Sentences with phrase «campaigned over the citizen»

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The Citizens maintained their perfect start to the campaign with a 2 - 0 victory over Everton at Goodison Park on Sunday afternoon and looked irresistible at times on Merseyside, with David Silva particularly in stunning form.

Together with Citizens United, this decision guts our campaign finance system and opens the door to corruption by handing a small minority of wealthy individuals the power to exercise undue influence over our government.»

If that doesn't sound rushed, consider this: In her comments at a hearing in Port Jefferson last August, Citizens Campaign for the Environment executive director Adrienne Esposito said, «The Dredged Material Management Plan took over 10 years and $ 7 million to create, yet stakeholders were given seven days before being asked to attend public hearings and comment on a plan that will drive policy for the next 30 years.»

A US citizen was recently arrested, the charges being over illegally donating $ 20,000 to a Senate campaign (note...

«Since Thursday, none of the insider chatter has increased the number available jobs for his constituents, eased local parents» anxiety over the upcoming school year, or dealt with our senior citizens» fright over the proposed closing of senior centers throughout our community,» Johnson said in a statement distributed by her campaign.

«When one interest group who happens also to be a campaign contributor is favored over another, it's quite reasonable to question the motivation behind the policy change,» said Dick Dadey, the executive director of Citizens Union, a watchdog group.

Seems like a pretty ambiguous law, any foreign national that discusses politics with a US citizen is going to have an influence over the person they are talking to, I don't see why campaign donations should be some sort of separate category in this regard, seems absurd to me.

In England in 1939, there was a big campaign by the wartime government to get citizens eating carrots (packed with carotenoids), so that they didn't start falling into ditches and getting run over when the night - time blackout came into force.

Knowing that time is ripe for catalytic campaign to evolve a powerful and coherent movement expressing a supranational identity and building new institutions for a planetary age the mission of TWC is to reenergize the dispersed and frustrated civil society towards advancing a diverse popular movement of engaged citizens the world over.

The Missourians for the Protection of Dogs had been running a campaign to back Proposition B, and over 6,000 citizens, 162 businesses, 109 animal welfare charities and 150 veterinary clinics signed the petition.

Data analyst Raymond Serrato looked at posts from Myanmar citizens over the course of 2017, determining that there was a massive spike in hate - speech posts following an August military campaign in the country's western Rakhine state, home to the majority of the country's Rohingya.

Adrienne Esposito, Executive Director of Citizens Campaign for the Environment, said, «Over the century, the oil and gas industry has amassed an injurious track record of oil spills and other environmental disasters, which have had significant, lasting impacts on our environment and public health.

According to the most recent UK government Cyber Awareness Campaign, over half of British citizens between 18 and 25 reuse a password for multiple accounts, including social media and online shopping networks.