Sentences with phrase «civic duty as»

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.

This judge is putting their religious beliefs before the civic duty as a judge.

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.

CHAPPAQUA — As President Donald Trump speaks to the nation in his State of the Union address, former President Bill Clinton performs his civic duties as well.

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

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

First founded in 1862 as the U.S. Brewers Association, the Beer Institute is committed today to the development of sound public policy and to the values of civic duty and personal responsibility: www.BeerInstitute.org.

So needless to say that when I arrived in the USA I made it my civic duty to eat as much of this amazing concoction as I could.

We stand for the Monarchy; traditional marriage; family and community duties; proper pride in our nation's distinctive qualities; quality of life over soulless utility; social responsibility over personal selfishness; social justice as civic duty, not state dependency; compassion for those in need; reducing government waste; lower taxation and deregulation; our ancient liberties against politically correct censorship and a commitment to our democratically elected parliament.»

As the son of Ulster County Sheriff Paul Van Blarcum — also a former Shandaken council member — he credits his father with «instilling in me a sense of civic duty.

As a teacher of the Law, I consider it my civic duty to provide some clarity to what the Supreme Court said on May the 5th, 2016 in the year of our Lord.

What we need to do now is to extend our support and collaboration to the Governor as obedient citizens and as well perform our civic duties to government with regular tax payment», Oba Lawal stated.

And as your resident beauty guinea pig, I figured it was my civic blog duty to test this mermaid hair shampoo and conditioner out.

We the People know that blue never looked so good until this velvet blazer from WHBM — Adorned with an adorable star studded brooch, like this one, is so cute it might as well be your civic duty to pair the two together.

Banfield sounded an alarm that should resonate for teachers, administrators, and curriculum committees today as they consider their civic education duties.

They should first keep in mind, as Levinson has written in Making Civics Count: Citizen Education for a New Generation, that schools are duty and legally bound to embrace all students, regardless of their legal status.

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.

While civics education policy was not a factor in this year's presidential election, United States Secretary of Education John King recently urged educators to «make preparing your students for their civic duties just as much a priority as preparing them to succeed in college and in their careers.»

While great civics education is not as systemic as it should be, there are great teachers all over the country doing innovative work to ensure students will be able to fulfill their civic duties.

Those who embody the triple helix of the three E's (ENA, we whimsically call it) know their subject excellently, be it a profession or their civic duties; they are engaged, they care about that realm; when faced with a difficult challenge, they try to do the right thing, the ethical thing; and when they fail, as all of us inevitably do, they reflect on what can be done better next time.

In fact, after accounting for the civic climate of an individual's high school, an individual's own belief that voting is a civic duty does not have an impact on voting as an adult.

Turnout among the youngest voters has declined, even as they have grown more tolerant; plainly, a sense of civic duty is also needed.

All else being equal, a typical individual who attended the school with the largest percentage of students identifying voting as a component of good citizenship was 14 percentage points more likely to vote than the person who attended schools with the lowest percentage of students identifying voting as a civic duty.

In both cases, my central hypothesis is that the stronger the school's civic climate, as measured by the strength of a school's communal belief in voting, the greater the degree of electoral engagement for any of the school's individual students, regardless of their own personal sense of civic duty.

People who in 1965 attended a school where students saw voting as a civic duty were far more likely to vote 15 years later.

But is it realistic to expect today's schools, beleaguered as many of them are, to add the promotion of civic duty to their long list of responsibilities?

They do this, as Knack points out, because «someone with a low sense of civic obligation may nonetheless vote to avoid displeasing a friend or relative with a stronger sense of duty.»

Kennedy Russ described her shock as she collected data about the lack of access to reproductive healthcare for women, and completed a six - week internship at a local hospital where she «saw these issues in real life» and became «committed to her civic duty» to change the injustices she researched and observed.

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

Now in secondary school, Lauren continues her civic engagement as a member of her school's student council in addition to her duties as student trustee.

In it, she touches on all the usual talking points (e.g., cats are non-native, exaggerated predation rates, etc.), and portrays her trapping as a civic duty — done in the best interest not only of the community, but also of the cats.

But it was not until the rise of the humane movement in the 1950s that public interest focused on spaying female dogs and cats and neutering male pets as a mater of «civic duty».

Normally, seeing the jury summons from the county clerk's office causes one of two reactions: a groan that comes from knowing jury duty is a hassle and disruption in an already overbooked life; resolute acceptance tinged with civic pride because you will be serving as a part of a fair and just judicial system.

As the mayor, it is your civic duty to build everything from homes, business, huge hulking towers, and everything in between.

Many didn't interpret it as a simple reminder of their civic duty, feeling like they were actually target of full fledged political activity (and they may arguably be right on that).

By extension of Modernist architectural history — specifically that of the eras of Russian Constructivist and Brutalist architecture and their influence on American urbanism — Andrade conjures the legacy of the town square as a place of hybrid activity involving intellectual dialogue, contemplation, political ideology, commerce, protest, civic duty, celebration, violence and more.

During the audience questions that followed, Carnegie director Lynn Zelevansky chimed in, describing the curators» work as a «civic duty» and stressing the exhibition's public function.

[13] He also told ScienceInsider that he and other signatories could «not believe the viciousness of attacks because we signed a letter as our civic duty with the ultimate goal of repairing our planet.»

In contrast to individuals serving as advocates, national science organizations, universities, and other expert institutions have a duty instead to avoid partisan advocacy and to sponsor efforts at civic education and public engagement.

On p. 233 of Why We disagree About Climate Change, in Box 7.1, I make the statement «Risbey goes on to accuse those who do not adopt such urgent language in their descriptions of the science as failing in their civic duty in inform the public, a «scientific reticence» which falls short of the standards of impartial communication».

(16 July) On p. 233 of Why We disagree About Climate Change, in Box 7.1, I make the statement «Risbey goes on to accuse those who do not adopt such urgent language in their descriptions of the science as failing in their civic duty in inform the public, a «scientific reticence» which falls short of the -LSB-...]

I regard it as my civic duty to alert my fellow citizens to this danger.

To avoid future problems of this kind, perhaps scientists who are involved in international assessments should be provided with staffing to help them perform this civic duty efficiently and judiciously without compromising their effectiveness as scientists.

As a result, it's fairly easy to appeal to lawyers» sense of civic duty and recruit a healthy roster of volunteers.

Maybe it could be something as simple as an animated interactive experience that aims to teach Bitcoin users their civic duty?»

«But because I have a civic duty to democracy and the overwhelming public interest, we [felt] we had a duty to dive a bit deeper as public citizens.»