Sentences with phrase «claims about the nation»

Should this occur, the sharp decline in passing rates will reinforce the reformers» claims about our nation's «broken» education system.

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Dozens of exploration companies flooded to the area about five or six years ago, staking claims, setting up camps, even building airstrips without informing First Nations who consider the vast land theirs.

Between 2010 and 2012, taxpayers in the Peach State claimed about 36 % of all federal tax deductions for easements — despite having only 2.5 % of the nation's land under easement, according to a May 2017 report that Looney, the former Treasury official, published for the Brookings Institution, where he's now a senior fellow in economic studies.

They talk about America being a «Christian Nation», like they planted a flag on it and claimed it for their own.

For a nation that claims that there is no religious test for president, we sure do spend a lot of time worrying about it.

No doubt about the messiahship is expressed, but only the temptation to have it take an easy and successful form: to become a mere provider of bread and physical need; to be a mere wonderworker and so to coerce people into belief; or to become a political messiah claiming sovereignty over the nations of the earth.

When I remember the heartbreaking footage from Hurricane Katrina, or think about the awful situations in so many inner cities and in rural areas across the country, I question whether or not our nation's wealth is really a «blessing from God,» as so many people claim.

Although few Protestants would still claim that the United States is an «almost Christianized» nation, the Victorian way of thinking about the world, God, and human nature still influences theological discourse.

We are so quick to point out the obvious lies about Jews and Israel that come out in Egypt — the Sinai Governors claims that the Mossad released a shark into the Red Sea to kill Egyptians, or, as I once read in a newspaper whilst on holiday in Cairo, the tale of the magnetic belt buckles that Jews were selling cheap in Egypt that would sterilize men on contact — yet we so rarely examine our own misconceptions about the nature of our history with the Egyptian nation.

What would you think about the claims that some people make today about the United States being the best nation on earth and under the protection and blessing of God?

And his claims about America as a nation addicted to the sacrificial system of killing and dying that is war, as ìneedingî September 11 and the wars that followed to sustain its identity, are at times offensive in the extreme.

Or at least, that's what you claim when you prattle on about the US being a «christian» nation.

Omar Barghouti, the founding member of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, and voice of the international Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement against Israel says this about negotiating: «I am completely and categorically against binationalism because it assumes that there are two nations with equal moral claims to the land.»

Any impartial observer — for example, an ancient counterpart of a United Nations representative — would surely have been astonished at Israel's subsequent claims about this epoch.

The SB Nation Twitter account for the Spartans posted the following about the former Sparty QB who will face Tom Brady: «#GoGreen #ProGreen (hey @UMichFootball did we do this whole «claim someone who barely played for our team» thing right?)»

(I know you like to challenge my account of Englishness - and of course there are many plural accounts and resonances in any large nation - but I can't see how or on what grounds you could possibly seek to deny me an equal claim to that identity, or to having a voice in the conversation about what we want to make of it, on which I expect I've been as engaged as just about anybody else).

The Ministry of Health has contradicted claims by Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia that about one thousand nurses and other unemployed youth will be recruited next month, May 2018 under the yet to be launched Nation Builders Corps (NABCO).

After a day - long conference in London on how to move forward the political process in Libya, other developments included: An admission the Coalition did not yet fully know who made up the opposition, which came after Nato said American intelligence had shown «flickers» of al Qaeda among the rebels; A suggestion the Coalition would be prepared to see Colonel Gaddafi go into exile if a country was willing to take him; A claim by the Italians that several nations were working on a deal involving a ceasefire, exile for Gaddafi and a talks framework between Libya's tribal leaders and opposition figures; Nick Clegg warning about the «danger of overreaching» during a speech in Mexico, but stressing liberal interventionism must be upheld.

Because the law says nothing about individual holders, he says, his claim — which he sent to the United Nations — has some clout.

Well the only thing that makes me suspicious about drawing conclusions from all of these nations where the people have a vegan or primarily vegan diet, is that I have done some research that claims the height can arise from genetics, as well as if a person is receiving enough food (now whether or not these studies went off of correlation and did not test actual causation, I do not know).

SCOOP — Nov 16 — The United Nations refugee agency today issued a strong warning about Internet fraud resettlement schemes in which bogus organizations claiming UN affiliation use chat groups and dating or fake websites promising settlement and employment opportunities in Europe and North America for up to $ 1,000.

Everyone in the house listens to President Jimmy Carter's «crisis of confidence» speech in which he claimed that the «fundamental threat to American democracy» came from a crisis of confidence, reflected in the growing doubt about «the meaning of our own lives and in the loss of a unity of purpose for our nation.»

I asked you for some citation re your rather dramatic claims about the alleged «Faustian bargain» where teachers unions agreed to have CA's education spending lost in the nation, the class sizes highest in the nation, and all with the ultimate objective of having salaries, according to RAND, that are below the national average.

We can not claim to care about our children, as a state or a nation, and allow class size to rise any higher.»

State Farm Insurance, one of the nation's largest home insurers, paid more than $ 109 million on about 3,800 dog bite claims nationwide last year, spokesman Eddie Martinez said Wednesday.

We're educating communities and institutions around the nation on the truth about community cats, and combatting the false claims that get cats killed in shelters.

The Nicaraguan government has girded public discussions about the project, but claims the canal will bring newfound prosperity to the impoverished nation.

The hot air they generate as they complain about the state of their nations politics, morals, crime, economy seriously distorts the statistics, he claims.

More than 650 scientists from around the world dispute the claims made by the United Nations and former Vice President Al Gore about global warming, saying that science does not support that climate change is a manmade phenomenon, according to a posting on the Senate environmental committee's press blog.

These questions are organized according to the most frequent arguments made against climate change policies which are claims that climate change policies: (a) will impose unacceptable costs on a national economy or specific industries or prevent nations from pursuing other national priorities, (b) should not be adopted because of scientific uncertainty about climate change impacts, or (c) are both unfair and ineffective as long as high emitting nations such as China or India do not adopt meaningful ghg emissions reduction policies.

Climatologist Dr. Ross McKitrick, one of the authors and an Associate Professor at the University of Guelph, believes that the United Nations agency promoting the global temperature graph has made «false claims about the quality of its data.»

Although reasonable people may disagree what equity framework is just, nations should be expected to expressly specify the equity framework or principles of distributive justice they used in determining their INDC so that citizens around the world can evaluate claims about fairness made by a nation in setting its INDC.

UN climate change panel based claims on student dissertation and magazine article The United Nations» expert panel on climate change based claims about ice disappearing from the world's mountain tops on a student's dissertation and an article in a mountaineering magazine.

Scheduled speakers include some of the nation's best - known global warming skeptics, including Anthony Watts, a television weatherman; Timothy Ball, a former University of Winnipeg professor who has been sued for libel by Michael Mann, a prominent mainstream climate scientist; and Alan Carlin, a former Environmental Protection Agency analyst who claims he was muzzled when he raised questions about the agency's finding that atmospheric carbon dioxide is a threat to human health and the environment.

Although as we have seen what fairness requires is a matter about which different ethical theories might reach different conclusions, a claim by almost any nation in the top 80 percent of global per capita emissions that it is already below its fair share of safe global emissions is highly unlikely to pass scrutiny on the basis of any conceivable ethically theory.

Aboriginal Title in British Columbia: Tsilhqot «in Nation v. British ColumbiaA very readable case study that examines previous court decisions about the status of Tsilhqot «in Nation Aboriginal rights and land title claims in British Columbia.

Omar Ha - Redeye spoke to Andrew Krystal of CityTV about a First Nations land claim filed over St. James Park during Occupy Toronto.

That means about 7 percent of the nation's roughly 3,200 death row inmates have claimed to be mentally retarded.

«In the mining industry, it's going to open the door to more claims about aboriginal title... and it will probably shift the balance of power in the negotiations in existing claims between First Nations and the Crown.

If you are out and about and someone steals your computer, wallet, or purse, you can claim it on your renters insurance policy in California (or across the nation.)

«Just as consumers turn to Marketplace and Marketplace Morning Report for insightful information about our nation's economy, Trusted Choice ® independent insurance agents provide consumers with a choice of companies, customization of policies and advocacy with their claims,» says Tom Ahart, Chairman of the Trusted Choice ® Board.

NEW YORK (CNNMoney)- Seven days after a horrific shooting claimed the lives of 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the front pages of some of the nation's largest newspapers are still featuring stories about gun control and school safety.