Sentences with phrase «people of the north east»

«There's just a sense that over the 20 years the people of the North East have taken the angel to their hearts,» he said.

Whether it was the people of the North East rejecting politicians plundering their earnings to pay for white elephant vanity projects, working class voters rejecting apparently over-generous welfare arrangements for EU migrants, or left leaning Labour voters rejecting the supposed excesses of the capitalist system, fairness lies at the heart of British anger.

But as a Vice President, how much contribution did he make for the people of the North East or towards the success of his party?

Not exact matches

He is considered one of the most successful businessmen in the North East and was even listed on The Powerful: New Hampshire's 10 most influential people.

As a a result of these trends, CoreLogic research analyst Andrew Lepage says that many people are being priced out of the more expensive markets and having to move further east or north to purchase a home.

A separate big storm lashed south - east Queensland later in the month, killing three people in a car that was washed off a flooded road north of Brisbane.

People forget that some of technology's best and brightest, NASA, and the majority of their employees, live and work in the southern part of the country — Texas, Florida, etc But you have to admit, as long as we in the North (and East) are portrayed as disconnected, unAmerican elitists, those in the South will have to live with the image of being gun - toting, crude know - nothings.

It said: «At a time of great uncertainty in the Middle East and North Africa, we hold that it is the reasonable aspiration of all peoples to belong to a state and enjoy the merits of full and active citizenship on their own lands.

Coming from the north - east of England I thought I'd travelled a long way, but when I looked at my fellow students I realised I was surrounded by people who had travelled great distances to be there.

With over six percent of the world's population, the world's Buddhist population now includes approximately fourteen thousand people in Africa, five hundred thousand in Latin America, seventeen thousand in Oceania, three hundred fifty thousand in the Soviet Union, two hundred thousand in Europe, and two hundred thousand in North America, as well as several hundred million in South and East Asia (Encyclopedia Britannica, 1987).3

In the single month of January 2016, at least 244 people — many of them children — died while trying to make it to Europe, fleeing violence, persecution and war in countries in the Middle East and North Africa.

With the fall of the Roman empire, due to its internal moral laxity and external attacks by «Barbarians» from the North and East, the Church became the single most powerful agency for the formation and social stability of the European peoples.

The gospel mandate to take the good news to the corners of the world and the symbolic representation of Eucharist as a cosmic banquet where people from the East and the West and from South and North participate with a sense of oneness and belonging epitomizes the urge for universalism.

To this people, eventually, the name Indo - European came to be attached, since sure signs of their presence are to be found all the way from the British Isles on the West, to the Bay of Bengal on the East, and from the Scandinavian countries on the North to the Mediterranean on the South.

Nevertheless, even attempted unity, especially through recognition of diversity, reflects the ultimate reality of God's restored creation: Jesus says in Luke 13:29, «People will come from east and west and north and south, and will take their places at the feast in the kingdom of God.»

One of Jesus» favorite pictures of the kingdom is a feast: «Then people will come from east and west, from north and south, and will eat in the kingdom of God» (Luke 13:29; cf. Matt.

They've landed on the east edge of Amman, opting for this grim arrangement over official refugee camps: Za'atari, to the north, is overrun with more than 130,000 people.

White — A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa.

And when you do «think» do you ever wonder why, of all the millions of people and thousands of cultures on the planet 2,000 years ago, all throughout Asia, Africa, Europe, North and South America, and the rest of the Middle East you Jews were the «chosen people»?

He established himself on Iona, an island off the west coast of Scotland, whence Christianity was carried to peoples in Scotland and to Anglo - Saxons in the North - east of England.

The «conversion» of the peoples of that small portion of the earth's land surface which lay north of the Mediterranean and west of the Dnieper Valley (for by 1350 only the fringes of Europe east of that valley had begun to be touched) had required nearly a thousand years.

Most people living here have moved from other areas of the country and especially large numbers have come from the North East and the New York area in particular.

The real winner of the Nobel Peace Prize isn't just the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet — it's the people of the Middle East and North Africa, whose dwindling hope in the promise of the Arab Spring can be rekindled by Tunisia's success.

Tens of thousands of people are thought to attempting to flee the north - east of the country as the government continues its military campaign against the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).

Far too many people in the North East and throughout the country are out of work.

He said, «In the North - East, what I saw for myself and on those clips is a source of concern for people with conscience.

Newsmen recall that President Muhammadu Buhari had sacked Lawal on Oct. 30, 2017 following his indictment by a presidential panel that probed misuse of funds meant for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the North East.

We are extremely grateful for your government's support in the reconstruction and rehabilitation efforts in the North East of Nigeria, as well as humanitarian assistance to the Internally Displaced Persons, through agencies such as the United States Agency for International Development and other international partners.

As a Conservative party spokesman for the whole of the north - east put it to politics.co.uk earlier this month: «The most common theme we are hearing on the doorstep is that people feel that they have been taken for granted by Gordon Brown and Labour and they do not want more of the same.»

«Furthermore, several inter and intra roads and bridges that were impassable due to the security risks have been reopened and damaged ones reconstructed to enhance movement of people and goods in the North East.

The Nigerian army says more than 700 people held by Boko Haram militants in the north - east of the country have escaped captivity.

The people of New York need and demand «fair dealing» and if the pols and the judge can't do it, then put it in a computer and generate neutral districts going north to south or east to west, on the basis of population alone and let people work together and compromise for their common good — that's what America is about and what American's are supposed to do — isn't it?

Was it not because of his passion and philanthropy in addressing the plight of downtrodden and displaced people that President Buhari appointed Danjuma to head the government's Presidential Committee on North - East Initiative (PCNI)?

From the President who has refused to act on investigative reports submitted to him on grievous allegations of diverting over a billion naira meant for resettlement of Internal Displaced Persons (IDPs) by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal under the Presidential Initiative for the North East (PINE) and the miraculous discovery of 13billion naira in an apartment at Ikoyi, Lagos under the supervision of the Director of the Nigerian Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ayodele Oke, to the Head of Service of the Federation, Oyo - Ita Winifred Ekanem, who connived with others to reinstate into active duty and promote Abdulrasheed Maina, the former Chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team, who allegedly stole over 6billion naira pension fund; the Chief of Staff to President Buhari now renamed the «Thief of Staff», Abba Kyari, who allegedly received a bribe of 500million naira to negotiate a fine reduction for MTN Nigeria, and has continuously been in the heart of every sharp practices in the Presidency; the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu who allegedly received a kickback of 3.8 billion naira in exchange for marginal oilfield using his brother, Dumebi Kachikwu as front; the Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, who was the brain behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Chief of Army Staff, General Tukur Buratai who during his time as the Director of Procurement at the Army Headquarters allegedly diverted funds meant to equip the Military into buying choice properties worth millions of dollar in Dubai; the Minister for Solid Minerals, Dr. Kayode Fayemi who allegedly embezled State Universal Education Board (SUBEB) funds as the Governor of Ekiti State; the Minister for Interior, Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau who was indicted by a Presidential investigative committee probing Arm procurement for awarding ghost contracts worth $ 930,500,690 with others while as the Chief of Army Staff between 2008 - 2010 and one of the brains behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi alleged to have stolent 142billion naira as the Governor of Rivers State.

«We went to interact with our brothers in the South East and South South and particularly people of the North residing there.

On 8 and 9 August, people from Indian, Bangladeshi, Pakistani, Kurdish, Turkish, Indian Sikh and English communities chased down masked youths in several areas of North and East London, including Green Street, Hackney, Haringey, and Tower Hamlets.

Founded as a proud mutual, with a clear mission to serve the people and businesses of the North East of England.

We've got to answer quite legitimate questions people have about the future of Syria and the difference that more intense military action would make in north east Syria in particular.

ABUJA — AHEAD of the national convention of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, slated for March this year, strong indications have emerged that the alleged endorsement of Governor Ibrahim Dankwabo of Gombe State as the Presidential candidate of the party was at the moment causing strong division in the party, especially in the North East geo - political zone of the country.

I met dozens of refugees from across the Middle East, as well as people who were seeking asylum from a number of countries in North Africa.

The militant groups, in a statement on Thursday, also lamented that none of the leaders of the northern groups that issued the quit notice to the people of the South - East living in the North had been arrested.

It found that in London and the South East two times the proportion of young people voted in recent national elections than the North East.

He added: «The true expression of what people in the Muslim world aspire to was seen not at ground zero in 2001, but in squares and streets across the Middle East and North Africa this year.»

2face, while addressing journalists on Wednesday in Maiduguri immediately after the visit, said, «Unless government and politicians step up their games by doing the needful in eradicating poverty among the masses, particularly youths, and do justice to all manner of people, ending insurgency and other forms of violence currently happening in some parts of the north east and the country as a whole may be difficult and unrealistic.»

Local road pricing schemes received even less support in the survey, with 51 per cent of people claiming they were against the idea, with the north east of England showing the highest level of opposition at 72 per cent.

Adele Irving and fellow researcher Oliver Moss are conducting further research on the experiences of homeless people in the North East and will showcase this research at an exhibition as part of the Economic and Social Research Council's 2014 Festival of Social Science.

Speaking to TP sister title The House magazine, Justin Welby makes a few of this morning's front pages with his views on immigration, specifically why it's not racist for ordinary people to have concerns about the huge influx of refugees and making their way across Europe from north Africa and the Middle East:

However I suspect that Buhari's anti-corruption fight ended in the eyes of most objective Nigerians with the president's letter to the National Assembly attempting in vain, to clear the SGF of serious and seemingly clear allegations that he might have misappropriated funds meant for internally displaced persons in the North - East.

In a communiqué issued at the end of the PDPGF meeting, late Wednesday night in Abuja, the governors frowned at the refusal of the acting National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus, to honour the judgment of an FCT High Court which last December ordered him to vacate office for any other person from the North - East zone.

«I intend to continue in politics and will continue to represent the people of the north - east of Scotland,» Salmond said.