Sentences with phrase «held by nations»

Lesser - known designs are also featured, including a never - realized, coal - shaped skyscraper for a 2007 national design competition held by the nation of Andorra — a contest that was eventually (and perhaps wisely) abandoned.

Not exact matches

His revised travel ban, affecting travelers from six Muslim - majority nations, was set to go effect Thursday before it was put on hold Wednesday by a federal judge in Hawaii.

According to a statement by the entity, «TiECon Dubai 2018 will be held under the «Year of Zayed» banner drawing on parallels between building a nation, building a sustainable entrepreneurship environment, and building successful companies.»

It's no secret that higher education is commonplace for young entrepreneurs, but in an era where the approximate balance of the nation's student loans is growing by $ 2,762.27 a second, potential entrepreneurs could be holding back from pursuing their business ideas.

The Commerce Clause allows Congress the power «to regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes,» which was later held by courts to include «the channels of commerce, the instrumentalities of commerce, and action that substantially affects interstate commerce.»

It is worth noting that the 12 states holding contests, Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont and Virginia, were not only less affected by the housing crisis, but have stronger housing markets today than most other states in the nation.

A cutting - edge simulation laboratory held by the United Nations in order to explore how blockchain technology can help empower women who participate in a spectrum of humanitarian activities is underway.

The problem is for this or other currencies to become international reserves held by foreign central banks, the issuing nation has to run a balance of payments deficit to pump this currency into the global economy.

Officials from Wells Fargo, the nation's fourth - largest bank by assets, with $ 1.3 trillion in holdings, also declined to comment.

Kyrgyzaltyn has yet to see an offer by Chaarat Gold Holdings to acquire Kumtor mine, which is the Central Asian nation's largest gold operation.

That major media repeated the report's finding without noting its lack of credibility is symptomatic of a Nation held hostage by power and money.

The United States was by far the most powerful nation after the war and held far more gold than anyone else as well.

VICTORIA — The Penelakut First Nation is being held hostage by soaring ferry fares and being ignored by the B.C. Liberal government, say the New Democrats.

Prior to MyLumper, he served as the Director of Logistics for the largest seed and garden company in the nation, followed by his next role as Founder and CEO of Track Logistics Group, which he held for 10 years before developing the electronic payment based company that offers the solution to an age - old stressor in the trucking industry.

Its gold, gas and diamond holdings are few smaller and they're counted by the nation's central bank in its $ 9.7 billion of dwindling foreign reserves, a paltry sum for any country.

Z Nation Lab and WeWork India had organized their first joint initiative for the startup ecosystem building in Mumbai by way of a Startup Pitch Competition which was held at the World Office Expo 2017.

Financial conferences held by the League of Nations in Brussels in 1920 and Genoa in 1922 proposed that countries, as least independent countries, should have central banks.

With respect to the United States, half of Canadians (51 %) hold the opinion that the gains from securing a trade pact with Japan, Mexico, Singapore, Australia and the other TPP nations, outweigh the retaliatory risks that may come from the U.S., if they are upset by new agreement:

The nation paid back about 750 million euros to the IMF by drawing on a holding account at the fund, a Greek official said.

They are found to be a very Rich & Powerful Groups and Mother of Groups that control lives of Millions... Now Finding Peace means that we should think on how to get those Master Keys or Super Master Keys of Super Powerful Groups that are to be gathered all in one Ring lock that works to getting them to work towards One Purpose only and that is on how to make Human Life better Globally and that by investing in them human populations worldwide not minding their Race or Faith or Political interests such will work towards Building Bridges between all Nations holding and calling one Message of Love and Sharing in some form of Brotherhood that works towards a Greener Planet Earth!?

Esther saved a nation by asking favors of a king who held her life — and the lives of her people — in his hands.

Mere laws, without being monitored in performance, may prove a flop and so, the United Nations Conference on the Environment and Development was held, followed by the Rio Declaration which is of paramount importance as it sets out the famous Agenda 21 (3 - 14 June 1992, UNCED).

The evil I want to inflict on the other (who is bad, either because of his personal qualities or because he belongs to a certain race, class, or nation or holds certain opinions)-- is the evil I inflict justified by the evil he has done?

The only reason other nations didn't get ahead much was because they were also held back by the deluded.

In a very interesting chapter, «Playing the Bishop, Capturing the Queen,» Coontz is at her best as she chronicles the wild maneuvers of European royalty as they tried to protect their holdings and amass political power and fortune by arranging marriages with royal families of foreign provinces and nations.

By the time Jesus was born civility, education, love of family and nation beginning to take hold.

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.

History is being repeated, mankind does not want to learn from stories of nations of old in order not fall again and again with out hold his steps for moments to think for his self as «why» when ever some one brings by the truth has to be killed??? Peace to all,

A government operating such a deficit at a time when an increasing share of the nation's debt is held by foreigners is effectively concealing from the public the real nature of future burdens.

We urge you to usher in a new era of accountability and commitment to our injured oceans by steadfastly holding other nations to their promises to protect oceans and curb devastation.

The degree to which the Rwandan Anglican Church is complicit with the state has been illustrated by United Nations reports on retired bishops Emmanuel Kolini and John Rucyahana holding meetings for the reprehensible M23 «rebellion» in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

I used to be a repub till congress was taken over by the tea party and Romney as our candidate.I can not support a man who is a draft dodger and a tax evader.The repub congress has done nothing for vets, nothing for the middleclass.All of the good repubs have gone or have been forced out by the extremists that care nothing for the average joe or veterans like myself.Until we get real candidates that care for the middleclass and vets I will not vote for the repubs.Honor and respect, and caring for this nation is what the repubs used to stand for, now we have wackjobs from the tea party holding america hostage and thats as un patriotic as it gets, it is hurting many americans, our economy and soldiers who are looking for work.

Nonetheless, the Justices gravely declared that «the character of a nation of people who aspire to live according to the rule of law» is ultimately to be measured by the people's willingness to put aside their deeply held moral and religious views and accept the Court's pronouncements on this and other divisive questions.

Socialism must rescue the idea of the nation from its perversion by political romanticism, learning to affirm the nation even more deeply, yet hold it under the demand of justice, both at home and abroad.

Europe, the thought is, can be held together by shared values and interests that would allow for the withering away of at least much of the nation - state.

And when our nation's elected lawmakers are held hostage by a once routine budget procedure that is now being held hostage in an attempt to force Democrats to ditch the Affordable Healthcare Act, the people themselves must rise up and do what the government can not.

Yet even today, when the Faith of Christ is decayed among the nations, and when Christianity seems to belie the promises of Christ, and to be passing into the dead world of human religions, one more among many, even today, whatever individual values we hold sacred, whatever sanctity we claim for the personality of man, whatever freedoms, above the rut of biological materialism, we try to salvage from the ruins of a culture, all these are the droplets which remain within that chalice of the Christian Faith dashed down by the nation.

The perspective we have been outlining, however, holds that even though man must strive against corporate evil, he is inescapably implicated in it — for example, in injustices and exploitations by his nation, industry, or group.

My point may be clarified further by emphasizing another insight from the prophetic tradition: the place where the magnifying glass should be held is always over the nation of which one is a citizen.

Isa 42:5 Thus says God the LORD, Who created the heavens and stretched them out, Who spread out the earth and its offspring, Who gives breath to the people on it And spirit to those who walk in it, Isa 42:6 «I am the LORD, I have called You in righteousness, I will also hold You by the hand and watch over You, And I will appoint You as a covenant to the people, As a light to the nations, Isa 42:7 To open blind eyes, To bring out prisoners from the dungeon And those who dwell in darkness from the prison.

Antiquities of questionable provenance held by many museums are being «repatriated» to their source nations, sometimes as the result of a mere threat.

While polls should never have an undue effect on someone's political or moral positions — as Robert Wuthnow convincingly argues in the most recent issue of First Things — this new poll does seem to reveal that an artificial consensus created by the elite of this country, and the relatively quiet response among the opposition, has not taken dramatic hold of the hearts and minds of ordinary people in this nation.

In our day whole nations who have been held in fear and ignorance by certain religious systems are being released almost overnight, as it were, by the rising tide of modern knowledge.

If America is a secular nation, then why are 10 commandment displayed in federal buildings, In God We Trust on money and motto, Christian holidays observed by govern., churches tax - exempt, presidents swearing holding a bible, etc..?

America's exceptional history as the only nation in the world with two centuries of political continuity stems from its people's love for individual rights, which they hold to be inalienable because they are granted by a power that no human agency dare oppose.

IN PLURIMIS (On the Abolition of Slavery) Pope Leo XIII Encyclical of Pope Leo XIII promulgated on 5 May 1888 The words of St. Gregory the Great are very applicable here: «Since our Redeemer, the Author of all life, deigned to take human flesh, that by the power of His Godhood the chains by which we were held in bondage being broken, He might restore us to our first state of liberty, it is most fitting that men by the concession of manumission should restore to the freedom in which they were born those whom nature sent free into the world, but who have been condemned to the yoke of slavery by the law of nations.»

Shall we, as a nation, recognise these truths now, or shall we wait to learn the hard way by continuing to attack and destroy the «cement of society» that holds it together?

They are still held captive by an epistemology borrowed from the modern university, with its notion of detached objectivity, the fact - value dichotomy, the separation of emotion and reason (with reason as the superior means of knowing) and the loss of any authority other than an isolated, sovereign self that is subservient to the needs of the modern nation - state.

America escaped the worst devastations of the wars and has always been more exclusively shaped by modernity than other nations, and so held on a couple of generations longer; now America too seems slowly to be accepting the evidence.

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