Sentences with phrase «national leaders»

I made the recommendation to use military aircraft based upon the need to provide necessary levels of security for ranking national leaders, such as the Speaker.

I'm unsure whether, in the U.S., the organization of a two - party system benefits from federalism because the spheres of influence of local an national leaders can remain separate to avoid alienating constituents in one region through support of constituents in another region, or, maybe, because decentralized policymaking allows local parties to work together to elect national leaders.

This calls for concern from our national leaders that specialise in unreasonable harmonisation and imposition of unpopular candidates over the popular ones.»

The idea that national leaders or the leaders of businesses, or other institutions, etc can not sensibly offer an apology for issues they were not personally involved in is simply incoherent, at least for anybody who believes in any notion of «nation», «community», «people» or anything like that.

You should also be aware that there is already fierce opposition among European MPs to some national leaders, particularly Viktor Orbán.

On his part, Mr Emmanuel Agbo, Deputy National Secretary, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) linked the increasing number of political parties to the ambition of some individuals to be parties» national leaders.

Governor Solomon Lalong of Plateau state, who chairs the All Progressives Congress, APC, Governorship Campaign in Ondo State, has declared that the absence of one of the party's national leaders, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, and some Southwest governors at the party's mega rally in Akure on Saturday did not make any difference.

«In a time when national leaders fail to value our environment and what it means for our health and our economy, it is all the more important that New York leaders (from both sides of the aisle) work together to demonstrate true green leadership,» write the Environmental Advocates of New York and the Long Island Pine Barrens Society.

Recall that that National leaders and other political bigwigs stormed Ila in Osun to commiserate with Chief Bisi Akande.

The NDC Scribe conceded that the party's register for the parliamentary primaries was not perfect because some persons contracted to compile it compromised it in their favour because they had the intentions of contesting unknown to national leaders of the party.

• I also thank our party's national leaders, especially those from the southwest that have worked behind the scenes to ensure this process is as free of rancour and strife as possible.

Speaking on the outcome of the meeting, the Minister said that the it involved elected APC leaders, national leaders, members of the National Working Committee (NWC) and other stakeholders from the zone.

Recruiting, training, and supporting progressive Democrats on the ballot in Brooklyn... tomorrow's national leaders.

Building on this realist logic, Putnam proposed that national leaders are not only advancing their countries» interests, but also constantly seeking to appease their domestic constituency.

Meanwhile the Council is expected to hold a second high level meeting of national leaders on strengthening Ghana's Democratic Stability, Peace and Unity at the Great Hall of the University of Ghana.

At the historic 2011 Summit, national leaders who have traditionally disagreed about optimal settings for birth — including physicians, midwives, researchers, health administrators, payors, policymakers, and consumers — crafted a series of Common Ground Statements that describe a vision for improving maternity care in the US across all birth settings.

I had hoped this soccer lawsuit would force the hands of these international and national leaders in soccer to produce a unified concussion plan for youth players.

Works with local, state and National leaders to obtain a National Day of Remembrance recognizing the need for community education and awareness when a family loses a baby to miscarriage, stillbirth, or neonatal death.

Woods now finds himself just one stroke back of the AT&T National leaders Hunter Mahan and Brendan De Jonge, who each are sitting at six - under through five holes.

The Aggies» special teams have national leaders in nearly every category.

As the Midwest's premier annual celebration of the growing Good Food movement, the Good Food EXPO continues to bring together regional and national leaders in local, sustainable food — from farmers to chefs, entrepreneurs to policy makers — to discuss the movement that's transforming the way we eat.

Guess our national leaders didn't expect this.

What the Protestant Pentecostals have been saying for a long time is now occurring among Catholic charismatics; in the words of one of their national leaders: «I am involved because I believe that God has touched me and that I have responsibilities as a result of that touch and call.»

In - depth interviews at the San Diego meetings of the American Baptists in June 1977, conferences with executive ministers, discussions with a score of leading clergy and a few leading laypeople, and the study of a considerable body of official and unofficial materials uncovered an increasing discontent at the grass - roots level that most national leaders appear to ignore.

Who is better qualified to remind both expatriate missionaries and national leaders of the significance and implications of this truth than Paul Hiebert?

In 1999, Uttam Kumar Pariyar, a member of Nepal's now - abolished royal privy council, stunned national leaders when he made public his conversion to Christianity.

I have attended several meetings at which national leaders and mission board executives tried to find ways to make the national churches less dependent on their parent churches abroad.

Numerous national leaders met with Chun Dukee, using the church as a secret gathering place.

This month, the spotlight again fell on Iran's 300,000 - strong Baha'i community as seven national leaders were sentenced to 20 years each in prison for espionage, propaganda against the Islamic republic and the establishment of an illegal administration.

She, along with many other national leaders and social activists of different stripes, began fasting on November 12th while staked out in a tent on the National Mall in Washington D.C..

In spite of the attempt of national leaders and the mass media to interpret the incident as a malicious terrorist act of disgruntled and frustrated people full of evil intensions, for many North Americans it was difficult, if not impossible, to accept it as non-religious.

Residents of Ferguson, local and national leaders of historic black churches, and some multi-ethnic mainline Protestant and Catholic church clergy engaged.

It gave evangelicals contact with and visibility of their national leaders and celebrities, a sense of identification with a wider evangelical community, and reinforcement for their individual personal commitment.

In those days, should our national leaders have sough to somehow smash or smother those religious groups and leaders agitating for change?

Over the weekend, President Obama and other national leaders traveled to Selma, Alabama to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the march on Selma.

National leaders face similar tensions.

National leaders can then play off hardworking, low - paid laborers against immigrants and those who receive the dole, directing workers» resentments away from those who control the economy and prevent full employment.

The British who colonized India had accepted the European concept of nationhood as constituted by unity in blood and language, «ethnic purity and a single language»; therefore, they said, that «India is not and can never be a nation... India is a collection of religious communities... But the unfortunate tragic element was that this British interpretation of Indian history was also accepted by many of our national leaders... So British interpretation plus the shortsightedness of our own leaders, not excluding the Mahatma, together resulted in this dreadful phenomenon of communalism».

Faced with conflicting interpretations based on religious premises, national leaders can readily turn to other arguments on which there is greater consensus.

However, in this minority were leaders of protest movements as well as prominent national leaders of denominations, and right beside them were agents of national media.

One, they control the public image of national leaders who, as a result, fear them and, at the same time, smile on the media magnates.

Since the controversy in Matthew 12 involves Jesus defending His claim to be the Messiah to the religious and national leaders of Israel, some Bible scholars and teachers believe that the unforgivable sin is Israel's national rejection of Jesus as the Messiah.

They have no clue that their neighbor just lost his job, that their coworker just got diagnosed with cancer, or that the decisions their local and national leaders are making will ravage future generations.

In 1993, a broad - based coalition of national leaders helped the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA)-- which limited government regulation of religious expression — become law.

Our country has survived in large part due to the seperation of church and state, and I find it appalling that so many national leaders are using it as a wedge between Americans.

Obviously the problem is a complex one, for relational power involves risk taking, and national leaders may legitimately feel that they have no right to take such risks with the life of the nation.

National leaders are prone to appeal to the family as essential to the well - being of the nation.

Let me wind up with the need for NGO Ombudsmen armed with legal powers to take action wherever human rights are vulnerable and violated and also to recommend cancellation of treaties entered into with oblique motives by suspect national leaders.

Metaxas argues that Christians do not always have to agree with one another or with national leaders, but they have to love one another.

When pastors from our synod gathered with our national leaders after the September 11 tragedy, I told them that we had been ordained and baptized for this moment.