Sentences with phrase «by the declaration on»

For Indigenous people in Australia a rights - based approach to development, as elaborated by the Declaration on the Right to Development and informed by various human rights treaties, provides a basis for their control over their development process.

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As you can tell by my former student's name, his ancestors didn't come on the Mayflower or sign the Declaration of Independence.

UNESCO's Incheon Declaration in 2015 makes a down payment on the answer by articulating an aspiration: «Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and... lifelong learning opportunities for all» by 2030.

When Trump announced the first round of tariffs on China, it was seen as a declaration of a trade war — a progressive effort by the two nations to damage each other economically, mainly through taxes and trade restrictions.

However, one of the other signers of the declaration, Thomas McKean, denied the July 4th signing date and backed it up by illustrating a glaring flaw in Jefferson's, Adams», and Franklin's argument — namely, that most of the signers were not members of congress on July 4th and thus wouldn't have been there to sign it.

This little tidbit also came from the Secret Journals of Congress which has an entry on July 19th stating: «Resolved that the Declaration passed on the 4th be fairly engrossed on parchment with the title and stile of «The unanimous declaration of the thirteen united states of America» & that the same when engrossed be signed by every member of CongrDeclaration passed on the 4th be fairly engrossed on parchment with the title and stile of «The unanimous declaration of the thirteen united states of America» & that the same when engrossed be signed by every member of Congrdeclaration of the thirteen united states of America» & that the same when engrossed be signed by every member of Congress.»

The regional elections were called by Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy hours after the Catalan parliament made a unilateral declaration of independence on 27 October.

They contain an entry stating, on August 2nd: «The declaration of independence being engrossed & compared at the table was signed by the Members.»

His declaration comes just hours before a crucial meeting between the finance ministers of the Eurogroup who are set to decide whether the reforms proposed by the Greek government are good enough to grant an extension on the country's bailout programme.

Hacker group Anonymous have apparently responded to the attacks on Paris by posting a video declaration of war against the terrorist group that calls itself «Islamic State.»

Americans will spend more than $ 7 billion on cookouts and other celebrations of the Declaration of Independence, up from $ 6.8 billion in 2016, according to a report by the National Retail Federation.

«Coal - fired power plants produce almost 40 per cent of global electricity today, making carbon pollution from coal a leading contributor to climate change,» said the declaration issued by the alliance on Thursday.

Most of the specific commitments outlined in the official declaration signed by Kim and Moon focused on inter-Korean relations and did not clear up the question of whether Pyongyang is willing to give up its arsenal of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles.

LONDON — European negotiators will insist that Britain must agree «detailed» terms on Britain's future relationship with the EU, in plans that would scupper any attempt by Theresa May to avoid parliamentary defeat by only offering MPs a vote on a vague «declaration of intent» deal.

Included below is the Statutory Declarations made by Bruce Thomas, Business Development Manager for Wirlu - murra on February 8, 2013.

Acorda responded by suing them, seeking a court declaration that its patents on the drugs were valid.

«It has been ten years since the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples was adopted by governments around the world.

Based on a global declaration signed in 2015 by investors at the Paris COP21 UN Climate Conference, the Brazilian Statement adds local context, with input from market participants, including fund managers, insurance companies and pension funds.

The Government of Canada must take all measures necessary to ensure that the laws of Canada are consistent with the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples that was adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations as General Assembly Resolution 61/295 on September 13, 2007 and that is set out in the schedule to this Act.

VICTORIA — A report showing an increase in domestic violence deaths and calling on the Clark government to do a better job of helping victims was released by the BC Coroners Service on Wednesday, proving that Premier Christy Clark's declaration of...

With the assistance of foresighted men like Msgr. Oesterreicher, and the unofficial but crucial input from Jewish historians and theologians, the declaration — after numerous drafts, several years of intense debate, and even a last second bid by reactionaries to thwart it — was voted on and finally passed at the Council, by an overwhelming margin.

By the time Pope Benedict XVI addressed the U.N. General Assembly on the sixtieth anniversary of the UDHR in 2008, opportunistic uses of human rights were in full swing, prompting the pope to announce, «Efforts need to be redoubled in the face of pressure to reinterpret the foundations of the Declaration and to compromise its inner unity so as to facilitate a move away from the protection of human dignity towards the satisfaction of simple interests, often particular interests.»

But what frustrates me on this blog are posters that make a comment by way of a sermon / declaration / pontification and then do not stick around to refute any replies that are made that the poster may disagree with.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted and proclaimed by the General Assembly of the United Nations on December 10, 1948, through Resolution 217A (III).

Mere laws, without being monitored in performance, may prove a flop and so, the United Nations Conference on the Environment and Development was held, followed by the Rio Declaration which is of paramount importance as it sets out the famous Agenda 21 (3 - 14 June 1992, UNCED).

Jay responded by ruminating on this clause in the Constitution and confessing sadly that «the word slaves was avoided, probably on account of the existing toleration of slavery, and of its discordancy with the principles of the Revolution; and from a consciousness of its being repugnant to... the Declaration of Independence» (111:298) The number of such revealing glimpses into the thinking of the founders is almost without number.

Furthermore, the resurrected Lord Jesus does in fact affirm that it is written that Christ would suffer and rise from the dead (on) the third day (Luke 24:46), a declaration confirmed, at least, by Hosea 6:1 - 2, which tells of the Lord binding and reviving and raising up those He has smitten.

The Declaration has been signed by over 480,000 individuals on its website since its inception in November 2009.

The cosmopolitan outlook dominates declarations and documents on U.S. immigration policy issued by Catholics, mainline Protestants, and Evangelicals.

This statement, originally titled «A Christian Women's Declaration,» was issued on September 16, 1997 by the Ecumenical Coalition of Women and Society, a project of the Washington - based Institute on Religion and Democracy.

Statements like the NCCB's well - known 1983 pastoral on peace and the Catholic bishops of France's 1979 declaration do not emphasize the doctrines of creation and human persons but argue against abortion by granting priority to the gospel.

Phillip Cary paraphrases point five of the preamble to the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification when he states that the signatories reached a «theological consensus that Luther's doctrine of justification by faith alone need not be Church - dividing.»

This revolution in religious thought is exemplified by religious leaders» current support for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was drafted by the UN Commission on Human Rights.

He was one of the most prominent academic defenders in Germany of the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification, the 1999 agreement on the doctrine of justification between the Catholic Church and the churches of the Lutheran World Federation that was violently attacked by a significant portion of his colleagues.

Movements such as de-colonization, the rise of Communism — especially the expulsion of missionaries from China by the Communists — and the attempt to vindicate Human Rights culminating in the United Nation's Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) have direct and indirect impact on mission understanding.

They intend their document, which has worked its way through several years of preparatory meetings, to be presented to the United Nations in 2000, adopted by the General Assembly in 2002, and eventually achieve the enduring status of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights.

From the Bali Declaration, Asian Regional Meeting on Violence Against Women held in Bali, Indonesia, organized by WCC, the Christian Conference of Asia and the Asian Women's Human Rights Commission, 1 - 6 August 1993.

The Founding Fathers based the Declaration of Independence largely on the theory of Natural Law, as propounded by the conservative philosopher Edmund Burke.

The Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification by the Lutheran World Federation and the Roman Catholic Church is available as part of Ecumenical Proposals: Lutheran - Episcopal, Lutheran - Reformed, and Lutheran - Roman Catholic, from Augsburg Fortress (tel. [phone], order code # 69 - 3092; $ 1 plus postage and handling.)

Pertinent to this discussion is a 1998 statement called the «Declaration on Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders,» produced by Osama bin Laden and several other militant leaders who styled themselves the World Islamic Front.

The protestant responses to the «Declaration on the Unicity and Salvific Universality of Jesus Christ and the Church» recently issued by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger's Office for the Doctrine of the Faith (ODF) have been mostly pained surprise, sometimes anger.

Protestant responses to the «Declaration on the Unicity and Salvific Universality of Jesus Christ and the Church» recently issued by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger's Office for the Doctrine of the Faith have been mostly pained surprise, sometimes anger.

We stand by the validity of Paul's declaration in Romans 1:19 - 20 that God's majesty and power are visible in the creation, and in Romans 2:14 - 15 that the law of God has been written on the heart of those who have no knowledge of His revelation to the prophets of Israel.

We need not recall here the history of what led up to the declaration of Humani Generis (which is doctrinal in character, even if it does not constitute a dogmatic definition), starting with the pronouncement of the local synod at Cologne in 1860 rejecting evolution in any form, the censure passed on the works of theologians favourable to evolution, such as M. D. Leroy (1895) and P. Zahm (1899), the decree of the Biblical Commission in 1909, the tacit toleration of works favourable to evolution by theologians such as Ruschkamp (1935), Messenger (1931), Perier (1938), down to Pius XII's Allocution to the Papal Academy of Sciences in 1941.

As is stated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights adopted by the UN and signed by most nations.

But the statement of some 150 German theologians rejecting the Joint Declaration on Justification proposed by the LWF and the Vatican Council on Unity indicates that the past is not yet dead.

For the major instance so far, the Joint Declaration on Justification between the Catholic Church and world Lutheranism would probably have been rejected by Rome except for the influence on the final draft of the Lutheran bishop of Helsinki.

The Joint Declaration emphasizes, however, that God accepts us by grace alone through faith in Christ's saving deed and not on the basis of our merit.

Serious discussion on the unity and mission was started in the ecumenical movement with the declaration drawn up by the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches at its meeting in Rolle, Switzerland in 1951.23 One of the main subjects on the agenda of the Committee was: The Missionary and Ecumenical Calling of the Church.

The baptism of Jesus by John in the Jordan has nothing to do with repenting of sin or getting saved, but everything to do with making a public declaration about which side Jesus is on and what He will live His life for.