Sentences with phrase «rights at a stand»

Two Nordic banks are divesting from companies which contribute to the continuous violations of indigenous rights at Standing Rock through their direct involvement in DAPL.

Not exact matches

Right now, for the S&P 500, that ratio stands at more than 29, its highest valuation since 2002 and well above its historical norms.

Regardless of where you stand right now, it always the right time to take a hard look at just what you have and what you've built.

Nor, for that matter, is he adept at the political stunt: When McConnell stood onstage at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) meeting in March waving a flintlock musket over his head as a show of his support for gun rights, the senator was roundly mocked.

With health care one of the most hotly debated subjects right now, here is a look at where the U.S. stands in terms of health - care costs and services.

Score's tied at 10 and he goes right to the bench, stands up on the bench, and just lets the Buckeyes fans behind him that were giving to Baker, he turns at them and says, «You like that one?

The contract has sparked a debate among corrections officers, their union, and activists, who are at odds over whether the special - operations training is the right approach to solving Rikers» long - standing brutality problem.

To his right are Caldwell's employees at their own desks, seen through a glass wall that is meant to remind them of his standing offer to come in and talk.

Malcolm Gladwell may or may not have been completely right when he claimed that becoming a true expert in any subject requires 10,000 hours of practice, but whether his exact number stands up to scrutiny, the underlying truth still holds — getting good at things is time - consuming and involves a lot of hard work.

Even with Stumptown's recent decision to supply a coffee stand in a terminal at New York City's John F. Kennedy airport, the company made sure the servers used the right equipment and passed a full training program.

Right now, home prices stand at more than five times incomes, well above the historical norm of 3.5.

Since then, P&G has simply recovered lost ground; its current stock price is hovering right where it stood two - and - a-half years ago, at around $ 93.

«The right thing for him to do,» Mr. Poilievre said of Mr. Cuzner, «instead of throwing mud at this side would be to stand up and explain what his party is doing about its own law - breaking.»

At some point, provided that dividend is safe and investors are convinced it is going to be maintained, the dividend yield on the stock itself is going to be so attractive that it brings in buyers from the sidelines, people who otherwise can not stand to see the yield right there in front of them without doing something about it.

Will Riley, a senior at Carlsbad High School in Carlsbad, New Mexico, launched «Stand for the Second» in an effort to speak out on behalf of young people who support gun rights.

Where a contractual assignment of patent rights is not unequivocal the contract can not defeat standing at the pleadings stage in a correction of inventorship action.

Right now, as listed on Coinmarketcap, a BTC stands at $ 4340.

Bear Stearns is trading at $ 6 instead of $ 2 because unelected bureaucrats went beyond their legal mandates, delivered a windfall to a single private company at public expense, entered agreements that violate the the public trust, and created a situation where even if the bureaucratic malfeasance stands, the shareholders of Bear Stearns will either reject the deal or be deprived of their right to determine the fate of the company they own.

For example, we support the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), which stands at the basis of the UN Global Compact's Human Rights Principles, and our CEO Paul Bulcke signed the UN Global Compact CEO Statement for the 60th Anniversary of the UDHR.

And if you can find them at the right time, you stand to make a lot of money.

«Together we can send the unambiguous message that the women of UBC have supporters everywhere who will stand against sexual violence — that the rape chants that students at the Sauder School were participating in are deplorable and must be properly dealt with as a violation of women's human rights; that repeated sexual attacks on young women on campus are a crisis with which we should all be concerned.

Thus, as it stands right now, neither cryptocurrency is even close to sniffing at Bitcoin's heels — but will they ever?

The stand out message for me was right at the start: Optimizing for traffic, or Optimizing for conversion.

Corey Lewandowski, bottom right, then the campaign chairman for Donald Trump, stands at a rope line as Trump signs autographs during a campaign stop in Buffalo.

The ratio, which currently stands at over 30x, has only been this high two times since 1881: once in 1929 right before the stock market crash, and again at the end of the dot - com bubble in 2000.

In the end, when we stand at deaths door, only one of us can be right.

* Ezekiel 21:21 For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, to use divination: * Psalm 109:6 Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand.

I think it is wonderful a company will actually stand up for their right to choose their mission statement and defend it instead of changing at first sign of opposition!

If you are Christian you should know that the Pharisees had Jesus — the truth — standing right in front of them, but all they could do was look at their writings and deny the truth.

Why because that feel that they are right because they have their own beliefs that must be right but at the same token they belittle others because they stand by their own beliefs.

Asked about this, most ministers admitted surprise at hearing how Charles stood on gay rights.

ACN is helping local Church leaders to stand up for people's rights by providing support at the Inter-Religious Dialogue Centre in Khulna.

To the right at the first fork stand the technological optimists, clamoring for freedom to turn loose their genies on the problems of food, energy and pollution, and promising unlimited abundance if only the traveler will go their way.

I think the fact that there is an over-arching, enduring covenant that somehow reaches out in the mess, both standing with and healing the victims AND extending opportunity for growing to the grossest offender, gets at the exact kind of mercy that will most right the world.

(CNN)- Columnist and gay - rights advocate Dan Savage is standing by his comment that «we can learn to ignore the bulls ** t in the Bible about gay people» at a recent conference for high school students, a line that prompted some to walk out and spurred intense online debate.

He may also be faced with incomprehension and hostility when he tries to persuade the school not to support «Red Nose Day» or «Jeans for Genes»; when he suggests that asking pupils to stand at the front of the class and shout out the names of intimate body parts is an invasion of their modesty; when he objects to the non-Catholic geography teacher's presentation of solutions for over-population, the «gay rights» agenda seeping in through text books, the chaplaincyco - ordinator's failure to get abortion agency leaflets removed from the library, or the school nurse's distribution of cards with information on how to get the morning - after pill.

If does not matter that their view on same s $ x is at odds with you or even that you feel their views are fanatical, they still have the right to stand up for their beliefs.

Yet Mikhail Gorbachev, himself instrumental in altering the course of events in the former Soviet Union, was probably right when he said that humankind stands today at a watershed in its history.

tf: Did you once consider that maybe the reason it appears we speak out more against your god than other gods is because it is your gods believers that seem to be at the center of so much in this world??? I don't see Pagan's standing on street corners or attempting to use their holy books to deny equal rights.

Bercier, however, defends the university as the primary narrator of the American story, at least in part, because that story is exceptional, and permits America «to be and stand in the world» as a matter of «right and duty».

I stand back and look at the Bible tumping Right whose actions scream un-Christian and it is interesting how CNN and its ilk just ignore their behavior, I wonder why — in bed with FOX rRight whose actions scream un-Christian and it is interesting how CNN and its ilk just ignore their behavior, I wonder why — in bed with FOX rightright?

Now, to stand your ground, it will be helpful to know what tactics and strategies the enemy will come at you with, right?

Are we going to be able to have a serious discussion about the rights of gays and the prejudices directed toward them and pray away the gay, while chomping away at a chicken stand?

I want to stand right on the Georgia / Alabama border at the time zone boundary and see if one vertical half of my body gets «raptured» while the other half has to wait a whole hour.

Yesterday we looked at a famous theological question from the days of Jesus, and I suggested that Jesus hated the question, especially when the person that the debate was about was standing right in front of Jesus with a need that could be met.

I am not scared of a really small man telling me there's an invisible, inaudible, intangible man standing behind me who will pound me at some undefined point in the future if I don't do what that small man tells me to do right now.

To the right at the first fork stand the technological optimists, clamoring for freedom to turn loose their genies on the problems of food, energy and pollution, and promising unlimited abundance if only the traveler...

The Church opposes contraception, and the approach at the time seems to have simply to stress the duty of Catholics was to obey this — a position which was, of course, entirely right, but which emphasised obedience and tribal loyalty rather than an understanding of the issues and a sense of involvement in standing up for what is right.

In contrast, while the priests in the Jerusalem temple were standing and offering daily the sacrifices of bulls and goats, Jesus Christ offered for all times a single sacrifice for sills and he sat down at the right hand of God.

I turned towards the reeds and there, standing still and staring right at me was a heron, a big blue heron.