Sentences with phrase «on people and nations»

Unless there is radical change in the way the world produces the energy it needs and how land and other resources are used, mankind is likely to change the global climate in ways that will impose big dangers and high costs on people and nations worldwide.

We call on all people and nations to recognize the serious and potentially irreversible impacts of global warming caused by the anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases and other pollutants, and by changes in forests, wetlands, grasslands, and other land uses.

And liberty, as a goal and cause in itself, becomes a terrible taskmaster, sending people to their death, and exacting horrific crimes on people and nations which are viewed as obstructing our liberty.

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Shell — a cash machine that racked up $ 9 billion in profit in the first nine months of 2017; a colossus that employs 90,000 people in more than 70 countries; a corporation that, were it a nation, would have the world's seventh - largest carbon footprint, behind Germany; and the No. 7 company on Fortune's Global 500 list last year, with $ 240 billion in sales — is in an existential squeeze.

And yet, as painful as such events are, and as much as they seem to increasingly define America's uniquely violent profile among developed nations, they account for just 1 - 2 % of all gun - related deaths in the U.S. «We lose upwards of 90 people a day on average to firearm violence, to suicide and homicide,» says WintemuAnd yet, as painful as such events are, and as much as they seem to increasingly define America's uniquely violent profile among developed nations, they account for just 1 - 2 % of all gun - related deaths in the U.S. «We lose upwards of 90 people a day on average to firearm violence, to suicide and homicide,» says Wintemuand as much as they seem to increasingly define America's uniquely violent profile among developed nations, they account for just 1 - 2 % of all gun - related deaths in the U.S. «We lose upwards of 90 people a day on average to firearm violence, to suicide and homicide,» says Wintemuand homicide,» says Wintemute.

Residents of the United States have, on average, more food - energy available to them than anybody else on the planet: 3,729 calories per person, per day — or so the United Nations» Food and Agriculture Organization calculates.

Spanish Health Minister Dolors Montserrat, who originates from Catalonia, delivered a brief statement at the rally on Sunday: «Today is a very important day for all the Catalans and today we are going to put a stop to the independence, and we will... And we want to build for the Catalans and with all the rest of the Spanish people, this grand nation and this great democracy all together.&raqand today we are going to put a stop to the independence, and we will... And we want to build for the Catalans and with all the rest of the Spanish people, this grand nation and this great democracy all together.&raqand we will... And we want to build for the Catalans and with all the rest of the Spanish people, this grand nation and this great democracy all together.&raqAnd we want to build for the Catalans and with all the rest of the Spanish people, this grand nation and this great democracy all together.&raqand with all the rest of the Spanish people, this grand nation and this great democracy all together.&raqand this great democracy all together.»

Caroline Wills - Wright, People's March for Europe spokeswoman, said: «Our nation needs to unite, rethink Brexit and decide whether it is really in the national interests to remain in the EU, an option which is still very much on the negotiation table.

He said his administration is just getting started and «will work tirelessly to make good on our promise to the working people who built our Nation and deliver historic tax cuts and reforms — the rocket fuel our economy needs to soar higher than ever before.»

Tens of thousands of people rallied in U.S. cities and at airports on Sunday to voice outrage over President Donald Trump's executive order restricting entry into the country for travelers from seven Muslim - majority nations.

The travelers came from across the nation, and were both naturalized citizens and people born and raised on American soil.

Over the next three years, it will focus on continuing to grow its massive user base, especially in developed nations, and over the next 10 years it will look to build new technology to get more people online and using Facebook through internet - beaming drones.

When you can find people to fill jobs in Colorado, they will be part of one of the best workforces in the nation — smart and savvy, but on the expensive side.

Five years on, he makes up one - third of WateRoam, the company behind a portable water filtration system that has gained United Nations recognition for providing clean drinking water to more than 30,000 people in remote villages and disaster areas across Southeast Asia.

For the sake of America's workers and our nation's economy, we hope he will come down on the side of working people next time.

Rather than repeat this approach, both the federal government and state governments should write contracts to ensure that economic incentives focus on reducing recidivism and improving outcomes for the nation's inmates, not just warehousing as many people as possible.

Between the endless natural disasters, political paralysis, loneliness epidemic, job stealing (or even world - ending) robots, and regular threats of nuclear annihilation, it's no wonder the nation's mental health professionals claim anxiety (particularly among young people) is on the rise.

In 2014, founder and managing director Neal K. Aronson was ranked fourth on a Nation's Restaurant News list of the 50 most influential people in the U.S. restaurant industry.

With those stats from the city of Oakland's Department of Race and Equity in hand, the City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to overhaul the nation's first equity program to set aside 50 percent of medical marijuana and cannabis business permits during the first phase of permitting for people affected by the War on Drugs.

Peoples» attention has been distracted into speculation about of how they might get rich in a parallel universe that might exist in theory — if one accepts the narrow - minded assumptions that are being taught — but whose most important real - world consequence is to impose a debt spiral on America and other nations.

CVS Health, the giant drugstore chain that also runs walk - in clinics and a pharmacy benefit business, is in talks to buy Aetna, one of the nation's largest health insurance companies, according to people briefed on the talks.

The UN Human Rights Committee, which regularly reviews whether states are living up to their obligations under the binding International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, today made more than a dozen recommendations for fundamental changes in Canadian law and policy in respect to the treatment of First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples.

Indigenous peoples and human rights groups say that a new United Nations report on Canada's human rights record should be a wake - up call for all Canadians.

But for Indigenous communities, including UBCIC, the question of the pipeline has not been one of provincial jurisdiction, but one of free, prior and informed consent, as set out in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

With one of the nation's highest rated CEOs on Glassdoor and award - winning benefits, Zillow Group is committed to being a fun, innovative workplace that people enjoy.

Important factors that may affect the Company's business and operations and that may cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward - looking statements include, but are not limited to, increased competition; the Company's ability to maintain, extend and expand its reputation and brand image; the Company's ability to differentiate its products from other brands; the consolidation of retail customers; the Company's ability to predict, identify and interpret changes in consumer preferences and demand; the Company's ability to drive revenue growth in its key product categories, increase its market share, or add products; an impairment of the carrying value of goodwill or other indefinite - lived intangible assets; volatility in commodity, energy and other input costs; changes in the Company's management team or other key personnel; the Company's inability to realize the anticipated benefits from the Company's cost savings initiatives; changes in relationships with significant customers and suppliers; execution of the Company's international expansion strategy; changes in laws and regulations; legal claims or other regulatory enforcement actions; product recalls or product liability claims; unanticipated business disruptions; failure to successfully integrate the Company; the Company's ability to complete or realize the benefits from potential and completed acquisitions, alliances, divestitures or joint ventures; economic and political conditions in the nations in which the Company operates; the volatility of capital markets; increased pension, labor and people - related expenses; volatility in the market value of all or a portion of the derivatives that the Company uses; exchange rate fluctuations; disruptions in information technology networks and systems; the Company's inability to protect intellectual property rights; impacts of natural events in the locations in which the Company or its customers, suppliers or regulators operate; the Company's indebtedness and ability to pay such indebtedness; the Company's dividend payments on its Series A Preferred Stock; tax law changes or interpretations; pricing actions; and other factors.

The reason for this is that the nation's ideology had changed where it had once trumpeted the ideas of non-intervention and peace (except, of course, for the people of the South during their heroic attempt at independence) to those that glorified empire and war, largely based on the British model which, ironically, was the system that America seceded from in 1776.

It has committed to reviewing and reconciling laws and policies with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) and the Supreme Court's Tsilhqot «in decision.

had hoped to find both the necessary votes and time on the House floor for consideration of a bill that would spin the nation's air traffic controllers and thousands of people working on modernizing the aviation system into a private nonprofit corporation.

Since then, the value has been on a steady rise as more and more people, merchants and nations recognize the cryptocurrency as a means of transacting business.

He reviews the Congressional Budget Office's Jan. 8 report on the state of the nation's finances, and the scary part that I haven't heard a lot people discussing is that they are projecting a recovery in 2015.

Nearly 40 per cent of indigenous Canadians do not graduate from high school, and the figure is nearly 60 per cent for First Nations people on reserves, rates that far exceed the Canadian average.

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«Companies like Yahoo, which need highly creative and talented people for their workforces must to understand the important benefits of allowing employees to work remotely on their overall productivity and the well - being of our nation's families.»

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And the wealth of the settler state, premised on that extractivism, derives directly from the expropriation and dispossession of First Nations and Indigenous peoples and their lanAnd the wealth of the settler state, premised on that extractivism, derives directly from the expropriation and dispossession of First Nations and Indigenous peoples and their lanand dispossession of First Nations and Indigenous peoples and their lanand Indigenous peoples and their lanand their lands.

«I think the American people are willing to pay a cent - and - a-half more for a 6 - pack of beer to have an aluminum and steel industry,» he said on CBS News's Face the Nation.

The Government of Canada must take all measures necessary to ensure that the laws of Canada are consistent with the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples that was adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations as General Assembly Resolution 61/295 on September 13, 2007 and that is set out in the schedule to this Act.

We rise or fall together as one nation and as one people, and that's the reason I'm running for president, because I still believe in that idea: You're not on your own, we're in this together.

A spokesman for the UN Secretary - General Ban Ki Moon said: «The Secretary - General is alarmed by the preliminary findings of a fact finding investigation by the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) into the attack on Hotel Terrain in Juba on 11 July, in which one person was killed and several civilians were raped and brutally beaten by men in uniform.

As I mention above, the issue needs to be raised to believers and non-believers alike: How can a nation of people miss the outright hypocrisy of using a belief system ostensibly predicated on compassion, charity and humility to argue in favour of genocide?

When someone calls that Imam one of the most evil people on the planet, when someone says he wants to build his center to train terrorists, when someone calls for amending the constitution to exclude Islam, when someone says our founding fathers wanted this to be a Christian nation and that they didn't want Muslims included, when Muslims are afraid to go out because they will be attacked, when Christian pastors are preaching against Muslims (as opposed to the belief in Islam), THAT is hatred.

You honestly want to to stand there and tell me that in all of the billions of people who have lived on this earth, that only the folks who lived in this nation were capable of hard work and determination.

How can a nation of people miss the outright hypocrisy of using a belief system ostensibly predicated on compassion, charity and humility to argue in favour of genocide?

The site promotes «the literal existence of Adam and Eve as the progenitors of all people, the literal fall and resultant divine curse on the creation, the worldwide cataclysmic deluge, and the origin of nations and languages at the tower of Babel.»

Your words, Mark, at the prayer breakfast were 100 % correct: we do have a responsibility to God to do the best we can do... to make good come of heartache... I challenge people reading this to think of and remember the fact that we are AMERICANS and this nation was founded on the very principles of which Mark spoke: a responsibility within ourselves to our Creator to rise to the occasion and make things better... May we all find that courage to do so!

I hope some ease comes to the hearts of each any every person who lost someone on that day — and that together we can begin a process toward healing and reconcilement that our city and nation needs.

No one would believe him, and people of all stations and classes told the Nuncio on his departure what hope they placed in Hitler: hope to the rise for greatness of the German nation.

in the day, s that jesus our lord was on the earth (jesus) there was many people named jesus, just as among hispanic and central american peoples, it was a common popular name of many people, if you want to prove to your self that jesus was not married, look up what the apostle said,» i saw standing upon mount zion with the lamb 144,000, these are they that have washed thier robes and were not defilled with women, for they are virgins, jesus emphasised in parts the need and values of a husband and wife in a home, the two mary, s and the women that followed him and ministered unto him tells us the great importance of women, and women in the home, he wanted all married men to have thier own wife, in those days of so many years ago there was false prophets, storytellers, wild imaginations, he told us not to believe them, whether you are catholic, christian, islamic or any other, we can all take pride in the fact what the prohets, jesus and the apostles told us all fits jointly to gether, they were a work of love, to understand the christian bible correctly, islamic people are not rejected, but rather they are a equal, the angel told hagar to return to her mistress, he also told her he would make ishmael a blessing and his seed a great nation, regards

The Republicans have positioned themselves so that religious people vote for them on social issues, while they pursue an economic agenda that disadvantages me, and probably you, and leads to a nation in which prosperity is reserved for the very few.