Sentences with phrase «from individual citizens»

These objections come mostly from such liberal organizations as Norman Lear's People for the American Way, or from individual citizens who look at proposed textbooks when they are on display before adoption in 30 centers around the state.

As can be seen, Americans overwhelmingly approve of candidates accepting money from individual citizens or from the candidates» own savings and wealth.

From individual citizens who must set aside their own desires and obey laws they think unwise, to athletes who must subordinate their individual....

I have been really touched by the new King of Bhutan instituting «Gross National Happiness» as the measure of the country's «wealth» and state — from the individual citizen level to the national / state level.

Not exact matches

GDPR will codify data protection rules for all companies that collect data from EU citizens while greatly expanding individuals» control over how and when their personal data is collected and used.

According to reports, Macron's digital team created dummy accounts, or honeypots, that looked like an individual's account with top level information from the campaign, but much of the contents was fake — planted specifically to render a data dump confusing, if not useless, since it would take a tremendous amount of time for reporters and citizen journalists to sort out the real from the fake.

That's likely part of the reason that enrollment dropped, as Americans making more than 400 % of the Federal Poverty Level (about $ 48,000 for an individual or $ 98,000 for a family of four) wouldn't be shielded from those rising premiums because they don't qualify for federal subsidies that lower - income citizens do.

And because individual states could still prohibit marijuana locally, Booker's bill would also incentivize states to change their marijuana laws by withholding federal funding from any states that have enforced laws against the drug in ways that disproportionately affect low - income citizens and people of color.

China announced today that it will grant visa - free access to individual citizens from 59 countries to the tropical island of Hainan, in the country's south, in an effort to boost its economic growth and tourism industry.

Catholic claims of priestly and especially papal authority thus seemed to prevent individual Christians from choosing their own faith, as necessary for salvation; they also seemed to prevent citizens from thinking and voting independently, as necessary for democracy.

• A good lesson in reading the media from Terry Mattingly, founder and proprietor of the always useful Get Religion website: «Contrary to popular belief, the mainstream press really isn't very effective when it comes to telling individual citizens what to think.

It also prevents a majority from easily taking away the rights of minorities for it's third primary function of protecting individual liberties of American citizens, whether they belong to a majority or a minority we are to be equal under the law.

... one can change human institutions, but not man; whatever the general effort of a society to render citizens equal and alike, the particular pride of individuals will always seek to escape the [common] level... In aristocracies, men are separated from one another by high, immovable barriers, in democracies, they are divided by a multitude of small, almost invisible threads that are broken every minute and are constantly changed from place to place.

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.

Since pastors are free to make political endorsements as individual citizens, just not in their official capacities as leaders of the church, supporters of the Johnson Amendment contend that rather than restricting political speech, the rules protect nonprofits from lobbying interests.

There is no instance in all my memory, where the ARI has blatantly said that torture is the right course of action, but always have stated basically «in war, if a method works to either defeat the enemy or prevent our civilians or soldiers from being killed, then it is completely moral, since the government's moral duty is to protect the individual rights of its citizens.»

If, as citizens, we are told that it is our duty to hold conscience above the law, what collective conscience can save us from the sheer anarchy of a legion of individual consciences?

Hawaii, do you believe some individual citizens have the right to self protection while advocating the removal of that right from others?

But with so many different interests to keep in mind, with everyone from governmental agencies and non-profit groups to individual citizens of Washington state potentially getting a say, the process can be complicated, to say the least.

This article from Citizens for Midwifery contains important information to share with families who are contemplating their birth options and weighing their individual risks and benefits.

What we can not tell from these broad analyses is how such trends have been woven into the lives of individual citizens, and how citizens have responded.

My forthcoming book, Oser la liberté: l'individu comme objectif, le collectif comme moyen («Daring Freedom: the individual as objective, the collective as a means»), further develops an original version of individual liberty as a key concept in articulating the interests of individual citizens from the perspective of progressive change.

Can an individual or legal (a citizens» group, activist, NGO among others) entity sue the government for not protecting me from these manifestly dangerous criminals?

Here's what I'm getting at: in a Citizens United world, one in which individual wealthy people can poor billions of dollars into our political process at will, digital campaigners (particularly on the Left) feel immense pressure to raise money from small donors.

During remarks delivered at a forum hosted by the nonpartisan good government group Citizens Union, the Attorney General outlined what he believes is required to help «cure the disease» of public corruption, including a total ban on outside employment income for legislators, an end to per diems, rules reform to empower individual legislators, and a constitutional amendment to extend legislators» terms from two to four years.

Looking ahead, Steve (not surprisingly) sees tremendous political potential for online video both for campaigns and for individual activists — with broadband, easy hosting and cheap editing tools, the «last and most compelling medium is delivered into the hands of the masses,» leading to a creative explosion both from average citizens and from professional communicators.

Lacking a codified constitution setting out the rights of citizens, many believed that the doctrine of Parliamentary Sovereignty did not provide adequate protections for individual rights from intrusive government.

Under New York State law, charities are prohibited from making contributions that go directly or indirectly to individual candidates, but contributions to organizations that push for conservative ideals, such as Citizens United, are permitted.

A citizens» group representing 125 individuals has filed a lawsuit seeking to block the Cuomo Administration from moving forward with a plan to close the Western New York Children's Psychiatric Center.

The 46 - page report, «Cruel Britannia: British Complicity in the Torture and Ill - treatment of Terror Suspects in Pakistan,» provides accounts from victims and their families in the cases of five UK citizens of Pakistani origin - Salahuddin Amin, Zeeshan Siddiqui, Rangzieb Ahmed, Rashid Rauf and a fifth individual who wishes to remain anonymous - tortured in Pakistan by Pakistani security agencies between 2004 and 2007.

The shift from a participatory role to a consumer role changes the role of individuals vis - a-vis their government from one of citizens to one of consumers.

If adopted, the bill which is copied from repressive countries like Somalia, Ethiopia and Uganda, would have a chilling effect not only on expressions of peaceful dissent by the citizens but also on the legitimate work of NGOs and individual human rights defenders and activists scrutinizing corruption in the National Assembly and exposing human rights violations by the government.»

And it's as precious a thing as we have in this country: the rule of law - the ability of citizens to stand up to authorities, the shield which protects the individual from the executive.

Lucas, with support from Dominic Raab, Sadiq Khan, John McDonnell and countless others, has been at the forefront of a growing call for immediate change, polarised around four individual cases which share one common theme: British citizens on the verge of being extradited to America on allegations unsupported by evidence that they have used computers to commit crimes.

The new ban, which will take effect on Oct. 18, will continue to impact citizens of Iran, Libya, Somalia, Yemen and Syria, but will now also include travelers from Chad, North Korea and certain individuals from Venezuela.

Last month, Governor Cuomo also bannednon - essential state travel to North Carolina, following that state's enactment of a law which bars transgender individuals from using restrooms appropriate for their gender identities, excludes sexual orientation and gender identity from state anti-discrimination protections, and prohibits municipalities from extending those protections to LGBT citizens.

The poor word choices, which resulted from the passion expressed by some, diverted the attention away from the legitimate concerns of the more than 500 hardworking mental - health workers, correctional officers, caregivers for developmentally - disabled individuals, administrative personnel and others who attended the rally to call for substantive dialogue with the governor about the direction we need to take the Empire State so that it serves all its citizens well, especially the most vulnerable among us.»

Do they wish to go down an old and trodden path with Supervisor Gromack that has taken the town to the second highest property taxes in the United States where senior citizens were to be sold out to protect the Town's reserve fund and its bond street rating, where the properety values of citizens living in the Town of Clarkstown would not be protected by implementation of a Ward System, where consolidation of purchasing functions with the County would not occur, and where systemic corruption would continue to grow as revealed by several arrests of individuals receiving compensation from the Town?

«Today both of these variables are under close scrutiny from many quarters, from myriad interest groups, the media, individual citizens, and the Congress, to name but a few,» she said.

«We can't see individual continents or people in this portrait of Earth, but this pale blue dot is a succinct summary of who we were on July 19,» said Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. «Cassini's picture reminds us how tiny our home planet is in the vastness of space, and also testifies to the ingenuity of the citizens of this tiny planet to send a robotic spacecraft so far away from home to study Saturn and take a look - back photo of Earth.»

Although citizen science initiatives encourage individuals from all walks of life to get out into nature, greater engagement is needed to bring diverse populations to national parks, argued Theodore Roosevelt IV, an investment banker and conservationist and the great - grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt, who signed into law the creation of five National Parks.

The study included all Swedish citizens born between 1982 and 1998 and followed them from age 15 (1,850,525 individuals in total).

The Mat and Equipment repertoire include variations and modifications to suit the needs of every body: from training professional athletes to rehabilitation patients, pre and post natal mothers to individuals dealing with structural challenges (ie scoliosis, osteoporosis, etc), teenagers to senior citizens.

There are sites meant for single parents, senior citizens, high net worth individuals and people from specific cities, professions and ethnicities.

Donors (the site calls them citizen philanthropists) range from charitable organizations to Fortune 500 companies, but the majority of benefactors are simply individuals looking to make a difference.

But the way history education is conducted and textbooks written must not inhibit individuals from being able to think critically and hold different perspectives as global citizens.

In a move of potential significance to public schools nationwide, the U.S. Supreme Court last week accepted an appeal involving the right of individuals to sue when government entities fail to protect them from violence by private citizens.

Macedo charges that many critics of public education mistakenly assume that good citizens «spring full - blown from the soil of private freedom,» while others, forgetting the «civic dimensions of political life,» define liberal democracy exclusively in terms of individual liberties.

From a character education perspective, individual plans should be monitored closely so that as students begin to gain control of their emotions and find more appropriate means for communication, reinforcement moves away from extrinsic rewards and towards social rewards, ultimately emphasizing students» intrinsic satisfaction in being a good citizen of the school and classrFrom a character education perspective, individual plans should be monitored closely so that as students begin to gain control of their emotions and find more appropriate means for communication, reinforcement moves away from extrinsic rewards and towards social rewards, ultimately emphasizing students» intrinsic satisfaction in being a good citizen of the school and classrfrom extrinsic rewards and towards social rewards, ultimately emphasizing students» intrinsic satisfaction in being a good citizen of the school and classroom.

The person who grows up to be an empowered global citizen benefited from educational experiences which helped them understand the world and discover their own capacity to improve it, from experiences that gradually built the mindsets and dispositions that produce agency, was taught to reason ethically and to have compassion for others in ways which lead to taking responsibility to advancing not just their individual interests, but the common good.