Sentences with phrase «lot about our nation»

They are the nation's 100 largest districts, and one can learn a lot about our nation's education system by studying them.

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«This find is very important because it reaffirms a lot of the history that our people have been talking about for thousands of years,» William Housty, a member of Heiltsuk Nation, told CBC News.

While we hear a lot in Canada about the prospects for exporting our oil and gas resources to China, there are also abundant opportunities in that nation's clean energy sector.

For a nation that claims that there is no religious test for president, we sure do spend a lot of time worrying about it.

I suspect that if you took spousal and child abuse statistics in the US (and account at least a little bit for what goes unreported), you'd probably find that the spectrum of our «Christian» nation doesn't exactly have a lot to brag about either (but of course anyone who abuses children or spouse can't POSSIBLY be a «true Christian»... and I hope you see the irony in that remark).

In America, there's a lot of talk about being a «Christian nation.»

But the beauty of the BlogPoll is that there are a lot of voters who genuinely care about merit, and, on the merits, Florida may have the nation's best résumé, given that the Gators have a win over the highest - ranked one - loss team and are the only squad with two wins over teams currently ranked in the BlogPoll.

Because SB Nation is a cool place on the internet and has many very good blogs to read, we are able to talk to somebody who knows much more about Emre Can than a lot of us do.

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We've talked a lot on The Lunch Tray about the sharp decline in food knowledge and cooking skills in America, a country which ranks last among 20 surveyed nations in terms of time spent in the kitchen.

I think there's a lot surrounding this topic that's so wrapped up in very qualitative issues of how we see ourselves as mothers and what our relationships with our babies are all about, statistics about who breastfeeds for longer (when I get the impression that pretty much everything after 1 year for babies living in developed nations is kind of a wash, health - outcomes-wise) probably don't come into play for most parents.

So I say bring it on, come from all four corners of the Earth and lets together build a better society, an inclusive society, a free society where we don't suffer apoplexy at the sight of a burka or niqab, where the colour of your skin means nothing more than a reminder of the accidental random allocation of your birthplace on this planet.We all need to learn a lot more about the history of this nation and some of the very very cruel things that it has done in the name of Empire, and before (and is still doing in the name of Capitalism thinly veiled as national security).

Cuomo did not mention President Trump by name, but he said the nation's health care is in «crisis» and the struggle is really about those with lots of money and those with lesser means.

Elinor Tatum, publisher and editor - in - chief of The Amsterdam News, (the nation's oldest continuously published black newspaper), has given voice to a concern I've heard a lot of worried murmurs about in Democratic circles: That black voters won't come out to vote for Andrew Cuomo.

State GOP Chairman Ed Cox, who spent a lot of time after the November elections crowing about how the GOP has gained more House seats in New York (6) than any other state in the nation, just released the following statement in response to former Rep. Chris Lee's resignation yesterday:

Cuomo did not mention President Donald Trump by name, but he said the nation's health care is in crisis and the struggle is really about those with lots of money, and those with lesser means.

«I think that a lot of people have doubts about self - government, whether a nation can rise to the challenge of governing itself.

«I wrote a lot about compassionate Conservatism and the kind of One Nation ideas that the prime minister has been so strongly promoting.

I think a lot of the people with real power in and around the party need to do some reflecting on what these practices say about Labour's real «values»: let alone, God forbid, «One Nation Labour.»

At the state Democrats» victory celebration in Manhattan, Schneiderman pointed to GOP gains around the nation, calling it «a rough night for a lot of the causes we care about in America.»

According to Mote, DOD and its contractors account for about 2 % of the nation's STEM workers — a lot, but not enough to swing national education or hiring policy in any particular direction.

There is nothing discriminatory about it for each and every girl from each nation do have unique characters in them, it is just that a lot can see that there is an innately special thing about Russian women.

I have a fundamentally hopeful view about people, and that might merely be a reflection of the fact that I've lived an incredibly privileged life in a very wealthy nation without a lot of the struggles that most of the world has to face.

The forecast: A historical epic about African Americans and racism made by a black filmmaker sells for a lot of money at Sundance — the obvious comparison point is to 2016's «The Birth of a Nation.»

Clocking in at just less than two minutes, the trailer gives us a lot more context as to what the film will be all about and how this secluded and secret South African nation is at the precipice of a new era while battling outside forces that threaten their peace.

There were a lot of buzzed about films, but probably no more so than Nate Parker's «The Birth of a Nation» and the Casey Affleck starring film, «Manchester by the Sea.»

I could talk a lot about the HBO presentation of ANGELS IN AMERICA adapted by Tony Kushner from his play and directed by Mike Nichols, a director who has proven has proven his chops with incisive dissections of the moral and political state of the nation with films such as CARNAL KNOWLEDGE and THE GRADUATE.

I expect to hear a lot about the state of our troubled nation from the winners tonight, and unlike those who believe celebrities should stay out of politics, I'm actually looking forward to it.

There's a lot of neat on - the - set footage to spice things up, a brief look at how the filmmakers went about creating the nation of Genovia in Burbank.

And though she's managed to balance activism and acting, the former still occupies a lot of Gurira's time — from speaking out about violence against women at the United Nations to saying at an awards ceremony five days after the 2016 election that she's «felt a calling to do more.»

Residential Schools for First Nations children are a chapter of our history we've been hearing a lot about in the past week, since the Truth and Reconciliation Commission - or TRC - released its final report.

Secretary Duncan also noted in a presentation to the House budget committee: «There's a lot I don't like about No Child Left Behind, but I will always give it credit for exposing our nation's dreadful achievement gaps.

There's a lot of talk about the teacher shortage sweeping the nation these days.

Learning from their elders, media and teachers, young adults pick up a lot of stereotypes about other nations.

At the end, he hopes that somebody reading Underground Airlines «will have something akin to the experience I had [writing it], which is this: as much as I thought I knew about my nation's history and the pervasiveness of racism in our present day, I had a lot to learn.»

ShareLately there has been a lot of talk about how the United States of America is transitioning from a country of home - owners with a mortgage to a nation of renters that are mortgage free.

I wish I had learned about the debt myth and our nations current credit crisis a lot earlier.

And that is certainly a nation that we hear a lot about but we don't hear a lot of positive things.

It is in a very vibrant area, with lots of places to eat, just about every nations food, restaurants and coffee shops.

Developing nations on the other hand are spending money today on establishing an energy infrastructure and they can make choices about spending this money on a system that will produce a lot of Carbon emissions or one that will be produce less.

Csatho says that despite the landmark Paris climate deal of 2015, there is still a lot of uncertainty about how global warming could affect island nations and other coastal communities.

The CERAWeek conference turned its attention to the nation's electricity system, with lots of talk about renewables, power storage, wholesale markets and the like.

Although the United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world — 676 inmates per 100,000 people, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime — Specter thinks Americans still have a lot to learn about how to prepare prisoners for life on the outside.

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Recently, there has been a lot of talk about the size of the foreclosure inventory in the nation.