Sentences with phrase «if average citizens»
While a big topic to consider, if we average citizens are expected to understand its outcomes / effects and vote accordingly, I would hope that it should be possible to summarize the answer to this question in the Stack Exchange format.
https://politics.stackexchange.com/ Not exact matches
Even if Trump's provocations reflected his true feelings or those of the average citizen, it is not the role of the statesman to give voice to feelings.
It now must become central to the curriculum in our kindergartens, schools and colleges, if we hope to live in a society where the average citizens can cope with the barrage of images which daily comes into their lives, and where what they do know will help them survive.
And whilst that is thoroughly depressing if you happen to be a politico, it is probably a sign that historically speaking, the lot of the average UK citizen is not so bad.
If such a venerable machine pol is in danger of becoming a cynic what hope is there for the average citizen?
Wealthy contributors helping their favored candidates win elections would not systemically skew politics or policy outcomes if these well - heeled donors were like the rest of us, if on average they had the same life experiences, opinions about issues, and political views as average - earning citizens.
However if we do both don't we give a huge advantage to the wealthy office seeker over an average citizen?
«Even if people think objectively and follow rules of statistical inference, richer and poorer people may be led, by the information available to them, to very different conclusions about how wealthy their fellow citizens are, on average, and how wealth is distributed across society.»
Even if the average U.K. citizen were to fall in line with dietary guidelines set forth by the World Health Organization (which most do not), the study estimates there would be a 17 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.
Indeed, if we compute the turnout gap between teachers and average citizens in each district, the median gap over all districts and elections (both school - board and bond) was 36.5 percent, which is a huge number given the very low turnout overall.
With access to so many new voices, it turns out that many of our pop - culture and publishing - sanctioned pundits and leaders are considerably less well - informed than we were led to believe, if not less well - informed than your average citizen.
And incidentally, a lot of average citizens like me wonder if things like buying cars with a bit better gas mileage and switching to CFL and LED light bulbs amount to much more than pissing in the wind.
The American economy and average citizens would be better off if the size and scope of the government were reduced.
The average citizen didn't mind if his smoking colleague died of cancer, but was pissed of to think that he was going to die of cancer as a result of his colleagues habit.
The idea is, if we allow oil and gas corporations to exploit our land and water to extract fossil fuels, it will benefit the average citizen by lowering energy prices and reducing dependence of «foreign» energy supplies.
According to Jamais» calculations, America's love of burgers contributes approximately 941 to 1023 pounds (that's 428 - 465 kg) of greenhouse gas per person, per year — the rough equivalent of the annual carbon output from 7,500 - 15,000 SUVs if the 300 million US citizens hit the 3 burgers / week average.
The average citizen would say WTF in all caps if he or she were ever to read in one sitting the total amount of damage our current Congress is hoping to inflict on the American environment.
Consequently, if information dissemination is held as a public service and not a consumer good, and the media is accepted under section 2 (b) as having no freedom of expression rights in the courtroom over and above those of average citizens, distinctions drawn between the accredited media and the public may indeed prove legally flawed.
This is true even if you're significantly younger than 78, which is the average life expectancy of a US citizen.
Next Thursday, the Florida Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a big Florida foreclosure defense case — so big, in fact, that lots of banks are complaining to the news media that there will be a huge state - wide financial crisis if the Florida Supreme Court sides with the Average Joe citizen who's fighting this -LSB-...]