Sentences with phrase «nations first presidents»

Named after Colonel John Quincy, the City of Quincy has been associated with many things — our nations first presidents, the world's first airport, and home to the largest marina in the northeast.

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The First Lady has remained in New York City with her son Barron, reportedly to finish out his school year, while the President has relocated to the nation's capitol.

In November of 1919, President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed November Eleventh as the first commemoration of Armistice Day with the following words: «To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country's service and with gratitude for the victory, both because of the thing from which it has freed us and because of the opportunity it has given America to show her sympathy with peace and justice in the councils of the nations...»

The legendary B.C. development family saw their president of nearly 10 years, David Negrin, leave the company for a new opportunity — building and managing residential projects on the billion dollars» worth of land owned by the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil - Waututh First Nations.

Choosing marriage over a college degree or a career, she embarked on a course that would take her to the United Nations and China, the vice president's residence in Washington during Ronald Reagan's two terms as president, and the White House as first lady from 1989 to 1993.

President Donald Trump on Thursday declared the nation's opioid epidemic a public health emergency, the first time since 2010 that the federal government has designated such an emergency nationwide.

First, he withdrew the U.S. from the TPP, which was initiated by President George W. Bush and negotiated by President Barack Obama as a means of linking Pacific nations to create a counterweight to China's power.

President Donald Trump discussed trade, tax reform and immigration with some of the nation's top CEOs on Friday in the first meeting of his business council at the White House.

The president's decision to reconsider one of his first acts in office — withdrawing from the 12 - nation Trans - Pacific Partnership — opens up another potential line of attack for some Democrats ahead of critical midterm elections in November.

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Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, president of the UBIC, stated in a press release, «The UBCIC is opposed to the Enbridge Pipeline Project and stands with the many First Nations who are standing as a unified block in their opposition to this proposed Tar Sands pipeline.»

Starting next week, tour operator Cuba Travel Services will begin offering what it says is the first regularly scheduled direct charter service from New York to Havana since President Barack Obama restored diplomatic relations with the island nation in December.

Corporate concerns were only inflamed by President Trump's Asia trip, which showcased his «America First» trade policy and left the United States isolated as 11 other nations agreed to new trade liberalization measures.

The visit was organized with the support of the Honourable Daniel Lang, Senator for Yukon and included meetings with Council of Yukon First Nation's Grand Chief, Peter Johnson; Council of Yukon First Nations; Commissioner Doug Phillips; Whitehorse Mayor Dan Curtis; Representatives from the Yukon Government; Yukon Environmental and Socio - economic Assessemt Board; Yukon Energy Corporation; Interim President of Yukon College and business leaders from the Yukon Chamber of Mines; Whitehorse Chamber of Commerce; Yukon Chamber of Commerce; the Yukon First Nation Chamber of Commerce and Klondike Placer Miners» Association.

One of Trump's first acts as president was to kill the Trans - Pacific Partnership, a would - be 12 - nation trade deal that had the strong support of the Chamber of Commerce, a vocal representative of business interests.

The Alberta government announced the formation of the group yesterday along with its three co-chairs: Dave Collyer, the former president and CEO of the the oil industry's top lobby group the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, Tzeporah Berman, an environmental advocate and Adjunct Professor of Environmental Studies at York University, and Melody Lepine, a member and Director of Government and Industry relations with the Mikisew Cree First Nation.

Dems: Going from a nation that owned slaves to electing the first black president in a short time.

I personally think religion should not be a factor.No one should ask the candidates what their religious views are and they should never mention them.Their religious preferences have absolutely no effect on what type of leader they will be.Unless they are some kind of a religious fanatic.I think it's time for an atheist.There was not a Christian president for over the first 50 years of our nations existence.And, I do not think there has been one since.If you look it up you will find not one of our founding fathers were Christian.Not even Jefferson.I know he wrote the Jefferson bible, but, that's just because he, like the other founding fathers, did not believe Jesus to be of divine decent.So, he kept his philosophy while removing all the mystical and dogmatic concepts.

That practice might have been permissible in 1787 or 1812, but it does not pass constitutional muster in 2013, when the United States is, as President Barack Obama acknowledged in his first inaugural address, «a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus, and non-believers.»

The nation's first president, George Washington, was also the first to call for a National Day of Prayer, one of «fasting, humiliation and prayer» to «acknowledge the gracious interpositions of Providence.»

Woodrow Wilson, though a moderate in his personal theological views, summarized this agenda in his much noticed speech in 1896, «Princeton in the Nation's Service,» which set the agenda when Wilson became Princeton's first lay president in 1902.

Ya but Obama is possibly the first president in the history of this nation to admit this country is not exclusively a Christian nation.

(CNN)-- A Catholic college in Ohio has apparently become the nation's first to drop its health care plan because it opposes parts of the federal health care law signed by President Barack Obama.

Both Obama, the nation's first black president, and Romney, a Mormon, have found that their shared status as members of minority groups and political pioneers, in many ways, has also changed the rules of this presidential campaign cycle, said Nancy Wadsworth, co-editor of the anthology «Faith and Race in American Political Life.»

Day, many will celebrate — deservedly — the long way we've come from Dr. King's campaign for civil rights to the inauguration of our nation's first black president for his second term.

We can have a Jewish president as long as he puts the nation first and acts responsibly.

We can have a Muslim president as long as he puts the nation first and acts responsibly.

We can have a Mormon president as long as he puts the nation first and acts responsibly.

Our history books are filled to the brim with details of our nation's presidents, but what about their wives — our first ladies?

A week ago Army was looking forward to accepting a bowl bid for the first time, but then the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, President Johnson, reportedly voiced his now - famous view that football «hardly gives a picture of a peace - loving nation» (SCORECARD, Nov. 20).

He was praised in every soccer - playing nation, toasted in champagne by Brazilian President Juscelino Kubitschek and pronounced, for the first time, the king of soccer in Brazil.

Lori Barer Ingber is the president of Parent Match, the nation's first and only national professional network for domestic adoption professionals.

The landmark agreement was signed at the United Nations 4th Annual Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Sharm El - Sheikh, in the presence of H.E Mrs. Suzanne Mubarak, the First Lady of Egypt, President and Founder of the Suzanne Mubarak Women's International Peace Movement, and sets the scene for a collaborative partnership in family online safety in Egypt and around the world.

President Donald Trump has received heavy criticism, primarily from the left, for his first speech in front of the United Nations General Assembly.

Peter Hain reviews Clint Eastwood's Invictus - a film that brilliantly portrays how the country's first black president used rugby to unify a fractured nation

The President, who described the hard - earned victory as «very sweet, soothing and a 57th Independence Anniversary gift to the nation,» applauded the nation's senior men's football team for the feat of making Nigeria the first African country to qualify for Russia 2018 FIFA World Cup tournament, with a match left to play.

She's a Manhattan attorney who serves as counsel to the Judicial Confirmation Network and led the right's opposition to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor back in 2009 when the Bronx native was tapped by President Obama to be the first Latina to sit on the nation's highest court.

In that position, she led the right's opposition to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor back in 2009 when the Bronx native was tapped by President Obama to be the first Latina to sit on the nation's highest court.

It is the reason President Akufo - Addo must be cheered on at his first appearance at the United Nations General Assembly as President in about a fortnight from now and it is the reason we shouldn't endorse the growing tendency to wish ill of the Black Stars though I am not unaware of leading NPP officials making provocative statements about how the NDC Government was responsible for the poor results in earlier qualifiers and how only NPP supporters will be sent to Russia, but we must regardless always learn to rise above the misguided few and reach out for the Ghana Flag anytime it is about our dear country.

The former First Lady and 2012 presidential aspirant of the National Democratic Party (NDP) Nana Konadu Agyeman - Rawlings has said successive Parliament under Presidents John Evans Attah Mills and John Mahama are responsible for some of the worst crimes the nation has ever witnessed.

Iran is adhering to the restrictions imposed on its nuclear program under a 2015 agreement, the United Nations agency charged with monitoring the country's facilities has said in its first report since President Trump refused to certify the Islamic republic's compliance.

While Clinton's glass ceiling in the main, represented her personal ambition to be the nation's first female president, Trump's wall was presented as a project for the nation's greater good.

She's perhaps best known, to those who are familiar with her work, for leading the right's opposition to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor back in 2009 when the Bronx native was tapped by President Obama to be the first Latina to sit on the nation's highest court.

President Trump traveled to the first - in - the - nation primary state of New Hampshire to rail against drug dealers responsible for the deadly opioid epidemic devastating the US, vowing «tough action» including the death penalty.

Tonight, we've reached a milestone in our nation's march toward a more perfect union: the first time that a major party has nominated a woman for president... When any barrier falls in America, for anyone, it clears the way for everyone.

Using this «one nation» rhetoric, Clinton was hoping to move forward on the country's extraordinary success in electing its first black President in 2008, offering the electorate an opportunity to reach yet another milestone: to elect its first female President.

When Hillary Clinton won the nomination as the Democratic Party's presidential candidate in July 2016, she celebrated her victory speech with words that foreshadowed her campaign message: Tonight, we've reached a milestone in our nation's march toward a more perfect union: the first time that a major party has nominated a woman for president... When any barrier falls in America, for anyone, it clears the way for everyone.

Not when we can heed the words of our founding President, Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, who in the first moments of 6th March 1957, said to the citizens of this new nation: «We are going to demonstrate to the world, to the other nations, that we are prepared to lay our foundation — our own African personality.»

President John Mahama has said Ghana's failures and successes belong to every citizen and has, thus, urged Ghanaians to put their nation first and foster unity in moving the country forward.

Democratic Assemblyman Alec Brook - Krasny (D - 46th Assembly District - Brooklyn), the first Soviet - born, Russian - speaking Member of the Assembly, has signed onto Tedisco's resolution as a co-sponsor and is urging his counterparts in Washington, D.C. to send a crystal clear message to Russian autocratic President Vladimir Putin, that invading a sovereign nation is an unacceptable violation of international law.