Sentences with phrase «general safety of every citizen»

This policy has developed over time to relieve the government of any duty to ensure the general safety of every citizen while in public, which would lead to an impractical legal burden.

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The deterioration of neighborhoods in our inner cities, the decline of elemental safety — never mind education — in many of our schools, the burgeoning of jail populations (to the point that we have the highest percentage of incarcerated citizens of any country in the industrial world), the great strains on the family, the general slackening of discipline, which a consumerist and media - driven society relentlessly encourages, and a huge transfer of wealth In the 1980s and «90s (during this period, the upper 1 percent of Americans more than doubled its wealth, while the lowest 20 percent suffered an actual decline)-- all these changes signal a community at risk.

I welcome a boycott of the Journal News and their advertisers for the newspaper's deliberate and irresponsible publishing of personal information of legal and law - abiding citizens of Rockland and Westchester Counties.The boycott should continue until the Journal News publishes a full page apology containing a list of DISMISSED Editors who are responsible for this outrage which has caused a real threat to the safety of the general public.

The committee meets to consider and debate new and innovative measures intended to enhance and improve the general safety and welfare of the citizens of Erie County.

WHEREAS, the City Council finds that this ordinance promotes the general health, safety and welfare of the citizens of the City.

Ministers, including the prime minister, advised the attorney general and the director of the SFO that if the investigation continued those threats would be carried out; the consequences would be grave, both for the arms trade and for the safety of British citizens and service personnel.