Sentences with phrase «as public citizens»

«But because I have a civic duty to democracy and the overwhelming public interest, we [felt] we had a duty to dive a bit deeper as public citizens.»

However, the preamble to the Model Rules of Professional Conduct does addresses things lawyers should do as public citizens, like improve access to justice, the administration of justice, and the public's perception of the legal system.

They are doing this by engaging as public citizens who are leading student organizing, participating in community - led school transformation and other active protest movements.

Obviously, the problem is not with Mr. Howard attending the rally as a public citizen (as is his right) but in presenting himself as the Sheriff of Erie County in public notices and in official capacity and uniform (see flyer below).

McQuillen wrote to the board: «Obviously, the problem is not with Mr. Howard attending the rally as a public citizen [as is his right], but in presenting himself as the sheriff of Erie County in public notices and in official capacity and uniform.»

Not exact matches

«He made it crystal - clear to me through his representative that he would carry out his public duty as a citizen and resident of this community,» the Tribune reported Evans as saying.

So far the battle has entailed more words than action, with the tax's supporters trading charged public comments with representatives of the tech companies such as Weinberg's Bay Area Council Economic Institute and the San Francisco Citizens Initiative for Technology and Innovation, which represents Salesforce, Google, Pinterest, Twilio, and others.

As pressures mount, an increasing number of citizens commit suicide by jumping off the towering public apartments.

Its self - belief — and that of its citizens, businesses and investors — is slowly recovering but the scars from the crisis, such as unemployment and high public debt, remain.

Clark and her government are totally manipulative as they dispense spin to a seemingly gullible public on how great they are for the environment - the current carbon tax of $ 30 a ton has remained frozen for years and recently they have approved a huge LNG project and will no doubt OK the Kinder Morgan pipeline - and there is pretty good chance the good citizens of this province will eat up all the propaganda and vote them back in!

We envision a public institution managed professionally, guided by citizen oversight, and accountable to the public as its only stockholders.

Yes you can participate in both the pre-sale round and public sale round, as long as you are not a Brazillian resident / citizen.

Yes you can participate in both the pre-sale round and public sale round, as long as you are not a Chinese resident / citizen.

One of the major obstacles they must overcome is the seemingly negative perception the public has of Stéphane Dion; they're attempting to do this by asserting him as a decisive and strong political leader, and by showcasing him as an «average citizen,» rather than a politician who has been regarded as a somewhat - distant intellectual.

As such, the public's confidence in the integrity of the FISA process depends on the court's ability to hold the government to the highest standard, particularly as it relates to surveillance of American citizenAs such, the public's confidence in the integrity of the FISA process depends on the court's ability to hold the government to the highest standard, particularly as it relates to surveillance of American citizenas it relates to surveillance of American citizens.

«As well, ISDS puts a serious chill on the ability of governments at all levels to enact legislation and public policies that protect the health and well - being of citizens or promote sustainable development.

After March 4, 2013, an International Arrest Warrant will be issued against these Defendants.The guilty verdict followed nearly a month of deliberations by more than thirty sworn Citizen Jurors of the 150 case exhibits produced by Court Prosecutors, The Court's judgement declares the wealth and property of the churches responsible for the Canadian genocide to be forfeited and placed under public ownership, as reparations for the families of the more than 50,000 children who died in the residential schools.To enforce its sentence, the Court has empowered citizens in Canada, the United States, England, Italy and a dozen other nations to act as its legal agents armed with warrants, and peacefully occupy and seize properties of the Roman Catholic, Anglican and United Church of Canada, which are the main agents in the deaths of these children

That doesn't mean Religion should be expelled from the public life, as some would - be-little-hitlers advocate, it does however mean that the Church should be independent of the state and conversely the state, and its citizens independent of the Church.

It has indeed caused «severe embarrassment» to the nation, as he laments, for the Senate investigation has laid before the public the elements of a terrible irony: that acts which are illegal and unethical for citizens to engage in at home are condoned, even aggressively pursued, by American law - enforcement officers and secret agents both at home and abroad.

As a private citizen he sent a very public letter to President Clinton supporting his position on gays in the military.

As Europeans, now naturalized U.S. citizens, they are stunned the Bible is not taught in public schools.

Nobody thought much of religions other than Christianity; as was obvious by our public school pledge — which admonished us all to be good Christian citizens... Sure, I had questions too, but our church was pretty low - key so I was safe from some of the more radically - minded (read: brainwashed) of my peers.

The loss of biblical language in public rhetoric or in public education may have telling effect (Lincoln might be incomprehensible today) Sunday school and other agencies of biblical education, where the texts can be restored and minds can as well be re-stored, are neglected, signaling that citizens are not really serious when they ask for more religion in the schools.

It's insane that I should have to submit myself to pegan chants to exercise my right as a citizen to participate in public government sessions.

On the basis of the First Amendment, as well as the general principles of the Constitution, he opposed public payment for chaplains in Congress and the military, spoke out against national proclamations of days of prayer (though as president he did «recommend» them) and while president vetoed congressional efforts to incorporate churches in the District of Columbia (fullest statement, V: 103 - 105) At the same time, Madison frequently opined that it was appropriate for private citizens to support chaplains and various kinds of semiorganized public religion through voluntary contributions (V: 104,105)

God's will was to be made to prevail in the public life of the nation as well as in the personal lives of the citizens.

For the tradition to which Plato had been heir, paideia was as essential to the well - being of the public realm as of the political realm, by forming virtuous citizens capable of filling political roles wisely; for fourth - century Greek - speaking Christians paideia, while it aimed to shape persons» private interiority rather than their public political activity, contributed to the well - being of the public realm as a cultural realm accessible to any literate, educated person, Christian or pagan.

If we are going to teach a public ethic of eco-justice, we need public stories of eco-justice — public parables that have the capacity to communicate the meaning of our love for the earth and for people as citizens: the reality of the struggle for eco-justice in the ongoing history of our civic communities.

The public philosophy is the claim that the objective law of right, written into the nature of things, makes on citizens, as contrasted with the claims that the citizens make on the natural and social reality on which they depend.

The impossibility of stamping «determinate sentencing» as good or bad in any given political climate points up the fact that reform measures ultimately depend on an informed, caring and articulate minority of citizens who can influence public opinion.

For example, his chapter on public works is effective in denouncing pork - barrel spending dressed up as something beneficial fur the public, but his constructive agenda is thin on what the government should do to provide a sound infrastructure and even a safety net for its citizens.

Another example is that of citizens of states which pay for abortions with public funds who refuse, as a matter of conscience, to remit to state government a portion of their taxes corresponding to the percentage of the state budget that goes to abortion funding.

No longer was there a higher kind of life as there had been for the ancients, a life devoted either to theoretical contemplation or to participation in the public activities of a citizen.

The goal of education as paideia was something both very public and very political: the cultivating of politically skilled citizens for an idealized «democratic» self - governing polis or city.

This public would expand in social inclusiveness as its ethical level rose, gradually elevating the minds of commercial men toward the standard of judgment summed up in Smith's idea of the «Impartial Spectator,» the quintessentially public citizen.

I love America, but I worry about my nation as more and more of it's citizens allow ignorance and bigotry to not only control there lives, but attempt to turn it into public policy.

But since this is an election year, I want to apply the idea of Catholic witness specifically to our public life as citizens.

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.

G. Seek inclusion for local cable programmers, local public radio broadcasters, computer network operators and similar professionals operating in the public interest as members of training delegations going to developing nations in order to propagate the concept of a vigorous, involved public citizen movement.

More citizens view what the Surgeon General has described as a «public health crisis» with alarm, recognizing that it needs to be addressed through regulatory standards in several arenas.

Just as the lordship of Christ made demands for public justice on office - holders in the New Testament (Luke 4:15), the same is true for those who rule as citizens.

There are, according to the Handbook, three principles of academic freedom: «freedom to teach and to learn according to one's obligation, vision, and training; freedom to publish the results of one's study or research; and freedom to speak and write on public issues as a citizen.»

And to what extent is the local congregation any longer able to serve as a school for the creation of a self - disciplined, independent, public - spirited, in a word, virtuous citizen?

Such churches, respecting the difference between church and state yet recognizing the cultural and practical interconnection of civic and religious life, can serve as schools for civic as well as personal virtue, for public - spirited citizens as well as for devout believers.

There he says, one, that the shift from the concept of «the State's role as providers of equal opportunities to every citizen» to that of providing education, health and other social services «to those who can afford to pay» is a U-turn in public policy which «has been made surreptitiously by administrative action without public discussion and legislative sanction»; two, that the total commercialization of social sectors is «alien even to free market societies»; and three, that «the ready acceptance of self - financing concept in social sectors alien even to free - market societies is the end result of gradual disenchantment with the Kerala Model of Development», which has been emphasizing the social dimension rather than the economic, but that it is quite false to present the situation as calling for a choice between social development and economic growth.

A person who retreats from public life because it is too inconvenient or unpleasant or fails to accord with his nice ideals acts as a citizen of the city of man, seeking his own good — peace of mind, ideological purity — at the expense of the common good.

It seems, moreover, on the basis of public opinion polls, that this challenge is already accepted by a majority of our fellow citizens and thus the question of its establishment as a matter of law has not provoked a debate worthy of the momentous issues at stake.

As the legal specialist at the Indianapolis meeting remarked, religion can not be taken out of public education simply by court rulings; it will disappear from the schools only if it ceases to live in the «thoughts and hearts of citizens.»

The Church could no longer interfere with the Government just as the Government could no longer interfere with the Church, but through voluntary reform groups the Christian citizen could, by moral pressure and a majority legislation, see to it that public morality was kept at a high level.

I personally loved him as a President, but did he abuse me as an American citizen by using a public space for his own personal benefit??