Sentences with phrase «many national communities»

«It's been 20 years, but it's got to be another 20 years because the only way we're going to end this is through concerted efforts and encouraging governments like the government in the Philippines, encouraging the national community, institutions like World Bank, encouraging major countries, but also just getting our hands dirty and doing it,» Evans told «The Brave Ones.»

In addition to his work in San Diego, Chilcott is on the board of the National Association of Government Guaranteed Lenders and serves on Bank of America's National Community Advisory Council.

Both the National Community Tax Coalition and the American Institute of CPAs propose a simplified credit.

«We were thrilled to recognize Canadian Western Bank for their long standing support this year, with our Canadian National Community Partnership Award.

Founded in 2015 when Karlie Kloss began learning to code, Kode With Klossy hosts coding summer camps for girls aged 13 - 18 and fosters a national community furthering opportunities for girls in tech.

Critics in the legal academy find democratic government inattentive to their view of fundamental values and failing in the mission of national community building.

We ask too much of the Constitution, and too little of ourselves, when we view it as the wellspring from which to draw comprehensive notions of public virtue or when we project onto it our aspirations as a national community.

Most in the legal academy have decried this change in judicial attitude, arguing that the Court is abdicating its responsibility to reshape society and forge a national community based upon aspirational ideals.

The truth is, though, that both liberals and conservatives belong, in their quarreling fashions, to one same national community and one same human community.

The many communities in the nation have a «thicker» description than the «thin» reality called the national community.

As Christians we value the health of communities, including national communities.

Community, tradition, connect to family and neighbors as well as a sense of national community in many societies (although many atheist societies are evidence that the spiritual component is not needed) are wrapped up in a religious ident.ity.

But without well - governed sovereign nations — strong national communities — the global system will decay into far worse disorder, and the rule of law will weaken within countries.

Whatever we might wish, the national community exercises control over our fate and in part over the fate of the world.

Mark is an Assemblies of God pastor at National Community Church reaching a group of young professionals in the District of Columbia using movie theatres and a very well done «third place» called the Ebenezer Café.

He took national community for granted as the context of economic activity.

Of course, the real destruction of national community is going on chiefly in poorer countries, as a result of structural adjustment and such treaties as NAFTA.

The way various groups have been treated and the place they have found in the national community is a critical index of how far American values have been realized in practice, how far our pretension to be a universal community has become actual.

E. D. Hirsch argues in Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know (Houghton Muffin, 251 pp., $ 16.95) that schools are obliged to help students accumulate shared symbols and the knowledge they represent — that is to say, to teach students cultural literacy, so that they can learn to communicate in our national community.

This will help not only them but the whole national community to build up new indigenous idea and pattern of development incorporating what is valid in the primal critique of modernity gone destructive.

Azariah who later became Bishop of Dornakal argued that the church in accepting the position of a communal political minority with special protection would become a static community and it would negate its self - understanding as standing for mission and service to the whole national community, that in any case the Indian church is not a single social or cultural community since it consists of people of diverse background, each of whom would have its own political struggle to wage in cooperation with the people of similar background in other religions; and therefore theologically and politically Christians should ask only for religious freedom for its mission and service to all people, not as a minority right, but as a human right (ref.

As a national community, we are attempting to make sense of the massacre Sunday morning at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida.

Loyalty to the nation - state has been a principal object of the communications and educational systems of the family and of the national community for a few hundred years — a relatively short period in man's history.

In each case it is the resurrection of the whole people, the national community of Israel, that is envisaged, and not that of individuals.

First, he says, it divides people into «we» and «they», the «saved» and «unsaved» and this hinders building a sense of national community and may be one reason why, in much of India, Christians are on the margin.

But though such phrases as this help to mark out the path being taken by the resurrection idiom in its journey from a mythological cosmic setting into the Jewish national hope, we must also note carefully that now for the third time the resurrection idiom is being applied metaphorically, and to a national community rather than to either a god or a human individual.

A State is a sovereign political unit to which its citizens as members of a national community owe allegiance.

This dreadful threat to their national community must have contributed considerable drive to the present establishment of the modern state of Israel.

Who shall be counted as part of the national community?

Editor's Note: Mark Batterson is lead pastor at the National Community Church in Washington, D.C..

It is here that the state as the organ of the whole national community has to intervene rather than withdraw.

But it is not true when government functions as the instrument of cooperation in the community, often the national community.

Yet nationalism can be a great good when it inspires a particular national community to win freedom from external control for the development of its own national life.

Christianity has a long history in the land of Israel, a history of indigenous communities whose fortunes have been linked to the many conquerors — Muslims, Crusaders, Turks and Jews — and the many national communities — Armenian, Egyptian, Ethiopian, Syrian, Russian and French — that have made their way to Palestine.

From the point of view of the national community, still largely religious in its self - consciousness, such elaboration was public even though lacking in any legal status.

Even though I have argued that the public theology that came out of the national community represented the real republic.

Unlike other theologians of his Church, he did not do it against the prohibition placed on Judeo - Christians to remain members of the Christian community, but against the marginalization and degradation of the Jewish minority within the national community.

This is because there can be no national community without or against them.

And then the national community would place some stamp of indifference, disapproval, approval on our actions.

The public theology provided a sense of value and purpose without which the national community and ultimately even the liberal state could not have survived, but it was never entirely clear what that value and purpose was.

All the negative elements of the national development programs continued, but now they were no longer moderated by the continuing sense of national community that was earlier expressed by governments.

As a number of scholars have begun to recognize, the problems of creating a national community in America did not decrease with the establishment of the constitutional regime but in a sense became more severe.

The first creation of a national community in America it is now widely recognized, preceded the revolution by a generation or two.

It is the national community that was, in my sense of the term, the real republic, not the liberal constitutional regime that emerged in 1789.

Nevertheless national community remained intact.

We must understand that if Christians and non-Christians differ over marriage, that difference does not lie in their understanding of the quality of interpersonal relationship needed to enter or sustain a marriage, but rather in a disagreement about the nature of marriage and its place in the Christian and national community.

It got it from religion, first during the Great Awakening of the l740s, when religious revivalism inspired the sense of national community which made possible the formation of a new nation, and later in what Bellah calls «public theology,» with its theme that Americans are the «chosen people.»

This public theology, contained in most speeches of the founders, had no legal status, but without it the national community could not have survived.

I am fortunate to have a leader there who I regard highly and who is held in high respect by the local and national community.

The crucial question is whether a plurality of religious and secular faiths, each of which had developed its own traditional culture, that is, philosophy, morality, ideology and legal system of corporate life, can, through inter-faith rational discourse, create at least the basic framework of a common culture or common direction and scheme of values for peoples to build together a new dwelling, like the national community.