Sentences with phrase «of national discourses»

From such a (conventional) perspective, states are seen as the «natural» rallying points of national discourses of self - determination and their geographic manifestation.

And here, city - regions have become the main foci of both formulation of national discourses as underpinning quests for autonomy, and economic capacity to generate necessary resources (see PSIN 2014).

But even with more young Canadians hitting the books, a big part of our national discourse on unemployment is focused on the lack of good or appropriate work once they graduate.

In A Higher Loyalty, fired FBI Director James Comey brings to front - and - center of our national discourse the idea of President Trump as a kind of organized crime boss speaking to both his character and his Administration.

«This matter is presently generating a lot of public concern and discourse and is presently in the front burner of national discourse thus germane to Nigerians.

This is in the sense that, The People's Forum - Ghana, considers such «Contentious statements» as economic speculations and as a key element of our national discourse and as such its settlement will enhance the awareness of the citizenry and better inform the electorates in their decision making and as well eliminate the damning effect it could have on our economy.

The CNG said with the Kaduna declaration, it had achieved most of its aims, which he said included forcing the hitherto deliberately neglected dangerous Biafran issue to the front - burner of national discourse.

The Senate President, however, pointed out that the current administration led by President Muhammadu Buhari, had put corruption on the front burner of national discourse.

Furthermore, Caribbean art forms are oftentimes left out of the national discourse within education.

In 2017, at a moment when the subject of truth and fake news came to the forefront of national discourse, the artist tweaked one of these adjusted - to - fit works in reaction to today's shifted reality by adding a twisting effect to make Pollyanna (adjusted to fit, distorted for the times).

As a result, the tenor of national discourse rose to a higher level.

It is the first time the Maryland Court of Appeals has confronted the question of online anonymity, an issue that has surfaced in state and federal courts over the past few years as blogs and other online forums have increasingly become part of the national discourse.»

Not exact matches

We must once again seek the moral high ground and cleanse our national discourse of those who wish to foster bigotry and hate, be they a disgraced and convicted former sheriff or the president of the United States.

Those hoping for calm, political discourse on these issues should cheer the election of Alison Redford, who has been supportive of Alberta's participation in the national economy.

(CNN)-- A group of more than 100 prominent Christians ranging from evangelical minister Jim Wallis on the political left to Nixon White House aide Chuck Colson on the right released a document Thursday calling for an end to the fight club tone of the national political discourse

The necessity of raising such questions is clear from the tenor of our contemporary national (non) discourse on race.

But because of the relationship between permissible expression in national discourse, and in the subnational discourse that takes place among blacks, a broadening of debate in the black community may encourage white politicians and intellectuals to speak, and think, with a greater measure of candor on this issue.

At a time when «Just say no» summarizes the depth of our national moral discourse, De-Marco has the reflective intelligence to argue that» because we do not have the luxury of being steeped in virtuous habits from birth» the virtuous life must be actively pursued.

Embracing an apparent relativism and anti-intellectualism, Prof. Smolin writes: «Even if we immediately restored the preeminence of natural rights / natural law discourse to our national jurisprudence and politics, abortion rights activists would still find ways of justifying the abortion right in that mode of discourse, just as prior generations justified the enslavement of African Americans through invoking God, the nature of things, and the Bible.»

In this sense, religion and religious values act as social glue: informing society's understanding of the public good, providing the vocabulary of common moral discourse, and, consequently, restraining and bonding the centrifugal forces of national life.

After over a year of divisive discourse at the national level, we were hungry for unity, answers and a safe place to process our feelings in solidarity.

Whether one looks at a Church of South India congregation in the «Harijan Wadi» of a village in Chittoor District of Andhra Pradesh, or at a New Life Pentecostal congregation in the suburbs of Mumbai, whether one looks at a Syrian Orthodox community in Chungom, Kottayam, or at a Mizo Presbyterian Church in Mission Veng in Aizwal, whether one looks at the worshipers at the Indian mass celebrated at the National Biblical Catechetical and Liturgical Centre in Bangalore, or at a newly set up Baptist congregation among former estate workers in the Andaman and Nicobar islands, one thing that would strike even the most impartial observer is the reality of hybridity, hybridity which manifests itself not only in things external, but very often in terms of attitudes, thought - processes and historical self - understanding within the overall identity discourse.

The crucial question is whether a plurality of religious and secular faiths, each of which had developed its own traditional culture, that is, philosophy, morality, ideology and legal system of corporate life, can, through inter-faith rational discourse, create at least the basic framework of a common culture or common direction and scheme of values for peoples to build together a new dwelling, like the national community.

that is philosophy, morality, ideology and legal system of corporate life, can through inter-faith rational discourse create at least the basic framework of a common culture or common direction and scheme of values for peoples to build together a new dwelling, like the national community.

The problem with these, he says, is they remove common sets of information from national discourse — essentially, people no longer have to interact with differing ideas and opinions.

If sports have lately served as a staging ground for national discourse about concussions, domestic violence, child abuse, gay rights and racial sensitivity, it's because we have so few live, public spectacles around which discussion of any kind can take place.

A critical discourse analysis of articles published in «The Age», a newspaper with national distribution, subsequent to the release of the discussion paper by the Australian Government in 2008 was undertaken.

Brexiteers continue to stoke up aggressive nationalism (asserting the inherent superiority of British national identity) because they wish to displace arguments grounded in fairness and the equitable redistribution of wealth from common political discourse.

Perhaps, the best answer is that energy independence has never been a simple technical, economic or political solution to the problem of foreign oil dependence; rather, it has been a cultural artifact, a discourse evoking particular American notions of the exceptional nation, American innovation and ingenuity, the can - do spirit, and the very notion of «independence» on which the American national project has been built.

Our presence in the national political arena has contributed more than significantly to the success of the Fourth Republic and engendered the kind of public discourse and maturity of the electorate that has benefited the country in no small measure.»

Urban values merge with national discourses of citizenship, community and identity.

We see «Fire and Fury» as an extraordinary contribution to our national discourse, and are proceeding with the publication of the book.»

It covers very little, in many ways, though it is strongest at doing certain things around party discourse which have fallen out of national media discussion.

The result is contestations of established state - centric, uniformly hierarchical structures and homogenised «national» discourses of identity, with city - regions reduced to merely a subordinate and therefore dependent actor when it comes to shaping national and, increasingly, international agendas.

I doubt that this kind of discourse is going to make it any easier for countries like Albania (which currently holds a candidate status) to join the EU, especially if we consider the role that national parliaments play in admitting any new European member.

This conflict, and the wider political division in which it is situated, is part of a continuing national discourse on the structure of the Nigerian state.

Such, in effect, triple hierarchisation — where territory, institutional power structures and discourse of identity and belonging (communality) sit in parallel hierarchical arrangements — is now being challenged by a growing urban / metropolitan voice stepping out of the seemingly homogenous sonority of a national discursive «backcloth».

This growing emergence of an urban (metropolitan) dimension to national (and international) discourses on shared values, imaginations and common purpose has come to challenge the nationalisation thesis formulated as part of «political modernisation» (Hofferbert and Sharkansky, 1971), and its primary focus on territorial states as expressions of an existing and cohesive civil society, or as «nationalisers» seeking to shape a national identity (Brubaker, 1995).

First, let's think about what the movement has accomplished so far: nothing less than a reshaping of our national political discourse.

Drawing on Rogers Smith's «The American Creed and American Identity: the limits of liberal citizenship in the United States» (1988) and Yoav Peled and Gershon Shafir's «Being Israeli: the dynamics of Multiple Citizenship» (2002) the paper seeks to scrutinise the dynamics between three prominent discourse in Israeli identity: ethno - national, liberal and republican.

The state can be a rational, self - interested, power - maximizing actor, yet deconstructing the discourse on state rationality and state egoism, defined as the pursuit of national interests, paints a more complex picture of the facets of state conduct.

In his welcome address, the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State Police command, Imohimi Edgal stated that the book could not have been written at a better time than now, describing the title as apt and germane to national discourse.

«There is no doubt that the election season has had a major impact upon the nature of the discourse,» Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf said, The National reported.

Speaking in turns on a theme: «English Studies in Non-Native Environments; Reflections and Projections» at the 32nd Annual National Conference of the English Scholars» Association of Nigeria (ESAN), on Wednesday, at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile - Ife, a Professor of Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis in the Department of English, University of Ibadan, Professor Akin Odebunmi, charged government and stakeholders to fine tune the acquisition of English language by introducing non-native English in nation's education curricula.

«The events of Charlottesville and the tactics of white supremacists are a poison in our national discourse, and every effort must be made to combat them.»

Again, when then President Mahama called on all citizens including Political Parties, Religious Organisations, Civil Society Organizations, etc., to help contribute to a National Economic Discourse, Nana Addo did not only boycott — he also encouraged his party members and Members of Parliament not to attend.

«Our presence in the national political arena has contributed more than significantly to the success of the Fourth Republic and engendered the kind of public discourse and maturity of the electorate that has benefited the country in no small measure,» he noted.

The National Chairman of the Party, Uche Secondus, during the PDP National discourse held today in Abuja under the theme «Nation Building: Resetting the Agenda,» called on Nigerians to rescue the nation by voting in a transparent government that will serve the people's interest.

As the lingering crisis between Senator Dino Melaye, lawmaker representing Kogi West, takes center stage in national discourse, leaders from his senatorial district under the auspice of Okun Development Association, ODA, has appealed to the All Progressives Congress, APC, as the ruling party to come out and see to the peaceful resolution of the crisis within its fold.

«The events of Charlottesville and the tactics of white supremacists are a poison in our national discourse, and every effort must be made to combat them,» he wrote.