Sentences with phrase «of civilized nations»

«Since neither President Muhammadu Buhari nor Acting President Yemi Osinbajo could have authorized the contemptuous statement issued on behalf of the Presidency, Mr. Shehu Garba should be called to order and restrained from further exposing the Federal Republic of Nigeria to ridicule before the comity of civilized nations» Falana said.

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In a more outwardly civilized way, they follow in the footsteps of the settler - colonialists who first expanded the American nation westward in the 19th century, or the first semiconductor manufacturers to abscond from Bell Labs in the late 1950s and set up shop near Palo Alto.

In a more outwardly civilized way, they follow in the footsteps of the settler - colonialists who first expanded the American nation westward in the 19th century, or the first semiconductor manufacturers to

Added Elmgren in an email to Canadian politicians: «This is the kind of act one expects from the Taliban in Afganistan, not from the government of a civilized and educated nation.»

1 Billion Muslims care, and we should have an obligation, as a civilized nation, to take care with their religious practices so long as it doesn't not violate a tenet of our law.

Few nations were to all appearance more effectively put down: exhausted by successive defeats in war, reduced to a mere remnant, deported to distant countries, subjected to the long - continued domination of alien and highly civilized Great Powers.

Otherwise, we run the risk of becoming a developed, civilized nation, super power that is a breeding ground for haters and paranoid nut cases such as the terrorist Anders Behring Breivik (the Norwegian terrorist) in this ever shrinking, increasingly global world.

It can, in other words, position itself as a pedagogue, upstream of the actual member state legislatures, declaring as a matter of Europe - wide policy what is or is not a human right, and «calling on» member states to bring their legislation into line with what are now the human rights norms that every civilized nation agrees on.

It is quite another to call the fight by civilized nations against terrorism, including state sponsored terrorism, an act of terrorism itself whether you agree with the fight or not.

We are one of the WORSE nations in the civilized world when it comes to healthcare.

One can not but regret that later generations in his homeland did not avail themselves of the precious heritage which Humboldt bequeathed to his nation and did not use the bridges which this philosopher of freedom had constructed over the gulfs that separate the peoples of the civilized world.

Not only have natural disasters such as earthquakes occurred; atrocities of apocalyptic dimensions have been committed by the so - called civilized nations.

He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become... In every improved and civilized society this is the state into which the labouring poor, that is, the great body of the people must necessarily fall, unless government takes some pains to prevent it» (The Wealth of Nations Vol.

How can we call ourselves a civilized nation if we can't even do something so basic as to care for mothers after the birth of a child?

The Statute of the International Court of Justice — the closest thing modern international law has to a constitution — identifies as sources of international law not just treaties and customs, but also the «general principles of law recognized by civilized nations.»

What readily comes to mind at the mention of ROPAA or diaspora voting is enfranchising Ghanaian citizens in United Kingdom, the United States of America and other civilized nations in Europe, not African countries like Nigeria, Togo, Benin, Gambia etc..

Nation is a way of feeling, thinking and living, it is a psychological condition of the mind which emphasizes the consciousness of unity due to spiritual or other feelings.while the state emphasizes political unity and objectivity which is a condition of law, the state is an enforceable obligatiory condition inseparable from all civilized ways of living

Touting prime hot spots - including the future site of the United Nations headquarters - «Mighty» trumpets American virtues, and there's a secondary message to foreigners, that integrated adoption of American ideals will reinvigorate wounded nations, and lead them to the civilized greatness - in architecture, art, society, and culture - as depicted in «Mighty Manhattan.Nations headquarters - «Mighty» trumpets American virtues, and there's a secondary message to foreigners, that integrated adoption of American ideals will reinvigorate wounded nations, and lead them to the civilized greatness - in architecture, art, society, and culture - as depicted in «Mighty Manhattan.nations, and lead them to the civilized greatness - in architecture, art, society, and culture - as depicted in «Mighty Manhattan.»

For I don't subscribe to a narrative that places tribes on one end of the binary and nation - states on the other end, especially how this binary too often calls one end «savage» and the other «civilized.»

But luckily - or perhaps not too luckily - this is cornucopia - time, an era of abundance in all civilized nations.

Advancing age is a significant disadvantage in the «civilized» and «westernized» nations of the world, whether it appears in a dog or in a person.

They do not belong in any civilized nation or anywhere They provide puppies to animal abusers & are, themselves, guilty of horrible abuse!

In the case of Germany, where nuclear power is being phased out and fossil fuels are taboo because of plans to decarbonize, the only option may be to accept periods without electricity putting a civilized nation back centuries.

First of all, the United States continues to be one of the most litigious nations in the civilized world.