Sentences with phrase «by other citizens»

If that were the case, the massive amounts spent over recent decades would have given indigenous Australians the same standards of health, happiness and opportunity enjoyed by all other citizens.

If they are being paid with government funds, they should be transparent and show some respect for officials who were ELECTED by other citizens.

Animal Folks also submitted data requests to local law enforcement for complaints filed against this dog breeder by other citizens in past years, which indicated a pattern of chronic neglect.

They worked in silence, leafing through old encyclopaedias and textbooks, searching for the correct answers for the statements that had been submitted by other citizens over the last week.

Not exact matches

The city government has for the past several months urged its citizens to drastically cut their consumption by taking short showers, and reusing the water in their toilets and gardens, among other measures.

It's this forbidding territory that Exxon (xom), under Tillerson, has turned into one of Russia's most lucrative oil provinces, affording Russia a crucial entry into the fast - growing oil markets of Asia, generating nearly $ 5 billion in tax dollars and other revenue for the government to date, and generally being, by Moscow's lights, a good corporate citizen.

Unlike other developed countries, the bulk of Japan's debt (well over 90 %) is not held offshore but rather by its own citizens?

The move rattled investors because the sanctions require that U.S. citizens must divest of any stocks, bonds or other holdings in the targeted firms by May 7.

«It would also likely be the catalyst for other countries to enact similar laws, paralysing multi-national corporations under the weight of what could be dozens or hundreds of country - specific laws,» Apple said, as well as making the personal data of millions of law - abiding citizens less secure by weakening encryption standards.

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.

The citizens of the host country expunge all cynicism and find their eyes filling with tears; television viewers around the globe are inspired by a new generation of fresh - faced athletes, many of them competing in events which would draw almost zero interest in any other context; the networks and sponsors breathe a great sigh of relief knowing that their massive investment was sound; and the folks in Lausanne smile a secret smile.

But at the same time there are powerful reasons we should be encouraging travel to the United States by citizens of other countries who want to see America.

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 committee, which in January blocked one other high - profile acquisition of a U.S. company by a Chinese firm, has raised concerns about the security of U.S. citizens» private data in the Genworth deal.

Investors Against Genocide is a citizen - led initiative dedicated to encouraging mutual funds and other investment firms to make an ongoing commitment to genocide - free investing by avoiding companies that substantially contribute to genocide or crimes against humanity.

The idea is that deposit flight from Greek banks means that Greek citizens move their money abroad, where it is safe from Grexit, while Greek banks become more and more funded by the other eurozone central banks, leaving those banks to be the losers if Greece leaves the euro.

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But, like many other nations, it suffers from «a failure of the state» begat by «bureaucracies at local, state, and national levels» that remain either too corrupt or too incompetent to supply citizens with decent public services.

Well, the reason is that 45 % of the publicly - held debt is owned by foreigners, and the remaining debt held by the U.S. public represents future transfers of purchasing power - claims of some U.S. citizens on the future output produced by others.

Tokyo officially lists 17 of its citizens as having been abducted by North Korea and suspects Pyongyang's involvement in other disappearances.

But according to a recent survey by Citizens Bank, less than half of millennials have looked into refinancing, consolidation, or other options to improve their loan terms.

If Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, and other founders were to time travel to 2016, they would almost surely be troubled by the threat that inequality poses to the well - being of citizens and democratic governance and ask, «What are your policies to make the U.S. what it should be, the most favorable country in the world for persons of industry and frugality, possessed of moderate capital, to inhabit?»

In The Citizens» Share, and in other articles and venues, we lay out the areas in which there is evidence or logic for in - depth development of, and experimentation with, several broad policy directions, with the details to be worked out by members of Congress based on their deliberations.

At the same time, the introduction of an integrated Canada-U.S. entry - exit system will improve mobility — and reduce costs to taxpayers — by eliminating the need for separate systems to track the comings and goings of citizens and other travelers.

A former U.S. Army sergeant and two other U.S. citizens were found guilty by a jury in Manhattan federal court on Wednesday of taking part in a plot to murder a woman in the Philippines for money, prosecutors said.

I've also published a series of four colloquia by assyriologists and archaeologists describing how earlier, from about 2500 to perhaps 300 BC, Babylonian and other Near Eastern rulers kept their citizens free and preserved their landholdings by annulling personal and agrarian debts when they took the throne — a true «tax holiday» — or when economic or military conditions warranted a general Clean Slate.

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

I'll be speaking at the second one, at 10:45 in the same room, along with the national leaders of NUPGE (representing provincial workers) and CUPE (representing municipal workers) about the contribution of public workers to greater equality by improving the lives of marginalized Canadians — the unemployed, the homeless, single parents, recent immigrants, senior citizens, and others.

We encourage other cities to follow Toronto's lead on how to build the best smart city possible by conducting citizen engagement workshops like this.

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«While the other chair represent the emptiness that has been created by OBAMA who is NOT present to the citizen s of this nation.»

They are privileges, really, impositions on some citizens and their interests to the advantage of others and their interests, impositions enforced by government.

As individuals you have the same right as any other citizen but as a group until you start paying taxes, not lobbyist, butt out and obey the laws made by the government.

While Israel may be the Jewish homeland there are just as many muslims and many other religions accounted for by Israeli citizens.

In the place of right and wrong — concepts accessible to all citizens — we get «healthy,» «productive,» «inclusive,» and other catchwords, the meanings of which are controlled by experts and subject to endless redefinition by the chattering class.

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

Should the government be permitted to promote the religious interests of a religious group by subordinating the secular interests of other citizens in access to logging areas?

If Jesus embodies God's dreams for the world, then citizens of the Kingdom start by imitating him — by eating with the people he ate with, by telling the sort of stories he told, by healing and forgiving, by serving and praying, by resisting the temptations of power and money and violence, by breaking down religious barriers, by loving enemies, by showing humility and grace, by overturning some tables and dining at others, by being obedient to the point of death.

Nobody thought much of religions other than Christianity; as was obvious by our public school pledge — which admonished us all to be good Christian citizens... Sure, I had questions too, but our church was pretty low - key so I was safe from some of the more radically - minded (read: brainwashed) of my peers.

«If there is any fixed star in our const.itutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein.»

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

There are but two methods of providing against this evil: the one by creating a will in the community independent of the majority, that is, of the society itself; the other, by comprehending in the society so many separate descriptions of citizens as will render an unjust combination of a majority of the whole very improbable, if not impracticable.»

A nation which operated by relational power would be one which actively attempted to be sensitive to the feelings of persons in other nations, to the needs, fears, hopes, angers, and goals of other nations (as well as of its own citizens), and which allowed those to influence its policies.

His petition, signed by 750,000 in 143 countries, urges that the rights of Christians and other minorities as citizens of Middle Eastern countries be recognised, and that they have access to «dignified» living conditions.

If, however, one regards the human person to be social by nature, then the function of the state is not to possess its citizens but to serve their social needs for each other.

But if such reshaping of national fertility patterns is to be set in motion by government action, there would obviously have to be direct, far - reaching, and even forcible state interventions into the daily lives of the overwhelming majority of the citizens of these two countries — as well as others with similar «targets.»

It was the announcement by Mukherji and D' Sousa that the Christian Community had decided to forgo special communal representation in the legislature and other communal safeguards so that there would not be political exploitation of increase of numbers through conversion that there was a spontaneous decision in the Constituent Assembly to include propagation of religion as a fundamental human right of the citizen.

The council called on the new government to «restore constitutional order and affirm citizens» political, economic and other fundamental rights and freedoms» and to assert «the territorial integrity of Ukraine, whose independence is a gift from God and is valued by our entire nation, which is why we have no right to allow for its separation, as this would be a sin before God and future generations.»

Religion on the other hand, has crippled this country for centuries and finally people are getting embarrassed by these childlike beliefs and it is losing it's strannglehold on the decent, hardworking citizens of this country.

There ought to be two distinct kinds of marriage: one governed by the State with rules enforced on all citizens, the other governed by the church with rules enforced by her on her own members.