Sentences with phrase «as the nation began»

By the 1960s, as the nation began to worry about heart disease, the trans fats were starting to really hit their stride.

As the nation began to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, a group of scholars and educators gathered at Harvard to explore how to teach the legacy and the history of the tragedy to students who have come of age in its wake.

As a nation we began to see that this simple formula was inadequate.

Energy Matters Wind power could provide 20 percent of the world's electricity supply by 2030 as nations begin curbing carbon emissions in line with commitments made at last year's Paris Climate Summit.

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«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.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions, a longtime opponent of marijuana legalization, is embracing the Just - Say - No attitude towards marijuana and links the industry to violence and crime as he begins his role as the nation's top attorney.

Federal grants and the Pentagon's 1033 program accelerated after 9/11, and according to The New York Times, as U.S. forces began to withdraw from Iraq and Afghanistan, police departments across the nation amassed an even greater supply of surplus weapons — tens of thousands of machine guns, 200,000 ammunition magazines, thousands of fatigues and pieces of camouflage, night - vision equipment, and hundreds of silencers, armored cars, and aircraft.

Prosecutors began to uncover a string of corruption scandals in 2014 and 2015, involving both private and state - controlled companies, like Petrobras, the nation's oil and gas champion, as well as current and former elected officials — namely, the former president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

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

What began as a small, focused Enbridge campaign with northern First Nations grew into a political juggernaut that arguably contributed to the Harper government's 2015 defeat, after the pro-tanker Conservative party lost more votes in B.C. than in the rest of the country combined.

Over the past few years, countries such as China, Russia, Iran, and Brazile, Russia, India, and China, and South Africa (the BRICS nations) have begun to pose a challenge to the current system, forming pacts to transact oil in local currencies, bypassing the petro - dollar.

Many here view the program as tantamount to a taxpayer - funded bailout of nations that should never have been let into the euro club to begin with.

They began a steady decline shortly after that, as the nation's housing market stumbled.

«Maintaining the confidence of the financial markets requires that we, as a nation, begin planning now for the restoration of fiscal balance.»

He began his career as an economic researcher and policy consultant with the Fraser Institute, World Bank and United Nations.

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.

The social media platform made such data grabs easy for app developers — though it began severely restricting them in 2015 — and Wylie saw it as a powerful way to study an entire nation on a scale at once broad and precise.

I am certain that other Parliamentary Governments will fall as the austerity budgets begin to take a toll on voters of many Western nations.

British Columbia must play an important role as Canada and the nations of the world reach for an accord and begin to take decisive action.

As of right now, China has already begun inking deals with other nations which involve the Chinese yuan, not the US dollar.

Our government was founded by a combination of Christians and Deists, but having studied the actions of our government even against it's own people we haven't been a Christian nation since the beginning, much as some people want it to be.

Our nation has begun a modest surge in Afghanistan, ostensibly as a prelude to substantial withdrawal of ground forces from that country, if not from Southwest Asia altogether.

The German nation began as a metaphor of Schiller's ode to the spirit of human freedom and concluded with Hitler's spirit of life taking on a scale of unparalleled horror.

The people you list were totalitarian leaders of nations who happened to head governments that did not endorse or give support to any religion as a matter of Marxist instruction because the state HAD used religion since the beginning of history to take advantage of people.

@KatMat: your analogy would begin approaching realism if: — during the pledge of allegiance kids were forced to say «one nation under The Orioles» — our nation's currency said «In Dallas Cowboys We Trust» — if millions were slaughtered, tortured and burned to death because they weren't fans of The Pittsburgh Penguins — if NASCAR fans endlessly attempted to have Intelligent Car Driving taught beside Evolution in science class as a possible explanation for how mankind developed — if «the 5 D's» of Dodgeball (Dodge, Duck, Dip, Dive, Dodge) were constantly attempted to be made into law so everyone would live by the same ridiculous notions, even if those notions knowingly discriminate — if nutters constantly claimed America was founded on the principles of Darts, even though our country SPECIFICALLY calls for a separation between Darts and State because the founders knew the inherent dangers of Darts becoming government instead of staying in the realm of sport where it belongs

As protesters and supporters of the campaign strategized to demonstrate in the nation's capital later that spring, his message had begun to transcend simply championing civil rights for African Americans.

When western nations began to emerge, they used the church's law as models for their own laws.

Instead of simply taking the windows down and going on with business as usual, the cathedral recognizes that, for now, they provide an opportunity for us to begin to write a new narrative on race and racial justice at the cathedral and perhaps for our nation.

Genesis is the beginning of mankind every tribe every nation we all descended from Adam and Eve otherwise we could not be redeemed by the blood of Jesus as one man sinned so one man paid the price for all.

Since the beginning of last week, ISIS has taken thousands of people hostage from the outskirts of Mosul into the main parts of the city, and United Nations officials fear that the plan is «to use them as human shields against the Iraqi forces advance on Mosul.»

The «communal tensions» between the groups were «of major importance in the life of the nation,» Herberg added, suggesting that they began non-divisive discussions about the limits of American democracy and allowed all 96 percent of Americans who identified as Protestant, Catholic, or Jew to have some social, political, and cultural recognition in America.

Although held in theory over a long period, the belief was accentuated during the latter part of the nineteenth century and since, and became finally a basic dogma underlying the Japanese Imperial thrust, which is often regarded as the beginning of World War II.9 The idea was taught in the schools, in the army, and resulted finally in a fanatical religious, as well as patriotic, devotion to the emperor, without which, it seems to the writer, it is impossible to explain the daring attack of the island empire of Japan upon the richest and most powerful nation in the world, the United States.

He added: «I was able to pay homage to this great country, which from the beginning has been based on a pleasing joining together of religious, ethical, and political principles, and continues to be a valid example of healthy secularism where the religious dimension, in its diverse expressions, is not only tolerated but valued as the «soul» of the nation and the fundamental guarantee of the rights and duties of the human being.»

The company has begun a nation - wide search for fresh young talent to play a new class of Wildcats as well as some shifty - eyed teens to play their rivals the West High Knights.

How much more is God going have to allow to happen before we as a nation united by the blood of Jesus stop denying Him and begin to acknowledge Him in all that we do.

According to the apostolic witness, the call to holiness begins with divine election: God's summons to Israel, and later to the Church, to be a holy nation, a people set apart as God's own treasured possession, called to worship, witness, and good works (see Ephesians 1:4, 1 Peter 2:9).

When the suffering servant is allowed to go up and be a light for the nations, the servant Israel, redeemed and cleansed, will establish God's sovereignty upon itself and serve as the beginning of His kingdom.

Or taking a less precise definition of beginning, one might consider the whole period, from the Declaration of Independence to the inauguration of Washington under the new Constitution, as the origin time of the American nation, America began as the result of a series of conscious decisions, The acts embodying those decisions have a kind of absolute meaning - creating significance.

«The strength of evangelicals in the Iowa Republican Party could turn into a weakness if they are seen as so strong that Republicans around the nation begin to discount the results of the caucuses,» says Drake University's Goldford.

Every declaration of independence such as those of Venezuela and Bolivia can increase the likelihood that economically enslaved nations will begin to act in their own interest.

In fact, the fighting beyond Rwanda began as an effort by that nation, alone and unaided, to hunt down Hutu murderers still butchering Tutsi in neighboring Uganda, Burundi, and what is now Eastern Congo.

So they began to «build a fence» around the Mosaic Law to make sure they, as a nation, didn't violate the it again.

When the Hebrew tribes broke into Palestine in the fourteenth century B.C. in the invasion that was to prove the beginning of their career as a nation, the glory of Egypt was already waning.

This analogy must not be pressed, for the person Jesus was far more decisively and pervasively present in the event with which the Christian movement began than was Washington as a person in the establishment of the American nation; besides, there is nothing corresponding to the resurrection in the latter.

Antagonism against the USA is further perpetrated by the leadership of the USA in Gulf War, military involvement in Somalia [both Muslim nations], and, as mentioned above, the continued economic blockade against Iraq and support and supply of weapons to the Israeli army (which has been used predominantly against the «intifada» [uprising] of the Palestinian youth beginning in 1987).

Believe in YWHY and YESHUA and what they did for you and seek them then shall you be free The illusion of death and disease and debt are not real and as a nation we deserve everything that comes up on us as you can tell the end has already begun.

It began at just about the same time as the use of African Slaves in the South (1609) At present, the top 1 % has 42 % of the nation's financial wealth.

A fairly typical letter proclaimed, «I believe that the USA was founded as a Nation Under God and has had God «s grace all these years and only when the laws and Supreme Court decisions started to give more power to the secular groups has God «s Grace begun to diminish and soon we will no longer be a blessed nation.&Nation Under God and has had God «s grace all these years and only when the laws and Supreme Court decisions started to give more power to the secular groups has God «s Grace begun to diminish and soon we will no longer be a blessed nation.&nation.»

atheists are the quickest to condemn the US for being Christian but real Christians know the truth, America was not a Christian nation at the beginning and as a result it will end a non-Christian nation.

Phrygian to me i sense that you are struggling with issues in your mind that you cant reconcile and these issues are affecting what you believe in your heart and therefore your faith in God.I had something similar happen to me recently regarding the story of the demon possessed man at one point the demons begged Jesus to cast them into the pigs does that mean that Jesus was implicated with the work of satan.It cast my mind into doubt and then i began to question who God is.I prayed and sort the holy spirit for an answer the answer i got was that Gods character never changes he is always holy righteous and sovereign why else would satan ask for his permission.So the answer was that he allowed satans purpose to prevail so that we can see that satans intention is always to destroy it may well have been that the pigs were his anyway.As they were for the gentile nations who offered the pigs to their demon Gods.Just as satan can not change who he is the destroyer the thief the liar God can not change who he is when we realise that despite what we see going on in the world God is still the same yesterday today and forever.The time is coming when those that have hurt others will be judged for there wickedness as we serve a holy and just God.Just as it was in the times of Noah so it is with this this generation that as the wickedness reachs its zenith then the Lord will return to judge the nations.He is coming again and we need to be ready it is not a time to be caught sleeping.brentnz