Sentences with phrase «civic duty»

So let's consider the way tolerance has become a norm as a template for a renewed focus on encouraging a sense of civic duty among today's adolescents.

Having your dog or cat spayed or neutered is not only an essential component of responsible pet ownership but also an important civic duty as a responsible citizen.

It's some kind of important civic duty we're supposed to participate in within the first eight days or so, but that doesn't help much.

Some people regard their church work as one more civic duty.

Value and civic duty aside, the big investors are treating their newspapers as places of innovation that could shape the future of the medium.

Rather, 55 and 66 percent would serve as a stark and constant reminder of our actual civic duty.

On the other hand, respondents who are certain they will vote may be enthusiastic about voting for a candidate, whilst others may be voting out of a sense of civic duty.

It's a year to let your voice be heard, rally behind the issues you feel passionate about and fulfill your all - important civic duty.

One comparison is another pop - icon, Madonna, who was dismissed from civic duties in a Manhattan court several years ago.

The government may have abdicated their moral responsibility to guarantee children don't die in unjust wars, but citizens uphold their basic civic duty by helping pick up the pieces from their mess.

Michael Moore resorts to dad - jokes and prodding his interviewees in order to make an argument for civic duty with Where to Invade Next.

Jurors are cut off from friends and family and forced to fulfill a vital civic duty at great personal expense.

«In fact, JPMorgan Chase has a basic civic duty to do what Rick Lazio will not: detail what they paid out to him in bonuses, sweetheart mortgages, and other special benefits.»

For instance, service learning programs bring curricular activities outside of the classroom and into the local community, by encouraging students to engage in civic duty such as volunteering.

Merely a year after Scott Evans retired from managing nearly $ 500 billion at TIAA - CREF, he says a sense of civic duty led him to the CIO role overseeing New...

IPOB leader has already publicized his intention to prevent voters from performing their legitimate civic duty by participating in the forthcoming governorship elections in Anambra state.

I am not sure why you see voting as such an unexpected behavior, given that «feeling good about doing ones civic duty» is an intangible benefit that is of definite non-zero utility function to many people.

From Queens Chronicle: Donovan Richards, chief of staff to City Councilman James Sanders Jr. (D - Laurelton), always wanted to help others, even at an early age, but his dedication to civic duty came full circle after a tragic event.

It includes engaging the citizenry to take part in their essential civic duty.

We can not tax ourselves into prosperity, and we can not be discouraged with each other to the point that we abandon our shared civic duties.

The MTA is a public body functioning as a self - regulatory legal entity which carries out a national civic duty by practising, supporting, overseeing and representing science.

Too few films take on the art of arguing as a subject; we could certainly use more of them, but until then, Lumet's window into strained civic duty will continue to serve mightily.

He is thoughtful and gentle, except when immediately provoked, and feels the first stirrings of civic duty while his peers are still focused exclusively on love and friendship.

Our emphasis on civic duty and responsibility helps students to recognize their importance as members of the Hoboken community.

In its truncated form on the back of a semitrailer, Mobile Homestead was only minutes into its first civic duty — to deliver donated groceries to a food bank — when the breakdown occurred.

By turning rubbish collection into a daily civic duty, this island of 23.5 million has been remarkably successful at achieving something that eludes most developing nations: The richer Taiwan gets, the less trash it produces.

Evoking civic duty, and even patriotism, is OK with veterans and Millennials (for whom Sept. 11, 2001, is a defining event).

Spaying and Neutering: The position of the OHS is that having a dog spayed or neutered is not only an essential component of responsible pet ownership, but also an important civic duty as a responsible citizen.

It is a tough pill to swallow realizing that the system of selling real estate is still heavily weighted in favour of recruiting real go - getters without previous related real estate experience versus really knowledgeable people with a sense of civic duty about them in the first place, when it boils down to who might make the best sellers / producers.

«Voting is our most important civic duty and we must ensure the process works for all New Yorkers,» Mark - Viverito said Tuesday in a statement.

Between work, your family, social activities and civic duties, you have a full schedule.

They're so pernicious that it almost seems like our civic duty to call bullshit on them from time to time.

Doing your civic duty has never been easier, thanks to a seriously millennial move from Snapchat that will help users register to vote within the app itself.

«It's also part of a civic duty,» said Joo Yu - min, an assistant professor at the National University of Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy whose research focuses on mega-events in Asian cities.

But the 32 - year - old is more interested in fulfilling his civic duty as a private citizen, BuzzFeed said, citing a source close to Zuckerberg.

The investors, especially Henry, have also expressed a sense of civic duty.

Canada's media industry needs a major shake - up to survive in the digital era, starting with the creation of a federally funded agency that would distribute up to $ 400 - million a year to news organizations that can no longer afford to fulfill their civic duties, according to a new think - tank report.

The problem, mique, is that the Christians (and some other religions) believe that your actions or lack of action (e.g., not properly worshiping their deity) can anger their god and bring his collective punishment upon everyone, so they think it's their civic duty to help you see the light and to legislate their ideas so that all must follow their ways (of course, history shows they can't even agree among themselves what those ways are).

I am convinced that no amount of discussion about the virtues of «critical thinking and writing» or «engagement with the global community» or even «civic duty» will ever persuade a young person that such study is worthwhile.

Regardless of the legislation we support or what we believe is our civic duty is, our first obligation (after our relationship with Christ) is our responsibility to each other (1 John 4:21).

Neverthe less it remains true, indeed it is of decisive importance, that the most essential lay apostolate consists in the fulfilment of one's family, professional, and of course also one's civic duties.

There is no need to affix a particularly pious label to these seemingly so secular duties of family and professional life with all their daily bitterness and boredom, and to the civic duties from which no one should try to escape.

We are taught as citizens to view our self - interests and our own survival as civic duties; thus we exist in no polis at all but rather as individuals who look to the state to act as an arbiter between private interests.

And if they do not know, it is because we have betrayed our Christian vocation, and our civic duty.

Conversely, equal educational opportunity makes it possible for all citizens to exercise their civic duties intelligently.

Despite the much - vaunted disjunction between church and state in America, civic duties to the polis are a binding Christian responsibility.

Maturi said it is not only his civic duty to step in, but also what his faith teaches him - to help those who can not help themselves.