Sentences with phrase «described as the nation»

A portion of the first months book sales were donated to Green America, which describes itself as the nations leading green economy organization, helping people and businesses everywhere make the shift to a socially just and environmentally sustainable economy.

The latter might well be described as The Nation of American Catholicism.

For 12 years, he had what is often described as the nation's second biggest job.

New state law among nation's toughest Written with the assistance of the National Association of Charter School Authorizers in Chicago, the new law has been described as the nation's toughest.

Data from the most recent National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), often described as the Nation's Report Card, also shows that U.S. students have work to do — more than 60 percent of eighth and twelfth graders each did not meet the «proficient» level for reading.

While there is a tendency across the country for Indigenous groups to describe themselves as nations defined by language, descent and territory, land and native title claims have often split groups that naturally belong together.

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The Viral Nation team will then come up with several options for a creative campaign — say, getting an influencer to «unwrap» a raincoat on YouTube, and describe the product on Instagram — as well as a list of influencers who would be interested in getting involved.

He brushed off claims that Catalonia would have a rough ride trying to turn itself into a nation and described Spain as a failed state.

[«The Wealth of Nations»] describes what builds nations» wealth and is today a fundamental work in classical economics and touches upon such broad topics as the division of labor, productivity, and free mNations»] describes what builds nations» wealth and is today a fundamental work in classical economics and touches upon such broad topics as the division of labor, productivity, and free mnations» wealth and is today a fundamental work in classical economics and touches upon such broad topics as the division of labor, productivity, and free markets.

Michael Sorkin, an award - winning architect and the architecture critic for The Nation, wrote a manifesto - length essay in response («Architecture Against Trump») that describes the AIA statement as «temperate, agreeable, indeed feckless.»

IT»S easy to get excited about what's happening in the fast - moving world of currency values but it's wrong to describe what's happening as a «war», because it's not; what's going on is simply economics at work, and it's telling a story of changes in the wealth of nations.

North Korea has described the film as an «act of war,» though a North Korean diplomat last week denied that his nation was involved in the cyber attack.

The Environmental Protection Agency has described Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal as «one of the nation's most extensively contaminated water bodies.»

Beyond that, he described China as a country upon which other nations had imposed unfair trade penalties: «We hope developed countries will stop imposing restrictions on normal and reasonable trade of high - tech products and relax export controls on such trade with China,» he said, not naming any specific country.

While the special counsel's investigation tries to determine whether Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election, America's top nuclear commander described the nation as a paramount threat to the United States.

The agency, created in 1946 to build houses for veterans of the Second World War, liked to describe itself as the «heart of housing» — an enormous Crown corporation that dominated the mortgage insurance market, guaranteed complex, bond - like assets called mortgage - backed securities, and subsidized the building and upkeep of First Nations and social housing.

She described Beijing's view of these islands as more than just individual small nations, but collectively as an important factor in China's ability to resist Western containment.

Kevin Burch is co-chair of Trucking Moves America Forward which describes itself as an «industry - wide movement to create a positive image for the industry, to ensure that policymakers and the public understand the importance of the trucking industry to the nation's economy, and to build the political and grassroots support necessary to strengthen and grow the industry in the future.»

Ralph Waldo Emerson once described the 51 year old billionaire as a man or a company of men who was plastic and permeable to principles and by the law of nature overpowers and override all cities, nations, rich men, kings and poets.

It described the nation's largest bank as «insular», saying it had not learned from experiences and mistakes and its «continued financial success dulled the senses of the institution».

Swaraj described «the latent potential» in U.S. - India diplomacy and noted a new foundation between the two nations «to treat issues where we diverge as an opportunity for further conversation and dialogue.»

The imbroglio reached its apex during the second Republican presidential debate, when Carly Fiorina decried the harvesting of a brain from an intact, extracted fetus whose heart had restarted — described on camera by a former tissue procurement technician — as an issue that defines «the character of our nation.»

The United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide describes genocide as «a crime under international law» which signatories, including the United States, should «prevent and to punish.»

What we do at USCIS is so important to our nation, so meaningful to the applicants and petitioners, and the nature of the work is often so complicated, that we should never allow our work to be regarded as a mere production line or even described in business or commercial terms.

Current development can, in fact, be described as the process by which the rich and more powerful reallocate the nation's natural resources in their favor and modern technology is the tool that subserves this process.

But Yale President Richard Levin described New York's surveillance program as «antithetical to the values» of the New Haven, Connecticut, university and those of the nation.

For example, after explaining how their research shows that three - quarters of young outsiders and half of young churchgoers describe present - day Christianity as «too involved in politics,» this is what Kinnaman concludes: «To address the deep challenges that are facing people in our nation and around the world, Gabe and I have come to the conclusion that being politically engaged is more important than ever.»

In a press release, Chancellor Jerry Falwell, Jr. described Beck as a «conservative leader» and «one of the few courageous voices in the national media standing up for the principles upon which this nation was founded.»

Peter Anyang» Nyong «o, the governor of the third - largest city in the East African nation, also supported postponing the vote for the presidential election re-run and described counter plans as a «joke».

Herman Melville's much - read novel White - Jacket, for example, described Americans as «the Israel of our time» and the nation as a «political Messiah» sent as an advance guard to «bear the ark of the liberties of the world.»

Besides, in a nation in which the great majority of voters describe themselves as religious, religious belief will usually be the background — even if frequently unstated — of our policy debates.

-LSB-...] Global governance can be «described» as the new global political regime which informally came about in the course of the post-Cold War conference process of the United Nations (1990 - 96), when a new «global consensus» was built, not primarily by governments themselves but through a historical and strategic partnership between the UN and so - called «non-state actors», mainly powerful western - based NGOs.

In her first public address since a bloody military crackdown on the Rohingya Muslim minority that has been described as «a textbook example of ethnic cleansing» by the United Nations, Aung San Suu Kyi didn't criticise the army and said she did not «fear international scrutiny».

Just after the Revolutionary War, John Marshall described the American nation as «an infant people, spreading themselves through a wilderness occupied only by savages and wild beasts.»

Exuberantly combative, he could be scathing about the nation's Roman Catholic bishops; at one point he described them as «morally, intellectually and religiously bankrupt.»

The ekklesia is described in the Scriptures not only as a body, but as a distinct kingdom and nation, which therefore has its own norms.

It will require restoring what Russell Hittinger describes as the three necessary societies: family, nation, and religious community.

I cringe when I hear you describe this country, MY country, as a Christian nation.

The group that was to become the people and nation of Israel in the centuries following the Exodus from Egypt is described here as a relatively unified and homogeneous entity.

I'm sure I heard somewhere Alan Shearer described him as «technically, one of the worst defenders» he'd seen when commontating at the African Cup of Nations.

@ harry barracuda, words such as u used to describe an event, eagerly anticipated by a population of about 500 million people, shows how stupid and insensitive people such as you can be, the African nations cup is not,» stupid, crap, pointless or in your words f**king thing,» if that is the case, then you are implying that such players that represent their nation, do that for a «crap pointless stupid f**king reason.Get a grip my friend, this is a place to dicuss arsenal related issues, not a forum for your biased foolishness.And, oh yeah KOLO stays.

Described as down - to - earth and approachable, Mrs. Spandikow was a sought - after speaker who gave lectures on breast - feeding at conferences around the world and once addressed the United Nations.

In 2005 the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, which monitors the state of the world's forests every few years, reported that 13 million hectares of global forests are lost annually, including 6 million hectares of what are described as primary forests - some of the most biologically diverse ecological systems in the world.

US President Donald Trump described El Salvador, Haiti, and certain African nations as «shithole» countries during a meeting with lawmakers at the White House on Thursday.

Tory MP Jacob Rees - Mogg described the bill as the most important ever debated by the Commons and said rushing it through was «an insult to our nation, our sovereign and parliament».

National Organizer of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), Kofi Adams has described as unnecessary the opposition New Patriotic Party's (NPP) version of the State of the Nation address.

He further described the defence cooperation agreement as «a terrible mistake» which puts the entire nation in jeopardy.

The Nigeria Governors» Forum Secretariat, NGFS, has appraised the state governors» contribution to the nation's economic recovery describing it as tremendous.

Minority in Parliament has passed a scathingly damning verdict on President Akufo - Addo's maiden State of the Nation Address, describing it as «high on platitudes and short of substance.»

The President, who described the hard - earned victory as «very sweet, soothing and a 57th Independence Anniversary gift to the nation,» applauded the nation's senior men's football team for the feat of making Nigeria the first African country to qualify for Russia 2018 FIFA World Cup tournament, with a match left to play.