Sentences with phrase «role as our nation»

Attorney General Jeff Sessions, a longtime opponent of marijuana legalization, is embracing the Just - Say - No attitude towards marijuana and links the industry to violence and crime as he begins his role as the nation's top attorney.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has gained a reputation for being rather reclusive in his role as the nation's new top diplomat — and a report suggests he might even have trouble looking people in the eye.

It is known for its pleasant climate throughout the year and is widely regarded as the «Silicon Valley of India» because of its role as nation's leading Information Technology exporter.

This storage capacity also is playing an important role as our nation has become more energy secure.

Only within the last half century has the complexity and size of the Federal Government's responsibilities grown so greatly that the Congress must rely on the legislative veto as the most effective, if not the only, means to insure its role as the Nation's lawmaker.

We also believe in Head Start's continuing role as the nation's laboratory for early childhood development and education.

«Acelero Learning exemplifies Head Start and Early Head Start's role as the nation's laboratory for early childhood innovation,» said Yasmina Vinci, National Head Start Association (NHSA) Executive Director.

As part of FHA's attempt to shore up its capital reserves and begin pulling back from its active role as a nation's dominant mortgage provider, beginning with April 2013 case numbers, the Annual MIP will increase by 5 to 10 basis points, depending on the loan term and loan - to - value.

Not exact matches

They mold you for your future roles as the custodians of the nation's defense.

The nation's largest retailer may be looking to play a bigger role in health care by acquiring Medicare insurance giant Humana — just as its rival Amazon is increasingly making moves in the sector.

The order includes 12 intelligence officers from Russia's mission to the United Nations who were using their roles as «covers» to conduct covert operations, U.S. officials said.

Now, the nation's largest retailer may be looking to play a bigger role in the sector by acquiring Medicare insurance giant Humana — just as its rival Amazon is increasingly making its own moves in the health - care market.

Conspicuously missing from the document, says Adams, is any treatment of how the US will have to adapt to a rapidly rebalancing world, with China a rising superpower, and other nations such as Turkey increasingly playing an independent role.

BERLIN — Despite bitter opposition in many quarters to the austerity - first policies Germany has imposed on Europe's poorer nations, Chancellor Angela Merkel's government has hung on to its role as champion of integration on the Continent through deft use of diplomacy and the country's economic clout.

In her role as Senior Project Manager at the United Nations SSE initiative, Tiffany leads a work stream on green finance and works with stock exchanges and regulators more broadly to improve sustainability and transparency of capital markets worldwide.

And, as long as the nation's current interventionist ideology holds sway, it will only be through a financial meltdown that the US's role as global policeman will come to a much - needed end.

Recognizing our nation's caring spirit, the Aga Khan cites Canada as a role model for the world and has selected Ottawa as the home of a new global centre for pluralism.

Today we take a look at the increasing role that e-commerce is expected to play in the development of China as a consuming nation, a transition that is being accelerated by the growth of shopping via smartphones and other mobile devices.

As I've noted before, the greatest act of respect for American troops would be for the Bush Administration to extract the U.S. from the role of occupier and to legitimize its role as peacekeeper; to abandon the objective of unilaterally shaping Iraq, shift enforcement to a wider force of NATO troops, and expand the role of the United Nations in civil matterAs I've noted before, the greatest act of respect for American troops would be for the Bush Administration to extract the U.S. from the role of occupier and to legitimize its role as peacekeeper; to abandon the objective of unilaterally shaping Iraq, shift enforcement to a wider force of NATO troops, and expand the role of the United Nations in civil matteras peacekeeper; to abandon the objective of unilaterally shaping Iraq, shift enforcement to a wider force of NATO troops, and expand the role of the United Nations in civil matters.

Prior to MyLumper, he served as the Director of Logistics for the largest seed and garden company in the nation, followed by his next role as Founder and CEO of Track Logistics Group, which he held for 10 years before developing the electronic payment based company that offers the solution to an age - old stressor in the trucking industry.

New Democrats have long been advocating for the expanded use of midwifery services across the province as we believe that midwives play an integral role in the health care system and can be of particular benefit to women, families and First Nations communities by bringing specialized maternity care to otherwise isolated areas.

As India modernizes, its middle class grows, and the nation assumes its new role in the global economy, energy supply will have to keep up with the pace of growth.

British Columbia must play an important role as Canada and the nations of the world reach for an accord and begin to take decisive action.

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.

Part of Israel's call was to be a light of who Yahweh is so that the nations around could come to faith, through faith, by the Passover blood and then the sign of circumcision, which for us I believe plays the same role as baptism.

In recent discussions about Britain as a Christian nation, Archbishop Justin Welby defended the role of church schools.

Beside it is not clear if he wrote the book bases Islam & the Quran or basis the Muslims in Asia or Muslims in Europe or America since although Islam is one but the Branch of Islam, the Race, the Customs & Traditions play a tough role in shaping each nation of Islam to look & thinks different from each other... am sure you have the same thing in Christianity as wouldn't think Chinese Christian is exactly like European Christians or European Christians are all the same with out any differences whether Protestants or Catholics or between both branches??

As Meacham argues, to impose religion on the American people violates the Constitution; but to oppose religion denies history itself, for religion has played an active role in shaping the nation's ethos.

In a time when most everyone concedes, as if it were nothing out of the ordinary, that America's role in the world constitutes some variation of empire, it is useful to note, as Bacevich does, how rapidly this transformation has occurred and how radically it breaks from the nation's previous self «understanding.

Richard John Neuhaus» essay («Forget the Bilderbergers,» Public Square, February) on United Nations officials» interest in promoting transnational sovereignty and Non «Governmental Organizations» role in support of their effort was, as is everything he chooses to comment on, instructive.

In dealing with a range of threats» from international terrorists to such «rogue nations» as North Korea and Iran» international institutions and multilateral cooperation can and must play a crucial role.

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.

He says, «They did not find themselves playing their role in the history of the nation or of humanity as a whole.

Just as Israel, as God's elect nation, was elected to serve God in a specific task, but this does not mean that every individual Israelite was regenerate, so also, election elsewhere in Scripture has nothing to do with whether or not someone has eternal life, but has everything to do with what role God wants them to serve in His plans and purposes for the world.

Post-1945 German history convinces me that there is such a thing as repentance in a nation» s life and that political leaders play a major role in cultivating such repentance.

But for a crucial moment, they effectively played the role in this war that the Gulf of Tonkin «assault» played in the Vietnam War, as sources of a war hysteria that «united» the nation around a mistake.

As with any edited collection, some chapters are better than others, but on balance, there is plenty here to reward readers who want a closer look at the role of religion in the particular places that make up this extremely varied nation.

In light of the tragic shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, Lawrence M. Krauss, author of A Universe from Nothing, asks «why, as a nation, do we have to institutionalize the notion that religion must play a central role at such times, with the president as the clergyman - in - chief?»

It is this cultural role of the Church for its non-members, for all the Queen's subjects, which gives it such stature in the life of the nation — «woven into the fabric of our nation» as she put it — and which makes her so committed to it.

But nationalism in the emerging nations has a constructive role — so long as it avoids idolatry and is open to accommodation and cooperation with neighboring states.

I understand that we are a different nation to China and as such we have a different culture, but just as each one of us individually has a different role to play in the body of Christ could that not be the true for different nations?

In The Hindu (13 July 1999) C.V. Narasimhan provocatively justifies the coming together of the mother - tongue, the mother - land and the mother - religion in Hinduism.19 While I wholeheartedly affirm the necessary and positive role that Hinduism can and ought to play in nation - building, the notion that the land, language and religion of India can be viewed as coming under the «motherhood» of one monolithic label is dangerous and unacceptable.

If we had a Christian President, with strong morals who understood his role as a leader of the nation and not as an agent of «the lord», that would be the best of both worlds.

Americans of all beliefs should consider the role of religion in our society from time to time and the most powerfully important aspect of our nation is that however you believe, you have a right to be here and believe as you choose.

Lira is now playing a key role as the commission's final report is revealed to the nation.

According to Giberson and Stephens, you might be an anti-intellectual fundamentalist if you are an evangelical who: dismisses evolution as «an unproven theory»; deny that «climate change is real and caused by humans»; think that «the founders were evangelicals who intended America to be a Christian nation»; defend spanking children; believe in traditional roles for the sexes; think that reparative therapy can «cure» homosexuality; and / or oppose gay marriage.

In the United States in the nineteenth century, and well into the twentieth, it was understood that students should be prepared to play their roles as citizens of the nation.

And Abraham's role is also understood in relation to nations: in KJV En 17:4 and 5, it is written, As for me, behold, my covenant [is] with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations.

Marshall uncritically accepted the roles assigned to men and women in the American Dream as the nation returned to «normal» patterns of work and family life.

But this was not exactly a failure in regards to her role as God's chosen nation, but was a failure she shares with all people on earth who do not believe in Jesus for eternal life.