Sentences with phrase «powerful than the nation»

Similarly, when there is no sense of any unit more powerful than the nation, national sovereignty becomes divine.

Not exact matches

The isolated nation conducted its sixth and most powerful nuclear test on Sept. 3, and launched more than a dozen missiles in the past year.

The United States was by far the most powerful nation after the war and held far more gold than anyone else as well.

America's housing crisis generated nearly 4 million foreclosures and devastated residential equity for more than six years, but it also created a powerful new positive force in the nation's residential real estate economy.

The Sadducees were a loose confederation of wealthy and powerful men, who took a secular — pragmatic, rather than a spiritual — ideological stance with regard to the Jewish nation and its spirituality.

The religious scene in America is quite different from everywhere else, if for no other reason than that we are by far the richest and most powerful nation in the world.

After all, history, and even recent history, knows instances where a powerful personality, temporarily and for particular ends, has come to embody in himself the spirit and purpose of a whole nation, and has been spontaneously recognized as its representative, in a more than formal sense.

The 20th Winter Games will bring 2,500 athletes from 85 nations — including a powerful U.S. contingent — to Turin, Italy, a city known more for its cars and its shroud than for sports.

The groundswell over the Harvey Weintein sexual harassment that has rocked Hollywood moved into California's capital as more than 140 women — including lawmakers, senior aides and lobbyists — came forward to denounce what they describe as pervasive sexual misconduct by powerful men in the nation's most influential legislature.

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.

If anything it sounded like a more powerful prime minister than a mere one nation prime minister.

This work is part of the DOE's Exascale Computing Project (ECP), which aims to maximize the benefits of exascale — future supercomputers that will be 50 times faster than our nation's most powerful system today — for U.S. economic competitiveness, national security and scientific discovery.

Given that the U.S. imports more than 90 percent of its seafood, aquaculture presents a powerful opportunity to increase domestic supply and reduce the nation's seafood trade deficit, which now totals over $ 13 billion.

The nation's engineers are drawing up plans for a moon - capable rocket more powerful than the U.S.'s Saturn 5

In the devastating aftermath of appointing a sexist, racist, misogynistic larger - than - life to lead the world's most powerful, most influential nation for the next four years, I'm still reeling.

As always, though, there is a simpler and more powerful explanation of why there has been no similar school shooting in Germany since 2009; or in Canada since 2016; none in the United Kingdom since 1996 — while conversely, more young Americans have died in school shootings in 2018 than in all the nation's combat operations all over the world.

For well over a quarter century, the NEA and the AFT have been the most powerful groups in the politics of education — with more than four million members, formidable sums of money for campaign contributions and lobbying, well - educated activists manning the electoral trenches, and organizations that blanket the nation, allowing them to coordinate all these resources toward political ends.

Appiah makes a powerful and surprising argument against the idea that the cultural artifacts of long - gone civilizations uncovered in archaeological digs should belong to the nation that currently occupies that ground rather than the world.

Los Angeles Unified School Board Election Has Nation's Attention The race for three Los Angeles Unified school board seats has drawn more than $ 4 million in donations — as well as the attention of education leaders nationwide — as the district's powerful unions and the reform movement battle for control of public education.

Algebra Nation is a powerful teaching and learning system that is currently being used by more than 250,000 students and 6,000 teachers in all Florida school systems.

Squarely facing these ongoing issues with much more powerful expectations for quality and equity than ESSA currently offers will be much more important than annual testing or measurement in achieving the goals of our nation's most important education law.»

Storming into UK showrooms now, and due to face the glare of the nation's motoring media at a launch event in the next few days, the latest Leon is nothing less than the most powerful SEAT yet offered for sale in the brand's 25 - year UK history.

China enjoyed more than a decade of double - digit economic growth based on cheap labor and massive exports, and its massive population of industrious people, directed by its powerful central government, has created a booming middle class eager to achieve the prosperity of developed nations.

Best known for their covers of Seven Nation Army and No Diggity, HCB are loads more than a mere novelty act: they're pumping out powerful originals and rebooting the brass band sound for the 21st Century — creating some seriously swinging toe - tappers in the process.

The world's most powerful established and emerging nations — together responsible for more than 80 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions — concluded a day - long meeting after the Group of 8 summit in Japan and emerged on Wednesday with a joint statement calling climate change «one of the great global challenges of our time.»

Robert Howarth, an environmental biology professor at Cornell University, used research from the United Nations to calculate that if methane's potency were considered over 20 years rather than 100 years, it would be 72 times as powerful as carbon dioxide in terms of its warming potential.

Just as different nations speak different languages, different people speak different love languages — some ways of showing love will be more powerful for one person than for another.

Taking place this September 5 & 6 at the prestigious Harvard Club of New York City, RISMedia's Real Estate CEO Exchange will welcome more than 225 of the most powerful and successful real estate leaders who hail from franchise brands and independent real estate firms from across the nation.