Sentences with phrase «if ordinary citizens»

If ordinary citizens are expected to understand and assert their legal rights in the face of relentless police questioning, they can not do so without the assistance and guidance of legal counsel.

Despite efforts in international law to distinguish between degrees of culpability with regard to politicians, generals and ordinary citizens, policies of direct attacks upon civilians continue to find a rationale in the identification of the citizen with the state — even if the ordinary citizen is both ignorant of and indifferent to affairs of state.

Not exact matches

Political activists of all stripes have difficulty getting ordinary citizens to care about their issues, and if they do care, to act on them.

The conclusion: given relatively unlimited availability, heroin users will voluntarily stabilize or reduce their dosage and some will even choose abstinence; long - addicted users can lead relatively normal, stable lives if provided legal access to their drug of choice, and with few side effects; and ordinary citizens (in Switzerland at least) will support such initiatives.

But if that is the case, why are there so few public statements, with the «conservative» label attached to them, that tell us exactly what policy should be in the matter of education, welfare provision, environmental protection, planning law, urbanization, infrastructure, and everything else that matters to the ordinary citizen?

Now, individual lives were threatened regardless if you were an ordinary citizen, a Hollywood producer or an Army general.

At the same time, the candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the government upon vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.

If it is ethically unacceptable to have the world controlled by transnational corporations alone, and if we can not trust global political authority to represent the interests of ordinary citizens, ethicists are under pressure to devise alternative images of a desirable futurIf it is ethically unacceptable to have the world controlled by transnational corporations alone, and if we can not trust global political authority to represent the interests of ordinary citizens, ethicists are under pressure to devise alternative images of a desirable futurif we can not trust global political authority to represent the interests of ordinary citizens, ethicists are under pressure to devise alternative images of a desirable future.

The question is, if the US defaulted, what would be the effect, not on the federal government, but on the ordinary citizen living in such a country?

It would be a crime if the person charged was just an ordinary citizen.

It would be bad enough if Kent had treated an ordinary citizen that way.

If Charlie Rangel was a ordinary citizen he would have faced jail time and a fine.

But what is special about this virus and what, if anything, should ordinary citizens do about it?

It's as if the Democrats have created a privileged class of Americans — akin to the old Soviet nomenklatura — consisting of public employees who are insulated from the normal perils and pains to which ordinary citizens are exposed.

If Twitter UK can be embarrassed into acting quickly, recently ridding itself (this week in fact) of cyber bullies and other assorted trolls by the British news media, backed by the government, plus have them arrested and publically exposed to the nation, then why hasn't the head office of Amazon in the United States been forced to take the same action when it comes to attacks by trolls on Indie writers who are ordinary law abiding citizens like you and I?

If, in this poignant account, the villains are the «Big Vegetables» (Les Grosses Légumes)-- the fat cats who benefited from Mobutu's largesse — the heroes are the ordinary citizens trapped in a parody of a state.

Eleven states have passed laws allowing ordinary citizens to intercede to save dogs (or any other pet) by breaking a window (if need be)...

One of TheCityFix.com's contributors, Benjamin de la Pena, wrote a provocative post about pedicabs — what are often referred to as «road roaches» — as a viable form of green transport if urban planners and ordinary citizens would take it seriously.

If that's all you read, Rado's situation is seemingly only beset by an appearance of having the arrogance that Connolley would grant such a favor to an ordinary citizen who just arrived out - of - the - blue.

Regarding my own presentation two days ago, my opening point was to inspire the audience to ask tough questions like I do, even if they have no science expertise, and I was going to follow that with a brief mention of how ordinary citizens know what contradictory climate science assessments look like and how their growing knowledge about those increasingly undermines the stability of the idea of man - caused global warming.

Unlike an ordinary marriage, which is presumed to be valid and in good faith, marriages which afford a spouse the right to immigrate to the U.S. and in due course, to become a U.S. citizen if certain other requirements are met, are carefully scrutinized for signs that it is a «sham marriage» and immigration judges can be quite skeptical in determining whether or not a marriage is a sham.

At the same time, the candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the Government upon vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their Government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.

If the Premier and members of the Executive Council are permitted the benefit of being advised by a non-lawyer, why are ordinary citizens denied this right?

For Sharpe J.A., if the police tell the witness they will not reveal their identity or involvement in order to get information, they should keep their promise, or face the ordinary consequences of violating the assurance they have given: «Simply put, a citizen in Ms. Stack's situation should be able to rely upon what the police tell her.»

@sjy, typically evidence gathered by ordinary citizens (or, non-police officers) will be admissible, even if it would not be admissible if it was found in the same manner / under the same circumstances by a police officer.

Likewise, if you are a senior citizen living on a golf course or in an historic townhouse in the heart of the city, you may have a beautiful experience renting a home and living there, but you never know when something may come up to disrupt the flow of your ordinary life.