Sentences with phrase «led by founding fathers»

Obasanjo, who traced the nation's socio - economic and political history from independence to date, said the First Republic generation, led by its founding fathers, gave the country independence, but noted with sadness that the present generation had nothing to offer.

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Because finding fault with them, He says: «Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah — not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they did not continue in My covenant, and I disregarded them, says the Lord.

Add to the mix the childless Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte and the childless prime minister of Luxembourg, Xavier Bettel, and something quite striking comes into focus: Of the six founding members of what has evolved into the European Union, five are now led by childless prime ministers or presidents, a situation that would have been unimaginable to one of the founders of modern «Europe,» Konrad Adenauer, who was the father of eight.

He dedicated his life to reforming the church by restoring access to the genuine meaning of scripture so that the common people and the unlearned might be guided by the learned to seek Jesus Christ in scripture and be led by Christ to the freely flowing fountain of every good thing found in God the Father.

Meanwhile, in 1981, in an innovative paper presented at United Theological College, Bangalore, Arvind P. Nirmal found a point of irreversible departure «Towards a Sudra Theology» which had eventually led him to be the father of dalit theology.3 Nirmal himself used to recall the lores and stories from the Marathi dalit oral tradition and admitted that he has been greatly influenced by them in his understanding of God.

Led by Pricha Mekhaya — Oscar's father, who founded the company in 1981 — Eastland was determined to offer only the best products available and grow sales in a true partnership with the brands they represented.

Napa, CA — Carpenè Malvolti, the winery founded by the father of Prosecco in the heart of Prosecco Superiore DOCG, has retained Balzac Communications & Marketing, the leading wine public relations and marketing agency, as their agency of record.

And when compared to the genetic contributions of the mother, older fathers are responsible for nearly all of a child's random genetic mutations: a father's age at conception may account for 97 % of the new, or de novo, mutations found in his offspring, according to the new study led by Augustine Kong at deCODE Genetics in Iceland.

Public services need to get better at identifying and responding to the specific needs of fathers, mothers and children affected by divorce and separation, a major new survey by a leading UK parenting support helpline has found.

The Fragile Families and Child Well - Being Study, led by researchers from Princeton and Columbia Universities, found that most unwed fathers are involved with the mothers of their children and say they want to be involved in raising their offspring.

A team of psychopharmacologists led by a man named Nathan Kline — he was derided by one newspaper as the father of Thorazine, but his science was impeccable — went on record saying they had found the first zombie.

Adolescents whose fathers have depressive symptoms are more likely to experience symptoms of depression themselves, finds a new study led by UCL researchers.

Miranda himself was nominated for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical for his portrayal of the founding father, while the musical other breakout stars — Leslie Odom, Jr., Daveed Diggs, Jonathan Groff, Phillipa Soo and Renee Elise Goldsberry — all were recognized in the acting categories.

Music really isn't this movie's top priority, and as further evidence, before the band even performs three - quarters of a song in front of a crowd, the screenplay by Ryan Landels has already given us the subplot about the robot, which leads the sisters on a hunt to find some kind of message from Jerrica and Kimber's father to the former (Sorry, Kimber, but only Jerrica gets a posthumous pep talk from dad).

After his father King Uther Pendragon (Eric Bana) is killed in a bloody coup led by his power - hungry uncle, Vortigern (Jude Law), our young prince finds himself adrift, stripped of his home and his throne.

In the last couple of years, he's gone from the romantic lead in About Time to Konstantin Levin in Tom Stoppard's adaptation of Anna Karenina; there's his leading role in the forthcoming Star Wars Episode VII; and there was the recent Calvary, in which he had a cameo as a creepy serial killer enduring a prison visit from a priest played by his father, Brendan, an experience he found «really cool».

Before getting into how spectacular the action sequences truly are (and trust me, they save the blockbuster from plundering to the bottom of the ocean), it must be said that Oscar - nominated Kon - Tiki directors Joachim Ronning and Espen Sandberg have no idea whose story the movie should actually belong to, starting out as Henry Turner's (Brenton Thwaites) quest to free his cursed father at sea Will Turner (Orlando Bloom in a glorified cameo along with Keira Knightley as his partner Elizabeth Swann) to locate the Trident of Poseidon subsequently lifting that curse, and while the ultimate goal of the movie for all characters is finding said artifact for different reasons, by the end it's hard to fault the audience if they have forgotten all about that plot element and are just living in the moment of Jack Sparrow and company battling an army of decomposing, undead ghost pirates led by Captain Salazar.

The two leads are terrific (as is Michael Stuhlbarg, who plays the kid's academic father), and Guadagnino has finally found material to match the beauty of his favored seaside setting: Like some lost Éric Rohmer classic, Call Me By Your Name is a glorious slow - burn romance, synced to the heartbeats of its characters.

Asked by Education Week to comment on our findings, the lead author of the NCES report freely acknowledged the problems with some of the variables used in the NCES analysis, but asserted that our alternative models may be «underadjusting for the disadvantage in the public sector» because we do not control separately for mothers» and fathers» education.

Criticizing the country publicly can lead to a prison sentence and exile; criticizing Atatürk — the modern nation's founding father — attracts a similar penalty; mentioning the Armenian Holocaust, in which as many as 1.5 million Armenians were killed by the Ottoman regime between 1915 and 1917, is also strictly forbidden.

«Professor Mooney was Australia's leading health economist and a «founding father» in this newish field internationally — an achievement recognised by the University of Cape Town which awarded him an Honorary Degree in Social Sciences in 2009,» she said.

This project is led by Jay Fagan, Ph.D., professor of social work at Temple University and founding editor of the journal Fathering, and Jessica Pearson, Ph.D., director of the Center for Policy Research in Denver, Colorado.