Sentences with phrase «concern individual citizens»

Not exact matches

In this time of unexpected political change, questions concerning the future of our political order, the responsibility of individual citizens of faith, and challenges of integrating our political and religious commitments have taken on a new urgency.

The Constitution could not take for granted that its citizens would all be motivated by civic virtue and so its concern was as much to protect individuals and groups from abuse at the hands of the government and their fellow citizens as it was to involve all its citizens in genuine participation.

America would remain free not because of any quality in its citizens of spartan self - sacrifice to some nebulous public good, but in the last analysis because of the concern each individual would have in his own self - interest and personal freedom40

Data centres for cloud computing can be located anywhere so there is some concern that data given by a British citizen may end up on the other side of the world without the individual's knowledge.

This Privacy Notice describes the practices of Citizens Budget Commission («Company»,» «we,» «us,» or «our») regarding the collection and use of personal and other information concerning individuals («user» or «you»).

· Young Citizens (Lewisham, London) Founded by six year 7 pupils in Prendergast Ladywell Fields College, Young Citizens connects young people concerned about violence and crime with the individuals and organisations who can help, with the aim of improving the safety of the Lewisham community and the lives of those within it.

In Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the Supreme Court ruled that corporations and unions can be considered individuals as far as their political contributions are concerned and that restricting their ability to donate to candidates amounted to a violation of their First Amendment right of free speech.

The poor word choices, which resulted from the passion expressed by some, diverted the attention away from the legitimate concerns of the more than 500 hardworking mental - health workers, correctional officers, caregivers for developmentally - disabled individuals, administrative personnel and others who attended the rally to call for substantive dialogue with the governor about the direction we need to take the Empire State so that it serves all its citizens well, especially the most vulnerable among us.»

Only if we do is there any hope of achieving this ultimate security, which concerns less the state than the individual citizen's quest for access to water, food, shelter, health and employment.

A meeting was called of citizen groups and individuals in early 2002 as a result of shared problems and concerns regarding the approval of several solid waste and hazardous waste landfills by the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) in 2001 and 2002.

Most importantly, it takes seriously what it means to understand the relationship between how we learn and how we act as individual and social agents; that is, it is concerned with teaching students how not only to think but to come to grips with a sense of individual and social responsibility, and what it means to be responsible for one's actions as part of a broader attempt to be an engaged citizen who can expand and deepen the possibilities of democratic public life.

However, because standardized testing is a matter of public concern, a local speaking as a union, or an individual member speaking as a parent or citizen, about educational concerns over standardized testing, for instance, in a letter to the editor or in a statement to the Board of Education, is protected by the U.S. Constitution at least so long as they are not encouraging other parents or students to opt out from a test.»

-- We used social media to generate phone calls of support from concerned citizens, and invite organizations and individuals to support the bill in person at the committee hearing.

The Oregon Horse Welfare Council is comprised of individuals from rescue organizations, breed groups, veterinarians, state officials, law enforcement agencies, equine media, and concerned citizens.

Washington: Northwest Spay & Neuter Center: Tacoma (spay / neuter assistance for owned pets and feral cats) Concern for Animals: Thurston, Mason and Lewis Counties (spay / neuter, pet food and veterinary care assistance) Forget Me Not Animal Shelter: Republic (spay / neuter assistance) Humane Society for Seattle / King County: Bellevue (low - income senior citizen's pet food assistance, discounted spay / neuter and microchipping, pet project assistance for individuals disabled by AIDS) Humane Society for Southwest Washington: Clark County / Vancouver (low - cost vaccinations, free & Low - cost microchipping, pet food assistance, low - cost spay / neuter, emergency boarding, low - cost euthanasia / cremation services, pet loss support groups) Olympic Mountain Pet Pals: Jefferson County (spay / neuter assistance for low - income pet owners, TNR for community cats) PAWS of Bainbridge Island: Bainbridge Island and North Kitsap (spay / neuter, vaccination, pet food, veterinary care assistance; additional services for seniors) Seattle Humane Society: Seattle (services for low - income, disabled, and senior pet owners: spay / neuter, vaccination, pet food, veterinary care assistance) Progressive Animal Welfare Society: Lynnwood (spay / neuter assistance, microchip and vaccination assistance, behavior helpline) Spokane Valley Regional Animal Protection Service: Spokane Valley (spay / neuter assistance) Washington State University College of Veterinary Medicine Good Samaritan Fund (veterinary care assistance) Whatcom Humane Society: Bellingham (pet food, spay / neuter assistance) Whidbey Animals» Improvement Foundation (WAIF): Whidbey Island (spay / neuter assistance for owned cats and ferals, crisis care assistance, pet food banks, and temporary foster care)

The individual I speak of here is self - described «concerned citizen» Dave Rado, the person I've detailed over the past 4 blog posts as being someone beset with problems surrounding the official complaint he filed in 2007 over the UK Channel Four Television Corporation video «The Great Global Warming Swindle.»

Wind Concerns Ontario is a coalition of individuals and grassroots citizen's groups from across Ontario.

«We are here to express our concern with the lack of confidence of a growing number of our fellow citizens toward our judicial institutions that are there to uphold fundamental individual and collective liberties and the primacy of the law,» litigator Rémi Bourget, one of the organizers of the march, shouted through a megaphone.

The Court was quite explicit in paragraph 77 of its Brey judgment that a mechanism that automatically bars economically inactive Union citizens from receiving a particular social security benefit would not enable the competent authorities to carry out «an overall assessment of the specific burden which granting that benefit would place on the social assistance system as a whole by reference to the personal circumstances characterising the individual situation of the person concerned».

penalizes the defendant for engaging in public participation «plaintiff» means a person who initiates or maintains a proceeding against a defendant; «proceeding» means any action, suit, matter, cause, counterclaim, appeal, or originating application that is brought in the Supreme Court or the Provincial Court, but does not include a prosecution for an offence or a crime; «public interest» means the whole of the subject matter invites public attention, or a matter in which the public has some substantial concern because it affects the welfare of citizens, or one to which considerable public notoriety or controversy has attached; «public participation» means communication or conduct aimed at influencing public opinion, or promoting further lawful action by the public or any government body, in relation to an issue of public interest; «Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation (SLAPP)» means a claim that arises from a form of expression or public participation, by the person against whom the claim is asserted that was made in connection with an official proceeding or about a matter of public interest; Purposes of this Act: 2 The purposes of this Act are to a) Establish a statutory right to public participation for every individual; b) Encourage individuals to express themselves on matters of public interest; c) Promote broad participation in debates on matters of public interest; d) Discourage the use of litigation as a means of unduly limiting expression on matters of public interest; and, e) Preserve the right of access to the courts for all proceedings and claims that are not brought or maintained for an improper purpose.

It is not, in fact, concerned with the position of individuals and their rights at all and, in so far as an EU citizen resident in the UK would seek to rely on Vienna Convention, Art 70, that would have to be on the basis that denial of a right of residence in the UK (by way of example) would be contrary to a «right, obligation or legal situation» of her home member state (rather than herself).

And in any case, saying an advertisement was paid for by a specific page or individual verified by Facebook is not true transparency, though concerned citizens can trace the real roots of the dark money problem to decisions made by the government.

The dialogue concerning smart growth, he says, must include all individuals and groups that have a stake in and an impact on growth, including developers, retailers, governments, and citizens.