Sentences with phrase «of national duty»

Is this the counsel of despair, a bleak dereliction of national duty?

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His duties include building a national network of fundraisers and courting major donors, who increasingly have more options amid the rise of outside groups that can raise and spend unlimited sums.

In 1981, when he was acting as adviser to then New Jersey gubernatorial candidate (later Governor) Tom Kean, the RNC assembled a ballot security force consisting of off - duty law enforcement officers wearing armbands that read «National Ballot Security Task Force» that was alleged to have engaged in voter intimidation in minority neighborhoods of Newark, Camden, Paterson, and other cities.

«It's also part of a civic duty,» said Joo Yu - min, an assistant professor at the National University of Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy whose research focuses on mega-events in Asian cities.

«As a patriotic American, I am reluctant to leave my post as director of the National Economic Council because I feel a duty to fulfil my commitment to work on behalf of the American people.

The election histrionics only grew in intensity following the conclusion of the Democratic National Convention, with Republican nominee Trump in particular generating countless headlines as he clashed with the parents of a Muslim U.S. Army captain killed in the line of duty after they criticized him during a speech on the night the party nominated Hillary Clinton.

November 2015 — Starbucks announced a new pay - for - service - benefit, which will cover up to 80 hours of pay each year for service obligations for active duty or reservists in the U.S. Armed Forces and National Guard.

Move and the National Association of Realtors filed a lawsuit against Zillow in March 2014 alleging breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty and misappropriation of trade secrets.

Military Officers Association of America (MOAA) is the nation's largest military officers» association with more than 350,000 members from every branch of uniformed service, including active duty, retired, National Guard, Reserve, and former officers and their families and survivors.

USAA has a calculator (www.usaa.com/brs) that can help active - duty service members and members of the Reserves and National Guard run the numbers.

Called or ordered to active duty service as a member of the National Guard on full - time National Guard duty, as defined in 10 U.S.C. 101 (d)(5), under a call to active service in connection with a war, military operation, or a national emNational Guard on full - time National Guard duty, as defined in 10 U.S.C. 101 (d)(5), under a call to active service in connection with a war, military operation, or a national emNational Guard duty, as defined in 10 U.S.C. 101 (d)(5), under a call to active service in connection with a war, military operation, or a national emnational emergency.

Kim was quoted by the news agency as telling Moon that he felt «the national mission and duty to usher in a new era of peace and reunification after putting an end to the history of division and confrontation.»

He'd promised to bring back jobs for the middle class; the U.S. National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), meanwhile, warned a 25 per cent duty on Canadian lumber imports would result in about 8,000 job losses in the U.S.

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An applicant must be an active duty military member, veteran who served honorably, member of the Reserves of National Guard, or be a Gold Star Family member.

To better address the needs of partners who are active duty or reservists in the U.S. Armed Forces or National Guard, Starbucks announced a new pay - for - service - benefit in November of 2015 that will cover up to 80 hours of pay each year for service obligations.

Operation Welcome Home mortgages help veterans, active - duty military, members of the Reserves and National Guard and Gold Star Families achieve homeownership.

According to a report to the Parliamentary Committee on National Defense, six additional groups have been established since 2013 under the directives of Kim Jong - un to allow specialization of duties.

Whether you're an active - duty serviceperson, a veteran, a member of the National Guard, a Reservist or surviving spouse of a veteran; or if you're a cadet at the U.S. Military, Air Force or Coast Guard Academy, midshipman at the U.S. Naval Academy or officer at the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, you may be eligible for a VA loan.

The event is free and open to all spouses of active duty, reserve, National Guard, retirees, veterans and Gold Star spouses.

To be eligible for the program, veterans, service members who are in active duty, National Guard members and reservists must meet a set of basic requirements that have been determined by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

Raising further questions about how competently and seriously Trump's banking regulators will be attending to their duties comes the report yesterday that the head of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Joseph Otting, who is the primary regulator of national banks, was trading in financial stocks after he was nominated to that post.

But from its debut in May, that was the Trucking Moves America Forward mascot's lot in life, even as it began its duties as the embodiment of TMAF's mission to promote and enhance the image of the trucking industry, appearing at the Truckers Jamboree in Wolcott, Iowa, and at the National Truck Driving Championships in Orlando.

um what are you nuts most of the people in BC has said they do not want another pipeline not ever so how is building a pipeline a matter of national unity i could see it as a matter of duty for us to stand in unity with the first nation people here in BC against the pipeline i really do nt see how building a pipeline could be a national issue because simply put pipelines do nt help the nation

Our duty to love our neighbours regardless of their racial and family backgrounds, following Jesus» teaching and example, will shape how Christians understand and respond to this distressing and shameful episode in our national life.

«Heads are even prepared to break their statutory duties to teach RE as they switch resources to other qualifications, the National Association of Teachers of Religious Education (NATRE) has warned.

I was one of a small number of National Guard chaplains selected for duty at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center.

In those cases the court deferred to the judgment of the Air Force that the free - exercise claim of a Jewish officer who wore his yarmulke on duty could not be accommodated; it deferred to the judgment of correctional authorities that the free - exercise claim of a Black Muslim to attend Friday afternoon religious services could not be accommodated; it deferred to the judgment of the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service that building a logging road through a national forest was necessary despite the damage to religious practices of Native American tribes in that area; it deferred to the Internal Revenue Service's ruling that Bob Jones University was not entitled to tax exemption because of its religiously motivated rule against interracial dating and marriage on campus; it deferred to the judgment of the secretary of labor that a religious community must pay its members the minimum wage for work they performed in the group's business although the members said they had religious objections to being paid for their work.

In this model it became the duty of Protestants to encourage the national government to guarantee individual rights throughout the nation.

Yet in Casey, three Justices» who had been placed on the Court, incidentally, during a period in which relative anonymity was a leading prerequisite for successful appointment» saw it as their right and duty to call «the contending sides of a national controversy to end their national division by accepting a common mandate rooted in the Constitution.»

Its duty today is to seek to counteract the fog of fear and defensiveness which envelops our national life.

Almost every Christian is at the same time a citizen of a national state, and those few who are not citizens in the official sense of having explicit political rights and duties are still required to obey laws.

The second is the principle which defines the idea of fatherland or nation in the most tolerant and human sense, a principle which guarantees equality of rights and national duties for those of all races, colors, languages, and ideologies existing in the country.

Instead of the Sermon's provision for cases at law, for the exercise of charity, for civic virtue, presupposing if at the same time reinterpreting the requirements of the ancient national code; instead of the Old Testament Law with its provisions for the inheritance of property, for various kinds of civic and social duties, albeit of a primitive order, which the Sermon presupposes, (Matt.

Thus the Hindu nationalist is someone who, through fostering the myth of internal and external threat to national stability and security, places maximum moral value on affirming that India's core consists of the eternal Hindu tenets (loyalty) and defending these with the conviction and zeal of patriotic duty to the country (attachment).

And whereas, it is the duty of nations as as well as of men, to owe their dependence upon the overruling power of God, to confess their sins and transgressions, in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon; and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord: And, in so much as we know that, by His divine law, nations, like individuals, are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world, may we not justly fear that the awful calamity of civil war, which now desolates the land, may be but a punishment inflicted upon us for our presumptuous sins, to the needful end of our national reformation as a whole People?

Hitler issued a proclamation on February 1, 1933 that stated, «The National Government will regard it as its first and foremost duty to revive in the nation the spirit of unity and co-operation.

And Jesus gave expression to this devaluation in his own life: he broke the Sabbath when he felt that God bade him act; he excused his disciples (at least) from the custom of fasting; and the burning national question whether one had really to pay the poli tax to the foreign power of occupation (in Judea and Samaria) he answered in the affirmative, but he viewed it as a secular concern and pointed his questioners to the essential duty, «Give to God what belongs to him.»

The duty of determining the Constitution's meaning is not something «We the People» can resign into the hands of any one organ of national government.

Gaffney continues: «We're pleased to work with William Grant & Sons, both at Girvan and Glenfiddich, who are playing an active part in the work and duties of The National Cooperage Federation.

Founded in 2007 by Major Dan Rooney, an F - 16 fighter pilot in the Oklahoma Air National Guard who served three tours of duty in Iraq, Folds of Honor is proud to have awarded more than 13,000 scholarships in all 50 states, as well as Guam, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, including more than 2,800 in 2016 alone.

Balancing his coaching duties and audacious plan to bring the top recruiting class in the country to the little - known basketball school with the wave of uncertainty surrounding his personal life and job security, Dowkens takes his Badlanders to Las Vegas to play the eighth - ranked UNLV Runnin» Rebels on national TV in a game that seems certain to define his career.

In fact, Watson, who noted during his 2012 title run at Augusta National that he had yet to change son Caleb's swaddle, has become an old hand at diaper duty (he's changed five so far — all of the «pee - pee» variety, he said, sharing just a wee bit TMI) and may be in the market for a new product endorsement.

As I mentioned the fans live in fear of him being tapped up by his old club, especially when surrounded by their players on national duty, but he revealed that he buried that demon when he played for the Gunners in Barcelona this season.

according to germ media arsenal wants klopp at the end of the season in what role no one knows If Gabriel, Ospina or Alexis are to be play in the final, he'll need permission from their national sides Under FIFA regulations Gabriel, Ospina & Sanchez could be summoned for Copa America duty from 29 May — the day before FA Cup final

The 60 - year - old, who is currently in charge of the Ghana national team but could probably split his duties, replaced Mourinho the first time that the Portuguese was sacked in 2007 and steadied the ship very commendably.

Sanchez is currently away on international duty with Chile for the 2015 Copa America tournament on home soil and could miss the start of the season if his national team reach the latter stages.

Of course we Arsenal fans are a lot more concerned about the fitness or injury situation of our big name players on international duty, with Alexis Sanchez, Olivier Giroud, Laurent Koscielny and Santi Cazorla of particular concern as they appear for the respective national teamOf course we Arsenal fans are a lot more concerned about the fitness or injury situation of our big name players on international duty, with Alexis Sanchez, Olivier Giroud, Laurent Koscielny and Santi Cazorla of particular concern as they appear for the respective national teamof our big name players on international duty, with Alexis Sanchez, Olivier Giroud, Laurent Koscielny and Santi Cazorla of particular concern as they appear for the respective national teamof particular concern as they appear for the respective national teams.

If the various Arsenal players out there on international duty for their respective national teams get through the next few days without picking up any injury problems and return to north London fit and ready to resume the Premier League title chase, then we will all be able to breathe a huge sigh of relief, but we are not there yet Gooners, and the next few days will be nervous ones for us and for Arsene Wenger.

Everton's chances of signing Hajduk Split midfielder Nikola Vlasic received a boost after the teenager was given permission to leave national team duty with Croatia's under - 21 side.