Sentences with phrase «citizens of a nation which»

What the Haredi have done is simple, even admirable: they've attempted to find a way to integrate modern practices with their religious ideals, which we ought to, as citizens of a nation which values religious freedom and upholds the right to practice, respect, not bemoan.

Not exact matches

Citizens of the crisis - torn nation are struggling to cope with widespread food shortages, the collapse of its traditional currency and hyperinflation — which the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has forecast to hit 13,000 percent in 2018.

If a virtual currency is to become widely used in nations, it will be one that governments can control, which would defeat the purpose of the virtual currency in the first place, from the point of view of their citizens.

Then, during the weekend, the citizens of Greece voted to reject the austerity measures which would have granted the nation - state the bailout funds needed to stay afloat.

Just take a look at the cage match they're fighting over the «Northern Gateway» pipeline, the Canadian equivalent of Keystone XL, which is going nowhere fast, thanks to steadfast opposition from First Nations (tribal) groups and tens of thousands of other citizens north of the border.

In a letter announcing his retirement from the army at the close of the War, he wrote: «I now make it my earnest prayer, that God would have you, and the State over which you preside, in his holy protection, that he would incline the hearts of the Citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to Government, to entertain a brotherly affection and love for one another, for their fellow Citizens of the United States at large, and particularly for their brethren who have served in the Field, and finally, that he would most graciously be pleased to dispose us all, to do Justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that Charity, humility and pacific temper of mind, which were the Characteristicks of the Divine Author of our blessed Religion, and without an humble imitation of whose example in these things, we can never hope to be a happy Nation.»

After March 4, 2013, an International Arrest Warrant will be issued against these Defendants.The guilty verdict followed nearly a month of deliberations by more than thirty sworn Citizen Jurors of the 150 case exhibits produced by Court Prosecutors, The Court's judgement declares the wealth and property of the churches responsible for the Canadian genocide to be forfeited and placed under public ownership, as reparations for the families of the more than 50,000 children who died in the residential schools.To enforce its sentence, the Court has empowered citizens in Canada, the United States, England, Italy and a dozen other nations to act as its legal agents armed with warrants, and peacefully occupy and seize properties of the Roman Catholic, Anglican and United Church of Canada, which are the main agents in the deaths of these children

The dynamics of the classroom thereby models that of the culture, teaching tomorrow's citizens the knowledge and appreciation they need of ancient authorities and fresh sassy pretenders to authority, and also teaching them the dialectical skill of marrying old and new, a skill which they will need if our nation is to long endure.

It has indeed caused «severe embarrassment» to the nation, as he laments, for the Senate investigation has laid before the public the elements of a terrible irony: that acts which are illegal and unethical for citizens to engage in at home are condoned, even aggressively pursued, by American law - enforcement officers and secret agents both at home and abroad.

During a mid-April visit to Israel, I discovered once again the seriousness with which citizens of this nation take their politics.

A nation which operated by relational power would be one which actively attempted to be sensitive to the feelings of persons in other nations, to the needs, fears, hopes, angers, and goals of other nations (as well as of its own citizens), and which allowed those to influence its policies.

The council called on the new government to «restore constitutional order and affirm citizens» political, economic and other fundamental rights and freedoms» and to assert «the territorial integrity of Ukraine, whose independence is a gift from God and is valued by our entire nation, which is why we have no right to allow for its separation, as this would be a sin before God and future generations.»

We now live in a culture in which about half of all marriages end in divorce; in which nearly half of all children spend part of their childhood in fatherless homes; in which women and men who put their families first are falling behind economically and professionally; in which many of the nation's youngest citizens are starving for parental time and attention, and often for basic material necessities.

My point may be clarified further by emphasizing another insight from the prophetic tradition: the place where the magnifying glass should be held is always over the nation of which one is a citizen.

One can even blame them for contributing to an intellectual climate in which the glorification of the nation and the defamation of Jewish residents and citizens could occur.

Just as there are laws within a nation that forbid a person to misuse his liberty, so there should be laws under which the irresponsible use of a nation's powers over its own citizens could be judged; that is to say, the rights of self - determination by the nation should be subordinate to the fundamental rights of man.

Appliances such as the telephone and the radio, and a school system from which the teaching of Christianity is excluded and the ideals of the nation and loyalty to them are stressed, give the state a more intimate access to all its citizens than at any previous time.

Congratulating his «citizens» for clamping down on the coup attempt, arresting, and tying up soldiers before police were able to do so, he went as far as to say that he was a proud member of a nation which was «enraged enough to nearly lynch the coup plotters».

Among other things, it established a territorial model — the so - called «Estado de las Autonomías» (State of Autonomous Communities)-- which was in principle designed to satisfy the historical demands for recognition and self - government of, above all, the citizens and institutions of two minority nations: Catalonia and the Basque Country.

The provisions on local content and local participation in petroleum activities as well as a Local Content Fund will lead to job creation and the building of indigenous capacity, which will enable Government achieve its objective of ensuring that the nation's petroleum resources are harnessed for the benefit of all Ghanaians and thus ultimately improve the standard of living of the ordinary citizen.

In the 1950s, at the height of the Cold War, Joseph Boakye Danquah, one of the revered founding fathers of our nation, stated, when defining the vision and policy of our party, that: «Our duty is to liberate the energies of the people for the growth of a property - owning democracy in this land, with a right to life, and freedom and justice as the principles to which the government and laws of the land should be dedicated to in order specifically to enrich the lives, property and liberty of each and every citizen.»

«I object to the complete evisceration of all legal issues we have won throughout the years in the courts,» said Judy Bachman, president of Citizens Equal Rights Alliance, which is suing the federal government over Oneida nation trust land.

This Nation has a tradition of political associations in which citizens band together to promote candidates who espouse their political views.

The nation's highest court left in place a lower court ruling halting President Obama's executive action, which would have affected as many as 4 million illegal immigrants, many of whom are parents of legal citizens, granting them work permits and deferred deportation.

It was there in Theresa May's attack on the «citizens of nowhere» - akin to the Soviet anti-semitic trope of «rootless cosmopolitans» - and the eagerly adopted binary opposition between the «anywheres» and the «somewheres», which strongly suggests a lack of loyalty to the nation state.

He further said, «It is unfortunate that this level of criminal impunity is happening in a sovereign nation with a constitution which declares that the security and welfare of the citizens shall be a major responsibility of the state.

According to him, what the nation requires is an electoral roll tied to a national identification system which has the details of all citizens and is updated from time...

The group implored all aggrieved political parties, stakeholders and candidates to be mindful of their utterances, seek redress if any by engaging the legal framework as provided for in the constitution in pursuance of their grievances without heating up the polity, which it noted may result into endangering the lives of innocent citizens and bring into disrepute the nation's democracy.

One example is the European Union's Data Protection Act, which prevents third parties from listing citizens of its member nations without being given permission by that person or their employer.

In this land which is oddly reminiscent of the nation that George Orwell laid out in his classic novel 1984, the citizens of this LEGO land are spied on and tortured if they step out of bounds.

Hanushek was careful to state that the goal was not to strengthen U.S. performance at the expense of other nations: The creation of well - educated citizens does not constitute a «a zero - sum game that countries or states are playing against each other,» but one in which every country and state can become more productive, and create more wealth for one another by boosting and sharing their talents.

This paradox is explained by David Halperns new book The Hidden Wealth of Nations the extent to which citizens get along with each other independently drives both economic growth and wellbeing.

The national sample allows us to examine the degree to which citizen ratings of school quality are responsive to performance levels relative to the nation or simply to differences in performance within specific states.

He's also just released a new, comprehensive survey of Kindle Nation citizens, which has information the major publishers AND Amazon ought to be paying attention to.

One Kindle Nation citizen commented, on an earlier post here, that «some anti-publisher bias is understandable» in the survey results, give the «kindle specific audience» of Kindle Nation Daily, but the comment itself is commentary on the extent to which important things have changed.

Included in the measures were plans to expand the Global Entry System, which makes it easier for frequent visitors to cross borders, and expand the number of nations whose citizens could enter the country without a visa.

Our solution was the random events, which ended up being the answer to a lot of these sorts of questions, so for as many events as we could we would use the problems your heroes were involved in to build a relationship with these citizens and regions of your nation.

WalkingStick, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, is best known for her distinctive approach to painting and for her diptychs, side - by - side square paintings in which she portrayed landscapes inspired by her home and travels alongside abstract panels representing spiritual or «mythic» memories.

A citizen of the Cherokee Nation, she is best known for her distinctive approach to painting and for her diptychs, side - by - side square paintings in which she has portrayed landscapes inspired by her home and travels alongside abstract panels representing spiritual or «mythic» memories.

«For painters, [the city] was a compost, [which allowed you to be] a citizen of a certain nation and [experience] currents of international activity.

Over the past 12 months, they've brought a circuitous running track, Positive Pathways (+)(2016), to the European School of Management and Technology (a location for fellow collective DIS's Berlin Biennale) and to New York's Mitchell - Innes and Nash (which newly represents GCC) in a commentary on the growing pervasiveness of wellness culture among Gulf elites; they've digitally renovated an oil sheik's Paris manse, now complete with a hidden elevator for his perfunctory Lamborghini, in a video work at London's Project Native Informant, which looks critically on the racially - and culturally - charged attacks on oil - rich Gulf expats who have bought up some of the West's best addresses over recent decades; and they've launched a branding agency for an undisclosed nation from the region, the services of which it has then licensed to citizens via an app for a solo booth last year at Art Basel in Miami Beach.

This strong ethical and moral responsibility is derivable both from the universally accepted moral principles including the widely accepted golden rule which requires people to treat others as they wish to be treated, and international law including, but not limited to the «no harm» rule which is a widely recognized principle of customary international law whereby a State is duty - bound to prevent, reduce and control the risk of environmental harm to other states and a rule agreed to by all nations in the preamble to the UNFCCC, the «polluter - pays principle» agreed to by almost all nations in the 1992 Rio Declaration, human rights law which requires nations to assure that their citizens enjoy human rights, and many other legal theories including tort law.

This question is designed to expose the ethical duty of the United States and other high - emitting nations under international law to prevent its citizens from engaging in activities which cause climate change damages as a matter international law without regard to what other nations do.

This strong ethical and moral responsibility is derivable both from the universally accepted moral principles including the widely accepted golden rule which requires people to treat others as they wish to be treated, and international law including, but not limited to: (a) the «no harm» rule which is a widely recognized principle of customary international law whereby a State is duty - bound to prevent, reduce and control the risk of environmental harm to other states, and a rule agreed to by all nations in the preamble to the UNFCCC, (b) the «polluter - pays principle» agreed to by almost all nations in the 1992 Rio Declaration, (c) human rights law which requires nations to assure that their citizens enjoy human rights, and (d) many other legal theories including tort law.

Just take a look at the cage match they're fighting over the «Northern Gateway» pipeline, the Canadian equivalent of Keystone XL, which is going nowhere fast, thanks to steadfast opposition from First Nations (tribal) groups and tens of thousands of other citizens north of the border.»

a nation of remarkably productive, often well - paid workers who are becoming increasingly reluctant to pause from their labors and refresh their souls — a nation whose cash - drenched corporate employers typically don't pay for much time off (less than two weeks annually, on average), a nation whose globe - gripping federal government is the only one in the whole industrialized world not to legally require generous periods of paid kick - back - and - hang time — is a nation that's socially screwed up, particularly in comparison with European countries like France, which orders its citizens outside to play for the entire month of August and a few other weeks spread through the year.

If you are married or live with a common - law partner who is also a citizen of a nation other than Canada, you can decide which one of you will be the principal applicant.

The Assembly of First Nations (AFN) is a national advocacy organization representing First Nation citizens in Canada, which includes more than 900,000 people living in 634 First Nation communities and in cities and towns across the country.

The soul of a nation is defined by its citizens» ability to agree upon a set of principles and values which reflect the moral fabric of its entire population, something only accomplished when everyone has a voice.

If a virtual currency is to become widely used in nations, it will be one that governments can control, which would defeat the purpose of the virtual currency in the first place, from the point of view of their citizens.