Sentences with phrase «not in a free country»

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«We live in a free country and we are not going to tell you what you can and can not do with your body, that's not our job as employers.»

«Elections have consequences, and the consequences for our community have been dire, and if we do not change the balance of power, we question our ability to remain free in this country,» she said.

Not only has the billionaire businessman turned president - elect called for doing away with trade deals favored by President Barack Obama, he expressed interest in renegotiating the North America Free Trade Agreement, a 22 year - old trade pact between the U.S., Canada and Mexico that eliminated most tariffs on products traded between the countries and strengthened intellectual property enforcement.

People who hold a US passport can travel to 158 countries visa - free — a good mark, but not quite the highest in the world, according to Passport Index's annual ranking.

Its goal is to connect the billions of people in developing countries who aren't yet online by giving them access to certain portions of the Internet for free.

Founded in 2009 by online education entrepreneur Shai Reshef, the goal of the university is to provide a free online education in computer science and business administration for students in developing countries who can't afford to go to college.

And even those of us who believe fervently in the value of free markets can see that it's not a good thing that a CEO can afford to build a $ 50 - million home while others living in the same country can't afford a roof over their head at all.

Asked whether the United States» two North American Free Trade Agreement allies should be exempted, Brady told reporters in Mexico City: «Yes, and going further, excluding all fairly traded steel and aluminum, not just from these two countries.»

For NAFTA countries, free trade has been beneficial, not harmful, as the increase in employment demonstrates: 40 million more people are at work now in Canada, Mexico and the United States as compared with 23 years ago at the start of NAFTA.

Canada has been active in negotiating bilateral free trade agreements (FTAs) but until this year, when the Canada - Korea FTA was finally concluded, Canada had not been able to conclude an agreement with a single Asian country.

Due to this hindrance, obtaining bitcoins is not as hassle free as it is in other countries.

Action: Approach VPNs with extreme caution Who is this for: All web users — unless free Internet access is not available in your country How difficult is it: No additional effort Tell me more: While there may be times when you feel tempted to sign up and use a VPN service — say, to try to circumvent geoblocks so you can stream video content that's not otherwise available in your country — if you do this you should assume that the service provider will at very least be recording everything you're doing online.

It notes, for example, that about 55 % of the world's current oil output comes from countries Freedom House categorizes as «not free,» a substantial risk that makes America's resurgence in oil production all the more important.

Perhaps the criminalization in other countries of the inexplicable business model used by the vast majority of American «financial advisors» will serve as an example of what real reform looks like and suggest to Americans that financial advice is in fact not «free,» that financial advisors are actually true professionals, and that it's infinitely safer for your wallet and better for your peace of mind to be invoiced by your advisor and never have to wonder if you got good advice or just a good sales pitch.

Russia is also in the mix as is the U.S., which, although traditionally the largest customer for Canadian gas, now has a surplus of gas thanks to new technologies and is consequently reviewing whether to permit gas exports to countries with which it does not have a Free Trade Agreement.

With the enactment of CETA, approximately 94 % of EU agricultural tariffs will be eliminated for Canadian exporters, giving them an advantage over competitors in countries that do not have a free trade agreement with the EU.

In the same way that it isn't free to send avocados from one place to another — storage, transport, upfront capital — it's not «free» to send currencies between multiple countries and platforms.

Ottawa has also long made the case that in a true free - trade zone, countries should not be allowed to hit each other with punitive duties for allegedly dumping or subsidizing exports.

For years, trade and justice activists have proposed renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement to address some of the deal's most damaging features: for example, by removing the anti-democratic investor - state dispute settlement provisions of Chapter 11, linking trade benefits to genuine protections for human and labour rights (all the more important given the deteriorating democratic situation in Mexico), and establishing a continent - wide strategy for auto investment and production. We were always told that renegotiating NAFTA was a pipe dream: it would not be possible to open the text and get all three countries on board with reforms, no matter how legitimate the concerns.

If these people are crying over the fact their religious views aren't made into laws, maybe they need to re-consider living in a free country such as the US.

«Though we already pay # 11 billion a year to subsidise a low - wage economy because employers are not paying people enough to live on, volunteers up and down the country are providing a further # 30 million a year in «free» labour to ensure that our fellow citizens in low paid work, on zero hour contracts, or relying on a broken benefits system have enough to eat.

what a company - gop, zionists, pastor graham.one can tell that this is really free country when all these mediocrees are not doing forced labor in alasca goulag.people who got america in trouble and will finish the job if they win in 2012.

The school doesn't want you spreading your poison and you want to cry about not getting free money; just another example of the religious groups in this country wanting a free lunch while being able to hate on whoever they want.

When some people in a country are free and others aren't, you have a very ugly situation, which can not truly be called freedom for anyone.

Spin it how you will, religion constantly gets a free pass in this country and when its ever called out for its discriminatory practices and beliefs it claims religion has the right to discriminate based on those beliefs... but everybody else doesn't have the right to even make the accusation that religion is getting all kinds of special rights allowing them to justify their own discrimination.

It is only when we are forced or truly threatened to not be free to believe as we do, in this country, that we must stand together for that freedom.

The likes of Daniel Cohn - Bendit did not merely criticize and protest, but criminalized — tarred with fascism, even — the man who «allowed them to grow up free in a rich country.»

The same people who protest international support for third - world countries saying «we need to take care of our own first» are ironically the same people who actually want to abolish food stamps, the WIC program, free school lunches, welfare and social security in the US, never mind the fact that the people who benefit from these programs are the ones who cut their lawns, clean their homes, serve their meals in restaurants, and build their houses, all while going home to a tiny apartment they share with 6 other people and finding nothing to eat in the house but a can of green beans because payday is still 2 days off and there's only enough gas in the car to get them to work the next two days, so driving around town for 2 hours trying to find an open food bank isn't an option.

Let's force all women to wear burquas on Mohammed's birthday.Doesn't work that way in this country and I am stunned by these comments.We live in a FREE country - got it?If you don't - sign up for remedial civics please.

In a FREE country, the employer, who owns the job, and the employee would both agree voluntarily to the terms of the job — or they wouldn't, and the employer and the job seeker would look elsewhere.

This has nothing to do with Muslims... It is called economy... in free market I can sell my goods to anybody I like to or not... If you think not selling goods to another nation is being insensitive than I have news for you... so called EU christian countrys are guilty beyond your imagination for not selling certein things to Muslim countries..

She added: «We recognize that there are difficulties women face with pregnancies, especially in cases where the unborn child may be born with a life - limiting disease, but we do not believe that abortion is the answer, and that funding for a free abortion in another country is short - sighted as it neglects any mention of an offer of counselling or care for the woman.»

As long as the government is not heavily involved in setting prices or in producing goods and services from a monopoly position, we might reasonably say the country has a free market.

We're happy to live in a free and prosperous country and not in an Aristotelian polis or a medieval village or even in a Benedictine monastery.

«Even though starting a government meeting with a religious prayer is offensive to many, considered a violation of our const.itution by many, makes many feel ostracized and as if their voice will not be given equal consideration to those who are religions, I think we should still start of government meetings with prayers because this is a country that believes in the free expression of ones beliefs and opinions without fear of percecution.»

If these corporations believed their interests had been injured, they could take the government to court — not in the courts of that country to be judged by its laws — but in special courts set up to adjudicate between governments and corporations for the sake of maintaining the free flow of capital.

I believe free handouts in America may be worse than n other countries, but giving people a sense of worth is one of the great outcomes of paying for the things you need.

As a free citizen in a free country, shouldn't I be able to make that decision for myself?

The search was based on the conviction that growth in itself was not the solution to the problems of those countries, nor for their most appropriate development, and that the free market is not the most effective mechanism for producing a more just distribution of resources.

This is a free country by the way and I don't feel any freer than a chimp in an a half acre cage with banana trees you have to pay to climb.

The most «equal» countries on earth are the poorest: Cuba, Venezuela, North Korea... I would rather be poor in American than poor anywhere else, and that is strictly because the free market allows us to help the poor in ways not possible in more «equal» countries.

But just as equal opportunities within a society are unlikely to become reality without general access to high quality education, so free trade will not in practice be generally accepted, especially among the poorer countries, until the huge discrepancies between nations in technical and commercial skills are diminished.

In any event, since we are free to practice religion in this country, shouldn't we be fair to alIn any event, since we are free to practice religion in this country, shouldn't we be fair to alin this country, shouldn't we be fair to all?

We have a free country and we can say or do just about anything we want to do but in the end, and it doesn't matter what your religious belief (s) is / are — we will all answer to GOD.

And everyone else is free to live in a country in which your beliefs don't matter to anyone but you.

I have been fortunate to live in countries (England and Australia) where adequate, if bureaucratic, government welfare is provided for those who can not work, and where healthcare is universally available and largely free.

If you want to live in oppression feel free to move to a country where that works but it can't be allowed to work in the USA or Canada or any other secular country.

He's not doing nothing... we live in a country that respects free speech.»

I'm happy to say that I think that your out of date, bigoted opinions, while held by many, are not (or are no longer) the dominant ones in our great free country.

Religious groups in this country have tried to stifle free expression in music, literature and books, but the First Amendment of the Const / itution protects free speech, as well as the freedom to worship (or not worship) as you will.