Sentences with phrase «something about our nation»

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And «when people talk about a possible European nation debt default, we're talking about something that could happen within 12 to 18 months fairly easily.»

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But, if you give a data scientist a really challenging problem like identifying the ideology of a nation or an issue, a model or something, it's about solving the problem.

After witnessing sluggish growth rates for the past few years, Middle Eastern nations finally have something to cheer about as the new financial year promises an economic rebound.

The only times I really start to think about your myth when a someone at work or I'm out doing something and one of YOU feels the need to inject your faith into my life or worse, when one of our nations policy makers feels the need to govern from the bible.

When Isaiah tells us that the nations of the earth are but dust on the scales (Isaiah 40:15), he communicates something profound about nationalism.

When, in the great movement of modern liberalism, we demythologized the state and rejected most of the metaphysical foundations of politics, we gained much» but we also lost something, and one of the things we lost is any coherent theory about the nation's continuing authority to enact such metaphysically fitting punishments as the death penalty.

The truth about marriage, for example — the lifelong union of one man and one woman, open to new life and the foundation of a family — is not something that will go away simply because the government of a nation, or institutions that it funds and promotes, want it to do so.

I guess I feel the same way about a liberal agenda that say that to get out of debt we have to spend more, or that my tax dollars have to pay for something I think is morally wrong (Obamacare sets up a fund to pay for late term abortions) or a government that confiscates kids lunches, or tells me how much soda I can drink, or uses my tax money to choose winners and losers (mostly losers but Obma doners) in energy production that produces no energy yet we are sitting on more coal and oil than any other nation on the planet.

Every human existence which is not conscious of itself as spirit, or conscious of itself before God as spirit, every human existence which is not thus grounded transparently in God but obscurely reposes or terminates in some abstract universality (state, nation, etc.), or in obscurity about itself takes its faculties merely as active powers, without in a deeper sense being conscious whence it has them, which regards itself as an inexplicable something which is to be understood from without — every such existence, whatever it accomplishes, though it be the most amazing exploit, whatever it explains, though it were the whole of existence, however intensely it enjoys life aesthetically — every such existence is after all despair.

When they suggest that something's gone seriously wrong with our nation's culture, and further suggest what American Christians might need to do about it, Dreher and Esolen have plenty of persuasive company.

Any man who can not make a rational decision about something before he asks, «God» first... doesn't deserve to be in control of an entire nation!

No doubt, Noah warned his nation against him but I tell you about him something of which no prophet told his nation before me.

My last point and Im out... Throughout our great nations history... we always found a way to fight through national issues and come up with solutions... Giving the problems we have now to people in the 50's and 60's... and they may actually come up with a solution... if you earnestly care about making a change... start at the lowest levels of government... go do something... find out costs... expenses... how to get more health care to people... do things like that... quit waiting on the government to provide all the answers... its not the way this country was founded... and not the way we get through problems... If you or ur family does nt have insurance... get a job that can provide you that... instead of hoping the government will do so... If you or ur family lacks access to education... move to an area that excels at it... education is invaluable... Do something about your problem... and quit waiting for the next big lotto...

Normally, I wouldn't choose the book of Revelation as 2:00 a.m. reading material, but all night long I'd been chasing the broken pieces of a prophecy around my head — something about tribes and tongues and nations, verses I knew but couldn't quite remember, like a poem with missing syllables or a song with forgotten words.

And we have a Prime Minister who seized the leadership of the Liberal Party by opposing the best method of trying to do something about it and who appoints advisers who believe the whole thing is a plot by the United Nations to undermine democracy.

They've been so stifling through their first 20 games — allowing just 0.801 points per possession and a field goal percentage of 32.1, both the lowest figures in the nation — that it is now customary for losing coaches to say something retweetably superlative about how they guard.

We're tired of All - Star arguments around here at SB Nation, so we've decided to do something about it.

When I was trying to figure out which defensive lineman I wanted to write about after Solomon Thomas, I went back to our trusty SB Nation Super Mock Draft Compilation something or other.

I think its time to do something about this, over the 2 legs, ireland were clearly the better side, that notwithstanding this particular french team is the worst i've seen in decades, and they have no bussines going to the world cup.It is time for replays to be reviewed in some cases and goaline technology to be applied in other cases, i think we human being have come of age to realise that we humans are not perfect, no matter how hard we try, so for sepp blatter to keep resisting replays and goal line technology is quite baffling to me, i can't really understand why 3 socalled officials could make a decision, a decision in which the whole world saw to be a foul, and its allowed to stand, and a nation is left, heartbroken, cheated and bitter, i am an african, but as a fan of football, i felt terrible seeing this, and i beg the question, if someone other than the team is not benefiting from this, why can't the officials be allowed to take a look at the replays in order to officiate the game better?

At one of this year's many data - focused Netroots Nation panels, former Obama data guru Ethan Roeder noted something about the effective use of voter - targeting technologies: that's it's less about the data itself, and more about creating a culture of letting the information in...

What's left is little faith that she will do something about the issues of most concern (housing and the NHS), nor that she has the strength represent the nation's interests at the Brexit negotiation table.

But he wants to require county executives to do something about the state's rates, which are highest in the nation.

Yet fledgling businesses out of those research labs get about 7 percent of the nation's venture capital, something Ms. Gillibrand said needs to change.

«History is going to record that this nation did not have enough people stand up and do something about gun violence,» he remarked.

Pan: Per capita, they are still obviously way behind the United States and other industrial nations and there is this argument that the United States and the West, you know, they went through their industrial revolutions and we need to go through ours, but still that ignores the argument that the others, the lessons learnt, you know, China should be able to take a different path and there is a budding environmental movement right now in China, trying to put pressure on the government to do something about this, but again, you know, these officials are addicted to economic growth.

The president also quoted the native - born Bill Gates, a man, he said, who «knows a little something about the high - tech industry,» to the effect that excluding those «able and willing to help us compete» will damage the nation's «competitive edge.»

That suggests to me that something is happening here that's way bigger than the largely made - up tiff between Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) and Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner (D) about whether Houston should have been evacuated before Harvey dumped trillions of gallons of rain on the nation's fourth - largest city.

There is something about this country and this nation that makes you want to think about the «matters of the flesh and heart» and it is only logical to be interested in meeting these people.

How those two goals intermingle and conflict is a source of drama, but mostly this film is an endless series of scenes where white men bicker inside candlelit rooms about the fate of the nation and the foolhardiness of trying to get something like this passed.

Only Up in the Air really felt like it had something sweeping to say about the state of our nation, and it did it by telling a personal story.

NCLB, while broadening awareness of the achievement gap, simultaneously narrowed the purpose of our nation's schools, boiling the whole endeavor down to the incremental movement of testing numbers as an attempt to say something about student literacy and numeracy.

More generally, knowing something about programming makes us competitive as individuals, companies and a nation.

Putting aside the reality that the actual number of poor parents with four or five children in the school system is extremely low, the stunningly ignorant and disturbing approach to «doing something» about the crippling impact of poverty in Hartford is a stark reflection about how out - of - touch many in the Corporate Education Reform Industry actually approach the real issues that are limiting educational achievement in Hartford and other poor communities across Connecticut and the nation.

At the end, he hopes that somebody reading Underground Airlines «will have something akin to the experience I had [writing it], which is this: as much as I thought I knew about my nation's history and the pervasiveness of racism in our present day, I had a lot to learn.»

«Not only do ebooks cost too much, DRM is a disgrace, for a myriad of reasons, and the «text to speech» feature is not something the publishing world should be concerned about,» Konrath wrote to Kindle Nation last week.

He has also addressed the nation on many radio and TV networks, occasionally on subjects he knows something about.

I hope they feel better about their lives and they feel they have done something right for the human nation.

But Empire's lumbering remoteness says something about the age it portrays: a century of mass armies and big ideas, the Wealth of Nations and age of steam.

You'll be introduced to brand new characters, discover the deeper ties that bind rulers to family and nation, and perhaps even discover something about yourself as you decide which nation tugs at your heart the most.

Both the United Nations and TreeHugger have been saying something like this for some time, so I won't go into every detail of the report, but here's the gist of what UN Special Rapporteur Olivier De Schutter just told the UN Rights Council about the

But one of the most significant things about Taiwan's trash program — and something developed nations would do well to emulate — is the public buy - in that the government has managed to achieve.

Litia Malikano Maiava from Tokelau, a small Pacific Island with a population of 1500, gave the audience something to cheer about: «Although we are the smallest island in the world, we are the first nation in the world to rely on 100 % renewables.»

My question is why arn't we actualy doing something about this inevitability, coastal cities need to be prepared along with many more preperations to the nations.

UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown said, «I think the great thing about the Commonwealth conference is that we could find nations that were rich and poor, nations that were facing directly now climate change and nations who were debating it but hadn't felt the full impact of it, all coming together to agree something that, you know, if a third of the world can agree at the Commonwealth conference, then perhaps the whole of the world can agree at Copenhagen.»

The differences between a relatively low perception of the climate challenge and public willingness to do something about it are even greater in other nations: in Israel (56 points) and Ukraine (48 points), countries which are not among the top 20 CO2 emitters, and in Poland (44 points) and South Korea (41 points), which are.

At this point, I wish to say something about the misuse of computer climate models by the United Nations» IPCC as a supposed «scientific» mode of divining the Earth's climate over the next 20, 50, 100, 1,000 or even 100,000 years.

They are adding to the climate problem, so the world's nations wanted to do something about it.

According to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), we are losing about 77 square miles (200 square kilometres) of forest each day thanks to decisions that the land should be used for something else.

What a contrast with the international treaty process that can't even seem to agree on reduction targets for the world's nations, much less do something about them.»