Sentences with phrase «for free citizens»

One irony, of course, is this sort of postnational dedication to the common values of liberty and dignity erodes the political institutions required for free citizens actually to govern themselves.

Please let me know of any issue based on the facts on which Rush Limbaugh has added anything of value to the betterment of the USA for its free citizens.

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If you'd rather not have a vehicle of your own, the city has a growing network of public buses on the main boulevards which senior citizens can travel for free on.

For years, home - sharing giant Airbnb has had a quiet side project involving asking its hosts to offer temporary housing — for free — to displaced people, citizens forced out of their homes due to natural disasters and other emergencies or, increasingly, the global refugee crisFor years, home - sharing giant Airbnb has had a quiet side project involving asking its hosts to offer temporary housing — for free — to displaced people, citizens forced out of their homes due to natural disasters and other emergencies or, increasingly, the global refugee crisfor free — to displaced people, citizens forced out of their homes due to natural disasters and other emergencies or, increasingly, the global refugee crisis.

To cut expenses, they lived rent - free in an apartment owned by Sha's grandparents, located within a gated community exclusively for senior citizens.

«In a free country, there is no justification for forcing citizens to provide personal information to government,» wrote one.

One major catalyst for the referendum was U.K. citizens» fears that high immigration was fueled by the right to free movement of people throughout the EU, which is entrenched in European law.

To credulously accept this sort of response, on an issue as important as this one, is behavior unfit for any citizen of a free country, where safeguarding the rule of law is a civic responsibility.

«The principle of living debt - free is not about being good money - citizens for the sake of it.

When the Dutch government decided to offer free Euros to its citizens, the only condition was the bags, containing minted coins worth 11.34 Euros were actually sold for 25 Guilders.

You must have come across a buzz about the «Dutch Government Distributing Euro to the Citizens of Netherland For Free.»

i think an important point of the article is that the situation in burma is extremely dire for regular citizens — they are not free to believe what they wish.

We should, in fact, be grateful for its fundamental contribution to our living as free and equal citizens and persons.

Free speech and all the other protections of our constitution were meant for the loyal citizens of the United States and their honorable foreign guests.

New Urbanists work both substantively and procedurally to fight precisely those tendencies toward individualism that Tocqueville recognized as the most serious threat to the culture of democracy, for which free associations of citizens were the primary remedy and of which suburban sprawl is arguably our culture's foremost physical embodiment.

As a free citizen in a free country, shouldn't I be able to make that decision for myself?

That is, I am an American citizen (of Polish - Russian lineage, if it matters) who became a Baha'i as an adult of my own free will and out of love for the Faith.

Doctrine and Covenants 134:7 7 We believe that rulers, states, and governments have a right, and are bound to enact laws for the protection of all citizens in the free exercise of their religious belief; but we do not believe that they have a right in justice to deprive citizens of this privilege, or proscribe them in their opinions, so long as a regard and reverence are shown to the laws and such religious opinions do not justify sedition nor conspiracy.

Renewing American Compassion: How Compassion for the Needy Can Turn Ordinary Citizens into Heroes By Marvin Olasky Free Press, 201 pages, $ 21 As I write this, I am unsettled by thoughts of a boy named Kenneth, a mom named Tina, and a monstrous bureaucracy called HUD.

As a result, he judges Esther as he would judge a free woman in a free society, and he judges Mordecai as he would a free citizen who could protest his government's policies without getting himself and his adopted daughter killed for it.

Citizens who take part commonly explain their efforts as attempts to «give back» for all that they have received from the free society, or to meet the obligations of free citizens to think and act for theCitizens who take part commonly explain their efforts as attempts to «give back» for all that they have received from the free society, or to meet the obligations of free citizens to think and act for thecitizens to think and act for themselves.

These are the elementary skills of civil society, through which free citizens exercise self - government by doing for themselves (that is, without turning to government) what needs to be done.

On the other hand, non-Malay citizens are free to maintain their own private institutions (Chinese schools using the Chinese language, for instance) and many do.

1) Charities spend their income on necessities, such as food and utilities, which ever - so - slightly re-orients our economy toward recession - resistant products, rather than luxuries 2) Charities spend their money quickly, but on independent schedules, making for a smoother stimulus effect on the economy 3) Charities make purchases tax - free, meaning that $ 1 spent by a charity generates a full $ 1 of private economic activity; furthermore, much of those tax revenues are recovered as income tax on the grocery stores, utility companies, etc. that might not have received that income otherwise 4) Charitable giving is by far the most democratic way to improve society; from birth control to bombers, government assuredly spends money on something you don't like, and charitable giving restores your say - so 5) Charitable donations are tax deductible, meaning you keep those tax dollars in your local community 6) Charitable donations provide the funds necessary for volunteers to serve the needy, thus giving «the average citizen» a chance to meet and interact with the needy, breaking down stereotypes

The United States welcomed its immigrants, protected its workers, freed the slaves, enfranchised women, aided the needy, provided social security for the aged, ensured the civil rights of all its citizens, and made public space accessible to the handicapped: all in service to its ideals of justice.

Two years ago, the Czechs were in the streets of Prague facing Russian tanks, not because of compassion for human want and misery, but because they were not free; the Vietnamese continue to resist America, as they did Japan and France before us, not because of hunger for food but hunger to determine their own destinies; black militants are in the streets of our cities today, not because they are famished — though poverty and want still stalk our land, particularly black communities — but because black citizens, more than any others, have been politically isolated and impotent, unable to act in their own governance.

Federal candidates are offered free time for debates, and so it is important that citizens at least hold the line on existing regulations of the Canadian Radio and Television Commission.

No free school for citizens unless your a lazy minority.

There are those killed in fights over turf, innocents caught in cross fire, citizens terrified of city streets, escalating robberies, children fed free crack to get them addicted and then enlisted as runners and dealers, mothers so crazed for a fix that they abandon their babies, prostitute themselves and their daughters, and addict their unborn.

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.

Becky, those of us who believe that «it is for freedom that Christ has set us free» would defend the right of religious institutions to refuse to marry same - sex couples as passionately as we defend the right of same - sex couples, as equal citizens, to have their spousal committments recognized by the secular State.

StemExpress, a for - profit company partnered with over 30 abortion clinics, including Planned Parenthood, to harvest and sell aborted baby parts and provide a «financial benefit» to Planned Parenthood clinics, is attempting to use meritless litigation to cover - up this illegal baby parts trade, suppress free speech, and silence the citizen press reporting on issues of burning concern to the American public.

But economists have long noted that the beneficiaries of free trade — citizens who enjoy more variety, greater quality and lower prices of goods — are poorly organized politically to have their voices heard over those of the well - funded spokespeople for the sectors and industries experiencing job losses.

Free societies have an excellent system to compensate for a lack of charity on the part of their wealthy citizens — it is called TAXATION.

That's because, for one thing, abortion and marriage are issues to be resolved by the people acting through legislatures, and Catholic Americans, as citizens, are perfectly free to convince their fellow citizens of the truth of their view of who we are as free and relational beings.

Citizens in a «free» society are free to apply or not apply for work at Hobby Lobby.

It's not like it involved a wave of acceptance of the concept of free love, exploration into knew spiritualism, a reavluation of morality and ethics, and the first real key stages in recognizing that the idealized «Good Christian Family Values» of the 50's were a lie and a sham, that often enough were just a cover for a an abusive house - hold, treating women like second class citizens, and culuraly engrained and supported bigotry.

The findings suggest it is long past time for governments to begin looking at ways to encourage consumers and citizens to make the healthy choice and eat less meat — something Meat Free Monday has been advocating since 2009.

We want to show them how colourful and exciting meat free food is and get them to encourage their citizens to eat more of it, for our health and the health of the planet.

The saga left a bitter taste in the mouths of the Citizens, but the Chilean seems to be trying to be professional and get on with the campaign, which is great news for our season, although we still have to expect to see him leave for free next summer.

While some park commissioners will serve on the foundation's board, it also will need some private citizens to qualify for tax - free status, Becker said.

There are even some nations that provide this kind of support to all citizens for six weeks after a woman gives birth, free of charge (I'm looking at you, France!).

The Addison Park District Board of Commissioners has agreed to accept a loan from the village to help pay for $ 700,000 senior citizens addition at Community Park, 120 E. Oak St.. The interest - free loan of $ 87,500 from the village would be repaid in 15 years.

Tickets are $ 5 for adults, $ 4 for senior citizens, free for children 12 and under.

A statement issued by Nana Ato Dadzie and George Loh, lawyers for the three, said the sentence was «harsh and excessive», adding: «We also do not believe that citizens of Ghana ought to be committed to prison for infractions on free expression especially in light of the repeal of the criminal libel law.

China, for example, «had everything to gain by opening up to the world» and although it sounded a tad like a Cameron cliché, one supposes he was hinting at a reciprocal arrangement: China's acceptance of free trade will offer opportunity and prosperity to all its citizens yet will equally be a sort of glasnost period where civic consciousness grows together with economic prosperity, and will thus engender reforms to the currently ossified and authoritarian Chinese state.

I'm a free - speech purist, for one thing, but it's also leading to far more citizen activism, which will really matter as more people focus their work locally.

In the next place, as each representative will be chosen by a greater number of citizens in the large than in the small republic, it will be more difficult for unworthy candidates to practice with success the vicious arts by which elections are too often carried; and the suffrages of the people being more free, will be more likely to centre in men who possess the most attractive merit and the most diffusive and established characters.

On the other hand, EU withdrawal could mean the end of free movement and the introduction of admission requirements for EU citizens who want to live and work in the UK.

According to political scientist Larry Diamond, democracy consists of four key elements: (a) A political system for choosing and replacing the government through free and fair elections; (b) The active participation of the people, as citizens, in politics and civic life; (c) Protection of the human rights of all citizens, and (d) A rule of law, in which the laws and procedures apply equally to all citizens