Sentences with phrase «when citizen»

Why should I bother paying expensive CREA and AREA fees when every citizen can do what I do today without rules and fees?

«Home is the place of rest at the end of a day's work», he said, «especially during the time when a citizen wishes to sleep».

When any citizen with various family troubles steps in the office of the Family Court, the consultant on duty listens to and helps him / her to find what his / her problems really are.

Our ears perked up near the end of Sunday night's presidential debate when an citizen questioner on the stage asked Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump how their respective energy policies would meet the country's energy needs while also protecting the environment and minimizing negative impacts on certain key job sectors.

Also (and this you don't mention), in the arena of public life that we all inhabit willy - nilly, after a reasonable amount (indeed an amount far beyond reasonable) of picking and challenging has already occurred, and the conclusions still look pretty solid at their core, there comes a time when any citizen of good will and decent judgment must begin to demand action.

To Thomas and the PAC's other artists, «all we could really think about as a time when America was great was when citizen heroes of the civil rights movement stood up to injustice and brutality with dignity, love, integrity and courage,» he told The Washington Post.

Last year the Holdenville, Okla., shelter was reported for failing to feed animals when a citizen looking for a missing pet entered the shelter and alleged that carcasses were present, and dogs and cats were clearly not being fed or watered.

I feel this is their sneaky way of directing citizens to open their envelope when the citizen probably would not have opened it if their name was present on the envelope, and the envelope did not give the appearance of being something of importance.

In a study of randomly selected federal policy decisions between 1998 and 2002, the researchers found that when citizen interest groups and other competitors opposed businesses on policies, businesses had roughly an equal chance of success as the citizen group.

Moreover, in those rare cases when citizen energy is vested in voicing dissent it has little impact; the Occupy London movement left those yielding power unscathed with business back to normal after the protesters were evicted from what is literally a public space.

«The law bars family reunification when a citizen's spouse is a non-Jewish citizen of Iran, Iraq, Syria, or Lebanon.

When a citizen of a state wants to sue the government of a state, instead of suing the state, they sue the individual responsible for enforcing the law.

When citizen groups bring pressure for reform, there should be sympathetic workers inside the structures to respond.

Even in tough economic times and when citizen voices seem little heeded in politics.

When a citizen steps into public office he gives up these positions, but that doesn't mean that his connections to the corporate heavy weights who sit on these boards and commissions vapourize.

She thinks that when a citizen of another country buys property in B.C., that's...

She thinks that when a citizen of another country buys property in B.C., that's a problem.

The «right to be forgotten» made headlines in the U.S. in 2014 when a citizen of Spain won a judgment that Google had to take down personal information about him.

When citizens feel the loss of wealth due to these transfers to Germany's neighbors and due to rising inflation, domestic demand for consumer goods would «shrivel over the medium term.»

«The introduction of this technology will make the voting in the [Active Citizen initiative] even more open: it will be difficult to say that the administration incorrectly interprets the answers, changes the results of the voting when the citizens themselves can verify this information.»

The term implies that when the citizens of Cambodia or Argentina see their country's war criminals or dictators tried and convicted, they will place more faith in the rule of law, and the society can move more easily toward a peace settlement or democracy.

Although written by a supporter of Amendment 2 (which was overturned by the court in a decisionnow on appeal), the book provides a convincing analysis of the crosscutting interests and passions engaged when citizens attempt to hold government democratically accountable.

For there can be no lawful constraint, based on justice, save when the situation is relatively calm, when citizens obey the laws and order actually reigns.

When the citizens of a republic or a civilization become merely self - interested (or equally worse, interested in nothing at all) the center fails, and chaos conquers — until a man rides in on a white horse and reestablishes an order based not on nature or on God's will, but on his own subjective vision of the world.

There were 1,546 official religious groups in Crimea when citizens of that region voted overwhelmingly last year to leave Ukraine and join Russia.

In America, Tocqueville observed, when citizens discerned new needs or purposes, they voluntarily formed committees or other informal organizations to meet them.

Contra Dyke, they concluded that «the proportion, or total amount, of minutes played five, or ten, years ago by English players in the Premier League, is unrelated to international performance,» and that «neither Italy, Spain, Germany or England seems to do any better when their citizens are playing more total minutes, across the top four leagues as a whole».

When citizens of a nation queue, as in our case in Ghana, to vote and elect a president to steer their affairs, it is a matter of trust.

The Internet can not be seen as an appropriate substitute or adjunct to a reformed justice system, particularly as violence can often erupt when citizens take a case into their own hands.

This photo is a perfect (though minor) illustration of open government in action, showing what happens when citizens get an unvarnished look at public servants at work.

These are questions similarly thrown up when citizens are compelled not just to observe the law but to implement it.

... BerkShares are placed in circulation when citizens exchange federal dollars for...

In other words, «elections with integrity» should aggregate political views that emerge when citizens apply their own values and experiences to facts.

It is generally harder to foster a strong sense of solidarity when citizens come from different ethnic or religious groups that do not always see eye - to - eye.

In light of links between politics and contracting, Muir, of Reclaim New York, said the problem could be the process: «When citizens lack trust in such an important aspect of government, all of us should be pushing for greater transparency and other reforms.»

Abramoff's membership ended on a sour note when Citizens for America's sponsor Lewis Lehrman, a former New York gubernatorial candidate, concluded that Abramoff had spent his money carelessly.

That's how you hold a country together when its citizens are feeling the pressure.

How then can we complain when our citizens are stigmatised abroad?

«When our citizens contribute to a political campaign, the obvious intent is to help the person running for office or in office to be elected,» Lavine said.

Demos has long argued that good societies arise when citizens have the opportunity and power to construct their own version of a good life.

But alternative models exist (for example, inter parliamentary talks); and there is no single model for a constitutional convention (see Alan Renwick's excellent pamphlet, and Fournier et al's book When citizens decide: Lessons from citizens» assemblies on electoral reform OUP 2011).

Countries will also need to agree a roadmap indicating time lines for when citizens will get information on the companies» real owners and it will be recommended for them to introduce registers of the beneficial owners which are accessible to the public.

She said what is key, is unity in development, since the region has a lot of natural resources that can be tapped when the citizens come together as one and focus on betterment of the region.

«Our electoral process only functions properly when all citizens have the chance to participate.

The practice I find most offensive is the administration's foot - dragging when citizens and reporters file requests under the Freedom of Information Law.

Already the period when citizens could submit their views has passed: the Smith Commission's deadline was 5 pm on October 31.

I think gone are the days when the citizens would vote for a candidate because of federal influence.

«When the citizens are involved, our city will be fairer and will reflect the values and ethics of New Yorkers.»

«You'll have taxpayers, definitely, paying for campaigns,» said DeFrancisco, who said the Dream Act would provide «college tuition to illegal immigrants» at a time when citizens can barely afford college.

When citizens volunteer for their beliefs, it is the best part of our political process, and I am humbled to have been a part of it.»