Sentences with phrase «decade nation building»

He also included his frequent disclaimer, and seeming indirect condemnation of the Iraq war and it's aftermath, that he «will not spend $ 1 trillion or a decade nation building overseas.»

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While the ideas of a free - agent nation and personal brand building have been with us for a couple of decades, DIY - career building has gotten a big push from the digital (and old - fashioned sharing) infrastructure that fosters this independence.

On assignment in Iran for Fortune two years before, I had stumbled upon Halliburton (HAL), yet another Texas oil - services company, which was operating from a high - rise building in central Tehran, despite decades of U.S. sanctions and intense hostilities between the two nations.

With decades of collective experience, the team came together in 2013 to build a new security architecture that could defeat today's advanced threats and nation state malware.

Being genuinely «Pro-Israel, Pro-Palestinian» means helping Palestinians understand that Israel is a permanent reality and that Palestinians, as the Jews over the last seven decades, should build their own nation instead of seeking to dismantle another.

In the former, the Catholic - Protestant War to secure domination of public life lasted three decades before they listened to the rationalist proposal to build nation - states which were common to all who lived in the territory irrespective of their religious affiliation or their atheistic faith.

One of the wine industry's top executives and innovators, Jackson Family Wines Chairman & Proprietor Barbara R. Banke has spent the last two decades leading the company she co-founded with her late husband, wine icon Jess Jackson, while building and expanding some of the most beloved wineries in the nation.

They face a nation who have been building great sides based on these very principles for decades.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo wants to expand casino gaming across the state, but Indian nations say that could destroy their business built up over the last several decades.

«The US Military has partnered with the African scientific and general community for more than 40 years,» according to MHRP director Col. Nelson Michael, M.D., Ph.D. «We have worked on the ground for decades with host nations to build sustainable infrastructure to support infectious diseases research in areas such as HIV, malaria, dengue virus and Ebola.

The effort, in turn, builds upon the decades - long efforts of standards and accountability activists within the school reform movement — including conservative outfits such as the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and its president, Checker Finn — to improve the quality of curricula in schools; this began in the 1970s with the work of southern governors and chambers of commerce, accelerated during the Eighties with the Reagan administration's release of A Nation at Risk, and supported by Ronald Reagan's successor, George Bush, during his tenure as president.

However, decades of deferred maintenance, insufficient building upkeep procedures, and years of siphoning dollars from maintenance budgets have significantly contributed to the current condition of our nation's schools.

During his school board tenure spanning two decades, Ogden has been an active participant in a plan of action to build and sustain a governance team designed to promote academic achievement in one of the nation's largest urban school districts.

Why would we think we can build a «high - quality» program for all the nation's 4 - year - olds when decades of effort have failed to produce universal high - quality in any other grades?

Dropout Nation has long argued that the Obama administration's waiver gambit, as much driven by a desire to put its mark on federal education policy (and stamp out that of predecessor George W. Bush, upon which the administration's own reforms have been built) as by the lack of movement within Congress on reauthorizing the law, weakens the decade of strong reform efforts which the law's accountability provisions helped usher.

A decades - long effort by benefactor Raymond D. Nasher and others resulted in the building of a new art museum worthy of Duke's superior rank among the nation's universities.

Daniels provides a comprehensive and fascinating overview of the Gallery's past seven decades, including the opening of the East Building on June 1, 1978, when President Jimmy Carter accepted it on behalf of the nation; and the May 23, 1999, opening of the 6.1 - acre Sculpture Garden.

Armory Pre-Selection, United Nations Decade for Women Conference, Parliament Building, Nairobi, Kenya, July 14 — 29, 1985.

However, since they have been already wildly successful, over the past several decades, in building the superstructure of an UN-based world government (see our recent article and global maps in «The United Nations: On the Brink of Becoming a World Government»), they are dropping much of the pretense and more boldly asserting true objectives.

If G7 nations continue to build and invest in international fossil fuel projects, such as coal, recipient nations will inevitably be locked into decades of fossil fuel use.

Last December, in a Fast Company report, Worldstock finally made a profit of $ 350,000 after a decade and estimates it will now thrive, puting the funds into building schools in developing nations.

A recent United Nations Development Program report said that Beirut will add 300,000 new buildings in the next decade, leaving the already - crowded city with virtually no public spaces.

Our colleagues built a model to determine the best way to satisfy projected load growth for any nation over the next two decades.9 The model incorporates relevant factors for central and distributed electric generation technologies, including projected improvements in cost, efficiency, and availability of each technology.

The accident attorneys at The Cochran Firm rely on our decades of combined experience and a network of the nation's top injury lawyers to build solid cases for our clients.

In the past decade, it has become increasingly apparent that many of our nation's school buildings contain a significant amount...

Seven decades after making key portions of the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, workers at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation are being exposed to radiation as they tear down buildings that helped create the nation's nuclear arsenal.

The Nation's Top Apartment Markets for Inventory Growth, Construction Pipelines Developers are building properties at a quicker pace than at any time over the past two decades.

Even today, a decade after the fact, the leveraged buyout of Equity Office Properties Trust remains one of the largest of all time: $ 36 billion for nearly 600 office buildings in New York, Washington D.C. and dozens of the nation's largest cities.