Sentences with phrase «concerned citizens like»

and concerned citizens like me.

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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.

However, we would like to join the ranks of people, including the more than 6,000 supporters who have signed the petition to stop the destruction of field trials of GM crops, in calling for anti-GM activists and other concerned citizens to not take action that could delay the assessment and ongoing research of Golden Rice as a potential new way to reduce vitamin A deficiency and reduce the damage it can do to the precious vision and eyes of children.

But when that parent bands together with other, like - minded parents, or when that one concerned citizen starts an online petition and garners thousands of signatures, then they become a force to be reckoned with.

«Obviously, the vision is there, the plan is there but again it is not driven by anything than the citizens themselves and the area that we need improvement is for citizens to have trust or confidence that the taxes they are paying will be returned back in terms of infrastructure but I can tell you that I am also concerned; I see a lot of things I don't like but I am inhibited by the amount of money I have,» Governor Ambode said.

If you support a traitor like Rump and you turn your back on the citizens of your state to provide tax cuts for the wealthy that virtually assure that after November the Pubs will be going after Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security as being too expensive you should be concerned about a negative response form voters.

We do need the checks and balance and in a case like this we go back to 2009 - 2010 and citizens should be rightly concerned if we were to go back to that.

We need to make sure that we are in control over the things that affects us.Anytime there is flood and people loose their life, most of the blame goes to sitting presidents.I am not saying that the central government does not have responsibility to ensure that enabling environment is created.They have a great work to do but as citizens what is our quota?When you move around Accra, sometimes i becomes angry within myself because i am in doubt as to whether our sanitation laws exit.People because of the tax they claim they pay waits for zoom lion workers to come and clean the choked gutters before our houses and shops either than that, it will remain like that.Is it modernity or civilization that has turned us to forget our traditional values or duties of ensuring that our environments is clean?Everybody in our Ghanaian setting knows the responsibility of men and women in making sure that our environments are clean not waiting for flood to occur and we start blaming sitting presidents.To the media, though your responsibility is to keep governments on it toes, you equally have a mandate in educating the public of what we are expected to do as citizens in other to ensure that our dear nation is a better ecosystem for all of us to live.The attention of the media should be shifted from making politicians popular to making us aware as citizens of our responsibilities.I sometimes get confused to hear journalists calling opponents to comment on issues concerning the sitting governments and the only thing that comes to my mind is what do the journalist want to hear from the political opponents?Nothing.They will end up criticizing without giving an alternative.The media should rather resort in questioning people directly to where the problems are coming from.Let us build our institutions.When it comes to energy issues.Citifm will call Hon.KT Hammond who was a deputy minister living who he worked under (His boss at that time) and I always become confused because what can we expect from him?nothing.

I am a young man growing up to live in a country where the development of the country rest on the shoulders of everybody.I always become confuse especially when disasters like flood occurs in this nation of ours.One of the problem we have as a nation is a deliberate attempt of us as citizens to shift our responsibility to the central government.People might say because of the fact that they pay tax, government must take responsibility of everything that concerns us.My question is can any government take responsibility of our life?NO.

Similarly, No Child Left Behind's left - leaning supporters like the Education Trust, Citizens» Commission on Civil Rights, and Council of the Great City Schools, which are all concerned about the achievement gap, do not enter the Winerip conversation either.

I'm predicting that a group of concerned citizens will finally have a way of pushing back against data to give a more nuanced version of what data ought to look like in schools.

Advocates include people just like you — parents, teachers, principals, board members, concerned citizens, etc..

She concludes: «The divisive battles that the Parent Trigger law has sparked in California should cause parents and concerned citizens elsewhere to avoid similar legislation like the plague.»

The incident crystallized Hutchinson's concern over widespread animal abuse, and he soon rallied 15 like - minded citizens to found the San Francisco SPCA.

Like a lot of concerned citizens, for the past few weeks I've been very worried about jetpacks.

«The heroes of this story are people like lawyer Joel Kupferman and industrial hygienist Monona Rossol... each refused to be lulled by the failures of most of the New York media to report what was actually happening; each helped to pierce the false claims of government officials and to validate the concerns of rescue workers and ordinary citizens, to confirm to them that they were not imagining their ailments.»

For those who seek to curtail travel in a feeble attempt to fight global warming: Given the non-emergency that climate change has thus far proven to be and the real and dire crises that presently plague the planet, should we also deny transportation (by aid organizations and concerned citizens) to regions, like the Darfur or Sierra Leone, that require our immediate attention?

They need care and nurturing from concerned citizens — like you.