Sentences with phrase «policies against the nation»

Maybe I'm missing something, but if you are so against Representative Boehner because of his unjust policies against the nation's poor, then why in God's name are you paying him to speak at your university?

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On foreign policy, Washington declared our independence from friends and foes alike, warning against the «evils» produced by «permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular nations, and passionate attachments for others.»

Every policy should be measured against that goal, and the technical expertise of the nation, indeed of the world, should be directed to that end.

This policy has seen thousands of dedicated service members discharged simply because of who they are, costing our nation millions of dollars and many highly - trained soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines - including hundreds with critical language skills desperately needed in our ongoing fight against terrorism around the world.

It has expanded free trade with Canada and Mexico, and in what is called the Uruguay round of negotiations, it is persuading the leaders of the great trading nations to adopt a new GATT that will outlaw the policies by which nations have defended themselves against the worst effects of free trade.

«This has nothing to do with religion but with the fact that Romney is only recently pro-life and only recently able to articulate an argument against same - sex marriage,» said Richard Land, the public policy chief at the Southern Baptist Convention, the nation's largest evangelical denomination.

If I were choosing recent books in this area which most deserve to be read outside the country, I would start with Oliver O'Donovan's political theology in The Desire of the Nations; John Milbank's critique of the social sciences in Theology and Social Theory; Timothy Gorringe's provocative political reading of Karl Barth in Karl Barth: Against Hegemony; Peter Sedgwick's The Market Economy and Christian Ethics; Michael Banner's Christian Ethics and Contemporary Moral Problems; Duncan Forrester's Christian Justice and Public Policy; and Timothy Jenkins's Religion in Everyday Life: An Ethnographic Approach, which argues with a dense interweaving of theory and empirical study for a social anthropological approach to English religion which has learned much from theology.

Indeed, many right - wing and extreme right political currents display a nationalist ideology valuing the nation - State and its identity against any sort of supranational institutions and policies.

The Iraq Resolution known as «AUTHORIZATION FOR USE OF MILITARY FORCE AGAINST IRAQ RESOLUTION OF 2002» cites national policy, a war on «terrorism», and United Nations Security Council Resolutions to justify authorization of military force against Iraq, but I am not aware of any document by which the United States has been legally bound by a declaration of war against Iraq as per the federal Constitution (Article 1, Section 8, ClauAGAINST IRAQ RESOLUTION OF 2002» cites national policy, a war on «terrorism», and United Nations Security Council Resolutions to justify authorization of military force against Iraq, but I am not aware of any document by which the United States has been legally bound by a declaration of war against Iraq as per the federal Constitution (Article 1, Section 8, Clauagainst Iraq, but I am not aware of any document by which the United States has been legally bound by a declaration of war against Iraq as per the federal Constitution (Article 1, Section 8, Clauagainst Iraq as per the federal Constitution (Article 1, Section 8, Clause 11).

Perhaps best known for advocating that the nation guard against the potential influence of the military — industrial complex, a term he is credited with coining, the speech also expressed concerns about planning for the future and the dangers of massive spending, especially deficit spending, the prospect of the domination of science through Federal funding and, conversely, the domination of science - based public policy by what he called a «scientific - technological elite».

The proposal is explicit:»... using pensions and procurement policies to pursue boycotts, divestment and sanctions against foreign nations and the UK defence industry are inappropriate, other than where formal legal sanctions, embargoes and restrictions have been put in place by the government.»

«Nana Addo proposed Northern Development Authority (NDA) in 2008 and the NDC, kicked against it but, when they assumed office, they copied the policy idea and changed the name to Savannah Accelerated Development Authourity (SADA), the same with free Senior High School (SHS), cancelled nurses and teachers training allowances, now he has swallowed his own words, promising to pay the allowances, President Mahama, is ruling the nation based on Nana Addo's wisdom, «he stated.

Germany is the European Union's most populous nation and its economic powerhouse, and its two leading parties agree that Germany should stand against many of the policies pursued by President Trump, especially on trade and immigration.

Ultimately, this policy goes against the coalition agreement, against Conservative pre-election policy and is fundamentally an illiberal, intrusive scheme that will do little to improve national security and do everything to turn us into a nation of suspects.

This has yet to happen openly on the Internet, although such accusations have been leveled against China, Russia and other nations, says Chris Bronk, an information technology policy research fellow at Rice University's James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy in Houston and a former U.S. State Department dippolicy research fellow at Rice University's James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy in Houston and a former U.S. State Department dipPolicy in Houston and a former U.S. State Department diplomat.

If the Trump administration and Congress attempt to gut U.S. energy and climate policies, states are likely to emerge in 2017 as the nation's bulwark against climate change.

Even though United Nations (UN) independent expert on foreign debt and human rights, Cephas Lumina had warned that the introduction of a second austerity package could constitute a serious violation against the Greeks» human rights, this did not stop the government from going forward (OHCHR, 2011) A massive wave of protests and riots full of anger and desperation erupted within the country condemning Papandreou's policies and the austerity measures.

The bottom line is this: The best way to protect ourselves against any perceived threat against dogs is to scare the public with inaccurate information about cats and then implement draconian policies that confirm suspicions that we secretly want an all - dog nation.

Undamaged so far are world leaders who secretly decided thirty - eight (38) years ago, in fear of mutual nuclear annihilation, to Unite Nations against an imaginary «common enemy» — «Global Climate Change» — and base future government policies on

This entry makes recommendations on how to respond to arguments against climate policies based on claims that it would be unfair or ineffective if a nation makes significant reductions in ghg emissions if other nations such as China or India does not act,

Later entries in this series will identify questions that should be asked to counter arguments made against national climate change policies on the basis of scientific uncertainty and unfairness or ineffectiveness if China or another large ghg emitter nation do not act.

These questions are organized according to the most frequent arguments made against climate change policies which are claims that climate change policies: (a) will impose unacceptable costs on a national economy or specific industries or prevent nations from pursuing other national priorities, (b) should not be adopted because of scientific uncertainty about climate change impacts, or (c) are both unfair and ineffective as long as high emitting nations such as China or India do not adopt meaningful ghg emissions reduction policies.

This topic is enormously practically important because nations and others who argue against proposed climate change policies usually rely on various economic arguments which often completely ignore the ethical and justice limitations of these arguments (In the case of the United States, see Brown, 2012.)

CFACT Senior Policy Advisor Paul Driessen says that the Obama Administration is continuing, even revving up, its campaign against domestic energy production with new EPA regulations on the horizon that would shutter much of the nation's coal industry and do great harm to oil and gas production; he also promised to veto any legislation to approve the Keystone XL pipeline.

Now, the Energy and Policy Institute has discovered that ExxonMobil lobbied against two bills that sought to establish the nation's first carbon tax in the state of Massachusetts.

In her study, Ravina Bains, associate director of the Fraser Institute Centre for Aboriginal Policy Studies, looked at the October 2015 Supreme Court decision upholding a British Columbia Court of Appeal ruling that would allow First Nations to file for damages against private entities without proving aboriginal title first.

As a matter of trade policy, the use of PBMs — often by developed countries against developing nations — is open to accusations of protectionism or, worse still, neo-colonialism.

By Nicholas Caivano, Policy Analyst, and Richard Elliott, Executive Director, Canadian HIV / AIDS Legal Network June 29, 2017 As the world again marks the United Nation's «International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking,» too many UN member states are still missing the point — namely, that drugs are primarily a health issue and not a -LSB-...]

• Acting for the successful Claimant in R (on the application of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign) v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government [2017] EWHC 1502 (Admin), a challenge to guidance from the defendant Secretary of State which sought to prohibit the administering authorities of the local government pension schemes from adopting policies of boycott, divestment and sanction against foreign nations (led by Nigel Giffin QC).

In 2006, the United Nations General Assembly called on the Secretary - General of the organization to establish a database on the nature and consequences of violence against women, and on the impact and effectiveness of policies and programmes to combat it.

Both the International Monetary Fund and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development have recently warned against protectionist policies since they can cause other nations to turn inward and decrease international investment.