Sentences with phrase «average citizens at»

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Namely, that our political institutions too often favor a small class of privileged elites, at the expense of average citizens.

In the end, the magic fiat manufacturing machines are going to go berserk and the average citizen is going to look at his or her 60 % year - over-year increase in rent or food or electricity and then THEY will go «berserk» in their own fashion.

Trump has an almost preternatural ability to sense and to respond to the anxieties of the average citizen — or at least the average primary voter — rather than pandering to them reluctantly.

We are now confronted with a form of capitalism which concentrates economic power in vast, impersonal institutions, with the result that decisions vitally affecting the livelihood of average citizens are made in places far removed from their capacity to have any influence at all.

When addressing the average secular British citizen, we simply can not make that assumption, because the modern anti-life ethic has been forged in a culturethat is increasingly materialistic and relativistic at its core.

Not just members of the bar association — average sitting - at - home citizens wonder what you base your claims on.

True that a citizen can join the party, but at least in practice, there isn't a mechanism for dissent or disagreement available to the average citizen in a communist government.

The delegate selection process basically ensures that «average» citizens will not get a seat at the table.

There are countless things that we can do at all levels of government to reduce our costs with little harm to the average citizen.

[41] The initiatives were aimed at disseminating descriptions of criminals who were evading law enforcement officials to promote the ability of average citizens to help aid in their capture.

«The average newspaper reader might not grasp it right away,» said David Friedfel, director of state research at the Citizens Budget Commission, a spending watchdog.

Vaupel cites gains among average citizens in Japan, where the life expectancy at birth has been climbing and is now more than 83 years old.

For average citizens like Susan, New York City offers only one publicly funded treatment option: the WTC Environmental Health Center (WTC - EHC) at Bellevue Hospital, a new program launched in January 2007 that will expand to treat about 6,000 New Yorkers with 9 / 11 - related health problems.

Also that people who have zoological knowledge and are trying to thwart animal abuse are jerks, and that average citizens should defy and hopefully assault them at some point.

While John spends most of John Wick: Chapter 2 shooting at trained killers who are also shooting at him, often in crowded spaces, director Chad Stahelski makes abundantly clear that average citizens aren't in danger.

The bright side is that with effective modules, adaptive modification, and the will to succeed, the average citizen of the future will be learning something new every day, whether it's at school or on the job, for the rest of their lives.

Do teachers vote at high rates compared with average citizens?

In every district with available data, and for all three sets of elections, other district employees who live and work in their districts vote at substantially higher rates than ordinary citizens do — rates that, on average, are just a shade lower than those of teachers who live and work in the district.

Also, without defining or at least spelling out acronyms like «ADA» or «ADM,» the average citizen will have a hard time deciphering the data presented.

His goal isn't just to help his students pass the AP exam, which they do at three times the district average; it's to shape well - informed and influential citizens of the future.

«To improve the quality of education; make health and safety improvements; modernize / construct classrooms, restrooms and school facilities: and improve P.E. fields and facilities; shall Laton Joint Unified School District issue $ 7,000,000 of bonds at legal rates, averaging $ 421,000 annually as long as bands are outstanding at a rate of approximately 6 cents per $ 100 assessed value, with annual audits, an independent citizens» oversight committee, no money for salaries, and funding that can not be taken by the State?»

The new State of Our Cities report, released today at a mayors» roundtable at the Bush Center, is an explanatory and comparative tool prepared by the George W. Bush Institute to help leaders (and average citizens, for that matter) make sense of city level education data.

«When you look at the average person today and how their RRSPs have been kicked around, these guys don't have that problem,» says Peter Coleman, president of the National Citizens Coalition.

It is no secret that consumer debt is a significant problem in the U.S.. Its total stood at a staggering $ 2,400 billion in 2010, meaning that the average U.S. citizen was encumbered with around $ 7,800 worth of debt across a plethora of loans, credit cards and financing agreements.

One could also argue that the average citizen does not follow new zoning issues, pay raises for elected city officials, and public works contracts (the most common issues discussed at city council meetings).

At 6 years of age, your ferret is a senior citizen (the average life span of a ferret is 5 to 7 years).

IN PERU TRAVEL has designed the LIVE PERU (VIVE PERÚ) Program, to impulse opportunities to discover the country's main tourist attractions, at accessible prices for the average income Peruvian citizen, in the idea of motivating more Peruvians to travel within the national territory.

My questions, the answers to which I may have missed in this string, are how can one relate the forcing at 2XCO2 to an expected atmospheric temperature rise in a way that a citizen can understand; and is the forcing as stated as a degree C to be compared with the forcing at 280 ppm (pre industrial) NOT with today's measured temperature or rise above average?

But a simple wildlife rescue course at your local Wildlife Rescue organization at least enables the average citizen to assist when a wild animal is injured.

More than 40 years after Neil Armstrong's giant leap, spaceflight is still too expensive for the average citizen, at least those unable to pay Virgin Galactic $ 200,000 for a 15 - minute suborbital ride.

That's about the average CO2 emissions for a citizen of Azerbaijan, and about two - thirds of the average Chinese citizen's emissions... unless he is a monk, I'm not buying that idea at all.

For example, at Love Canal, in Western New York, toxic pollution had been accumulating for decades (since well before the 1940s), but average citizens only started to understand that it was putting them at risk in the 1960s, and the true extent of the environmental disaster was not recognized until a New York State agency organized a large scale scientific investigation in 1977 using newly developed forensic chemistry techniques to quantify the extent to which people were exposed to toxic chemicals.

Both our Provincial and Federal politicians have been insisting to anyone who will listen that the conversion from GST+PST to HST is «tax neutral» at worst and is more likely to reduce the tax burden of the average citizen.

Those who call Nashua home will pay an average of $ 1,297 for a year's worth of auto insurance, while citizens of Manchester are looking at a higher rate of $ 1,461.

People who call Nashua residence will pay an average of $ 1,297 for a year's worth of automobile insurance, while citizens of Manchester are taking a look at an increased rate of

Home insurance premiums for citizens of Oakland are 41 % cheaper than the state average at $ 734 per year or $ 61 monthly.

It has been seen that on an average, citizens of New York have spent in excess of $ 1100 for their auto insurance whereas the national insurance is comparatively lesser at $ 850 or thereabouts.

The average senior citizen in Tennessee likes to live in a smaller place at one time or another or they like to move to a destination that allows them to live out their years in peace.

Their concern is the new limit on the amount of state and local taxes citizens can deduct on their federal filings will be capped at $ 10,000, an amount lower than the current average deduction in Connecticut, New Jersey, and New York, according to Moody's Investors Service.

A number of Albany citizens travel via Interstate 80 on a daily basis to and from San Francisco, as the average commute time for residents sits at nearly 29 minutes.