Sentences with phrase «which national boundaries»

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Even people in our churches are often more inclined to form opinions on international matters on the basis of national identity rather than Christian identity, which can never be confined to the boundaries of a nation - state.

International treaties have become far less important than trade agreements such as GATT and NAFTA, which progessively erased national boundaries, and created such transnational institutions as the World Trade Organization.

Globalization, which integrates the world economy through liberalization of trade and investment and deregulation and privatization of business so that the world transnational corporations (TNCs) can operate freely across national boundaries.

Because economism has overthrown nationalism and reduced the importance of national boundaries, because it has unified the planet into the one world for which many of us hoped, many Protestants appreciate and celebrate its accomplishments.

On the one hand, the boundary lines which separate ethnic and national groups (which were mostly geographical in origin) are now becoming blurred, indistinct and sometimes irrelevant.

This term points to the reality that some aspects of modernity have transcended national and cultural boundaries and require a new awareness of interdependency and new levels of commonality — aspects of which are likely to destroy much of the variety we have known and to produce new varieties of cross-cultural and transnational interaction.

Of the two ecumenical movements in our time the organizational effort to develop world - wide institutions takes precedence in many minds over that spiritual, psychological, intellectual and moral common life, transcending all national boundaries, which seeks institutions through which to express itself.

In 1517 a wave of reforming zeal broke out in central Europe which was to shape permanently the location of national boundaries and the strength of territorial sovereigns.

The Israeli Labor Party, which governed Israel from its beginning as a state in 1946 until Prime Minister Menachem Begin took power in June, had avoided cultivating the kind of American evangelical support expressed in the recent newspaper ads because it knew that to engage in religious arguments over national boundaries would be self - defeating.

The next step is the currently proposed Multilateral Agreement on Investments which, if enacted, will still further restrict the ability of governments to influence the nature of economic activity within their national boundaries.

As user4012 pointed out, this brand of extremism, which doesn't have political goals that fall into more established political boundaries (literal national boundaries), saw decades of high - amount and high - level funding from the Saudis, primarily, to build up to this point.

Unfortunately, while people and systems have become more integrated, increasingly making national boundaries almost irrelevant, politicians and governance systems are locked into fossilized national structures which have failed to keep pace with global developments.

Pollution crosses national boundaries and international action, which is not always forthcoming, is required to address it.

Boundaries have changed in many seats since 2005, and the strength of the Lib Dems means some two - way marginals now look more like three - way marginals: add in the rise of smaller parties such as the Greens, plus highly volatile national polls, and even hardened tactical voters may struggle to work out which horse to back locally this time.

Looking at the PVI for the 2010 election, which was the last one to be used under the old district boundaries, the Republican candidate outperformed their national result in 235 districts, whereas the Democratic candidate outperformed in 192 districts.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which administers the site, has proposed expanding all three reefs» boundaries as well as extending the sanctuary to include nine additional banks nearby.

Their work, which appeared in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, supports an ongoing lawsuit demanding better boundaries and joins other mathematical efforts to analyze districting fairness.

It is based on the Ordnance Survey's digital maps, which are overlaid with information such as the boundaries of properties from the Land Registry, the national register of land ownership.

In 1980, President Carter went further, signing the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, which created the 19.6 - million - acre Arctic National Wildlife Refuge with the modern boundaries and name it's known by today.

It serves as an excellent model on which to base a wider European and international policy, vital for a disease that does not respect national boundaries.

The field in which a university operates is fundamentally international, since knowledge and talent do not only exist within national boundaries but must be sought and created through interaction with the rest of the world.

Schools need to prepare students for a world in which people need to work with people of diverse cultural origins, and appreciate different ideas, perspectives and values; a world in which people need to develop trust to collaborate across such differences; and a world in which people's lives will be affected by issues that transcend national boundaries.

Instead of states mandating a single curricular approach within their geographic boundaries — much less a single national approach such as Common Core — states should empower local school systems and other educational providers to select quality standards and aligned tests that fit their instructional philosophy, while also empowering parents to choose from among different schools the one which best meets the needs of their children.

As we are not defining these concepts using the familiar school institutions, the boundaries of this wider meta level may or may coincide with what might be called the «school system» (which itself is not precise as it may refer to, say, a state system or to something larger like a national system).

Situated on 3200 ha within the Klaserie Private Nature Reserve which is located adjacent to the Kruger National Park with no boundary fences between them, this select 10 bed camp offers families, friends and small b...

In 1942, FDR issued another presidential proclamation which altered Katmai's boundary to include «all islands in Cook Inlet and Shelikof Strait in front of and within five miles of Katmai National Monument.»

Addo Elephant National Park's boundaries extend right down to the coastline east of Port Elizabeth to incorporate a marine park, which is why you can also sight southern right whales (in season) and great whites.

His 2013 solo exhibition in Berlin, consisting of works drawing on Nordic mythology not to mention the stylish Viking clothes in which he was dressed and the sight of the hand - made boat in which he began sailing on the sea, crossed national boundaries in captivating its audiences.

His work will also be included in Boundary Markers: Outliers and American Mainstream Art, which will open at The National Gallery, Washington, DC in 2017 then travel to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA.

This addition to the exhibition is fascinating for the way in which it disrupts the prevailing tendency to consider each movement within strictly national boundaries.

On the eve of this year's World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, a team of scientists led by Will Steffen of the Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University and the Australian National University report in the journal Science that the world has now crossed four of nine planetary boundaries within which humans could have hoped for a safe operating space.

Initial assessments in the report show the cost - effectiveness of strengthening national hydro - meteorological services through regional cooperation for reducing adverse impacts of natural hazard - induced disasters and climate change which know no national boundaries.

The 2016 National Offshore Wind Strategy report estimates the OSW gross resource potential (i.e. the tier just above the base of the Figure 2 pyramid) within the nation's 200 nautical mile («nm») Exclusive Economic Zone boundary [3] to be approximately 10,800 GW, which would generate 44,378,000 GWh per year, approximately eleven times the net electricity generated by all energy sources in the United States in 2015 (DOE / DOI 2016).

A custom package of different tools was created for this project, hosted in an online document repository which permitted work across time zones and indeed, national boundaries.