Sentences with phrase «national moment of»

SCOTUSblog and the BLT reported Sunday evening that the Court will begin its session 10 minutes before the usual 10:00 a.m. start time, so that the first case will be concluded by 11:00 and the Court can observe the national moment of silence called for by President Barack Obama to honor to the victims of Saturday's shooting in Arizona.

There will be National Moment of Remembrance at 3 p.m. in honor of those who have died to defend our freedom.

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«Spring Budget 2017 is a critical moment for the government to show it is unashamedly pro-business, and that the Chancellor recognises that small businesses are the engines of job creation,» Mike Cherry, the FSB's national chairman, said in a statement.

Here's what's on our radar at the moment: Meet the most controversial brands A growing number of U.S. professional athletes have started kneeling during pre-game national anthems.

The company's first moment of national exposure also led to some celebrity word of mouth.

As of the moment, injunctions have been denied in Arizona, Nevada, and also by the New Jersey court considering the national consent decree.

Whether it's the National Security Agency harvesting millions of emails, or police and property owners in cities mounting cameras in public seemingly every five feet, or advertisers trailing you as you move around the web, you're deluded if you think somebody isn't following you at any moment.

At the moment, control over National Amusements is scheduled to pass to a trust whenever Sumner Redstone dies — a trust whose board consists of Shari Redstone, her son, Viacom CEO Dauman and a number of legal advisors appointed by Redstone.

«Here it is: If you are a foreign national or citizen of one of these seven countries that were first identified by President Obama in 2015, then you can not come to the United States at this moment.»

At the moment, Blank is very excited about a class of students being funded by the fed's National Science Foundation to attend his Lean Launchpad entrepreneurship course at Stanford.

The watershed moment for Spencer and his National Policy Institute came just after the 2016 election that elevated Trump to the presidency — in a video from The Atlantic that was viewed by millions of people, Spencer was seen delivering a speech at an NPI conference in Washington, DC where he used Nazi salutes, imagery, and phrases to celebrate Trump's victory as a victory for his cause.

If Dr. Mike Dunne of the National Ignition Facility in San Francisco allows himself a moment to ponder the fact his work might... umm... change the course of human history, he won't admit it.

The arrest comes at a national moment when the way people of color are treated by police in public places is under intense scrutiny, following the April 12 arrests of two black men sitting inside a Philadelphia Starbucks on charges that they were trespassing.

From my personal perspective, one of the most inspiring moments was when Chairman Bernanke spoke in February of 2009 at the National Press Club.

And last month, moments before MIT professor James Poterba, president of the National Bureau of Economic Research, gave Summers a glowing introduction to a ballroom that contained dozens of European and not a few Russian economists, a smiling Shleifer glided across the front of the hall.

One of his proudest moments as a Trustee was when a motion he introduced passed that acknowledged the traditional territories before the national anthem was to be sung at all board related events and schools.

Contemporaries and historians have viewed the Last Spike — as well as the iconic photographs of the event — as a moment when national unity was realized.

Those moments often occur around the time that online shopping reaches about 20 percent of total national retail spending in a category, the research firm L2 has concluded after studying the evolution of e-commerce.

Perhaps the most interesting moment of the prestigious event transpired late in the afternoon when one attendee asked, «How core is solving identity to expanding digital currency or solving some of the frictions in our existing system, and how do you foresee an identity world that's based on a national or — in the US's case — subnational system working or integrating in a global financial system?»

With a full German general election in the autumn next year, the AfD at the moment would seem well placed to enter Berlin's national Bundestag parliament by the end of 2017.

At the moment, the $ PAC team and community are keen to focus on the hyperinflation problems of Venezuela's national currency Bolivar and to help the economic rehabilitation of Cucuta, Colombia.

Professor Woo, President of the newly established Jeffrey Cheah Institute on Southeast Asia, talks about the watershed moment in the country's recent economic history and argues for a bi-partisan consensus around «an inclusive national development» plan as the only way forward.

Perhaps the pivotal moment was the Kerner Commission Report of 1968, more formally known as the Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, created by President Johnson to determine the cause of the racial riots that had burned across America in the summer of 1967.

At the interfaith prayer service held in today for the victims of the Boston marathon bombing (including Lu Lingzi, a graduate student at Boston University, where I teach), President Barack Obama was once again called upon to play the pastor - in - chief at a moment of national tragedy.

Washington (CNN)-- Mitt Romney's defeat appears to close out a years - long «Mormon moment,» a period of national fascination with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints.

ATTACs principal focus areas at the moment are: the different forms of taxation of financial transactions, in particular the Tobin tax on currency speculation; the creation of new instruments for the regulation and control of finance at the national, European and international levels; the battle against tax havens and financial crime; and the demystification of pension funds.

When George Weigel concedes his naivete over the possibility of a «Catholic moment» in America and concludes that the West no longer understands freedom, or when Robert George solemnly declares to the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast the end of «comfortable» Christianity, then you know that the times they are a-changin».

In one of those moments that remind us that there's a culture war going on, National Public Radio decided in 1994 to hire Mumia Abu - Jamal» serving time for the 1982 murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner» as a political commentator on its program All Things Considered.

She is delicate (like a barracuda) in her maneuvers around the third main character in Leaf's drama, a graduate student who is writing her dissertation about the moment in 1973 when Margolies lost an election for the presidency of a national feminist association to a rival supported by Feinberg.

Never forget that in private moments of profound loss, in public moments of national tragedy, the God of Jacob is our refuge.

The National Review's John Derbyshire lost his religion — of no moment here — and then decided that his rejection of faith, and its replacement with scientism, meant he had to oppose human exceptionalism.

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This doesn't matter when we're trying to ignore a national debate on the color of a blue / gold dress, but it definitely matters when we're scrolling past stories of sexual violence as if they're any other social media moment — intimate, distant, easily discarded.

Meanwhile, the World and National councils of churches, myriad regional and local councils, the many bilateral conversations, and unity efforts like the Consultation on Church Union have continued to do their work largely out of the public eye except for occasional moments of media - orchestrated controversy.

The only genuinely ancient part — not used for any governing purpose — is the astonishing chilly space of Westminster Hall, faintly redolent of the horrible show trial of King Charles I, still an awkward moment in the national family album.

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One of Stiefel's major concerted contributions in the last three years was the Reason Rally, an event held on the National Mall in Washington, which was billed as a watershed moment in the atheism movement.

That moment triggered a series of responses and counter responses by authorities and residents, as well as local and national clergy that shaped two weeks of protest and clarified camps that were largely defined by social and religious location.

In a rare unscripted moment at the Democratic National Convention this week, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa called for a voice vote to pass an amendment to the party platform reinstating language that identified Jerusalem as the rightful capital of Israel and that referred to people's «God - given potential» in its preamble.

Christians on both sides of the political aisle will no doubt come out either for or against the Baltimore Ravens, who added a 10 second moment of silence before the National Anthem to pray for «kindness, unity and equality and justice for all Americans.»

For better or worse, we find ourselves at a moment when considerable national attention is being given to the morality of capital punishment, and readers of First Things in recent months have also been invited to reflect upon the issue in an essay by Avery Cardinal Dulles (April) and in a later exchange between Dulles and his critics (August / September).

Still, and despite his heavy reliance on teleprompters for even brief talks, he quickly became known among supporters and sympathetic commentators as the nation's «orator - in - chief,» an office he filled by delivering lengthy and sometimes ponderous speeches at moments of apparent national crisis.

In moments of national crises, amidst the rally cry of war, we are to know that we belong to Jesus.

These were noble moments, worth remembering; I certainly cherish my memories of encounters with Bayard Rustin, who organized the March that made Dr. King a national eminence.

What he did was to choose for his moment of truth the festival of Passover, the moment of maximum national feelings, when thoughts of a mighty deliverance for Israel were uppermost in people's minds.

The National Secular Society will claim in its study on Monday that the Prince of Wales» coronation will provide an «opportune moment» to make the case for separating the Church of England with the state - or «disestablishment.»

In policy documents like the 2002 National Security Strategy of the United States and this past November's National Strategy for Victory in Iraq, the Bush administration» convinced that the attacks of September 11 defined a pivotal moment in world politics» has laid down a sharp challenge to certain well - entrenched ideas about the nature of «realism» in international affairs, even as its policy on the ground has challenged numerous conventions of post-World War II international public life.

The pregame moment of silence in honor of the life and contributions of George Halas, the late owner of the Chicago Bears and one of the creators of the National Football League, was even more significant: I am not sure whether the fans were silent in memory of «Papa Bear» or whether they were offering a moment of silence to him.

Continuing, in honor of National Poetry Month, our discussion of Wallace Stevens» Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, I'd like to take a few moments with my other favorite stanza, the last one, Stanza XIII:

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