Sentences with phrase «about citizens who»

It's about citizens who have taken the law into their own hands to fight for what they believe in, and the complicated ramifications that come with it.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.»

But he acknowledged a potential Russian role for the first time earlier this month when he said that «patriotically minded» Russian citizens might have taken it upon themselves «to fight against those who say bad things about Russia.»

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.

Cuts to arts and media spawned a coalition of «Canadian citizens who are artists, arts professionals and cultural workers concerned about ensuring the social and cultural health and prosperity of our nation.»

The rest of this post is for the dwindling band of citizens who adhere to the quaint notion that politics should be about policies.

In fact, pretty much anybody who cares enough about the borrower's future to help them out can be a cosigner, as long as they are at least 18 years old, a U.S. citizen or permanent resident, and meet the lender's credit and income requirements.

The study observes that Bitcoin awareness is high among UK citizens, with 71 percent of respondents having reported hearing about the digital currency, compared to 99 percent who know about PayPal, 87 percent who are aware of Western Union, 67 percent who have heard of MoneyGram, and 37 percent who know about Square.

I suspect that in India — as opposed to here in Canada — the Trudeau Family's effort to go full Bollywood will be viewed more kindly by ordinary citizens who hear about it, as an eccentric but friendly gesture, not the grave insult Conservative politicians and Canadian pundits are trying to spin it into.

Just like those anonymous sources, Netanyahu continues to use demagoguery about the defense system that has saved the lives of Israel's threatened citizens, who now include people who do not just live in the south.

It is about time women take back control over their lives instead of bowing down to religion that are ruled by men who want women to be second class citizens of the world.

are people so simple they crave the misguided beliefs of others to feel better about themselves or are we triing to understand the lunacy of our citizens to believe something as pathic as a 3000 year old IDEA in order to act properly when voting in those who will run this country for the next 4 years a.k.a. voting in one who using rational thinking and logic to make choices!

But Justice Sonia Sotomayor worried about the effect on local citizens who choose not to stand and bow their heads when asked during a public prayer.

The fundamentalists were driving out Christians, who account for about half of the two million citizens in the islands, one of the strongest Christian areas in Indonesia.The violence has raised concerns in the international community and particularly in ecumenical circles in recent months.The woman told ENI that the Jihad warriors, shouting Islamic slogans, «attack and burn down Christian houses, shops and even entire villages, killing whoever comes in their way».

Yes, citizens have a right to know «about the people who poisoned their lives» without being mired in a near - industrialized settling of old scores in «games organized by the Great Lustrator.»

Castro himself was rather upfront about the departing citizens: «Those that are leaving from Mariel are the scum of the country... who are welcome to leave Cuba if any country will have them,» he scoffed at a 1980 May Day celebration during the height of the migration.

The Caesar Gospels usually included promises about how the new Caesar was the «Son of God» who would bring peace to the entire world, and how as a result, every Roman citizen must proclaim Caesar as Lord.

I think what is not Christian is to call a man who saw the moral dishonesty in denying about 50 million of our citizens healthcare a socialist or anti-Christ.

Roman citizens who did not believe in Jesus, wrote about Him and acknowledged that He did miracles (though they tried to explain them away as «sorcery»).

Paul, who was a Roman citizen, asserted his rights when he had been beaten at Philippi (Acts 16:35 - 39), when he was about to be beaten in Jerusalem (22:25 - 29), and when he appealed to Caesar (25:10 - 12; 26:32).

Citizens who care about justice for future generations should demand answers on Social Security reform from the presidential candidates.

We now live in a culture in which about half of all marriages end in divorce; in which nearly half of all children spend part of their childhood in fatherless homes; in which women and men who put their families first are falling behind economically and professionally; in which many of the nation's youngest citizens are starving for parental time and attention, and often for basic material necessities.

In The Greeks and Greek Civilization, Burckhardt had this to say about the Greek polis, with its unlimited interventions in the lives of its citizens: «[T] he polis was implacable toward any individual who ceased to be totally absorbed in it.

The book tells us something about the man who has given us one notion of what it may mean to be a citizen fighting for a city that is no longer home.

So America, at its best, is about people who somehow see democratic citizenship as both a means and an end and so avoids the extremes of endlessly meddlesome democratic tyranny and apolitical libertarian indifference to the souls of their fellow citizens and creatures.

I don't exactly hate it, but is kinda weird that there are U.S. citizens who wax sentimental about past enemies of of the U.S.

Without citizens who are literate about the media, it is impossible for the church to participate meaningfully in deciding how our lives will be shaped by The Technique.

in peace you don't need guns... but guns for defense and about power who has the real power... citizens army and citizens police force.

All speculations about who the bombers could be, Caucasian, Muslim jihadist, American citizen, foreign born, all seem to be true; all of these possibilities assimilate in the....

All speculations about who the bombers could be, Caucasian, Muslim jihadist, American citizen, foreign born, all seem to be true; all of these possibilities assimilate in the actual perpetrators of the crime.

Bishop Paulose who was deeply concerned about civil liberties and other fundamental rights of citizens realized that the Emergency was an attempt to crush democracy by an authoritarian regime.

Those who argue against same - sex marriage on the basis of its potential to diminish the effectiveness of the institution as a solid foundation for social stability have not thought about the price we have already paid for this personal freedom, or the historical reality that most citizens of Western Nations have already chosen to pay it rather than choose the relative social stability / security of tribalistic collectivism.

In fact the fundamental rights of the citizen require that all traditional communities change, breaking traditional hierarchies and patriarchies, to bring about social justice by giving the dalits, the tribals and the women who were excluded from the traditional power - structures of society, fuller participation in the power - structures; and the State is called upon to assist it by suitable legislation and other means.

Genuine pluralism is a civilizational achievement: the achievement of what Murray called an «orderly conversation» — a conversation about personal goods and the common good, about the relationship between freedom and moral truth, about the virtues necessary to form the kind of citizens who can live their freedom in such a way as to make the machinery of democracy serve genuinely humanistic ends.

Just ask those called «U.S. citizens by birth» about «noncitizens» in their midst; ask the «legally naturalized immigrant» about the «illegal alien,» the Jewish Israeli «settler» about the gentile Palestinian «squatter» or the white - suburban commuter about the people who live around his downtown church.

Second, citizens, especially those who are most serious about their faith, may reasonably consider the religion of political candidates on religious grounds.

Those of us who have made the effort to engage Mormons in friendly and sustained give - and - take conversations have come to see them as good citizens whose life of faith often exhibits qualities that are worthy of the Christian label, even as we continue to engage in friendly arguments with them about crucial theological issues.

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?

• Our students develop a lifelong love of learning and become world citizens who care about their local and global communities.

Mr. Rogers was talking about the traditional model of helpers — people who are EMTs, firefighters, or just average citizens who assist strangers in a crisis.

«But what about senior citizens who go to Woodfield and have paid taxes here for 32 years?»

Algonquin resident Larry Mountain, one of about a dozen people who attended Wednesday's gathering when the master plan was unveiled, said he thinks Algonquin citizens also might vote down a tax hike for more recreational services no matter who runs them.

Patrick Flynn, a former commissioner who formed an organization called Citizens for Better Government with former treasurer Ray Conway, said about 50 of the 62 people who attended the meeting Thursday have signed petitions asking Commissioners Mike O'Neill, Dale Larson and Robert McKenna to leave the Park Board.

About 25 % of all children who took their first breath in the 12 months before June 2008 were the offspring of foreign - born women, most of whom were not citizens.