Sentences with phrase «own national boundaries»

Its architects thought abolishing barriers to commerce and national boundaries could ensure Europe avoided the disastrous wars that it had been fighting, not just in the 20th century but for pretty much all of recorded history.

Our world is more connected than ever, and we face global problems that span national boundaries.

The digital universe — and its ease in getting around national boundaries — also makes it more difficult to keep the political playing field level in Canada and safe from foreign influence.

Consolidation is evident in the merger activity among financial institutions both across national boundaries and across earlier financial boundaries, such as those separating investment banking and insurance.

The main benefit of having an open - source team is that it allows anyone with talent to have access to the project, regardless of national boundaries.

Federation Internationale des Bourses de Valeurs does encourages cooperative policies that are designed to stimulate a free flow of capital gain across national boundaries and countries.

Due to the transnational nature of cryptocurrencies, the IMF said, «disruptions» could occur across «national boundaries,» a factor that could also be influenced by «differing national regulatory approaches.»

«This is a bad move for Ontario and for our planet... keep in mind Montana borders British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan, and air doesn't respect national boundaries,» said Jose Etcheverry, the Green candidate in Markham - Stouffville for next June's provincial election.

(Isa 2:4) These then are not involved in protest rallies, nor prays for or against any political candidate, but rather it prays for God's kingdom (Matt 6:9, 10), a heavenly government, to bring total peace to the earth, removing all national boundaries, sin, sickness and death and raising «meek» ones to perfection to enjoy living on a paradise earth forever.

As the globalization of the economy reduced the importance of national boundaries, one could speak of a post-nationalist epoch.

International treaties have become far less important than trade agreements such as GATT and NAFTA, which progessively erased national boundaries, and created such transnational institutions as the World Trade Organization.

To this end they dismantle national boundaries as well as social policies designed to redistribute wealth or insure that the poorest are cared for.

«A global ethic should not stop at, or give great significance to, national boundaries.

Its effect is to remove barriers to the free flow of goods and services across national boundaries.

National boundaries are thus an impediment to economic efficiency.

(John 13:35) Such love reaches across racial, social, and national boundaries, drawing people together in genuine brotherhood.

That can be achieved only when all the factors necessary for the production and use of goods — capital, labor, raw materials and plant facilities — are freely mobilized and deployed according to the most efficient pattern — and that in turn will be possible only when national boundaries no longer play a critical role in defining economic horizons.»

Globalization, which integrates the world economy through liberalization of trade and investment and deregulation and privatization of business so that the world transnational corporations (TNCs) can operate freely across national boundaries.

Because economism has overthrown nationalism and reduced the importance of national boundaries, because it has unified the planet into the one world for which many of us hoped, many Protestants appreciate and celebrate its accomplishments.

If one asks, what are the possible roads to a world without war, that essential way - station on the way to freedom of information in anecologically organized world, Arthur Waskow answers that there are five: (a) Control of the nation - state system through stabilizing the balance of power and reducing international tensions but keeping the weapons; (b) Reform of the system through total disarmament without abandoning national sovereignty or the pursuit of national interest; (c) Extension of the system through the creation of a federal world government; (d) Fragmentation of the system through increases in the power of extra-national associations and Institutions across national boundaries, and corresponding decreases in state power as these occupational, industrial, scientific, and other groups gradually expropriate from the national governments the power to make decisions within their own fields; and (e) Abolition of the system through substituting love f or coercion.20.»

While Judaism transcends political and national boundaries, it requires membership in a historic religious and cultural people.

Regardless of ideology and form of organization, the modern nation - state has a tendency toward self - aggrandizement and expansion of its power in all areas of life and across national boundaries in pursuit of perceived self - interest.

Thus it was understood that Jesus himself, apart from exceptional cases, had remained within the national boundaries of Judaism.

I enjoyed Peter Hitchens's commonsense and heartfelt appreciation of borders («In Praise of Borders,» October), having recently expressed similar ideas of my own about why clear - cut national boundaries are essential.

Multinationals transcend national boundaries and therefore are mostly outside national control.

«Their faith gave them a strong sense of the cultural and religious ties between Europeans that transcend national boundaries.»

At mid-century, however, there were signs that people might begin transcending denominational, tribal and national boundaries for common survival and interests.

The old covenant, so vital to the faith and life of Israel, was now transformed into something having no national boundaries.

Of the two ecumenical movements in our time the organizational effort to develop world - wide institutions takes precedence in many minds over that spiritual, psychological, intellectual and moral common life, transcending all national boundaries, which seeks institutions through which to express itself.

At no time in its history has the Judeo - Christian tradition been able to confine its interests within narrow ethnic, regional, or national boundaries.

In 1517 a wave of reforming zeal broke out in central Europe which was to shape permanently the location of national boundaries and the strength of territorial sovereigns.

The struggle will continue within nations and across national boundaries between Christian faith and Communist faith.

We can make friends across national boundaries.

The Lord knows of no national boundaries, differences of race, ethnicity, and other divisions as The Lord created them all.

Therefore, restricting the activities of corporations by national boundaries is also opposed.

The Israeli Labor Party, which governed Israel from its beginning as a state in 1946 until Prime Minister Menachem Begin took power in June, had avoided cultivating the kind of American evangelical support expressed in the recent newspaper ads because it knew that to engage in religious arguments over national boundaries would be self - defeating.

Since then, under both Republican and Democratic administrations, reducing the role of national boundaries in economic matters has been the primary foreign policy agenda of the United States.

Truth knows no national boundaries, nor does esthetic excellence.

Industries that can survive only with protection from external competition favor the former; those that profit from extending their activities across national boundaries support the latter.

Postal services, telephone, telegraph, and broadcasting facilities, monetary exchange, and the regulation of trade all require administrative cooperation across national boundaries.

Prior to World War II most trade that crossed national boundaries was international.

Its fundraising campaign has cut across national boundaries as donations have streamed in from domestic and overseas branches.

The next step is the currently proposed Multilateral Agreement on Investments which, if enacted, will still further restrict the ability of governments to influence the nature of economic activity within their national boundaries.

But the fit between national boundaries in the second sense and nations in the first sense is rarely perfect.

It does not seem natural — it seems fanatical, fantastical, crazed, primitive — for Christians to shed blood for other Christians, Jews for other Jews, Muslims for other Muslims, without respect to citizenship or national boundaries.

Generally the term is used when the trade crosses national boundaries.

Since that time the goal has been to make the whole world a single market with national boundaries no more a factor in economic affairs than the boundaries between the states are in the United States.

The hypocritical practices of the rich nations have led to a backlash that has ended the series of trade agreements that progressively broke down national boundaries, especially in the south.

«Free trade» means that goods, services, and capital can flow across national boundaries as easily as they flow within a single country.

For them, national boundaries and national currencies were a nuisance.