Sentences with phrase «for citizen groups»

That's hard to do for citizen groups.

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But in countries like the United States, China, Russia, Singapore and Switzerland, government groups have talked about using blockchains for myriad tasks, like issuing national currency or tracking identity records for citizens and visitors.

Trump reportedly owns more than three - quarters of Trump Old Post Office LLC, the leaseholder, according to advocacy group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW).

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.

A flood of money from outside groups - a result of the 2010 Supreme Court ruling Citizens United - created a «huge cacophony of television» in the final months of the campaign, making it harder for any one message to stand out.

Witness, for example, the recent move in the U.S. by a citizen's group and Congressman Jim McGovern of Massachusetts to propose a «People's Rights Amendment.»

According to Washington watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), Mnuchin has frequently opted for using military aircraft for his travel instead of taking commercial planes, which would come at a much lower cost to the taxpayer.

The big spenders were nonetheless defeated by a citizens» group that spent only $ 15,000 to support the bond measure, which passed with 57 % of the vote on Nov. 7, approving up to $ 150 million in financing for a city - run broadband utility.

«The American people have been reminded this year of reasons to be concerned for their privacy,» says the group's attorney, Patrick Murck, referencing the recent disclosures about unwarranted government spying on innocent citizens.

In the same article we reported that while the Citizens United case was pending before the U.S. Supreme Court, Virginia Thomas, the wife of the Justice, created a nonprofit Tea Party advocacy group, Liberty Central, Inc., with a former lawyer for the Charles G. Koch Foundation, Sarah Field, acting as her General Counsel and a former Koch lobbyist, Matt Schlapp, serving on her board at inception.

One of the Coalition's first initiatives has been circulating a Pledge for interested citizen groups and organizations to sign.

A grassroots group, the New Citizens Movement, uses the Internet and small demonstrations to press for greater transparency.

Another group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), argues that Trump may have run afoul of rules requiring him to list his personal debts on a financial disclosure form.

The talks between Apple and Goldman Sachs are focused on providing financing for an upgrade program similar to what the tech company launched in 2015 with Citizens Financial Group.

A-Trust GmbH, the entity responsible for providing the digital identity for the Austrian citizens, teamed up with Jelurida and the ANG (Ardor NXT Group) to initiate an enterprise application which enables Austrian municipalities to publish their announcements on a digital bulletin board.

Drawing connections between this group and Fox News North, a former vice-president of the National Citizens Coalition, Gerry Nicholls, questioned why his former organization has focused on «shilling» for Sun News Network.

In fact, a group of local citizens have been working behind the scenes to try and forge an agreement for electoral cooperation to run a single progressive candidate.

United Conservatives encourage Albertans to support and participate in Rural Crime Watch programs and Citizens on Patrol groups that act as eyes and ears for law enforcement.

Norm Eisen, chair of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, said his group had filed a complaint saying Trump should have reported it.

With courts increasingly willing to nullify popular legislation and proclaim new rights, legislators are encouraged to avoid their responsibility for tackling controversial issues; interest groups are encouraged to take their cases to the courts rather than to try to persuade their fellow citizens; and citizens get the feeling that they have no say in setting the conditions under which they live, work, and raise their children.

Days after a Muslim gold scavenger slit a Christian competitor's throat for alleged blasphemy, an influential Islamic group has told Pakistan to change its laws to protect its citizens against rampant false accusations that afflict Muslims as well as Christians.

For a group that many in the media describe as mostly senior citizens, it is amazing they can do so much imagined damage.

Whereas The Broken Covenant was the voice of a prophet crying in the wilderness, alternately denouncing and lamenting for his people, Habits and its successor volume The Good Society, written by the same five authors and to be published in 1991, speak as one group of citizens to our fellow citizens, criticizing some things but also encouraging, offering examples of effective citizenship and church membership, and looking forward, if not with optimism, at least with hope.

Also, the church can function as one of the finest stabilizing forces for senior citizens, providing a sense of purpose and significance to their lives and incorporating them meaningfully and creatively into the religious group life of the church and community.

If this group were truely proud American citizens, there would be no question, for all the lives lost, not just Americans, building a Mosque close to the site is Wrong, Wrong, Wrong.

In an unfortunate liberal regime (which probably won't be liberal for long), the forms of group, family and associational life yield indifferent or even illiberal citizens.

@Howard — As a republic, which is a version of representative democracy, it means we do not have a true or direct democracy where each law would be voted on by each citizen, but an elected representative for larger groups of people that gets to cast the vote, which may or may not at times represent the will of the voters who elected the representative.

Some, such as the Committee on Open Media, sought access for all under - represented groups, and a few, such as the Citizens Communications Law Center, offered pro bono legal assistance.

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.

Kind of hard to be called racist when arabs are full citizens of the nation, groups like the Druze are given special treamtment for their non-jewish beliefs and when you have arabs in their form of parliment.

Soft just war theory is characterized by seven key components: a strongly articulated horror of war; a strong presumption against war; a skepticism about government claims; the use of just war theory as a tool for citizen discernment and prophetic critique; a pattern of trusting the efficacy of international treaties, multilateral strategies and the perspectives of global peace and human rights groups and the international press; a quite stringent application of just war criteria; and a claim of common ground with Christian pacifists.

A marital enrichment group, a family camp, a child - study group, a youth fellowship, a preparation for retirement group, a nursery program, a senior citizen club, premarital counseling, marriage counseling, pastoral care in bereavement, parent - child counseling, and the entire spiritual growth and educational thrust of the church — all these are examples of resources which are designed to stimulate the growth of personality toward the realization of each individual's potentialities.

B. Assist in developing guidelines for the organization and functioning of citizen advocate groups.

C. Provide research and information to citizen advocate groups on the process for obtaining «leave to participate» in governmental proceedings, public policy development and rule - making in the communications arena.

Conflict after conflict, U.S. Jewish groups and citizens have wielded grass - roots political clout to garner American support for Israel.

Rick Santorum was named among the most corrupt politicians in 2005 - 2006 by a Washington watchdog group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.

«specials interests» is just another way of saying «Citizens groups» who get together, pool their money and advocate for their beliefs.

Delaine advised him to purchase picks, shovels and wheelbarrows for a group of citizens who wanted to improve their community's dirt road.

The document provides the Justice Department's legal rationale for the controversial policy of using lethal force against U.S. citizens fighting on behalf of terrorist groups.

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.

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.

When citizen groups bring pressure for reform, there should be sympathetic workers inside the structures to respond.

Even though resistance takes many different forms (against the MAI, towards a jubilee year in 2000, for the Tobin tax, seeking alternatives, etc.), and even if the struggles are specific in their aims (farmers, workers, indigenous or coloured people, citizens, ecologists or women, the urban poor, etc.) and though the various co-ordination groups are numerous (Peoples Power for the XXI Century in Asia, São Paulo Forum in Latin America, etc.), all of these have a common thread: they all work to highlight the unacceptable nature of the current economic system.

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Citizens failed to qualify for the knockout round stages of the competition and finished bottom of the group last season without even winning a single game.

The Citizens were in impressive form in the group stage, winning their first five group stage games for losing a meaningless affair out at FC Shakhtar Donetsk on matchday six.

The project monitors hate groups and develops legal strategies for protecting citizens from violence - prone groups.

A compromise reached in late November had the village accepting the Park District's plan for a recreation center on the Yunker site and the Park District agreeing to expand the role of a citizens advisory group in planning for the rest of the site, which occupies the north and south sides of LaPorte Road just west of Schoolhouse Road.

Fiddyment «s citizens group was formed last spring to seek the dissolution of the park district after the board approved a bond issue of up to $ 16 million for land purchases and park improvements.