Sentences with phrase «as a nation at»

Apparently we are worried as a nation at the prospect of electing a Mormon to the White House but in 2008 electing an individual who attended a church which promoted hate, supported Islam, and announced that America got what it deserved with the terrorist attacks was ok.

According to him «governance and leadership are things we need as a nation at this crucial time, there are a lot in these subjects for our young people».

National reports such as A Nation at Risk noted the failure of schools to provide the nation with a more literate populace as evidenced by allegedly declining verbal SAT scores and less than encouraging results of National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reading assessments.

In point of fact, the decades after 1983 were not the scene of a collapsing economy as A Nation at Risk would have predicted, but rather of a thriving one.

As A Nation at Risk in the US stated 35 years ago: «It is our conviction that the essential raw materials needed to reform our educational system are waiting to be mobilized through effective leadership.»

Not exact matches

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP)-- Malaysia's image as a striving, modern nation that upholds the rule of law has been undermined by an epic corruption scandal at state investment fund 1MDB.

In the U.S., the number of jobs started growing at a slower rate than the nation's productivity around 2000, a trend economists refer to as decoupling.

HAVING spent three days at the Financial Planning Association (FPA) confer - ence in Brisbane last week, it is probably appropriate for me to report on the state of the nation, insofar as financial planners are concerned.

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

«That's why it was important for us, and personally for me, to show the world that even if we may differ at times, we can and should be united in the effort to become better as people and a nation.»

The rest will watch as the prime minister marches «out onto the stage at the National Press [Theatre] with half a dozen representatives of First Nations and environmental groups by his side.

The move was announced as Pope Francis hit out at nations that «close the door» to those seeking a safe haven from war, poverty and persecution.

And her store climbed the ranks to become one of the top - grossing stores of its kind in the nation — even as her franchisor suffered financial problems at the top and, eventually, new ownership.

«I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation,» spoke Dr. King as he began his address at the Washington Monument.

President Donald Trump praised Saudi Arabia's defense acquisitions before as he met with the nation's wealthy young crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, at the White House — and pushed for even more.

Cohen, 51, first caught Trump's eye in the early 2000s when, as a member of the condo board at a Trump property, he took it upon himself to wade into a nasty dispute between Trump's management company and some residents at a skyscraper near the United Nations.

They are such well - run machines at this point, they're basically IT businesses masquerading as transportation businesses,» Schlossberg said Tuesday on CNBC's «Trading Nation.»

A few years ago, I watched as my boss at one such title — an offshoot of a brand famous for ranking the nation's 500 largest corporations — proposed to his boss the heretical idea that we cover more startups.

Antimicrobial resistance is not traditionally the domain of world leaders, and health - related issues — outside of crises such as the Ebola outbreak — are rarely discussed at venues like the United Nations General Assembly.

Indeed it is as unimaginable for many of us to perceive the world without our industrial economies and nation states at the nexus as it must have been for medieval peasants to contemplate a world without the Church of Rome.

It's part of a far - reaching effort by the nation's largest department store chain to regain its former mantle as a tastemaker among better brands at its 664 stores nationwide.

Earlier this year, in his most direct comments on the issue, President Obama said in a speech at the National Cybersecurity Communications Integration Center that cyber threats pose «one of the most serious economic and national security challenges we face as a nation,» and acknowledged that hacking is ongoing.

Revenue dropped 14 % at Peabody, the nation's biggest coal producer, as its net loss shrank.

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.

According to Whoriskey, ``... executive compensation at the nation's largest firms has roughly quadrupled in real terms since the 1970s, even as pay for 90 percent of America has stalled...» Setting aside imprecision of language, that suggests a significant disparity — not disparity of outcomes (which are a given, here) but disparity of rate of improvement.

As more and more bookstores have closed, Amazon is now believed to be the nation's largest bookseller, with an estimated 30 per cent of a total book market that PricewaterhouseCoopers estimates hit $ 34.9 billion last year, and 60 per cent of an e-book market that PwC pegged at $ 7.9 billion.

A recent survey shows that, as a nation, we're pretty bad at unplugging.

Zimbabwe was long - known as southern Africa's «breadbasket» but, with a drought also taking place at the time, the nation's vital agricultural sector collapsed, leading to repeated famines and spectacular inflation.

As a maritime nation, as an Arctic nation, we need to have assured access to the Arctic in all conditions at any time of the yeaAs a maritime nation, as an Arctic nation, we need to have assured access to the Arctic in all conditions at any time of the yeaas an Arctic nation, we need to have assured access to the Arctic in all conditions at any time of the year.

«Before his conviction, Mr. Libby had rendered more than a decade of honorable service to the Nation as a public servant at the Department of State, the Department of Defense, and the White House.

Alex Rosenberg is a producer at CNBC, where he serves as the digital writer and editor for «Trading Nation,» «Futures Now» and «Options Action.»

At the same time, First Nations across the province were gaining unprecedented economic clout as the B.C. government began sharing resource revenues.

Certainly some ad hoc working relationships are emerging among the province, resource companies and first nations as a result of the LNG rush, attendees learned at another panel on First Nations Perspenations as a result of the LNG rush, attendees learned at another panel on First Nations PerspeNations Perspectives.

Author Elizabeth Royte writes in her book, «Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought it,» that 92 % of the nation's 53,000 local water systems meet or exceed federal safety standards and are at least as clean and often cleaner than bottled water.

As a former professional basketball player, longtime coach, and founder of CoachUp, the nation's leading sports coaching company, I've been afforded a rare opportunity to see coaches at their best - and at their worst.

Nolan, a CIA Graduate Fellow in sociology, produced the ethnography by making observations and interviewing 20 analysts in NCTC's Directorate of Intelligence (DI) while also working full time as a counterterrorism analyst at Nation Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) from January 2010 to January 2011.

Today, Lee is dean of the University of Utah medical school as well as CEO of its hospital system, where she has undertaken an experiment that has the potential to revolutionize the nation's health care system at large.

«Strong encryption is in our nation's best interest,» he said at a Wall Street Journal conference last fall, as Fortune's Kia Kokalitcheva reported.

We looked at it, and indeed, it is persistent and it's economically just as strong as it was then,» University of Miami associate professor Michael Fuerst told CNBC's «Trading Nation» this week.

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At around the same time, the first deputy governor of Russia's central bank proposed a virtual currency that would be issued on behalf of all EAEU nations as well as the BRICS countries: Brazil, Russia, China, India, and South Africa.

After the first announcement, the European Union, Germany, Canada and other nations threatened retaliation against the U.S. (Canada was later exempted, as was the EU — at least temporarily), and even the World Trade Organization voiced concern.

As a VP at Progress Investment Management Company, Ms. Nettles primarily focused on the Western Region of the U.S. with a secondary focus on select plan sponsors across the nation.

And it's true when you look at the data across developed nations, as this other chart from researcher Josh Tewksbury shows:

As the U.S. takes aim at Canada's dairy sector as it attempts to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement, the nation's farmers and processors are forging ahead with some of their biggest expansions and investments in more than a decadAs the U.S. takes aim at Canada's dairy sector as it attempts to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement, the nation's farmers and processors are forging ahead with some of their biggest expansions and investments in more than a decadas it attempts to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement, the nation's farmers and processors are forging ahead with some of their biggest expansions and investments in more than a decade.

Al Nowais operates at all levels of government and business in a continued effort to bring prosperity and growth to both economies as well as facilitate the development of commercial relationships between the two nations.

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.

The meeting between JPMorgan's top executive and the nation's top law enforcement official was viewed as unusual at the time.

In a recent speech on Indigenous issues at the United Nations, for instance, Trudeau said to make progress First Nations must take «a hard look at how they define and govern themselves as nations and governments, and how they seek to relate to other orders of government.Nations, for instance, Trudeau said to make progress First Nations must take «a hard look at how they define and govern themselves as nations and governments, and how they seek to relate to other orders of government.Nations must take «a hard look at how they define and govern themselves as nations and governments, and how they seek to relate to other orders of government.nations and governments, and how they seek to relate to other orders of government.»

In her role as Senior Project Manager at the United Nations SSE initiative, Tiffany leads a work stream on green finance and works with stock exchanges and regulators more broadly to improve sustainability and transparency of capital markets worldwide.