Sentences with phrase «by informed citizens»

Government by informed citizens, exercised through elected representatives, is a grand ideal that you describe as a complete myth.

This must be guarded against both by informed citizens who detect the signs and refuse to be duped and by government agencies such as the F.B.I. that are skilled in detecting illicit practices.

Not exact matches

The survey was conducted after the 2016 United States presidential election and polled more than 21,000 people described by organizers as «business leaders, informed elites and general citizens.»

I rationalize my habit by telling myself that, as a responsible citizen, I should make sure I am an informed voter.

It is only by changing religious and secular text which informs such notions for new citizens will this change and finally women will own God on equal terms.

He then goes on to praise E. D. Hirsch's Cultural Literacy as a more useful critique of current educational practices because it works in «the framework of a Deweyan understanding of democracy» in which students are to be made better citizens by preparing them to «recognize more allusions, and thereby be able to take part in more conversations, read more, have more sense of what those in power are up to, cast better - informed votes.

Full debate requires that the argument stretch to the ultimate ideal by which all activities of the state ought to be informed, and this means that citizens should be free to advance and defend any religion they find convincing.

The answers given by Dole and Clinton (Perot didn't respond) are familiar, so the questionnaire contained nothing that the reasonably well - informed citizen would not already know.

Detailing the general Indian revulsion against the violence in Gujarat and the search for justice by its victims, she highlights the «ability of well - informed citizens to turn against religious nationalism and to rally behind the values of pluralism and equality.»

On this view, legislation informed by religion or by traditional morality expresses a malicious desire by some citizens to apply power against other citizens.

There is a real possibility that the moral and religious motivations of some citizens will become not only actionable at public law, through constitutional suits challenging legislation informed by such motives, but also actionable at private law.

By working together with these fine organizations, we can help our citizens be more informed about the beverage calories they consume.»

By talking with your child about current events and stories they see in the news or hear about at school, you can help your child to feel more confident in their understanding of the world and to become a better and more informed global citizen.

But the citizen vigilante who has been a critic of the former President said he has no doubt that Mahama's cynical advice to Mr. Odinga was informed by past decisions of the Kenyan Supreme Court.

Rousseau's claim that it was an essential role of government to ensure citizens were neither too poor nor too rich was informed by his commitment to an ideal of citizenship and the republican notion that the state should aim at the common good.

BY CAITLIN FISH Senator David Carlucci hosted an identity theft forum at the New City Public Library on Wednesday Jan. 10 to answer questions and to inform citizens on ways to protect themselves from scams and identity fraud.

She said a survey by the institute shows that there is growing appetite by citizens to know the intentions of the two leading political parties in order to make informed choices during the November 7 election.

Only by pulling back the veil of secrecy, informing citizens of the atrocities that their tax money is funding and holding experimenters accountable for abusing animals in the name of science when more reliable, cruelty - free options exist, can we hope to bring scientific research into the modern age.

It noted that decision was informed by INEC's desire to provide citizens with wider access to registration centres to enable them register in the on - going CVR exercise ahead of the 2019 general election.

And they definitely inform the events near my novel's end, when citizens first cause the banks to crash by various acts of fiscal noncompliance, then support the nationalization of the banks following that crash.

The goal of this blog is to inform, educate and engage the citizens of Eureka in our mission to improve Eureka by improving the quality of life though citizen engagement and crime control.

The goal of this blog is to inform, educate and engage the citizens of Eureka in our mission to improve Eureka by improving the quality of life though citizen engagement and crime control.

More and more, Edward becomes informed on the questionable and intrusive tracking, legal manipulation, and data collection being secretly conducted by the U.S. government on not only foreign threats, but its own citizens without formal warrants, court orders, or proper search - and - seizure procedures.

«By teaching D&T, we are ensuring that all children are not just passive bystanders in our increasingly technology - driven world, but are informed citizens who understand how design impacts on their quality of life and how technology can be used for the benefit of mankind.»

Back for its fourth year, our popular Oxfam Water Week is designed to help young people become active and engaged global citizens by taking informed, responsible and meaningful action.

The programme aims to create the next generation of informed, responsible and resilient digital citizens by providing schools with a roadmap for planning and teaching «with» and «about» digital technology.

Abstract: This joint paper was conducted by Issues without Borders (IWB) and Citizens Rights Watch (CRW), non-governmental organisations with aim to raise awareness on the ongoing European refugee crisis, inform the public about the «IWB Refugee Project», the value of volunteering and ask you to join us and contribute to our efforts towards bringing a positive change and improve the human quality of life.

That all young people become civically informed and engaged global citizens by participating in service - learning during their formative years.

But only by returning to basics can we hope to achieve what must always remain the essential goals of education policy: to provide all children with the knowledge they must have to be informed American citizens, and to give them the skills they will need to compete in tomorrow's global economy.

The movement behind Common Core standards was informed by the same thinking: how to articulate the skills and thought processes students need to develop in order to be productive citizens?

By engaging citizens, the signs will also help city leaders make more informed decisions.

He became a United States citizen in 1943 and throughout the 1940s and 1950s, his work was informed by his travels abroad: to China with the US Army; Italy on his second Guggenheim fellowship; and Paris and Madrid, where he moved his family for a brief period during the late fifties.

Just as Paglen works with hobbyist astronomers, curator Tyler Stallings, whose show «Free Enterprise: The Art of Citizen Space Exploration» will be seen next year at the Sweeney Art Gallery at the University of California, Riverside, comments that the «idea of citizen scientists, a burgeoning movement, shows a shift from scientists informing the public about what's good for them to research often done by amateurs.»

In her text for the exhibition's catalogue, Brito informs us that the concept of cosmopolitanism was in fact introduced by Socrates, who saw himself as «a citizen of the world», and then further refined by the Stoics who saw it as «an aesthetic engagement with cultural differences.»

My credible sources inform me that the US will be lucky to still have a functional Navy by mid-century, and any citizen of the «banana republic» that's left at the turn of the next century won't be able to go fishing off any US Naval wharf unless they have an aqualung should BAU and your kind of nefarious illogical postulates win the day.

Stacy has also been involved with local anti-wind power groups like the Michigan - based Interstate Informed Citizens Coalition (IICC) led by Kevon Martis.

«The guiding principle for future communications by climate researchers should be to serve the public interest, to provide citizens and their representatives with the information they need and an understanding of the options available so that they can make informed choices and decisions»

This was because they were controlled by people ensuring what interested them or what ensured their job, rather than what the student needed to become an effective informed citizen.

By sweeping nothing under the carpet, but rather projecting our carbon footprint onto the Copenhagen sky, we provide every single citizen intuitive information to help them inform the decisions they make for their lives and for the city that they want to live in.

We are speaking out as parents, citizens and attorneys, but our analysis is informed by more than 20 years each at the Environmental Protection Agency's San Francisco Regional Office, including Allan's extensive experience overseeing California's cap - and - trade and offsets programs for the EPA.

In a case decided yesterday by the General Court this tension between secrecy needed for the effective conduct of negotiations and the right of citizens to be informed was readily apparent in determining whether the Commission was acting lawfully in its decision to refuse access to documents related to those negotiations to European Member of Parliament Sophie in «t Veld.

The EU is arguably a costly institution for the 350 million Europeans who support it, but it also takes seriously its mandate to keep its citizens informed, to make all the rules, regulations, laws, directives and cases freely available to all — and no longer in a rudimentary, even clunky system, but by using technology, web design, and ontologies of the highest order, to provide the depth of quality one has come to expect of the subscription database providers.

We must work together to move towards Democracy 2.0 — a democracy that is informed by citizen participation, knowledge, information and evidence.

By default, any time a company collects personal data on an EU citizen, it will need explicit and informed consent from that person.

Respond to account inquiries by residents / agents by phone and in - person, process annual applications for senior citizen deductions, and inform residents of office policies and procedures

The goal of this blog is to inform, educate and engage the citizens of Eureka in our mission to improve Eureka by improving the quality of life though citizen engagement and crime control.

Informed by grassroots activists and advocates, citizens and Elders in the community who know what recognition means to them — and what it must mean to Australia.

Pew's work lays the foundation for effective policies and practices by invigorating civic life, conducting research, informing and engaging citizens, linking diverse interests to pursue common cause, and insisting on tangible results.

The goal of this blog is to inform, educate and engage the citizens of Eureka in our mission to improve Eureka by improving the quality of life though citizen engagement and crime control.