Sentences with phrase «give ordinary citizens»

She understood the deep connection between local and global problems, and she helped give ordinary citizens a voice.

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The conclusion: given relatively unlimited availability, heroin users will voluntarily stabilize or reduce their dosage and some will even choose abstinence; long - addicted users can lead relatively normal, stable lives if provided legal access to their drug of choice, and with few side effects; and ordinary citizens (in Switzerland at least) will support such initiatives.
After 34 years, its time to give an honest, hard working woman, an ordinary citizen a chance.
SYRACUSE, N.Y. - In a trial run of a public financing system meant to encourage ordinary citizens to make small donations, the Buffalo millionaire Carl Paladino's development companies gave up to the $ 175 limit to Bob Antonacci's Republican state comptroller campaign - 46 times.
Ordinary citizens gave their time for free trying to do the right thing (though many were probably glory hunters).
Filled with a cast of unforgettable characters more richly drawn than any Lehane has ever created, The Given Day tells the story of two families — one black, one white — swept up in a maelstrom of revolutionaries and anarchists, immigrants and ward bosses, Brahmins and ordinary citizens, all engaged in a battle for survival and power.
That question is on the lips of not just ordinary citizens of the world, not just mums and dads and brothers and sisters and cousins and mates who have for the better part of two weeks been agonizing and importuning Divinity for answers; demanding of the super-minds that transcend super-conductors and super eyes in the dark skies; the nerds, the geeks, the Hollywood super-creators of holocaust and great - endings to give them answers to that unanswered question on the lips of every human who has access to the super-communication industry... where in the heck is Flight 370?
For Sharpe J.A., if the police tell the witness they will not reveal their identity or involvement in order to get information, they should keep their promise, or face the ordinary consequences of violating the assurance they have given: «Simply put, a citizen in Ms. Stack's situation should be able to rely upon what the police tell her.»
I, Sec. 6 (1) in fact gives congressmen a privilege (immunity from arrest) which ordinary citizens do not have.
Whether soldiers and policemen should be given as much leeway as ordinary citizens is a vexed question, and one feels that cl 128 offers an affirmative answer by accident, because its drafters are thinking only about have - a-go heroes in the street.
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