Sentences with phrase «asking about nation»

But the question was just asking about nation - level spending, so this is out of scope.

When asked to evaluate their local public schools, uninformed Americans give much more positive assessments than they offer when asked about the nation's schools.

Future research should focus on defining what individuals interpret when asked about their nation as opposed to their country attachment.

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Inc. asked the nation's fastest growing, private - company CEOs to answer a series of wide - ranging questions about their early days and their biggest struggles.

Officials have so far been evasive when asked how the three nations can continue trying to update the North American Free Trade Agreement at a time when the U.S. president is about to take a highly protectionist measure.

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.

Its up to the people asking question to have a meaningful debate or just another bunch of irrelevant talk about nothing important to the future of our nation.

He once wrote this when asked about building Confederate monuments at Civil War historic sites: «I think it wiser moreover not to keep open the sores of war, but to follow the examples of those nations who endeavoured to obliterate the marks of civil strife and to commit to oblivion the feelings it engendered.»

I wonder what that man would have said, could I have asked him whether he was concerned about our nation's need for a renewal of powerful, ethical religion that would re-establish faith in spiritual realities and values, and elevate the standards of personal and public integrity.

In a time when we're now asking fresh questions about what sins, past and present, we will tolerate from leaders in government, business and entertainment, it's paramount that we look the past of our nation in the eye, and absorb the horrors which many Christians explained away just two generations ago.

What raised eyebrows about these demands was not their size but the fact that they came from an ethnic group, rather than a nation or state, and a group which was asking that its ethnic identity become the basis for the reparations.

Have you ever read the book ZVI, about a Jew who became a believer after the Holocaust and how all his Jewish brethren began to treat him with contempt once he became a Christian asking him how he could betray their nation and becoming part of a group of people that persecuted them in the holocaust.

Jeremy good message and quite relevant for today God is still looking at our hearts and motives for serving him or are we serving our own agenda as Jonah was.He did nt feel compassionate towards his enemies and who could blame him they had cruelly killed many Jews it was a question of life or death to his own people.The Jewish nation was no more deserving of Gods grace than the other nations that is revealed by sending Jonah to preach a message of hope and life.Ultimately God calls all by faith in him and is willing to be merciful to all nations and peoples that do not not deserve it just like us it is by grace that we all are forgiven.I am pleased that God is sovereign and knows whats best he is merciful to us.Our human nature is that it is better to kill our enemies before they can kill us and that is essentially Jonahs message that is why he struggled to be obedient to Gods will.Gods message is to forgive those that trespass against us and show mercy.Its complicated and it is natural to protect ourselves and our families from those who would seek to destroy them but ultimately its about trusting God with everything easier said than done.If it comes to a choice we will have to trust God and ask for his strength because we cant do it in ours.As Christ laid down his life for us are we ready to lay our lives and the lives of our families as a sacrifice for him.To me that is where the story of Jonah is leading to we have the choice to fight our enemies or to love them as God loves them.brentnz

Any man who can not make a rational decision about something before he asks, «God» first... doesn't deserve to be in control of an entire nation!

The «propositional nation» right is glad to talk about the contributions of immigrants (especially when asking Congress to permit more guest workers to staff their businesses), but their policy preferences (tax cuts for themselves, entitlement cuts for wage - earners) will never seem inclusive.

It embarrasses our missionaries when the so - called heathen nations ask about the behavior of the so - called Christian nations.

@Tea Partier... hmmm, when I walk into the average nursing home in this «Great Christian Nation» of ours, I have to ask how much you and your Tea Party friends care about the elderly... I am amazed at how little conservatives, Evangelicals and the latest version Tea Party members care so little for the living except their own tribe in the so - called «light» of their scriptures...

Asked about the fight by SB Nation's Thomas George, an older, wiser Rob Gronkowski explained why he avoids practice field scuffles.

So when SB Nation asked me if I could review «Draft Day» - the new NFL movie starring Kevin Costner, I told them I do nt know about «movies» but I'll take a look at what theyve put on film and give a full evalutation.

Yet when asked about the Golden State's superiority to the rest of the nation, the tie - dyed hoops virtuoso draws upon the wisdom of the late conservative governor.

SB Nation college football editor Jason Kirk asked me to write about strength of schedule, and I'll be honest: it pissed me off.

The boss was asked about Mohamed Elneny's return from the Africa Cup of Nations and Hector Bellerin's recovery.

Ross also asked the governor about how he thinks history will view him once out of office and that other topic captivating New York and the nation: LeBron James's decision to go to Miami Heat and not the Knicks.

Asked about Clinton's comments, the head of the nation's largest LGBT rights organization — which has endorsed Clinton — avoided criticizing Clinton directly.

That said, I spoke to a handful of union members in attendance who came because they asked / demanded to go, but who never saw anything from their International about Netroots Nation.

Let's ask Netroots Nation to post data about how many trade unionists attended, and make it a goal to exceed that number in 2012.

Western New York Assemblyman Mickey Kearns, D - Buffalo, stopped short of criticizing the governor when asked about the ongoing dispute between the state and the Seneca Nation over casino payment.

Asked repeatedly about the effect of Labour's economic policies on the nation's finances, John McDonnell dismissed the questions as «trite» journalism.

In a follow - up to the debate, Gotham Gazette asked Stringer's office about his apparent openness to some home ownership among NYCHA tenants and what that might mean for a privatization of the nation's largest public housing system.

Cuomo, meanwhile, released a bill that would ban employers from asking about a job applicant's prior salary amount, to try to correct what the governor says is a «persistent gender wage gap» in New York and the nation.

Asked about the way Trump might factor into this year's race, Latimer detailed actions such as the proposed changes to the nation's health care system.

He has subpoenaed the county for their contract with Live Nation and repeatedly asked about an unpaid $ 119,000 payment from the state for a Miranda Lambert concert.

For Red Box, YouGov asked the nation: «Thinking about retired politicians playing a role in the current election, do you think getting support from the following politicians would be an asset or a liability for today's politicians?»

Mr Buhari was asked during Monday's joint press conference about a report in January that Mr Trump had complained about immigrants coming to the US from «shithole countries», specifically referring to Haiti, El Salvador and some African nations.

Describing the President as the face and image of the nation, Fayose urged Buhari to hold regular media chats in which Nigerians could ask questions and offer suggestions about the running of the country.

A person with knowledge of the factors behind the endorsement who asked not to be identified said members of the Queens Democratic Party and Working Families Party grew concerned about the 38 - year - old candidate when they learned shortly before they made their endorsement picks that he was a member of the Nation of Islam and threw their support toward Sanders.

When asked to think about the nation this year, nearly six in 10 adults (59 percent) report that the current social divisiveness causes them stress.

Scholarships are available through international agencies such as the United Nations and European Commission, and you should ask your host university about institutional scholarships.

He also asked about comments she made that likened acceptance of climate change science to a «kind of paganism» and suggested that top United Nations climate policy advocates were effectively supporting communism.

How come such a small country with only about 7 million inhabitants produces more start - up companies than large stable nations like Japan, India, Canada and the United Kingdom, asks the book «Start - Up Nation».

And before the ceremony, we asked you to share what you want him to know about Houston as part of NPR's A Nation Engaged project.

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After all the groups have presented, ask everyone to read Part 6 and think about the question for Part 6: What is the brave and starting truth that is the message of the poem and what does this have to do with the United Nations?

Race to the Top asked states to create their own unique blueprints for education reform — and then, by publicly posting everyone's plans and the judges» scores, got the nation involved in a conversation about what high - quality education systems look like.

A further difficulty is that PISA was administered to 65 nations, including many in the developing world, and we don't know whether the public, when asked the PDK question, was thinking about the developing world when asked about «most of the nations.»

For one thing, it has asked the same question about the nation's schools and local schools every year since the 1980s — and I am making use of that poll in my forthcoming Brookings book, Teachers vs. the Public, by Michael Henderson and Martin West and myself.

To find out, I asked three of my colleagues at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute to review all of the editorials written about or touching on charter schools or No Child Left Behind from 2006 and 2007 for the nation's 25 largest - circulation papers.

In contrast, when respondents separately evaluate local schools and the nation's schools, the overall pattern of their responses should be similar, as they are being asked about the same institutions.

One of the insights in The Innovator's Prescription, a book about solving the problems afflicting the nation's health - care system by Clayton Christensen, Dr. Jason Hwang, and Dr. Jerome Grossman, is that we won't get more affordable health care by asking high - salary individuals to take lower salaries.

When Kimmelman was asked to serve on the John Glenn Commission last year, he came across a Life magazine article published during the 1950s about the crisis in education in our nation's schools.