Sentences with phrase «as we the citizens»

«When I think about how I understand my role as citizen, setting aside being president, and the most important set of understandings that I bring to that position of citizen, the most important stuff I've learned I think I've learned from novels,» he recently told The New York Review of Books.

«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.

«It is easy to blame the politicians for inaction but we as citizens still have to give them permission to spend what is ultimately our money,» Sheldrick said.

And as citizens, let's all get more involved.

And I think the issues around terror have created a level of anxiety... There are a number of things that we are facing as citizens, and I think the direction of the country.»

«When I think about how I understand my role as citizen... the most important stuff I've learned I think I've learned from novels,» Obama told The New York Review of Books.

«We sell most of our guns to civilians in their homes, so our police need to be at least as well armed as our citizens,» he says, adding that civilians can only buy semi-automatic rifles while police and military buy the fully - automatic version.

Tanner's strongest claim as a citizen of Portland may be its myriad collaborations with like - minded local businesses.

In this regard, Entrepreneur India personally interacted with Revathy Ashok who is not only associated with the Indian Angel Network but is also Chief Executive Officer and Managing Trustee at Bangalore Political Action Committee (B.PAC) which works at improving urban governance in the city by engaging both elected representatives as well as citizens.

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.

As citizens, he says, we value our big banks as paternalistic entities that built the railroads.

The source of Orwell's Big Brother poster, Alfred Leete's recruitment poster, showed Kitchener, his moustache dark and heavy as ever, jabbing his finger at the viewer and pinning him with a severe gaze, while beckoning him to fulfill his duty as a citizen and join the military.

So there is a clear business case to be made for it; the evidence is mounting, and in addition to that, the President speaks quite often about our responsibilities as citizens of our country.

During Trump's other weekend in Florida, several thousand people marched near the property to protest his temporary ban on travel to the United States by refugees as well as citizens of seven mostly Muslim countries.

The peer - to - peer platform is emblematic of bitcoin itself, as citizens have bypassed government to transact with one another directly.

The next big battle is in southern B.C., as citizens fight to stop Kinder Morgan's proposal to load more than 400 oil tankers a year in Burnaby.

How we as citizens and consumers can make a difference, plus a timeline with a few key events in the last few decades where consumer power made an impact and changed the world.

Just as citizens flocked to their cottages and launched their boats, the government of Stephen Harper pulled the plug on Canada's greatest freshwater defender and scientific achievement: the Experimental Lakes Area.

Lenders such as Citizens Bank and Earnest allow cosigners for their personal loans.

Mr. Balding cited the downward pressures that have been building on the Chinese currency in the face of outflows, as citizens and companies rush to get their renminbi offshore and convert it into more international currencies, like the dollar.

Under the California Constitution, «noncitizens have the same property rights as citizens.»

«We believe that together, as citizens, we have a higher calling to close the military / civilian cultural divide by joining in service to our communities.»

We should be able to defend ourselves as citizens,» he said.

If we give up, if we as human people, as citizens of the world, if we individually or collectively as a group give up on Bitcoin then Bitcoin will die.

As citizens flee for the mainland from the storm damage, output will likely fall and further decelerate the economic recovery.

This is the first such crime in the nation - and the scale of it has surprised the police, the judiciary as well as the citizens.

We all pay taxes, whether we like it or not, because we agree as citizens, as members of a democratic society, that mandatory taxation is for the common good.

Spain has already had to sit through several protests as citizens decry the reduction in their pension benefits and health care.

As citizens, our political preferences tend to influence our investment decisions.

Its members had sat impassively at hearings around the state as citizens pleaded with the Constitution Revision Commission for the chance to ban assault weapons.

We as citizens of the province and Canada will be looking at new sources of energy other than petroleum.»

Saudi Arabia has officially recognised a humanoid robot as a citizen, marking the first time in history that an AI device has been awarded such status.

What the Haredi have done is simple, even admirable: they've attempted to find a way to integrate modern practices with their religious ideals, which we ought to, as citizens of a nation which values religious freedom and upholds the right to practice, respect, not bemoan.

That's the middle ground whether you are talking government, politics, law, ethics as a citizen, or even, dare I say it, religion.

Yep, overseas Mormons do get to vote, just like any US citizen that's overseas — amazing, it's any expatriate's right as a citizen.

In chapter 9 of book XVIII of THE CITY OF GOD, St. Augustine reports that the enraged men of Athens demanded, to compensate for their city being named by women (who outvoted the men in the assembly by one) for a woman God, that women lose the right of suffrage, that they not be able to give their names to their chldren, and that they were never to be known as citizens of Athens.

But emphasis on the personal responsibility of blacks takes the political pressure off those outside the black community, who also have a responsibility, as citizens of this republic, to be actively engaged in trying to change the structures that constrain the black poor in such a way that they can more effectively assume responsibility for themselves and exercise their inherent and morally required capacity to choose.

When your country is at war, as a citizen of that country, there is NO NEUTRAL position.

That is, there is an inherent link between these two sides of the «responsibility coin» — between acceptance among blacks of personal responsibility for our actions, and acceptance among all Americans of their social responsibilities as citizens.

People in other countries can be neutral if they are not involved, but the moment your country is involved, YOU, as a citizen, can no longer maintain a neutral position.

We as citizens of United States of America have a right to vote for the candidate we choose.

As a citizen of the United Kingdom I can acknowledge collective responsibility for how Palestine was administered before 1948, and can understand how difficulties faced by Jews and Palestinians today were fed by characteristic failures in the British colonial imagination....

Cobb does acknowledge that «our task is to become aware of how we, as citizens, as theologians and as churches, share in sustaining and strengthening the structures of oppression and destruction which govern our world.»

But paying attention to the prophets in this season reminds us that the sort of waiting and preparing that God calls us to as citizens of this upside - down Kingdom is the active kind that demolishes obstructions and levels the playing field, that binds the brokenhearted and liberates the imprisoned, that beat swords into plowshares and spears into pruning hooks, and bets it all by going all in on this irrational and seemingly impossible vision of peace on earth.

(Note: Just so we're clear, I'm not saying that anyone who opposes gay marriage or the Tea Party or «happy holidays» is doing so out of fear; just saying that as citizens of the Kingdom of Heaven, fear need not be a factor in our discussion of these issues.)

As we learn to live as citizens of one world, the history of the whole world - wide church becomes the inheritance of all Christians and a rich resource for the future.

In general, when a Christian church uses the political arena to impose actions on women without corresponding actions on men, do you feel feminists need to respond as Christians, or as citizens?

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.

These halfway members could not have the Lord's Supper, but they were still under the control of the Church; so they could vote on some of its nonspiritual problems and could keep all their privileges as citizens.

It's kind of like being «in» a country as a citizen.