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I know why I want it, because poverty is immoral, and it is a stain on our nation.
In one generation, the nation of the people of Israel had a tremendous and dramatic change that made them a great power in the Near East.
Her reports would shock the nation and launch her career as an investigative journalist, civic leader, and civil rights advocate.
About 20 percent of all the nation's programmers were wrapped up in this thing, and it led to an awful lot of what we have today.
We could make a very long list, but obviously Nelson Mandela, emerging from 17 years of hard physical labor, 23 years of imprisonment, with this amazing ability to forgive, so that he could lead his nation out the evil regime of apartheid without a bloodbath.
Now, most school districts can't really afford organic food, but we, as a nation, have to start thinking about consuming, growing and feeding our children food that's not chock-full of chemicals.
Dictators survive by instigating fear, and they use the military to suppress dissident voices, even though they try to give the impression that the military is to protect the nation.
So then he surprised the nation with an upset victory for the presidency over three far more experienced, far more educated, far more celebrated rivals.
And then when he won the general election, he stunned the nation even more by appointing each of these three rivals into his Cabinet.
It’s a fragrance called Beyond Paradise, which you can find in any store in the nation.
I mean, there may be 100 explanations for why Haiti is the impoverished nation it is, but there is no excuse to see that sort of squalor.
A coastal nation commits to protect at least 30 percent of its ocean areas.
In exchange, The Nature Conservancy bring investors, public funders and international development organizations to the table to restructure a portion of the nation's debt, leading to lower interest rates and longer repayment periods.
There's a great deal of argument about whether we, as the great nation that we are, should be the policeman of the world, the world's constabulary, but there should be virtually no argument about whether we should be the world's healer.
Every disadvantaged nation, and perhaps our own nation, becomes our patient.
They pick three students out of the nation every year to get involved in international affairs, and so I won a full ride to Georgetown and I've been there for four years.
But this is the issue: when you control 90 percent points of share in a market, search, that is now bigger than the entire advertising market of any nation, and you're primarily compensated and trying to develop economic security for you and the families of your employees, to increase that market share, you can't help but leverage all the power at your disposal.
With Head Start, we began to get our nation's most at-risk children ready for school.
Similarly, politicians make decisions that affect the whole nation, while the people have very little say in them.
And, in 1972, this nation began to establish a counterpart in the sea, National Marine Sanctuaries.
The first leaflet denounced Hitler and called for Germans to sabotage the war effort: “Adopt passive resistance… block the functioning of this atheistic war machine before it is too late, before the last city is a heap of rubble… before the last youth of our nation bleeds to death... Don’t forget that each people gets the government it deserves!”
The baby who is the exact same age as the nation is Saleem Sinai, the novel’s protagonist.
So for example, in Seattle, where I live, when in 2014 we passed our nation's first 15 dollar minimum wage, the neoliberals freaked out over their precious equilibrium.
In the world of "The God of Small Things," “Various kinds of despair competed for primacy… personal despair could never be desperate enough... personal turmoil dropped by at the wayside shrine of the vast, violent, circling, driving, ridiculous, insane, unfeasible public turmoil of a nation.”
But there are other ways music can help heal the nation.
But its true power lies in its ability to help heal the psyche of Kenya, so we can finally build a nation for real.
In Nigeria, for example, the country had more than 110 million people but fewer than half a million phones in the whole nation.
Today, the traces of Christophe’s complicated history can still be found in the crumbling remains of his palaces, and in Haiti’s legacy as the first nation to permanently abolish slavery.
After breaking Ethic out of prison, Hedge flies them both towards a frontier settlement in the shadow of the Bradbarrier, the great wall that encircles the nation.
It would benefit the nation to see our growth since emancipation.
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