Sentences with phrase «for citizens action»

Judge Eugene Devine heard a roughly 90 - minute series of arguments from Lewis, along with defendant lawyers from the attorney general's office and intervenors for Citizens Action and the Brennan Center for Justice.

Over the years, the International Program has set many important precedents that have strengthened international environmental law and made it a tool for citizen action.

Not exact matches

DACA recipients» fears are not unfounded — the same fear surfaced several years ago after the Obama administration in 2014 attempted to expand DACA and implement a program known as Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents, which sought to shield from deportation the parents of American citizens or lawful permanent residents.

The liberal - funded watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington complained to the GSA that it should terminate its deal or take legal action because the president had violated the conditions of the lease.

So far the battle has entailed more words than action, with the tax's supporters trading charged public comments with representatives of the tech companies such as Weinberg's Bay Area Council Economic Institute and the San Francisco Citizens Initiative for Technology and Innovation, which represents Salesforce, Google, Pinterest, Twilio, and others.

Bank of America has been hit with a proposed class action by a Brazilian citizen who said he was denied a job at the bank because his work authorization, granted under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA program, is subject to reaction by a Brazilian citizen who said he was denied a job at the bank because his work authorization, granted under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA program, is subject to reAction for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA program, is subject to renewal.

Who can volunteer: Participants must have an undergraduate degree from an accredited college by their first day of training; have a minimum grade point average of 2.5; and be a citizen, legal permanent resident, or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipient.

That is, there is an inherent link between these two sides of the «responsibility coin» — between acceptance among blacks of personal responsibility for our actions, and acceptance among all Americans of their social responsibilities as citizens.

The sort of action we find in the parables, for instance, is always decisions in regard to other people — fathers and sons, masters and servants, husbands and wives, citizens and rulers.

And so we begin with confession, certainly for particular sins of racism but even for the sin we were unwittingly born into, the sin we did not advocate for or promote but that benefited us nonetheless, the passive and active attitudes and actions of our ancestors who failed to advocate for full equality and justice for their fellow citizens.

Hence, the principle of religious freedom also implies that constitutional stipulations should do nothing more than institutionalize the formative principle of communicative respect; they can not properly require of any citizen as a political participant explicit adherence to any substantive prescription for social action.

Another example of the unpredictable outcome of citizen economic action is the boycott Dr. Bob Jones III of Bob Jones University waged against General Motors Corporation for its sponsorship of «Jesus of Nazareth,» the Zeffirelli biblical epic on the NBC network.

The censorship made it impossible for citizens to assess, criticize or support the administration's actions from an informed standpoint.

Conscience sometimes drives citizens to certain actions — for example, nonpayment of taxes — which can not be condoned and against which sanctions must be brought.

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.

Further, it is important that things be done «decently and in order,» that one gets involved in programs of social welfare: finding food for the poor, finding shelter for the homeless, addressing unmet needs of children and senior citizens, and that one seeks to promote responsible social action in the affairs of state and nation.

In our system, citizen is an office; we too bear responsibility for the actions of the government.

We support citizen action to expand television viewing options for the American public, particularly for children.

«We're sorry for him and his family, but at the same time, he made his choices and did what he did,» Joe Godfrey, the executive director of the Alabama Citizens Action Program, told NYT.

Lawyers from the Becket Fund and the Alliance Defense Fund plan to speak at some of today's rallies, organized by the Pro-Life Action League and Citizens for a Pro-Life Society.

In previous chapters I have suggested what concerned citizens can do to deal with television without censorship: create local television councils and community action to get stations to accept their responsibility for the public welfare; introduce media education courses in the schools and churches to create media literacy; organize community groups to develop programs relating to community issues on the «narrowcast» media of cable - TV, videocassettes, low - power TV, public - broadcasting facilities, and commercial side - band channels; employ stockholder action and other economic measures.

«While state policies and the actions of extremist groups often mask the high levels of tolerance in the minds of ordinary Arabs, the typical citizen in this region expresses a great deal of support for tolerant policies,» said Michael Hoffman, who studied religious minorities as part of the Religious Freedom Project at Georgetown's Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs.

There he says, one, that the shift from the concept of «the State's role as providers of equal opportunities to every citizen» to that of providing education, health and other social services «to those who can afford to pay» is a U-turn in public policy which «has been made surreptitiously by administrative action without public discussion and legislative sanction»; two, that the total commercialization of social sectors is «alien even to free market societies»; and three, that «the ready acceptance of self - financing concept in social sectors alien even to free - market societies is the end result of gradual disenchantment with the Kerala Model of Development», which has been emphasizing the social dimension rather than the economic, but that it is quite false to present the situation as calling for a choice between social development and economic growth.

People must be taught to understand that their actions as citizens and members of other organized groups — for instance, trade unions — must be judged from a moral point of view.

Mindful that even as new principles are proclaimed, old habits die hard and citizens and politicians could tend to entangle government and religion (e.g., «the appointment of chaplains to the two houses of Congress» and «for the army and navy» and «[r] eligious proclamations by the Executive recommending thanksgivings and fasts»), he considered the question whether these actions were «consistent with the Constitution, and with the pure principle of religious freedom» and responded: «In strictness the answer on both points must be in the negative.

Finally, we will consider some «middle axioms» as the basis for action and ask, What specific action can citizens take to deal with the situation?

Although many of these claims challenge the veracity of «organic,» «healthy,» and «100 %» claims on labels, several states are affording new opportunities to attack ingredient labels — an area that federal courts have traditionally found to be preempted (barred) by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) with no private right of action for individual citizens.

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.

As many journalists and commentators have argued, agreements like the TPP have dubious benefits for citizens of the countries involved.ISDS provisions have been criticised by U.S. Constitutional lawyer Lori Wallach for «empowering corporations to sue governments — outside their domestic court systems — over any action the corporations believe undermines their expected future profits or rights under the pact by reporting breaches, removing online content and even denying access to Internet users».

The Citizens are back in action on Sunday as they face a tough trip to Merseyside for a clash with Everton at Goodison Park and will be hoping to avoid a repeat of the result in the corresponding fixture last season as the 1 - 1 draw saw them lose valuable ground in the title race.

But meanwhile the Alabama Citizens Action Program and the Alabama Policy Institute said they had asked for this ruling on the grounds that they were «concerned about the family and the danger that same - sex marriage will have.»

Residents who belong to the group Citizens for Better Communities, which was formed to muster local support and to lobby government to prevent the land from becoming a gravel pit, were also on hand to thank Hoffman and members of the park board for their actions.

The Diaper Bank awarded $ 25,000 from the Citizens Bank Champions in Action program - a unique initiative designed to reward the nonprofit organizations that work so hard to champion change in our communities and make life better for us all.

Strengthen government and citizens» actions that ensure adequate maternal nutrition and food security for all l Encourage production and use of appropriate indigenous complementary foods.

We've created a home base for New York citizens to gather, be counted and take action at FreeOurMidwives.org.

Soon after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Arlington Heights warned its citizens with this chilling message: «The time for action has arrived.

Using the Sketch Engine, a web - based piece of software that can look for collocations among nouns, verbs, and adjectives, I asked a key question: when the words «citizen» or «citizens» appear in this corpus of newspaper texts, what action is linked to them?

By engaging citizens in a wider discussion, it is shaping a certain type of Romanian citizen, a critical one, capable of engaging in civilized discussions with his fellow citizens, of taking action whenever needed and of holding the political leaders accountable for their actions.

These are basic freedoms which most citizens of the United Kingdom would take for granted, but in this 800th anniversary year of the Magna Carta, the 1.5 million adults with a learning disability [7] are frequently blamed, targeted and forbidden these freedoms, whilst those with power are not held accountable for the consequences of their words and actions.

Updated January, 2011 Though online video has really broken out big in the last five years, campaigns and random citizens have been using short video clips (live - action or animated) to promote their ideas and pummel their enemies for years.

At 12:15 p.m., concerned citizens, led by Altamont Main Street USA and including members of MoveOn.org, Citizen Action of NY, the Working Families Party and others gather outside the offices of U.S. Sens. Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand for a peaceful rally in opposition to Trump's cabinet appointees, Leo O'Brien Federal Building, N. Pearl Street and Clinton Avenue, Albany.

Moreover, each and every member of Congress should be notified that he or she is personally liable (can be sued) for his or her own failure, or the same in conspiracy with other members, to perform what is a ministerial and constitutional duty, that is, to require and / or insist that Presidential electoral votes only be counted for candidates who are «natural born citizens» under Article II of the United States Constitution, the failure of which creates a cause of action for deprivation of claimants» constitutional rights (as allowed under the Bivens case) against employees of the Federal Government, in this case, to a lawful President and Commander in Chief, and therefore, for deprivation of adequate continuation of the United States as a Constitutional Republic.

I justified the establishment of such «plebeian» institutions on the grounds of «affirmative action for common citizens.»

Yet another example of citizens using the new tools of online communications and social media to organize for political action and to push a story out in front of a mass audience.

And your super-activists, those who take action frequently and have become educated about the issues, often make excellent citizen representatives locally or on the Hill (if you can get them to town or catch them here — how many of your list members happen to have a vacation trip to the Nation's Capital planned for this year?).

Tools are not causes of social actions, but parts of socio - technical action, things that help us do some things, hinder others, and are integral to how we live, act, and see ourselves — this is also how I hope people will think of the role of social networking sites and other technologies in the popular uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt, not as causes, or as irrelevant, but as tools (for protesters, though sometimes also for security forces)-- in North Africa, even with a less than open internet, some of those involved in recent events certainly seemed to produce their own role as active citizens partially through the use of everyday tools and technologies.

Network judicial activists and legal reform groups around the country to promote citizen involvement, concerted action, and protection for judicial «whistleblowers».

The Idea Summit is a fun, celebratory event that features the work of Champions for Change, explores what it means to translate ideas into action, and provides opportunities for community members to network with local experts, citizen planners, funders and other attendees.

DiNapoli was in Saratoga to speak at the convention of the StateWide Senior Action Council, a lobbying group for senior citizens.

(Albany, NY)-- One day after being appointed Ranking Democratic Member of the New York State Senate Elections Committee, Senator Brian Kavanagh today joined with fellow legislators and advocates — including the Brennan Center for Justice, Citizen Action of New York, Citizens Union, Common Cause / NY, the League of Women Voters of New York State, the New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG), Planned Parenthood, and Transportation Workers United Local 100 and colleagues in the Senate to urge Governor Andrew Cuomo to fully fund early voting in the Fiscal 2018 - 2019 Executive Budget.