looks... God told us that all creatures are nations like us, which means they were created in the same way... although God as well spoke of integration of mankind and well as animals in cross marriages that made variable nations...

God could had creation either ways is possible for him... created of all livings from chemicals to full creatures... in the book if looked so simple is because God message was to people with less knowldge premitive whether in the east or west... and had to be in simple examples but that might hold big meanings in today's knowldge and facilities... about mankind God created at it's best, but never in the Quran it was stated that men had been given his (God's) looks... God told us that all creatures are nations like us, which means they were created in the same way... although God as well spoke of integration of mankind and well as animals in cross marriages that made variable nations...

The truth about man is that while he is indeed created «in the image of God», he is in a state of spiritual insufficiency so pervasive and so disturbing that he can not live authentically as a man, much less as a «son of God».

«In this work, no excuses will be offered in order to justify the appalling crime of sexual abuse perpetrated by a small number of Catholic priests - about 2 to 4 \ % credible accusations in the United States and less than this in the United Kingdom in the last forty years - nor for the pastoral negligence of some bishops.

At the Topeka State Hospital alone, the number of resident patients in their 60s was reduced from about 600 to less than 50 in only 20 years.