Sentences with phrase «as citizens of this nation»

What the Haredi have done is simple, even admirable: they've attempted to find a way to integrate modern practices with their religious ideals, which we ought to, as citizens of a nation which values religious freedom and upholds the right to practice, respect, not bemoan.

The young man buys his proper suit of clothing; there grows upon the child a dawning awareness of himself as citizen of a nation and partial custodian of its destiny.

In the United States in the nineteenth century, and well into the twentieth, it was understood that students should be prepared to play their roles as citizens of the nation.

«Free speech is the cornerstone to our democracy and the defendants» actions in this instance are a flagrant violation of my client's protected rights as a citizen of this nation,» Vacco said.

«In addition to being negligent of our responsibilities as citizens of this nation, it will guarantee a road to irrelevance for Massachusetts.»

Topics will include how schools are preparing students for satisfying careers in a world that requires skills in advanced technology, problem solving, and teamwork; the demands of higher education and approaches that enable students to succeed in college and beyond; school programs that help students develop good character; and practices that make students aware of their responsibilities as citizens of their nation and world.

You can no longer see or identify yourself solely as a member of a tribe, but as a citizen of a nation of one people working toward a common purpose.

Bofiliou's painting literally draws the set structures that define our everyday conditions as citizens of nation - states, but also suspends the grim realities we witness by humorously depicting daily urban rituals or mundane habits.

Not exact matches

As its costs of commodities and food skyrockets, its citizens» restive ambitions are thwarted by the limits facing all consuming nations, and its aging populace catches up with it, then China's resources will be stretched too thin to construct a Grand Empire with decisive hard and soft power.

As America turns once again to our perennial celebration of the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a full year of Donald Trump on full Technicolor display has cast its inimitable shadow over the legacy of one of the greatest American citizens in this nation's history.

As a nation, we have a responsibility to our most vulnerable, and the richest of our citizens and the most profitable of our institutions should give more of their wealth to help those who don't have it.

These are the citizens of Free Agent Nation, as author Daniel Pink called it in his influential 2001 bestseller, and they've never met a challenge they didn't like.

Before the Constitution created the United States as a unitary nation, the Congress of the Confederation of States passed the Northwest Ordinance in 1787 to make large segments of land available to citizens in the area that later became the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota.

This is the first such crime in the nation - and the scale of it has surprised the police, the judiciary as well as the citizens.

The Baltic nation of Estonia is securely storing the healthcare records for more than one million of its citizens on distributed databases, Japanese airline Peach Aviation recently became the third commercial carrier to accept cryptocurrency as payment for flights, while the musician Imogen Heap built her own blockchain to release a single directly to her fanbase.

There are those who believe the myth of America as a «christian nation», whose citizens ALL do have a Ticket to Heaven.

It is a part we are given as a part of our tribe, just as we are all sons and daughters, fathers and mothers, husbands and wives, citizens of our nation, servants of Jesus Christ.

We think, in contrast to Saverin and Loyola, of Christopher Hitchens» moving essay «For Patriot Dreams,» written after 9/11, when he announces his desire to become a citizen of this country, not because he seeks any gain» he was already successful as an expatriate Brit» but because the murder of so many Americans had made him realize that he already felt the citizen's love for this nation.

After March 4, 2013, an International Arrest Warrant will be issued against these Defendants.The guilty verdict followed nearly a month of deliberations by more than thirty sworn Citizen Jurors of the 150 case exhibits produced by Court Prosecutors, The Court's judgement declares the wealth and property of the churches responsible for the Canadian genocide to be forfeited and placed under public ownership, as reparations for the families of the more than 50,000 children who died in the residential schools.To enforce its sentence, the Court has empowered citizens in Canada, the United States, England, Italy and a dozen other nations to act as its legal agents armed with warrants, and peacefully occupy and seize properties of the Roman Catholic, Anglican and United Church of Canada, which are the main agents in the deaths of these children

But as the footage of the real aftermath of Hurricane Sandy came into view, the nation and its citizens and leaders alike have quickly realized this is not a political platform, but a human crisis.

It has indeed caused «severe embarrassment» to the nation, as he laments, for the Senate investigation has laid before the public the elements of a terrible irony: that acts which are illegal and unethical for citizens to engage in at home are condoned, even aggressively pursued, by American law - enforcement officers and secret agents both at home and abroad.

God's will was to be made to prevail in the public life of the nation as well as in the personal lives of the citizens.

A nation which operated by relational power would be one which actively attempted to be sensitive to the feelings of persons in other nations, to the needs, fears, hopes, angers, and goals of other nations (as well as of its own citizens), and which allowed those to influence its policies.

We are divided ethnically, as those born outside this nation are increasingly made aware of their status apart from natural citizens.

«As a citizen of this Christian Nation, I ask only two things of my President, or my Vice President, or my Congressional Representative in 2012.»

These uncertain times call for different measures and communication tools than we have used in the past... There are more than 65 million citizens of the world recognized as refugees by the United Nations, and we are developing plans to hire 10,000 of them over five years in the 75 countries around the world where Starbucks does business.»

As a US citizen, I'm ashamed of the rampant ignorance that pervades our nation.

As followers of Jesus, we can enjoy America and the Constitution and all that comes with being a citizen (that's another conversation), but our primary allegiance is not to a nation; our goal is not to persuade the world of the American way of life.

There are more than 65 million citizens of the world recognized as refugees by the United Nations, and we are developing plans to hire 10,000 of them over five years in the 75 countries around the world where Starbucks does business.

Just as a college, founded by a denomination, reaches for respectability, severs its church ties and becomes a secular university, and just as a colony, settled by citizens of a motherland, rebels and becomes a nation, so a dynamic spiritual movement tends to become one more institution, one more system, one more bureaucracy.

Scott estimates that the proportion of Mexican citizens without even a concept of the nation has declined from 90 percent in 1910 to 25 percent in 1963.44 Inasmuch as the population nearly tripled during that period, the expansion of nationalistic sentiment has been enormous.

As sponsor of the nationalism, in other words, the state makes no use of transcendental language nor, apparently, do citizens in thinking about their nation.

For example, granted that the evil acts of the Third Reich may have molded the moral beliefs of its citizens so that they became literally incapable of seeing the evil as evil, it is also the case that Nazism was itself possible only because of the willingness of individual Germans to have the nation's policies translated into fact.

As I have wrestled over whether it is appropriate for me as a Christian and citizen of the kingdom of God to feel love, loyalty, pride and a sense of belonging to a nation state, I have come to see there is an unresolvable tension at the heart of the questioAs I have wrestled over whether it is appropriate for me as a Christian and citizen of the kingdom of God to feel love, loyalty, pride and a sense of belonging to a nation state, I have come to see there is an unresolvable tension at the heart of the questioas a Christian and citizen of the kingdom of God to feel love, loyalty, pride and a sense of belonging to a nation state, I have come to see there is an unresolvable tension at the heart of the question.

The council called on the new government to «restore constitutional order and affirm citizens» political, economic and other fundamental rights and freedoms» and to assert «the territorial integrity of Ukraine, whose independence is a gift from God and is valued by our entire nation, which is why we have no right to allow for its separation, as this would be a sin before God and future generations.»

The GOP has lost it's way, the U.S. was NOT founded as a Christian nation it was founded to be free of any religious influenece by it citizens.

A nation must be subject to the same divine laws of social justice and moral responsibility in relation to its own citizens and to other nations as is the individual person.

The superpowers frequently act as powerbrokers for factions in other nations despite the protests of citizens in those nations.

Such a logic elevates as supreme the abstract notion of the perpetually abiding nation - state, outlasting its citizens and being more valued than the lives of individual humans.

Perhaps the nation as a whole would benefit if the good citizens of New England went back to chuch in greater numbers...

Speaking on a conference call with far - right pastor Rick Scarborough, Gohmert warned listeners that the nation could be coming «toward the end of [its] existence,» as evidenced by its leaders and citizens allegedly neglecting to remain true to biblical teachings.

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.

I believe that even if our western nations were overrun by a new political power, we would still live our lives as citizens of the Kingdom of God.

G. Seek inclusion for local cable programmers, local public radio broadcasters, computer network operators and similar professionals operating in the public interest as members of training delegations going to developing nations in order to propagate the concept of a vigorous, involved public citizen movement.

As members of a nation - state we are accustomed to think of dealing with citizens of other nation - states in military, colonial, and commercial metaphors.

Nevertheless, a nation should include at least such elements as common commitment to the rule of law, generally accepted limits on political power and rhetoric, belief in constitutional governance, the rights of citizens, etc..

«In God We Trust» because no «One» or «Faction» deserves or should posses it on behalf of our nation or our citizens as a whole.

Just as there are laws within a nation that forbid a person to misuse his liberty, so there should be laws under which the irresponsible use of a nation's powers over its own citizens could be judged; that is to say, the rights of self - determination by the nation should be subordinate to the fundamental rights of man.

You can't argue with the fact that Israel as a nation goes to extraordinary measures to retrieve one of its soldiers or citizens.

I invite all citizens of our Nation, as their own faith directs them, to join me in giving thanks for the many blessings we enjoy, and I call upon individuals of all faiths to pray for guidance, grace, and protection for our great Nation as we address the challenges of our time.