Sentences with phrase «own confederation»

Member states from Sweden to Greece to Hungary already blame the EU for saddling the confederation with 1 million refugees from Syria and other war - torn countries.

One reason: the Canadian government has made it free to visit any of the country's more than 200 national parks, historic sites, and marine conservation areas for all of 2017, in honor of its 150th anniversary of confederation.

It's a striking change for a bank that has roots north of the border stretching back to 1864, before the confederation of Canada in 1867.

It was a peculiar confederation to be sure, especially given that the Times» civic mission relies on vigilance and skepticism toward such powerful interests.

Maybe it is time for BC to consider removing itself from confederation and become an independent country where decisions in Ottawa and Bay Street can not be shoved down our throats!!!

The vote for fake confederation was controlled by the colonizers.

FN never got to vote on confederation in 1871.

«I think that this confederation needs work.

The gospel was never the basis of the confederation in the first place so can hardly provide a rationale for departure.

I find it interesting that the articles of confederation do have a wishy - washy reference to God as the «Great Governor of the World» yet the Const.itution specifically does not.

Moreover, quite apart from the fulminating fearfulness of Yahweh, as at first conceived, he was not, even in his most gracious aspects, so much the friend of individual souls as the leader and war lord of the tribal confederation.

The Sadducees were a loose confederation of wealthy and powerful men, who took a secular — pragmatic, rather than a spiritual — ideological stance with regard to the Jewish nation and its spirituality.

Some of the Europeans of the nineteenth century did not want an American Catholic Church but a confederation of European Catholic churches on American soil.

If, for the sake of creating convenient chronological pegs, we center the total exodus event in the date 1200 B.C., we can date the David - Jerusalem (or David - Zion) event about 1000 B.C. Saul, from one of the northern tribes in the confederation of Israelite tribes, formed an uneasy and incomplete monarchy in Palestine in the eleventh century B.C. with the help of the prophet - priest Samuel.

They have proven useful too in studying the movement from a loose tribal confederation to the eventual formation of royal states.

Washington had surrendered his military commission to the confederation Congress and «retired» from public life.

If international co-operation is to lead to true world peace, it must rest on the base of a confederation of commonwealths all of which are in turn based on «the actual and communal life of big and little groups living and working together.»

If we do not accommodate Palestinian nationalism in a two - state compromise arrangement — ideally, in a three - state confederation that includes Jordan — then the Palestinians will grow even more militant and uncompromising, reverting to...

Israel's solution was to demand a king who would meld the loose confederation of tribes into a strong central state, who would defend them from their enemies (1 Sam.

Interpreting Ezekiel 38 Pat Robertson free - quotes:»... when Israel is regathered from the nations... I am going to put hooks in the jaws of the confederation that is going to be led by someone named Gog in the land of Magog (the Soviet Union).

The book of Judges pictures a time when Israel was a loose confederation of tribes, scattered about in Canaan, oppressed by the Canaanite city - states and by other tribal groups who swept in from the desert or from the seacoast.

In the utterly tragic figure of old Eli and in the loss of the ark, the symbol of God's presence, from the central sanctuary at Shiloh (probably destroyed by the Philistines in this time), we are further prepared for the establishment of monarchy in Israel: it was Philistine aggression, far too powerful to be checked by the resources of a loose tribal confederation, which precipitated the chain of events leading through Saul and David to a unified and extensive, if short - lived, Israelite kingdom.

The real goal we should be aiming for is the progressive creation of a world state, passing via a real confederation of states.

For instance, Everett, a professor of ethics at Andover - Newton Theological School, notes that the confederations that eventually led to self - governance in some German cities and to democratic efforts such as the Weimar Republic after World War I had been deeply embedded in hierarchical and royal structures, with a high degree of centralized control.

They are simply a loose confederation of individuals, each of whom remains largely a free agent whose achievements are independent of the institution but who also shares and benefits from association with others.

The Keraits organized themselves into a confederation and thus influenced the political organization among the later Mongols.

It may well be that future federations will more resemble the Holy Roman Empire or the pre-1848 Swiss confederation than the United States of America or Australia.

So, in transition from tribal confederation to monarchy, Israel appropriately hears on the lips of Samuel a summary of the past as essentially the story of «the saving deeds of the Lord.»

David's establishment at Hebron as king over Judah, the southern confederation of tribes, probably with the consent of the Philistines, even their approval (2:1 - 4); David's generous and unimpeachably sincere (albeit politically astute) message of appreciation to Jabesh - gilead vv.

He is treating this loose confederation of national Church bodies less like what it is, and more like a snotty country club.

The Christian Holiness Association even attempted «confederation» in the mid-1960s but had to settle for a more loosely organized program of «cooperative ministries» in such areas as publishing and evangelism.

The tribal deity of the Kenites took a new people as his own and a confederation of clans that never before had served Yahweh swore fealty to him as their divinity.

In response, Nigeria's largest confederation of Christian churches is, for the first time, jointly endorsing a commitment to revive churches in the West African nation's north before they collapse from a decade of violence that has killed thousands of Christians and driven away more than 1 million.

There is no doubt that David's kingdom embraced twelve dominant tribal groups, nor any doubt that many or all of these tribal entities were earlier involved in one or several confederations of tribes.

Many synods endorsed the Peace of God and the Truce of God, and several dioceses formed what were known as confederations of peace.

If we do not accommodate Palestinian nationalism in a two - state compromise arrangement — ideally, in a three - state confederation that includes Jordan — then the Palestinians will grow even more militant and uncompromising, reverting to their earlier rejectionism, and secular or Islamic extremists will depose PLO Chairman Yasir Arafat.

After a brief neo-Guelph flurry in 1847 and 1848, the first years of Pope Pius IX, when Italy was momentarily swept by the wild hope of an Italian confederation under the presidency of the pope, it became clear that the papacy would not only not lead the process of unification but would vigorously oppose it.

As a confederation of tribes living under the law, it governed through assemblies rather than monarchs.

And while the echoes of confederation, covenant and council can be heard in the background of the Gospels, it is the fanfare of Davidic monarchy that greeted Jesus.

The ultimate unity of the twelve tribes is imposed upon traditions relating originally to the separate tribes; and most strikingly, the Yahweh - faith which dominates confederation and monarchy appears to have been historically the moving, cohesive quality in the long process.

The fresh vigor pulsating through the nation could not be channeled by a loose confederation of states; something stronger was needed to guide the energy in a creative direction.

Thus, the entity Israel, formed out of a process of tribal confederation leading to monarchy, has a highly complex, heterogeneous prehistory now understandably simplified and idealized.

The Song records what must have been the first significant effort at a confederation of the tribes of Israel against a Canaanite alliance.

And I, at least, must further acknowledge what appears to me to be beyond dispute; that in an internal sense, DH is right; in the Canaanite setting, the Yahweh - worshiping tribe, whether alone or in confederation, achieved order and fulfillment and maintained meaningful entity and self - respect only in the force of its Yahweh - faith.

Yet here he is, remembered and sung for his exploits on behalf of Israel (in Canaan's tribal confederation, however loose, one tribe's victory over a common enemy is other tribes» boon), fighting from the tribe and territory of Gilead east of the Jordan against Ammon.

Five nations currently qualify from the 10 - strong South American CONMEBOL confederation, and for the first time since 1982, Peru is at the show.

As reported by Metro, the Chile international was asked about a possible transfer to Bayern Munich by a German football reporter after Chile and Germany drew their confederations cup match yesterday, in which the Gunner scored with a bit of help from an error by his club colleague Shkodran Mustafi.

Pearce and Lago are members of a confederation of pro boarders called Frends — the I is omitted to denote selflessness (SI, Dec. 7, 2009).

Just separate the entire North American, Asian and African confederations and you'd have your list.

The only thing that could keep Sanchez at Arsenal at least for another season is Fa cup and confederation cup title with Chile.