Sentences with phrase «war councils in»

They gather a little army around them, they have war councils in their living rooms and plan the downfall of those they oppose, all the while praying for «wisdom, guidance and, above all, that your name may be honoured».

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With city data indicating that African - Americans have been charged with marijuana crimes twice as frequently as white residents, the Oakland City Council voted unanimously in March to allocate 50 percent of medical marijuana and cannabis sales permits to people affected by the war on drugs.

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The Bill 12 legislation and the trade war escalation it might spark would damage Alberta and Canadian businesses and citizens as well as those in British Columbia, warned Greg D'Avignon, CEO of the Business Council of B.C.

With those stats from the city of Oakland's Department of Race and Equity in hand, the City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to overhaul the nation's first equity program to set aside 50 percent of medical marijuana and cannabis business permits during the first phase of permitting for people affected by the War on Drugs.

Consider this possibility: William F. Buckley may be best understood as a central figure in the golden age of what came to be called the American Catholic Renaissance, which began just before the Second World War and ran through the beginning of the Second Vatican Council.

This is an aspect of the Church's teaching that has not yet been fully developed and needs to flourish in the 21st century as we ponder the message of the great Council of the Church that was held in the 20th, following two ghastly world wars and the imposition of atheism on vast tracts of the globe.

«At the official press conference that unveiled Caritas in Veritate, Cardinal Mgr Renato Martino, President of the Pontifical Council of Peace and Justice -LSB-...] said that Cold War ideologies «have been replaced by the new ideology of technology,» and that the «arbitrary nature of technology is one of the greatest problems of today's world.»

In Pursuit: Of Happiness and Good Governmentby charles murraysimon and schuster, 341 pages, $ 19.95 In January of 1964 President Lyndon Johnson's Council of Economic Advisers helped launch the War on Poverty by including in its annual report a chapter on «The Problem of Poverty in America.&raquIn Pursuit: Of Happiness and Good Governmentby charles murraysimon and schuster, 341 pages, $ 19.95 In January of 1964 President Lyndon Johnson's Council of Economic Advisers helped launch the War on Poverty by including in its annual report a chapter on «The Problem of Poverty in America.&raquIn January of 1964 President Lyndon Johnson's Council of Economic Advisers helped launch the War on Poverty by including in its annual report a chapter on «The Problem of Poverty in America.&raquin its annual report a chapter on «The Problem of Poverty in America.&raquin America.»

World government proponents were deeply ambivalent about the formation of the UN after World War II, recognizing that in important respects it entrenched the nation - state by creating a General Assembly based on national representation and a Security Council reflecting the conventional notion of Great Powers.

While the United States bishops focused on nuclear war, a more general judgment about modern war as inherently unjust had been present in Catholic thought since at least 1870, the year when a group of bishops, in a Postulata addressed to Pope Pius XI and the First Vatican Council, excoriated the expense of «huge standing and conscript armies» and the prospect of «illegal and unjust wars, or rather hideous massacres spreading far and wide.»

That Catholicism could be regarded as pacifist is in many ways an odd notion, but the adherents of this position argued that the Second Vatican Council, in calling for the spirituality of the religious life to be expanded among the laity, implicitly extended the traditional non-involvement in war of the religious to all faithful Catholics.

Granted, President Bush did make a public relations misstep in the days immediately following the 9/11 attacks when he called the coming U.S - led war against global terrorism a «crusade» and promised that terrorists would face the «full wrath» of the U.S. «A lot of people think that America is out to get Islam, anyway,» Joshua Salaam, director of the Council on American - Islamic Relations, warned at the time.

In his decision to convoke the Second Vatican Council, John XXIII wished the Church to be prepared for the new world that was emerging in the aftermath of the disastrous events of the Second World WaIn his decision to convoke the Second Vatican Council, John XXIII wished the Church to be prepared for the new world that was emerging in the aftermath of the disastrous events of the Second World Wain the aftermath of the disastrous events of the Second World War.

Even in the last star wars movie the universal council fell under the desires of a Nimrod type.

After the war, at its meeting in 1946, the Joint Committee recommended several common projects between the International Missionary Council and the Provisional Committee of the World Council of Churches.

During the war the Council was a constant reminder to Protestant Christians that they were brothers even though caught in war.

In 1948 after the pain and bloodshed of the war, the first World Council meeting was held in AmsterdaIn 1948 after the pain and bloodshed of the war, the first World Council meeting was held in Amsterdain Amsterdam.

Returning to World War II, McDonnell says it is hard not to envy the freedom of religious leaders such as William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, and Willem Visser» t Hooft, who would later head the World Council of Churches, to speak out forcefully and in very specific terms.

Plans for the formation of the World Council of Churches were well advanced before the outbreak of the Second World War, but only came to fruition in 1948.

After the war, an enlarged meeting of the International Missionary Council took place in Whitby, Ontario in Canada in 1947.

The Second Vatican Council began and ended in the aftermath of the Holocaust and the worst war in human history.

Israel should acknowledge the right of return or compensation to Palestinian refugees; we have to acknowledge also that if the Palestinians had accepted the 1947 UN partition plan, which the Palestine National Council approved last November in Algiers, all the wars, all the expulsions and all the subsequent suffering might have been avoided, and we would today be enjoying peaceful coexistence in two neighboring states.

His speech at the ecumenical conference in Fano in 1934 has recently become well known, for in it he rejected all human means of security and called for a Christian council of all churches to reject war.

So, using Chapter VII and if everyone in the Council agrees, the UN can go to war itself.

Iraq's war: In the legal point of view, Iraq's invasion was illegal because the decision was made unilaterally and not the Security Council.

Gradually, during the 1990s, the Security Council began to use Chapter VII much more to impose economic sanctions, arms embargoes, and to deploy large peacekeeping forces and even military attacks in many civil wars.

Added to these over-arching responsibilities are individual powers to operate the Royal Prerogative (as the de facto chair of the Privy Council)- to declare war (including single - handedly authorising the launch of a nuclear strike), to sign international treaties and to represent the UK at the highest level in international and European negotiations.

The invasion is arguably an act of aggression, or a war crime, not because no war was declared, but because the UN Security Council was not in agreement that Iraq was not fulfilling its obligations to UN weapons inspectors and was in possessions of WMD's.

Now to the few examples pointed out: Early christian communites, Kibbutzim, early workers» soviets (= councils) in Russia, The Paris Commune, Anarchism during the spanish civil war, particularly around Barcelona.

However, the legality of the Iraq War has not (to date) been challenged in the security council, probably because the US have veto power in it.

Over the last year, the UK government has encouraged the UN Security Council to create an international investigative team to support Iraq in gathering evidence of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.

Jennifer Welsh is Professor in International Relations, University of Oxford and Co-editor (with Vaughan Lowe, Adam Roberts, and Dominik Zaum) of The United Nations Security Council and War: The Evolution of Thought and Practice since 1945, (Oxford University Press, 2008) and (with Ngaire Woods) of Exporting Good Governance: Temptations and Challenges in Canada's Aid Program (Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2007).

Commentators ascribed her victory to a strong personal vote, decisive in a campaign dominated by issues such as the Iraq war, criticism of Tony Blair and a leap in council tax caused by periodic revaluation of property values.

City Comptroller John Liu has not stopped attending events or City Council hearings in the week after his campaign treasurer Jia «Jenny» Hou was charged with funneling illegal donations to his mayoral war chest even as Democratic insiders are questioning how a bid for Gracie Mansion could possibly take place.

Following comments that his city should reject refugees in the way the U.S. interned Japanese - American citizens during World War II the mayor of Roanoke, Virginia, has lost his spot on Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's Virginia Leadership Council.

The appointment by the United Nations Human Rights Council of a special commission to investigate Israeli actions during the latest war in the Gaza Strip seems to confirm the skepticism with which that organization is held by many people in North America and Europe.

In fact, the ECHR was proposed and negotiated for strongly by the UK, drafted mainly by British lawyers and adopted by the Council of Europe (a council first proposed by Winston Churchill during World War II and established in 1949In fact, the ECHR was proposed and negotiated for strongly by the UK, drafted mainly by British lawyers and adopted by the Council of Europe (a council first proposed by Winston Churchill during World War II and established inCouncil of Europe (a council first proposed by Winston Churchill during World War II and established incouncil first proposed by Winston Churchill during World War II and established in 1949in 1949).

Carolyn McLaughlin, the president of the Albany Common Council and the Albany County Democratic Committee chair, seconded the nomination by noting Schumer's work on behalf of Henry Johnson, a World War I veteran, and in cracking down on oil trains that run next to Albany's public housing.

The U.N. Security Council decided on Wednesday to reduce the number of U.N. peacekeepers in Ivory Coast, citing considerable progress in stabilizing the West African country where a civil war erupted five years ago.

Mr. de Blasio is locked in a bitter war with Uber over a pair of City Council bills aimed at curtailing the growth of e-hail companies.

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The governor and the emir have been embroiled in a proxy war for many weeks, with the state government's anti-corruption agency launching a probe of Kano Emirate Council finances in apparent retaliation for Emir Sanusi's open criticism of the governor's top project priorities.

By late February, with the fighting in full swing and civil war a distinct possibility, the national council was established with a view to coordinating activity between liberated areas.

After the second world war, it suffered its share of «marsh cowboys» and as a result the sporting rights held by the Crown Estates were taken over by the Nature Conservancy Council, now the CCW, when the area was designated as a National Nature Reserve in 1968.

Manhattan Councilman Dan Garodnick, who is term - limited out of the council in 2017, has raised a considerable campaign war chest (almost $ 1.5 million) split among three different accounts for a potential statewide run.

Last year he was instrumental in passing Security Council resolution 1701, which helped halt the Israel - Lebanon war.

Mr Prentis also revealed that he has a # 30m war chest for «enormous» industrial action involving all 1.4 million Unison members in schools, hospitals and councils this autumn.

City Councilman Dan Garodnick, who is term - limited out of the council in 2017, has raised a considerable campaign war chest split among three different accounts for a potential statewide run.

Mayor Bloomberg fired a new salvo in his war against a City Council measure to rein in stop - and - frisk, charging the anti-racial-profiling legislation would actually end the successful policing strategy and aid dangerous criminals.