Sentences with phrase «other modern state»

But Hertzberg holds that Israel should not be judged differently from other nations, and that in the exercise of nationalistic power Israel's record compares quite favorably with that of other modern states.

Not exact matches

Through this and other reforms, Bismarck laid the foundations for the modern welfare state, elements of which were adopted enthusiastically elsewhere.

Last week Scott Pruitt, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, dropped the Obama - era rule, claiming modern mining practices, as well as other state and federal requirements, made the financial responsibility rule superfluous.

As an abstract concept, SEO seems valuable — you, like every other modern consumer in the United States, often consult search engines when you're making a buying decision.

Other Uses of Funds In view of the near impossibility of replicating the debt cancellations of prior millennia in the modern context, we have re-interpreted the prior objective of seeking to sustain a property - owning democracy in terms of equity participation by the State to enable any (young) person to afford the down - payment for a home, to finance a start - up business, and to benefit (if academically gifted) from tertiary education.

But I will concede that modern science is very nascent to understand how consciousness occurs, its bounds, or (I believe) whether it is a distinguishable state from other forms of intelligence.

They would do much better to take this lesson and look into how they as a majority group have persecuted others than to create yet more imaginary stories of modern day persecution in the Christian dominated United States.

City states, though very small by modern national standards, were enormous compared to hunter gatherer bands in which everyone knew each other.

Indeed, in many ways he took his stand, and encouraged others to take their stand, over against politics — especially politics as dominated by the machinations of the modern State.

The great dual challenge of his mission in the Jewish state had been, on the one hand, to reform modern Christianity's understanding of Judaism, while on the other hand, to bring salvation to the Jews.

But this building block of the global system is itself changing... Many of today's states are going to splinter or transform, and the resultant units may not be integrated nations at all, in the modern sense, but a variety of other entities from tribal federations to Third Wave city - states.11

By many accounts the rise to prominence of institutions other than the church or the state marks the transition from the medieval to the modern era.

When Bertrand Russell stated at Columbia University in 1950 that Christian love or compassion was the thing most needed by modern humans, he moved revealingly close to declaring intellectual bankruptcy on his and many others» behalf.

It's that kind of attitude towards others that has me completely disillusioned with the state of modern Christianity.

If this aspect differed in kind in the case of Jesus from every other member of the species man, then in the present state of our knowledge it would seem impossible rightly to describe Jesus as a man.17 It may be the case that most Christians (and most Christian theologians) in most centuries have accepted this claim: but most have not shared either our modern sensitivity to the difference between history and mythology or our concern for the principles of logic.

Aristotle believed that such a capacity is limited to communities roughly the size of the ancient Greek city «states (approximately fifty thousand people living in close proximity to each other), but the modern nation «state proves him wrong.

Yet one more conviction links the one thousand columns, and in fact dates back to the earlier series of Catholic press columns I wrote from 1979 until 1986: the conviction that the Catholic Church in the United States, for all its difficulties, is more likely to be the «Church in the modern world» envisioned by the Second Vatican Council than any other local Church.

Machiavelli does not make it entirely clear why the preservation of the political order outweighs any other known good, but we may understand his thinking as a response to the rise of the modern, centralized state.

Personal fulfilment (a rather modern and vague notion, open to all sorts of secular goals) is not and can not be guaranteed by total consecration to God, or by any other state of life, for that matter.

I also wanted to talk up what is perhaps John Sayles» greatest film, the very play - like Sunshine State, as a beautiful illustration of the fact that in modern times especially, some need to heed the Berry-esque call to stay (or return) and build the community, but others need to sell and go, and get free of a community, or mere arrangement, that is holding them back.

Luther was correct when he challenged the Medieval Catholic Scholastics over their teaching that * sin * was man turned down toward the things of earth rather than up towards the things of heaven by teaching that * sin * was actually man turned in upon himself or, as modern mental health professions state «narcissistic egoism, a disorder that closes us off from others rather than opening us up to them.

In the pioneering early modern secular states, notably the Dutch Republic, Gregory argues, men and women decided to stop killing each other over what seemed hopelessly irresolvable religious differences, and went shopping instead.

When you dismental your borders and permit people from other cultures then you invite disaster and this is what the modern states face.

Many of these people are on the public payroll, employed in all the bureaucracies of the modern welfare, redistributive and regulatory state; many others, while working in private - sector institutions, are heavily dependent on state subsidies.

Two challenges seem to loom large in the modern world including India which is in the process of modernization; one, of humanizing the technological revolution to serve the poor and protect the ecological basis of life; and the other, of building a secular state and common civil society with openness to religious insights in a situation of religious pluralism.

Among them were pantheism and the positions that human reason is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood and good and evil; that Christian faith contradicts reason; that Christ is a myth; that philosophy must be treated without reference to supernatural revelation; that every man is free to embrace the religion which, guided by the light of reason, he believes to be true; that Protestantism is another form of the Christian religion in which it is possible to be as pleasing to God as in the Catholic Church; that the civil power can determine the limits within which the Catholic Church may exercise authority; that Roman Pontiffs and Ecumenical Councils have erred in defining matters of faith and morals; that the Church does not have direct or indirect temporal power or the right to invoke force; that in a conflict between Church and State the civil law should prevail; that the civil power has the right to appoint and depose bishops; that the entire direction of public schools in which the youth of Christian states are educated must be by the civil power; that the Church should be separated from the State and the State from the Church; that moral laws do not need divine sanction; that it is permissible to rebel against legitimate princes; that a civil contract may among Christians constitute true marriage; that the Catholic religion should no longer be the religion of the State to the exclusion of all other forms of worship; and «that the Roman Pontiff can and should reconcile himself to and agree with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.»

The real myth, in other words, may be that there can be religious freedom at all in the modern state without a strong religious tradition acting both as a curb to the state's power on behalf of believers and nonbelievers alike and also as an alternative narrative within which people can work out their individual visions of the good life.

They are still held captive by an epistemology borrowed from the modern university, with its notion of detached objectivity, the fact - value dichotomy, the separation of emotion and reason (with reason as the superior means of knowing) and the loss of any authority other than an isolated, sovereign self that is subservient to the needs of the modern nation - state.

Hawaii is a beautiful tourist destination, but because of its isolated island location the state is uniquely dependent on goods from other parts of the world to support its economy and everyday modern life.

He also stated: «We have a new Prime Minister and Cabinet facing the most complex challenges of modern times: Brexit negotiations, the Trump administration, the threat from Scottish nationalists, and many other issues.

In theories of protest and revolution, the question whether violence is justified is premissed on the idea that it is probable.On the other hand, as is often observed, much modern social and political theory more or less eclipsed war within or between states, taking the socialising and civilising forces of historical progress for granted.

He has published many articles and essays on these and other topics and received numerous awards and honors, including the William H. Rehnquist Award for Judicial Excellence from the National Center for State Courts and the Cyrus R. Vance Tribute of the Fund for Modern Courts.

Speaking on the summit, the Vice President said Lagos State had a general reputation for trailblazing reforms in the justice sector and in many other sectors in Nigeria and beyond, adding that the summit, which is aimed at further initiating reforms in conformity with modern trends, was another testament of the fact that the reputation of the State was being taken seriously by the current administration ably led by Governor Akinwunmi Ambode.

And if Scotland secedes, will the remainder of the UK relapse into the principle of Parliamentary sovereignty, or will it embrace a written constitution — like the USA, France, Germany, and other modern democratic states?

The Financial Times's values are closer to those of a modern Conservative party than to any other - that it is to say, a belief in the market economy, a limited role for the state, low taxation and maximum freedom of choice.

In other words, modern developments notwithstanding, did each US State start out as countries, and are they still technically countries today according to the visions of the founding fathers and the US Constitution?

The Bureau added that apart from youths employment, the state government's massive infrastructure programme such as new roads, schools construction, introduction of modern agricultural extension and practices, and other infrastructure projects, several thousands of indirect jobs have been created to reduce the problem of unemployment.

Both Cuomo, who's positioned himself as something of a Robert Moses for modern times, and Biden sermonized on the desperate need for modern infrastructure and how the United States is lagging behind other countries.

New York's voting and registration laws have long been derided as onerous and needlessly restrictive, falling far behind most other states that have implemented modern methods to register and cast a vote.

His priorities include implementing procedures to deal with new requirements to provide counsel to all defendants at the initial arraignment; taking advantage of modern information technology in the court to process its caseload and exchange information with other parts of the state court system; and to improve the court's ability to address the problems of domestic violence and substance abuse.

Upper Manhattan State Senator - Elect Marisol Alcantara said that under the Obama administrations, more than 2 million undocumented immigrants have been deported, noting that he has deported more immigrants «than any other president in modern history.»

Contrary to a popular idea among researchers, modern states haven't dulled people's long - standing taste for killing each other in battle, a controversial new study concludes.

The hurricane's strongest sustained winds, at 185 mph, blew for more than 65 consecutive hours, something no other tropical cyclone has done in the modern satellite era, which began 50 years ago, according to Philip Klotzbach, a meteorologist at Colorado State University.

Wolpoffand others take the opposing view that humanity emerged as much as 2million years ago in many places as people colonized the world andgradually evolved to their modern state.

Because most species of tarantula in the United States are very similar in appearance and can not be distinguished from each other using anatomical features alone, the research team implemented a modern and «integrative» approach to taxonomy by employing anatomical, behavioural, distributional, and genetic data.

For Neandertal genomics to come into its own, however, Pääbo, Rubin, and others must demonstrate that their sequences are real and not a mosaic of errors due to degradation that occurs as DNA ages, sequencing mistakes, or contamination from modern humans who have handled the fossils, says genomicist Stephan Schuster of Pennsylvania State University in State College.

They're seeing all sorts of other biomarkers that are indicative that we're shifting people into the parasympathetic state, and to me that's like the biggest top of the food chain issue is whether you're in the parasympathetic or whether in the sympathetic, and for me modern life it is very tough to stay having a balance between those two.

Animal fats are an important source of fat - soluble vitamins and were an important part of traditional diets associated with good health, and were replaced by refined foods during the nutritional transition to modern foods documented by Weston Price and during the latter half of the twentieth century in the United States and other industrialized countries after the advent of the diet - heart hypothesis.

In other words, even though tribe members spent many hours trekking long distances to hunt and forage for food, they still expended no more calories each day than adults in modern Europe and the United States.

Since Arnold Schwarzenegger and countless other Mr. Olympias in the United States began dominating the modern bodybuilding scene, it's not surprising that countless would - be bodybuilders are flocking the nation's gyms in search for bodybuilding gold.