Sentences with phrase «political leaders of the world»

36 Nobel Laureates banded together for an appeal to the political leaders of the world — the Mainau Declaration 2015.

The political leaders of the world are coming to London this week for an economic summit and climate change is high on the list of topics to be discussed.

Not exact matches

On June 28, 1919, the victorious Allied leaders signed the Treaty of Versailles, officially ending World War I and spurring German nationalism, which in turn gave Nazi leader Adolf Hitler a political platform.

The world's business leaders are confident about going into 2017, despite the large number of political uncertainties, a survey shows.

Like many of his cohorts attending the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Oliver Niedermaier is among thousands of political and economic leaders who believe they can change the wWorld Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Oliver Niedermaier is among thousands of political and economic leaders who believe they can change the worldworld.

Before incorrectly blaming the Fed and the ECB for their allegedly ineffective monetary policies, investment strategists would do well to reflect on the depressive impact of an unreasonable haste to balance budgets, and on political leaders» inability to strengthen the financial systems (in the U.S. and in Europe) and to negotiate a better balanced world economy.

The world's political and business leaders should choose from «two fundamentally different outlooks» for the state of the world: One is Xi's «shared future» vision and the other is Trump's «America First» policy, said state news agency Xinhua in a commentary published yesterday (Jan. 24).

Industrial and political leaders throughout the world have been so anti-labor that there is little thought of raising domestic living standards via higher wage levels and a tax shift off labor and industry back onto property where progressive tax policies used to be based.

Behlendorf says «the regulators there, like the political leaders, are former engineers... they understand scale better than regulators in other parts of the world», citing this as evidence that they will be among the leaders in this space.

Because of Saudi Arabia's status as a regional political leader and an exporter of over 15 percent of the world's oil, the country's Gulf neighbors — Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates — tend to fall in line with the kingdom's geopolitical arguments.

-LRB-...) «Business and political leaders at the World Economic Forum should remember that in far too many countries the benefits of growth are being enjoyed by far too few people.

Your fairy tale world is falling apart precisely because it is a fairy tale, and now your blowhard leaders don't have the political clout to silence those who see through the rotted fabric of lies that you parade as truth.

It is in one sense natural that church leaders such as Kirill would wish to promote a Russian World that transcends the political boundaries of present - day Russia.

That's why some of us believe that leaders in the Religious Right have, in a classic case of gaining the world and losing the soul, successfully gained political clout but helped lose our next generation.»

Within that context, of course, [as President] you're called to a very unique task — to be the leader of the free world and the most important political figure in the greatest and most powerful nation on earth.

It also comes as no great revelation that those same leaders overwhelmingly agree that the constituting elements of democratic capitalism» political freedom, democracy, free markets, and the free flow of ideas» are good not just for Americans but for the world.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, «required ICM to work with a governmental advisory committee, and countries from around the world were invited to submit a list of names on the reserve list - from political leaders to singers,» Johnson said.

Neville i mentioned those people only because the discussion was talking about dominionism the combination of the church and state as a governing rule all those people were government leaders all of them suffered in there own way.Its was the suffering that prepared them for the roles that they were to play and there faith in God was what helped them get through.We are made stronger in our weakness no matter how important or unimportant we may appear to others.I guess it is easy to fall into the lie about political involvement that its hard to make change but some people have had a huge impact.Really it is God who deserves the praise he is the one that creats the opportunitys to make impact on the world as in our strength we can do nothing.In hebrews the great men and woman of faith there are those that seemed unimportant to the world and many suffered for there faith Our Lord knows everyone by name and every small act of faith we do he remembers because we do it out of our love for him that is what the christian walk is about living for Jesus and sharing that love with others.brentnz.

But if the birth of Jesus is any indication, one of the greatest lies of the religious and political world is that God is with the rich and powerful leaders.

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While the spontaneous street celebrations that broke out in American cities like New York and Washington over the news of bin Laden's killing by U.S. Special Forces have not been repeated in the Muslim world, there has been praise for his death from some Muslim political leaders.

You might even hurt millions, or billions (and its just plain dumb luck, as you can see from the war mongering and stupidity of «religious» political leaders, like McCain, et al, who have said it would be a dandy idea to nuke Iran, that the body count has been higher due to people with lots of weapons, and countries full of people, who where duped into following insane people, because they where tired of the failure of priests to make the world better.)

Unfortunately, religious leaders do not seem to recognize the importance of zakat, and political leaders in the Muslim world do not seem to have much interest in religious teaching, especially in almsgiving.

Many church leaders believed that the dream of saving the world through democracy was simply a political way of expressing the mission of the church.

Whatever the source, it is difficult to think of any modern world leader who manifested more striking earmarks of political and spiritual growth.

The Ecumenical Institute of the World Council of Churches at the Chateau de Bossey near Geneva has as one of its major functions the bringing together of groups of people of a common profession — Christian doctors, lawyers, educators, industrialists, political leaders — for a week or ten days of mutual probing of the applications of Christian faith to their vocations.

Likewise, since 1950, when the Dalai Lama became the official political leader of Tibet, he has become a household name around the world.

Yet in another sense, leaders of sovereign nations and of political movements and parties all too often look out on the world from a viewpoint of «Gott mit uns.»

Political leaders of Third World countries are simply told that they have to adjust themselves and fit into this new global economic order.

Pope Francis and the spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians have issued a joint appeal for political leaders to «support the consensus of the world» that climate change and other environmental ills have created an ecological crisis that is harming the world's poorest the most.

As early as World War II, the political leaders of the Free French forces had known that France would have to face up to the question of whether it was going to allow the decline of a system of schools preferred by the parents of one - sixth of all French pupils, or whether it was going to accept the hazards of open political discussion aimed at developing a new and creative solution.

The ambition of the World Forum for Alternatives and all the organisations and individuals who wish to be associated with it is to set up working groups on each of these themes, drawing together a great diversity of analysts and social and political leaders.

Even religious leaders put their nation above other nations, meddling in the political arena, rather than following Jesus example of being «no part of the world» and it's nationalistic interests.

On Wednesday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, 30 CEOs, government ministers, global institution executives, and civil society leaders announced the launch of the latest full - scale attack on global food waste: an all - sector collaboration aimed at increasing political and social momentum to achieve Target 12.3 of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

However, there is little public appetite for a boycott of the World Cup in England, which has been reflected in comments by England manager Gareth Southgate (who has argued England should definitely participate) and also in media comment which has pointed to the danger England could be excluded from future FIFA competitions if a political boycott was imposed by the country's leaders.

Wow, talk about a piece designed to bring a tear to the eyes of conservatives yearning for a return to the storied days of yore, when leaders were leaders and Republicans stood for all that was right in the world... or so it seems through the rose - colored glasses of GOP political memory.

If world leaders and climate advocates really want to improve the chances of mobilising political will and citizen action behind a new deal, they will need to think carefully about what sort of key messages actually work.

The Labour leader attracted unusually high levels of criticism online during his interview for BBC Radio 4's The World At One programme, in which he refused to speculate on his party's performance in Thursday's local elections by declaring he is not interested in «political commentary».

Could you comment on this and give us some idea as to what is it about de Gaulle that has led him to be championed by different types of political leaders across the world?

Although Niebuhr died in 1971, he is nowadays often name - dropped in opinion columns and highbrow chat as the ideal mind to help guide 21st - century political leaders through the ups and downs of world affairs.

Here are two examples of political leaders that took the lead in fighting corruption within parts of the world previously infamous for graft.

Perhaps, had the Rochas Okorochas of this world not stoked the fire of «Buhari - for - Second - term» campaigns, had the leaders of the All Progressives Congress in the South - East geo - political zone not gone to massage the ego of the President in the Villa few days ago, Nigerians could still have endured some time hoping that Buhari is indeed in search for manna from heaven.

He is the only political leader who can stop a retreat from the consensus of decency that has traditionally characterised Britain's role in the world.

Wow, talk about a piece designed to bring a tear to the eye of a conservative yearning to return to the storied days of yore, when leaders were leaders and Republicans stood for all that was right in the world... or so it would seem through the rose - colored glasses of GOP political memory.

Led by Roy Stone, Private Secretary to the Chief Whip and Mike Winter, Head of the Leader of the House's office, they operate in the dark, agents of the secret state of the most over-centralised political system in the Western world without so much as a Parliamentary Business Committee (promised but not delivered by the last government) to hold them to account.

Smith — who was named the leader for the Democrats after their historic takeover of the state senate for the first time in 43 years in 2008 — stunned his party and the political world last summer when he announced that he was considering a run for mayor as a Republican, according to the New York Post.

Alan taught the first - ever college course on digital politics (1995), created and built the Center for American Progress's social media program (2007 - 13) and has trained more than 15,000 people across the world in digital & social media strategy, including civil society leaders across the Arab world in 2009; key staff at leading advocacy groups and news media outlets; Members of Congress and their staff; as well as political and business leaders from several countries, including a couple future kings.

It finds «hate speech» against non-religious people is being driven by political leaders around the world, including heads of state.

If our top state leaders are working things out over a dinner at this iconic symbol of the old world, and more specifically no doubt the site of many a political backroom deal, how are we ever going to get past the climate of «the Machine»?

Still, it's hard to see it as anything other than a naked political ploy when the GOP / Conservative gubernatorial candidate appeals to the Democratic leader of the free world to intercede in a controversial local issue when his spokesman just made it clear his boss doesn't want to touch it with a 10 - foot pole.