Sentences with phrase «by citizens issuing»

A government truly of the people, for the people, and by the people is not threatened by citizens issuing such a challenge.

Not exact matches

Responding to a question about resolving the issue of more than a dozen Japanese citizens who were abducted by North Korea in the 1970s, the spokesman said he was unsure of what content was discussed in the morning meeting.

Attorneys who safeguard privacy issues for citizens should look into how California's Department of Developmental Services is violating individual service provider's rights by demanding unnannounced visits to their homes.

The border is one of three key issues, along with citizens» rights and money owed by the U.K., that require «sufficient progress» toward a resolution during the Brexit negotiations before the EU will allow talks to move on to Britain's future relationship with the bloc.

The bill's introduction also comes amid various actions and statements by the Trump administration, including a fourth round of sanctions that restrict Venezuela and Petróleos de Venezuela SA, a state - owned oil company, from issuing new debt or from engaging in other financial dealings with U.S. citizens.

«America is a proud nation of immigrants and we will continue to show compassion to those fleeing oppression, but we will do so while protecting our own citizens and border,» Trump said in a statement issued by the White House.

If the visa process by an embassy or consulate is held up by significant delays, the State Department can issue a second passport if citizens need to travel immediately.

Both residents and state media blasted it for its seemingly unfair and arbitrary criteria, with one state - run newspaper comparing the system to the «good citizen» certificates issued by Japan during its wartime occupation of China.

Separately, Abe told reporters after a call on Sunday with Moon that the South Korean president had raised at the summit with Kim the issue of past abductions of Japanese citizens by North Korea.

In May, Beijing took steps to tighten control of local affiliates of major accounting firms by issuing a requirement for Chinese citizens to head those offices.

By December 2017, the UK has completed the first phase of Brexit negotiations with the EU, covering issues such as the Irish border, citizens» rights and financial settlements.

Arthur — good issue raised.The candidacy of Hollande will not make much difference for French policy for it was Mitterand who pushed for Maastricht even though the referendum barely passed — the French are terrified of decoupling from the Germans for as DeGaulle famously said — EUROPE IS FRANCE AND GERMANY — all the others are mere trimmings.Also, Germany is the coach and France the coachman — there is so much at work here — the media does a greart disservice by measuring it in sound bites.Sarkozy is bringing Merkel in to campaign for him to subtlely remind the French citizens what is at stake in the upcoming French elections.The tear gas is in Athens but game is in Paris

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

By issuing this report, we hope to give governments an added incentive to honor the rights and the dignity of their citizens; but the report also has the benefit of equipping interested observers with an arsenal of facts.

Israel is a SECULAR state having a SECULAR government ruling in accordance to SECULAR laws issued by a SECULAR parliament (Kneset) members of which are democratically elected by all Israeli citizens regardless of their race, religion, ethnicity or gender.

What is troubling is that all citizens were significantly affected by the news media; that the media are fostering a considerable amount of misperceptions about issues of great public importance; and that these misperceptions tend to follow a particular ideological line — namely, that the war in Iraq was justified.

Tradition has it that a part of every day Mohammed set aside to receive the complaints and suggestions of the citizens of Medina, and by his often simple and homely settlement of the important or unimportant issues brought before him, he set the pattern for ages to come in Moslem jurisprudence.

Maria crossed the line using a «local passport,» the document issued by the INS to Mexican citizens who could prove their permanent residence in Mexico.

They grant the right of concern to citizens and humans but never confuse the issue by considering the possibility that the clergyman or other professional is also a citizen or human being.

That's because, for one thing, abortion and marriage are issues to be resolved by the people acting through legislatures, and Catholic Americans, as citizens, are perfectly free to convince their fellow citizens of the truth of their view of who we are as free and relational beings.

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.

Philadelphia About Blog Health Populi was founded by Jane Sarasohn - Kahn of THINK - Health to dive into a key health issue of the day for health citizens.

By going meat free once a week at lunchtime, and participating in lessons which address the issues behind MFM, students will learn what it means to be more responsible global citizens and will better understand how the choices they make today will affect them and future generations.

There's also the issue that Ottawa citizens have been going unpaid by their government for the past year or so due to automated payroll problems.

Brazilian goalkeeper Ederson has finalised his # 34.7 m move to Manchester City, and the deal is due to be announced by the Citizens once they manage to resolve third - party issues.

ROSELLE — The issue of a swimming pool for Lake Park High School was brought to the Roselle Park District board Wednesday night as local citizens, led by Barb Layer, sought to determine if there was any Park District interest in seeing that one be built.

A statement issued by Nana Ato Dadzie and George Loh, lawyers for the three, said the sentence was «harsh and excessive», adding: «We also do not believe that citizens of Ghana ought to be committed to prison for infractions on free expression especially in light of the repeal of the criminal libel law.

Yes, being mindful of the issues of the independence of the courts, I am also equally aware that judicial decisions are equally subject to criticism by citizens.

One of your common tasks is usually going to be supporting your government relations team (or your citizen advocates and volunteers) by collecting documents that they want Hill staff to see and presenting them on a central page about an issue.

The case study demonstrates that the preferred methods of democratic accountability in Rwanda involve responsiveness by the centralised powers to their citizens to solve technocratic problems like corruption, not politically trickier issues of compensation.

I've been asked more than once by political veterans skeptical of the role of blogs and other forms of online citizen activism to point a specific instance in which the Internet made a real difference in a political issue.

Since the Supreme Court has now prevented itself from acknowledging the question of whether Barack H. Obama is or is not an Article II «natural born citizen» based on the Kenyan / British citizenship of Barack Obama's father at the time of his birth (irrespective of whether Barack Obama is deemed a «citizen» born in Hawaii or otherwise) as a prerequisite to qualifying to serve as President of the United States under the Constitution — the Court having done so at least three times and counting, first before the Nov 4 general election and twice before the Dec 15 vote of the College of Electors — it would seem appropriate, if not necessary, for all Executive Branch departments and agencies to secure advance formal advice from the United States Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel as to how to respond to expected inquiries from federal employees who are pledged to «support and defend the Constitution of the United States» as to whether they are governed by laws, regulations, orders and directives issued under Mr. Obama during such periods that said employees, by the weight of existing legal authority and prior to a decision by the Supreme Court, believe in good faith that Mr. Obama is not an Article II «natural born citizen».

The issue is of particular importance to Republicans in the Senate, who hold the majority in that house by just one vote, says Dick Dadey, with the reform group Citizens Union.

And republicans, in addition, are concerned about many other issues: the discrimination faced by the LGBT community, consumers at the mercy of retailers or companies, Internet users at the mercy of providers or regulatory states, children at the mercy of their parents or teachers, the elder at the mercy of younger disrespectful citizens, the kid being bullied by a classmate at school, the prisoner abused by his jail mates or by the prison authorities, etc..

Oh wow, I never realised that it would be an issue of state sovereignty, as it is almost held as a matter I'd indisputable dogma that the franchise can only be held by natural born or naturalised citizens, who have not been disenfranchised by virtue of criminal conviction!

The new organization — which would be empowered by the US Supreme Court's controversial 5 - 4 «Citizens United» ruling in June, which gave corporations the green light to run «issues advertising» targeting specific candidates on TV and radio — would initially focus on state Senate races in hopes of seeing the Legislature's upper house return to Republican control, said a source familiar with the planning for the group.

All of the above channels work even better when your lobbyists or citizen volunteers stop by to chat about the same issues.

Today's frantic new media systems can generate huge waves of alarmist communications which invade countries and alarm the citizens about two main issues that bypass the logical part of the brain: racial threat and sex... both topics are used by media to command human attention because they bypass conscious brain structures to ensure a fast response, the same as a deja vu is seen before it is noticed, so to speak.

Still, Citizens Union's Dick Dadey is optimistic that Cuomo's proposal could advance the issue by «drawing out the Senate's opposition more clearly to the public.»

Under the 1971 Immigration Act Commonwealth citizens living in the UK were given indefinite leave to remain, but no records were kept by the Home Office and no paperwork confirming people's right to live in the UK was issued.

Yes, but not without abusing its power by upending the principle that citizens, through their elected representatives in local government, should be able to decide for themselves issues that affect only their communities.

Polling by American Solutions, a citizen action network I founded in 2007, shows that on issues such as producing more American energy, cutting taxes to create jobs, balancing the budget by cutting spending, English as the language of government, and more, Americans oppose the views of academic elites by 75 to 85 percent.

The party, in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Lai Mohammed, called on the citizens to ignore what it called a mischievous attempt by the PDP to confuse and mislead them on this issue.

I don't agree that gifting guns to family members is a crime issue, it's just another way law abiding citizens are screwed by the Cuomo lovers.

By this release, we want to register our collective disappointment in the handling of issues of security by the president, from the conducts of his party supporters, to the killing of innocent officers who have only taken upon themselves to lay their precious lives to protect the nation and its citizenBy this release, we want to register our collective disappointment in the handling of issues of security by the president, from the conducts of his party supporters, to the killing of innocent officers who have only taken upon themselves to lay their precious lives to protect the nation and its citizenby the president, from the conducts of his party supporters, to the killing of innocent officers who have only taken upon themselves to lay their precious lives to protect the nation and its citizens.

Opaque pork barrel spending in the proposed state executive budget has increased by $ 2 billion this year, to $ 4.3 billion, the good - government group Citizens Union said in a report issued today.

I expressed my views in this regard on WhatsApp last weekend, «Any country in which its elites consider re-electing a president like Buhari just as thousands of citizens are murdered across the country with not a single person arrested; a president who can not make an intelligent conversation on any policy or global issue with other global leaders; a president whose EFCC and DSS engage in open confrontation; a regime which crippled the economy and relies on cyclical movements in oil prices as its sole economic lever; a regime under which 10 million jobs are lost; and key accusations against top officials are treated with levity; just as the regime appears complicit in the invasion of its senate by thugs and seizure of mace... such a country is in serious trouble, that is if it isn't doomed.

All citizens could vote directly on every issue decided by the state.

Pressed on the issue by YNN's Bill Carey in Syracuse earlier today, the senator touted his record and wide variety of endorsers, particularly citing New Yorkers Against Gun Violence, NARAL Pro-Choice NY, the NYLCV, and the Citizens Union, saying:

In a statement issued by the National Publicity Secretary of the forum, Muhammad Ibrahim, the ACF noted with regret that in other clime, citizens wished their leaders well when ill or incapitated to perform their statutory functions, but not so in Nigeria.