Sentences with phrase «too young a nation»

I think the reasons for Somalia and South Sudan are quite clear — Somalia has not had a functioning government in decades, and South Sudan is simply too young a nation to have signed and ratified all those important treaties yet.

Not exact matches

For example, after explaining how their research shows that three - quarters of young outsiders and half of young churchgoers describe present - day Christianity as «too involved in politics,» this is what Kinnaman concludes: «To address the deep challenges that are facing people in our nation and around the world, Gabe and I have come to the conclusion that being politically engaged is more important than ever.»

But here, too, Kagan tends to focus on extremes, claiming that the commitment of America's founders to international law and diplomacy reveals a «psychology of weakness» that reflects the young nation's lack of power in the late eighteenth century; likewise, the secret yearning of the Founders to beat the Europeans at power politics pointed toward a properly imperial future.

Mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities; rusted - out factories, scattered like tombstones across the landscape of our nation; an education system flush with cash, but which leaves our young and beautiful students deprived of all knowledge; and the crime, and the gangs, and the drugs that have stolen too many lives and robbed our country of so much unrealized potential.

Mark S Kiselica writes in When Boys Become Parents, «For too long our culture has treated boys who become fathers... as detached misfits who are the architects of many of our nation's problems, rather than seeing these youth for who they really are: young men trying to navigate a complex array of difficult life circumstances that place them at a tremendous disadvantage.»

A Close Look at Dr. Hovind's List of Young - Earth Arguments and Other Claims by Dave E. Matson Too Young to Wed, a multimedia partnership between the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and premier photo agency VII, seeks to raise awareness of the

Employers Vexed Over Unprepared Grads As high schools across the country churn out class after class of eager young minds, the nation's employers complain that too many are ill - prepared.

Khalil's is the story of too many young people of color in disinvested communities across the nation.

Mazzola said, «After having attended the Summit, I am convinced more than ever that quality character education can help solve this serious problem that ruins the lives of far too many young people in our nation.

Reader François knows this all too well as he documents an early moment from Final Fantasy XIV: «The trees of the Shroud meet the sky as Kan - E-Senna watches a young adventurer depart for the other nations of Eorzea.

Too young to enlist when the nation was in the grips of World War II, he joined the Merchant Marines and somewhere along the Equator found himself drawing maps of the ship in colored pencils.

I was too young to be a part of that exciting time in American culture and history, when the Woodstock Nation faced off against the Pig Empire.