Sentences with phrase «conscientious citizens in»

If we're to be conscientious citizens in a free republic, we must follow the other side's arguments and evidence, admitting those points that identify weaknesses in our own position.

Not exact matches

The question here explored, in full awareness of its far - reaching consequences, is whether we have reached or are reaching the point where conscientious citizens can no longer give moral assent to the existing regime.

Whereas «The Challenge of Peace» offered an extensive discussion of conscientious citizen objection to unjust uses of government power, Pavlischek instead emphasized the role of just war theory in statecraft and military planning.

Cameron thus perfectly captured the mood of hard - working folk despairing not only of the layabouts and benefit cheats whose numbers have swelled in the twelve years since Tony Blair swept to power promising to dramatically reduce them, but also of Labour's prowess for luring conscientious citizens into the welfare trap.

Without it, our students simply could not succeed in today's competitive global marketplace — let alone become conscientious global citizens.

Not only he's a good scientist and a conscientious citizen, he is also a rational thinker, unlike so many of his ultra-liberal colleagues in academe.

Now their ridiculously manipulated science has been accepted as fact and become a cornerstone issue for CNN, CBS, NBC, the Democratic Political Party, the Governor of California, schoolteachers and, in many cases, well informed but very gullible environmental conscientious citizens.

«Whether hell - bent on putting themselves and everyone around them in danger or just drunk off their gourds and out for a simple joyride, America's reckless will no longer be forced to putter along with careful, conscientious, considerate citizens.»