Sentences with phrase «views of the other nations»

* Second, without prejudging outcomes or the views of other nations, we believe that the common understandings in this Declaration will help advance the work of the international community so it is possible to reach an agreed outcome by the end of 2009.

Not exact matches

«We are inclined to view it as posing greater trade risk for all types of energy, particularly if other nations establish new trade barriers against U.S. products,» Washington - based research firm ClearView Energy Partners LLC said in a report Monday.

The African nation of Zambia, for instance, has only enough food available to provide its population with 1,870 calories on average, per day, according to a striking global map in the October issue of National Geographic — and in truth, in much of the world, such calorie counts offer an inflated view of what's actually accessible to most citizens, due to widespread poverty, civil unrest, natural disasters, corruption, government mismanagement, food - distribution failures, and other issues.

Additionally, the memo says, Colombia needs a political ambassador with a «wider world view who can use the Colombia assistance we rendered to push [its government] to aid us with training, experience - sharing and the posting of seasoned policy and military officers with other nations (e.g. Mexico, Afghanistan) facing similar narco - terrorism threats.»

I personally think religion should not be a factor.No one should ask the candidates what their religious views are and they should never mention them.Their religious preferences have absolutely no effect on what type of leader they will be.Unless they are some kind of a religious fanatic.I think it's time for an atheist.There was not a Christian president for over the first 50 years of our nations existence.And, I do not think there has been one since.If you look it up you will find not one of our founding fathers were Christian.Not even Jefferson.I know he wrote the Jefferson bible, but, that's just because he, like the other founding fathers, did not believe Jesus to be of divine decent.So, he kept his philosophy while removing all the mystical and dogmatic concepts.

The President and others who recognize the shortcomings of the colonization of peoples by more powerful foreign nations would do well to heed the words of Pope Francis — for whom the President often expresses admiration — about the new form of colonization, holding foreign aid as a hostage when their nation's views reflect a different understanding of the human person, one held by many Americans as well.

We are two nations: one concentrated on rights and laws, the other on rights and wrongs; one radically individualistic and dedicated to the actualized self, the other communal and invoking the common good; one viewing law as the instrument of the will to power and license, the other affirming an objective moral order reflected in a Constitution to which we are obliged; one given to private satisfaction, the other to familial responsibility; one typically secular, the other typically religious; one elitist, the other populist.

Nonetheless, the Justices gravely declared that «the character of a nation of people who aspire to live according to the rule of law» is ultimately to be measured by the people's willingness to put aside their deeply held moral and religious views and accept the Court's pronouncements on this and other divisive questions.

But media «balance» within these nations in practice usually means whatever the government decrees, and there is almost no opportunity for the presentation of other views to help provide balance.

In a fascinating parallel with Thomas Aquinas» view of the matter, Novak shows that the covenant does not abolish nature but builds on it: Where natural justice was the most that other nations in the ancient Near East could imagine, justice was for Israel the bare minimum the covenant guaranteed.

Already two basic values have come into view: (1) our attitude toward our nation and the needs and claims of other nations, especially the poorer ones, and (2) our attitudes toward individual consumption.

It seems to me that both Against the Nations and The Peaceable Kingdom, the two books Hauerwas has published since which directly develop his views in Christian theology (he has published other books in the time on other topics), can be read in the light of them.

Take the long view — we no longer burn women at the stake, we are moving towards equality for gays, and we have a United Nations, Amnesty International, and lots of other groups that work to raise consciousness.

Bloom insists that this optimism was not shared by the nation's founders, who «insisted that the principles of democratic government must be returned to and consulted even though the consequences might be harsh for certain points of view, some merely tolerated and not respected, others forbidden outright.»

Ross also asked the governor about how he thinks history will view him once out of office and that other topic captivating New York and the nation: LeBron James's decision to go to Miami Heat and not the Knicks.

Both individualism and the anti-colonial views that sprung from this era form the basis of a strong national pride, which is evident in America's attitude toward space policy: the US has refused to sign some treaties or treaty proposals that have some support among other space - faring nations.

In a welcoming address, the vice chairman of the homeland study group, Mr Gotthold Yao Agra, said the Western Togoland was clandestinely removed at all levels of education in Ghana with the view to creating a vacuum that will consume the identity as a state among United Nations, African Union and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and other international organisations.

«It is a problem that the nation must find a lasting solution to in view of the impact it has on other aspects of our national life like food securit.»

The former Vice President, while maintaining that the future of the country is bright in view of anticipated changes in all aspects of the life of the nation, appealed to groups «that are aggrieved in one way or the other and espousing separatist sentiments, to drop their agitation and take advantage of the improving political climate in the country, to seek accommodation in the larger united national community that is fast unfolding.»

Some view him as one of the greatest police administrators in modern history who crafted strategies that drove down crime here in New York City and in other big cities across the nation.

The administration and Congress would rely more heavily on external advisory panels to tap into the nations wealth of expertise and to draw on the views of business, academia and other sectors of society.

However, Americans take a dim view of our nation's performance in K - 12 science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education; most believe other countries are doing a better job.

Americans» views of higher education in STEM are more favorable by comparison, but there, too, fewer than half consider undergraduate education (35 %) or graduate education (38 %) in STEM fields as at least above average compared with other developed nations.

Possibly so; but, in view of the recent extensive and successful use of the aeroplane in European maneuvers and, also, of the fact that other nations are spending many millions of dollars for aeronautical purposes, it might not be unwise for our Congress to depart from its usual policy of economy by appropriating a million dollars to enable the army and navy to fully test this new arm.

But at a meeting here this month, researchers and others urged caution in revising what many view as a key feature of the «nation's report card.»

I can not in all conscience, endorse statements 2 and 3 -LSB-(2) Appropriate in terms of their level of clarity and specificity; (3) Comparable to the expectations of other leading nations] The standards are, in my view, much more detailed, and, as Jim Milgram has pointed out, are in important respects less demanding, than the standards of the leading nations.

In an increasingly diverse nation, a substantial body of scholarship shows, it is best for students of all races, ethnicities, and backgrounds to learn from each others» points of view.

Offering panoramic views of the Golden Gate Bridge, the Bay, the downtown skyline, and Crissy Field, the new parklands will immerse a broad cross-section of visitors from across our community and our nation in this extraordinary setting, providing a variety of ways to engage with the site and with each other through new opportunities to learn, to play, and to serve.

Though it can be ceded that perhaps it doesn't work as the middle of Marston's plight, the act itself can instead be viewed as a historical reference to all of the meddling that pesky Americans have initiated within other nations since time immemorial.

The other was View, the premier art and literature magazine of the 1940s, whose Surrealist and figurative focus made it the natural counterweight to the Abstract Expressionists being championed by Clement Greenberg in the Partisan Review and the Nation.

There are signs such changes are starting to occur, both in formal inquiries like the Muir Russell report and United Nations review of the climate panel's procedures, but also even on the blogosphere, where informed individuals with varied views on climate and energy policy are no longer simply throwing verbal bombs at each other in endless rounds of contradiction and instead shifting to constructive argument.

The Convention on Biodiversity and Law of the Sea have not succeeded in advancing their respective causes, but my personal view is that the U.S. has abdicated its responsibility by not ratifying, giving other nations even more cover to behave with extremely narrow viewpoints of national sovereignty, from Russia to China to Brazil to India.

And all this is ten times as true at the international level, where there is no competent governing authority and what each nation does will depend on how it views its interests (and on the kinds of deals — which tend to be decentralized rather than in the central U.N. style process — it might craft with other countries to coordinate policies).

That world leaders reject the views expressed by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as well as popular but misguided works such as «An Inconvenient Truth»; that all taxes, regulations, and other interventions intended to reduce emissions of CO2 be abandoned forthwith.

It supports discussions for solving water issues at regional and international level with a view toward channelling the results of the dialogue into formalized intergovernmental negotiations at a later stage through the United Nations and other global processes.

Now the researchers plan to apply the methodology to other nations to build up a global evidence base for protected area effectiveness, to «move beyond looking at protected areas as a monolithic concept and clarify how different kinds of protected areas, and different ways of locating them in the landscape, affect deforestation and local human welfare», and to measure the impacts of protected areas on humans that live in neighbouring communities, an issue that is «subject to contentious international debate but for which there is little credible evidence to support the opposing views».

Among negotiators, China's stance is widely viewed as a negotiating tactic to lower expectations for action and to allow it to play moral defender for other developing nations, some of whom fear that if China makes a big move, it will increase the pressure on them to do the same.

With contributing essays from a number of experts, the book gives us an unflinching view of how sprawl affects our environment and communities, and how other rapidly developing nations would do well to take note before making the same mistakes.

First, a demand for disconnection clauses (e.g. Art. 282 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea) contradicts the general praxis of international agreements to create an exception for the major part of parties excluding them from the dispute settlement procedure without opening this possibility for the other parties to the agreement (see also AG view para 115 - 6).

Empirically, it is based on the rapid increase in transnational2 interaction (both business and personal) and the resulting development of increasingly complex and increasingly frequent legal problems that raise transnational legal issues as well.3 Normatively, it rests on the view that legal education has an affirmative obligation to expose students to other nations, cultures, and legal systems.4 Legal educators now widely agree that American law schools need to do more to bring international and foreign law prominently into the law school curriculum.

From a review of the «Haudenosaunee Code of Behaviour for Traditional Medicine Healers» and other evidence, Judge Edward found that «traditional medicine continues to be practised on Six Nations as it was prior to European contact and, in this court's view, there is no question it forms an integral part of who the Six Nations are.»

Many investors and regulators rely on Transparency International's annual Corruption Perceptions Index, which tracks people's points of view on various nations» apparent levels of corruption, drawing on a variety of polls and other corruption - related data.

He said, «Nations must first hear, understand, summarize, and validate each other's points of view before persuasion can take place.»