Sentences with phrase «history as a nation»

Probably not a bad idea considering America's history as a nation of immigrants.

Religious freedom is a noble part of our history as a nation, as is the equally important freedom to have no religion.

Residential schools, forced assimilation, racism, systemic murder, crippling economic inequalities, lack of adequate schooling, we have a disgusting history as a nation when it comes to our First Nations.

I have never used marijuana nor have any plans to do so, but for the first 150 years of our history as a nation, it was legal and used in nearly 80 % of the medicines of the 19th c. George Washington grew it on Mt. Vernon.

With more than 232 years of continuous operation and roots going back even further, Laird and Company can stake a place in American history as the nation's first commercial distillery.

«As the chief legal officers for over 130 million Americans and foreign residents of our states, we condemn President Trump's unconstitutional, un-American and unlawful Executive Order and will work together to ensure the federal government obeys the Constitution, respects our history as a nation of immigrants, and does not unlawfully target anyone because of their national origin or faith,» the statement said.

Our history as a nation has been one of striving to make those words ever more true.

Washington Avenue Pier allows visitors to walk along the water, enjoy panoramic views of the Delaware River and the Philadelphia skyline, and read interpretive signage about the site's history as the nation's first Navy Yard.

Interns are invited to attend, free of charge, two summer workshops in creative writing and / or visual arts — an excellent opportunity to learn from nationally renowned faculty, engage with other writers and artists and become part of Provincetown's history as the nation's oldest continuously operating art colony.

Following through with the promise would turn the U.S. into a closed society for the first time in its history as a nation even as it risks the economic collapse of a country along our southern border.

The people of Australia come from more than 300 ancestries, reflecting our recent history as a nation of immigration.

Not exact matches

The letter will formally notify the EU of Britain's exit and trigger a two - year negotiation that will lay the foundations for a new chapter of British history — as a European nation no longer in the EU.

«I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation,» spoke Dr. King as he began his address at the Washington Monument.

More than an engrossing collection of historical true - crime stories, though, the book functions as an unlikely financial history of the young United States, as it grew «from a patchwork of largely self - governing colonies to a loosely assembled union of states and, finally, to a single nation under firm federal control.»

I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.

«It's the end of a very painful and sad chapter in the history of a young nation, in which a dictator, as he became old, surrendered his court to a gang of thieves around his wife,» he said.

As America turns once again to our perennial celebration of the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a full year of Donald Trump on full Technicolor display has cast its inimitable shadow over the legacy of one of the greatest American citizens in this nation's history.

But as space technology moves further away from governmental oversight and towards commercialization, what happens to the history and relics of our nation's revered past in space exploration?

«Today we make history: Washington will be the first state in the nation to preserve the open internet,» Washington Governor Jay Inslee said Monday, as he signed the legislation.

Buffett made the point that for much of America's history, women did not have the same opportunities for work as men, which limited the nation from achieving its full potential.

Camber Capital Management, a hedge fund with an activist history, has purchased 5.7 million shares of Tenet Healthcare Corp., or a 5.7 % stake in the money - losing hospital chain.The emergence of Camber was disclosed Monday, just three days after Tenet's largest shareholder, Glenview Capital Management, resigned two Tenet board seats, citing irreconcilable differences with management and the board.Glenview Capital, which owns an 18 % stake in Tenet, gave notice Friday that it would no longer participate in a stand - still agreement that had prevented it from launching a proxy fight for control of the company.Tenet investors welcomed the Camber disclosure Monday, driving up Tenet's stock price to $ 2.18, or 15 %, to $ 16.63 as of 12:30 p.m. ET.Tenet is the nation's third - largest investor - owned

On today's episode, I talk to Tom Webster, Vice President of Strategy and Marketing for Edison Research, the organization behind exit polling for national elections in the U.S.. For more than two decades, Tom has conducted political polling for some of the most contentious elections in U.S. history, as well as market research for some of the top companies across the nation.

The 2017 awards will be extra special this year as winners will be announced in time to celebrate Canada's 150th birthday, a momentous occasion in the history of a nation built by immigrants...

Canada has a long history as a trading nation.

As to why no one has brought suit before, consider the history of this nation and how dangerous it can be to oppose religious nuts who surround you at all times.

2) The notion of the U.S. as a «Christian Country» is revisionist history that started during the Cold War (when, for example, «under God» was inserted into the Pledge of Allegiance, where for sixty years prior it had been absent) and continues today with people like Rick Santorum «wanting to vomit» at the notion of a secular nation.

Certainly they had good reason to implement the First Amendment as it was, given the history of religious persecution in England, but they absolutely did not intend for anyone to consider the country a Christian nation.

In fact, the Blaine Amendments are among the clearest examples in the nation's history of a state establishment of religion — and the only reason they have not been recognized as such is that they establish a theologically liberal vision of religion.

We can debate the «were a Christian nation» thing back and forth without getting anywhere, but to imply that the freedoms we have now came only from Christian roots ignores the rest of world history as well as the fact that its often been the Church impeding civil liberties and progressive movements.

As both church history and the history of nations demonstrate, combatants frequently have little control over the issue around which the definitive battle is joined.

As the nation becomes more diverse, will white conservative Christians reexamine their teachings as they encounter others with a different history and worldvieAs the nation becomes more diverse, will white conservative Christians reexamine their teachings as they encounter others with a different history and worldvieas they encounter others with a different history and worldview?

The people you list were totalitarian leaders of nations who happened to head governments that did not endorse or give support to any religion as a matter of Marxist instruction because the state HAD used religion since the beginning of history to take advantage of people.

our actions have created soooo many terrorists in muslim nations and even our own we will eventually be destroyed by them and it will be traced to how we reacted to 9/11 and in future history books GWB will be identified as the president that caused the end of america... because of his ridiculous faith... of course all faith is ridiculous but making decisions based on it is the crime...

As writers on religion in 19th century America have emphasized, that era in our nation's history was one of undisputed Protestant hegemony.

And yet, in book after book, Glancy also offends many of her fellow Native writers — whose books she reads, as they read hers — by insisting that this absurdity, this intrusion of the Gospel, writ large in the history of Native Americans, is the experience of every tribe and every nation, everything and everyone human.

The «STAND UP» event seta national and global record in the Guinness World Records for the largest number of people to stand up for a cause... Lutherans across the U.S. participated in the event organised as part of «ONE: The Campaign to Make Poverty History», in cooperation with the United Nations» Millennium Campaign.»

For the first time in history, at the invitation of the United Nations, we gather as Heads of State and Government to recognize the significance of social development and human well - being for all to give to these goals the highest priority both now and into the twenty - first century.

Hence, the «de-historization» or «desecularization» both of God and of man is to be understood as a paradox (dialektisch): precisely that God, who stands aloof from the history of nations, meets each man in his own little history.1

Rubenstein can teach the Christian that the God who stands aloof from the history of nations is the God who stands aloof from Auschwitz, and that the price of accepting a dehistorized or subjective God (the God who is absolute Subject and only Subject) is the abandonment of the objective world or reality as such to the realm of «flesh.»

If Jesus refused to acknowledge and fight for Israel as God's favored nation — even though it was the one nation in history that actually held this status at one time — how much more must his followers refuse to acknowledge and fight for America as God's favored nation?

As a matter of fact, a tradition of violence is discernible throughout United States history — perhaps because it is a young nation, perhaps because it plunged into the industrial age without preparation.

This fundamental function of general civil religion could be carried out by churches that remained indifferent to the special civil religion embodied in such documents as the Declaration of Independence and bound up with the history of the American nation, but most American religious groups have been able to affirm both general and special civil religion as well as their own doctrinal peculiarities.

Moreover, they contend, church attendance has steadily increased during the course of American history as we have become, all in all, a more religious, not a less religious, nation.

As Meacham argues, to impose religion on the American people violates the Constitution; but to oppose religion denies history itself, for religion has played an active role in shaping the nation's ethos.

The problems of Babel are reflected in modern America in our ongoing debates about history, identity, the future, and how we can live together as a nation.

To be sure, «religious preference» is not the same as church membership or attendance, but it does depict a reality that is connected to church historian Kenneth Scott Latourette's finding that in 1961 the proportion of church members to the general population in the U.S. was the highest ever in the nation's history (Christianity in a Revolutionary Age, Vol.

Names were not pre-written in it, but as time went on — throughout the OT history God continuously sent prophets to call the stiffnecked nation to repentance and turning from their wicked ways.

She deftly summarizes the emergence of New York as the nation's economic capital, the history of debates over slavery, the emergence of the women's suffrage movement, and countless other currents, all of which shaped the 19th - century U.S. and the course of Beecher's life.

«As a plain matter of fact, he has done more to start the nation toward a socialist order than all the agitation carried on by all the avowedly socialist agents in our national history» (March 22, 1933).

During the 1960s and»70s, as the nation's military involvement in Vietnam inspired a mood of questioning and cynicism, defenders of U.S. policy seemed to become even more explicit in their efforts to find divine legitimacy in American history.