Sentences with phrase «modern state history»
The state legislature wrapped up their session last weekend with a flurry of legislation, capping off what Gov. Andrew Cuomo claimed was the most productive in modern state history.
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A gunman pledging allegiance to the Islamic State militant group killed 49 people in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
The sheriff indicated that Mr. Paddock may have blended in intentionally, hiding the urge to violence that drove him to one of the deadliest mass shootings in modern United States history.
What many do a poor job of stating is that they blame people's excessively fervent beliefs and devotions for causing the various atrocities they have caused throughout history, and the effect that the fundamentalist contingent has on the narrowing of modern societies view.
In the modern era, and perhaps in all of history, Jews have never been so secure as they are at present in the United States of America.
Why should that great accomplishment — arguably the most notable in the modern history of Vatican diplomacy — be compromised, Vatican II undermined, and Church law de facto suspended, to mollify totalitarians determined to make the Catholic Church a branch of the Chinese communist state?
On the Crusades — «not the proudest moment in Christian history but nor were they the childish caricature of modern Western guilt and certainly not that of contemporary Muslim paranoia» — he goes into some detail to describe not only the background and the geopolitical state of things, but also the realities of human behaviour, both good and bad.
The author contrasts an ancient abbey with its traditions, history and rootedness, to the modern American megachurch without tradition, culture or weighted worship, to an ecological sound, modern, high - tech, all thought out community but where the state church seems of little consequence, yet in this latter place the gospel seemed to make more sense.
The sacralized nation - state is one of the great idols of modern history.
When a modern historian sets about writing the history of the United States he feels it necessary of course to go back to the period of discovery and colonization; and to give some account of the European people, chiefly the English who colonized and came to rule the Continent.
Throughout its modern history, just war has been premised on the concept that war is a conflict among states; yet in this «war» the primary conflict (at least initially) is with al - Qaeda, a nonstate actor.
As a matter of fact, Bultmann's Jesus and the Word of 1926 was prefaced with a classic statement of the modern view of history, and on this basis he states that his book reflects his own encounter with the historical Jesus, and may mediate an encounter with the historical Jesus on the part of the reader.
If this aspect differed in kind in the case of Jesus from every other member of the species man, then in the present state of our knowledge it would seem impossible rightly to describe Jesus as a man.17 It may be the case that most Christians (and most Christian theologians) in most centuries have accepted this claim: but most have not shared either our modern sensitivity to the difference between history and mythology or our concern for the principles of logic.
The unfolding of modern history played its role in taking the Church beyond this «thesis / hypothesis» business, not least because the experience of the Catholic Church in the United States demonstrated that religious freedom and (in American constitutional terms, «no establishment») could be good for the Church.
Furthermore, it should be stated that he was almost certainly unaware of the modern distinction between «faith» and «history».
Barton argues that religion — and Christianity in particular — played a huge role in the founding and history of the United States, and that that role has been largely scrubbed from the history books by modern secular elites.
The distinction between myth and history, says Enns, «presupposes — without stating explicitly — that what is historical, in a modern sense of the word, is more real, of more value, more like something God would do, than myth.
Ackerman identifies three republics in American history, before and after the civil war and in the modern regulatory social welfare state initiated in the 1930s by the New Deal.
Massachusetts, also known as the Bay State, mixes rich colonial history with some of the best modern - day fishing ports in the world.
What I'm inferring from Ohtani's request is that he's looking for a) a recently successful team with b) a history of developing talented players and keeping them healthy that c) plays in a modern, state - of - the - art ballpark that d) is in a market that wouldn't be a jarring transition to someone who's spent his last several years in Sapporo and e) has a plan to help someone who sends his checks to his parents and currently lives in a dorm adjust to his new home.
In yet another major shake up of his administration, Trump, via Twitter, has declared that he will be replacing Secretary of State Rex Tillerson after only fourteen months, the shortest occupation of the position in modern history.
The governor set the tone in his State of the State speech earlier this month, saying, «2018 may be the toughest year New York has faced in modern history.»
Stephanopoulos and McGhee computed efficiency gaps for four decades of congressional and state House races starting in 1972, finding that the pro-Republican maps enacted after the 2010 Census resulted in «the most extreme gerrymanders in modern history.»
But June 8, 2009 will go down as the start of one of the most tumultuous periods in modern state political history: the day two Democratic senators — Pedro Espada Jr. and Hiram Monserrate — defected to the GOP and threw state government into a month of chaos when no bills were considered and nobody really knew who was in charge.
He visited Oxford as a guest of the State of the State lecture series, which focuses on the transformation of the modern state from the perspectives of political science, philosophy, law, history, economics and socioState of the State lecture series, which focuses on the transformation of the modern state from the perspectives of political science, philosophy, law, history, economics and socioState lecture series, which focuses on the transformation of the modern state from the perspectives of political science, philosophy, law, history, economics and sociostate from the perspectives of political science, philosophy, law, history, economics and sociology.
In modern history, the Jews have raised the question of establishing a sovereign Jewish state as early as in 1820's.
Thus, for example, if the modern history of the United States is considered, party dominance was exercised from 1860 — 1932 by the Republicans, the only significant period of Democratic presidency during this period being that of Woodrow Wilson from 1912 — 1920, and from 1932 — 1968 by the Democrats — the only Republican president in this period being Eisenhower.
«Their obvious ideology aside, the facts are that this administration has been rigorous and effective in constraining state spending growth to the lowest level in modern history — resulting in lower taxes for all New Yorkers,» said state Budget Division spokesman Morris Peters.
Troopergate was one of the biggest political scandals in modern New York history, involving then - Democratic Gov. Spitzer, secretly (mis) using the State Police in a plot to destroy his leading political rival, then - Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno, a Republican.
We found that out in 2009 - 2010, the worst tenure in new york state government in modern history.
«Their obvious ideology aside, the facts are that this administration has been rigorous and effective in constraining State spending growth to the lowest level in modern history — resulting in lower taxes for all New Yorkers,» said Division of Budget spokesman Morris Peters.
«This year in the State of the State we're going to propose the largest construction program in modern political history in the State of New York,» Cuomo said.
For the first time in modern political history the state has real fiscal discipline, we have held spending to 2 %.
Governor Cuomo, in his eighth State of the State speech, told lawmakers that 2018 «may be the toughest year New York has faced in modern political history.»
While specific projects remained shrouded in secrecy, Cuomo said some of that money will be used for «the largest construction program in modern political history in the state of New York.»
After the prime minister's social care u-turn, Neil did not pull any punches, most notably by stating: «This must be the first time in modern political history that a party has broken a manifesto pledge before an election.»
«As we look forward to reuniting with our leader and elder statesman who is fondly called the Architect of Modern Plateau for his transformational work which remains an enduring legacy in the history of Plateau State, we do that with a measure of confidence in the knowledge that morning will come no matter the length of night», he stressed.
The governor's office points out that the state's total outstanding debts have decreased four years in a row for the first time in modern history, and New York has less debt now than when Cuomo took office five years ago.
For most of the state's modern political history, if a lawmaker vacated his or her seat, the governor would quickly move to call a special election so the representative could be promptly replaced.
«We probably had one of the most progressive, productive state budgets in modern history,» Cuomo said on Long Island on Thursday.
If you look at his poll numbers across the state and nation, they are the lowest in modern history at this stage of a presidency.
The governor said the GOP health plan would result in one of the largest tax increases in the state «probably in modern history.»
It also means Amedore, a homebuilder from Rotterdam, holds the record as the shortest - tenured state senator in modern Senate history.»
The Albany Times Union's Jimmy Veilkind states that «the Tkaczyk lead stands at 19 votes, making it (for now) the second closest race in the modern history of the state Senate.
Upper Manhattan State Senator - Elect Marisol Alcantara said that under the Obama administrations, more than 2 million undocumented immigrants have been deported, noting that he has deported more immigrants «than any other president in modern history.»
While the research offers new insight into Chinese history, it also has interesting implications for modern river management policies around the globe, such as those causing similar flooding problems along the Missouri and Mississippi rivers in the United States.
Another aspect of culture that shapes one's identity, not only in the United States and other countries as well, is the modern day courtship and wedding Culture of South Africa - history, people, clothing, traditions, women, beliefs, food, customs, family Sa - Th
The Wind and the Lion (1972), the sophomore feature of the film school - trained screenwriter turned director, takes on a romantic tale of rebellion and response, honorable ancient codes and modern military might, and the first stirrings of the United States of America, the modern, maverick young country in a political culture dominated by the history - seeped empires of old Europe, as a world power.
Character - driven investigative thriller set in the world of counterintelligence focuses on former CIA agent Erica Wolfe, the most notorious traitor in modern history and most hated woman in America, who is brought out of a federal supermax prison by the FBI to help stop some of the most dangerous acts of espionage threatening the United States today.
K - 4.3 The History of the United States: Democratic Principles and Values and the People from Many Cultures Who Contributed to Its Cultural, Economic, and Political Heritage GRADES 5 - 12 NSS - USH.5 - 12.1 Era 1: Three Worlds Meet (Beginnings to 1620) NSS - USH.5 - 12.2 Era 2: Colonization and Settlement (1585 - 1763) NSS - USH.5 - 12.3 Era 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754 - 1820s) NSS - USH.5 - 12.4 Era 4: Expansion and Reform (1801 - 1861) NSS - USH.5 - 12.5 Era 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850 - 1877) NSS - USH.5 - 12.6 Era 6: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870 - 1900) NSS - USH.5 - 12.7 Era 7: The Emergence of Modern America (1890 - 1930) NSS - USH.5 - 12.8 Era 8: The Great Depression and World War II (1929 - 1945) NSS - USH.5 - 12.9 Era 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970s) NSS - USH.5 - 12.10 Era 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the Present)