Sentences with phrase «responsibility as a nation»

«We have a responsibility as a nation to honor our veterans and their families for their service and sacrifice, but it goes beyond saying thank you,» said Howard Schultz, Starbucks chairman and ceo.

In a statement on October 20, 1987, Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan said, «The Federal Reserve, consistent with its responsibilities as the Nation's central bank, affirmed today its readiness to serve as a source of liquidity to support the economic and financial system» (Carlson 2006, 10).

We have a responsibility as a nation to be struggling to heal the racial injustice and majority privilege that still stains our daily interactions.

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The duty to consult with First Nations resides with the Federal government — as Chief Justice McLachlin wrote in the 2004 Haida Nation v. British Columbia [2004] decision of the Supreme Court, «the ultimate legal responsibility for consultation and accommodation rests with the Crown.»

As a nation, we have a responsibility to our most vulnerable, and the richest of our citizens and the most profitable of our institutions should give more of their wealth to help those who don't have it.

Airlines for America (A4A) vigorously advocates on behalf of the American airline industry as a model of safety, customer service and environmental responsibility and as the indispensable network that drives our nation's economy and global competitiveness.

As a nation it is our responsibility to honor ALL the victims of this attack.

America is doing more than any other nation to spread the kind of political structures that can best prepare the globe for God's ultimate work of establishing the final kingdom, Webb contends, and he proceeds to quote from a variety of sources to support a role for providence in contemporary theological thinking while interpreting America's rise to world power as a divine blessing that comes with special responsibilities.

I went on to speak of how, as the church grew and became a dominant force in society, the church and later the nation took some responsibility to protect the weak and powerless.

He has rights and obligations as an independent individual and rights and responsibilities as a part of the nation to which he belongs.

Gradually the nation state took over such services as education and care for the sick and indigent that had previously been the responsibility of the church.

He consistently opposed what he called «nation - building» as an American responsibility and called for more «humility» in our relation to the rest of the world, striking an isolationist chord that has been perennial in our tradition.

Often people insist that they as individuals have no responsibility for the sins committed by their ancestors or their nations.

More positively, as fundamentalists have seen the nation become more secular they have felt a responsibility to be «an exemplary, called - out people,» pure in word, deed, thought and appearance.

In this view, America has a vital role to play in world affairs not because it is the home of a chosen people but because it has vast resources, has caused many of the problems currently facing the world, and simply as part of the community of nations has a responsibility to help alleviate the world's problems.

To repeat: a cursory look at the nations of the world makes it clear that the important differences in social responsibility and freedom are between the democratic types (of both capitalist and socialist economic system) and the despotic types, not between capitalism and socialism as such.

The life of all nations must be animated by the divine traits of moral responsibility, authenticity or integrity, loyalty or love, and creativity in relation to all of their own members and to other nations as well.

A nation must be subject to the same divine laws of social justice and moral responsibility in relation to its own citizens and to other nations as is the individual person.

We are two nations: one concentrated on rights and laws, the other on rights and wrongs; one radically individualistic and dedicated to the actualized self, the other communal and invoking the common good; one viewing law as the instrument of the will to power and license, the other affirming an objective moral order reflected in a Constitution to which we are obliged; one given to private satisfaction, the other to familial responsibility; one typically secular, the other typically religious; one elitist, the other populist.

«I do not believe it is my responsibility to point people to a candidate but rather to point people to Jesus Christ as the ultimate and only hope for mankind and the problems we face as a nation.»

They these priest had a responsibility to all the nations, to all the people on the earth as taught in Isaiah 56, and this they did not do as taught to us in Malachi 2, of the Levites then, and unbelievably they are here now.

In only three connections is Satan even mentioned in the Old Testament — once as evilly disposed to Job but doing nothing without God's permission, (Job 1:6:12; 2:1 - 7) once as tempting David to take a census, (I Chronicles 21:1) and once as the symbolic adversary of Israel (Zechariah 3:1 - 2)-- and nowhere are the tragedies of individuals or of nations fathered on him as though by that device the ultimate responsibility of God could be mitigated in the least.

In the company of God and of immortal souls even family responsibility is greater and more inclusive than in the company of nations and of men who are regarded as purely temporal beings.

Such universal responsibility is incompatible with a spiritualism that limits the Church's concern to immaterial values, with a moralism that does not understand the value of the sin ner and the sinful nation, with an individualism that makes mankind as a whole and its societies of less concern to God than single persons, and with any of those particularistic and polytheistic theories of value and responsibility which substitute for God - in - Christ some other deity as the source of valuable being.

Gender inequality and violence are alive in our nation and the larger world, and it's our responsibility as ambassadors of Jesus to oppose it.

But on a more profound level as it bears the responsibility of maintaining a tradition of loyalty to the truth handed down by Christ to teach all nations.

President Mahama said Republic Day stands as a celebration of citizens who have honoured their responsibilities to the nation and contributed to creating a strong Republic.

Describing corruption as «the bane of our nation's progress», President Akufo - Addo reiterated that «we will establish this year, by Act of Parliament, an Office of Special Prosecutor, who, independently of the Executive and with a statutorily provided security of tenure, will have the responsibility to investigate and prosecute acts of corruption, free from predictable claims of witch - hunting.»

As Americans know, the United Kingdom is by instinct and history a great, global nation that recognises its responsibilities to the world.

So as we rediscover our confidence together — as you renew your nation just as we renew ours — we have the opportunity — indeed the responsibility — to renew the Special Relationship for this new age.

In a Facebook post Friday, December 29, 2017, captured by Ghanapoliticsonline.com ahead of the official declaration, the former Ghanaian leader who also headed the ECOWAS Observer Mission to the county, stated that Liberians have made themselves and the ECOWAS region proud and with the election fever now over, every Liberian should see the task of nation - building and development as a collective patriotic responsibility.

As a nation, we should act like adults and take responsibility for our national security through open and honest diplomacy.

Liberians have made themselves and the ECOWAS region proud and with the election fever now over, every Liberian should see the task of nation - building and development as a collective patriotic responsibility.

We stand for the Monarchy; traditional marriage; family and community duties; proper pride in our nation's distinctive qualities; quality of life over soulless utility; social responsibility over personal selfishness; social justice as civic duty, not state dependency; compassion for those in need; reducing government waste; lower taxation and deregulation; our ancient liberties against politically correct censorship and a commitment to our democratically elected parliament.»

«This Board of Legislators has a fiduciary responsibility to the residents and taxpayers of Oneida County to be certain that the amounts of the funds required to be provided by the Oneida Nation, as per the terms of the agreement, are correct,» stated Tallarino.

On why he wrote the book, he said it was in recognition of the Nigeria Police as the nation's core law enforcement agency which is constitutionally saddled with the responsibility of preventing and detecting crime, apprehension and prosecution of offenders, preservation of law and order.

Particularly as the Minister with responsibility for the United Nations, The International Criminal Court and Human Rights I believe our approach in relation to the current conflict is neither consistent with our values, specifically our commitment to the rule of law and our long history of support for International Justice.

A 58 - year - old man from the West African nation of Ghana will have an extended stay in Canada after accepting responsibility Friday for child pornography found on his cellphone as he entered the country.

[Anyone] who, in public and against the facts, ascribes to the Polish Nation or to the Polish State, responsibility or co-responsibility for Nazi crimes committed by the Third Reich, [as] defined in Article 6 of the Charter of the International Military Tribunal, Annex to the Agreement for the prosecution and punishment of the major war criminals of the European Axis, signed in London on August 8, 1945 -LSB-...], or for other offences which are crimes against peace [or] humanity or [that are] war crimes, or who otherwise grossly reduces the responsibility of the actual perpetrators of said crimes, is subject to a fine or [to] imprisonment for up to 3 years.

«Just as the first responsibility of any government is to ensure the security of its people and to be prepared to defend our nation from those who would do us harm, so we are right to be offering air support to the Government of Iraq in trying to defeat ISIL / Daesh, but let me be clear we do not want British boots on the ground in either Iraq or Syria.

As the campaign intensify, he said it is the responsibility of all politicians to abstain from tribal politics which he noted could plunge the nation into chaos.

Alternatively he could either go back to Defence with a brief to sort out a realistic deployment of the forces or, even better, take up a new post as Secretary of State for the Nations and Local Government - combining responsibility for the three devolved nations and the present «Communities» depaNations and Local Government - combining responsibility for the three devolved nations and the present «Communities» depanations and the present «Communities» department?

The proposal comes as the mayor and Gov. Andrew Cuomo, both Democrats, continued to squabble over responsibility for paying for repairs to the nation's largest transit system that has seen growing delays, mechanical failures, power outages and even derailments.

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.

I am a young man growing up to live in a country where the development of the country rest on the shoulders of everybody.I always become confuse especially when disasters like flood occurs in this nation of ours.One of the problem we have as a nation is a deliberate attempt of us as citizens to shift our responsibility to the central government.People might say because of the fact that they pay tax, government must take responsibility of everything that concerns us.My question is can any government take responsibility of our life?NO.

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«As the largest health care provider in the U.S., VA has the responsibility to continuously examine how our extensive suicide prevention efforts are working, and to identify critical opportunities for improvement in service to our nation's Veterans,» said Dr. Caitlin Thompson, Deputy Director for Suicide Prevention for VA. «This collaborative effort with NIMH provides us with unprecedented information that will allow us to design and implement innovative strategies on how to assess and care for those Veterans who may be at high risk for suicide.

Recognizing that developed countries are principally responsible for the current high levels of GHG emissions in the atmosphere as a result of more than 150 years of industrial activity, the Protocol places a heavier burden on developed nations under the principle of «common but differentiated responsibilities.»

But the roadblocks to their love are great indeed: a supernatural beast on the hunt for Sookie, demi - god orgies casting a spell on her town and her best friend Tara (Rutina Wesley), whose response becomes something akin to an addiction (complete with an intervention and cold - turkey withdrawal), a religious cult war against the vampire nation that tangles up Sookie's gullible brother Jason (Ryan Kwanten), Bill's responsibilities as a «maker» to a newly turned vampire, and Bill's warden (Alexander Skarsgård) making a play for Sookie (or at least for control of her unique talents).

Cameron has argued that Britain is essentially a Christian nation, and students should be taught values such as «freedom, tolerance, respect for the rule of law, belief in personal and social responsibility and respect for British institutions».