Sentences with phrase «promised by nations»

The Armed Forces Covenant represents a promise by the nation that those who serve or.

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Australia and New Zealand said on Tuesday they hope to salvage the Trans - Pacific Partnership (TPP) by encouraging China and other Asian nations to join the trade pact after U.S. President Donald Trump kept his promise to pull out of the accord.

Fast - forward to 2010, now, when Canada pledged to the United Nations it would reduce GHGs by 17 per cent below its 2005 level by 2020, on par with what the U.S. promised.

To this end, Trudeau made many promises to First Nations, including a commitment to review and repeal all of the laws imposed on First Nations by the former Conservative government led by Stephen Harper.

The goal to add to the nation's solar workforce adds to the President's last commitment to solar training, which promised 50,000 solar workers by 2020.

By Gosh God promised to also bless Ishmael Abrahams other son but warned he would kick against Israel and low and behold we have the Arab nation from Ishmael.

By Gosh the Nation Israel fulfilled Gods promise over these 3,000 some odd years through Isaac.

By the 1980s, white evangelicals had coalesced around the Republican Party and its promise to restore the nation's morality.

satans aim was to stop the fulfillment of the seed that would crush satan underfoot.This hybrid between the angels and man created giants abominations in Gods eyes.They also were a threat to Gods people as can be seen by the giants in the land of caanan after the flood.If we agree on that then there is no way that Eve would have had intercourse with satan [false doctrine of the seed of satan -RCB- because the blood lines were still untainted by angelic beings or satan at the time of Noah maybe that is also why the genealogy of Christ is well presented with no surprises apart from Hagar and Ruth these two were gentiles that shows Gods mercy grace was always there to all nations he accepts people by faith not by race.Prior to the flood the mixing of the angels and man must have been widespread after the flood these beings were present but in limited numbers and God told his people to destroy them as they were abominations but they were a threat to Gods people.It would be interesting to hear what the rabbis had to say on this matter as i would think the stories would have been past down from generation to the next.Especially regarding the flood.God promised he would never flood the earth again but a time is coming when the earth will be judged not by flood but by fire Jesus is our ark and we are safe in him.brentnz

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services administers the nation's lawful immigration system, safeguarding its integrity and promise by efficiently and fairly adjudicating requests for immigration benefits while protecting Americans, securing the homeland, and honoring our values.

USCIS secures America's promise as a nation of immigrants by providing accurate and useful information to our customers, granting immigration and citizenship benefits, promoting an awareness and understanding of citizenship, and ensuring the integrity of our immigration system.

He is the promised seed of Abraham through whom God will bless all the nations of the earth by faith.

The promise of founding a great nation might have seemed odd to a childless man, and so Abram maximized his prospects by taking not only his barren wife Sarai but also his nephew Lot, the son of his deceased brother Haran, whom Abram had in effect adopted.

The significance of Abraham is, first, that God in fact promised to extend his salvation through Abraham to all nations, and second, that the story of Abraham reveals not only the temporary sign of the covenant (circumcision), but also the means (faith) by which a person of any nation can come and share in the promised blessing.

As a nation, Lincoln implicitly promised, we will do our best to redeem your private loss, not by restoring your sons to life but in and through our commitment to justice and freedom.

We urge you to usher in a new era of accountability and commitment to our injured oceans by steadfastly holding other nations to their promises to protect oceans and curb devastation.

And they were right — God did choose Israel to be the nation by which the promised Messiah would come and through which a light would come to the Gentiles.

Yet even today, when the Faith of Christ is decayed among the nations, and when Christianity seems to belie the promises of Christ, and to be passing into the dead world of human religions, one more among many, even today, whatever individual values we hold sacred, whatever sanctity we claim for the personality of man, whatever freedoms, above the rut of biological materialism, we try to salvage from the ruins of a culture, all these are the droplets which remain within that chalice of the Christian Faith dashed down by the nation.

Frank Rich of the Times witnessed the thirty - five thousand Promise Keepers gathered at Shea Stadium and did his homework by reading the Nation, which featured PK as its hysteria of the week.

Paul, in saying that Abraham was justified by faith, refers to the events in Genesis 15 where God promises to Abraham that he will be the father of many nations and that the Messiah would come through Abraham.

It affirms that the «greatness of our nation» is rooted in the «legacy of our forebears» and will be measured by the «promise of future generations.»

When Mary and Joseph took their infant son to be baptised in the temple, Simeon blessed Jesus by saying the «Nunc dimittis»: «Now, Master, you are letting your servant go in peace / as you promised; / for my eyes have seen the salvation / which you have made ready in the sight of the nations; / a light of revelation for the gentiles / and glory for your people Israel.»

Jeremy I believe you answered the question in another discussion why God seemed evil by punishing other nations i prefer the word you used which is judgement.God weighs up the hearts and then judges fairly thats not evil in fact he weighs up all the factors before he makes his decision and his decisions are perfect and wise.When he commanded Israel to wipe out other nations it was Gods judgement on these nations because of the evil they had committed in alot of ways its exaggerated because they did nt have Christ to shield them like we have if anything it shows how merciful God is towards us today.In those days gods judgement was quick and immediate.What happened to Israel when they broke the laws God gave them they immediately fell into judgement often resulting in many deaths to there own people until the sins of the people were dwelt with.So even for Gods people it was a conditional on there attitude and actions towards God.Again we see God is merciful to these previous nations that were destroyed as Christ after his crucifiction went and preached to them giving them the opportunity to repent so again we see God is still merciful.His word is true The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness.

This promise was understood in the light of the resurrection (2:22)-- for then it was that the Church of Christ came alive to this new life and by the power of his Spirit was made the temple of God and the house of prayer for all nations (John 20).

The United Nations is a more promising institution in terms of its nature and purposes, but the United Nations, and especially the General Assembly, has been systematically weakened by the United States with regard to economic matters.

«No one knew the full meaning of God's promise to Abraham that «in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed» (Gen 12:3) until Paul wrote, «And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, «All the nations shall be blessed in you»» (Gal 3:8).

These same people were constantly being conquered and subjugated by more advanced nations, despite their odious belief that they were divinely chosen to rule the world and that their land was somehow promised to them by their deity.

President Nana Akufo - Addo presenting his maiden state of the nations address earlier this year promised to honor his pledge by restoring the allowance to all nursing and teacher trainees across the country.

As we renew the promise of our nations to make them stronger at home — in the words of President Reagan as the «sleeping giant stirs» — so let us renew the relationship that can lead the world towards the promise of freedom and prosperity marked out in parchment by those ordinary citizens 240 years ago.

«As I promised you last year, I'll continue to be a voice for progress by speaking out on issues that effect our daily lives and the future of our nation.

The House narrowly cleared the way for Republicans to move forward with promises to overhaul the nation's tax code on Thursday by passing the Senate's version of the 2018 budget.

While Trump promised to rebuild the nation's infrastructure, Cuomo said, «They haven't sent me one two - by - four.»

He said: «What we launch today is not a catalogue of lofty promises woven together to entice the electorate for votes as others want to do but a product of months of careful and diligent work by some of the finest brains our nation can boast of.»

The President's pledge has comes in handy following series of complaints from ex players of unfulfilled promises by the state after bringing joy and honour to the nation through past Nations Cup triumphs.

Mr Egba promised to abide by the party's constitution, bearing in mind his wealth of experience in the nation's polity.

«The Seneca Nation's history is marked by other governments attacking us, then ultimately turning their backs on their promises to us.

Chancellor Gordon Brown today hailed the UK's # 1 billion boost for immunisation programmes in the developing world as the first step towards making a reality of aid promises made by wealthy nations.

Let me end by saying that this promise when implemented will bring an end to the era of athletes being cheated by managers and other stakeholders of sports as well as build the nationalistic spirit in athletes hence we are not going to see athletes hold the nation to ransom like we saw in Brazil again.

The $ 2 billion tax increase follows months of efforts by Assembly Democrats to hike taxes on the wealthy despite promises by Cuomo, also a Democrat, and the Senate's Republican majority that they'd block any increases in one of the nation's most heavily taxed states.

They did not come to me directly but someone warned them against the plan after deciding to come and bribe me,» he stated in support of the claim by Rev Prof Martey that some politicians also attempted to bribe him with $ 100,000, a V8 vehicle and a promise to secure him a mansion at Trassaco Villa, to gag him from making critical comments on issues of nation concern.

President Mahama said his government will fulfill its promise to the nation by expanding and upgrading senior high school education which he made in his 2012.

Seneca Nation officials released a statement saying in part, «The Seneca Nation's history is marked by other governments attacking us, then ultimately turning their backs on their promises to us.

To my compatriots, I say if you have had enough of being taken for granted, if you have had enough of being embarrassed and impoverished by an uncaring, incompetent and dishonest government, and if you have had all you can tolerate of broken promises, then I ask you to join us to rid our nation of this government.

«By providing tuition - free college to thousands of middle class New Yorkers, we are restoring the promise of the American Dream for the next generation and forging a bold path forward of access and opportunity for the rest of the nation to follow,» Cuomo said in a press release.

Some of the groundswell was spurred by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's 2013 campaign promise to expand universal pre-K in the nation's largest school system and offer a full - day classroom spot to every 4 - year - old in the city.

On the criticism that the change promised by the All Progressives Congress, APC, has been late in coming, he stressed that it would be unfair to make assessment without looking at where the nation is coming from, where it is and where it wants to be.

It's great that she elevated progressive infrastructure by making this announcement at Netroots Nation — and that she is promising to elevate the fight against big money influence in politics during her first month in office,» said Marissa Barrow, a spokeswoman for the Progressive Change Campaign Committee.

Venezuela's once promising economy has been destroyed by successive hard - left governments, despite the nation's vast oil wealth.

The representatives of the aspirants for NPP, Alhassan Suadik said the promise by the Presidential Flag bearer, Nana Akufo - Addo, to ensure that each village will benefit from one dam was to assist all year round farming, adding that it will go a long way to help the nation.

Despite a promise by then - President - elect Donald Trump to keep Bharara on, the President fired him this past Saturday anyway along with scores of other Obama - appointed U.S. attorneys across the nation.