Sentences with phrase «fellow citizens from»

Take leave without pay for one day a year to gather in the streets and acknowledge the devastation our governments wrought on our fellow citizens from 1883 to 1969.

The primary function of the independent juror is not, as many think, to dispense punishment to fellow citizens accused of breaking various laws, but rather to protect fellow citizens from tyrannical abuses of power by the government.

The story told in this film is an excellent illustration of the message on FIJA's home page that: «The primary function of the independent juror is not, as many think, to dispense punishment to fellow citizens accused of breaking various laws, but rather to protect fellow citizens from tyrannical abuses of power by government.»

I am PROUD of my fellow citizens from Madison.

Why can't moderate westerners restrain their fellow citizens from «voting»?

I don't know about your country, but in mine, that particular word — «socialism» — was transformed long ago into just an ordinary truncheon used by certain cynical, parvenu bureaucrats to bludgeon their liberal - minded fellow citizens from morning until night, labeling them «enemies of socialism» and «antisocialist forces.

I do care if religious doctrine becomes an excuse to exclude my fellow citizens from the rights and protections our country promises.

Not exact matches

Walled off by technology and geography from the realities of most of their fellow citizens, the tech elites live lives of extreme, if occasionally odd, luxury.

But having one's religious conscience protected from intrusion by one's fellow citizens is a much less compelling need than having it protected from the government.

The few who had contrived to enrich themselves hid their wealth from the knowledge of their fellow - citizens, and invested it in the English or other funds.

As the country's first francophone prime minister, Wilfrid Laurier worked tirelessly to strengthen and unify the fledgling country and build bridges between its French and English citizens — in spite of the ill will this often brought from his fellow Québécois.

And I would welcome more self - discipline and self - sacrifice from my fellow citizens.

In a letter announcing his retirement from the army at the close of the War, he wrote: «I now make it my earnest prayer, that God would have you, and the State over which you preside, in his holy protection, that he would incline the hearts of the Citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to Government, to entertain a brotherly affection and love for one another, for their fellow Citizens of the United States at large, and particularly for their brethren who have served in the Field, and finally, that he would most graciously be pleased to dispose us all, to do Justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that Charity, humility and pacific temper of mind, which were the Characteristicks of the Divine Author of our blessed Religion, and without an humble imitation of whose example in these things, we can never hope to be a happy Nation.»

It's frightening, Iqbal said, and «there is a lot of shock and disbelief... because we don't expect this kind of behavior from our fellow citizens.»

Whosoever has the capacity to protest to prevent his household from committing a crime and does not is accountable for the sins of his household; if he could do so with his fellow citizens, he is accountable for the crimes of his fellow citizens; if the whole world, he is accountable for the whole world.

This ethnic tension did not hold for the other Greek Jewish communities, and the large proportion of Jews of the rest of Greece survived, not least because of support from their Christian fellow - citizens.

According to our Christian tradition and culture we (citizens of Western World) love our fellow citizens independent from their religion, colour, nationality, etc..

The call to U.S. Christians today is to struggle for this revolutionary restructuring and to prepare our fellow citizens for a painful structural adjustment to Latin Americans» long - overdue freedom from U.S. exploitation.

The Leprechaun camp in this country is STILL fighting to keep gays as second class citizens, yet cry out for help for this fellow who is suffering from the exact same ignorance.

We have strained our imaginations, and our fellow citizens» credulity, to find apologies for the able - bodied, healthy, and intelligent young men who father children and then walk away from the responsibility to support them.

That collective emphasis, that understanding of man as fundamentally social, was derived from the classical conception of the polis as responsible for the education and the virtue of its citizens, from the Old Testament notion of the Covenant between God and a people held collectively responsible for its actions, and from the New Testament notion of a community based on charity or love and expressed in brotherly affection and fellow membership in one common body.

I find it deplorable when believers pick and choose passages in the bible to condemn their fellow citizens and attempt to withhold certain civil rights from them.

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.

Others changed their day of worship from the Sabbath to Sunday to be more in keeping with their Christian fellow citizens.

Or will we act, keeping in mind that we were once sojourners too — living out the grace given to us that transformed us from sojourners to fellow citizens with the saints, and members of God's household.

Thoroughly alienated from the mainstream of American society in so many ways, Berlinerblau observes with charity and good humor the strange doings of his fideistic fellow citizens.

The system of checks and balances they built in the Constitution was formed not only by the recognition that good citizens may differ over the proper course of action, but also, at least in part, by the Biblical understanding of humans as fallible and prone to wrong - doing, and therefore frequently in need of some healthy opposition from their fellows.

Beyond the freedom to be protected from state interference, the right should also address the restrictions that fellow - citizens can pose upon access to information.

Still, Christians have the duty not to be too alienated from their country, and to do what they can to be of service to their fellow citizens by loyally encouraging what's good and could be better in the political place where they live.

Join fellow citizens on Friday, September 11 at 6 PM the Red Hat Amphitheater for the 9/11 Day of Service Evening Commemoration coordinated by Activate Good with support from the Downtown Raleigh Alliance, City of Raleigh, and Triangle area businesses.

Once we put it out of our power to reconsider, we have made and will keep a covenant with the past, with the victim, our fellow citizen who the government failed to protect from the predator.

We hope that the other political parties also refrain from playing politics with the painful death of a fellow citizen.

Eric has fought tirelessly throughout his career as New York State Senator and attorney general to represent his fellow citizens and protect them from fraud.»

Demon of Islamophobia hanging over the community However, in the aftermath of the 7/7 atrocities in London, a new challenge rose which the community was not ready to face — a few bad apples from within it were hell - bent to wreck the boat by mindlessly causing harm to fellow citizens.

Is Supervisor Gromack now so desperate to avoid these questions from being answered by an independent and open investigation of the procedures being followed by the Town Attorney's office that he must employ acampaign of derogation against three citizens and their law firm while using strong - arm tactics against a fellow Town Supervisor?

She would do everything possible, she told her fellow citizens, to protect them from the new pathogen spawned by a pig.

One of the first things I had to do was to get my residence permit from the aliens» registration office (Ausländerstelle), but as an EU citizen this was just a formality, the host institute having written a confirmation that I was a fellow there.

synthetic drugs from China, in the e-cig devices, and we, as their fellow citizens, our breathing in their second - hand vapor.

Whether you're a European expat looking to find fellow European singles in the UK, or you're a British citizen looking to date someone from Ireland, France, Poland or elsewhere in Europe, then eHarmony is the perfect place to start.

The main idea of this universal dating site is to help Brazilian singles to meet their lover or fellow citizens and to help singles, who live in Brasilia not a long time to find their old friends from any part of the world

Our main idea to help Brazilian singles to meet their lover or fellow citizens and to help singles, who live in Brasilia not a long time to find their old friends from every part of world.

Whether youre a European expat looking to find fellow European singles in the UK, or youre a British citizen looking to date someone from Ireland, France, Poland or elsewhere in Europe, then eHarmony is the perfect place to start.

Narrated by Paul Robeson, the film employs a cast of familiar if not stellar character actors in a story of how certain enemies within the US have done their best to suppress their fellow citizens» rights to freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of assembly and freedom from want.

Meanwhile in the Mexican state of Michoacán, Jose Mireles has organized fellow citizens into the «Autodefensas,» a paramilitary band determined to take back communities from the cartels.

Aside from the opportunity to make these distinct characters interact, the platform will also be a venue for entire games starring these characters in their own worlds — Sulley will be able to go around the campus of Monsters University scaring fellow students, while Mr. Incredible can save the citizens of Metroville from harm.

So I fail to understand why, when our fellow citizens protest, demand, and explain that such mutuality is missing from our education system, they are met with criticism.

It's beyond clueless to compare that to holding kids hostage to get $ 10,000 more a year from fellow citizens who preserve a culture that opposes terrorist tyranny.

Educational activist Paulo Freire was exiled from Brazil from 1964 to 1979 for teaching his fellow citizens to read in ways that also made them more aware of their own disenfranchisement.

«I figured that I should return the favor and do my part by being the first one to post from Fairbanks so that fellow citizens would be reassured».

This comes from our good friend Kerri and her fellow citizens in Wentzville, MO..