Sentences with phrase «imposed upon the nation»

North Korea seemingly wants to bypass the sanctions imposed upon the nation by the US government.

Let us, therefore, speak plainly: The courts, sometimes abetted by, and almost always acquiesced in, federal and state executives and legislators, have imposed upon the nation immoral policies that pro-life Americans can not, in conscience, accept.

Essentially, the point of this grandiose project imposed upon our nation's schools is to eliminate the human element in education as much as possible.

North Korea seemingly wants to bypass the sanctions imposed upon the nation by the US government.

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Beyond that, he described China as a country upon which other nations had imposed unfair trade penalties: «We hope developed countries will stop imposing restrictions on normal and reasonable trade of high - tech products and relax export controls on such trade with China,» he said, not naming any specific country.

Three of Chile's biggest cryptocurrency exchanges have filed a joint appeal against the banking embargo imposed upon them by the nation's banks.

At its riotous meeting in Seattle last December, President Clinton nearly torpedoed the proceedings by saying the U.S. intended to impose upon other nations American - style labor, environmental, and other regulations.

When smaller nations resist, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank impose structural adjustment policies upon them on pain of their total exclusion from the international economic system.

We are ambassadors in a foreign nation, and we help others live according to the rules of our kingdom not by trying to impose our rules upon them, but simply by living among them and showing them a different way.

Furthermore, the chief justice believes that the court, in imposing paternalistic limitations upon the process of full American political discussion, is justified by the evidence to be found in the experiences of other nations: «The history of many countries attests to the hazards of religion intruding into the political arena or of political power intruding into the legitimate and free exercise of religious belief.»

I will expand upon this notion in this blog, referring to what Cameroonian scholar Achille Mbembe describes as the barter economy within the cash economy that has developed in many African nations following the social and economic transformations that accompanied the 1980s World Bank - imposed structural adjustment programs.

It is an admission that he actively helped to misdirect some 4 TRILLION educational dollars over the last seven years, and that he harmed tens of millions of students during that time by imposing the mediocre and intrusive Common Core upon the nation.

The foundation upon which the Common Core and its standardized tests were imposed on this nation has just been revealed to be an artifice.

More than one - hundred - years of cutting - edge automotive innovation and brilliantly imposed aesthetic design seem to issue a silent challenge upon the nation's oldest and largest automobile dealers association — a challenge to produce something bigger, better, and more appealing than years past.

There were no such options for Hannah as it seemed the entire nation was party to the morals imposed upon her.

We in the developed world need to recognize how our way of life imposes negative impacts upon poorer nations of the world — especially their children.»

Conference - goers are united in their conviction that the UN imposes massive economic and political costs upon developed nations that can not be justified by the benefits, of which there may be none, flowing from the pact.

Imposing a carbon tax in a particular nation or state with the goal of reducing CO2 emissions makes no sense unless one 1st understands the relative elasticity of the fossil fuel upon which the tax is being contemplated.

Colonial settlers imposed the concept of the nation - state, and its territorial definitions, upon Indigenous communities.