Sentences with phrase «term state of the nation»

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The Trump administration had been trying to pressure Europe, Canada, Mexico and other nations to renegotiate trading terms in America's favor, including limiting the flow of foreign metals into the United States, saying that it would grant exclusions to the tariffs for countries that agreed to meet its demands.

«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.»

Terms like nation, state, government, rule of law, citizenship, passport, and legal justice are minimized or even absent, while the moral language of inclusion, hospitality to strangers, and compassion dominates.

Third, the context has shifted: in contrast to the traditional Catholic conception of the political community, and politics within such communities, as the means of achieving real if limited justice for human life in the world, and a corresponding theory of international relations, recent Catholic thought on war often treats the state as a locus of injustice and the goals of particular states as inherently at odds with the achievement of common human goals, while an internationalism defined in terms of the United Nations system is proposed as the best means to those common goals.

Q.: Garrett Hardin himself has not employed the term «triage,» but he has compared the current status of the existing nation - states to a hypothetical collection of lifeboats cast adrift at sea.

The very term «international relations» is, in fact, of relatively recent vintage, since it implies that the nation - state must inevitably be the basis of its organization.

On the one hand they thought of India as a nation - state in European terms — as a cradle of reason, progress and modernity.

The United Nations is a more promising institution in terms of its nature and purposes, but the United Nations, and especially the General Assembly, has been systematically weakened by the United States with regard to economic matters.

This is certainly obvious in terms of widening the area of human co-operation — in uniting families into peaceful communities with equitable distribution of responsibilities and privileges, and then creating from these the larger communities of states and nations, and finally developing from these a world society dedicated to the fullest realization of every member of the human family.

Meanwhile, the visiting Broncos are coming off a big 45 - 35 victory over Ball State and possess the 11th best passing offense in the nation in terms of yardage.

Instead, the Pakistan which remained tried to carry on, pretending that it was still the land of South Asia's Muslims, just smaller... It never figured out why it should exist as a nation - state, and that combined with poor governance and major geostrategic factors have brought the country to a pass where its further dissolution is now argued increasingly in terms of when and how, not if.

The nation - states of Pakistan and India did not emerge out of some long - term organic evolution, but were carved out practically overnight by the departing British keen to jump with some «honour» intact before being unceremoniously pushed.

With the role of the nation - state in political, economic and social life undergoing a major transformation in most parts of the world, and scholars coming to terms with overlapping and multiple sovereignties, these discussions on citizenship and empirically informed observations on forging and imagining the political community are more relevant than ever.

As the term is used today, however, it refers to a country which is a member state of the United Nations.

On the other hand, post-nationalism in political theory tries to overcome the very idea of nation (in geopolitical and symbolic terms) and advocates a state in which, in the words of Seyla Benhabib (2011), «individuals are rights - bearing not only in virtue of their citizenship within the state, but in the first place in virtue of their humanity».

With the role of the nation - state in political, economic and social life undergoing a major transformation in most parts of the world, and scholars coming to terms with overlapping and multiple sovereignties, discussions on citizenship and empirically informed observations on forging and imagining the political community are more relevant than ever.

Over the past century, the United States had advanced to the world's leading nation — in terms of technology, finance, and in the broad accessibility to education.

Cuomo, they say, was a progressive presiding over a broke and broken state for his first term, and still managed to legalize same - sex marriage, pass some of the strictest gun laws in the nation and embark on an infrastructure rebuilding project unseen since the days of Robert Moses.

«This Board of Legislators has a fiduciary responsibility to the residents and taxpayers of Oneida County to be certain that the amounts of the funds required to be provided by the Oneida Nation, as per the terms of the agreement, are correct,» stated Tallarino.

Blair Horner, Executive Director of NYPIRG, said, «New York ranks consistently as one of the nation's worst states in terms of voter participation, driven by our archaic voter registration and election administration systems.

The President in delivering what he termed evidence - based state of the nation address, listed several achievements in various sectors of the economy including health, where he mentioned some ongoing infrastructural projects to improve access to healthcare.

«New York ranks consistently as one of the nation's worst in terms of voter participation, driven by state laws that create obstacles to voting,» said Megan Ahearn, program director for the New York Public Interest Research Group, «Much of the rest of the nation has developed practices that improve voter turnout.

From legislation that allows union dues to be deducted from state taxes to the Fight for 15 to funding for the Murphy Institute School of Labor, to the nation's strongest paid family leave program, Governor Cuomo has proven, in his two terms, to be the most effective Governor this state has had, and is moving New York forward.»

«We did not take the decision to join HIPC as a political trick or gimmick, but as an opportunity to take a breather to pursue medium to long term targets,» the President said, when heads of United Nation (UN) agencies in Ghana called on him at the State House to express support to the new administration and also outline their programmes for the year.

Unlike the State, which had previously violated the terms of the Compact, the Seneca Nation has consistently honored our commitments under the Compact and will continue to do so,» he said.

New York will invest $ 72 million for 88 projects at state parks, part of a long - term plan to invest nearly $ 1 billion into the oldest park system in the nation.

Republican Oklahoma state Rep. Sally Kern, who's among the nation's most outspoken anti-gay bigots, will leave office at the end of the year due to term limits.

In reference to the United Nations Convention on the status of Refugees of 1951, it states under Article 1 (2), titled «Definition of the term refugee», as follows:

Okowa said, «In the past 66 years of a life of outstanding accomplishments and great personal fulfilment, you have not only served the people of Lagos State as a two - term governor, you also served our great nation as a senator.

In addition, by setting forth several annual increases and taking the historic step of indexing the maximum benefit in the future, we have ensured that never again will our state's benefit fall to its current last in the nation status in terms of wage replacement.

«Federal recognition of the Shinnecock Indian Nation should not cause concern for the potential bidders at Aqueduct, since the State will have significant approval authority for any future gaming venues, including the terms of any such agreement.

WHEREAS, in furtherance of the united effort to address the effects of climate change, in 2015 the 21st Session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCC met in Paris, France and entered into a historic agreement in which 195 nations, including the United States, were signatories and agreed to determine their own target contribution to mitigate climate change by holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, among other terms (the «Paris Agreement»);

The President delivering his last State of the Nation Address under his first term to Ghana's Parliament, said in June 2015, over 10,000 «Made in Ghana» sandals were distributed as part of his social intervention program.

For the last time before the 2016 elections which he seeks a second term in office, President John Dramani Mahama will on Thursday, February 25, 2016, address the Ghanaian public on his stewardship on State of the Nations presentation.

Unlike the state, which had previously violated the terms of the compact, the Seneca Nation has consistently honored our commitments under the compact and will continue to do so.»

To that end, the long - term GAC filtration system for the municipal supply has been in operation since February of 2017 and the New York State Health Commissioner deemed Hoosick Falls» drinking water amongst «the cleanest in the entire nation.»

Instead of wasting time debating the terms of the New York State Gaming Compact, our local government should be working with the Seneca Nation to be good neighbors and continue -LSB-...]

Rev. Bolanle Gbonigi in Ikenne Ogun State after the meeting of the forum accused the administration of systematically excluding the Yoruba nation from the federation in terms of appointments without justification.

The National Indian Gaming Commission allows Class 3 gaming, including slot machines, on tribal lands held in federal trust within the terms of compacts between states and independent Indian nations like the Oneidas.

Back in October 2011, only 10 months into his first term, the governor stated that, «You are kidding yourself if you think you can be one of the highest - taxed states in the nation, have a reputation for being anti-business and have a rosy economic future.»

As evidence of the progress of the economy, President Akufo - Addo, during his 2018 State of the Nation address, cited the strong trajectory of the Ghana Stock Exchange Composite Index in January 2018, which gained 19 percent in dollar terms, according to benchmarks tracked by Bloomberg.

Looking at global trends in R&D investments, Kei Koizumi, a visiting scholar at AAAS, then noted that the investment picture is mixed: The United States ranks 10th in the world in terms of the percentage of the nation's economy, measured by the gross domestic product, that is devoted to R&D investments, yet the nation still holds the top spot for the total expenditures on R&D projects.

The study, published in the June issue of the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, reaffirms numerous small - scale studies in the United States, Western Europe and Japan, but it does so using data compiled across six middle - income nations and involving more than 30,000 subjects for a long - term project that began in 2007.

While writing his dissertation at Oxford in the mid-1980s, he saw residents of some low - income countries — China, Costa Rica, Sri Lanka and the state of Kerala in India — repeatedly trumpeted as healthier than others and, in terms of mortality rate improvement, doing even better than those in many wealthy Western nations.

-- The term «United States greenhouse gas emissions» means the total quantity of annual greenhouse gas emissions from the United States, as calculated by the Administrator and reported to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Secretariat.

But alcohol taxes across the nation have declined in inflation - adjusted terms at both federal and state levels, and those taxes don't cover the costs of alcohol - fueled harms, the report noted.

Although students in the Southeastern region of the United States appear to have made some of the greatest academic strides over the long term, the overall picture of student performance in the nation is one of some early gains followed by a recent stabilization, a new U.S. Department of Education study reports.

The new governor, Andrew Cuomo, in his first major postinaugural speech, complained, «We spend more money on education than any state in the nation, and we are number 34 in terms of results.»

As a result of this legislation, over 350,000 education - related jobs were saved, state governments devised ambitious plans to compete for $ 4 billion in «Race to the Top» grants, and the federal government put forth solutions to the problems faced by the nation's weakest schools But the long - term impact of the stimulus money is much more unclear, according to a nationwide review led by the Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media and the Education Writers Association.

Since 2003, the state has ranked among the top in performance and in progress on what is known as «The Nation's Report Card,» considered among the most reliable long - term measures of achievement.