Sentences with phrase «face as a nation»

Earlier this year, in his most direct comments on the issue, President Obama said in a speech at the National Cybersecurity Communications Integration Center that cyber threats pose «one of the most serious economic and national security challenges we face as a nation,» and acknowledged that hacking is ongoing.

«I think Stockton is absolutely ground zero for a lot of the issues we are facing as a nation,» Tubbs said...

«I do not believe it is my responsibility to point people to a candidate but rather to point people to Jesus Christ as the ultimate and only hope for mankind and the problems we face as a nation.»

«For the Ghanaian officers, you are aware that one of the problems we are facing as a nation is the issue of illegal mining also known as galamsey.

«It is becoming increasingly urgent to address the roads crisis we face as a nation,» said the group's transport spokesman Martin Tett, adding that 2017 could be «a tipping point year» regarding potholes.

The problem we face as a nation is the type of loan we have been contracting and what we have been using it for.

Mucarsel - Powell's not - so - full - throated response — spoken with Pelosi standing next to her — highlights the conundrum Democrats face as the nation's minority party pushes to take back Congress during the midterm elections.

It is thought that HFCS has been a major contributor to the of obesity and diabetes epidemics we now face as a nation.

The challenge we face as a nation — and the imperative — is to make sure that all students, of all colors and incomes, have the skills and education necessary to compete in a global economy.

And while he noted that getting the nation's schools up to date is a huge undertaking, it represents only a small part of the overall infrastructure challenge we face as a nation.

The real problem we are facing as a nation is a lack of good paying jobs — not a lack of smart hard working kids!

We just need the will to courageously engage the difficulties that we face as a nation and as a planet.»

Essentially this show will reflect the specifics of Black life in the southeast United States but echoes of contemporary issues we face as a nation.

We have acted boldly in every crisis we have faced as a nation.

Whereas, if left unaddressed, the consequences of a changing climate have the potential to adversely impact all Americans, hitting vulnerable populations hardest, harming productivity in key economic sectors such as construction, agriculture, and tourism, saddling future generations with costly economic and environmental burdens, and imposing additional costs on State and Federal budgets that will further add to the long - term fiscal challenges that we face as a Nation;

Just published on Chris Martenson's Peak Prosperity site.Read it there: Considering the problems we face as a nation, the torpor and lassitude of current politics in America seems like a kind of offense against history.

It's what Al Gore was alluding to when he recently expressed the hope that Trump will work with the «overwhelming majority of us who believe that the climate crisis is the greatest threat we face as a nation.»

This can only mean that the productivity challenges we face as a nation will become even more severe.»

Each speech discussed a particular challenge that we face as a nation if we are to realise true equality and respect for our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander brothers and sisters.

Each speech has discussed a particular challenge that we face as a nation if we are to realize true equality and respect for our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander brothers and sisters.

Not exact matches

The nation's biggest miners, BHP and Rio Tinto, are being targeted as part of a near $ 1 billion corporate tax grab and the major banks have been warned they could face a bank levy if the new West Australian government can not pass its budget measures.

This fast train to war was sidetracked, however, as Russia and China succeeded in blocking concerted United Nations action against both Iran and its ally, Syria (itself facing a massive propaganda campaign alleging atrocities that can not be independently or fully verified).

As University of Texas associate professor Richard J. Reddick writes for Fortune, King «unflinchingly held a moral mirror to the nation's face.»

WASHINGTON, March 7 - A Venezuelan state governor made an unusual visit to Washington this week seeking meetings with Congress members to discuss the fate of a Utah man imprisoned in the South American nation, U.S. sources said on Wednesday, as the country faces a possible new round of sanctions.

WASHINGTON, March 7 - A Venezuelan state governor made an unusual visit to Washington this week seeking meetings in Congress to discuss the fate of an American imprisoned in the South American nation, U.S. sources said on Wednesday, as the country faces a possible new round of sanctions.

The problems facing us, many of them are global, like rogue nuclear states, like climate change, and other forms of environmental threats, like terrorists, like maximizing global wealth and prosperity, and none of these are going to be solved if we think of the international arena as one of each nation striving for its individual greatness.

Los Angeles, for instance, faces one of the nation's toughest challenges with homelessness, seeing an 11 % year - over-year increase as of January.

As its costs of commodities and food skyrockets, its citizens» restive ambitions are thwarted by the limits facing all consuming nations, and its aging populace catches up with it, then China's resources will be stretched too thin to construct a Grand Empire with decisive hard and soft power.

«We need to invest every defense dollar to meet the threat that we're facing right now as a nation,» she told CNN's Wolf Blitzer later on Wednesday, arguing that the Obama administration's decision to allow transgender people to serve would cost $ 1.35 billion over a decade just for sex - reassignment surgeries.

Abigail Bozarth, a spokeswoman for AstraZeneca, said «AstraZeneca believes it is important to engage with policymakers, key partners, and the public — across all states in the United States — about the very challenging issues we face as we all work to strengthen our nation's health care system.»

Australia is hosting the ASEAN meeting, despite not being a member of the 10 - nation bloc, as it seeks to deepen political and trade ties in the face of China's rising influence.

The New York Times cited anonymous sources involved with The Birth of a Nation as saying that Fox Searchlight does not plan to change course on its promotion of the film, which includes plans to have Parker tour U.S. universities and churches as the public face of the movie.

Dickerson, who anchors CBS News's Sunday morning show Face the Nation and serves as the network's chief Washington correspondent, will relocate to New York and join CBS This Morning co-hosts Norah O'Donnell and Gayle King on the show this Wednesday.

Russian overtures to Pakistan offer a badly needed diplomatic lifeline for the South Asian nation as it faces growing friction with Western powers over its alleged links to militants.

If the new nation were to be denied entrance or have difficulty joining the union, the Catalan economy would face large transition costs, as the EU accounts for roughly 65.8 percent of Catalan exports.

J&J spokesman Ernie Knewitz told CNBC, «As we have learned through the 2016 election campaign, personal attacks do not serve the interests of the American public or foster a balanced discussion on the substantive issues facing the nation.»

Now the city faces this question: Who is going to rebuild the nation's fourth - largest city as construction companies nationwide struggle to find workers?

Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said on CBS» «Face the Nation» that he didn't expect the tariffs to have a «meaningful impact on the economy» even as he left the door open for disruption.

«At this level of imports from OPEC, Middle Eastern producing nations will be watching closely as they could, in time, face pressure from their Chinese buyers to adopt this benchmark for pricing their physical crude contracts,» the cartel said in its monthly report.

CHICAGO, Jan 24 Baxter International informed customers on Wednesday that it has been given approval by U.S. regulators to import large saline bags from its plant in Mexico in an effort to ease hospital shortages of the product as the nation faces a severe flu season.

CHICAGO (Reuters)- Baxter International informed customers on Wednesday that it has been given approval by U.S. regulators to import large saline bags from its plant in Mexico in an effort to ease hospital shortages of the product as the nation faces a severe flu season.

The as yet unfinished Trans - Pacific Partnership, which would link Canada to 11 other nations, including Japan and the United States, faces stiff headwinds in Washington.

«But I am filled with a heavy heart as we face yet another crucible as a nation.

Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney, whose name has been floated as a potential replacement for Kelly should the general exit, told CBS's Major Garrett on Face the Nation Sunday that questions about Kelly are simply media speculation.

Unless it was meant for us as a new system to drop Republican systems for the Royalist systems that are taking place now that Jordan and Morocco both Royelists are planed to join GCC as one with a change to the name of the GCC since the Royalist empire will be extending to countries outer of the Arabian Gulf Countries... What ever it is all we need is freedom of rights, justice, peace, equality and to live in prosperity... Egypt is not in the heart of Egyptions only but as well in the heart of every Arabic nation, Egyptions were our teachers in our schools and Egypt was the university of our Yemeni students... Egypt was the source of islamic educations, Egypt was the face of all arts, books, papers, TV plays and movies to all of Arabian speaking countries... Egypt is our Arabian Icon so please please other nations are becoming larger and stronger in the area on your account as a living icon for the Arabian Unity what ever our faiths or beliefs are we are brothers in blood, culture and language, God Bless to All.Amen.

Yet it must be said in fairness that there is probably as much paternalism in the liberal's all-wise insistence on «appropriate technology» in the face of a new nation's determination to have its own steel plants as in the conservative's all-wise insistence on monogamous marriage in the face of tribal insistence on polygamy.

And these books don't serve up blind patriotism nor are they revisionist in scope — the stories put a human face on some of our most tragic moments and failures as a nation like Japanese internment, the plight of home children, residential schools, flu epidemics, wars, child labour, the Halifax explosion, the Acadian expulsion, and so on.

Acts 17:24 - 28 «24 The God who made the world and all things in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands; 25 nor is He served by human hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives to all people life and breath and all things; 26 and He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation, 27 that they would seek God, if perhaps they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us; 28 for in Him we live and move and exist, as even some of your own poets have said, «For we also are His children.»»

To me it is a sickening abomination of God's will that the most advanced nation on the face of the earth has to be held hostage to these willfully ignorant, dark - age dwelling crackpots, who turn concepts such as Capitalism into false religious idols which they expect people to worship mindlessly.

Further, there should be an in - depth series immediately on Acts 17:26 - 28 which reads, «And He has made from one blood [a] every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their preappointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings, so that they should seek the Lord, in the hope that they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us; for in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have said, «For we are also His offspring.»