Sentences with phrase «of a nation at»

Olympic Athletes from Russia take part in the Parade of Nations at the opening ceremony of the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games at Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium.

It was, after all, Woodrow Wilson, a Presbyterian, who proposed the League of Nations at the end of World War I, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, an Episcopalian, who drew the plans for the United Nations as World War II neared its conclusion.

Nonetheless, the key principle was established — that such prayers should reflect the religious diversity of the nation at the time.

If our mentality remains that of a nation at war, we can expect to reap the fruits of war, and lasting peace will remain elusive.

The league hoped to present to male statesmen and parliamentarians a new model of arbitration devoted to the international good of the human community, rather than to the narrow advantage of nations at the expense of the whole.

The association of this emergent problem with the break - up of the nation at the time of the Exile was further illustrated by Jeremiah's contemporary, Habakkuk:

The result, as Thomas Lask wrote in the New York Times, is «an authentic piece of Americana,» and a monument to the spirit of the nation at the turn of the century.

The Nigerian's decision to play at Rio 2016 is likely to come as a blow for manager Arsene Wenger, but he can take solace in the fact that he will not have to feature in the African Cup of Nations at the start of 2017, after his side were eliminated in qualification in previous weeks.

The Aztecs knocked off Stanford in Week 3 with a last - minute touchdown pass that followed a roughly 25 - minute delay after the lights unexpectedly went out in San Diego Stadium, getting the attention of the nation at large beyond merely those who had stayed up for #Pac12AfterDark.

The Geordie icon played with a swagger that was unlike any other star in his time and won the hearts of the nation at Italia» 90.

I'll want to know the thought pattern of how a 31 year old air force man decided to take control of a nation at the peril of his life.

The General Overseer tasked the youth to resist the temptation of being used by some disgruntled politician to foment trouble and urged the electorate to vote for people who have the development of the nation at heart.

Well this really was billed Israel takes to bring their manufacturing jobs to America and to the security of our nation at a local correct.

Nana Akufo - Addo said President Mahama demonstrated that he was a true democrat who had the development of his nation at heart, when he committed to a smooth transition of power by conceding following his defeat.

Nana Akufo - Addo said President Mahama demonstrated that he was a true democrat who had the development of his nation at heart, when he committed to a smooth transition of power...

But sincerely speaking, if the man truly have the interest of the nation at heart, he should not have succumbed to pressure to subject himself and the entire nation to another moments of fearful anxiety.

Developing a scientific community in the United States that is representative of the nation at large will unleash a store of scientific talent that is currently not fully tapped.

Miss Bala is a testament to the hidden toll of a nation at war with itself.

Netflix strived for a Best Picture nomination when they purchased Beasts of No Nation at 2015's Toronto Film Festival and gave it a two - week theatrical run alongside a simultaneous online release so that it was eligible for awards.

There's been a rather lazy and overused knack for proclaiming every other film released post-election to be «the film we need right now», the one that truly captures the fractured state of the nation at this very torturous moment.

Although most of the key players were established in the first trailer, released in June — or before that, in 2016's Captain America: Civil War — from star Chadwick Boseman as T'Challa to Letitia Wright as Princess Shuri to Michael B. Jordan as Erik Killmonger, the new footage reveals different facets of many of the film's characters, and of the nation at its heart.

For 20 years now — since the federal government's release of A Nation at Risk # 151; an alphabet soup of national, state, and local committees and councils have all been charging at the same target: the educational enterprise.

Yet as early as the publication of A Nation at Risk in 1983, policymakers have acted on the principle that America's schools are failing.

It's no surprise that, 28 years after the publication of A Nation at Risk, school - reform efforts have generated so little effect.

That week also marks the thirty - fifth anniversary of A Nation at Risk.

So critics of A Nation at Risk and the viewpoint it embodied had a field day, years later, when the U.S. economy — seemingly oblivious to the warnings in the commission's famous report — boomed in the face of growing global competition.

Last week, on April 26, we marked the 20th anniversary of A Nation at Risk, the report of the National Commission on Excellence in Education, which was created by then - U.S. Secretary of Education Terrel H. Bell during the Reagan administration.

Let us also try some promising hybrids, such as the Teacher Advancement Program, developed by the Milken Family Foundation, which enhances teacher professionalism in ways that also recall a number of the recommendations of A Nation at Risk and the latter - day «alternative view» of teacher quality reform.

In the three decades since the release of the Nation at Risk report, the U.S. education reform effort has failed to achieve lift - off.

That establishment received an inadvertent boost in 1983 with the publication of A Nation at Risk, the shockingly pessimistic assessment of the nation's schools by the National Commission on Excellence in Education.

Says Robert Pondiscio, executive director of the advocacy group CitizenshipFirst, those are «the most important fifty - seven words in education reform since the publication of A Nation at Risk in 1983.»

This year we mark the 25th anniversary of A Nation at Risk.

By the early - 1980s, however, the pendulum swung again with the publication of A Nation at Risk, which blamed poor education for a «rising tide of mediocrity.»

The core of A Nation at Risk was its concern that America's public schools were not challenging enough to prepare students for a future built on technology and information.

Dr. Milton Goldberg was the Executive Director of the National Commission on Education Excellence at the time of A Nation at Risk's release.

In truth, Catholic education could have seized on many previous moments — the 1972 White House report on the sector's troubles, the 1983 call to arms of A Nation At Risk, the 1992 launch of charter schooling, the 2008 White House report on the sector's troubles, and so on.

Just as the publication of A Nation at Risk caused President Reagan to re-evaluate his education policies, the 25th anniversary of the landmark report should give federal policymakers the opportunity to reconsider the current federal approach, one influential lawmaker said last week.

Most principals surveyed indicated that their schools had made significant progress towards implementing the recommendations of A Nation at Risk, the 1983 report that sparked the current reform movement.

The executive director of the National School Boards Association, writing in a July 1983 column, condemned the «stridently negative view of public education» and the «near - hysterical narrative» of A Nation at Risk....

Following the publication of A Nation at Risk (National Commission on Excellence in Education, 1983), two «waves» of school reform emerged (Lusi, 1997).

The publication of A Nation at Risk in 1983 alarmed citizens with its claim that the American public education system was failing.

The effort, in turn, builds upon the decades - long efforts of standards and accountability activists within the school reform movement — including conservative outfits such as the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and its president, Checker Finn — to improve the quality of curricula in schools; this began in the 1970s with the work of southern governors and chambers of commerce, accelerated during the Eighties with the Reagan administration's release of A Nation at Risk, and supported by Ronald Reagan's successor, George Bush, during his tenure as president.

Thirty years ago, the authors of A Nation at Risk told us: «If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war.

There have been several reviews over the years that have pointed out the problems of the Nation At Risk report.

He controversially endorsed aspects of A Nation at Risk, embracing its ideas about higher standards, teacher accountability, and «restructuring.»

The publication of A Nation at Risk (National Commission on Excellence in Education, 1983) set off a firestorm of reform activity.

Published in Society 52 (2), pp. 129 - 135, April 2015, a special issue of the journal commemorating the 30th anniversary of A Nation at Risk.

There is more momentum in the states now than at any time since education reform became a national priority with the release of A Nation at Risk in 1983.

Standards - based reform traces its roots to the 1983 publication of A Nation at Risk by Secretary of Education Terrel Bell's National Commission on Excellence in Education.1 With its warning of a «rising tide of mediocrity,» notions of excellence, achievement, and accountability became the primary goals of state and federal education policy.

The impact of A Nation at Risk was profound.