Sentences with phrase «citizens who»

Sparaco and Schoenberger persuade Rockland County Democrats to defy King Cuomo and stand up for the people's right to bear arms BY DYLAN SKRILOFF Hundreds of citizens who believe in the rights and tradition of gun ownership were pleasantly surprised at the results of Tuesday's meeting of the Rockland County Legislature.

It is overseeing campaigns by eight citizens who were drawn out of a hat after expressing an interest in getting what they saw as a «dream job» in the European parliament.

As the Area Agency on Aging, the Erie County Department of Senior Services convenes a voluntary group of citizens who provide information, guidance, advice, and support to assist in developing, coordinating, and administering services to older persons.

It comes the day after Home Secretary Sajid Javid revealed that checks were being made on whether mistakes had been made in the case of 63 Windrush citizens who had been deported since 2002.

The main opposition party, therefore, urged all citizens who did not register in the last exercise especially and those that have turned 18 years, to come out en masse and register to vote in the 2019 General Elections.

«Eligible citizens who interact with government agencies are registered to vote unless they decline, and agencies transfer voter registration information electronically to election officials.

According to him, President Muhammadu Buhari failed many citizens who defied the odds to vote for him as Nigeria's President in the 2015 general elections.

«Awakened Citizens who SPOKE today thru the #IStandWithNigeria marches are reducing the dominant incentive for Poor Governance by our Govts.

We are hopeful that Secretary of State Matt Dunlap will approve the petition without delay, so the 300 Maine citizens who've already signed up to collect signatures on Election Day will be able to do so.»

The Governor's proposal will help at - risk youth find positive opportunities in their communities, while also providing citizens who enter the criminal justice system the opportunity to rehabilitate, return home, and contribute to their communities.

She also believes that the U.S. Consulate in Guangzhou did not live up to the duty of consulates as defined by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Consular Affairs: «to provide assistance to and protect the welfare of American citizens who live abroad.»

I live in a district which has over half the residents as renters and another quarter being senior citizens who receive senior star, and veterans exemptions so many individuals will be stuck with property tax increases of 5 - 10 % anyway.

Councilor Khalid Bey hopes the meeting serves as a springboard to a discussion of what he calls a police culture that «creates citizens who are afraid to approach police because they think they might get a beating.»

«Unfortunately when the governor says everyone must share in the pain, he means the workers who provide vital services and the state's citizens who rely on them, rather than those responsible for the collapse of the state and national economy.»

We will shift power away from central bureaucracy and give choice to the parents, patients and local citizens who use public services.

He defended the decision, but promised to work with citizens who favored the other site.

One could argue that citizens who save on their own should be able to opt out of the government pension system.

With some extension, the polis is the citizens who can make political decisions - the political community.

Less hypocrisy for citizens who indulge in cannabis, and less stigma for patients that take cannabis.

If these were US citizens, they would have been in the same situation as US citizens who work for any other private business in Russia who decide to espouse any kind of political views on their social media accounts.

The logical inference seems to be that citizens who donate * more to public works should deserve more votes, up to a limit per head.

«The end result is that the vast majority of citizens who can't afford to make big donations feel shut out, and in many cases actually are.»

Mr Lammy - who has campaigned doggedly on the Windrush scandal - today painted a stark picture of the possible fate of those British citizens who may have been sent overseas.

According to the group's information section on the Facebook Page, «we are a coalition of concerned citizens who are supporting Leroy Comrie for Queens Borough President in the 2013 elections... join us...»

British and other EU citizens who have lawfully resided in another Member State for five years have acquired a right of permanent residence, subject to conditions, in that State under EU law.

«How elected officials treat citizens who want to exercise their 2nd Amendment civil rights is the main issue our members and constituents look at when considering candidates for public office.»

Rather than an academic assessment of the issue then, let this be a plea — on behalf of all those British citizens who do not read the Daily Mail and do recognise the unprecedented benefits of the EU — to not be left out in the cold.

So, these same generals who have decided that Mubarak must be tried for his crimes are also prosecuting the perpetrators of the revolt against Mubarak: they are sending to goal those ordinary Egyptian citizens who have taken peacefully to the streets to register their protest against malign dictatorship.

«The impact on US citizens who live here is tremendous.»

The Democratic Party is governed by committees of citizens who are registered Democrats, from the national level down to state and community - level.

According to the New York Post, «Koo and his City Council colleagues have received a flood of angry emails and letters from Japanese citizens who said the so - called «comfort women» were willing prostitutes and should not be the subject of a memorial in his Flushing, Queens, district.»

Welcome to dictatorship (anytime you prevent your citizens who wish to leave for greener pastures from doing so by threat of force, you are a closer to authorian than free state).

«Why do we have to punish innocent citizens who own guns to accomplish that?

But not some reader - citizens who want to contribute their bit to the public debate now trending, to use that online lingo, in the public space.

Refugees can only indirectly participate in democratic institutions through citizens who push for policies that safeguard refugee rights.

And the narrative not only resonated with journalists but also citizens who suddenly started googling for fake news (see Fig. 1) and found dozens of news articles that were painting a dark picture: not only are we living in a post-truth world, but our society is also fragmented into numerous echo chambers in which fake news is shared freely, thus eroding our society's basis.

The NSS programme is a compulsory one - year service required of all citizens who are 18 years and above, at the time of deployment.

First, automatic citizenship would be extended to British citizens who are «habitually resident» in Scotland, and to British citizens who were born in Scotland, even if they are currently living outside of Scotland.

Also, the fewer personnel the embassy has, the less legal support the Russian citizens who legally live in the U.K. will receive.

The greatest strength of the Five Stars movement is its network of genuinely motivated citizens who mobilize consensus by championing popular causes like anti-nuclear campaigns, direct political participation, renewable energy reform and the end of conflicts of interest between the public and the private sectors.

In a modern setting, and applied to the US constitution, McCormick suggests that the tribunate would consists of 51 randomly selected citizens who could only be drawn from households below a certain net income.

It likely refer to either those who reside in both China and North Korea OR Chinese citizens who are of Korean descent, though it's unclear who the article's referring to.

«I will continue to stand up for law - abiding citizens who are smeared by anti-gun liberal elitists

When Iain Duncan Smith warns unemployed youth they will be forced to pick up litter in exchange for their benefits, he stigmatises young people as irresponsible, selfish and lazy citizens who need to be forced into unwaged labour to learn the right values.

«Our Senate Republican Majority is the voice of hardworking taxpayers, of small businessmen and women looking to create jobs, of working people who want to provide for their families, of moms and dads who want their kids to be safe and of citizens who just want a better quality of life.

On the other hand, EU withdrawal could mean the end of free movement and the introduction of admission requirements for EU citizens who want to live and work in the UK.

Today we're seeing devastating the impact of this policy on the Windrush generation of Commonwealth citizens who were invited here half a century ago.

A far greater problem for the Kremlin was the mass basis for such views among citizens who supported the protests.

Corruption in Bulgaria remains systemic, present not only on the political stage but in the daily life of citizens who, when dealing with state administration, frequently have to resort to some form of bribery to receive needed services.

The country is still mourning its dead citizens who died in a coordinated attack by terrorists Friday night.