Sentences with phrase «american citizenry»

The Clean Air and Clean Water Acts restrict growth and control land use but do little to make America more healthful, that EPA increasingly alarms rather than informs the American citizenry.

He has written and directed «Bulworth» at just the moment the American citizenry doesn't believe a word of the silken lies that flow from the mouths of politicians, corporations, entertainment moguls, or the media.

If the media proves corrupt, then it should fall off the cliff with the corrupt politicians for the long - term benefit of a suffering American citizenry.

To succeed, such an endeavor might virtually require a revolutionary mobilization of the American citizenry, one at least comparable to the civil rights movement of the 1960s.

Lest anybody think it was just Enron, WorldCom, HealthSouth and a few others, financial implosions were happening with sufficient rapidity to make the American citizenry very angry.

«This work will encourage responsible energy exploration and production, in order to advance the United States» position as a global energy force and foster security for the benefit of the American citizenry.»

Not exact matches

Whatever doubts may exist about the sources of this democracy, there can be none about the chief source of the morality that gives it life and substance... [From the Hebrew tradition, via the Puritans, come] the contract and all its corollaries; the higher law as something more than a «brooding omnipresence in the sky»; the concept of the competent and responsible individual; certain key ingredients of economic individualism; the insistence on a citizenry educated to understand its rights and duties; and the middle - class virtues, that high plateau of moral stability on which, so Americans believe, successful democracy must always build [Seedtime of the Republic (Harcourt, Brace, 1953, p. 55)-RSB-.

The black citizenry watched these Vietnamese victims settle into homes in neighborhoods from which the black American population has been systematically excluded.

Nonetheless, military coups, however decorous, are not part of the American tradition, nor that of the officer corps, which might well worry about how the citizenry would react to a move toward open military dictatorship.

According to the sociology of the American Dream, churches exist to support families so there will be a moral citizenry.

«We the people» are identified by our occupations, and we make up a citizenry defined as an all - inclusive «special - interest group,» chiefly concerned with «a healthy, vigorous, growing economy that provides equal opportunity for all Americans.»

The conservatives» Presidential candidate is the wacko, egomaniacal figurehead for a party bent on feeding the bloodlust of its citizenry to protect their own wealth while thinning the herd of those Americans it deems unworthy.

In ten years, American healthcare costs could reach 20 % of our gross domestic product, yet as a citizenry, we seem to be in the dark about this subject that impacts virtually every one of us.

Get Rid of Compulsory Schooling In the April 1924 issue of The American Mercury, journalist and satirist H.L. Mencken ginned up a well - constructed piece on the true purpose of public education: «The aim... is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.»

To ensure that African - Americans are not limited by persistent opportunity gaps, investments in high - quality early learning such as the national push for universal pre-K is essential to building a foundation for development, learning, academic success, and productive citizenry.

At their best, public schools did even more than that, integrating both immigrants and American - born students from a range of backgrounds into one citizenry.

Throughout the 20th century the «struggle for the American curriculum,» as one education historian called it, ebbed and flowed for decades as debates raged over the very purpose of schooling — whether to prepare an engaged citizenry, develop a competitive workforce, or ensure an educated populace capable of reaching its intellectual potential.

In a response to a comment on a different post I wrote this about schools: «The U.S. citizenry has lost its American mind, the citizenry is constitutionally, historically, and religiously ignorant.»

More than any institution in black America, including the black church, African - American newspapers have held the government accountable: demanding rights for its black citizenry and disseminating life - sustaining information.

It's hard to imagine the extent of the uproar that would ensue if Americans had to exchange their 50 - count rolls of three - gallon garbage bags for buying five pricey ones at a time, but it appears much of Taiwan's citizenry is on board...