Sentences with phrase «abiding majority»

The decisions of a relative few among us end up costing the law abiding majority money on their policies.

The report looked at the role played by the public in keeping communities safe and suggested ways police and local authorities could put the interests of the law - abiding majority first.

«We suggest a two - pronged attack: firstly, continued education and a lower limit for the law abiding majority who might stray or who don't yet understand the risk, and secondly, getting the police to be more up front about what targeted enforcement actually means as they seek to catch those selfish enough to ignore the current limit,» he added.

The law - abiding majority not only do not abide by the law, they also do not believe in the value of laws and rules, shrugging them off in pursuit of their interests and desires.

The Centre for Crime and Justice Studies (which might have been better as the Centre for Study of Crime and Justice, but nevermind) has released a report, «Law - abiding majority?

There should not be one law for the travellers and another for local residents, otherwise we would be discriminating against the law - abiding majority.

At the end of his statement, Cameron insisted that the the government was staging a «fightback» on behalf of the law - abiding majority.

«These laws criminalise the law - abiding majority and are sterilising public spaces, while doing little or nothing to tackle criminal or genuinely nuisance behaviour,» she added.

Even, «Python Dance» is the fault of a proactive Buhari Presidency, looking out for the law - abiding majority in Igboland, not the rash Kanu and his IPOB, with their ceaseless baiting of catastrophe.

It was certainly devoid of fear mongering by otherwise demonizing the law abiding majority through branding them as terrorist and anti-US.

As members of the predominantly white, middle - class, law - abiding majority, we condone their ritual deaths in order to affirm our own «humanity» and identification with the existing social order.

Not exact matches

«We recognize and appreciate that the vast majority of gun owners in this country are responsible, law - abiding citizens.

«We support and respect the Second Amendment, and we recognize and appreciate that the vast majority of gun owners in this country are responsible, law - abiding citizens,» Stack wrote.

Nabors» board is not legally compelled to abide by the majority vote against Sheinfeld's election, and it has decided to keep him on the board.

In April, they voted in favor of a shareholder proposal requiring annual majority rule votes for all directors, which Nabors has said they will abide by.

The majority will be law abiding folks looking to do right by their investors and themselves.

We tend to give preeminence to the evangelical tradition, large portions of which happen to be teachings the vast majority of Christians abide by.

It must also help to divide the material interests of people, so as to help prevent democracy from degenerating into a tyranny of the majority (its abiding deformation).

Indeed, one of the most striking characteristics of the vast majority of prophecy believers has been the contrast between the militancy of their rhetoric and the law - abiding regularity of their daily behavior.

With 300 million firearms in private hands (one - third of them pistols), the overwhelming majority of gun owners ARE responsible, law - abiding citizens, which is why these horrific massacres are not commonplace, but rather horrific outliers that can never be legislated away (e.g. DC, Chicago, and «Gun Free Zones»).

Men (and I do mean men) added all the rest in every religion on the planet, and the majority of it contradicts abiding by the Golden Rule.

With sadness in my heart, I'm watching the America of my youth and working life, of God - fearing and law - abiding people, being totally replaced by EVIL leaders elected by a majority of a foolish and ignorant population!

And despite the fact that the vast majority of young people, including those in riot - hit areas, are law abiding citizens, there is no doubt that the unrest we saw in August will shape debates we have from now on on youth provision, youth services and — the issue I'm going to focus on today - youth justice.

The background to Mrs May's decision to call a snap election is the government's small majority of 17 and the abiding weakness of the Labour Party under Mr. Corbyn.

Though the vast majority of Qataris abide by Wahhabism, the conservative strand of Sunni Islam that originated in Saudi Arabia, Qatar has proven that conservative Islamist views are not necessarily opposed to liberal values like the advancement of women and the separation of mosque and state.

«However, as a law - abiding party, we hereby urge our members and the people of Kogi state to remain calm and not despair over this slap on democracy as the courts would soon deliver justice with regard to the authentic governor with the mandate of the majority at the election.»

«While we welcome any moves to eradicate unlawful and unfair competition, this must be done without unnecessarily disadvantaging the vast majority of law - abiding small businesses,» said employment chairman Alan Tyrrell.

«If this town board puts this piece of legislation back on the agenda and goes through the process, will you abide by the majority of people that show up in this room either for or against supporting that law to be passed in this town?»

Supervisor Quigley is quoted as saying, «If this town board puts this piece of legislation back on the agenda and goes through the process, will you abide by the majority of people that show up in this room either for or against supporting that law to be passed in this town?»

The best scenario is when you have majority of the people in the country being law - abiding, that way there'll be a small number who aren't law - abiding so the law enforcement agencies can deal with them,» he said on Eyewitness News.

The majority tend to brush off these basics, thinking they already abide by them or just thinking they already know them.

New year, new you — the mantra that the majority of us will be abiding to come January 1st.

However it is an unfortunate fact that whilst the vast majority of people using these services are decent law abiding citizens looking for love there are those that seek to exploit the vulnerabiltiy of singles online.

But I do think that the vast majority of charter schools are run by dedicated educators who have integrity and who will abide by the law.»

In the end, a majority of NEA members, who could not abide the idea of being in an organization with plumbers and truck drivers, rejected the merger.

The majority of e-readers issued by Pocketbook, Sony, Onyx Boox, Bebook, and Bookeen all tend to abide by this common convention.

It is unfortunate that morons like that fellow give a bad name to the majority of responsible law abiding hobbyists like myself.

For the tabloid press, Martin became a folk hero, and the Law Commission's paper, which simply followed up an earlier analysis of illegality in the context of contract and trusts, became identified as a Trojan horse for politically correct and human rights inspired reform inimical to the silent majority of law - abiding people.

Warren Richey of The Christian Science Monitor reports that «Supreme Court rules against Bush in death - row case; A 6 - to - 3 majority said the president can't order a state court to abide by an international court ruling.»

«The House - passed bill does absolutely nothing to defend the vast majority of law - abiding Americans from warrantless searches, and in many ways it expands the federal government's ability to spy on Americans.

bureaucrats produce nothing of productive value, but they do produce often undeserved fear amongst the vast majority of law - abiding tax - paying citizens, and «we» pay them to do that to us.

By the time the case made it to the Fifth Circuit, the criteria had been amended to require: (1) a valid Georgia real estate license; (2) an active real estate office in the county that is open during customary business hours; (3) agreement to abide by the MLS's rules and bylaws; (4) a favorable credit report; (5) agreement to purchase a share of MLS stock at $ 1,000; and (6) a favorable vote of a majority of the MLS's active members.

Of the 65,000 agents in the province, the great majority are professional and abide by the rules but salespeople know when something is not right, Tredrea says.