Sentences with phrase «by his fellow citizens»

yet if i am to judge on past choices made by my fellow citizens, well then, i am left depressed with the knowledge of our enablity to make a rational choice concerning the governmentship of this country!

In an earlier era, freethinkers understood that the society in which they lived depended in part on the basic view of the world accepted by their fellow citizens — hence Robert Ingersoll and Elizabeth Cady Stanton not only defended a clear churchstate separation but commented onthe merits of specific religious ideas held by their contemporaries.

The scene ends with Swinton's mother waking up and leaving her house to find it (and her car) splashed in red paint by her fellow citizens, as her son, possibly stewed in the resentment and frustration of the mother, has grown up to become a neurotic sociopath responsible for murdering his fellow students in a school shooting — which of course is young people splashed in a different kind of red.

That almost all of the works in the modestly scaled gallery were made by his fellow citizens was also telling.

Answer: Perhaps you would like to join a class action lawsuit filed by your fellow citizens who were also surprised to have a smelly house?

This is not to say that the majority of Australians, black or white, do not feel sorry for injustices suffered by their fellow citizens.

Not exact matches

Walled off by technology and geography from the realities of most of their fellow citizens, the tech elites live lives of extreme, if occasionally odd, luxury.

But having one's religious conscience protected from intrusion by one's fellow citizens is a much less compelling need than having it protected from the government.

The rest is explained by the natural resources with which that country is endowed, the physical infrastructure, the collective know - how of fellow citizens, the quality of public and private institutions, and the degree of trust that greases the wheels of commerce, politics and everyday life.

Across Canada, misguided populism is creating bad public policy, preventing the spreading of economic benefits to all citizens By Joseph Quesnel Research Fellow Frontier Centre for Public Policy Misguided moratoriums... Read more»

All we can ask is for our governments and security agencies is to deal with them judiciously — say, by not appointing a foreign minister with strong historical family ties to a foreign government supported by fascist sympathizers engaged in a civil war with their fellow citizens.

Especially when we keep losing national elections, we have to confront our fellow citizens with the de facto constitutional decisions they keep making by voting for the Democrats.

«To have charitable support given by people voluntarily to support their fellow - citizens I think is rather uplifting and shows what a good, compassionate country we are,» he said.

My last essay ended by noting that conservatives are told by many of their leading politicians and pundits that America's fundamental problem is that too many of their fellow citizens no longer understand its basic principles, of which liberty has pride of place.

How is our obedience to God mediated or intersected by loyalty to institutions (state, church, school),) to our fellows (citizens, worshippers, colleagues),) to our families and friends, to ourselves?

Saul of Tarsus was not just some ordinary person he was a Roman citizen, educated by the finest scholars of his day, a zealot for the Jews and you want to make believe he fell for myth, Jesus who his fellow Sanhedrin leaders hated and crucified was a myth, Saul was dispatched to kill those who believed in a myth, Saul witnessed Stephen filled with the Holy Spirit and stood by as Stephen was stoned to death over a myth, Saul later called Paul established the church over a myth, Paul tortured and killed for refusing to reject a myth.

To live by an ethic of civility requires a respectful engagement with the other, whether as fellow person or as fellow citizen.

Whereas The Broken Covenant was the voice of a prophet crying in the wilderness, alternately denouncing and lamenting for his people, Habits and its successor volume The Good Society, written by the same five authors and to be published in 1991, speak as one group of citizens to our fellow citizens, criticizing some things but also encouraging, offering examples of effective citizenship and church membership, and looking forward, if not with optimism, at least with hope.

No one did more in his time than Lippmann to spread the word among his fellow citizens that government by the people was no longer something for which they need — or should — strive.

Suppose you hear in one of the towns the LORD your God is giving you that some worthless rabble among you have led their fellow citizens astray by encouraging them to worship foreign gods.

The Constitution could not take for granted that its citizens would all be motivated by civic virtue and so its concern was as much to protect individuals and groups from abuse at the hands of the government and their fellow citizens as it was to involve all its citizens in genuine participation.

Marty's new book is a resource for people of conviction who want to be good citizens in a pluralistic society: «You want to do the right thing by your God, your tradition, your country, the public order, the law and the courts, and your fellow citizens.

A decade after 9 / 11 - even the most intellectually challenged American should have understood that in the part of the world where there is instability and power vacuum - the slightest excuse can be used to rally people for a cause - and the Prophet is a powerful «cause» - that can be misused by political forces... So, any American who irresponsibly puts the lives of his fellow citizens in danger by using such provocation is a traitor to his country.

A call to abolish food banks completely was rejected by the report though: «We know that such a cry is based on the affront people feel for their fellow citizens who have to use food banks as a crucial safety net.

He wanted Americans to become more than fellow citizens united only by law; each citizen must acquire and practice virtue in order to preserve republicanism.

I don't know about your country, but in mine, that particular word — «socialism» — was transformed long ago into just an ordinary truncheon used by certain cynical, parvenu bureaucrats to bludgeon their liberal - minded fellow citizens from morning until night, labeling them «enemies of socialism» and «antisocialist forces.

The system of checks and balances they built in the Constitution was formed not only by the recognition that good citizens may differ over the proper course of action, but also, at least in part, by the Biblical understanding of humans as fallible and prone to wrong - doing, and therefore frequently in need of some healthy opposition from their fellows.

They should not only apply to state - citizen, but also to citizen - citizen relationships In the case of information provision there should be protection against information oligopolies organized by fellow - citizens.

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.

Still, Christians have the duty not to be too alienated from their country, and to do what they can to be of service to their fellow citizens by loyally encouraging what's good and could be better in the political place where they live.

Join fellow citizens on Friday, September 11 at 6 PM the Red Hat Amphitheater for the 9/11 Day of Service Evening Commemoration coordinated by Activate Good with support from the Downtown Raleigh Alliance, City of Raleigh, and Triangle area businesses.

Someone who tries to live in a society by taking and not contributing (when they have the ability and opportunity to contribute) is in an important way out of solidarity with their fellow citizens.

By engaging citizens in a wider discussion, it is shaping a certain type of Romanian citizen, a critical one, capable of engaging in civilized discussions with his fellow citizens, of taking action whenever needed and of holding the political leaders accountable for their actions.

In contemporary British politics, this idealist language is present in various political discourses: the project of a «Big Society» championed by the Conservatives aimed at reinvigorating altruistic values in citizens» behaviours so that they would help themselves and their fellow citizens instead of being «assisted» by the State.

We are currently seeking cosigners for this petition among fellow our Waterkeeper Alliance members as well as any other environmental and citizen action groups whose constituencies have been affected by CKD pollution.

The young philanthropist bemoaned the arrant neglect on the office of the number 2 citizen of Benue State by the Governor and observed that the only offence the deputy Governor committed was that he was an Idoma man and that was why Pastor Ortom decided to relinquish power to his fellow Tiv brother, Barrister Targema Takema who is not even the number 3 in the state hierarchy.

Fellow patriotic citizens, I fought for two long years for justice for the Constitution and for all of us and the Supreme Court eventually vindicated the public's interest by ordering the refund of the unconstitutional loot to the Republic of Ghana.

By Rockland County Executive Ed Day It took the people of Rockland County just four days to fill four tractor - trailer trucks to the brim with relief supplies for fellow citizens in Puerto Rico.

12:10 - Tony Baldry, Con, says Ukip are based on «fear of the world, fear of the foreigner... if anyone comes to my constituency and goes to hospital or building sites they will see the great contribution made to our communities by fellow EU citizens».

«And to have charitable support given by people voluntarily to support their fellow citizens, I think is rather uplifting and shows what a good, compassionate country we are.»

In a statement released by the Oneidas, the tribe said, «It is revealing that she is making a public spectacle of defending those who want to continue using a racial slur against her fellow citizens of Central New York.»

Demon of Islamophobia hanging over the community However, in the aftermath of the 7/7 atrocities in London, a new challenge rose which the community was not ready to face — a few bad apples from within it were hell - bent to wreck the boat by mindlessly causing harm to fellow citizens.

Is Supervisor Gromack now so desperate to avoid these questions from being answered by an independent and open investigation of the procedures being followed by the Town Attorney's office that he must employ acampaign of derogation against three citizens and their law firm while using strong - arm tactics against a fellow Town Supervisor?

I would like to urge me fellow citizens to take a serious look at Mike by going to his web site at www.electmike.org, or better yet, call Mike at 862-308-5809.

Lea Shanley, 2008 - 09 Legislative Branch Fellow sponsored by ASA / CSSA / SSA and a champion of citizen science, served as an adviser to the program over the past four years, offering ideas, providing feedback and connecting the producers with exemplary citizen science projects.

Geospatial data scientist Lea Shanley, 2008 - 09 Congressional Fellow sponsored by ASA / CSSA / SSSA in the office of Sen. Bill Nelson, has devoted much of her career to citizen science.

«Even if people think objectively and follow rules of statistical inference, richer and poorer people may be led, by the information available to them, to very different conclusions about how wealthy their fellow citizens are, on average, and how wealth is distributed across society.»

She would do everything possible, she told her fellow citizens, to protect them from the new pathogen spawned by a pig.

Today, she feels like she and her fellow NTT faculty members are viewed by the university as «second - class citizens.»