Sentences with phrase «as a surprise to citizens»

It often comes as a surprise to citizens when they realize just how vast the number and types of crimes that can result in loss of firearms rights truly are.

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This decision probably shouldn't have been a surprise, because it basically said that the court's 2010 decision in the Citizens United case, upholding the right of corporations to spend money in federal elections, applies to the states as well.

The Frenchman made a couple of surprise changes for the Citizens clash, but it came to no avail as the Citizens secured a comfortable victory.

Therefore I was not surprised when Evans Amankwah and his co-petitioner refused or failed to realize that the NDC Constitution itself recognizes that it is inferior to the 1992 Constitution and does not abolish the right of NDC members to exercise their supreme rights as citizens of Ghana to defend the 1992 Constitution against acts of NDC members and Government and even against the NDC Constitution itself when it is inconsistent with and in contravention of the said national Constitution.

A new study by statistics professors at Oregon State University finds that the biggest impact a U.S. citizen can have on this climate change problem is perhaps not so much surprising as difficult to accept: have fewer children.

This is really surprising that not more citizens have taken a look at social lending as a way to get loans.

I am Mr Priscilla Gomez by name, i am a citizen of Texas USA, i have been looking forward for a genuine loan company for the past 5 months and all i got was group of scams who made me to trust them and at the end of the day, they duped me of $ 7000 without giving anything in return, all my hope was lost, i got confused and frustrated, i find it very difficult to feed my family, i never wanted to have anything to do with loan companies on net again, because i never trusted any loan company since i was scammed, so i went to borrow some money from a friend, i told him all that happened and he said he can help me, that he knows a loan company that can help me, that he just got a loan from them, he directed me on how to apply for the loan, i did as he told me, i applied, though i never believed but i tried and to my greatest surprise my loan was granted to me within 48 hours, i could not believe, i am happy and rich again and i am thanking God that upon this scams all over the places a genuine company like this still exist, please i advise everyone out there who are in need of loan and can be reliable, trusted and capable of paying back at the due time of funds to contact ([email protected]) and be free from scams on the internet.

But I'd list a number of things, none surprising — educating students and the public; writing editorials, op - eds, blogs; advising political figures; participating in all sorts of political institutions and organizations as individual citizens as opposed to scientists, per se; etc..

But as the tobacco industry shifts its attentions farther south to Africa, Latin America and Asia — betting that weaker governments or corrupt officials will smooth the path for their product to be sold — it has met surprising resistance from individual nations and citizens groups who refuse to allow their countries to be dumping grounds for what has been called the world's largest preventable epidemic.

Not surprising as she long ago sold her soul to the oil industry in a pathetic attempt to hang on to power in a province where the majority of citizens don't believe in climate change and have voted PC for over a generation.

It will use the extraordinary tools available to citizens today to pull off something unexpected, something with a twist, something that delights and surprises even as it educates.

Even a senior citizen born here knows that as well as you might know an area of Philadelphia, it still might surprise you, and it is always better to be prepared.

CryptoNinjas interprets this incident as another chink in the armor of fiat currency, as the surprising and poorly communicated government policy change in India sent its citizens scrambling to ensure their monetary security.

Whatever your interest in positive psychology and well - being, you're sure to find something in it which surprises you, such as the percentage of UK citizens living below the poverty line, healthy life expectancy, the percentage of people reporting happiness and high anxiety yesterday.

Living in a world where they are constantly portrayed as second class citizens at best, but often not even citizens at all, it is not surprising that colonised groups have struggled to maintain their own identities and confidence in their abilities.