Sentences with phrase «citizen group did»

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The court could have ruled that Citizens United was not the sort of group to which the McCain - Feingold law was meant to apply, or that the law did not mean to address 90 - minute documentaries, or that video - on - demand technologies were not regulated by the law.

... Why do we talk that way about a whole group of citizens?»

Ottawa — On the cusp of Thursday's federal election debate on the economy, the Trade Justice Network, (www.tradejustice.ca), a coalition of Canadian unions, environmental groups and citizens» groups, is calling on federal leaders to mandate the Parliamentary Budget Officer to do real fact - based analysis before they sign «free trade» deals that are destructive to Canadian -LSB-...]

Meanwhile, Iraq's beleagured president Nouri al - Maliki accused the organisation of trying to destroy the «centuries - old heritage» of Christians in Iraq, he said: «What is being done by the Daesh terrorist gang [ISIS] against our Christian citizens in Ninevah province, and their aggression against the churches and houses of worship in the areas under their control, reveals beyond any doubt the extremist criminal and terrorist nature of this group, he said.

For a group that many in the media describe as mostly senior citizens, it is amazing they can do so much imagined damage.

@Howard — As a republic, which is a version of representative democracy, it means we do not have a true or direct democracy where each law would be voted on by each citizen, but an elected representative for larger groups of people that gets to cast the vote, which may or may not at times represent the will of the voters who elected the representative.

Many persons who are not likely to join groups in churches and schools may do so if they're made available in family counseling agencies» mental health services, youth organizations, business and industry, fraternal groups, self - help groups (such as A.A., P.W.P., Alanon, etc.), and in the many organizations devoted to special needs of the handicapped, ex-prisoners, ex-patients, unwed parents, minority groups of all kinds, senior citizens, community action groups, ethnic organizations.

Much more needs to be done in building local and national citizen - action groups to make their presence felt in government in order to secure media that are responsive to the public interest, both locally and nationally.

If you are so religious and such a good Christian (Derp and other commentors) why would you do business with a company who then turns around and gives a part of that money to a hate group that has openly stated they would prefer the government take certain citizens of this country out and SHOOT them.

Those who do not want to curtail their research work can find opportunities as citizens, in church and civic groups, and in political parties.

In previous chapters I have suggested what concerned citizens can do to deal with television without censorship: create local television councils and community action to get stations to accept their responsibility for the public welfare; introduce media education courses in the schools and churches to create media literacy; organize community groups to develop programs relating to community issues on the «narrowcast» media of cable - TV, videocassettes, low - power TV, public - broadcasting facilities, and commercial side - band channels; employ stockholder action and other economic measures.

You do not have the right to tell a group of US citizens they can't have the same civil rights you have, simply because you think they are icky.

When you start trying to impose your religious laws and pass laws that keep entire groups of people second class citizens in doing so - you have become a hate group.

My Name is Patti Rundall and I am sorry to have to come here again but I do so on behalf of thousands of citizens and IBFAN groups around the world who monitor the marketing of baby foods and who try to make sure that babies lives are not put at risk by this company's marketing.

Of course, the deeper your pockets, the more you can do, but the internet is unique among communications media in the extent to which it allows citizens to participate as the equals of major corporations and interest groups.

In a discussion about the recent French presidential election at the Personal Democracy Forum unConference this past Saturday, Pascal - Emmanuel Gobry presented an interesting thesis: not only did Ségolène Royal's «net - centric strategy fail to win a majority at the polls, but her campaign's emphasis on citizen participation may have actually backfired entirely by undermining her perception as a leader and by leaving her dependent on a fatally unrepresentative group of voters.

The clamour by politicians for more powers that follows every terrorist attack (no matter the facts of the case) is draconian and misguided and does nothing to address the underlying political and social conditions that explain why British citizens leave home to join groups like ISIS.

Dick Dadey, with the reform group Citizens Union, who waited outside the courtroom to hear the sentence, says it's just desserts for what Silver did.

Those numbers are only available by contacting the group's public relations firm — a step most citizens don't know to take.

Dick Dadey, executive director of the Citizens Union, a nonpartisan good governance group, said he doesn't believe that Stringer's position as a Clinton delegate would influence his audit.

You can't take a group, any group of citizens and say well you don't have the rights guaranteed under the constitution because you work on a farm.

It is generally harder to foster a strong sense of solidarity when citizens come from different ethnic or religious groups that do not always see eye - to - eye.

The Localism Bill does not just devolve power to local councils but it also ensures that local citizens and community groups will have the power to shape and influence the places where they live and work and thus fully play their part in building the Big Society.

Only Citizens Union discloses the donors that fund its lobbying; the other three groups say they do not currently meet the requirements forcing disclosure.

Hawkins doesn't like the metropolitan government structure as proposed by the citizen group Consensus, but said consolidation of other services should be explored.

Earlier this month, the New York State Bar Association came out in support of a convention, as did the League of Women Voters and the good - government group Citizens Union.

While commending the Nigerian Military for doing their best to halt threats to citizens as exemplified by Boko Haram, IPOB, Avengers and other groups complicit in crimes against humanity, Global Amnesty Watch sees Amnesty International as constantly demonizing nations that are battling terrorism and setting the ground for killers to embed themselves among migrant populations to spread to these other peaceful countries.

Speaking of that cash, because Revere America is a 501 (c)(4), it doesn't have to reveal the names of its donors, which is something that drives good government groups mad, espcially in light of the Citizens United US Supreme Court decision that removed the ban on corporate political spending.

«Unfortunately, «Citizens for District 13» — a group that my office has never heard of in the many years of dealing with community organizations — appears more focused on furthering a counterproductive anti-Independent Democratic Conference agenda than taking any action that has to do with a healthy and constructive debate about the future of this district,» he wrote.

«The governors» special panel should not cancel out the good work done so far with these unanimously supported bistate bills,» said Dick Dadey, executive director of Citizens Union, a government watchdog group in New York.

If Labour does want to regain its former levels of support from working class citizens (who remain objectively the largest social group in society), the party must adopt the politics of hope and ambition — the hope and ambition to make the mass of citizens» lives better through regulating the processes and outcomes of the market.

There is no doubt in my mind that had we attended those Planning Board meetings, we would have been called a small group of people regularly attending Planning Board meetings and do not represent a majority of citizens and practice «politics as usual.»

The president did not seize the opportunity to unite the nation - instead he declared some citizens part of a «5 %» who did not vote for him, while some other group gave him «97 %» of their votes.

Perry of NYCLU and a host of good government groups including Citizens Union, the New York Public Interest Research Group, and Common Cause New York say that the governor has given no evidence that these new disclosure rules for nonprofits will do anything to impact corruption.

«Stop and search patrol has been introduced in areas where we didn't have them before, and we are raiding all dark spots and other areas where certain groups are terrorising the citizens in Abia and in other parts of the South - East,» he said.

«We'd like to believe that he is holding himself and others to the highest standard, but we don't have any independent verification of that,» said Dick Dadey, executive director of Citizens Union, a government reform group.

A Missouri circuit court today ruled against a group of citizens hoping to overturn the Show - Me State's Congressional redistricting maps on the grounds that they did not meet state constitutional muster.

«I think he should seek very specific guidance from the Conflicts of Interest Board and the Campaign Finance Board to ensure that he doesn't cross the line because he has been suspected of crossing earlier lines,» said Dick Dadey, executive director of Citizens Union, a government reform group.

What the opponents say: «What Prop 1 does is take a bad situation and make it even worse by locking a system of political party control into our constitution,» said Susan Lerner, executive director of Common Cause, another good - government group that has done battle with Citizens Union over the proposition.

The good government group Citizens Union, which does not make «endorsements» per se, had designated Farias as the «preferred» candidate in the race.

Good - government group Citizens Union hit the deal Monday because the sides did not enter into a written agreement.

David Briggs, executive director of the state Tax Assessors Association, said his group worries that some senior citizens may have trouble seeking the STAR rebate, especially if they don't file income tax returns.

One attendee asked Edwards if he thought citizens should form a group to do regular monitoring of drinking water.

The number of white women (all U.S. citizens) earning doctoral degrees has almost doubled over that span, and ethnic and racial minorities, a group that consists of African Americans, Hispanics, and Native Americans, have done even better, nearly tripling their presence.

The study suggests that some other cynical memes about politics — that votes do not count, or that citizen action groups have limited effects — may be incorrect.

«Businesses have a lot of money and can outgun citizen groups in terms of personnel, but that doesn't mean that people being part of interest groups and raising their voices is meaningless,» said Hojnacki.

That's hard to do for citizen groups.

«We were pretty convinced that we were going to find that business did have an advantage, but, when going head - to - head against these citizen groups, government officials and other groups that represent occupational interests, business has no inherent advantage,» said Marie Hojnacki, associate professor of political science, Penn State.

In addition to growing the database, the team is now setting up a citizens» science group to regularly visit key bat habitats in Mexico to listen in and find out how they are doing.

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