Sentences with phrase «about being a citizen»

Of course, it's not only about working, it's also about free time, and about being a citizen and consumer.

It's about being a citizen of this country, and giving your children what is their birth right and what is their right under the constitution.»

It was an engaging way to get students excited about being citizen scientists!

Australia is quite protective about it's citizens, so it's not strange to see such a move like this one.

Not exact matches

Responding to a question about resolving the issue of more than a dozen Japanese citizens who were abducted by North Korea in the 1970s, the spokesman said he was unsure of what content was discussed in the morning meeting.

«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.

Could Zuckerberg still be fantasizing about the day when Chinese authorities bring down their «Great Wall,» allowing Facebook access to its more than 1.3 billion citizens?

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.

Put another way, we're still about 20 years away from having senior citizens who can properly be called gamers.

When it came to that last question, there was plenty of anger to go around, with many complaining about David Cameron's decision to call the referendum, others infuriated at the weak Leave campaign, and still others offering less than polite commentary on segments of their fellow citizens.

«As an American citizen,» Conway added, «we should be concerned that intelligence officials leaked to the press» this report, as Meyers reminded her that the press was reporting Trump being briefed about the issue.

Hardly a Congressional hearing goes by without some lawmaker, Democrat or Republican, reporting complaints from the home constituency about credit - worthy citizens being turned down when applying for a mortgage.

With governments increasingly spying on their citizens, the time for the mainstreaming of these tools is just about here.

The more they know about what customers and citizens think, the easier it is for them to improve and adapt what they supply.»

There were some rumblings about GE (ge) not having been a great corporate citizen in other locales, and cynics pointed out that only approximately 800 people (out of a total headcount of 333,000) work at corporate headquarters.

Citizens are fuming at the government about their plight.

Apparently it doesn't matter to Donald Trump that many businesses and citizens are outraged by his views about illegal immigrants.

More fun facts about the super-rich: The United States is «the billionaire capital of the world,» the report says, with 515 citizens with net worth that exceeds $ 2 billion.

In uBiome's case it was citizen scientists — regular people who dig science and like to learn about themselves and apply that knowledge to their own health and other people with similar interests.

«City officials may not understand that they will get access to very little of what Google learns from their citizens... Meanwhile, Google will be gaining insights about urban life — including energy use, transit effectiveness, climate mitigation strategies, and social service delivery patterns — that it will then be able to resell to cities around the world.

Graham said he wants to learn more about the «unmasking» of US citizens like former national security adviser Michael Flynn, who may have been caught up, incidentally, in surveillance of monitored non-US persons believed to be foreign agents.

And these were not lies as a private citizen, or about private business or personal peccadilloes.

Lam and the Demaj brothers are as passionate about what immigrants have to offer America as they are about living in this country, and they think repealing DACA is a huge step backward, even though they all three immigrated here legally and are American citizens.

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.

But Sharif, an American citizen with Bangladeshi roots, was right about one thing: bribes were standard practice in Bangladesh.

That's likely part of the reason that enrollment dropped, as Americans making more than 400 % of the Federal Poverty Level (about $ 48,000 for an individual or $ 98,000 for a family of four) wouldn't be shielded from those rising premiums because they don't qualify for federal subsidies that lower - income citizens do.

«As we started to think about it, we realized comments were always second - place citizens,» he said.

But the FBI notes that only about 2 percent of them are U.S. citizens or legal permanent residents allowed to buy guns.

Cities such as Surrey, Canada, are using a mobile app to answer citizens» questions about government services.

We talked by phone about why diversity matters, what it means to be a good corporate citizen and whether the President has done enough on the racial divide in America.

According to a leaked U.S. diplomatic cable, in January 2007, the company's representative in China, a U.S. citizen, was summoned and interrogated by the State Security Bureau about NTDTV staff reporting from its New York offices.

I thought about the trader's call when I read the news that Peter Thiel, the billionaire venture capitalist who supported Donald Trump's candidacy and advised him during the post-election transition, has secretly been a citizen of New Zealand since 2011 and owns a large rural estate there.

It's not just the strange juxtaposition of presidential candidate ads and questionable online content that Digital Citizens Alliance is concerned about.

So there is a clear business case to be made for it; the evidence is mounting, and in addition to that, the President speaks quite often about our responsibilities as citizens of our country.

There may be a small glimmer of hope for Chinese citizens concerned about their privacy, however — a recent report in the South China Morning Post found that China's notorious smog problem has rendered much of the country's expensive surveillance system «useless.»

But he implied that it would be patriotic for private Russian citizens to «start making contributions — which are right, from their point of view — to the fight against those who say bad things about Russia.»

About 80 % of Aritzia's merchandise is made up of these in - house labels; the 20 % the company doesn't make are mostly popular denim brands like J Brand, Citizens of Humanity and 7 For All Mankind.

Saudi Arabia is a youthful country — about 70 percent of its citizens are under the age of 30 — and so the kingdom is also seeking to modernize its society and relax several restrictions that are believed to have held back economic growth.

I would imagine in urban areas like Toronto, Vancouver or Montreal, which have significant populations of recent immigrants, there's probably a significant subset of people who fled from countries where governments do all sorts of nasty things with the information they collect about their citizens and who aren't all that keen to provide such information here (you might say, «sure, but Canada's not Iran», to which the answer would be «exactly»).

While some would argue that the Israeli government is lying to its citizens and hiding the truth about many more rocket impacts, anyone who knows Israel's voracious media and its smartphone - toting public will understand that such allegations are ludicrous.

The couple filed their suit after being convicted in a Chinese court two years ago for illegally purchasing personal information about Chinese citizens, but argue that they were set up by Glaxo.

Despite the Chinese citizens being wary of it, many are still passive about the solutions.

The UK's digital minister, Matt Hancock, has also tweeted about the data misuse scandal — saying he will be meeting Facebook representatives next week and expects the company «to explain why they put the data of over a million of our citizens at risk».

Recent Digital Citizens initiatives include working with state attorneys general to educate citizens about the proper disposal of opioids and other dangerous drugs, a look into how new pirate devices and apps enable hackers to infect consumers» computers, and an investigation into how millions of college emails and passwords are for sale on the DCitizens initiatives include working with state attorneys general to educate citizens about the proper disposal of opioids and other dangerous drugs, a look into how new pirate devices and apps enable hackers to infect consumers» computers, and an investigation into how millions of college emails and passwords are for sale on the Dcitizens about the proper disposal of opioids and other dangerous drugs, a look into how new pirate devices and apps enable hackers to infect consumers» computers, and an investigation into how millions of college emails and passwords are for sale on the Dark Web.

«The company is utilizing AI to help city managers provide a better service to their citizens and to understand in real time what their citizens care about.

About the Digital Citizens Alliance Digital Citizens is a coalition of consumers, businesses, and Internet experts focused on educating the public and policymakers on the threats people from all walks of life face on the Internet.

I'm not optimistic about any of those things (market, govt, country, future), but after my bummer of a post (about the Potemkin market, govt junkie - behavior, country's amazing devastation to institutions, employers and citizens, and the dismal future) I wanted to end on a laugh.

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.

Of the 1,266 Irma - related claims filed against Citizens in January and February, 59 percent challenged the company's decisions about the scope of damages, asserting that the amount of money paid to restore homeowners to their pre-loss conditions was inadequate.

The Council of Senior Citizens Organizations of BC (COSCO) isn't very happy about the neglect it's getting.