Sentences with phrase «holds over this nation»

I, for one, am sick of the strangle hold the NRA holds over this nation, and would be sickened to see them get a back door triumph once again.

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Who knew that one trip could put you that far over one person's allotment to keep within what we want our leaders to hold our nations to?

She noted that the largest banks held over 80 percent of the nation's assets in 2012.

Yet, just months ago, a Jokowi victory appeared almost a sure thing — holding an almost 40 % lead over Prabowo, a candidate not allowed in the U.S. for past human rights violations and who, as the former son - in - law of Suharto, the Indonesian dictator overthrown 16 years ago, is certainly among the nation's entrenched powers.

It sounded bureaucratic, and it most definitely was — over the next few years, chamber members held meetings, gave speeches, took meticulous minutes and, in February 1928, published the first edition of the chamber newsletter, The Commerce of the Nation.

You stated your interest in a city where you can grow your company to 50,000 employees over the next 20 years, a home base that can hold your interest... a strong sense of place, a rich cultural life, great transit systems, smart young people and plenty of infrastructure - ready land that is close to both the business center and top universities... density, walkability, and diversity... some of the nation's finest universities... tech - savvy millennials... Philadelphia, the birthplace of America, offers all of these desirable attributes at a more affordable cost.

Over at The Big Picture, Barry Ritholtz breaks the silence about what's held up his long - awaited book, Bailout Nation.

Bell's entrepreneurship and industry leadership, combined with his long - held championship of this region's ability to provide innovation to our nation's Warriors, exemplify the values of the Defense Alliance and its membership, which now comprises over 700 corporate members in 27 states.

Our other material addition, Wells Fargo, is the second - largest deposit bank in the United States, holding over 10 % of the nation's deposits.

Although held in theory over a long period, the belief was accentuated during the latter part of the nineteenth century and since, and became finally a basic dogma underlying the Japanese Imperial thrust, which is often regarded as the beginning of World War II.9 The idea was taught in the schools, in the army, and resulted finally in a fanatical religious, as well as patriotic, devotion to the emperor, without which, it seems to the writer, it is impossible to explain the daring attack of the island empire of Japan upon the richest and most powerful nation in the world, the United States.

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.

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.

If Romney is willing to hold the laws of the nation over the laws of his religion while in office, then I don't see why he wouldn't be a viable candidate.

The old assumption that one nation may hold sway over another is now universally challenged.

Protestantism in America was capable of producing a new spirit in missions and reform, but it could not hold the Churches together when the nation was divided over slavery.

The Churches of America could not be held together when the nation was divided over slavery.

I predict Texas Southern - a REAL team is going to walk all over Wichita and a 7 nation army coudnt hold them back IMO.

The party doesn't hold much sway in Democrat - dominated NYC, and hasn't managed to elect anyone to a city or state post for decades, but it is nevertheless prominent in Republican circles, since the city is a must - stop for candidates from all over the nation who are trying to raise campaign cash.

«While I've been working long hours to pass key measures like Ian's Law (which prohibits insurance companies from dropping sick patients) and the Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act (which is the strongest tool in the nation to fight taxpayer fraud and corruption), other candidates have been getting a head start on their fundraising, holding events and carrying over millions from previous campaigns,» the senator wrote.

Mr. Bani, is a specialist in International Peace - Building and Development and has worked for over 15 years with the United Nations and has held various positions on both regional and international organizations across the world.

Today the Seneca Nation has over 7,600 enrolled members and holds title to three main territories in Western New York, specifically, the Cattaraugus, Allegany, and Oil Spring territories.

Poughkeepsie... Dutchess County Executive Marcus Molinaro and Division of Veterans Services Director Nelson Eddy Rivera invite Dutchess County residents to participate in a special Memorial Day ceremony and vigil to be held on the Walkway Over the Hudson State Historic Park in honor of those who gave their lives in defense of our great nation.

Poughkeepsie... Dutchess County Executive Marcus Molinaro and Ulster County Executive Michael Hein, along with Nelson Eddy Rivera, Director of Dutchess County's Division of Veterans Services invite Dutchess & Ulster County residents to participate in a special Memorial Day ceremony and vigil to be held on the Walkway Over the Hudson State Historic Park in honor of those who gave their lives in defense of our great nation.

President Goodluck Jonatham today held a secret meeting with the nation's security chiefs at the Presidential Villa over the killing of a serving Senator Gyang Dantong...

THINGS took an interesting twist at the latest UN climate summit held in Doha, Qatar, over the past two weeks when nations began talks over paying for the damage caused by climate change.

The repercussions of the findings, which were published Thursday in Science, could make it harder to hold warming to limits set during recent United Nations climate negotiations — but they're being received cautiously by other climate scientists, with questions raised over the results of the analysis.

Over the last two centuries, peaceful economic competition among industrialized nations has further reduced war's frequency and lethality, Gat holds.

If you'll take zombies any way you can get»em, Z Nation will hold you over.

Yet, doing so would also require that the industry (and critics) embrace the fact that most of such films would, at least initially, be rather underwhelming if not outright bad: after all, it is only through repeatedly practicing the craft of genre filmmaking that, over time, a film industry can elevate its game and make reliably solid films in any given genre — films that can hold their own when compared to those from other nations that excel at genre filmmaking, including Hollywood (the genre filmmaking tradition par excellence), France, South Korea, or Hong Kong.

Holding absolute power over the nation's nuclear reserve and Internet communications, the technical behemoth houses GW, the master AI controlling The Patriots and their rule over the States.

We are holding hearings, collecting facts, gathering information from parents and teachers and students all over the nation.

# 140confs are held all over the nation and explore «the state of now»: the effects of real - time Internet.

The debate quietly raging over the future role of the nation's telephone companies in cable broadcasting holds important implications for the schools, educators and telephone - company and cable - industry officials say.

The biggest event to be staged at the London Stadium since the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games — it is the first time both Championships have been held in the same city with over 3,000 athletes from over 200 nations competing over 20 days of action.

Idaho lawmakers, policymakers, school leaders, and education stakeholders joined Bluum for a special dinner presentation about the improvements and ongoing challenges in education over the last quarter - century and what the future holds for students in Idaho and the nation.

Over the past ten years, the policies undergirding the national education reform movement — offering more school choice, weakening teacher union power, and creating new accountability systems (with incentives like pay - for - performance and teacher evaluations based partly on student test scores)-- have taken hold in the nation's capital.

Florida has channeled billions of taxpayer dollars into scholarships for poor children to attend private schools over the past 15 years, using tax credits to build a laboratory for school choice that the Trump administration holds up as a model for the nation.

Over the past five years, a creeping extremism has taken hold of our federal government, and it is threatening to radically alter our system of government and who we are as a nation.

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«Over half of the nation's tappable equity is held by borrowers with first - lien interest rates below 4.0 percent, making HELOCs an attractive option.»

Similar bans have taken hold in cities throughout the nation over the past five years.

Sweet, this looks like it will hold me over till Dead Nation.

In five seasons, over the course of one year, the Met is inviting 100 artists from surrounding neighborhoods in New York, from throughout the nation and across the globe, to consider its holdings — 5,000 years of art history — and share what inspires them and strikes their imaginations.

E.g., the AFP organization is funded by the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation that gets its money from Koch Industries, the nation's largest privately held energy company and the second largest family - owned business in the U.S. with annual sales of over $ 20 billion.

The tsunami of stupidity and science denial that has washed over Washington, D.C., won't be held back by earnest calculations of long - run risks, or by the potential inundation of remote island nations, or by the news that polar bears and other iconic species are endangered.

I would argue that the steps industry is currently taking to mitigate their own carbon footprints, the recent peak and now downward trajectory of CO2 concentrations in developed nations, increasing global forestation, decreasing paper production, and global awareness in developing nations towards curbing their carbon footprint is enough in itself to hold us over until major breakthroughs in technology squash fears entirely.

The new data, supported by a similar report from International Energy Agency (IEA), make it even more difficult for nations to make good on a previous pledge to hold back the world from warming over 2 degrees Celsius.

Sears Holdings, the publicly traded parent of Kmart and Sears, Roebuck and Co., is the nation's sixth - largest retailer with over $ 50 billion in annual revenues and approximately 3,800 retail stores in the United States and Canada.

The Twitter Moot, held at 10 am PST / 1 pm EST, saw event Judges Kathleen Mahoney, Omar HaRedeye, and William Deverell grill teams from 5 Canadian law schools over Twitter in a case about First Nations, coal mining and an endangered caribou herd.