Sentences with phrase «from failed states»

A reading from her Failed States book took place at Art in General in October 2012 following her recent inclusion in the 5th Bucharest Biennale, curated by Anne Barlow in 2012.

Many of the migrants are not coming directly from failed states like Syria but through other states — like Turkey — that are stable.

It attempts instrumentally to distinguish successful states from failing states and morally to distinguish those who share our loves from those who do not — whose love of other things is often the source of their incipient failure.

August 29, 2015 • Pressure on Premier Najib Razak has mounted since a revelation last month that $ 600 million had been improperly transferred from a failing state fund.

Not exact matches

The coup attempt failed within a day, and Erdogan was quick to use the opportunity to solidify his already increasingly authoritarian rule by implementing a three - month state of emergency, temporarily suspending the European Convention on Human Rights, and removing tens of thousands of employees from military and government positions.

With Erdogan cracking down on thousands of people in the judiciary, education, military, and civil service after last weekend's failed coup, a lawmaker from the main opposition party warned that the state of emergency created «a way of ruling that paves the way for abuse».

UNITED NATIONS / TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters)- The United States threatened unilateral action against Iran on Monday after Russia vetoed a western bid for the United Nations Security Council to call out Tehran for failing to prevent its weapons from falling into the hands of Yemen's Houthi group.

That suit alleges that the distributor failed to identify, report, and stop the shipment of suspicious orders of opioids in the state from 2007 to the present in violation of West Virginia's controlled substances act.

He points out that when systems fail in one state others can learn from the mistakes and avoid the consequence.

In early January, Ant Financial, the electronics payment affiliate of China's Alibaba Group, and MoneyGram, a Texas - based money transfer company, announced that it had been forced to abandon a proposed deal after failing to win approval from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), a congressional panel that reviews foreign purchases of American companies.

His radical management innovations have transformed Haier from a small, failing, state - owned refrigerator maker into the world's largest appliance brand.

Jacobson is only the latest high - profile departure from the State Department, which has shed many of its most senior officials under Trump and failed to fill many vacancies.

The cases of the Angola 5 — a group of men who failed to escape from the maximum - security prison and killed a guard in the process — have caught the attention of Louisiana lawmakers who are studying the costs of capital punishment in their state.

In a decision released by the Baltimore Circuit Court, Judge Martin P. Welch wrote that the 35 - year - old was being granted a new trial because his initial council failed to properly cross-examine an expert from the state about the reliability of cell tower data that seemed to place him at the scene of the crime.

«Without this type of political support, military aid, and supportive push from a GOP Congress in the 1990s, it might have become a failed nation and even greater «narco - state» threat to the U.S.»

Oregon also accuses Oracle of breach of contract, along with civil racketeering, for «failing to deliver on its obligations, overcharging for poorly trained Oracle personnel to provide incompetent work, hiding from the state the true extent of Oracle's shoddy performance, continuing to promise what it could not deliver, and willfully refusing to honor its warranty to fix its errors without charge.»

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But when framed in the context of today's digital and hyper - connected society, we often fail to see ways in which technology is preventing this sort of state from ever happening.

The United States, Mexico and Canada failed to resolve any major differences in a fifth round of talks to rework the NAFTA trade deal, drawing a swift complaint from the Trump administration on Tuesday that the lack of progress could doom the process.

While the WTO rules are very valuable, they were formed two decades ago and have failed to catch up with the times and realities of the global economy, such as massive government subsidies that create overcapacity and competition from state - owned enterprises.

«The White House officials who provided this week's briefing stated that several White House employees came forward and «confessed» that they failed to forward official records from their personal email accounts to their governmental email accounts within 20 days, as the Presidential Records Act requires,» Cummings continued.

Olympic gymnast Aly Raisman is suing the U.S. Olympic Committee for failing to take action to prevent former USA Gymnastics and Michigan State University team doctor Larry Nassar from molesting hundreds of women.

These facts are consistent with what the United States has long known: Iran had a robust, clandestine nuclear weapons program that it has tried and failed to hide from the world and from its own people.

Democrats from coal - producing states, led by West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, had delayed the Senate vote on the funding bill in a failed attempt to get a bigger extension of miners» healthcare benefits that expire at the end of this year.

These facts are consistent with what the United States has long known: Iran had a robust, clandestine nuclear weapons program that it has tried and failed to hide from the world and from its own people,» the White House said in a statement.

In the end, however, even a watered - down measure that would have tightened background checks failed to get to a final vote in the Senate amid opposition from Republicans and Democrats in conservative states.

In addition to the fine and the admission that it failed to supervise Mr. Bansal, Goldman will accept a three - year suspension from conducting certain consulting deals with banks in New York State.

In all, the TSSB said that R2B committed fraud, failed to disclose the basis for how it calculates the value of the coins it is issuing, and furthermore, must immediately cease and desist from offering securities in the state pursuant to the Texas Securities Act.

31 states fail to protect lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) employees people from discrimination in employment, housing, and public accommodations.

But a paper by Henrick Bessembinder from Arizona State University has recently found that 58 % of all stocks failed to outperform Treasury Bills over their lifetime in the paper's data set.

Throughout the war, the Confederacy had tried and failed to get recognition from other European states.

A recent report from the Children's Society -LCB- The Good Childhood Enquiry: www.childrenssociety.org.uk) stated, «Children, whose parents separate are 50 \ % more likely to fail at school, suffer behavioural difficulties, anxiety or depression.»

Although the United States had failed to isolate Nicaragua from Western assistance, the war and the credit crunch had both damaged Nicaragua's financial independence and converted the country into an important new client for socialist lenders.29

It fails to include resources from philosophy, or, more particularly, from that contemporary movement in philosophy called «environmental philosophy,» which, as articulated in a journal such as Environmental Ethics, has a growing number of advocates in Western Europe, the United States, and Australia.2

When that failed, the department was both an academic liability (as the least scholarly unit in the university) and a financial one (as unlikely to attract endowment from any other source, and a possible obstacle to the university's ability to receive funds from the state and certain foundations).

However, the 2014 World Watch List (see full list below) from Open Doors International — which notes the increased impact of «failed states» and reveals its methodology for the first time — calculates a far lower total for Christian martyrdoms than recent estimates by other groups.

They fail to realize that even today there isn't a single religious organizaton that can legally marrry someone without a license from the state.

Gilbert Ryles» famous critique of dualism, for example, is unsatisfactory since in the final analysis it differs little from the old - fashioned materialism of behaviorists like J.B. Watson, for whom distinct «inner» states of awareness do not exist.18 In general, it is «irritating» to Lewis that so many distinguished philosophers fail to recognize the appropriateness of «the Platonic - Cartesian way.

Local religious leader, Jerry Datim told WWM: «Political leaders in the state have failed to protect the people from the Fulani attackers because they fear that President Muhammadu Buhari may move against any politician that goes against the Fulani, who are Buhari's kinsmen.»

Even counseling failed to reconcile her to her foster parents» values; she ran away and eventually had to be committed to a state girls» school, though the only «crime» she had committed was running away from a life style imposed on her by the courts.

I happen to live in Britain where the welfare state, despite its obvious failings and inadequacies (to which reactionaries are always calling attention), has had and still does have as its chief concern the provision to everyone of those absolute necessities that are required if the citizens are to lead better, healthier, and more satisfying lives because they have been delivered from nagging fears and worries about illness and old age and much else that can be so dreadfully threatening to them.

A spokesman from the American Beverage Association called the tax in DeLauro's bill «an old idea» that has repeatedly failed to gain traction at the state, local or federal levels.

The Sun also states that Tottenham will look to make a late move to bring in long - term target Saido Berahino, who has already been the subject of failed bids from the North London club (via The Guardian).

Btw quite the change from last year when Wenger stated that Walcott's prime is coming and he wouldn't want to miss him, yet he failed to justify a place in the starting XI.

He is suing the NCAA — which relied heavily on the Freeh report in its punishment of Penn State — under federal antitrust laws, claiming that the organization had no business sanctioning the school for failing to stop a retired coach from abusing children.

Kevin Campbell has now stated that our club simply can not be taken seriously if we fail to stop our key player from ditching us for free in order to join our league rivals.

Kansas State coach Bill Snyder defended on Thursday his decision to deny a transfer request from wide receiver Corey Sutton, revealing that Sutton has failed two drug tests.

The report further states Arsenal are believed to have opened talks with the attacker over extending his current contract at the Arsenal and if talks fail to pull through, they will consider a permanent deal for him away from the North London.

Children who fail to follow directions exactly as the parent states have the hardest time with this method because it is dependent upon cooperation from the child.

Most reported cases have been ascribed to the use of contaminated well water for preparation of infant formula.1 — 3 Fifteen million families in the United States obtain their drinking water from unregulated wells.4 In a survey of 5500 private water supplies from 9 Midwestern states, 13 % of the wells were found to have nitrate concentrations > 10 mg / L or 10 ppm nitrate nitrogen, 5 the federal maximum contaminant level.6 It is estimated that 2 million families drink water from private wells that fail to meet the federal drinking - water standard for nitrate, and 40000 infants younger than 6 months live in homes that have nitrate - contaminated water supplies.4 In urban areas, municipal wastewater - treatment discharges (a source of nutrients) on surrounding farmland aggravate the proStates obtain their drinking water from unregulated wells.4 In a survey of 5500 private water supplies from 9 Midwestern states, 13 % of the wells were found to have nitrate concentrations > 10 mg / L or 10 ppm nitrate nitrogen, 5 the federal maximum contaminant level.6 It is estimated that 2 million families drink water from private wells that fail to meet the federal drinking - water standard for nitrate, and 40000 infants younger than 6 months live in homes that have nitrate - contaminated water supplies.4 In urban areas, municipal wastewater - treatment discharges (a source of nutrients) on surrounding farmland aggravate the prostates, 13 % of the wells were found to have nitrate concentrations > 10 mg / L or 10 ppm nitrate nitrogen, 5 the federal maximum contaminant level.6 It is estimated that 2 million families drink water from private wells that fail to meet the federal drinking - water standard for nitrate, and 40000 infants younger than 6 months live in homes that have nitrate - contaminated water supplies.4 In urban areas, municipal wastewater - treatment discharges (a source of nutrients) on surrounding farmland aggravate the problem.7