Sentences with phrase «direct citizen action»

While we endure the long, long wait, it might be time to consider direct citizen action to reduce climate change emissions.

Targeting shoreline sites, thousands of volunteers come out to engage in direct citizen action that makes our community a better place.

Another kind of economic intervention can come through direct citizen action.

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Now, 50 Global Citizens will have the opportunity to take direct action on these issues, working on - the - ground in affected communities in Puerto Rico and Texas.

But if such reshaping of national fertility patterns is to be set in motion by government action, there would obviously have to be direct, far - reaching, and even forcible state interventions into the daily lives of the overwhelming majority of the citizens of these two countries — as well as others with similar «targets.»

Since the advertising base is the foundation on which television is based, citizen action directed toward the advertiser tends to have considerable leverage.

End Citizens United's entry into the Minnesota race is particularly odd, given that Craig, while at the medical device company St. Jude Medical, directed the firm's political action committee in the 2012 election cycle, after spending the previous six years on its board.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) in Australia has recently taken direct action to warn Australian citizens they think might be at risk of this scam — by identifying the riskiest targets based on overseas bank transfer records.

Taking over for Gary Ross, who directed last year's original «Hunger Games,» Lawrence keeps the action buzzing briskly while also providing a clearer and more daunting sense of the totalitarian regime that has kept the citizens of dystopian, futuristic Panem cowering in poverty and fear.

Promoting campaigns that urge students, parents, school staff and citizens to take direct action helps create a sense of urgency around the postsecondary planning process.

Union leaders invite «all concerned Chicago citizens to unite in a day of action by: withholding your labor; withholding your dollars; boycotting the Magnificent Mile... engaging in nonviolent direct action protests...» against Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Gov. Bruce Rauner and Illinois» school funding formula.

Our grassroots approach is based on informing hundreds of thousands of people about the issues, and then empowering them to take direct action as citizens.

Being a force for more immediate and direct action through a nonpartisan price on carbon, such as I - 732 or the Citizens Climate Lobby have pursued, is a critical role that needs to be carried forward.

But I don't see how EU citizens could bring direct action against the UK, as is suggested, without even exhausting domestic remedies.

What might have improved (abit) is the latest Internet legal information, as starting point, provided by government departments to educate their citizens on how to understand in simple practical ways about legislation that could affect them personally and preventive action, which the govn't dept. has direct authority to administer.

It presages a law captured by the rhetoric of the right to freedom of expression without due regard to the value underlying the particular exercise of that right; a law in which, under the guise of the right to freedom of expression, the «right» to offend can be exercised without responsibility or restraint providing it does not cause a disruption or disturbance in the nature of public disorder; a law in which an impoverished amoral concept of «public order» is judicially ordained; a law in which the right to freedom of expression trumps — or tramples upon — other rights and values which are the vital rights and properties of a free and democratic society; a law to which any number of vulnerable individuals and minorities may be exposed to uncivil, and even odious, ethnic, sexist, homophobic, anti-Christian, anti-Semitic, and anti-Islamic taunts providing no public disorder results; a law in which good and decent people can be used as fodder to promote a cause or promote an action for which they are not responsible and over which they have no direct control; a law which demeans the dignity of the persons adversely affected by those asserting their right to freedom of expression in a disorderly or offensive manner; a law in which the mores or standards of society are set without regard to the reasonable expectations of citizens in a free and democratic society; and a law marked by a lack of empathy by the sensibilities, feelings and emotional frailties of people who can be deeply and genuinely affronted by language and behaviour that is beyond the pale in a civil and civilised society.