Sentences with phrase «about my nation as»

Although much of the Old Testament does have historically verifiable occurances, the lead characters are heads of state or high priests or the stories are about the nation as a whole.

I love America, but I worry about my nation as more and more of it's citizens allow ignorance and bigotry to not only control there lives, but attempt to turn it into public policy.

Future research should focus on defining what individuals interpret when asked about their nation as opposed to their country attachment.

Not exact matches

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Despite constant internal bickering about the consequences of allowing it, Canada came to be regarded internationally as a nation quite open to receiving foreign capital.

OPEC's largest producer and de facto leader — Saudi Arabia — is the most closely watched oil nation for hints about an unofficial oil price target, and speculation has been ripe since the start of the deal in January 2017 as to what price the Kingdom is aiming for.

Much ink has been spilled about the global tide of nationalism, but these leaders, raised with the freedom to zip around Europe without passports, using a common euro currency, see their individual nations» interests as inextricably bound to the state of the whole world.

However, despite his advocacy of nation - wide programs, Farrington has a simple message for Canadians thinking about their retirement security: «We hope that this ranking can be a rallying cry to employees to be saving as much as possible, as early as possible.»

Much as been recently written about the startup boom in Tel Aviv, known colloquially as Startup Nation, the city with the highest density of startups in the world.

Despite harsh noises from western leaders about throttling tax havens, he believes they are proliferating as never before — with the complicity of those same leaders — and are causing immeasurable damage to developed and developing nations alike.

As mentioned many times before in these blogs about the show, a scary proportion of these aspiring inventors are sadly ignorant about our nation's patent, copyright, and trademark laws.

Gore, who formerly served as the entrepreneur - in - residence for the United Nations Foundation, boiled it down even further: «More than skillsets, I worry about time.

If the US decided as a nation to reduce or eliminate incentives for homeownership, eliminating just the mortgage - interest deduction would, on average, eliminate about a third of that subsidy.

«As we speak,» he says, «eight out of 10 journalists in the nation's capital are chasing a story about the long - form census, and, according to a poll I read this morning, 50 % of Canadians don't care about it.»

If this trend continues, some say that Houston could surpass Chicago as the nation's third - largest city in about 10 years.

Abigail Bozarth, a spokeswoman for AstraZeneca, said «AstraZeneca believes it is important to engage with policymakers, key partners, and the public — across all states in the United States — about the very challenging issues we face as we all work to strengthen our nation's health care system.»

IT»S easy to get excited about what's happening in the fast - moving world of currency values but it's wrong to describe what's happening as a «war», because it's not; what's going on is simply economics at work, and it's telling a story of changes in the wealth of nations.

We have about 50,000 that live above the Arctic Circle and they are entitled to the same safety, security and prosperity as the rest of our nation.

He entreated his followers to not automatically dismiss a Donald Trump presidency and, despite their feelings about the election outcome, to continue to act as a unified nation.

This alarms North Korea's adversaries because the nation recently detonated a thermonuclear device that yielded the energy of perhaps 300 kilotons of TNT — about 20 times as much as the bomb the US detonated over Hiroshima in 1945.

The United Nations Population Division and Goldman Sachs recently reported that by 2030 China would have about 1.4 billion members of what the World Bank defines as the middle class, compared to 365 million in the U.S. and 414 million in western Europe.

A senior official from one G7 nation said ministers were deeply worried about what the group saw as a pattern of Russia misbehavior going back years.

Speaking on Sunday night about Trump's war of words with the Muslim family of a fallen American soldier, Oliver seemed mystified and outraged that someone so close to the nation's highest office could be seen as failing in that office's duty of comforting grieving military families.

Taxes as a percentage of income in the nation's capital are about 21 percent, which is a higher percentage than in a majority of states.

The S&P 500 bounced 1.6 percent Wednesday to 1,926, as oil jumped more than 5 percent on more reports about a preliminary accord among some major oil producing nations to freeze production.

As a frequent professional speaker, I've lectured at the United Nations, New York University, NATO, the American Advertising Federation and elsewhere about content marketing, social media, personal branding and blogging.

Thus the wage gains are from a one time energy glut brought about by increased supply from fracking, lower demand from a weak global economy, and some producers increasing production to make up for lower prices (not entirely self defeating as consumer nations expand inventories while prices are low).

New Orleans has earned a reputation as one of the nation's leading startup hubs, and in 2014, the New Orleans Startup Fund created PowerMoves.NOLA to be intentional about growing an inclusive entrepreneurship ecosystem in the city.

As part of its 2006 election platform, the Conservative Party promised to «create an Independent Budget Authority to provide objective analysis directly to Parliament about the state of the nation's finances and trends in the national economy; require government departments and agencies to provide timely information to the Parliamentary Budget Authority to ensure it has the information it needs to provide accurate analyses to Parliament; and ensure that government fiscal forecasts are updated quarterly and that they provide complete data for both revenue and spending forecasts».

The new evidence also revives the discussion about the export of commercial spyware abroad, and how nation - states are using them to undermine entities they deem as political threats.

As of Monday morning, more than 2.3 million barrels of daily refining capacity was knocked offline, according to Reuters, or about 13 percent of the nation's total.

«As the nation's leader in women's business development, our annual NCBF is the best place for attendees to forge new connections, learn about industry trends, and meet key decision makers.»

Ezra Klein: Also, to just build on that point a little bit, every Western European nation and also Canada and also Israel gets about... It's about half of what we pay, it's not as cheap as Singapore, but if we only managed to cut our costs in half, that would also be a big advance.

It logged a third week of gains, up by 0.5 %, bolstered by geopolitical tension in the Middle East and concerns about supply disruptions in key oil - producing nations, such as Venezuela.

The insurer Cigna will spend about $ 52 billion to acquire the nation's biggest pharmacy benefit manager, Express Scripts, the latest in a string of proposed tie - ups as health care's bill payers attempt to get a grip on rising costs.

Cigna will spend about $ 52 billion to acquire the nation's biggest pharmacy benefit manager, Express Scripts, the latest in a string of proposed tie - ups as health care's bill payers attempt to get a grip on rising costs.

From the 13 shortlisted startups at 1st batch of the early stage tech Startup Accelerator program, about three or four selected startups would get acceleration fund from Z Nation Lab, while venture capital firms such as Matrix Partners, Accel India, Mumbai Angels will be part of the investor panel on the demo day and may invest in promising startups.

As published April 3, 2014 in The Globe and Mail: by John Manley Canada's response to the recently concluded free - trade agreement (FTA) with South Korea will say much about the kind of nation we are.

Schembri dealt with the bureaucratic printed material as well as specialists, an undertaking that drove him to meet «CZ», Binance CEO and Founder, Zhao Changpeng who was excited about the nation's vision:

At stake is a relationship between the three nations whose annual trade in goods totals about US$ 1 trillion — and even the business models of companies such as Ford Motor Co. and General Motors Co. that have adapted their supply chains to take advantage of the trade zone.

According to Yurdiga, «it was vitally important to listen to and engage with the Council of Yukon First Nations about issues concerning their members, as well as the various stakeholders who are impacted by federal legislation on a daily basis.»

Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney, whose name has been floated as a potential replacement for Kelly should the general exit, told CBS's Major Garrett on Face the Nation Sunday that questions about Kelly are simply media speculation.

After witnessing sluggish growth rates for the past few years, Middle Eastern nations finally have something to cheer about as the new financial year promises an economic rebound.

Correa said in February that the South American nation is receiving as little as $ 30 a barrel for its crude, while production costs average about $ 39.

If you can remember as far back as Tuesday, the week's news cycle began with the nation's intelligence chiefs testifying that Russia is continuing to interfere with our election systems here in 2018, and that President Trump hasn't asked them to do anything about it.

Just over one week ago, Saudi Arabian royalty paraded titans of Silicon Valley and Wall Street through the Ritz - Carlton in Riyadh as part of a flashy showcase of the nation's seriousness about global investing.

EU negotiators are not liable to go easy on the breakaway nation, fearing that others may follow suit, so the UK's hopes for a soft Brexit are unlikely to be realized; casting doubts about London's future preeminence as a prime financial hub.

The uncertainty about what lies ahead for the European Union - the world's largest economic grouping - as well as the subset of nations that use the euro common currency, hit energy stocks hard.

As a silver living, Sharma says this trend has resulted in falling unemployment rates, which calms some fears about automation replacing workers in developed nations.

Richmond has about 223,000 residents and is one of the oldest cities in the nation, as Virginia itself was one of the original 13 colonies.