Sentences with phrase «powers against americans»

We had been misled into a war, and the government was taking extraordinary powers against Americans in the name of protecting Americans.

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«This has to be the first time that a major presidential candidate has actively encouraged a foreign power to conduct espionage against his political opponent,» Hillary for American senior policy advisor Jake Sullivan said in a statement.

His comments came days after U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said in a speech that «China's offer always comes at a price» and cautioned Latin American countries against reliance on «new imperial powers that seek only to benefit their own people.»

According to this theory, if, for example, the U.S. inflation rate is higher than the Canadian inflation rate, then the purchasing power of Americans will erode compared to that of Canadians, and the value of the U.S. dollar against the Canadian dollar will be adjusted in the markets to balance the purchasing power of the two currencies.

The story of early African - American Christianity proves the power of the Resurrection against oppression.

As Phelps» daughter reminded me, there is a venerable American history of religious protests against the coercive power of the federal government, running from the anti-slavery and female suffrage advocacy of nineteenth - century evangelicals to the civil rights agitation of rabbis and members of the black church.

... [Americans] have become a nation that may defy every foe but that most dangerous of foes, herself, destined to a majestic future if she will shun the excess and perversion of the principles that made her great, prate less about the enemies of the past and strive more against the enemies of the future, resist the mob and the demagogue as she resisted Parliament and King, rally her powers from the race for gold and the delirium of prosperity to make firm the foundations on which that prosperity rests, and turn some fair proportion of her vast mental forces to other objects than material progress and the game of party politics.

From the 16th century when Francis Xavier decided to cast his lot with the East against his own Western culture, to the 19th century when Christaller singlehandedly promoted Akan culture, to the 20th when Frank Laubach inveighed against the encroachments of American power in the Philippines, missionaries in the field have helped to promote indigenous self - awareness as a counterforce to Western cultural importation.

War and the memory of war do indeed have an important place in America's history and identity, but war is certainly not our ìaltar.î There have indeed been times when we have used massive and terrible power against terrible enemies; and yet, right now, brave American soldiers endure great risk to themselves in an effort to avoid killing civilians.

American policy - makers have justified their counterrevolutionary stance on the basis of the threat of international Stalinism, and these rightist regimes — even though they may have been distasteful — were preferable to leftist forces which tilted the balance of power against our side.

The sin of rebelling against God through the violation of the integrity of creation, through the destruction of the beauty and harmony of the Korean peninsula, was ultimately committed by military - industrial elites in collaboration with these superpowers, with Western European and North American colonial powers, and with Japan in Asia.

A prolific writer and editor, her publications include: Augustine and the Limits of Politics, Just War against Terror: The Burden of American Power in a Violent World, and, most recently, Sovereignty: God, State, and Self (Basic Books, 2008).

«We believe there is nothing in Dr. Hawkins» public statements that goes against the belief in the power and nature of God, Christ, or the Holy Spirit that the Statement of Faith deems as a necessary requirement for affiliation with Wheaton College,» states the letter, which also praised Hawkins, the only African American woman with tenure on the Wheaton faculty.

Topics: «Birth as an American Cultural Experience» «Cultural Roots of Violence Against Women»; «' Power of Ritual»

Even the vast asymmetry in power between the international coalition and IS does not make the outcome predictable: powerful states have often lost wars against much weaker foes, from the United States in Vietnam, to Russia in Afghanistan, to the British Empire in the American colonies.

«Jonathan Tasini has already shown a willingness to stand against powerful interests who have chosen already to undermine the American dream, lessen the character of our young people by denying them a complete ability to comprehend their own political power.

At stake is not only an Obama break with the Bush - Cheney «dark side» here and abroad, but enough understanding among Americans that this current president has consistently and insistently maintained that he has the power to indefinitely imprison a terrorism suspect who can not be brought before a military commission or into one of our federal courts because the purported evidence against him or her can't be admitted.

It sounded much like the one that made him at best a gadfly and at worst a pariah in Christine Quinn's City Council: he intends to vote against the powerful Mr. Silver for Speaker, to pontificate on the floor against the lack of black power in New York and to unite the African - American members of the conference along racial lines.

IASLC would like to thank the patient advocacy organizations that have collaborated on this initiative: American Lung Association's LUNG FORCE, The Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation, Caring Ambassadors, Free ME From Lung Cancer, Free to Breathe, Global Resource for Advancing Cancer Education (GRACE), Live Lung, Lung Cancer Alliance, Lung Cancer Europe, Lung Cancer Foundation of America, Lung Cancer Initiative of North Carolina, Lung Cancer Research Foundation, Lungevity, Patient Power, Rexanna's Foundation, University of Colorado Cancer Center, Upstage Lung Cancer, Women Against Lung Cancer in Europe (WALCE).

In a battle between undefeated heavyweights, American Deontay Wilder (39 - 0, 38 KOs) defends his world championship title against the punching power of top - ranked Cuban challenger Luis Ortiz (28 - 0, 24 KOs).

The protagonist is an outsider who against the odds rises to become a king in Hollywood in a tale of power, legacy, and the American dream.»

Created by John Ridley (American Crime), the six - episode limited series will take place against the backdrop of the Black Power movement in the 1970s.

The New Right's campaign against secular humanism in the schools often seems like an attempt to demonstrate that no one ever lost political power by underestimating the intelligence of the American public.

Several members of an American Indian tribe in rural South Dakota are suing the local school district in federal court, claiming its method for electing board members discriminates against Native Americans by weakening their voting power.

From opposing the expansion of high - quality charter schools and other school choice options, to its opposition to Parent Trigger laws and efforts of Parent Power activists in places such as Connecticut and California, to efforts to eviscerate accountability measures that hold districts and school operators to heel for serving Black and Brown children well, even to their historic disdain for Black families and condoning of Jim Crow discrimination against Black teachers, both unions have proven no better than outright White Supremacists when it comes to addressing the legacies of bigotry in which American public education is the nexus.

Pit the outgoing Enclave against a new - for - 2013 Infiniti JX35, and the American would hold its own: more power with similar fuel economy, good body control, more third - row legroom, and a larger luggage area.

In 1802, this death ray could tip the balance of power in the Mediterranean, and Ethan must stop the pirates from using it against the American, English, and French fleets.

That could push Canadian home prices up, especially given the recent strength of the U.S. dollar against the loonie gives Americans strong buying power in Canada.

Artist Rodney McMillian's exhibition Against a Civic Death continues the artist's formal inquiry into painting, abstraction, and performance with a discomforting social critique of American histories, injustices, and structures of power.

The American Heritage Dictionary defines populism as «a political philosophy supporting the rights and power of the people in their struggle against the privileged elite».

The resulting low - cost power enables Chinese manufacturers to compete more effectively against American firms, swelling our trade deficit.

In a bid to give a voice to the thousands of people who suffer in their health from the vicinity to wind turbines, the North American Platform Against Wind Power (NA - PAW) presents to the public twelve - year - old Jordynn Stom, whose already delicate health is being threatened by a wind farm project.

(Defining conservative as a belief in small and less intrusive government, as well as the American ideal of protection of individual liberty against any «group power».)

A Vancouver Sun story this week is headlined «Environmental groups line up star power against Northern Gateway pipeline,» but it might be better headlined «Americans recruit more famous Americans to interfere in Canadians» business.»

Sherri Lange CEO, NA - PAW, North American Platform Against Wind Power [email protected] North American Platform Against Wind Power

While many living near the potential route of American Transmission Company's 345 - kilovolt line remain steadfast against it, the project is drawing support from groups like Renew Wisconsin, which say the line will ease the delivery of wind power from Iowa and Minnesota into major population centers to the East.

For more information, please contact: Sherri Lange CEO North American Platform Against Wind Power (NA - PAW) Founding Director, Toronto Wind Action Executive Director, Canada, Great Lakes Wind Truth VP Canada, Save the Eagles International www.na-paw.org [email protected] 416 567 5115

Mike Barnard last month was taken to task by researcher Jackie Rovensky of AU and NA - PAW (North American Platform Against Wind Power) for a long - standing series of malicious attacks on trusted and respected professionals worldwide, who have variously documented and researched the now widely recognized devastating effects of industrial wind on human health.

The lawsuit, filed with with ATP's sister organization, the American Tradition Institute (ATI), argues that the RPS unconstitutionally discriminates against coal power by regulating commerce outside state borders — which makes it tough for utilities to import electricity from out - of - state coal plants.

Tommy Schnurmacher speaks with Sherri Lange, CEO of the North American Platform Against Wind Power, and Tom Adams, Independent Energy and Environmental Advisor, on the great debate over wind pPower, and Tom Adams, Independent Energy and Environmental Advisor, on the great debate over wind powerpower.

Sherri Lange CEO, NA - PAW North American Platform Against Wind Power Executive Director, Canada, Great Lakes Wind Truth 416-567-5115 [email protected]

This has not prevented advocates from pursuing their campaigns against the use of fossil fuel, nuclear, and hydro power at all levels of American government.

Sherri Lange, CEO NA - PAW (North American Platform Against Wind Power) [email protected] Founding Director, Toronto Wind Action Executive Director Canada, Great Lakes Wind Truth VP Canada, Great Lakes Wind Truth

Sherri Lange CEO, NA - PAW (North American Platform Against Wind Power) www.na-paw.org Founding Director, Toronto Wind Action Executive Director, Canada, Great Lakes Wind Truth VP Canada, Save the Eagles International [phone] (Canada) kodaisl / rogers.

Sherri Lange CEO, NA - PAW (North American Platform Against Wind Power) Founding Director, Toronto Wind Action Executive Director, Canada, Great Lakes Wind Truth VP Canada, Save the Eagles International www.na-paw.org www.torontowindaction.com 416 567 5115 [email protected]

Meanwhile, the Sierra Club and WWF America lobbies against energy development in Africa, an American foundation with ties to Hilary Clinton funds serial, frivolous legal actions against an Indian power company in Australian courts and the World Bank is in a «race against time to stop construction of new coal - fired power plants across the globe».

NA - PAW (North American Platform Against Wind Power) repeats its call for an immediate full public inquiry and further supports groups calling for the resignation of Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Arlene King.

Big coal — in the form of the National Rural Electric Association, Koch Industries, American Electric Power, the Southern Company, the National Association of Manufacturers and others are planning a major blitz against efforts to fight global warming.

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And tax credits on solar power have created a buffer against the initial investment and allowed over 1 million American homeowners to install solar panels on their homes.