Sentences with phrase «as individual citizens»

Access and Equity: Indigenous people living in well maintained, safe and healthy communities; additional housing for Indigenous people, with priority given to communities and homelands in greater need; Indigenous people, as individual citizens, benefiting from high quality essential services, housing, and municipal services; Indigenous people benefiting from preventative and diversionary programs that will lead to safer and confident communities; Indigenous people benefiting from efficient use of existing vehicles, transport infrastructure and schemes.

will arrive at an appreciation — as individual citizens and solely of their own free will — that a thoroughgoing, uncompromising, and unequivocal embrace of «Be First with the Truth» is essential to the accelerating union of rational skepticism with strong science.

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..

In light of state and federal governments going bankrupt, are these actions setting us up, as individual citizens, for our filing bankruptcy?

Restricting speech or spending for a corporation does not in any way restrict an individual's ability to exercise their free speech, or to spend, as individual citizens.

Since pastors are free to make political endorsements as individual citizens, just not in their official capacities as leaders of the church, supporters of the Johnson Amendment contend that rather than restricting political speech, the rules protect nonprofits from lobbying interests.

And this will not happen by any scandalous kerfuffle, or in consequence of any contractual obligation, but rather for the one and only good reason: that upon sober reflection, and before 2012 is over, Anthony Watts will conclude, as an individual citizen, and solely of his own free will, that a thoroughgoing, uncompromising, and unequivocal embrace of «Be First with the Truth» is essential to rational skepticism.

Not exact matches

The Index's authors define social progress as «the capacity of a society to meet the basic human needs of its citizens, establish the building blocks that allow citizens and communities to enhance and sustain the quality of their lives, and create the conditions for all individuals to reach their full potential.»

Schultz then went a bit contemplative on the raptly - attentive crowd, sharing with the audience his belief that individual citizens, not just politicians and political parties, need to increase civility and improve the discourse level in the country, not only every four years but ever day, in the face of what Schultz sees as increased partisanship, polarization and cynicism.

What your citizens imagine now matters more than ever because they can act on their own imaginations farther, faster, deeper and cheaper than ever before — as individuals.

As an example, Kao highlights the anti-net neutrality phrase «Individual citizens, as opposed to Washington Bureaucrats, should be able to select whichever services they desire.&raquAs an example, Kao highlights the anti-net neutrality phrase «Individual citizens, as opposed to Washington Bureaucrats, should be able to select whichever services they desire.&raquas opposed to Washington Bureaucrats, should be able to select whichever services they desire.»

According to the senior citizens Pillemer talked to, there is no such thing as an individual problem in a happy marriage.

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.

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.

U.S. mortgage insurance is thus based on the actual risk characteristics of the individual borrower rather than pooled across all citizens, as is the case in Canada.

[2] For the purposes of the SBIR program, the term «small business» is defined as a for - profit business with fewer than 500 employees, owned by one or more individuals who are citizens of, or permanent resident aliens in, the United States of America.

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Catholic claims of priestly and especially papal authority thus seemed to prevent individual Christians from choosing their own faith, as necessary for salvation; they also seemed to prevent citizens from thinking and voting independently, as necessary for democracy.

And if this be so, our work as educators and as advocates of a well - functioning American educational system is to develop citizens who are at home in the canons that comprise the formal reality of their heritage, who are equally at home with the varied individual things that comprise the material reality of that heritage and of their present life, and who are able to devise constantly new frames that are adequate to both, that marry ancient canon and novel particular in a new canon which integrates as fully and complexly as possible all its participant elements.

But individuals are not counting me as a full citizen.

The 2nd Amendment guaranteed individual citizens the rights to own arms JUST AS GOOD as those of the regular soldiers they might have to oppose in an armed rebellion — the very sort of armed rebellion that the writers of the 2nd Amendment had recently successfully engaged in, defeating the most powerful military force on the planet using their own guns, which were JUST AS GOOD as what the British regulars and their Hessian mercenaries haAS GOOD as those of the regular soldiers they might have to oppose in an armed rebellion — the very sort of armed rebellion that the writers of the 2nd Amendment had recently successfully engaged in, defeating the most powerful military force on the planet using their own guns, which were JUST AS GOOD as what the British regulars and their Hessian mercenaries haas those of the regular soldiers they might have to oppose in an armed rebellion — the very sort of armed rebellion that the writers of the 2nd Amendment had recently successfully engaged in, defeating the most powerful military force on the planet using their own guns, which were JUST AS GOOD as what the British regulars and their Hessian mercenaries haAS GOOD as what the British regulars and their Hessian mercenaries haas what the British regulars and their Hessian mercenaries had.

Runciman's History resembles the medieval chronicles on which it is based, using narratives of events and depictions of individuals to draw moral as well as historical lessons: «by the inexorable laws of history, the whole world pays for the crimes and follies of each of its citizens.»

The Constitution could not take for granted that its citizens would all be motivated by civic virtue and so its concern was as much to protect individuals and groups from abuse at the hands of the government and their fellow citizens as it was to involve all its citizens in genuine participation.

For example, granted that the evil acts of the Third Reich may have molded the moral beliefs of its citizens so that they became literally incapable of seeing the evil as evil, it is also the case that Nazism was itself possible only because of the willingness of individual Germans to have the nation's policies translated into fact.

Doctrine and Covenants 134:9 9 We do not believe it just to mingle religious influence with civil government, whereby one religious society is fostered and another proscribed in its spiritual privileges, and the individual rights of its members, as citizens, denied.

He highlighted Britain's achievements as a «pluralist democracy which places great value on freedom of speech, freedom of political affiliation and respect for the rule of law, with a strong sense of the individual's rights and duties, and of the equality of all citizens before the law and noted that there was much in common here with Catholic social teaching.

«We will continue to stand united with brother bishops, religious institutions, and individual citizens who seek redress in the courts for as long as this is necessary.»

Or, more important still, religion and government both claim supreme authority over the same persons, and the Christian citizen as an individual and in fellowship with other Christians must find the principle for the adjustment of these two authorities.

A nation must be subject to the same divine laws of social justice and moral responsibility in relation to its own citizens and to other nations as is the individual person.

Such a logic elevates as supreme the abstract notion of the perpetually abiding nation - state, outlasting its citizens and being more valued than the lives of individual humans.

The individual citizen has little or no choice in the matter when the legislature taxes the citizenry and appropriates a portion of the revenues as subsidies to private organizations for purposes it deems appropriate (and of course it could not properly give any such subsidies to churches).

Christians, as citizens, have an obligation to exert whatever influence they can to ensure that the mass media in our society operate to serve the public good rather than merely commercial interests or those of individuals.

The lawsuit does not identify the plaintiff, but describes him as «an adult male individual who is a citizen and resident of the State of Delaware.»

In fact, it is all too clear that these citizens are as unprepared and as unaccepting of the responsibilities of citizenship as the individual in this case.

He saw human beings as tending to create a number of small and hospitable polities» the household and the city, especially» whose proportions allow a sane balance between collective duty and individual prudence, universal truth and local idiom, society and the citizen.

To conclude, here are some specific things Christians can do as individuals in their roles as citizens and voters.

This country was founded on freedom of religion and individual rights... i personally don't give a hoot... what denomination a individual is as long as he or she is a good honest caring American citizen... I remember JFK, everyone said no one would vote for a Catholic..

If, as citizens, we are told that it is our duty to hold conscience above the law, what collective conscience can save us from the sheer anarchy of a legion of individual consciences?

I invite all citizens of our Nation, as their own faith directs them, to join me in giving thanks for the many blessings we enjoy, and I call upon individuals of all faiths to pray for guidance, grace, and protection for our great Nation as we address the challenges of our time.

As the Trump administration has shifted policies on undocumented immigrants and individuals with temporary protected status (TPS), putting more individuals at risk of deportation, Christians have quickly brought up the dilemma of mixed - status families, whose children are US citizens but parents are not.

@Maria, As I said before, if you do it to protect individual citizen's rights, and you do it evenly to ALL religions; yes, you can.

Out of these shared convictions and the culture of building they nourished, the architects and patrons of these cities created urban environments and landscapes that were not only extraordinarily beautiful but that also acted as theaters of memory and hope, places that simultaneously referred to and grounded citizens in their origins, the common destiny for which they longed, and the virtues necessary for success in their individual and collective journeys through life.

In order to break through the stranglehold of Communist Party members over every sclerotic institution of Soviet life, he must go as far as he dares to empower the creativity of individual citizens.

«Whether such cases end in conviction or acquittal appears to rest on, firstly, the ability of police or prosecutors to link the defendant with a particular association, and secondly, whether the judge decides to uphold an individual's constitutional right to share beliefs as a private citizen,» Victoria Arnold reported for Forum 18.

These are essentially questions of public policy, and if real solutions are going to be found to the problems of disadvantaged children, these questions will need to be addressed, in a creative and committed way, by public officials at all levels — by school superintendents, school - board members, mayors, governors, and cabinet secretaries — as well as by individual citizens, community groups, and philanthropists across the country.

Most recently, Jennifer has focused her energies on helping individuals recognize their power as consumers and citizens to right wrongs in the media and beyond.

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.

fundamental principle of American law that a government and its agents are under no general duty to provide public services, such as police protection, to any individual citizen.

Said President Weah: «Article 7 — The Republic shall, consistent with the principles of individual freedom and social justice enshrined in this Constitution, manage the national economy and the natural resources of Liberia in such manner as shall ensure the maximum feasible participation of Liberian citizens under conditions of equality, so as to advance the general welfare of the Liberian people and the economic development of Liberia.»

My forthcoming book, Oser la liberté: l'individu comme objectif, le collectif comme moyen («Daring Freedom: the individual as objective, the collective as a means»), further develops an original version of individual liberty as a key concept in articulating the interests of individual citizens from the perspective of progressive change.