Sentences with phrase «southern states with»

The first time I heard someone say the name Howard Finster I was 16, riding in a van across the Southern states with a group of like - minded do - gooding teenagers.

Many of their dogs come from kill shelters in southern states with few (if any) spay neuter laws, and pet overpopulation is epidemic.

Toyota is now stuck with a plant with high UAW wages for its hourly workers, while its competitors open plants in Southern states with much lower wages.

In his doctoral qualifying paper, Shaw found that the effects of affirmative action bans in Southern states with a history of state - sponsored segregation are not limited to more exclusive academic institutions.

Leading CNNPolitics: Poll: Democrats competitive in key southern showdowns New polls in three southern states with crucial Senate contests this year indicate that Democrats remain very competitive as they try to keep control of the chamber.

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The new state of Chicago, for example, might hug the southern and southwest edges of Lake Michigan from Milwaukee to Michigan City, Ind., with an arm reaching west to take in Madison, Wis., and another arm reaching east to South Bend, Ind..

Brookfield Multiplex will start work by the middle of the year on a $ 350 million expansion of Mandurah Forum, with the redevelopment to make the southern suburbs mall the sixth - biggest shopping centre in the state.

The Great Southern district is expected to contribute to the State's growth in the future, with a projected increase of nearly 35 per cent on its 2001 - 02 grape crush of 10,594 t.

Margaret River heads the regions in terms of wine grape crush numbers, accounting for more than 22,000 t, or 43.7 per cent, of the State's crush, followed by the Great Southern area with 10,594 t.

When Tom Davidson served as a state legislator for a small district in southern Maine two decades ago, he became intimately familiar with the byzantine, bureaucratic, and often, frankly, subpar sausage - making that goes into bankrolling education at a local level.

In certain cases, unscrupulous politicians from the north took over southern state governments during Reconstruction, issued bonds and made off with the proceeds.

Trump grouped former presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, who fought to create the United States, together as «slave owners,» with southern leaders Lee, Jefferson Davis and Stonewall Jackson.

She'll try to address it by rounding out her ticket with Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine, a Harvard - educated former civil rights lawyer who's nonetheless got lunchbucket cred as the successful former governor of a Southern state.

The 6,600 - kilometer cable, the first to connect the United States with southern Europe, will be operated and managed by Telefonica SA's telecoms infrastructure unit Telxius.

«The cross-border operation may involve nationals of other countries, but once it gets to I - 10 and comes east toward the southern states and up north on 95... those are American organized crime groups that are helping with the distribution internally.»

The United States is both a buyer and seller of energy with both its southern and northern neighbors and has been for decades.

Across North America, and particularly in warmer southern states, homeowners have been dropping impressive piles of cash on so - called «outdoor rooms» — patios that have been not only carefully landscaped but also fitted out with sectionals, outdoor TVs, high - end barbeques and gas - powered heaters.

The Southwest and Southern states, as well as Alaska and Hawaii, will have «above - normal significant wildland fire potential,» with the risk starting as early as this month in some places, according to a wildfire outlook issued May 1 by the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) in Boise, Idaho.

End Illegal Immigration Act Fully - funds the construction of a wall on our southern border with the full understanding that the country Mexico will be reimbursing the United States for the full cost of such wall; establishes a 2 - year mandatory minimum federal prison sentence for illegally re-entering the U.S. after a previous deportation, and a 5 - year mandatory minimum for illegally re-entering for those with felony convictions, multiple misdemeanor convictions or two or more prior deportations; also reforms visa rules to enhance penalties for overstaying and to ensure open jobs are offered to American workers first.

The southern state depends on the Gulf Coast region typically for gasoline and also has a relatively higher total gas tax of 31.59 cents compared with bordering states like South Carolina and Alabama.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen announced from the White House briefing room on Wednesday that President Donald Trump is deploying National Guard troops to the U.S. southern border immediately in conjunction with the border state governors.

RAPID, part of the Pengerang Integrated Complex (PIC) in the southern Malaysian state of Johor, will contain a 300,000 barrel - per - day oil refinery and a petrochemical complex with a production capacity of 7.7 million metric tonnes.

Today, the company is still headquartered in Alabama, with its thousands of branches and ATMs spread out through 15 Southern and Midwestern states.

The class action, filed in United States District Court, Southern District of New York, and docketed under 17 - cv - 09903, is on behalf of a class consisting of investors who purchased or otherwise acquired Qudian's American Depositary Receipts («ADRs») pursuant and / or traceable to Qudian's false and misleading Registration Statement and Prospectus, issued in connection with the Company's initial public offering on or about October 18, 2017 (the «IPO» or the «Offering»), seeking to recover damages caused by Defendants» violations of the Securities Act of 1933 (the «Securities Act»).

China's three largest state - owned airlines namely China Eastern Airlines Corp, China Southern Airlines Co and Air China Ltd are all expanding their fleets while some budget airlines are also preparing to compete with the national carriers.

File photo by A.J. Sisco / UPI RICHMOND, Va., Oct. 30 (UPI)-- Industry supporters have started an ad blitz in southern U.S. states, arguing offshore oil and gas exploration can exist side - by - side with the environment.

North America FDI & Economic Development Update Knowing their target markets helps northern US states and Canadian provinces compete with the southern US for foreign direct investment.

The issues that have dominated news cycles in recent weeks — North Korea, along with extreme weather in the southern United States — should not obscure the robust underlying fundamentals of the US economy, in our view.

If abortion and related life issues are in fact the great civil - rights issues of our time» in that they test whether the state may arbitrarily deny the protection of the law to certain members of the human community» then Griswold eventually led to a situation in which the Democratic and Republican positions on civil rights flipped, with members of today's Democratic party playing the role that its Southern intransigents played during the glory days of the American civil - rights movement.

First Baptist's move to deny a wedding venue has been blasted by local and national officials with the Southern Baptist Convention, whose 16 million members make up the largest Protestant denomination in the United States.

When Rob Bell released Love Wins, a book that made a compelling biblical case against the exclusivist theology that all non-Christians will be condemned to eternal conscious torment in hell, the Southern Baptist Convention released a resolution that stated: «Being troubled, even deeply troubled, by the implications of the biblical text does not give us a reason to abandon the text or force it into a mold that rests comfortably with us.

Thus, when James Petigru Boyce founded the first theological seminary among Southern Baptists in 1859, he required every professor in that institution to sign an explicit statement of doctrine pledging to teach «in accordance with, and not contrary to» the beliefs stated therein.

In an interview with The Politico, University of Virginia theologian Charles Marsh, author of Wayward Christian Soldiers and the son of a Southern Baptist minister, stated: [68] «As someone who grew up in Mississippi and Alabama during the civil rights movement,... my reading is that the conservative Christian movement never was able to distinguish itself from the segregationist movement, and that is one of the reasons I find so much of the rhetoric familiar — and unsettling.

The Kaduna State governor has been accused of trying to restrict press freedom and silence voices that draw attention to violence in southern Kaduna, where for over a year Fulani herder militia have attacked communities, killing over 800 people and seizing land and property with relative impunity.

Karen Swallow Prior is professor of English at Liberty University, Research Fellow with the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, and a member of the Faith Advisory Council of the Humane Society of the United States.

«In addition, as the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change works with the state government to deliver democratic dividends, we urge it to also assist in addressing the challenges to rule of law posed by these arrests and prosecutions, encouraging respect for press freedom and advocating for protection and justice for targeted communities in southern Kaduna.»

Might there even have been a few visionaries beginning about 1850 to promote a centennial celebration in which the several southern states would proclaim Emancipation, voluntarily doing away with the «peculiar institution»?

Just more stiring of the Pot to go to war with Iran, getting the male egos in the Southern States fired up to Kill in the name of Religion and those who manipulate them by doing this news reporting.

Because local autonomy and states rights became largely synonymous with the rights of Southern whites to enslave and, subsequently, segregate Blacks, Protestants committed to humane Christian values turned to the power of the national government to override the autonomy of local communities and states.

Coupled with the Southern states in the high - religiosity category is Utah, the majority of whose residents are Mormon — the most religious group in America today.

«The [ACP] report shows many faithful Southern Baptists continue to worship, share the gospel, give generously, and live in community with other believers,» he stated.

With just under 15.5 million members, the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) remains the largest Protestant group in the United States.

Up until the latter half of the last century, their terrorist activities were undertaken with the tacit approval of a significant percentage of the population and sometimes with the explicit support of law enforcement agencies in the southern states.

«The stage is now set financially, organizationally and spiritually for IMB to work with Southern Baptist churches to create exponentially more opportunities for disciple making and church planting among unreached peoples around the world,» stated Platt in IMB's press release.

Christianity has been confused in the past, in situations more or less similar to the present, with the rule of the Roman Empire, with feudalism, with the divine right of kings, with the rule of majorities, with the dominance of the Northern States over the Southern, with the extension of Anglo - Saxon influence in the Orient.

The Southern states were particularly remiss with regard to the Negro people.

Mr. Maddox, a Southern Baptist minster, is executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, with headquarters in Silver Springs, Maryland.

«The contraceptive mandate was an unlawful overreach, forcing a choice between obedience to God and compliance with the regulatory state,» tweeted Russell Moore, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention.

«This decision will save lives, will encourage the hundreds of thousands of men and women who will march on Washington this week [at the Jan. 27 March for Life] for the rights of unborn children, along with millions more around the country who believe that foreign aid should promote life, not end it,» stated Russell Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC), in a written release.

This bias is most outstanding with the program «Gospel Singing Jubilee,» which draws 97 percent of its just - under - a-million audience from the southern states.