Sentences with phrase «by our nation whether»

The stamina behind his views is not foreign, however and is represented by our nation whether people have a religious perspective or not.

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It is asking the Irish High Court to refer the case to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), which would then decide whether to ban the use of «model contracts» — common legal arrangements used by thousands of firms to transfer personal data outside the 28 - nation bloc.

The goal is to determine whether America is being treated fairly by its trading partners and the 164 - nation World Trade Organization.

Judge Michelle T. Friedland, who was appointed by President Barack Obama and was one of three judges from the Ninth Circuit presiding over the immigration - ban case, asked Flentje, the DOJ lawyer, whether the government had any evidence connecting the seven nations targeted by the order to terrorism.

White House spokesman Sean Spicer said last week that the administration expected to make a decision on whether to remain a party to the deal by the time leaders of the Group of Seven wealthy nations meet in late May.

The question now is whether Germany's auto industry — which is behind on the electric trend and has been upended by Volkswagen's emissions scandal — can build an e-vehicle that the nation's drivers actually want to buy, or whether the incentive will end up lining the pockets of foreign companies like Tesla and the Renault - Nissan Alliance.

«There's a question of whether going along with the approval of the Northern Gateway pipeline will make LNG development in B.C. more challenging by angering First Nations so adamantly opposed to the oil sands pipeline,» said George Hoberg, a professor at the University of British Columbia's school of forestry and founder of UBCC350, a group pressing for action on greenhouse gas emissions.

«When we see malicious cyberattacks, whether from the Kremlin or other nation - state actors, we are going to push back,» Rob Joyce, a special assistant to the president and the cybersecurity coordinator for the National Security Council, said in joint conference call with journalists by senior officials in Washington and London.

But we do see things consistent with the Bible, To take a concrete example, the Bible states that Israel wold be destroyed as a nation, but after a long period of time would become a nation again, It's a matter of belief whether the Bible made a God - inspired prophecy or a lucky guess, But it's a matter of objective fact that Israel was destroyed by the Romans and became a nation again in 1948.

Finally, the very idea of the nation - stirring «Demosthenes blogger,» the one presented in the 90s sci - fi novel Ender's Game, was revealed to be hopelessly naïve: the true guides to how the Internet World would and would not empower individuals, and whether it would allow underdogs and unknowns to be heard by society, turned out to be Hobbes's meditations on self - promotion and Tocqueville's on the way equality stoked and then discouraged each individual's ambition.

Stevens offered not a word of concern about whether religious students might feel themselves to be less than full members of the political community if, by order of the nation's highest court, their messages and only their messages are categorically excluded from the school's public arena.

I don't mean just being a safe haven to run to when their churches and homes are destroyed by violence, but whether we as a nation are pursuing the policies and diplomacy that give them the greatest chance of surviving and flourishing where they are — so they don't have to flee their homeland.

It is comparable to the arrogance of the Supreme Court in the 1992 Casey decision, when it declared that not the Court but the character of the nation is being «tested» by whether or not it follows the Court's five - to - four edict in support of the abortion license.

If you do not want other nations out number you in your land, it is either you should not allow immigration or make new laws as to Divorce and Marriages beside taking into consideration allowing polygamy if permited by the first female partner whether she is well giving birth or sick unable to give birth... You can not go on wiping reducing nations every time they exceed your populations??!

Whether this was a reference to the United States in Iraq, or to the structural dominance of the Security Council in the U.N., or to the efforts of select nations to use the U.N. in imposing population and family policies opposed by the Holy See, Benedict did not say.

(5) Residence — nation, state, city or town, district, or street, whether presently or by origin.

Certainly individuals are different than nation states (by this I mean that as individuals our choices are clearer - not that we can not properly discern whether a particular war is or is not necessary - but even then its much much tougher) and matters of war and peace are very much filled with variables men and women as individuals would have an a very difficult task of unwinding to find some acceptable scenario.

The beliefs of the founding generations then, whether Puritan or rationalist, whether inspired by Moses and Isaiah or by Locke and Montaigne, were conducive to a perspective that saw the American nation as the chief agent in the unfolding of history.

It might equally wish to consider whether the global communications system, available on a non-discriminatory basis to all nations of the world, as envisaged by Assembly resolution 1721 (XVI), part D, should not be placed under the auspices of the United Nations.nations of the world, as envisaged by Assembly resolution 1721 (XVI), part D, should not be placed under the auspices of the United Nations.Nations.»

Washington (CNN)-- Employing faith, whether calling for nationwide prayer or healing the nation by quoting scripture, is a presidential tradition as old as the office itself.

It is quite another to call the fight by civilized nations against terrorism, including state sponsored terrorism, an act of terrorism itself whether you agree with the fight or not.

In estimating the religious character of individuals, nations, or races, the first question is, not how they feel, but what they think and believe — not whether their religion is one which manifests itself in emotions, more or less vehement and enthusiastic, but what are the conceptions of God and divine things by which these emotions are called forth.

That's because all of humanity has a bloody history, whether you divide it by nation or religion or color or any other.

The question of saving power in the nation is the question of whether there is a minority, even a small one, which is willing to resist the anxiety produced by propaganda, the conformity enforced by threat, the hatred stimulated by ignorance.

Senator Ryan also queried whether or not Australia was one of only a few comparable nations or developed economies without such a provision, an idea propagated by Frank Zumbo in particular.

Whether they make a return trip to the Hoosier State and cut down the nets at next April's Final Four in Indianapolis will depend largely on whether the nation's best senior class (led by All - Americas Redick and Shelden Williams) can persuade the country's most decorated freshman class to embrace the DuWhether they make a return trip to the Hoosier State and cut down the nets at next April's Final Four in Indianapolis will depend largely on whether the nation's best senior class (led by All - Americas Redick and Shelden Williams) can persuade the country's most decorated freshman class to embrace the Duwhether the nation's best senior class (led by All - Americas Redick and Shelden Williams) can persuade the country's most decorated freshman class to embrace the Duke Way.

A loss at Hawaii the next week effectively ended Fresno State's challenge to college football's ruling class, but Carr was the best quarterback in the nation that year, and it's worth wondering whether he would have blossomed sooner if he had not been blocked by Volek.

Carr was the best quarterback in the nation that year, and it's worth wondering whether he would have blossomed sooner if he had not been blocked by Volek.

I sometimes wonder whether they are being advised by the nation's intelligence services as they protect the names of possible signings or of course whether managers are coming or going!!!

A national strike by the nation's millions of working mothers would shift the debate from whether mothers should work to an intriguing question: whether the nation can get along without their contributions in the workplace.

The study, published last month by The Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology, has intensified the years - long debate about whether or how the federal government should regulate perchlorate in the nation's drinking water.

I recognise the division felt by many in our country over the war and in particular I feel deeply and sincerely — in a way that no words can properly convey — the grief and suffering of those who lost ones they loved in Iraq, whether the members of our armed forces, the armed forces of other nations, or Iraqis.

American foreign policy has long put its sovereignty first, whether by not joining the League of Nations, the International Criminal Court or various international treaties on human rights and environmental controls.

I think the key lessons for Labour from this by - election are not about whether «One Nation Labour» is reaching «southern voters», or whether Labour needs to adopt policy x, y or z. Instead, the Eastleigh result poses two questions which Labour need to consider:

The fact that the race was close, or that two other «yes» voters — Sens. Mark Grisanti and Steve Saland — managed to hold into their seats (albeit narrowly in Saland's case), is being spun by both sides as proof that New Yorkers, and the nation at large, remain closely divided on the question of whether gay couples should be allowed to legally wed..

«New York has repeatedly stood in the way, whether by over-regulation or outright banning, of professional services that are legal and available in most states and cities across the nation.

The contrived nature of the system is even more abundantly clear when it comes to the discriminatory burdens placed on the nation's minor parties and independent candidates, whether the issue is unfair ballot access laws or the arbitrary and exclusionary 15 percent polling threshold imposed by the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) on the Libertarian Party's Gary Johnson and Jill Stein of the Greens — or any other third - party presidential candidate, for that matter — to appear in the nationally - televised debates this autumn.

At the same time, the question of whether yet another casino in upstate New York would be feasible in the Binghamton area given the proximity of both the Finger Lakes project and the plans by the Oneida Indian Nation to construct a «Wizard of Oz» themed - casino announced last year.

There could be a million possible origins: whether by a foreign nation, (Russia, et al), a domestic or international faction, a secret or quasi-secret society, or a lone wolf, but focusing on refuting one possible origin doesn't refute the various other possibilities, and distracts attention the greater problem implied by the hypothesis.

All States may participate in and permit, provided that the Security Council decides in advance on a case - by - case basis to approve: the supply, sale or transfer directly or indirectly from or through their territories, or by their nationals or individuals subject to their jurisdiction, or using their flag vessels or aircraft, and whether or not originating in their territories, to Iran, or for the use in or benefit of Iran, of any battle tanks, armoured combat vehicles, large caliber artillery systems, combat aircraft, attack helicopters, warships, missiles or missile systems, as defined for the purpose of the United Nations Register of Conventional Arms, or related materiel, including spare parts, and the provision to Iran by their nationals or from or through their territories of technical training, financial resources or services, advice, other services or assistance related to the supply, sale, transfer, manufacture, maintenance, or use of arms and related materiel described in this subparagraph.

«Whether the United States of America represented in Nigeria through the 2nd defendant is no longer obligated to be bound by the United Nation Convention on Terrorism which the United States of America signed and ratified?

However, given the adoption by the United Nations of the responsibility to protect, does he agree that the international community must decide whether that responsibility is to be a serious attempt to avert genocide or simply a rather futile exercise in vacuous moral posturing?»

President - elect Donald Trump's nominee to be the nation's top health official is facing calls for investigation of whether his stock picks were guided by insider knowledge gleaned as a senior member of Congress.

One of the great showdowns looming during United Nations climate negotiations in Paris in the coming weeks revolves around whether richer countries can demonstrate that they plan to meet a promise they made during 2009 negotiations in Copenhagen for «mobilizing» $ 100 billion a year of climate financing by 2020.

The study, published last month by The Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology, has intensified the years - long debate about whether or how the federal government should regulate perchlorate in the nation's drinking water.

The Security Project calls for the Defense Department to be much more involved in the region to match the militaries of other Arctic nations, and questions whether current policy frameworks, such as an Arctic strategy released by the Coast Guard this year, will be enough to prepare for potential oil spills, accidents and shipping traffic challenges.

The project is now funded by a transition - to - scale grant from the Saving Lives at Birth consortium to determine whether the test improves preeclampsia diagnosis and reduces morbidity and mortality in resource - poor nations.

The United Nations has attempted to fill this gap by securing a pledge from developed countries to halve the number of people without any form of sanitation — whether basic outdoor latrines or indoor toilets — by 2015 as part of its Millennium Development Goals (a series of goals for world development, ranging from alleviating poverty to fighting diseases like AIDS).

Whether it would quell the debate over global cooling - fueled in part by the East Coast's hard winter and the revelation of errors in the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change synthesis report - is less certain.

But in September, labs working with the United Nations used faster and more sophisticated analytic techniques to show that Syrian civilians were killed by the chemical weapon sarin on Aug. 21 — evidence crucial to debates about whether the global community should intervene.