Sentences with phrase «by modern government»

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Unlike modern fiat money, Bitcoin, which has often been called «cash for the Internet,» is not controlled or backed by any bank or central government authority, like the Federal Reserve, for example.

He built a statue of John Lennon on his front lawn and raised eyebrows by buying the state government a modern airplane as a gift.

It is a uniquely modern question prompted by the dovetailing of Apple's new technology, which uses a fingerprint - based Touch ID to unlock the latest iPhone, and the heightened focus on government intrusion and surveillance of emails and communications, as demonstrated by the National Security Agency scandal.

There is, after all, one other individual right too often neglected by modern constitutional scholarship - the right of democratic self - government.

Modern Islamic extremism comes from Wahabism, practiced in Saudi Arabia and propagated around the world by the Saud family, with whom, incidentally, our government (s) are pretty chummy.

Government is increasingly shaped by criteria of efficiency established by the great high priest of that value, the modern social scientist.

There's Arkansas, bounty hunters, snakes real, human, and symbolic, being rescued from a snake pit by a very errant knight, a display of the gratuitous slaughter that comes when you take the law in your own hands, a deep commentary on place, displacement, the state of nature, and the techno - forces of the modern world and modern government, solidly American thoughts on law, property, justice, and keeping your word, and so forth and so on.

And if one doesn't have a government pension (paid for by deficit dollars), the modern Govt.

The first state run social service program in the modern era was created by a fairly conservative government.

One of the unintentional cruelties sometimes practiced by the United States Government in dealing with American Indians has sprung from failure to understand this contrast between primitive and modern culture.

Following on the British government's decision in favour of promoting English rather than Oriental or Vernacular education in India, and to seek the help of private agencies in the task, the Missions started Christian colleges for imparting education in Western culture and modern science with the teaching of English literature at the centre of secular courses and spiritually interpreted by the teaching of Christian Scripture.

But, today's modern evangelical fundamentalists, going back to the days of Abraham Vereide founding of the religio - business - political cabal The Family / The Fellowship / C Street / National Prayer Breakfast, chooses to ignore Jesus» comments about his ministry and are bound and determined to have our government controlled by theocratic politicians who are passing laws to further their goal of turning this country into an theocracy.

George Soros in America and Jane Kelsey in New Zealand have both referred to «market fundamentalists», by which they mean those who reject all modern forms of socialism and government interference in economic issues, and who seek a return to the free market and private enterprise of pre-modern society.

«First, the word democracy, as used by modern peoples, has a wider meaning than in the classical treatises on the science of government.

This methodology regards all theological «truths» as molded by circumstance and culture; it takes more seriously the pluralism of the modern world and the importance of democratic consensus in church government.

I'm not suggesting by any stretch of the imagination that there isn't hypocrisy in the modern American government regarding what favors are granted to religions and what favors aren't.

Modern pig farming is regulated by the government and thus the trichina worm is non-existent in the commercial pork industry.

America was built and prospered on a private school system, directly reflecting individual parental values; modern Americans, indoctrinated by many years in government schools, recoil at such history / ideas... mistakenly seeing it as beyond belief or reason.

The right to decide what to think rather than being told what to think reflects the neoliberal values of modern consumerism a situation supported by the Australian government encouraging women to empower themselves through informed decision making regarding maternity care [43].

It has been an honour to negotiate and then serve in the first coalition government of modern times which has substantial achievements both in reducing the economic dangers faced by our country, and in making progress with policies to tackle climate change and provide energy security.

If any modern government is truly serious about facilitating the creation of a «regulated market» in cannabis to eradicate black markets — and they ought to be — they must start by exploring how it can be regulated in the public interest and on the internet.

It is in this sense that Modern American Conservatism is conservative to Americans: The tenants of the nation was that governments exist by consent of the govern, individualism, and that local governments should have more power to interfere with individuals than state governments, which should have more power than the national government (Jeffersonian Democracy).

«We have just sent some of our science teachers to a work shop in Gombe State to keep abreast of the modern laboratory equipment being used in Biology, Physics and Chemistry; this was paid for by the state government.

Her remit may be broad, but it also covers some of the most important tasks facing this government, including dealing with the knife crime epidemic, tackling modern slavery — a cause championed by Theresa May during her own time at the Home Office and in Downing Street — and leading on the forthcoming Domestic Abuse Bill.

Our party will raise public awareness of the discriminations and poor life outcomes experienced by men and boys in modern Britain, many of them partly or wholly attributable to successive governments» actions or inactions.

Or to look at it in the Chinese context, the term has something in accordance with Mr Sun Yat - sen's vision of a government in modern China: a government of the people, for the people and by the people («San Min Zhu Yi»).

However, it has been encouraged to be patient in its pursuit of the initiative by the fact that successive Romanian governments have indicated that they are happy to accept «its 19th century colonial operations, compared to -LSB-...] modern gold mines» and are willing to tolerate the concomitant risks of contamination and environmental damage, deemed «alarming» by Victor Bostinaru, a member of the European Parliament.

He argues that people are now frustrated, disengaged and angry with government, politics, their economic circumstances and their daily lives which are caused by deep structural problems in the systems that dominate our modern world.

The National Health Students» Association Of Ghana (NAHSAG) has described as «modern day slavery» the initiative by government to contract the services of some unemployed graduate nurses under the Nation Builders Corps programme, in a module called Heal Ghana.

The National Health Students» Association Of Ghana (NAHSAG) has described as «modern day slavery» the initiative by government to...

«Modern slavery is on the increase but under Theresa May's watch, the police and Border Force have been cut and her government cut local authorities by over 40 %,» Sarah Champion, the shadow minister for preventing abuse, said.

We can presume, surely, that this is the only draft Constitution (using the term in a modern sense) to have been authored in our island home by an official government!

In Eti - Osa Local Government, Governor Ambode who was represented by State's Commissioner for Economic Planning and Budget, Mr. Akinyemi Ashade, commissioned the 1.9 km Unity / 1st Avenue Osapa London Road in Eti - Osa Local Government and block of 16 classrooms with modern facilities at Kuramo Primary School in Iru - Victoria Island Local Council Development Area (LCDA).

The newly constructed ultra modern Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) Camp in Shendam Local Government Area (LGA) of Plateau has been razed by fire.

We'd be absolutely oblivious to all the wonderful changes and all the modern - day plagues of society that must be dealt with in the courts, and by our government.

Built in a dizzying rush by developers to exploit cheap loans and favorable government regulations, these modern ruins now litter the landscape.

A recent report by Ofcom (the Government Office for Communications) has revealed some interesting statistics about modern internet use, and the results are particularly interesting for the over 50s population!

Policies and reforms followed by modern day governments, institutions, universities, and workplaces have also made it possible for men and women to meet with and interact with members of the opposite gender and other races more openly.

A guerrilla war took place through the 1980s and 1990s in which much of the countryside was evacuated, thousands of Kurdish - populated villages were destroyed by the government, and numerous summary executions were carried out by both sides.However they were later driven out of Hazza by pagans, and settled in Tamanon, which according to Abdisho was in the land of the Kurds.Tamanon lies just north of the modern Iraq - Turkey border, while Hazza is 12 km southwest of modern Erbil.One of the earliest records of the phrase land of the Kurds is found in an Assyrian Christian document of late antiquity, describing the stories of Assyrian saints of the Middle East, such as Abdisho.When the Sasanian Marzban asked Mar Abdisho about his place of origin, he replied that according to his parents, they were originally from Hazza, a village in Assyria.The region came under Persian rule during the reign of Cyrus the Great and Darius I.

Taking the same basic premise — a despotic government that keeps its citizens in poverty and reminds them of its power by drafting the young into a modern gladiatorial ring to kill or be killed on TV — this one digs deeper into the idea of power and control and the way media is used as a tool of oppression.

After tracing how the discoveries of Turing's World War II decoding machine led to the modern computer, Cumberbatch clarified that the Morten Tyldum - directed film «is not a period drama» but is «utterly relevant» now because of its discussion of Joan Clarke's (Keira Knightley) plight in a male - dominated workplace, as well as Turing's secret homosexual status, for which he was punished by the British government and eventually triggered his suicide.

«In government, we made sure more children had the opportunity to study a language - by putting modern and foreign languages on the National Curriculum from the age of seven.»

The General Assembly's modern role in molding state government and its policies through budgeting was shaped by a dramatic confrontation in 1969 with another Democratic governor, John N. Dempsey, and the legendary Democratic state chairman, John M. Bailey.

Nearly 3,500 extra language teachers must be found to meet the government's demand that modern foreign languages are included in the English Baccalaureate (EBacc), an almost 40 per cent increase on the number first announced by data experts.

The subjects proposed by the government are English, maths, two sciences, an ancient or modern language and either history or geography.

Serco Caledonian Sleeper was chosen by the Scottish Government as the new operator from April 2015, with a vision for the Sleeper to be a modern, revitalised overnight travel and hospitality experience between world famous destinations in Scotland and London.

By the deliberate efforts of post-revolutionary governments the «Mestizo identity» was constructed as the base of the modern Mexican national identity, through a process of cultural synthesis referred to as mestizaje [mestiˈsahe].

While you were cashing in for tickets to China to be saved by the government's modern arcs, she was pre-occupied with surfing... in Bali!

Pentahotel Beijing is nestled in the heart of Beijing's business district and government office area.This is a modern hotel that integrates accommodation, dining, shopping and business.Pentahotel is conveniently located just two minutes away from the Chongwenmen metro station and around 10 minutes by metro from Beijing Central Business District.It is close to Beijing Tongren Hospital, Beijing Hospital, Beijing Railway Station and Beijing South Station.What's more, Wangfujin Street, Oriental Plaza, Tian «anmen Square, Qianmen Street, Hongqiao Pearl Market, and Temple of Heaven are a stone's throw away.

With internet freedom and censorship being hotly contested topics, MGS2 doesn't pull any punches in its exploration of the nature of modern digital communication and its control by government and private organizations.