Sentences with phrase «universal support of»

Our accomplishment of creating the eBook today will be much more fruitful if the universal support of EPUB 3.0 is widely adopted.

The universal support of universal pre-K is oddly reminiscent of 2001, when a bi-partisan Congress passed the No Child Left Behind bill (384 to 45 in the House and 91 — 8 in the Senate) promising universal accountability.

But former Cuomo aide Steven Cohen seemed to take shots at a de Blasio mandate in a column in City & State, insisting the election had a low turnout and «while it is clear that the city has embraced universal pre-K, it remains to be seen how universal the support of the mayor is.»

It nevertheless concluded that the currently available data, combined with a lack of uniform safety standards and regulations, were «insufficient» to support a finding that soft helmets prevented head injuries such that universal support of soft helmets was «premature at this time.»

Not exact matches

«But he keeps winning these Democratic primaries, and he's getting the support of a majority of Democratic voters despite his views that are clearly not Democratic, which tells me that the things he says transcend politics and if there is not universal acceptance, there's more widespread acceptance for his beliefs and viewpoints than I think people realize.»

«From the start we had a bigger vision of disrupting the digital and media industries,» says CEO Rory Armes, better known as the founder Radical Entertainment, for many years the No. 2 video game studio in Vancouver behind Electronic Arts (it was sold to Vivendi Universal Entertainment in 2005 and reduced to a software support office in 2012).

Shortly after the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012, 89 % of the U.S. population, including 84 % of gun owners and 74 % of NRA members, supported universal background checks.

Seventy - four percent of NRA members support universal background checks for anybody who wants to buy a gun.

Swift didn't comment on her change of heart towards Spotify, but Vox notes the move follows a contract that Universal Music Group (Swift's label) negotiated with Spotify to enable artists to keep new albums off the level one version of the platform, which is ad - supported and free to users.

Here, for example, are the results of surveys by the Pew Research Center, which found strong support for measures ranging from an assault weapons ban to universal background checks to restrictions on people with mental illness buying guns.

The service has reportedly secured the support of Warner with Sony and Universal currently in talks.

Though 92 percent of Americans support universal background checks, gun reform was a less significant issue to voters than terrorism and the economy.

The policy of guaranteeing every citizen a universal basic income is gaining support around the world, as automation increasingly makes jobs obsolete.

Some of the suggested changes make sense and have garnered near - universal support.

For example, we support the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), which stands at the basis of the UN Global Compact's Human Rights Principles, and our CEO Paul Bulcke signed the UN Global Compact CEO Statement for the 60th Anniversary of the UDHR.

In the hotly contested special election in this southwest corner of Pennsylvania, one issue has universal support: President Donald Trump's tariffs on steel and aluminum imports.

Key policies include introducing a Guaranteed Annual Income; ensuring universal access to quality childcare and early childhood education; cutting debt for post-secondary students; honouring the Kelowna Accord with Aboriginals; expanding the rights of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transsexual Canadians; and easing the income support levels required for immigrant family sponsorship.

But in a mirror image of the findings on a gun ban, support for universal background checks often polls in excess of 90 percent.

«Given the benchmarks established by international law and universal legitimacy, and in light of the support offered by the Christian Church in the Holy Land, we believe Palestinians should also have a state that they can at long last call home.

It was the Universal opinion of the Century preceding the last, that Civil Govt could not stand without the prop of a Religious establishment, & that the Xn religion itself, would perish if not supported by a legal provision for its Clergy.

Both of these statements support the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, but justify and define these rights in terms of Islamic law and Scripture.

This revolution in religious thought is exemplified by religious leaders» current support for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was drafted by the UN Commission on Human Rights.

Thus support for human rights in the Jewish, Christian and Muslim communities follows a pattern: each group believes that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other human rights standards established through international law derive authority from the teachings of its own religious tradition.

For myself, I support things like CHOICE, separation of church and state, women's rights, universal healthcare, etc..

Supporting its historical claim of being the «universal» church, American Catholicism displays vast ethnic, national, linguistic, and social diversity.

The resulting formalism is too enfeebled to support the objects and methods of twentieth century mainstream mathematics, and the great irony of Macfarlane's criticism becomes this: the failure of Universal Algebra lies not in relentless, arbitrary abstraction and formalization but in the narrowness of its extensive base.

This revolution in religious thought is exemplified by religious leaders» current support for the Universal Declaration of...

Deism is the recognition of a universal creative force greater than that demonstrated by mankind, supported by personal observation of laws and designs in nature and the universe, perpetuated and validated by the innate ability of human reason coupled with the rejection of claims made by individuals and organized religions of having received special divine intervention.

(I seem to recall there are an approximately equal number of Scriptures supporting all three afterlife positions: hell, annihilation or universal salvation.)

A February poll by Quinnipiac University found 66 percent supported stricter gun laws across all demographics, with 97 percent of respondents saying universal background checks should be mandatory.

It is based on the total lack of evidence supporting religious claims and the universal fact that everything ever examined operates according to natural laws.

Within the scientific community evolution is an undisputed fact and the level of support for it is essentially universal.

This passage certainly seems to indicate that eternal objects («universals») are directly involved in the process of objectification, and it is precisely passages such as this one which lend support to the view of Christian and Leclerc.9

Radical faith supports a radical discernment: human action is response or reply to the prior action of God in the midst of the universal community.

The last sentence refers to the hope of Christians for their own salvation and can not be used to support any theory of universal salvation.

He says that certain Pauline texts (most of which I have cited above) «support» universal redemption.

Families can be understood in how they handle universal concerns of control, power and intimacy — that is how well they maintain coherence and structure, have a sense of who is in charge of what and at what time, and provide members with feelings of connection trust and support.

It would also provide a better liaison between Rome and diocesan bishops, supporting their efforts and strengthening them in their communion with the universal Church under the successor of St Peter.

«The majority of our country supports change, and 92 % of Americans support universal background checks, but unfortunately powerful lobbyists for gun manufacturers have some politicians scared to do what they know is right.»

«It is hard for me to believe that we need a piece of legislation on compromise when 92 % of the American public supports universal background checks,» Crebbin said.

If I as an individual see a person in serious need, and I have to resources to help him or her, I may be called to do so, but I am most emphatically not called as a matter of universal principle to create and support a government program to help everyone similarly situated.

They prescind from undertaking judgments about human goods in the hope of attracting universal support for the regimes they propose.

This happens whenever a woman is presented with a universal statement about the «biblical» role of women in the world, which is typically extrapolated from a single biblical text without regard to literary or historical context and followed by a parenthetical string of additional unrelated and out - of - context Bible verses for support.

Jesus does not support his demand for love by referring to the value of other men as human beings, and love of enemies is not the high point of universal love of humanity, but the high point of overcoming of self, the surrender of one's own claim.

In Egypt and Lebanon the support was nearly universal, and in Iraq — where Christians have been expelled by ISIS — 82 percent of Muslims were comfortable with non-Muslim neighbors.

For those that are ignorant to the Catholic Churchs stance on Health care, they have been major supporters of Universal HealthCare, and initially supported the Health Care plan from the Obama Administration.

Metz, on his side, denies that any one party or class should see itself as the subject of universal history; 28 and Whitehead's vision allows, even requires, an argument that supports the Christian concern for «the least».

most of the article is a «why, if you really think about it and read between the lines, jesus probably might not really support universal health care probably» excuse for being a christian and not supporting health care for the poor.

you know what f4ck this I'm going to end this once and for all i the great rebel ye who brought war to the throne of God support free universal health care

In the Protestantism of the United States financial self - support was universal.