Sentences with phrase «citizen concerns about»

The governor has said in the past he wants to strike a balance between the state's need for a healthy oil and gas industry and citizen concerns about health and safety.

There may be a small glimmer of hope for Chinese citizens concerned about their privacy, however — a recent report in the South China Morning Post found that China's notorious smog problem has rendered much of the country's expensive surveillance system «useless.»

For another, citizens concerned about the plight of the poor, should, vigorously lobby the industrialized countries to lower their protectionist trade walls against LDC exports.

Save Buffalo Grove is a grassroots group of citizens concerned about the proposed development of a Downtown Buffalo Grove (pictured) on 65 acres of the Buffalo Grove Golf Course.

The commissioners «decision was praised by citizens concerned about the environmental impact of the golf driving range on nearby Bakers Lake, a nesting spot for herons and waterfowl.

He said he will, if elected, fight for small business owners, young couples trying to make ends meet and senior citizens concerned about their future.

The group Rush Citizens Concerned About Hydrofracking has been pushing for the moratorium for several months.

«Our results provide hope for wildlife agencies, organizations, and citizens concerned about conservation,» offers study co-author Dr. Ashley Dayer of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

Lawrence Woodward of the pressure group Citizens Concerned About GM argued that «GM research really needs to be done in controlled environments.

«Recently we have received several messages and posts from citizens concerned about what appear to be malnourished or neglected stray dogs.

Animal Care & Control of NYC will support the effort by providing data and referring citizens concerned about outdoor cats to the project.

Animal control and humane agencies receive countless calls every day from citizens concerned about animals in these cruel situations.

For three years, my colleagues and I have worked very hard to develop our New York Marcellus Shale Internet map server to allow citizens concerned about gas and oil extraction to access a great deal of highly useful data.

As citizens concerned about climate change, we often focus on the negative impacts of industry — which in the case of fossil fuels are presently many, varied, and growing.

We are a group of citizens concerned about the rapid spread of industrial wind power generation installations across Australia.

That is, if leakage levels are below this level it is generally assumed that switching to natural gas lowers the US carbon footprint and therefore greater natural gas production should be supported by citizens concerned about climate change.

Unserviceable wells, contaminated water, noise, citizens concerned about their health, wind farm issues are increasingly being blamed in southwestern Ontario, and many communities are mobilizing to oppose the development of their homes.

It took decades of hard work to change the Netherlands, and much of the effort there was due to a groundswell of anger from citizens concerned about children's safety.

On Lok, Inc. is a not - for - profit organization founded in the early 1970s by a group of citizens concerned about the plight of elders and the lack of long term options in the community.

Membership is open to all foster or adoptive parents, employees of the Tennessee Department of Children's Services, and citizens concerned about the wellbeing of foster and adoptive parents and children.

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«As an American citizen,» Conway added, «we should be concerned that intelligence officials leaked to the press» this report, as Meyers reminded her that the press was reporting Trump being briefed about the issue.

It's not just the strange juxtaposition of presidential candidate ads and questionable online content that Digital Citizens Alliance is concerned about.

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.

Cuts to arts and media spawned a coalition of «Canadian citizens who are artists, arts professionals and cultural workers concerned about ensuring the social and cultural health and prosperity of our nation.»

«The American people have been reminded this year of reasons to be concerned for their privacy,» says the group's attorney, Patrick Murck, referencing the recent disclosures about unwarranted government spying on innocent citizens.

The Bank of Indonesia is concerned about the potential role of the crypto currency in money laundering and terrorist financing, suggesting that citizens...

The fundamentalists were driving out Christians, who account for about half of the two million citizens in the islands, one of the strongest Christian areas in Indonesia.The violence has raised concerns in the international community and particularly in ecumenical circles in recent months.The woman told ENI that the Jihad warriors, shouting Islamic slogans, «attack and burn down Christian houses, shops and even entire villages, killing whoever comes in their way».

Politicians, it is said, must be concerned in their public role not about citizens of other countries, however impoverished; rather, they must focus on the wants and needs of their own country's citizens.

A pluralist society must perforce strive to be neutral about many things that concern its divided citizens.

If the means through which the United States carries out its foreign policy are windows through which we can better see ourselves, then one can better understand why D'Escoto expressed concern about our wellbeing, the viability of our democracy, and the likelihood of widespread repression against U.S. citizens.

In the first place such education, now as always, is concerned with the nurture of men and women whose business in life it will be to help men to see their immediate perplexities, joys and sufferings in the light of an ultimate meaning, to live as citizens of the inclusive society of being, and to relate their present choices to first and last decisions made about them in the totality of human history by Sovereign Power.

Bishop Paulose who was deeply concerned about civil liberties and other fundamental rights of citizens realized that the Emergency was an attempt to crush democracy by an authoritarian regime.

And what can concerned citizens do about the problem?

I happen to live in Britain where the welfare state, despite its obvious failings and inadequacies (to which reactionaries are always calling attention), has had and still does have as its chief concern the provision to everyone of those absolute necessities that are required if the citizens are to lead better, healthier, and more satisfying lives because they have been delivered from nagging fears and worries about illness and old age and much else that can be so dreadfully threatening to them.

«As mayor, I am very concerned about the health and wellness of our Clarksdale citizens,» said Clarksdale Mayor Bill Luckett.

But it is a massive concern for punters, especially if the Italian doesn't resolve the issue in time for Saturday's trip to Aston Villa, where the Citizens will line up against a player they know all about in Darren Bent — the former Sunderland striker scoring the only goal of the game, from the penalty spot in stoppage time, when City suffered their very first defeat of the season away at Sunderland way back in August.

The Northfield Township Conservancy, a citizens group concerned about the traffic congestion major development would bring, wants to see at least 300 acres preserved, with office buildings and shopping allowed on no more than 20 percent of the remaining buildable land.

But meanwhile the Alabama Citizens Action Program and the Alabama Policy Institute said they had asked for this ruling on the grounds that they were «concerned about the family and the danger that same - sex marriage will have.»

Coffee with a Cop is a national program and provides the opportunity for citizens to talk about any topic or concern on their mind.

The thing is that so many of us read about Bill Telepan in NY, or Alice Waters in Berkeley and God love them, but the reality of this operationally complex and regulation - heavy industry is SO MUCH more complicated than well - meaning parents and concerned citizens ever realize.

Some residents are also upset about comments some members of the citizen - run Haas Park Advisory Council, which makes recommendations to the Park District based on community input, made at a meeting in June concerning the possibility of all - night basketball at the new park.

Flippantly dismissing the concerns of millions of UK citizens about Trump's treatment of Muslim immigrants, his support for torture and his attitude towards sexual violence is not the act of a genuinely serious politician.

If you support a traitor like Rump and you turn your back on the citizens of your state to provide tax cuts for the wealthy that virtually assure that after November the Pubs will be going after Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security as being too expensive you should be concerned about a negative response form voters.

While companies and governments are concerned about being targets of digital infiltration, they have used these technologies to obtain extensive information from common citizens for crime and terrorism prevention or commercial purposes.

Yet, it very likely can easily sway a citizen to vote for someone who promises to remove the druggy presence from the society, theoretical concerns about «human rights» being the furthest in minds of those whose loved ones were victimized.

These protest movements also voice a concern that democratic politics has become imbalanced in favour of corporations and the very rich and / or (as with the indignados) that politicians have become a class separate from ordinary citizens: concerns about the loss of genuine popular sovereignty.

Schneiderman did reiterate his concern about «money in politics» and his believe that the US Supreme Court's Citizens United decision was a «disaster.»

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..

Belatedly and without citing Trump Number Ten has expressed general concern about the ban and sought safeguards for UK citizens while insisting the state visit will go ahead.

Privacy campaigners are extremely concerned about the move, and point in particular to the danger of it being combined with the plans to keep a database of all phone calls, text and emails sent or received by UK citizens.