Sentences with phrase «as other citizens»

As individuals you have the same right as any other citizen but as a group until you start paying taxes, not lobbyist, butt out and obey the laws made by the government.

Teachers, supervisors, and administrators have the same civic rights and responsibilities as other citizens.

If it is proven that the lawyer is guilty, he or she should be prosecuted in the same way as any other citizen.

You'll have access to the same types of life insurance policies as other citizens if you're a police officer.

Recent federal and state laws and court decisions have added authority to the current philosophy that the mentally retarded are persons who have legal and civil rights under the U.S. Constitution, just as all other citizens do.

The thing is, he'll have to avoid being discovered as the other citizens don't take kindly on the so - called Downers.

The figure rates between zero and one, with zero representing total equality — where every citizen possesses the same amount of wealth as every other citizen — while one equals total inequality, where one person holds all the wealth.

these are human beings and deserve the same rights and protections under the law as every other citizen!

In the absence of a credible, sworn allegation that I engaged in wrongdoing, I respectfully request my fellow Democrats and the good people of Cohoes to keep an open mind and permit any such allegations to be resolved by the Courts, where I am entitled to the same measures of due process as any other citizen.»

Westminster's powerful Procedure Committee yesterday said the rule should be axed to give MPs the «same rights to privacy as any other citizen».

A reasonable view is that scientists can speak with authority on the science and with some authority about what goals the science very strongly implies, while only having the same say as any other citizen on specific policies.

I would never suggest that Hansen doesn't have the same right to free speech as any other citizen.

a) to ensure the provision of appropriate supports so that people who have mental retardation have the same individual opportunities as other citizens to live in freedom and dignity in a normal environment, and

«Where officers are found to have used unreasonable force they stand in the same position as any other citizen, subject to the same degree of penalty, including minimum sentences, where applicable,» he says.

Gays deserve all of the civil rights as every other citizen but marriage is not a civil right.

Public employees who are called to testify are protected by the First Amendment just as other citizens are and should not have to choose between «the obligation to testify truthfully and the desire to avoid retaliation and keep their jobs,» wrote Justice Sonia Sotomayor.

right cause muslims are the new african americans cause they have not been allowed to build any mosque and do not have the same rights as every other us citizen.

«Chris understands that, in addition to the daily dangers of fighting crime, our members are faced with the same threats to their financial well being as every other citizen.

Following a 4 - day trial in October 2008, in which we and the father's lawyers succeeded in establishing that there is no rational basis for denying children the right to be adopted by qualified gay parents, or for denying gay men and lesbians the same rights as other citizens to be considered as adoptive parents, a Miami - Dade County judge declared the statute unconstitutional and granted the father's petition to adopt the children.