In
the political life of every nation, challenges and crises must be met.
It is one thing for Christians to take a responsible part in
the political life of their nation; it is another thing to identify the gospel and its antagonism to the «world» with the «worldly» antagonism of some revolting group.
The more authentically Catholic we are in our lives, choices, actions and convictions, the more truly we will contribute to the moral and
political life of our nation.
In truth, however, our travels had been more complicated than that, more full of corners and curves, which is to say, more involved with what had become of the country's culture than with its politics» though with its politics, too, of course, because
the political life of this nation is always ultimately indentured to its cultural life.
«The New Year 2018 is strategic and critical in
the political life of the nation because activities in the year will determine the success or otherwise of 2019,» he said.
Not exact matches
The UN Human Rights Committee, which regularly reviews whether states are
living up to their obligations under the binding International Covenant on Civil and
Political Rights, today made more than a dozen recommendations for fundamental changes in Canadian law and policy in respect to the treatment
of First
Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples.
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of the carrying value
of goodwill or other indefinite -
lived intangible assets; volatility in commodity, energy and other input costs; changes in the Company's management team or other key personnel; the Company's inability to realize the anticipated benefits from the Company's cost savings initiatives; changes in relationships with significant customers and suppliers; execution
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political conditions in the
nations in which the Company operates; the volatility
of capital markets; increased pension, labor and people - related expenses; volatility in the market value
of all or a portion
of the derivatives that the Company uses; exchange rate fluctuations; disruptions in information technology networks and systems; the Company's inability to protect intellectual property rights; impacts
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of key retail customers; the Company's ability to maintain, extend and expand its reputation and brand image; the impacts
of the Company's international operations; the Company's ability to leverage its brand value; the Company's ability to predict, identify and interpret changes in consumer preferences and demand; the Company's ability to drive revenue growth in its key product categories, increase its market share, or add products; an impairment
of the carrying value
of goodwill or other indefinite -
lived intangible assets; volatility in commodity, energy and other input costs; changes in the Company's management team or other key personnel; the Company's ability to realize the anticipated benefits from its cost savings initiatives; changes in relationships with significant customers and suppliers; the execution
of the Company's international expansion strategy; tax law changes or interpretations; legal claims or other regulatory enforcement actions; product recalls or product liability claims; unanticipated business disruptions; the Company's ability to complete or realize the benefits from potential and completed acquisitions, alliances, divestitures or joint ventures; economic and
political conditions in the United States and in various other
nations in which we operate; the volatility
of capital markets; increased pension, labor and people - related expenses; volatility in the market value
of all or a portion
of the derivatives we use; exchange rate fluctuations; risks associated with information technology and systems, including service interruptions, misappropriation
of data or breaches
of security; the Company's ability to protect intellectual property rights; impacts
of natural events in the locations in which we or the Company's customers, suppliers or regulators operate; the Company's indebtedness and ability to pay such indebtedness; the Company's ownership structure; the impact
of future sales
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of the Company's consolidated financial statements; and other factors.
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of retail customers; the Company's ability to predict, identify and interpret changes in consumer preferences and demand; the Company's ability to drive revenue growth in its key product categories, increase its market share or add products; an impairment
of the carrying value
of goodwill or other indefinite -
lived intangible assets; volatility in commodity, energy and other input costs; changes in the Company's management team or other key personnel; the Company's inability to realize the anticipated benefits from the Company's cost savings initiatives; changes in relationships with significant customers and suppliers; execution
of the Company's international expansion strategy; changes in laws and regulations; legal claims or other regulatory enforcement actions; product recalls or product liability claims; unanticipated business disruptions; failure to successfully integrate the business and operations
of the Company in the expected time frame; the Company's ability to complete or realize the benefits from potential and completed acquisitions, alliances, divestitures or joint ventures; economic and
political conditions in the
nations in which the Company operates; the volatility
of capital markets; increased pension, labor and people - related expenses; volatility in the market value
of all or a portion
of the derivatives that the Company uses; exchange rate fluctuations; risks associated with information technology and systems, including service interruptions, misappropriation
of data or breaches
of security; the Company's inability to protect intellectual property rights; impacts
of natural events in the locations in which the Company or its customers, suppliers or regulators operate; the Company's indebtedness and ability to pay such indebtedness; tax law changes or interpretations; and other factors.
In the wake
of Obama's re-election, conservatives are deeply depressed and increasingly feel estranged from contemporary America, even though vote-wise, it remains a «50 - 50
nation,» and even though many
of them
live in areas in which conservatism is the dominant
political creed by far.
They are found to be a very Rich & Powerful Groups and Mother
of Groups that control
lives of Millions... Now Finding Peace means that we should think on how to get those Master Keys or Super Master Keys
of Super Powerful Groups that are to be gathered all in one Ring lock that works to getting them to work towards One Purpose only and that is on how to make Human
Life better Globally and that by investing in them human populations worldwide not minding their Race or Faith or
Political interests such will work towards Building Bridges between all
Nations holding and calling one Message
of Love and Sharing in some form
of Brotherhood that works towards a Greener Planet Earth!?
It's time we, as a
nation, stop looking at abortion as merely a
political issue and see it for what it is - a matter
of life and death.
The culture
of consumerism and the chase for material symbols
of wealth and security have sometimes come to be dominant; the pursuit
of spiritual fulfillment in many has slowly begun to degenerate into empty and sterile ritualism; the legitimate thirst for education has often become perverted into an obsessive drive to acquire with the greatest speed the formal diplomas necessary to gain entry to jobs offering the easiest opportunities to make the quickest rupees;
political statesmanship in some areas has begun to depreciate into an opportunities race for power and position; the spirit
of SEVA (Service) to the
nation has intermittently begun to be suffocated in many, by the abuse
of discretions, sometimes mediated by a bloated bureaucracy itself enmeshed in a vast network
of multiplying paper and self - proliferating regulations; menacingly many good and decent people even in public
life, have come to be corroded by a culture
of demanding corruption; and some potentially creative lawyers, have begun to take perverted pride in mere «cleverness», rendering themselves vulnerable to the prejudice that they are a parasitic obstruction in the pursuit
of substantive justice.
Perhaps he is the kind
of Christian an apostate
nation creates, though he has the option to
live life in contrast to what he sees in this
political system.
Old Testament history recounts events, the
lives of great men, prophets, priests and kings, migrations, wars,
political decisions — everything affecting the exterior
life of the
nation, the observable course
of her turbulent history.
The «communal tensions» between the groups were «
of major importance in the
life of the
nation,» Herberg added, suggesting that they began non-divisive discussions about the limits
of American democracy and allowed all 96 percent
of Americans who identified as Protestant, Catholic, or Jew to have some social,
political, and cultural recognition in America.
There has been a tendency that the peace question has been reduced merely to the question
of the reduction or elimination
of violent military confrontations among
nation states and
political groups; but now it is the question
of securing for the common
life of all
living things on earth.
Third, the context has shifted: in contrast to the traditional Catholic conception
of the
political community, and politics within such communities, as the means
of achieving real if limited justice for human
life in the world, and a corresponding theory
of international relations, recent Catholic thought on war often treats the state as a locus
of injustice and the goals
of particular states as inherently at odds with the achievement
of common human goals, while an internationalism defined in terms
of the United
Nations system is proposed as the best means to those common goals.
This hopeful vision
of a land where all South Africans
live together under the Lordship
of Christ is the charismatics» greatest contribution to the
nation's gloom and increasing
political violence.
The situation in Europe, including Britain, is more nuanced than that in North America, largely because Europe's Muslim populations have a longer and more established social and
political history in
nations where Muslims (
of the theological left, right and center) are represented by sophisticated networks
of» mosques and
political NGOs that defend the rights
of Muslims and shape their participation in civic
life, including the introduction
of Islamic law for civil cases.
That belief has been an axiom throughout both my theological
life and my
political life (two entities that I am unable to separate) One reason I am sometimes perceived as overly critical
of my own
nation is the perennial temptation in the United States to assume that our
nation enjoys God's special favor, and that any criticism
of it is unworthy and unpatriotic.
There has been a tendency for the peace question to be reduced merely to the question
of the reduction or elimination
of violent military confrontations among
nation states and
political groups; but now it is the question
of securing the common
life of all
living things on earth.
In long industrialized
nations and newly industrialized
nations alike, the social,
political and cultural arenas
of life are defined and debated in ways controlled by the media.
I believe that even if our western
nations were overrun by a new
political power, we would still
live our
lives as citizens
of the Kingdom
of God.
Christ condemns as sin lack
of public concern, lack
of responsible
political participation, lack
of commitment to ways
of peace in public
life and concord among the
nations.
For many conversion to Christianity is offensive, a betrayal
of India's national heritage, an alienation harmful to the
life of the
nation, a disturbance having undesirable
political and economic implications.
Furthermore, there is a centrist
political pull that seeks to draw
nations together within a new
political order or geo -
political system, defined not in terms
of national sovereignty or cultural identity but in terms
of the economic well - being and styles
of life of certain powerful
nations.
AND And teaches us to say yes And allows us to be both - and And keeps us from either - or And teaches us to be patient and long suffering And is willing to wait for insight and integration And keeps us from dualistic thinking And does not divide the field
of the moment And helps us to
live in the always imperfect now And keeps us inclusive and compassionate toward everything And demands that our contemplation become action And insists that our action is also contemplative And heals our racism, our sexism, heterosexism, and our classism And keeps us from the false choice
of liberal or conservative And allows us to critique both sides
of things And allows us to enjoy both sides
of things And is far beyond any one
nation or
political party And helps us face and accept our own dark side And allows us to ask for forgiveness and to apologize And is the mystery
of paradox in all things And is the way
of mercy And makes daily, practical love possible And does not trust love if it is not also justice And does not trust justice if it is not also love And is far beyond my religion versus your religion And allows us to be both distinct and yet united And is the very Mystery
of Trinity
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.
Modern reformation movements in traditional Indian religions especially the movements
of Neo-Hinduism indicated the impact
of modernity on Indian
life at its religious level, and India's liberal democratic and leftist ideologies guiding the struggle for
political independence and
nation - building in independent India, indicate the assimilation
of Enlightenment humanism at the ideological level, though qualified a great deal by the reformed religious view
of Gandhism.
In Niebuhr's analysis the history
of our
political life is the history
of a struggle between a partial loyalty, that is, loyalty to the
nation as one among other
nations, and a universal loyalty to which the
nation refers.
Kenward's rehearsal
of life in twentieth - century France is a compendium
of ideologies, lists
of leading
political and social leaders, an endless speculation on the nature
of Frenchness, and a nearly complete absence
of the cultural effects
of the
nation's Catholic inheritance.
Both Obama, the
nation's first black president, and Romney, a Mormon, have found that their shared status as members
of minority groups and
political pioneers, in many ways, has also changed the rules of this presidential campaign cycle, said Nancy Wadsworth, co-editor of the anthology «Faith and Race in American Political Lif
political pioneers, in many ways, has also changed the rules
of this presidential campaign cycle, said Nancy Wadsworth, co-editor
of the anthology «Faith and Race in American
Political Lif
Political Life.»
With the role
of the
nation - state in
political, economic and social
life undergoing a major transformation in most parts
of the world, and scholars coming to terms with overlapping and multiple sovereignties, these discussions on citizenship and empirically informed observations on forging and imagining the
political community are more relevant than ever.
With the role
of the
nation - state in
political, economic and social
life undergoing a major transformation in most parts
of the world, and scholars coming to terms with overlapping and multiple sovereignties, discussions on citizenship and empirically informed observations on forging and imagining the
political community are more relevant than ever.
The issue, he told the BBC's Mark D'Arcy, was whether the House
of Commons is at the centre
of the
nation's
political life or that it becomes a «sideshow».
«We concluded with a conversation about how the acknowledgment
of those
living with special needs across the world is growing and it is one
of the areas that in the United
Nations and, from his perspective, in the Arab world has transcended some
of their other
political difficulties and some
of the other controversial topics that obviously and rightfully consume their attention,» Molinaro said.
He became immersed in the
political life of New York's sleepy capital city, acting more like a small - state governor than one
of the most powerful elected officials in the
nation.
Nation is a way
of feeling, thinking and
living, it is a psychological condition
of the mind which emphasizes the consciousness
of unity due to spiritual or other feelings.while the state emphasizes
political unity and objectivity which is a condition
of law, the state is an enforceable obligatiory condition inseparable from all civilized ways
of living
The state is a
political community
living in a given territory with sovereignty.The
nation is a social and psychological community based on identical feeling
of common culture and heritage.
According to him, the dominance
of such violent
political groups who seize power in their respective countries should not be undermined, indicating that such factions have contributed to the displacement
of lives and settlements across several
nations on the globe and hereby should be abolished.
The letter, signed by the Bishops
of Winchester, Durham, Guilford and Worcester, stated that the changes could likely result in «increasing risk to our
nation's public and
political life of the inhumane and imperfectly processed decisions».
The former Vice President, while maintaining that the future
of the country is bright in view
of anticipated changes in all aspects
of the
life of the
nation, appealed to groups «that are aggrieved in one way or the other and espousing separatist sentiments, to drop their agitation and take advantage
of the improving
political climate in the country, to seek accommodation in the larger united national community that is fast unfolding.»
The group implored all aggrieved
political parties, stakeholders and candidates to be mindful
of their utterances, seek redress if any by engaging the legal framework as provided for in the constitution in pursuance
of their grievances without heating up the polity, which it noted may result into endangering the
lives of innocent citizens and bring into disrepute the
nation's democracy.
We need to make sure that we are in control over the things that affects us.Anytime there is flood and people loose their
life, most
of the blame goes to sitting presidents.I am not saying that the central government does not have responsibility to ensure that enabling environment is created.They have a great work to do but as citizens what is our quota?When you move around Accra, sometimes i becomes angry within myself because i am in doubt as to whether our sanitation laws exit.People because
of the tax they claim they pay waits for zoom lion workers to come and clean the choked gutters before our houses and shops either than that, it will remain like that.Is it modernity or civilization that has turned us to forget our traditional values or duties
of ensuring that our environments is clean?Everybody in our Ghanaian setting knows the responsibility
of men and women in making sure that our environments are clean not waiting for flood to occur and we start blaming sitting presidents.To the media, though your responsibility is to keep governments on it toes, you equally have a mandate in educating the public
of what we are expected to do as citizens in other to ensure that our dear
nation is a better ecosystem for all
of us to live.The attention
of the media should be shifted from making politicians popular to making us aware as citizens
of our responsibilities.I sometimes get confused to hear journalists calling opponents to comment on issues concerning the sitting governments and the only thing that comes to my mind is what do the journalist want to hear from the
political opponents?Nothing.They will end up criticizing without giving an alternative.The media should rather resort in questioning people directly to where the problems are coming from.Let us build our institutions.When it comes to energy issues.Citifm will call Hon.KT Hammond who was a deputy minister
living who he worked under (His boss at that time) and I always become confused because what can we expect from him?nothing.
As we did last year, we join with other organizations in condemning this proposed boycott as antithetical to the positive role
of free scientific inquiry in improving the
lives of all citizens
of the world, and in promoting cooperation among
nations, despite
political differences.
They're part
of the environmental justice movement, a crusade that grew out
of the recognition that it was mainly the poor and people
of color who were forced — by circumstance, finances, lack
of political power and what activists call «environmental apartheid» that callously targets the disenfranchised — to
live and work in some
of the
nation's dirtiest environments.
Topics ranged from the
political (Vienna - based astrophysicict Mazlan Othman, who may have the best business card in the world as she is the director
of the United
Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs, discussed her duties and called for an international protocol on dealing with the possible detection
of life in outer space) to the philosophical (theologian Ted Peters
of University
of California, Berkeley, discussed the significance
of the discovery
of extra-terrestrial
life for the world's religions) to the positively apocalyptic (astrophysicist Frank Drake, the original champion
of the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence efforts, pondered whether a technologically advanced civilization would inevitably use its power to annihilate itself.).
«For the first time we have a
political leader taking the scientific evidence and putting it out there that we can use it to save
lives,» said Michel Sidibé, head
of the Joint United
Nations Programme on HIV / AIDS.
I'm thinking, for example,
of scientific but also
political concerns relative to the protection
of the regions where gorillas
live, which embrace several
nations in central Africa.