Sentences with phrase «citizens like ms»

Opened the door for ordinary citizens like Ms Li Yaquing to start «free» schools or independent schools, when he was a director of Taipen Prefectural Education Department.

Not exact matches

The microchips inside them are identical to Estonians» digital ID cards but come without citizens» rights, like voting or public pensions, and there is no obligation to pay taxes in Estonia.

Besides, for the hundreds of millions of rural peasants who have already migrated to cities — supplying factories with an endless supply of cheap labour — life in cities like Shanghai, Beijing or Shenzhen means being treated like second - class citizens, since their access to social services and education for their children is tightly limited.

Profits realized by government can and often are spent on its citizens, but for anti-government zealots like U.S. presidential contender Ron Paul, that's reason enough to get rid of the Fed.

Proponents of regulations like to point out that government's role is to protect citizens from harm, particularly from greedy businessmen who pick pockets and poison kittens on their way to the top.

When Tala met a woman who got married in Italy and learned that it was the easiest European country for British citizens to wed, it seemed like a no - brainer.

In peer countries like Canada, some citizens are taxed at higher rates throughout the year, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development notes, but they get a lot more from their government in terms of social services, including health care.

Partnerships with companies like Cisco and Microsoft are fueling development, a new tech - campus hub is in the works, and he's connecting citizens to government services through mobile technology.

In the mid 1980s, as seemingly every kid in the West was mashing buttons on video - game classics like Super Mario Bros., Donkey Kong, and Duck Hunt, the citizens of the Soviet Union were wondering which pair of shoes they might have to boil for their nutrients first.

In uBiome's case it was citizen scientists — regular people who dig science and like to learn about themselves and apply that knowledge to their own health and other people with similar interests.

Graham said he wants to learn more about the «unmasking» of US citizens like former national security adviser Michael Flynn, who may have been caught up, incidentally, in surveillance of monitored non-US persons believed to be foreign agents.

Tanner's strongest claim as a citizen of Portland may be its myriad collaborations with like - minded local businesses.

Asking an average citizen to differentiate between «big government» and «big business» is like asking a toddler watching a puppet show whether the puppets are talking or whether it's the puppeteers.

As Smith puts it, «Whether you like it or not, they are still American citizens, and they'll be your neighbor when they get out.»

Unlike the nationalism of more culturally monolithic nations that tends to exclude foreign - born citizens, in Canada it's immigrants like Abdul - Rahiim and Tura — people who live here by choice, not happenstance — who tend to be the biggest patriots.

According to reports, Macron's digital team created dummy accounts, or honeypots, that looked like an individual's account with top level information from the campaign, but much of the contents was fake — planted specifically to render a data dump confusing, if not useless, since it would take a tremendous amount of time for reporters and citizen journalists to sort out the real from the fake.

Some others might be: Will you be making the customers in which you don't take equity feel like second - class citizens?

So I think everyone in the company wants to say I like this place, it does good things, it's a good citizen where we do business.

Because it is rarely advertised, the Filet - O - Fish may seem like a second - class citizen of McDonaldland, and one now headed for exile thanks to salads, wraps and other modern fare.

While every drop of urban citizens» water is measured and most residential lawns are nearly grassless and brown, farmers — including non-U.S. farmers — can essentially divert river water or other natural water sources as much as they like to grow their crops, even if these crops are then exported to feed foreign cows.

She continued: «They just up and announced that I was prohibited from speaking anyway... I feel like the Constitution is important and that taxpayer - supported universities should not be using public funds to violate American citizens» Constitutional rights.»

Most provinces lack the democratic apparatus for citizen initiatives like Washington's, though there's little public conviction that alcohol sales need to remain nationalized.

About 80 % of Aritzia's merchandise is made up of these in - house labels; the 20 % the company doesn't make are mostly popular denim brands like J Brand, Citizens of Humanity and 7 For All Mankind.

These are the citizens of Free Agent Nation, as author Daniel Pink called it in his influential 2001 bestseller, and they've never met a challenge they didn't like.

I would imagine in urban areas like Toronto, Vancouver or Montreal, which have significant populations of recent immigrants, there's probably a significant subset of people who fled from countries where governments do all sorts of nasty things with the information they collect about their citizens and who aren't all that keen to provide such information here (you might say, «sure, but Canada's not Iran», to which the answer would be «exactly»).

The oft - repeated narrative of 2012 goes like this: Citizens United unleashed a torrent of money from businesses and the multimillionaires who run them, and as a result we are now seeing the corporate takeover of American politics.

They, like the American citizens of Puerto Rico, are expendable in the eyes of this racist administration.

If you, the investor or concerned citizen, really want to send a message to the big players in gun sales, including companies like Wal - Mart, you're more likely to have an impact organizing a campaign to not buy stuff there, rather than abstaining from stock ownership.

On Wednesday, Mr. Schneiderman said Airbnb's Community Compact «is a transparent ploy by Airbnb to act like a good corporate citizen when it is anything but.

Horse racing is something like a religion in Hong Kong, whose citizens bet more than anyone else on Earth.

Following the publication of a report in July 2017, North Korea's elites, some of the country's few citizens allowed on the Internet, have greatly altered their online behavior, and are now obfuscating their browsing activity, and have ditched US websites like Facebook or Instagram for alternative Chinese social networks.

Mr. Balding cited the downward pressures that have been building on the Chinese currency in the face of outflows, as citizens and companies rush to get their renminbi offshore and convert it into more international currencies, like the dollar.

One Chinese elite speculated that these numbers among netizens, or citizens active in the online community, would be more like 80 or 90 percent.

«[I] f your view of the world is having a balance of interests, a competitive marketplace, equal providers, equal parties coming to the table — whether it's a supply chain or a network of things like sending money back and forth or citizens working to solve village - level, regional or global level — this is technology can help implement that.»

«Nineteenth century reformers like Amor De Cosmos would be proud, I think, but a little shocked it took us this long,» said Kai Nagata, communications director at B.C. citizens» group, Dogwood.

In an environment when all it seems like the government does is take, take, take, citizens get something tangible and immediate back from the government.

President Donald Trump had been elected on a promise to stick up for average citizens, not special interests like the powerful U.S. lumber lobby.

It was the first country to offer citizens of the world «e-residency,» a digital ID for non-Estonians that offers access to services like banking, payment processing and taxation.

What is interesting to see with this bitcoin hype is how uneducated writers still are when it comes to the question of what money actually is — especially the assumption that money, e.g. US Dollars, are tied to any real world values like gold is one of these modern fairytales that is repeated often — I can not understand that even after the big corporate crimes (aka as «financial crisis») that US Citizens cost millions of dollars there is still such a lack of understanding of what money actually is.

Maybe that's wonderful to all the statist out there who like more and more tax burdens on citizens, but double - taxation is «dirty pool», no matter who plays it.

There are senior citizens (like me) who's tax dollars unfairly go to subsidize these private schools for the elites, and I for one say stop!

We all pay taxes, whether we like it or not, because we agree as citizens, as members of a democratic society, that mandatory taxation is for the common good.

Likewise with China, the government might be thinking, if negotiating a trade agreement with China stirs up opposition from some Canadians who either fear being swamped by Chinese goods or capital, or don't like the way China treats its citizens, then let's add «progressive» elements to the agreement.

The bloc is right to argue that current rules overlook the value firms like Google extract from its citizens» data.

Oh, he is part of the «Christian'tradition indeed... treat all women like second - class citizens and let the men deal with the tough stuff.

Yep, overseas Mormons do get to vote, just like any US citizen that's overseas — amazing, it's any expatriate's right as a citizen.

When we look at the Bible holistically, we see the mandate is for every citizen in the kingdom of God to eradicate injustice The command is there, hidden in plain sight like a plot twist in a movie that our eyes missed because they were looking for something else.

I explored the Protestant sects and found that they gave women choices and more power to worship Jesus without feeling ashamed or being made to feel like second class citizens.

«She is a free woman, like any ordinary citizen,» said Abdul Hameed Rana, one of Rimsha's lawyers.

If the musllims majoritycountries were loving and eacevful people, then you woulldn't have Christiands and Jews treated like second class citizens there.