Sentences with phrase «most of the citizens»

The stupid in this country is more omnipresent that the idiotic god that most of our citizens worship.

Just as most of the citizens of the Western world reject paganism, when they give the matter any attention, so likewise do they recognize the untenability of power culture.

Some economists assure them that by doing this they will eventually share in the global prosperity, but thus far, and for the foreseeable future, this does not apply to most of their citizens.

Most of the citizens of Germany during WWII are guilty of crimes against humanity.

One note about calling the tinpot dictator of NK names: if you can't call a homicidal maniac that starves most of his citizens, engages in human trafficking, tortures and kills American students, etc names, who can you call names?

Rio can't pay police officers and hospitals, and most of its citizens live under the constant threat of violence.

As expected, most of the Citizens Union - sponsored event focused on the candidates» reform agendas, with strong support from all for legalizing gay marriage, bipartisan redistricting and full public financing of campaigns.

«In the last six months, our President has only succeeded in discouraging foreign investors with his continued misrepresentation of our country as a business unfriendly environment, where most of the citizens are basically corrupt, dishonest, and can not be trusted.

This brings about the rise, which is forecasted to reach 100 % as most of the citizens are becoming open minded on the international marriages and dating.

«Looper's storyline puts us in a period of time where most of the citizens are lower middle class.

But Bhutan has a relatively modest per - person GDP of approximately $ 2400, making the prospect of purchasing the almost $ 30,000 Nissan Leaf a distant prospect for most of its citizens.

Part of the pride of living in Singapore, according to the HDB (Housing and Development Board), is their unique public housing that is afforded to most of the citizens in this teeming country.

I was startled to find the other day that on 30th Street, which in the 1930's and later was the home to many of the city's furriers, over 800 at one time, and now there are only ghosts and gargoyles of furriers (two stand watch on a building on 29th Street; one strokes a mink and a mink nibbles the other's finger)-- startled to find that there is a high - end, high - concept fashion store which is far above my head and price point, and over the heads and price points of most of the citizens of Murray Hill.

The good news is there is a consulate office in Belize City that can perform most of the citizen services you might need.

Most of the citizens felt messed around by the Skulptur Projekte».

And (here's the punch line), that they would have to do so while most of their citizens were still, on average, quite poor.

Yet even in this rather startling case the South is left with an emission - reduction pathway that is scarcely less stringent — its emissions too must peak more or less immediately, and must also be eliminated by 2050, and, again, this would have to happen while most of its citizens were still struggling against poverty.

The rulers want to sell us their stuff and most of their citizens seem to want to shift there.

On two occasions I have been an observer at elections in countries whose authoritarian governments had long excluded all or most of their citizens from any participation in choosing their leaders.

Driving Aggressively: One common mistake found in most of the citizens of Texas is aggressive driving.

Not exact matches

Walled off by technology and geography from the realities of most of their fellow citizens, the tech elites live lives of extreme, if occasionally odd, luxury.

Japan sells most of its debt at home, allowing it to finance impressive infrastructure that improves the productivity and quality of life of its citizens.

«When I think about how I understand my role as citizen, setting aside being president, and the most important set of understandings that I bring to that position of citizen, the most important stuff I've learned I think I've learned from novels,» he recently told The New York Review of Books.

Last year Calgary's superstar mayor Naheed Nenshi suggested to Maclean's last year that municipal government is the most crucial level for most citizens, and it seems that with startups it's the absence of city engagement that causes problems.

The African nation of Zambia, for instance, has only enough food available to provide its population with 1,870 calories on average, per day, according to a striking global map in the October issue of National Geographic — and in truth, in much of the world, such calorie counts offer an inflated view of what's actually accessible to most citizens, due to widespread poverty, civil unrest, natural disasters, corruption, government mismanagement, food - distribution failures, and other issues.

During the Arab Spring of 2011, it enabled citizens in the middle east to organize and enact real political change, and in 2012, U.S. President Barack Obama marked his re-election with a tweet that at the time was the most retweeted yet.

Periu says most of the 11 million citizens will welcome an influx of U.S. capital, products and services but notes that state workers earn an average of $ 20 per month.

It's this forbidding territory that Exxon (xom), under Tillerson, has turned into one of Russia's most lucrative oil provinces, affording Russia a crucial entry into the fast - growing oil markets of Asia, generating nearly $ 5 billion in tax dollars and other revenue for the government to date, and generally being, by Moscow's lights, a good corporate citizen.

There are a lot of facts that support that, of all the terrorist activities in this country since 9/11, most have been caused by American citizens radicalized by policies implemented by past administrations.

In a country where most citizens have little disposable income, potential franchisees should follow the example of franchisees in other tourism centers, like Indonesia, and focus on tourists to bring in the dough.

«When I think about how I understand my role as citizen... the most important stuff I've learned I think I've learned from novels,» Obama told The New York Review of Books.

If the majority of people fall further and further behind — while others in society become unbelievably rich — the notion that the most important value in a country is its citizens having the ability to select their leaders will lose sway.

«We sell most of our guns to civilians in their homes, so our police need to be at least as well armed as our citizens,» he says, adding that civilians can only buy semi-automatic rifles while police and military buy the fully - automatic version.

The reforms before us have the potential to cause a brain drain of our highly educated, most innovative young citizens, and that means Canadians lose access to goods, services, jobs.

The Department of Homeland Security is proposing to expand the files it collects on immigrants, as well as some citizens, by including more online data — most notably search results and social media information — about each individual.

As a nation, we have a responsibility to our most vulnerable, and the richest of our citizens and the most profitable of our institutions should give more of their wealth to help those who don't have it.

While every drop of urban citizens» water is measured and most residential lawns are nearly grassless and brown, farmers — including non-U.S. farmers — can essentially divert river water or other natural water sources as much as they like to grow their crops, even if these crops are then exported to feed foreign cows.

This could actually be arguments 1 through 10, but its many nuances are being boiled down to the essence of «there's just too much of it, and most of that is because all E.U. citizens have the right to come and work here.»

Latin America holds the ignominious distinction of having the most cities on Mexico's Citizens» Council for Public Security's annual ranking of the world's most violent cities for 2016.

Binelli also meets with everyday people who are shouldering the necessary work that comes with living in a «DIY city» — a place that has lost so many of its most basic services that citizens are stepping in to fill the void.

Perhaps most attractive to UHNWIs, there is also no formal law clearly defining taxation of profits from asteroid mining, though some legal experts contend there is current US law that could be adapted to cover it, albeit only for American citizens.

But while the total number of U.S. life insurance policies — bought by both private citizens and employers — is shrinking, standard life plans are still among the most popular form of coverage purchased.

Mr. Whitehead was one of New York's most prominent citizens.

The IRS said that during that period, only about 900 US citizens paid taxes for Bitcoin - related operations, but according to Coinbase's own statistics, the platform was serving millions of users, most being US residents.

Even though algorithms decide so much of a citizen's life — what ads a person sees, what political messages they hear, what kinds of loans they can get, how they fair in the criminal justice system — these things are all under the sway of algorithms, and most consumers don't feel empowered to push back because they don't know the math.

During a gun control debate at the most recent Greensboro City Council meeting city resident Mark Robinson rose to speak and made known that the citizens of the city are «going to keep [their rights], come hell or high water.»

Thirty five days after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, 85 % of our American citizens on the island are still without power and most have no water.

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Donald Trump's latest, and arguably most concerning, comments regarding the upcoming presidential election have thrown many reasonable citizens into whirlwinds of confusion, anxiety, and outright fear.

If Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, and other founders were to time travel to 2016, they would almost surely be troubled by the threat that inequality poses to the well - being of citizens and democratic governance and ask, «What are your policies to make the U.S. what it should be, the most favorable country in the world for persons of industry and frugality, possessed of moderate capital, to inhabit?»