Sentences with phrase «for powerful nations»

It is not referred to as terrorism, for powerful nations have the weapons to wage war and only the weak have to resort to terrorism.

Not exact matches

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

«The deal represents a sudden and stunning turn of events for The Post, Washington's leading newspaper for decades and a powerful force in shaping the nation's politics and policy,» Washington Post reporter Paul Farhi wrote on WashingtonPost.com today.

For Hu, it was a «legacy» visit, his swansong as the head of the world's most populous and potentially most powerful nation before stepping down as the leader of the Communist Party of China in 2012.

America's housing crisis generated nearly 4 million foreclosures and devastated residential equity for more than six years, but it also created a powerful new positive force in the nation's residential real estate economy.

The social media platform made such data grabs easy for app developers — though it began severely restricting them in 2015 — and Wylie saw it as a powerful way to study an entire nation on a scale at once broad and precise.

imagine for a second China gives long beach California to the Hui to create their own country the hue come over and put a wall around the native population with full support of a powerful nation lets say America.

The USA was the most powerful Nation on the face of the earth and would remain so for many years to come.

I wonder what that man would have said, could I have asked him whether he was concerned about our nation's need for a renewal of powerful, ethical religion that would re-establish faith in spiritual realities and values, and elevate the standards of personal and public integrity.

Even if this does not happen, even if the United States continues on as the greatest and richest and most powerful nation in the world for many generations to come, are you making preparations now to hold the fort for future Christian generations?

The President and others who recognize the shortcomings of the colonization of peoples by more powerful foreign nations would do well to heed the words of Pope Francis — for whom the President often expresses admiration — about the new form of colonization, holding foreign aid as a hostage when their nation's views reflect a different understanding of the human person, one held by many Americans as well.

The religious scene in America is quite different from everywhere else, if for no other reason than that we are by far the richest and most powerful nation in the world.

After all, history, and even recent history, knows instances where a powerful personality, temporarily and for particular ends, has come to embody in himself the spirit and purpose of a whole nation, and has been spontaneously recognized as its representative, in a more than formal sense.

Not only is the dark virgin «the single most powerful element in Mexican Catholicism,» but her very darkness has enabled her to symbolize the postcolonial, miscegenized mestizo nation.47 It is not uncommon today for recent immigrants (for example, from the Spanish Civil War) and their children to be targets of discrimination.

Looking at the varied interplay of these factors makes for a powerful and very successful sociological analysis that can be applied to many situations — businesses, churches, (including dioceses and parishes) as well as clubs, movements and whole nation states.

Robert Bellah has demonstrated how even a supposedly secular nation manifests a civil religion that provides for most American communities a powerful amalgam of Christian and patriotic images and values.13

Not only do the powerful nations resist the concept of organic growth of nations involving a curbing of their own growth, but traditional economists refuse to take seriously the need for an economics of sustainability.

The powerful nations, for example, are not single - minded in their desire to maintain the peace of the world.

asdf, And as such, it is permissible for him to lie to us «infidels» if it will get him elected to as President as the most powerful nation on the planet.

Whether it is proper to utilize such powerful technology, with its «personalized» feedback loops, for the purpose of saving souls in this nation is an ethical question.

According to the Rosary on the Coast's website, Catholics in Poland «responded to what they sense as a movement of the Holy Spirit to gather around the coasts of their nations and pray to Jesus, the Divine Mercy, for a renewal of faith and respect for human life through the powerful intercession of Our Lady of the Rosary».

The 20th Winter Games will bring 2,500 athletes from 85 nations — including a powerful U.S. contingent — to Turin, Italy, a city known more for its cars and its shroud than for sports.

The pacy and powerful attacking midfield star was never going to be cheap after a great summer tournament for the host nation but after Sissoko had made it clear that he was not up for a season in the second tier of English football and actually felt that Champions League football was a must for him I was not expecting such a high price tag.

Powerful junk food companies purchase «sustaining partnerships» from the American Society for Nutrition, gaining access to the nation's leading nutrition researchers at their annual meetings, and in their policy positions.

The enduring and powerful sense of what it means to be Scottish may, in many respects, be a construct of sentimental depictions of the place, but — regardless of whether it is based on ancestry, a love of the real place or on Braveheart and shortbread tin imagery — the diaspora's relationship with Scotland does have real economic and social consequences for the nation.

We must come together in a new partnership with our faith - based institutions, civil society, businesses and government to create a powerful locomotive for transformation so that our President's coordinated program of economic and social development policies will create «an optimistic, self - confident and prosperous nation through the creative exploitation of our human and natural resources and operating within a democratic, open and fair society in which mutual trust and economic opportunities exist for all.»

This can be done, according to him, by cooperating with China as «China is the only nation that can provide powerful economic disincentives for North Korea».

Wale Adebanwi, en route to a new professorial chair at Oxford University, England, had gathered a lean but powerful assemblage, for a select reading of his new book, The Nation as Grand Narrative: The Nigerian Press and the Politics of Meaning (NY, USA: University of Rochester Press, 2016).

Public Advocate Letitia James Supports Call for Divestment from Assault Weapon Manufacturers As we mourn tragedy after tragedy caused by guns, New York City must take a powerful stand against companies that contribute to carnage and violence across our nation.

Silvester, a councillor in Henley - on - Thames in Oxfordshire, said Cameron «has arrogantly acted against the Gospel that once made Britain «great» and the lesson surely to be learned is that no man or men, however powerful, can mess with Almighty God with impunity and get away with it for everything a nation does is weighed on the scaled of divine approval or disapproval».

But there are powerful reasons for requiring such support, such as preventing constitutional provisions that are strongly opposed by a substantial minority of the country from being enacted, which would undermine the nation's allegiance toward the Constitution.

The most powerful nation minces no words in stating that the DPRK is the reason for having those troops there.

What are the limits on the ability of the President of the United States to secretly contact powerful representatives of other nations (for example, another nation's head of state, or that nation's ambassador to the US)?

«Senator Warren is the nation's most powerful voice for working families fighting against a set of rules written by and for big banks.

The nation Ghana has stood, for years, with powerful nations on United Nations missions all over the world to secure the peace and tranquility of nations faced with nations on United Nations missions all over the world to secure the peace and tranquility of nations faced with Nations missions all over the world to secure the peace and tranquility of nations faced with nations faced with crisis.

The nation's most powerful Republican will be in central New York this evening to campaign for the man challenging Democratic Rep. Dan Maffei.

Boehner's campaign declined to comment about the fundraiser, which will give Oneida Indian Nation Representative Ray Halbritter access for the day to Washington's most powerful Republican.

The Turning Stone event will give Oneida Indian Nation Representative Ray Halbritter access for several hours to Washington's most powerful Republican.

People who have dealt with the Home Office for a couple of years eventually come to the conclusion that it is the most corrupt government department of all Whitehall departments, as they do not look after the people of this nation, but powerful corporations and people who make billions every year through suppression.

God has done His best for him by bringing him all the way from the village of Otuoke, Bayelsa State, when he even had no shoes to become deputy governor and then governor of Bayelsa State and miraculously lifted higher to become Vice President and then head of state and President of the most powerful black nation on earth within 15 years.

«Our nation's research enterprise is among the most powerful engines of American prosperity, producing value far beyond the sum of its individual parts,» said Rush Holt, CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, in a statement.

That's why University of Washington (UW) researchers are using one of the nation's most powerful supercomputers, the 10 - petaflop / s Mira at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF), to improve their software for designing protein structures to likewise virtually design and test mini-proteins called peptides.

The XGC code ran for three days and took 90 percent of the capacity of Titan at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF), which is the nation's most powerful supercomputer for open science and capable of performing up to 27 million billion (1015) operations per second.

«The human deaths and the powerful landscape - altering destruction caused by Hurricane Sandy are a stark reminder that our nation must become more resilient to coastal hazards,» said Kevin Gallagher, associate director for Core Science Systems at USGS.

The discovery involved ORNL's Spallation Neutron Source, which provides the most intense pulsed neutron beams in the world for scientific research and industrial development, and ORNL's Titan supercomputer, the nation's most powerful for open science — a one - two punch for illuminating the physical properties of potential drugs that inform new design principles for safer, improved delivery platforms.

An emotive call for action on environmental issues by Pope Francis will shake up climate politics in the world's most powerful nation

This work is part of the DOE's Exascale Computing Project (ECP), which aims to maximize the benefits of exascale — future supercomputers that will be 50 times faster than our nation's most powerful system today — for U.S. economic competitiveness, national security and scientific discovery.

What it means: Island states, African nations and other vulnerable countries are pushing for a system that provides funding to help them recover from disasters made worse by climate change, such as rising seas or powerful storms.

Through a combination of a variety of information gathering activities and Committee deliberations, the Committee has concluded that the nation's need for these scientists remains strong and that the NRSA program, while small compared to the many other sources of doctoral and postdoctoral support, is enormously powerful in terms of its ability to change research emphases and to attract the highest quality individuals to research careers in the basic biomedical, behavioral and clinical sciences.

The nation's engineers are drawing up plans for a moon - capable rocket more powerful than the U.S.'s Saturn 5