Sentences with phrase «of national independence»

Essentially, Agenda 21 envisions local communities all across our nation adopting «comprehensive community plans» that have as their real, though unstated, purpose the elimination of the very middle class quality of life, that has been the bedrock of our national independence and personal freedoms.
Dr. Holder has been active in the cultural life of his native country, Barbados, serving as the first chairman of the National Independence Festival of Creative Arts, which he helped found, chairman of the Barbados Dance Theater Company and a member of the Barbados Symphonia.
Some of the prettiest surround Rittenhouse Square and Washington Square, which is part of National Independence National Park.
«They're a symbol of national independence
For if such a policy is like General de Gaulle's, based upon a deliberate and far - reaching politico - military strategy of national independence, past disengagement from NATO and détente in Europe, it merits the most careful examination.
His first priority must be the reassertion of national independence from the EU, and the restoration of real, and representative parliamentary democracy.
But as the private property system became the soil in which the lust for possessions and the worship of wealth grew up, so the possibility of national independence provided opportunity for the growth of religious nationalism, the worship of the nation, and the lust for national power and glory.

Not exact matches

After a round of applause and cheering, the regional parliament of Catalonia marked their declaration of independence this Friday by breaking into their national anthem.
The Eritrean government, which fiercely espoused national independence and self - reliance, would own just 40 % of the joint venture, known as the Bisha Mining Share Co. (BMSC)-- Nevsun would hold the rest.
Greek Independence Day is a national holiday in Greece that celebrates the beginning of the War of Greek Independence in 1821.
Further evidence comes from the interesting fact that the parchment version of the Declaration of Independence that is on display and kept in the United States National Archives wasn't actually written until July 19th; this being a copy of the approved text that was announced to the world on July 4th, with about 150 - 200 copies being made on paper and distributed on that date (26 of which are still around today, thus pre-dating what is now generally thought of as the «original»).
According to Catalonian authorities, 90 percent of people voted in favor of independence on Sunday, but the national government said the referendum was illegal.
Americans will spend more than $ 7 billion on cookouts and other celebrations of the Declaration of Independence, up from $ 6.8 billion in 2016, according to a report by the National Retail Federation.
It has prompted renewed calls from Scottish nationalists for a vote on independence, and members of the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish governments have complained the national government has not involved them enough its Brexit negotiation preparations.
It is among at least 4,000 signatories of the National Agreement on the Right to Decide and the Referendum Agreement, a group comprising of political parties and civil society organisations in favour of the independence vote.
In nine years of full independence, the gross national product has nearly tripled — raising the average per capita income to a level exceeded in Asia only by that of Japan.
Preserving the national currency has provided the UK with some measure of economic independence and flexibility.
The federal government should restore the independence of the National Energy Board's (NEB) decisionmaking authority for pipeline applications, according to a new report from the C.D. Howe Institute...
Both were born after India achieved independence from Britain in 1947, and both came to the United States after the Hart - Celler Act of 1965 abolished national origin quotas.
The UK Independence Party, that would eventually spearhead the Brexit vote, grew significantly in support, as did the National Front in the area of France I was living in.
Franchisees receive the benefits of a national brand with a very passionate, loyal, and affluent client base, a strong corporate team to support them, plus the independence and satisfaction of owning their own businesses.
He added that the new credit facility from Keystone National Group will help his company «bring deserving consumers to the credit system who are often overlooked by the traditional approach and allow them to pave their path of financial independence
Secondly, it could highlight the weakness of Spanish national politics as Catalonia hopes to start its independence process.
The independence and autonomy of national churches are now the reality with which Western agencies deal throughout the Third World.
The progress and development of the national bourgeoisie was being bought at the cost of a lost independence, the increasing misery of the masses whose traditional means of survival were destroyed by cheap, factory - made goods, and a tightening of military repression against the consequent popular unrest.
He received his education at Deoband and then was sent to Kabul, where he founded the Kabul branch of the Indian National Congress and maintained contacts with Indian fighters for independence who had gone into exile in Moscow and Berlin.
It is not in the name of Syrian independence; the right of national self - determination does not exist in the Bible.
«I recollect thinking then, boy even though I was, that there must have been something more than common that those men struggled for; that something even more than National Independence; that something that held out a great promise to all the people of the world to all time to come.»
Boosted Fuel Efficiency Standards Coordinated International Response to Financial Crisis Passed Mini Stimuli Began Asia «Pivot Increased Support for Veterans Tightened Sanctions on Iran Created Conditions to Begin Closing Dirtiest Power Plants Passed Credit Card Reforms Eliminated Catch - 22 in Pay Equality Laws Improved Food Safety System Expanded National Service Expanded Wilderness and Watershed Protection Gave the FDA Power to Regulate Tobacco Pushed Federal Agencies to Be Green Leaders Let Space Shuttle Die and Killed Planned Moon Mission Improved School Nutrition Expanded Hate Crimes Protections Brokered Agreement for Speedy Compensation to Victims of Gulf Oil Spill Pushed Broadband Coverage Expanded Health Coverage for Children Helped South Sudan Declare Independence Killed the F - 22
In a piece entitled «The happiness of pursuit», in Time magazine July 2013, we read: «All human beings may come equipped with the pursuit - of - happiness impulse — the urge to find lusher land just over the hill, fatter buffalo in the next valley — but it's Americans who have codified the idea, written it into the Declaration of Independence and made it a central mandate of the national character.»
Indian Secularism emerged as a basic political ideology in the course of the Indian national struggle for independence.
The Northern League, once a marginal party that called for the independence of the northern Padania region, became mainstream by appealing to national and religious sentiments under its new leader, Matteo Salvini.
They did so partly by offering more radical definitions of the independence of self and national identity, a development whose literary - philosophical correlative and sequel could be found in the life and work of Emerson, his «Transcendental» brethren, and their Romantic and existentialist disciples, from Walt Whitman to Henry Miller and Norman Mailer.
With Independence, these statesmen had to find a way to secure liberty that balanced popular engagement with a national structure, held together under a rule of law.
As events at this summer's Republican National Convention in San Diego show, the putative alliance between the religious right and the Republican Party offers little solution; and the truth is that grave dangers exist regardless when the independence of a religious mission is married to a particular political party's agenda.
We have «countries» for a reason, and multiculturalism is at odds with all the world's respective nations» goals of independence and national unity.
National integrity and independence in a democratic world community are contingent upon acceptance and practice of national responsibility for the pursuit of justice and the relinquishment of the principle that the nation is a law untoNational integrity and independence in a democratic world community are contingent upon acceptance and practice of national responsibility for the pursuit of justice and the relinquishment of the principle that the nation is a law untonational responsibility for the pursuit of justice and the relinquishment of the principle that the nation is a law unto itself.
Prior to national independence, there is ethnic cooperation, which sometimes carries over into the postindependence period, but an added element of ambiguity generates a feeling of loyalty to one's own ethnic group rather than to.
Both views are embedded in our national history — the republican view more in the Declaration of Independence, where Jefferson in its opening lines refers to «the laws of nature and of nature «s God» that stand above and judge the laws of men; and the liberal view more in the Constitution, where there is no reference to God at all, and the emphasis is upon the balancing of powers.6.
Local religious independence and political independence on a national basis, were again being actively intertwined and this progress, laced with the duplicity and corruption common to such affairs, was at the heart of local and international politics during the coming twelve years.
This framework of unity in pluralism has been developed through the movement of national struggle for independence under the leadership of Gandhi, the leader of Renascent Hinduism and Nehru, the advocate of Secular Socialism.
Along with national independence, there was also the revival of ancient religions of these people, such as Hinduism, Buddhism and Islam.
American Catholics have often lived with tension between their national character — a feisty don't - tell - me - what - to - think independence — and a religious hierarchy that struggles to contain a set of shared rules and beliefs.»
And he believed the Declaration of Independence formed the substance of our national soul.
After the achievement of independence when the Episcopal Church of its own volition got an Episcopate, and in spite of the pompous pretensions and sober protestations of such High - churchmen as Connecticut's Samuel Seabury, the new American church in order to attain organization on a national scale had to make the lay voice in its councils an essential part of its being.
We did a little touring of Independence Hall and then we ate at the National Mechanics restaurant.
It's our national dish, always cooked around our Day of Independence.
Wine & Spirits Wholesalers of America (WSWA) is the national trade association representing the wholesale tier of the wine and spirits industry and is dedicated to advancing the interests an independence of wholesalers as the central hub of the three - tier system.
Poblano Peppers in a walnut sauce are allusive to the Mexican National Independence Holiday and are prepared in México between the months of August and September, which is the season where you can get the ingredients.
When, two years later, negotiations for affiliation with the Amateur Field Trial Clubs of America failed, the National Shooting Dog Championship Association proclaimed its independence and charged into the future with increased vigor.
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z