Sentences with phrase «accepted by the nations»

If this is accepted by the nation's editors as an ironclad law in the world of workaday reporting, how much more applicable it must be to that world which could not even exist without its own often artificial but nonetheless carefully tended rules of fair play.

Accepted by the nation in lieu of tax on Freud's estate, this body of work includes emblematic works by one of our finest contemporary painters, including his 1962 scene of London's Leicester Square as a building site, rendered in high - impasto semi-abstract smears of red, orange, ochre and grey.

Tate is home to the largest collection of works by Turner in the world and almost all of his works accepted by the nation as part of the 1856 Turner Bequest.

Tate; Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856 © Tate, London 2016

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

The 2 °C «guardrail» has been accepted by all nations including Australia as the one that has a good chance of avoiding the worst effects of global warming (although many scientists believe it is set too high and we should be aiming for 1.5 °C).

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With the recent South Pacific International Communications cable link providing 4G to one of the world's smallest nations and by accepting the bitcoin economy, overseas transactions will be easier to facilitate.»

satans aim was to stop the fulfillment of the seed that would crush satan underfoot.This hybrid between the angels and man created giants abominations in Gods eyes.They also were a threat to Gods people as can be seen by the giants in the land of caanan after the flood.If we agree on that then there is no way that Eve would have had intercourse with satan [false doctrine of the seed of satan -RCB- because the blood lines were still untainted by angelic beings or satan at the time of Noah maybe that is also why the genealogy of Christ is well presented with no surprises apart from Hagar and Ruth these two were gentiles that shows Gods mercy grace was always there to all nations he accepts people by faith not by race.Prior to the flood the mixing of the angels and man must have been widespread after the flood these beings were present but in limited numbers and God told his people to destroy them as they were abominations but they were a threat to Gods people.It would be interesting to hear what the rabbis had to say on this matter as i would think the stories would have been past down from generation to the next.Especially regarding the flood.God promised he would never flood the earth again but a time is coming when the earth will be judged not by flood but by fire Jesus is our ark and we are safe in him.brentnz

The deutsche Christen — a large majority in the church, at least in the beginning — accepted the chief values set up by the Hitler movement: nation, race, courage, pride, socialism — and violence.

The author argues that the United States ought to accept the provision for an International Criminal Court, as worked out in Rome in the summer of 1998 and agreed to by most of the nations participating in the discussions.

By way of illustration, it is an accepted historical fact that Israel became a nation after the exodus from Egypt.

In the negotiations over the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child, now accepted by virtually every nation except the U.S., the minimum age at which the fetus becomes a child was hotly disputed.

The problem is vastly accentuated by the fact that great numbers who accept this Western creed accept it halfheartedly and conventionally, while those who espouse a creed of blood or soil or race or nation or class usually espouse it with fanatical zeal.

The British who colonized India had accepted the European concept of nationhood as constituted by unity in blood and language, «ethnic purity and a single language»; therefore, they said, that «India is not and can never be a nation... India is a collection of religious communities... But the unfortunate tragic element was that this British interpretation of Indian history was also accepted by many of our national leaders... So British interpretation plus the shortsightedness of our own leaders, not excluding the Mahatma, together resulted in this dreadful phenomenon of communalism».

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.

In reality, if the Christian concepts were accepted and were put in practice by all citizens of the world, there would be peace among the nations and no borders.

Let us, therefore, speak plainly: The courts, sometimes abetted by, and almost always acquiesced in, federal and state executives and legislators, have imposed upon the nation immoral policies that pro-life Americans can not, in conscience, accept.

Looking at this side of the ambiguity, we see a church in which many first - world Christians of our day could feel comfortable and undisturbed: a church that lives without question or resistance in a state founded on violence and made prosperous by the exploitation of less fortunate nations; a church that accepts various perquisites from that state as its due; a church where changing jobs for the sake of peace and justice is seldom considered; a church that constantly speaks in the language of war; a church given to eloquent invective in its internal disputes and against outside opponents; a church quite sure that God will punish the wicked.

The nation took on a character which we are to envisage as a very moderate expression of the high concepts put forth by the three accepted exponents of the way of the Lord; or perhaps it is better said that hee nation trailed far behind such ideals.

Even accepting this presumably lesser view, complications are not yet at an end; for it was freely recognized by Hebrew writers that this theory was threadbare; we are told in no uncertain terms that the nation was not of common ancestry.

Nonetheless, the Justices gravely declared that «the character of a nation of people who aspire to live according to the rule of law» is ultimately to be measured by the people's willingness to put aside their deeply held moral and religious views and accept the Court's pronouncements on this and other divisive questions.

If people want God to be by our nation, we must accept that we need God day in and day out, not just when disaster happens.

You can not release «Palestinians» - There are no such people - They are refugees made so in first instant by not accepting UN resolution 181 - Then by Jordan and Egypt putting them into Camps of futility for political gain and refusing to absorb them into their nations.

The Dun Commission of Christian scholars in 1950 in their report on The Christian Conscience and Weapons of Mass Destruction stated that «to accept general war as inevitable is to treat ourselves as helpless objects carried by a fated tide of events rather than as responsible men,» and went on to say, «One reason why fascism and Naziism gained their dread power over great nations was because otherwise decent people bowed before what they regarded as «inevitable» and allowed a «wave of the future» to inundate them.»

Even before that, in May the Soviets and the British accepted friendship and trade agreements with Germany; Germany was recognized by the League of Nations; and in August 1933, one month before the concordat was ratified, Palestinian Jews signed the Haavara emigration agreement with Germany.

It has long been accepted by the United Nations and in most international forums that «developed» countries should provide aid in the form of grants and loans to the developing countries.

This lesson might have been the direct preaching of Jonah to Nineveh if one accepts the historicity of the story, or the older preaching of Amos and Hosea as they proclaimed to the people of God that it would be punished by this savage nation from the north, or the contemporary preaching of Micah and Isaiah, or the most recent warning that the king ought to have understood.

America escaped the worst devastations of the wars and has always been more exclusively shaped by modernity than other nations, and so held on a couple of generations longer; now America too seems slowly to be accepting the evidence.

By around 1850 they had demonstrated that armed only with persuasive power, they could «Christianize» the nation — set the accepted mores and moral patterns, and provide the foundation of commonly shared religious beliefs which were so essential for the being and well - being of the Republic.

In the nineteenth century, in consequence of the expansion of European peoples, this was extended to non-Occidental nations and was at least nominally accepted by them as part of that.

There is an item in today's Australian by Damon Kitney and Andrew White - «We are an oligopoly economy: Robb», describing opposition finance spokesman, Andrew Robb's, statements at the Global Food Forum series in Sydney, that Australians «should not be opposed to create national champion's and claiming «Australians need to accept that the nation is an «oligopoly economy»».

In the treaty, Japan does accept the obligations of the United Nations Charter with respect to pacific settlement of disputes, but so do all the member states of the United Nations, so Japan is not any more restricted by this provision than any other UN member state is.

The fact that it is a very difficult process requiring 2 / 3rds of both Houses of Congress and 3 / 4ths of all States means that it actually has some legitimacy to the document that which remains is accepted as vital to the nation, and that which was changed was accepted as being rigorously vetted and accepted by the majority of the people via representation.

We may have to accept the fact that, once again, just as fate did to us by the prodigious Daniel Addo and Nii Odartey Lamptey of the starlet ’91 fame, another of our immensely outstanding sons might not realize his dream of serving his nation at the elite level because he was a leader before his time!

«Governor Cuomo's rejection of the Constitution Pipeline represents a turning of the tide, where states across the nation that have been pressured into accepting harmful gas infrastructure projects by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission may now feel emboldened to push back,» said Roger Downs, conservation director of the Sierra Club's Atlantic Chapter.

By declaring that Nigerians were «accepting» that he was putting in his best, he signposted a bleak future for the world's most populous black nation.

He notes that the deal is accepted as a treaty by other countries and by the United Nations itself.

The biggest was certainly the decision by the Russian government to endorse the Kyoto Protocol, thus allowing the treaty to take effect and leaving the United States and Australia alone among industrial nations in their refusal to accept limits on greenhouse - gas emissions.

When Arizona Sen. John McCain accepted the Republican nomination for president, he vowed to cut America's reliance on foreign oil by opening up the nation's Atlantic and Pacific coasts to drilling — drawing cheers from GOP delegates on hand for his party's national convention.

Proposed by Svensk Karnbranslehantering (SKB, the Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Company), the encapsulation repository will not only store Sweden's nuclear waste, but also presents opportunities for the Swedish government to entertain proposals to accept waste from other European nations.

A historical film about the Seneca culture featuring the Tonawanda Indian Reservation, Bury My Heart with Tonawanda tells the story of a developmentally disabled boy with Downs Syndrome who is rejected by his own family but is accepted and nurtured by the Tonawanda Seneca Nation.

The film tells the tale of a passionate young drummer named Andrew, played wonderfully by rising star Miles Teller, who is accepted into one of the most prestigious music programs in the nation.

The ACT test is the nation's most popular college entrance exam accepted and valued by all universities and colleges in the United States.

Upon completion of his Ph.D. in Educational Leadership & Policy Analysis at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, Don accepted a position as principal in Chicago Public Schools (CPS), and under his leadership, his school was rated one of the top 100 in the nation by U.S. News & World Report.

That's why I am accepted by all people, any nation and all colours because I have values and I respect myself», Matlala stated in an interview in 2003.

He has written about the reasons for the loss of much of the Mississippi River delta and has given advice on how the nation can achieve «no net loss» of wetlands in the future; advice that has been accepted by the EPA and U. S. Corps of Engineers.

REIT funds may be subject to other risks including, but not limited to, changes in real estate values or economic conditions, credit risk and interest rate fluctuations and changes in the value of the underlying property owned by the trust and defaults by borrowers.In addition to normal risks associated with equity investing, international investing may involve risk of capital loss from unfavorable fluctuations in currency values, from differences in generally accepted accounting principles, and from adverse political, social and economic instability in other nations.

Earlier this year, this collection was accepted in lieu of inheritance tax by HM Government and has been acquired for the nation by Arts Council England, to be allocated to public museums and galleries.

An important 18th - century portrait of the 5th Earl of Carlisle by Sir Joshua Reynolds has been accepted for the nation in lieu of # 4.7 m inheritance tax.

If we accept that energy use has to double or triple (just to offer comfortable life for developing nations) then all the calculation before (e.g. Socolow and Pacala's wedges) fall apart that assumed a reduction of the current 15TW global energy use by improved energy efficiency.