Sentences with phrase «right by the nation»

Let us believe in Ghana and do what is right by our nation, and thereby fulfil the dreams and aspirations of those far - sighted individuals who initiated the steps for our national freedom and independence.

His mask cast off and Black Panther powers stripped away, this king is a young man trying to do right by his nation, his family, and himself.

Such results might influence the thinking of an objective observer primarily interested in doing right by the nation's poor children.

Not exact matches

He also relies heavily on claims made by human rights groups and the United Nations in supporting his case against the Assad regime — claims that some skeptics have said are made with zero verification.

Had the founding fathers been joined by the founding mothers, perhaps they might have enshrined this human right in the charter — as lots of other nations have done — but it's important to acknowledge that, in the U.S. Constitution, no such explicit right is specified.

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Those skills paid off handsomely for the first - term Republican this week as Governor Rick Snyder signed into law bills co-sponsored by Colbeck that ban mandatory union membership, making Michigan the nation's 24th right - to - work state.

From liberal Scandinavia to the southern reaches of the continent in Greece and Italy, far - right parties by their own standards are showing sizeable growth in multiple nations.

Feelings run high, for example, around a key Canadian Human Rights Tribunal ruling last year, which found that the federal government discriminates against First Nations children by underfunding family services.

«But more importantly, we aim to show the nation how a Midwest company — with a team not focused on a «quick exit,» but rather a laser focus on doing right by clients and building an enduring financial services brand — can move the needle on the retirement savings epidemic in this country.

Asked if he believes the Jewish people have a right to a nation state in at least part of their ancestral homeland, Mohammed bin Salman was quoted by U.S. magazine The Atlantic as saying:

But there's no question the brewer's star brand is Michelob Ultra, whose shipment growth surged 21.3 % in 2017, ranking it as the nation's sixth - largest beer, right behind Corona, which is owned by Constellation Brands.

The Government of Canada must take all measures necessary to ensure that the laws of Canada are consistent with the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples that was adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations as General Assembly Resolution 61/295 on September 13, 2007 and that is set out in the schedule to this Act.

VICTORIA — New Democrat spokesperson for aboriginal relations and reconciliation, Scott Fraser, and New Democrat children and families spokesperson, Doug Donaldson, welcomed this week's decision by the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal that the federal government discriminates against First Nation children...

-- «California's housing crisis is so bad, families are squatting abandoned homes just to survive,» by Mother Jones» Bryan Schatz: T» he right to adequate housing — not just four walls and a roof, but «a safe and secure home and community in which to live in peace and dignity» — is decreed by the United Nations, but you wouldn't know it by looking around California, where nearly a quarter of the nation's homeless people live... In Oakland, where buyers routinely offer hundreds of thousands of dollars over asking prices, there are nearly four vacant properties for every homeless person.

It should not be surprising, then, that the answers now supplied by the international community — United Nations officials, human - rights activists, international lawyers, and global diplomats — sound theological while they do not explicitly assert a theology.

From Isaiah 45:2: 1Thus says the LORD to Cyrus His anointed, Whom I have taken by the right hand, To subdue nations before him And to loose the loins of kings; To open doors before him so that gates will not be shut: 2 «I will go before you and make the rough places smooth; I will shatter the doors of bronze and cut through their iron bars.

If Coughlin is right, our hope lies in the fact that our souls, and therefore our nation, by nature can not remain neutral.

Domestically and internationally, Ahmadinejad is regarded by not a few as a capricious dictator whose presidency has included serious human rights violations, routine defiance of the United Nations, development of capabilities for nuclear weapons, and massive student protests against his government.

But now those are already there at yours maybe if you prepare them right as to education and training for finally deputing them to return to their own countries with the needful backup and authority they will be useful tools for the advancement and prosperity of their nations then you will have no one wanting to immigrate leaving behind their own families and friends... in addition to that you will see those who immigrated towards your country start moving back to their own countries and this is the only solution to resolve the issue of illegal immigration and to find peace... otherwise if things go on as it is today surely slowly slowly you will find that your own countries become inherited by piling up immigrants who might get starved due negligence turn on against the Host country... that has contributed in the destructions of their countries but not towards and advancements or developments of their countries and nations to find peace and make a living..!?

That would bring into question any claims that this was a nation founded by actual Christians, right?

Thus says the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, whom he has taken by his right hand to subdue nations before him and strip the loins of kings, to force gateways before him that their gates be closed no more: I will go before you levelling the heights.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted and proclaimed by the General Assembly of the United Nations on December 10, 1948, through Resolution 217A (III).

As Nuremberg had shown, there is a higher law than the positive law of nations and every child has the right to be brought up by his or her parents.

That same day, I learned about more deaths in Syria, about a young man murdered by a white supremacist, about the impact of the famine in Sudan, about problems with my nation's inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women right here at home.

Our Father Abraham: Jewish Roots of the Christian Faith by Marvin R. Wilson, Jewish Spirituality: A Brief Introduction for Christians by Lawrence Kushner, The Myth of a Christian Nation by Greg Boyd, The Politics of Jesus by John Howard Yoder, Decision Making and the Will of God by Gary Friesen, Satan and the Problem of Evil by Greg Boyd, A Concise History of the Crusades by Thomas Madden, and Manifest Destiny: American Expansion and the Empire of Right by Anders Stephanson.

Moreover, in a time of global economics, even nations that are more respectful of the Declaration are pressed by interested parties to give economic considerations precedence over the moral imperatives of human rights.

Our difficulty in speaking about cross-cultural principles of right and wrong is compounded by the fact that international organizations, from the United Nations to the World Court, are fragile and nearly helpless in many of the most critical areas of conflict.

The ideological underpinnings of universal human rights jurisprudence can best be gathered by glimpses of International Conferences organized under the auspices of the United Nations.

Efforts to promote such changes in the guise of human rights are correctly condemned as egregious instances of «cultural imperialism» by which elites of certain rich nations, not least of the United States, attempt to impose their values on the rest of the world.

For example — Often used by many christians as an arguement for intolerence towards human rights... I pose that every religiously ran nation like that of Iran and Iraq are exactly what the religious in this supposedly tolerent country wish to turn this country into, where science and logically thought are frowned upon and knowledge of fairy tales are rewarded.

It carried to fulfillment a long development of thought, disentangling persons from submergence in the social mass and giving to each one status, meaning, and rights of his own; it concentrated attention on the spiritual value of personality and its possibilities; it created a religion to be entered by free personal choice, regardless of race or nation; it set persons to building a social fellowship for the redemption of souls; and it proclaimed as the ultimate goal of divine creation and human hope the kingdom of God in «new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.»

«My nation, right or wrong,» is okay by me, so long as I am free to say with my patriotism and my human integrity intact, «But in this instance my nation is wrong!»

This accord inaugurated the modern nation - state by giving political leaders supreme authority, including the right to decide the state's official religion, within their territorial boundaries.

Catholic kings received those rights first, but the nation - states would soon inherit them — nation - states that were, as often as not, governed by a doctrine of often anti-Catholic laicism.

The religious right, most recently through the extremely dangerous «Tea Party,» have hi - jacked what SHOULD be logical public discourse or social programs, and turned them in to a Bible fight by claiming, incorrectly, that this is a Christian nation, and that we should be legislating the Bible.

More important, I was struck by the prevailing assumption in UN leadership that it had, by moral right, replaced nation - states as the legitimate governor of the world.

Movements such as de-colonization, the rise of Communism — especially the expulsion of missionaries from China by the Communists — and the attempt to vindicate Human Rights culminating in the United Nation's Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) have direct and indirect impact on mission understanding.

They intend their document, which has worked its way through several years of preparatory meetings, to be presented to the United Nations in 2000, adopted by the General Assembly in 2002, and eventually achieve the enduring status of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights.

Among the many positions taken by these critics, the argument most relevant to our present theme is that the rise of international institutions under the umbrella of the United Nations system represents the leading edge of a new global system of government that has superseded the state in important respects, including the right to judge when resort to armed force is legitimate.

The big bang does not state that something comes from nothing, and the rest of your argument is ludicrous.This is why Bill Nye is right - a lack of scientific understanding results in a nation full of ignorance and lack of critical thinking; not good for a nation that is basically making money by being on the cutting edge of technology.

In the negotiations over the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child, now accepted by virtually every nation except the U.S., the minimum age at which the fetus becomes a child was hotly disputed.

100 million children are exploited for their labour according to a recent estimate by the International Labour Organization (ILO), («Human Rights: Contemporary Forms of Slavery» United Nations Fact Sheet 14, 1995, p. 1.)

The days and weeks of commemoration organized at the secular level by bodies such as the United Nations Organization and its related agencies can help orient the eucharistic communities also to issues such as children's rights, women's emancipation, the aged, foreign debt, peace, environment, food, employment, AIDS, drugs, crime, cancer... etc..

The problem of the sovereignty of the nation state will be at the heart of this working area and, closely linked to sovereignty will arise two other questions: that of citizenship (over and above nationality) and of property (struggle against the private appropriation of material and immaterial resources by «intellectual property rights»; the redefinition of state property; the development on an inter-national, supra - national and world level of new forms of socialisation, of public ownership, and of mutualisation of the property).

The main objectives of this Consultation were to analyze globalization and its impact on human rights; to study ethical and theological considerations with regard to globalization; to search for alternative development paradigms; to study the policies of developed nations on development and trade policies in the context of globalization; to gain inputs on the experiences of indigenous people, workers and farmers who are affected by globalization; to consider the response of the Churches to the challenges posed by globalization and to study and identify concerns that the Asian churches can take up in order to address the adverse impact of globalization in the Asian context.

«The International Association of Genocide Scholars, over 200 members of Congress, and over 70 human rights experts and organizations, spanning the nation's religious and political spectrum, have raised their voices that the treatment of these communities by ISIS meets even the strictest definition of genocide under international law, and must be treated as such,» said Kirsten Evans, executive director of In Defense of Christians (IDC).

The council called on the new government to «restore constitutional order and affirm citizens» political, economic and other fundamental rights and freedoms» and to assert «the territorial integrity of Ukraine, whose independence is a gift from God and is valued by our entire nation, which is why we have no right to allow for its separation, as this would be a sin before God and future generations.»

If morality as proclaimed by various religions is denied a place at the policy table, then our nation will only be guided by those with a very cramped and limited moral view — which would have been a disaster for abolition and civil rights way back then — and would be no less a disaster today.

Our objective should be to strengthen the United Nations, including our respect for its majority, by working to end the Security Council veto system (and by stopping using our present right to veto).