Sentences with phrase «nation building here»

«The time is now for nation building here at home.»

(CNN)-- President Barack Obama on Saturday said a new chapter is afoot in Afghanistan, calling the U.S. military's impending departure an opportunity to «focus on nation building here at home»

The five - year plan dubbed the «Nation Building Here at Home Act» would use federal dollars to help re-build roads, bridges and airports across the country.

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um what are you nuts most of the people in BC has said they do not want another pipeline not ever so how is building a pipeline a matter of national unity i could see it as a matter of duty for us to stand in unity with the first nation people here in BC against the pipeline i really do nt see how building a pipeline could be a national issue because simply put pipelines do nt help the nation

They seem intent on destroying the US with unregulated immigration, pandering to those who do not belong here in the first place at the expense of the people who built this great nation.

Here's the build - up to it, in his recent column arguing against the supposed inevitability of gay marriage: ``... Nation - wide, no referendum simply upholding....

Sept 11, 2001 our nation was attacked by Crazy Islamists, now here we are embracing them and allowing them to build mosques all over this country.

It is a melting pot of all nations, cultures and religions that is why everyone likes to come here... America is built by immigrants... even ur ancestors came from somewhere so don't act like ur own America... Muslim Americans have as much rights here in America anyone else.

«I think that we need to nation build, not in Iraq and Afghanistan, but right here in America, and including and especially Western New York.»

Here's the backstory of how the Fertitta brothers built UFC, and ultimately (pun intended), after many years, got New York to lift its last - in - the - nation ban on MMA.

ARLINGTON, VA. — On the second floor of a high - rise office building here, just outside the nation's capital, groups of adults are learning how to use one of the fastest - growing technologies in American industry: computer - aided drafting and design.

Reston, Va — Outsiders are still coming here to see one of the nation's first solar - powered elementary schools, built in the energy - conscious era following the 1973 Arab oil embargo.

«President Obama's support for an America built to last is putting people back to work across the country, including here in Maryland, modernizing our nation's roads, rails, bridges, and public transit systems,» said Secretary LaHood.

«President Obama's support for an America built to last is putting people back to work across the country, including here in Massachusetts, modernizing our nation's roads, rails, bridges, and public transit systems,» said Secretary LaHood.

Secretary LaHood's visit follows President Obama's State of the Union address, in which he called for using funds saved from winding down the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to pay down the debt and to support a transportation bill that would clear the way for nation - building here in the United States.

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Building on a recent guest post describing how exports of old car batteries from the United States are creating a toxic trail in poorer nations, here's a «Your Dot» contribution from Robert E. Finn, the president of RSR Corporation, a company that smelts recycled lead here at home.

4:32 p.m. Postscript Chris Mooney has written a nice reflection on how a nation (I'd say a species) that's focused on the here and now tends to build vulnerability to threats that are inevitable but rare.

From my vantage point here in South Africa, I am aware of the momentum of the major build - up to the next big United Nations world environment conference, COP 17, which will be held in December, in Durban, the city where I went to school and university.

Tribal Nations data and maps found here will supplement other Climate Themes in assisting Tribes to build Climate Resilience.

Remember that the US has exactly zero offshore wind power projects built and only one approved for construction; the nation will still be playing catch - up with Europe and China here.

From here on in, our job will be to develop tests and measurements that will help to improve the energy efficiency of the nation's housing stock and support the development and adoption of cost - effective, net - zero energy designs and technologies, construction methods and building codes.

Here is a link to a discussion of the American influence on Canada's own history of treaty - making («Knowledge of the American experience reaffirmed Canada's commitment to follow the treaty - based model of nation building»): http://briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/settler-treaty-rights/.

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