Sentences with phrase «when ordinary citizens»

It is on display daily in courtrooms across the country, especially when ordinary citizens, forced to represent themselves, are facing professional counsel representing powerful interests.

But when ordinary citizens couldn't access services they had come to rely on, they protested until the government relented and restored Gmail.

But when you read through Ralph Koster's declaration of rights or James Miller's conflict - resolution proposal — and the hundreds of thoughtful critiques posted in response to each — the online world suddenly feels closer to 1776 in America or 1848 in France, when ordinary citizens struggled to make their revolutionary visions of social organization a reality.

When ordinary citizens complain about the titans of media abusing their power to shape public opinion, the complaint often revolves around the placement of a news item, not the story's content.

When ordinary citizens pass through the area, they'll be taking part in a massive experiment to work out how we should light our cities in the future.

Not exact matches

Ms. Russell wrote with penetratingly keen insight, and as a result, I am much more cognizant of why policy makers in Canada defer in favour of the interests of multinational oil companies rather than making decisions that are in the best interest of the ordinary citizens of central and eastern Canada when it comes to oil security.

How are ordinary citizens to decide for themselves when the experts don't agree on how the system works and on what should be done to keep it going?

When statements were made on radio and television that slandered individuals, or strong positions about issues of public importance were aired which needed balance and rebuttal, it was possible for ordinary citizens to demand that the station provide time for reply.

When Americans — whether presidents, Supreme Court justices or ordinary citizens — refer to the «wall of separation» desired by the Founders, they not only perpetuate a historical inaccuracy; they unwittingly revive some of the most distasteful episodes in American history.

References to ordinary people were much more gender balanced, with women accounting for 46.8 per cent of individual citizens, although when you take into consideration that women account for a higher proportion of the electorate than men, this too might be viewed as problematic.

Who knows whether this setback for the Bush Administration and its allies on this issue is temporary or not, but it's sure as hell an example of what ordinary citizens can do when they have the tools and the motivation to really push the system.

It was also the same language used in Rwanda on RTML radio when ordinary Hutu citizens in Rwanda were inspired to pick up their machetes and hack down their Tutsi friends and neighbours in the public good.

So, what can you do as an ordinary citizen when you think that a certain non-mainstream issue is underrepresented in your parliament?

The details of what I told the President as my reasons for wanting to revert to my position as an ordinary citizen of Ghana are contained in a letter I wrote to Mr. Martey Newman when he lied that I was dismissed for misconduct when he should have known as the Chief of Staff that one could not dismiss a senior public officer for misconduct without a formal charge and a formal hearing.

They argue that scientists are being led by the nose by citizens and that when you have ordinary people formulating research questions and hypothesizing or being involved in the study, it makes it illegitimate, it takes away the good science.

When the dust clears, Cartel Land comes to equally despairing conclusions about the drug war and the attempts of ordinary citizens taking peacekeeping into their own hands.

Opened the door for ordinary citizens like Ms Li Yaquing to start «free» schools or independent schools, when he was a director of Taipen Prefectural Education Department.

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?

But the rights of ordinary citizens have always been much on Ward's mind - and never more so than in the last year, when he personally went through the process of becoming a United States citizen.

When consumers are cheated, or our natural environment is threatened, or the voices of ordinary citizens are drowned out by special interest lobbyists, U.S. PIRG speaks up and takes action.

Deeply isolated in their own tiny academic bubble only talking to like minded individuals also inside of that bubble where the real word rarely intrudes, I doubt that very many of these scientists realise just how stupid and even imbecilic and disposable they are starting to appear to the ordinary citizen on the street particularly when they try to sell a bill of goods like those adjusted and etc and etc temperatures from a half dozen or more decades past as the real temperatures of the times and then change those same temperatures or remove then the next day or week or whatever and then change then yet again and again.

Just when he thought it was safe to monitor the phone calls and e-mails of ordinary citizens, a federal judge has to spoil his fun.

Ruby wants an expansion of «public interest standing,» to «allow an ordinary citizen to raise animal cruelty concerns when the government will not.»

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.

The Front Porch Project is a community - based, research - supported program that helps ordinary citizens know when and how to safely step in when they are concerned about a child in their neighborhood or a public place.

Aaron, a well - known and respected real estate lawyer, writes: «I'm not sure why it happens, but when ordinary, honest citizens are selling their homes and large amounts of money are involved, they sometimes succumb to an overwhelming temptation to become less than candid in signing the paperwork for the transactions.»

In his new book «When money destroys nations» Haslam interviewed ordinary Zimbabwean citizens to find out how these people survived these turbulent circumstances.