Sentences with phrase «identity as a nation»

The title may not be catchy, but it is about our democracy and identity as a nation.

AFT: «The idea of representative democracy underscores our identity as a nation, yet for it to succeed, government must safeguard the ability of all individuals to make their voices heard,» said AFT President Randi Weingarten.

It goes to the heart of Australia's identity as a nation that is both democratic and culturally diverse.

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As Henry Kissinger emphasizes in his new book World Order, the fundamental building block of all American and international engagement over the past hundred years — namely, the nation state and the Westphalian system in which states are embedded — is particularly weak in the Middle East due to fragile national roots and competing local and universalist identities, including pan-Arabic movements and messianic religious calls from the likes of Iran's ayatollahs and ISIS.

As I eagerly embraced my new title of girlfriend, I found myself losing sight of my heavenly identity — the bride of Christ and a prophet to the nations (Jeremiah 1:5).

From that time on, the city, the nation and even a whole civilization have manifested themselves as particular forms of tribalism, and each has to some degree retained the loyalties and sense of social identity that constitute tribalism.

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.

For Douthat, however, our present identity as a «nation of heretics» marks a departure from earlier periods, in particular the post «World War II era of America's Greatest Generation, when Roman Catholic orthodoxy and the mainline Protestant denominations ruled the culture in ways that were truly Christian and faithful.

«5 The ideology underlying this alliance might be summarized as follows: (1) There is a God (2) whose will can be known through democratic procedures; therefore (3) democratic America has been God's primary agent in history, and (4) for Americans the nation has been their chief source of identity.6

And his claims about America as a nation addicted to the sacrificial system of killing and dying that is war, as ìneedingî September 11 and the wars that followed to sustain its identity, are at times offensive in the extreme.

Alternate frameworks for collective living in India must be in the business of detecting the elements of distinctiveness (even if through difference) of Dalit and Adivasi culture and religion, which are inscribed into the communicative practices of the community, in order to represent its collective identity to itself as well as to the nation - state.

Even so, visitors remained aliens rather than immigrant members of the nation, except for the few who gave up their former identity, culture and religion, as Ruth did.

In what's being heralded as the «largest survey of American religious and denominational identity» ever conducted, PRRI found that historic shifts have taken place in the nation's religious identity over the past few years, and suggests that the coming years are going to look very different for its religious landscape.

«Over the last 10 years we have worked hard as an organisation and with partners to build a national identity for Scottish food and drink and the Excellence Awards provides an invaluable platform to highlight to the nation and beyond the strength of our industry and the wealth of talent across all sectors.

Statists includes both nationalists, who see intrinsic value in the nation - state as a protector of cultural and national identities, and liberal statists, who see the state as uniquely capable of enforcing the benefits and burdens associated with justice.

Citizenship as a sense of belonging and identity, but also as practised political engagement, is thus showing signs of becoming unhinged from its traditionally dominant tie to the nation - state.

In a welcoming address, the vice chairman of the homeland study group, Mr Gotthold Yao Agra, said the Western Togoland was clandestinely removed at all levels of education in Ghana with the view to creating a vacuum that will consume the identity as a state among United Nations, African Union and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and other international organisations.

Former Ekiti State governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has advised Nigerians to channel political discourse around ideology and not identity and religion as the nation approaches the...

(I know you like to challenge my account of Englishness - and of course there are many plural accounts and resonances in any large nation - but I can't see how or on what grounds you could possibly seek to deny me an equal claim to that identity, or to having a voice in the conversation about what we want to make of it, on which I expect I've been as engaged as just about anybody else).

The committee recommends a number of changes, including providing a list of certain bills, such as Magna Carta, the laws joining the nations of England and Scotland, and the more recent Identity Cards Act, which would be exempt from the new powers.

As the nation's only organization representing LGBT conservatives and straight allies, Log Cabin Republicans congratulates Bruce Jenner in the tremendous courage he demonstrated tonight, being true to himself both in terms of his personal identity as well as his political identitAs the nation's only organization representing LGBT conservatives and straight allies, Log Cabin Republicans congratulates Bruce Jenner in the tremendous courage he demonstrated tonight, being true to himself both in terms of his personal identity as well as his political identitas well as his political identitas his political identity.

I believe that this can then be turned into an active commitment to make Canada a country where scientific discovery and innovation shape our identity as Canadians, and contribute to the health of our economy and to the vibrancy of our nation.

Tell Them We Are Rising reveals the crucial role of HBCUs not only in the identity of black Americans but in the nation as a whole.

As he and partner Della try to uncover the killer's identity, McCaffrey steps into a cover - up that threatens to shake the nation's power structures.

Pre-release controversy has focused on the film's apparent white - washing of Hawaii, but leaving aside the dubious casting of Stone as a woman of Eurasian heritage, Aloha tries to engage with the tricky issue of Hawaiian identity by spending a lot of time with Kanahele and the Nation Of Hawai'i, which advocates for Hawaiian independence and treats the presence of the U.S. as an occupation.

While geo - specifically Canadian, and working within a coloniality of power that I often felt obliged to critique, I think my identity growing up in Canada was more mobile than nationalist, if not badly mangled, bleeding through the figurative membranes of its Canadian - ness, as something that was always already foreign to itself, as I really didn't have a sense of what it meant to be a Canadian but at the same time I tried to account for the people I met and the ideas I encountered in the context of living a life in the service of something larger than one's nation state, trying to understand what it meant to be of service to society.

SRI understands that as long as race, class, sexual orientation, immigration status, gender, gender identity, ability, religion, and ethnicity continue to predict the future life chances of children in our nation, we must work with schools and school systems to identify related barriers and obstacles to opportunity and development, disrupt their negative impact, eliminate the persistent disparities, and implement new policies and practices that support significant learning outcomes for each and every student.

As the fastest growing crime in the nation, there are over 9.9 million incidents of identity theft every year, according to the FTC.

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As a nation with an increasing appetite for consumerism, credit usage and internet proliferation, none of the people had taken any steps to protect their identity from theft.

«As with other coastal indigenous nations, Chumash people are restoring our heritage of intimacy with the sea for the dual purpose of protecting her and as a means of rediscovering our dignity and identity as a people sprung from this place.&raquAs with other coastal indigenous nations, Chumash people are restoring our heritage of intimacy with the sea for the dual purpose of protecting her and as a means of rediscovering our dignity and identity as a people sprung from this place.&raquas a means of rediscovering our dignity and identity as a people sprung from this place.&raquas a people sprung from this place.»

The flag has been accepted internationally as the flag of the Garifuna Nation and the colors have been used in forums where Garifuna people assert their Garifuna identity.

Play as four heroes, each hailing from individual nations and possessing unique identities and abilities.

Play as four characters — Lumina the Teslamancer, Knaus the orphan, Miss Teri the mind bender and the gloriously mustachioed strongman, Lord Clonington — , each hailing from individual nations and possessing unique identities and abilities.

Set in the Teslagrad universe, there are four heroes to play as that each hail from different nations, and possess their own unique identities and abilities to help overcome combat encounters and mind - boggling puzzles.

Recent activities have included a range of research, identity and product design for WikiLeaks, as well as proposals for the identity of Sealand, a self - proclaimed sovereign nation - state located on a platform built by the British seven miles off the English coast as part of a naval defense strategy during World War II.

Through its work, Iniva has continued to encourage the study and interrogation of cultural identity and difference, most recently in its 2011 exhibition Entanglement: the ambivalence of identity, but also previously in exhibitions such as Alien Nation (2007), which explored science - fiction, race and contemporary art and Veil (2003), which addressed the veneration and vilification of the veil in contemporary culture.

JJC The Tate started out as a nation - defining institution, inasmuch as it attempted to define a «national» art, at a moment when national identity was important and dynamically self - projecting.

By setting intimate moments alongside landmark events (such as the Black Popular Culture Conference in 1991, the truce between the Crips and the Bloods in 1992, the Black Male exhibition at the Whitney in 1994, and the Black Nations / Queer Nations Conference in 1995), the archive constructs collective and private narratives to comment on identity, desire, sexuality, and loss.

In concersation with internationally acclaimed Ghanaian born, British architect Sir David Adjaye OBE, Professor Paul Goodwin, curato, Director of the resarch centre for Transnational Art, Identity and Nation [TrAIN], and current chair of Contemporary Art and Urbanism at the University of the Arts London, and moderated by Rachel Barrett, writer, curator and lecturer at the Jamaica based Edna Manley College of the Visual & Performing Arts, Thomas will discuss his artistic practice and the series of works in The Beautiful Game as well as the broader concerns of historical perspective and postcolonial, transnational legacies.

Kiwanga uses this event, and its adaptation in folklore and popular culture, as a starting point from which to trace how historical accounts linger in consciousness and weigh on a nation's identity long after their occurrence.»

As the nation suffered through the throes of the AIDS crisis — with LGBT groups marching on Washington to demand government action — sexual liberation and identity politics became themes of critical importance to artists of the decade.

This was a period of great creativity, intense experimentation, and cultural exploration driven by the need to create an aesthetic identity that would represent Mexico as a nation - state.

As nations employ increasingly sophisticated tools for surveilling and containing identity — identification documents, biometric databases, facial recognition software — abstraction resurfaces as an instrument of refusaAs nations employ increasingly sophisticated tools for surveilling and containing identity — identification documents, biometric databases, facial recognition software — abstraction resurfaces as an instrument of refusaas an instrument of refusal.

McMaster, a young breakout artist of Plains Cree, British, and Dutch heritage, and a member of the Siksika Nation, has most often taken questions of historical and tribal identity as her subject, particularly in relation to her own mixed heritage.

Even though this vision consists of a nebulous collection of words that, on their own, are theoretical concepts and linguistic connectors to a wider dialogue on art and its shared values, the lack of a more precisely crafted statement also presents the discursive slippages in which the collaborative team of curators can operate more fluidly as they seek to represent the varied cultures and identities of the Southeast Asian nations.

[2] From its inception, the Gallery's institutional identity was both inherently modern and, as the nation's gallery in the nation's capital, inherently American.

In such works one can trace the roots of core elements of U.S. identity such as «American exceptionalism», the still pervasive and potent belief that the US is a unique democratic nation with a God - given mission to transform the world in its own image.

David Cameron has stated the Conservative Party's desire for a «modern British Bill of Rights to define the core values which give us our identity as a free nation».

These are usually charged against people engaged in criminal acts where the motivation is proven to include a hatred towards the victim for his or her perceived status as a member of a protected class (race, religion, sex (gender and gender identity), ethnicity / nation of origin, sexual orientation and disability (and homeless status in four jurisdictions)-RRB-.