Sentences with phrase «states against the nation»

Sharia Law is already in full effects in the northern states against the nation's own con - sti - tution.

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With epic cinematography, «Amazing China» — produced by China Central Television and the state - owned China Film Group Co. Ltd. — articulates a message of how China would like to be seen as it pursues President Xi Jinping's vision of a globally resurgent nation, against a reality that doesn't always measure up.

Russian President Vladimir Putin gave a wild state of the nation address to the country's elites on Thursday, and he chose to conclude the speech by hyping up a bunch of doomsday nuclear devices and threatening to retaliate against anyone who attacks the US with nuclear force.

UNITED NATIONS / TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters)- The United States threatened unilateral action against Iran on Monday after Russia vetoed a western bid for the United Nations Security Council to call out Tehran for failing to prevent its weapons from falling into the hands of Yemen's HouthiNATIONS / TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters)- The United States threatened unilateral action against Iran on Monday after Russia vetoed a western bid for the United Nations Security Council to call out Tehran for failing to prevent its weapons from falling into the hands of Yemen's HouthiNations Security Council to call out Tehran for failing to prevent its weapons from falling into the hands of Yemen's Houthi group.

Since taking office in 2009, Mr. Najib has drawn his country closer to the United States and has used his annual United Nations trips to promote Malaysia as a moderate Muslim partner in the fight against terrorism and as a strategic Asian counterforce to China.

We lived through a period in which nation - states competed against each other for glory and preeminence, and the results were not pretty.

The tribe, which says it is prepared to seek damages against the companies in state court, notes in its suit that from 2003 to 2014, more than 350 deaths related to opioids occurred in the Cherokee Nation.

For a nation that isn't officially at war against another nation, the United States dropped an awful lot of bombs on a pretty large number of countries last year, according to research by Micah Zenko, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and research associate Jennifer Wilson.

For now, the best response is that a program such as the above — applied when necessary beyond Iraq, Syria, and ISIS to other challenges against the international order — would buy the Middle East time for the modernization and internal transformation needed to anchor the nation - state principle and provide homegrown disincentives to violence and upheaval.

A heavy union presence tends to work against states in our Workforce category, and Census figures show New Jersey remains among the most unionized states in the nation.

Earlier this week, Clinton spoke out against the Trans - Pacific Partnership, the 12 - nation trade pact that she boosted as secretary of state and that liberals in the Democratic Party have vehemently opposed.

The United States stations 28,500 troops in South Korea as a legacy of the Cold War conflict, which pitted the South, the United States and United Nations forces against the communist North, backed by China and Russia.

We measure competitiveness against other nations and regions of the world, not just other U.S. states.

SYDNEY (Reuters)- The dollar rose to its highest in over four years against a basket of currencies on Thursday after the Federal Reserve's guidance on interest rates highlighted the diverging pathways between the United States and other rich nations.

If the WTO rules against the United States, it could then authorize the complaining nation to retaliate proportionally.

As the United States and its allies contemplate military action against Syria for gassing its own people, Syria is poised to chair the United Nations committee responsible for banning chemical weapons.

The first digital weapon discovered in the wild, Stuxnet shone a light on the potential for such attacks in the U.S., and what could happen if nation - state adversaries, terrorists or anonymous hacktivists were to launch destructive digital attacks against U.S. critical infrastructure.

Critics of the administration complain that it has been slow to retaliate against known nation - state actors.

In response to recent attacks, the Obama Administration issued an executive order directing an assessment of potential economic sanctions against nation - states (sup > 3 and individuals in those states that are identified as having been involved in cyberattacks against U.S. corporations.

«When you are going against the resources of a nation state, you can not go it alone.

Lawsuits filed against one of the nation's largest student loan servicers by the federal government's consumer watchdog and two states highlight the importance of knowing your options for repaying student loan debt.

As well as creating a full - blown cryptocurrency economy inside the app, it would also insulate it against the attacks and accusations of nation - states such as Iran, where it now accounts for 40 % of Iran's internet traffic but was temporarily blocked amongst nationwide protests against the government.

«That this House expresses profound concern that, despite voting 279 in favour and none against the motion calling on the Government to refer genocidal atrocities of Daesh to the United Nations Security Council on 14 April 2016, still, no such referral has been made; recalls the words of the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs in an article in the Telegraph on 27 March 2016, Daesh are engaged in what can only be called genocide of the poor Yazidis, though for some baffling reason the Foreign Office still hesitates to use the term genocide; and calls on the Government to ensure that the unanimous will of Parliament is implemented with urgency.»

After March 4, 2013, an International Arrest Warrant will be issued against these Defendants.The guilty verdict followed nearly a month of deliberations by more than thirty sworn Citizen Jurors of the 150 case exhibits produced by Court Prosecutors, The Court's judgement declares the wealth and property of the churches responsible for the Canadian genocide to be forfeited and placed under public ownership, as reparations for the families of the more than 50,000 children who died in the residential schools.To enforce its sentence, the Court has empowered citizens in Canada, the United States, England, Italy and a dozen other nations to act as its legal agents armed with warrants, and peacefully occupy and seize properties of the Roman Catholic, Anglican and United Church of Canada, which are the main agents in the deaths of these children

And that presumption has severely weakened the Church in America of being the kind of community that produces people that can stand against the pretensions of a nation state that is out of control.

According to the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), state prosecutors argued for the death penalty against Lim in Wednesday's 90 - minute trial at the nation's supreme court, reportsThe New York Times.

Hillary Clinton made a forceful appeal for the United States to back Israel as the Jewish nation's forces squared off against Hezbollah during the 2006 Lebanon War.

Madison, chief architect of the Const.itution and eleven of the Amendments, on more than one occasion, wrote that it was a mistake and against the principles of religious freedom achieved through the separation of church and state for the taxpayer to fund chaplains for the nation's congress.

We are reminded of the relatively recent event in 1967 where the fledgling nation of Israel faced overwhelming odds against the combined military might of the Arab states.

also stating that this country is a Christian nation and trying to apply Christian «principles» to government or society as a whole, is worth fighting against.

CNN: My Take: McCain takes down Bachmannism and stands up for America Stephen Prothero, a Boston University religion scholar and author of «The American Bible: How Our Words Unite, Divide, and Define a Nation,» praises Sen. John McCain for defending Huma Abedin, deputy chief of staff to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, after accusations were leveled against her by some congressional Republicans.

Mr. George W.Bush, the previous President of United States of America, initiated a war against IRAQ, without obtaining the previous sanction of United Nations Organization (UNO) on the pretext of having nuclear weapons, even though the then IRAQ government openly exhibited to the whole world that it has no nuclear weapons.

Here, too, Johnson provides some valuable cautions against a too quick criticism of the nation - state and an overenthusiastic embrace of a single global authority.

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 symbolic nature of the struggle is stated succinctly in Roman's discussion of the 1917 constitutional congress: «Although other arguments were also used against the clergy, the issue returned time and again to the saving and the building of the nation and to destroying the ideological domination of the church» (italics added).55 Article 3.

Looking at this side of the ambiguity, we see a church in which many first - world Christians of our day could feel comfortable and undisturbed: a church that lives without question or resistance in a state founded on violence and made prosperous by the exploitation of less fortunate nations; a church that accepts various perquisites from that state as its due; a church where changing jobs for the sake of peace and justice is seldom considered; a church that constantly speaks in the language of war; a church given to eloquent invective in its internal disputes and against outside opponents; a church quite sure that God will punish the wicked.

Wars were fought for the glory and power of nation states rather than for Christianity against the infidel, or for sectarian religious beliefs.

n 1797, the United States Senate ratified a treaty with Tripoli that stated in Article 11: As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen; and, as the said States never entered into any war, or act of hostility against any Mahometan nation, it is declared by the parties, that no pretext arising from religious opinions, shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.

Instead, as we all are aware, the institutions of the nation - state (prominently the family, the schools, the churches, the mass media) commonly teach ethnocentrism and prejudice against people who are racially or Ideologically either traditionally or conveniently used as scape goats.

The newly nationalistic Russians are reacting against their libertarian or excessively voluntaristic period of the 1990s; History and the nation seemed to evaporate — to be replaced by the ruthless anarchism of the Hobbesian / Mafia state of nature.

It is quite another to call the fight by civilized nations against terrorism, including state sponsored terrorism, an act of terrorism itself whether you agree with the fight or not.

As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion, — as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen, — and as the said States never entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mahometan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.

«As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquillity, of Mussulmen; and, as the said States never entered into any war, or act of hostility against any Mahometan nation, it is declared by the parties, that no pretext arising from religious opinions, shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.»

Pol Pot didn't get elected President of the United States, tell everyone that god was directing him, then lie his way into a groundless war while we were already fighting one against a nation that harbored our true enemy.

«As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion, — as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen [Muslims], — and as the said States never entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mahometan [Muslim] nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.»

For behold, the Southern States shall be divided against the Northern States, and the Southern States will call on other nations, even the nation of Great Britain, as it is called, and they shall also call upon other nations, in order to defend themselves against other nations; and then war shall be poured out upon all nations.

«As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen; and, as the said States never entered into any war, or act of hostility against any Mahometan nation, it is declared by the parties, that no pretext arising from religious opinions, shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.»

A punitive expedition against a prospective threat to American security turned into an exercise in nation - building, the nation - builders turned into hostages, and the hostages to Iranian threats become the excuse to concede nuclear capability to a terrorist state.

Ireland will be the first European Union state that has been given the OK to sell beef in the United States again after Mad Cow disease turned the nation against foreign beef in the 1990s.

Tonight's matchup between Michigan State and North Carolina not only pits two of the nation's most successful programs against each other, but also marks the first time a college basketball game is being played on...