Sentences with phrase «powerful states in»

Sweden was one of the most powerful states in Europe, and the palace she would commission had to dazzle visiting royalty and dignitaries with its grandeur.

The Khmer Empire was a powerful state in South - East Asia that existed between 802-1431 AD.

Although Gov. Jerry Brown isn't involved in decisions on the five proposed coal facilities, he could lend his influence to the debate as governor of the most economically powerful state in the country and the national leader on clean energy and climate policy.

Not exact matches

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull will tell United States congressional leaders and policymakers this week that commerce and trade are as powerful as «ships and planes» when it comes to exerting influence in the Asia - Pacific, as he seeks to breathe life into the Trans - Pacific Partnership.

The U.S. is, for now, the world's most powerful, well - diversified, and entrepreneurial economy, and in times of global stress, money pours into the safest of all safe havens, the United States.

You want to be in a place and in a state of mind that creates a very powerful commitment.

By allowing a «bathroom bill» in the special session of the most powerful Republican - controlled state, Abbott has placed a focus on Texas on an issue that has been a flashpoint in U.S. culture wars, analysts said.

Like them, Charney has built a powerful brand known in many parts of the world, which is why American Apparel is an attractive acquisition target in its weakened state.

But then again, as the president and chief executive of the Consumer Electronics Association — a powerful lobby group that represents more than 2,000 technology companies operating in the United States, including Samsung, Microsoft and Apple — he's supposed to be.

«The disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991 spawned thousands of powerful crime gangs — collectively known as the Russian mafia — and some of these groups, officials warn, are establishing bases among emigre communities in the United States, particularly in South Brooklyn.»

«The material that WikiLeaks is going to publish before the end of the year is of... a very significant moment in different directions, affecting three powerful organizations in three different states as well as... the U.S election process,» he said via a video link at an event marking the group's 10th anniversary.

He saw the state university as a powerful tool for leading health reform in West Virginia, and possibly the wider world.

The Alliance wanted to limit that liability, but trial lawyers, a powerful constituency in the state, defeated that effort.

China's second most powerful man, Wang Qishan, has reappeared in state media after a month's disappearance.

The four conglomerates originated in different sectors, but their underlying business model is the same: cultivate powerful allies in the Communist Party; use those relationships to win regulatory and property concessions; gather investment from friends, family and other proxies of party elites into a murky, unregulated private holding company; borrow heavily from state - owed banks and other sources to finance prodigious growth plans; invest as aggressively as possible in stock and property overseas as a hedge against slower growth in China and the risk of a weaker Chinese currency.

Some members of the group say they are being squeezed by a tough economy, Western sanctions on Russia, and powerful state - run companies that are muscling in on nearly all sectors of the economy.

In a modest way, the slogan captured the libertarian idea that a powerful company, like a nation - state, is most virtuous when it governs least — even if that means tolerating hate speech.

Conflict in Guerrero over heroin production has reportedly been stoked by the Sinaloa cartel, which is arguably Mexico's most powerful criminal organization and is believed to control most of the heroin trade in the state.

South Korea said on Monday it was preparing fresh military drills with its ally the United States and ramping up its ballistic missile defenses in response to North Korea's sixth and most powerful nuclear test a day earlier.

With rates at near zero in the United States, and negative in Japan and Europe, the differential is a powerful lure for carry trades, in which investors borrow at ultra-low rates in currencies such as yen or sterling and buy high - yielding assets such as the kiwi.

Despite Marsh's sanctimoniousness, Ars Technica points out that earlier this year a Tennessee senator described AT&T as «the most powerful lobbying organization in this state by far» as it battled to stop Google from using utility poles in Nashville.

The tsunami's waves hit residences after a powerful earthquake in Natori, Miyagi prefecture (state), Japan, on March 11, 2011.

«I think it's fair to say that Mexican drug cartels are the most powerful drug - dealing groups in the United States,» Campbell added, «except that their effect is more indirect and delivering drugs to the street dealers.»

Even the ayahuasca vine with no DMT (the active ingredient that creates hallucinations and is considered illegal in the United States) has powerful alkaloids called harmine and harmaline, which can increase neuron growth and enhance short - term memory.

Still Fiorina, once one of the most powerful businesswomen in the U.S., has often expressed concern about the state of entrepreneurship.

Powerful budget committees in the State House and Senate signed off on a package of bills on Tuesday that would raise the minimum age to purchase a firearm to 21 from 18, mandate a three - day waiting period for most gun purchases, and increase funding for school safety measures and access to mental health care.

That would make it one of the most powerful hurricanes to land in the state.

At a post-luncheon press conference, Trump pulled Novanto in front of the cameras, calling him «an amazing man» and «one of the most powerful men» and asserting, «we will do great things for the United States.»

And all this moisture - laden air helped drive the powerful hurricanes that made landfall in the United States.

NFIB's powerful network of grassroots activists sends their views directly to state and federal lawmakers through our unique member - only ballot, thus playing a critical role in supporting America's free enterprise system.

Ten days later, he was named to one of the most powerful financial positions in the world, Director of the National Economic Council of the United States of America.

In view of this principle one must ask whether America really wants to help Russia develop as powerful an economy as that of the United States.

Thus, if the State is to reduce the indebtedness of certain groups in the population (while maintaining its own fiscal solvency), it can do so only by redistributing wealth from the wealthy and powerful.

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In addition, some entrepreneurs, including Sastry, have been working to pair solid - state technology with cheap silicon - wafer manufacturing, for a blockbuster product that would be extremely powerful and relatively inexpensive.

Only the reader knows of the more powerful and slow - moving forces of state and capital that render these ramshackle beliefs powerless in the scheme of things.

There are states in the US where to hold a legislative office you are required to swear you believe in an all powerful god etc. (mostly the south, who seem to think separation of church and state is a suggestion).

Some of repulsive tactics employed in this campaign of repression were described last month in a powerful article in First Things by a Chinese Christian convert, Yu Jie, that ought to be required reading in the Holy See's Secretariat of State.

As David Griffin states: «If the world is an actual creation, and not simply a complex idea in the divine mind, or simply aspects of modes» of God, then all - powerful can not mean having all the power» (GPE 269 - 70).

Even the most determined attempts by powerful states to repress and extinguish religion (in Russia, China, Revolutionary France, Albania, and North Korea, for example) have failed.

«The president has sent a powerful message... that the United States will lead the global effort in defending and preserving every man, woman, and child's right practice his or her beliefs without fear of intimidation or violence.»

As Kaufman states, two groups of American Christians currently rely on these images of God in their responses to the nuclear situation: one group claims that if a nuclear holocaust comes, it will be God's will — the Armageddon — and America should arm itself to fight the devil's agent, Communist Russia; the other passively relies on the all - powerful father to take care of the situation.

We should always be aware that the state is always the most powerful force in a country.

It was in Western Europe, where it faced a much weaker paganism, was associated with the prestige of Roman civilization, and, while often favored by civil rulers, did not have to confront a continuously powerful state which controlled all phases of life, that the influence of Jesus was most marked.

«Christendom» not only did not decline from this time, but with its famous doctrine of cuius regio, eius religio, its underlying logic received powerful, official sanction, and it has continued on in the fragmented territorial or «state churches» of the emergent European nation - states.

But its story from then until now has been one of a steady, stealthy comeback, culminating in the landslide election of May 2014, which brought Narendra Modi (a former RSS higher - up) and the BJP party to power with a large majority in India's powerful Lok Sabha (lower parliament) and in many state assemblies.

These diaspora Indians are mostly upper - caste and support powerful lobbying efforts among Western governments, not least, in the United States, under the auspices of the Hindu American Foundation and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad of America.

While agreeing with the Latin American bishops that the new churches were supported by «powerful ideological forces as well as economic and political interests [in the United States],» the document admitted that the evangelicals were fulfilling «needs and aspirations which are seemingly not being met in the mainline churches.

Even if this does not happen, even if the United States continues on as the greatest and richest and most powerful nation in the world for many generations to come, are you making preparations now to hold the fort for future Christian generations?

If they were free, strong, independent modern states, or if they formed a powerful autonomous bloc, the great Russian mass is so very much on the top of them and the danger of the Communist kind of «colonialism» is so real, that nothing could prevent their being on our side in the event of a conflict with communism.