Sentences with phrase «as a nation in»

And so we find ourselves as a nation in an updated version of the Hatfield - McCoy feud, the famous 1800s violence between two families, which left several members of each clan dead over the course of 30 years.

What about Israel as a nation in 1948?

Even as our nation in the period preceding the present war had great power and influence within the world, so church members had great influence within the nation.

If you check out the Old Testament usage in books that depict Israel as a nation in the land (i.e., not in Egypt, not in the wilderness or during the conquest of Canaan), you find that many of the references in various periods speak of the «enemy from the north.»

What are the goals to which we should commit ourselves as a nation in the seventies?

Joined to the quest for social justice at home was an increasing revulsion at our murderous behavior as a nation in the tiny and war - weary country of Vietnam.

«It is obvious to all of us that they have not outlined what we should do as a nation in order to liberate ourselves from the shackles of international and multinational corporations.»

Our success as a nation in the sciences is no mystery; we attract and welcome the best.

Globally, the number of diabetics and prediabetics is in the hundreds of millions and skyrocketing as nations in Asia, Latin America, and Africa modernize.

While we've made considerable progress as a nation in the past century and a half to end the evils of slavery and segregation, we still have a long way to go to ensure that all of our nation's children are afforded the opportunity for an unfettered start and a fair chance that Lincoln talked about.

As a nation in the midst of unprecedented, 21st - century economic challenges, we can no longer afford to rely on the luck of the draw to find the leaders our schools need.

International measures find that the U.S. spends as much on public K — 12 education as any nation in the world.

A recent report by the Council for Economic Education shows we still lag as a nation in teaching financial literacy.

Canada will be celebrating 150 years as a nation in 2017.

Created between the early 1800s and the early 1900s, just as nations in the Americas gained and asserted their independence, the paintings represent efforts by explorers and by artists — both European and locally born — to capture and define the essence of a place on canvas, always rooted in the natural beauty of the land.

As a nation in which art has never been seen as central and yet one which has been in the driver's seat of contemporary art history for the past 70 years, have we messed up the whole enterprise with our entrepreneurial predisposition, reducing what was previously understood to be a calling by so effectively professionalizing it?

What is more likel to significantly damage the US fundamentally as a nation in the next 50 years, a changing climate or a changing economy???

Beyond that, we essentially need to be net carbon neutral as a nation in two decades.

As of October 2011 there was over 1200MW of operational wind farm capacity in South Australia and the state had about as high an installed capacity of wind power per capita as any nation in the world (see Installed wind power per capita and How does Australia compare?).

«Our leaders need to show the way, but no matter how many deals and agreements they make, it's in our daily conversations and interactions that our success as a nation in forging a better place will ultimately be measured.

As the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner of the Australian Human Rights Commission I feel a responsibility in many aspects of my work to consider where we are at as a nation in delivering the reparations that were recommended in Bringing Them Home.

Not exact matches

The social network's co-founder Dustin Moskovitz pledged to donate $ 20 million to help ensure a Clinton victory because, as he put it, Trump's «proposals are so implausible that the nation is forced to worry that his interest in the presidency might not even extend beyond winning a contest and promoting his personal brand.»

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.

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.

Martin Louie, a First Nations leader from Nadieh, B.C., speaks to first nation protesters and their supporters as they gather outside the Enbridge AGM during their continuing protest against proposed oil pipelines in Canada's west coast, on Wednesday May 9, 2012.

In 2014, when I worked as an American expatriate in China's technology industry, the country was widely viewed as a copycat nation, only capable of duplicating Western productIn 2014, when I worked as an American expatriate in China's technology industry, the country was widely viewed as a copycat nation, only capable of duplicating Western productin China's technology industry, the country was widely viewed as a copycat nation, only capable of duplicating Western products.

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.

The letter will formally notify the EU of Britain's exit and trigger a two - year negotiation that will lay the foundations for a new chapter of British history — as a European nation no longer in the EU.

Safety experts have ranked the community as the second - safest city in the nation.

«We are inclined to view it as posing greater trade risk for all types of energy, particularly if other nations establish new trade barriers against U.S. products,» Washington - based research firm ClearView Energy Partners LLC said in a report Monday.

Launched in 2012, Edison Nation Medical allows entrepreneurs to submit as little as a back - of - the - napkin idea for a medical device, and then its team of manufacturers, attorneys, and health care specialists takes care of the rest, from patenting and FDA approvals to licensing and distribution.

The gradual shrinkage of the working - age population in developed nations as well as China has so far failed to stoke inflation through wage increases.

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.

The rupee joins the rupiah (which had fallen more than 13 % against the U.S. dollar as of August), and Brazil's real in a spate of tough economic times for developing nations, particularly those with large current account deficits.

In the south of France, a consortium of the world's major nations (with the notable exception of Canada) is building a US$ 23 - billion facility known as ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor).

However, as the League of Nations fell apart in the 1930s and was then replaced by the United Nations, the ruling on the status of Hans Island carries little to no weight.

The state's retail market will remain the nation's strongest over the next 12 months, despite consumer spending growth expected to ease as expansion in the resources industry tails off, new research from CBRE says.

The Viral Nation team will then come up with several options for a creative campaign — say, getting an influencer to «unwrap» a raincoat on YouTube, and describe the product on Instagram — as well as a list of influencers who would be interested in getting involved.

This fast train to war was sidetracked, however, as Russia and China succeeded in blocking concerted United Nations action against both Iran and its ally, Syria (itself facing a massive propaganda campaign alleging atrocities that can not be independently or fully verified).

«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.»

Though Democrats have historically been viewed as the strongest supporters of renewable energy, utility - scale wind farms and solar installations are found throughout the nation — including in Republican - leaning states like Arizona, North Carolina, Oklahoma and North Dakota — and enjoy bipartisan support among Americans.

Producers like the Goldins believe bugs are headed for big - time consumption and point to a United Nations report published in 2013 as a turning point.

Developing nations will share in that public health crisis as their populations live longer.

The president addressed thousands who'd gathered in the nation's capital to discuss the future of technology and innovation across the euro zone, and as Germany prepares to hold elections in September.

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 Wintemute.

«Following today's announcement up to 100 million cups will be recycled this year alone and if the nation's other coffee chains sign up, there is no reason why all takeaway cups could not be recycled by as early as 2020,» Costa Managing Director Dominic Paul said in a statement.

Our medical advisors come from the finest hospitals and medical schools in the nation, and our board includes internationally recognized experts in corporate finance, as well as leaders in the medical device industry.

The state's retail market will remain the nation's strongest over the next 12 months, despite consumer spending growth expected to ease as expansion in the resources industry tails off, new research f

If Britain stays in a customs union it must agree to apply the same tariffs on imports from outside the EU and can not negotiate free trade deals with other nations, as the government currently hopes to do once the U.K. leaves the bloc.

Catalans, he said in an interview with The Associated Press, need to claim their sovereignty as a nation from a Spanish state he insists has little respect for Catalonia and is an enthusiastic participant in a global capitalist economy he labels as «a war machine that robs, kills and lies.»