Sentences with phrase «good citizenship as»

I will refer to the percentage of students in each school who link voting with good citizenship as the school's civic climate.

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Cabinet ministers have been at odds over policy, including citizenship laws, the national vote on same - sex marriage and competition reform, as well as being left out of the decision loop on a series of «captain's picks» by the prime minister.

The firm specializes «in residence and citizenship planning,» for «wealthy individuals and families, as well as their advisors worldwide.»

Long after leaving active duty, they continue to vote, volunteer and serve their communities at a high rate, serving as the best examples of citizenship,» said John Kelly, senior vice president, Social Impact & Public Policy.

The 2015 Rix Award for Engaged Community Citizenship will be presented to Carole Taylor, a community leader who is well - known for her years of service in municipal and provincial politics (including her role as B.C.'s Minister of Finance), her 20 - year career as a journalist with CTV and CBC, and, most recently, her role as Chancellor of Simon Fraser University until June 2014.

As far as which is the absolute «best» citizenship by investment option, that will depend on a number of subjective factors: one's budget, how you value the specific investment deal offered by the second citizenship country (donation versus the potential for an investment return) and comfort in the countrAs far as which is the absolute «best» citizenship by investment option, that will depend on a number of subjective factors: one's budget, how you value the specific investment deal offered by the second citizenship country (donation versus the potential for an investment return) and comfort in the countras which is the absolute «best» citizenship by investment option, that will depend on a number of subjective factors: one's budget, how you value the specific investment deal offered by the second citizenship country (donation versus the potential for an investment return) and comfort in the country.

View the one - year performance of the individual fortunes on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, as well as the performance of billionaires grouped by industry, geographic regions and citizenship.

A former executive director for Credit Suisse joins Arton Capital in Singapore to better serve the spike in demand for residency and citizenship advisory services, as finews.asia can reveal.

«The Dominica program is a best of breed program as one of the oldest programs in the world, along with Austria and St. Kitts, at a superior price point, and with a due diligence platform which is doubly protected by Apex Capital Partners Corp. own due diligence investigation and the Citizenship by Investment Program due diligence searches.»

IRC provides legal support not only for refugees and immigrants achieving citizenship but also for reuniting their families as well.

These it takes as the conditions for nurturing «qualities of mind and character» (ICC 25) that have enabled and should again serve to enable «generations of men and women to grasp a vision of the good life, a life of responsible citizenship and human decency» (ICC 6).

In particular, the declaration references the charter's «principles of constitutional contractual citizenship» and «freedom of movement, property ownership, mutual solidarity and defense, as well as principles of justice and equality before the law,» in regards to Muslims and non-Muslims.

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.

Some are primarily committed to good citizenship, and regard the church as one valuable contributor to the community for which they care.

A break in one connection, such as attachment to a stable community, puts pressure on other connections: marriage, the relationship between parents and children, religious affiliation, a feeling of connection with the past, even citizenship, that sense of membership in a large community which grows best when it is grounded in membership in a small one.

So America, at its best, is about people who somehow see democratic citizenship as both a means and an end and so avoids the extremes of endlessly meddlesome democratic tyranny and apolitical libertarian indifference to the souls of their fellow citizens and creatures.

John Locke, a founder of modern notions of religious liberty, argued that atheists (as well as Catholics and Muslims) should not be granted full citizenship rights.

In fact, where Catholicism is taught we find good citizenship and tolerance, as OFSTED has consistently testified.

Paul insists on his Roman citizenship in this Roman colony, and the range and differing social backgrounds of his converts back up one of his key evangelising principles, flowing from his knowledge of the Son of God as the «first born of many brothers» (Rom 8:29 - 31) as well as «of creation» (Col. 1:15): that in Christ there is no Jew or Greek, slave or free, male or female (Gal 3:28).

This citizenship involved such rights as trial before Roman judges, not local ones, and appeal to the imperial court at Rome, as well as exemption from some local taxes.

Volunteering teaches your child citizenship skills, as well as empathy for others and a sense of community.

It is clear that debates about «who» citizens are (as well as normative claims about who they «should» be) are important to understanding the politics of citizenship.

Stuart White's book «Building a Citizen's Society» is a fantastic analysis and critique of both capitalism and statism as well as the conflict between labour market's and citizenship.

Moreover, residence on Scottish territory, even without being born in Scotland or of Scottish ancestry, can be a qualification for citizenship as well.

Since the Supreme Court has now prevented itself from acknowledging the question of whether Barack H. Obama is or is not an Article II «natural born citizen» based on the Kenyan / British citizenship of Barack Obama's father at the time of his birth (irrespective of whether Barack Obama is deemed a «citizen» born in Hawaii or otherwise) as a prerequisite to qualifying to serve as President of the United States under the Constitution — the Court having done so at least three times and counting, first before the Nov 4 general election and twice before the Dec 15 vote of the College of Electors — it would seem appropriate, if not necessary, for all Executive Branch departments and agencies to secure advance formal advice from the United States Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel as to how to respond to expected inquiries from federal employees who are pledged to «support and defend the Constitution of the United States» as to whether they are governed by laws, regulations, orders and directives issued under Mr. Obama during such periods that said employees, by the weight of existing legal authority and prior to a decision by the Supreme Court, believe in good faith that Mr. Obama is not an Article II «natural born citizen».

Instead, I suggest we theorize internet - assisted activism as a process for the coproduction of citizenship and recognize how dependent even well - funded political organizations are on the wider built communications environment and today's relatively open internet.

The viewpoint that citizenship is an ensemble of practices enables scholars to investigate the concrete ways in which states fashion citizens (Ong, 1999) as well as the ways in which people forge their collective selves as citizens (Lazar and Nuitjen, 2013).

If one does want to take it seriously, it is a BNP argument, which implies the Mail questions the citizenship and patriotism of all of the 4.5 million non-white British citizens as well as many others - like Clegg - who have «foreign blood».

(I appreciate I am not an expert on what that means, but it seems to me to go well beyond the idea of the ummah as a global community of Muslims, which is undoubtedely compatible with democratic citizenship, in an analogous way to how Roman Catholicism is, even if some in Britain once doubted that too).

Despite shedding some classical features, such as service in citizen militias or the exclusion of vast numbers of people from citizenship, neo-republicans profoundly share with the classical tradition its emphasis on the tight interconnection between good citizens, good norms and good laws and institutions.

He is a co-founder and director of the Speakers» Corner Trust, a registered charity promoting free expression, public debate and active citizenship as a means of revitalising civil society in the UK as well as in Berlin, Prague and Nigeria.

And even those who would regard all such concepts as mythical (cosmopolitans or libertarians who do not think that their passport or citizenship involves any social membership) would probably still acknowledge that existing institutions - the British government, the Monarchy, Parliament, Barclays Bank, Everton Football Club, etc - are inheritors not just of their history (good and bad) but indeed of the material consequences of that (eg assets belonging to the state, or the Royal family, or a business; or indeed debts).

The Third Sector European Network Ltd. (TSEN) is a network of sub-regional, regional and national umbrella organisations as well as other regional / national organisations from the Third Sector, active in the promotion of social inclusion and active citizenship through the use of European Structural Funds as well as other EU funding.

This laid the groundwork for the transformation of the German economy that makes it a world leader today including strong environmental regulation, phasing out of nuclear power in favour of renewables and a focus on energy - efficient production, as well as long overdue social reforms in the areas of citizenship and civil rights.

Spurred by Trump's announcement in September that he planned to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, members of the chamber wrote a letter to the Florida congressional delegation urging them to «quickly find a legislative solution before the program expires»... «Without a legislative solution, 800,000 DACA recipients will lose their ability to work and legally study, and it will leave many Florida employers, workers and students without certainty,» the chamber's CEO Mark Wilson wrote in the letter... «The Florida Chamber supports an earned pathway to citizenship for immigrants that pass criminal background checks as well as supports policies that reduce illegal immigration and improve on border security.»

They seek to normalize the idea that formal citizenship doesn't really matter — and that insisting on it as a prerequisite for voting is at best discriminatory, and most likely racist.

The union said in a statement Thursday that it had registered over 8,000 new voters, as well as helped some 2,200 - plus members attain American citizenship.

We offer the following services: all visa types, employer sponsorship, skills assessment, course enrolment for students, permanent residency, citizenship, refusals and cancellations as well as appeals.

Putin seems to enjoy the company of Western celebrities, even going so far as to bestow Russian citizenship on his «good friend» Gerard Depardieu.

For a movie that climaxes with the unfurling of an American flag over the rubble - strewn San Francisco Bay at golden hour as Johnson squints and promises, «Now we rebuild,» San Andreas doesn't have much to do with actual patriotism, let alone good citizenship.

He has studied the impact of entrepreneurship education with youth in the Middle East as well as the impact of citizenship education programs on youth in Latin America.

Cybersafety and digital citizenship programs are no different — they require a whole - school approach that needs to be regularly re-assessed and updated, as well as have the ongoing support from staff, students and parents.

The time is now to lay the foundation to ensure that our students evolve into critical consumers of content, understand the importance of digital citizenship, as well as possess the ability to create, analyze, and interpret an array of media messages.

The Countryside Alliance Foundation, the site is packed full of teacher resources supporting the delivery of Geography and Citizenship lessons as well as linking to a wide range of other subjects in England and Wales, encouraging numeracy, creative writing, art and design, ICT skills and working both independently and in groups.

It is meant to address the immemorial problem of poverty through an economic formula utilizing culture as a creative weapon for people empowerment and to discombobulate the culture of corruption that will instil a mind - set of good governance and responsible citizenship.

This digital citizenship / pshe lesson investigates body image, consent, culture and self expression as well as making students very clear of dangers.

Rights Under Law Double Lesson for 9 - 1 AQA Citizenship Studies Includes 2 debate sessions (torture and prisoner voting) as well as a number of written tasks.

Rights and Responsibilities Cards which focus on all aspects of citizenship: acceptable behaviour as well as anti-social behaviours; plus consideration of the law.

In a 2006 article, Citizenship, Identity and Education: Examining the public purposes of schools in an age of globalization, Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor Fernando Reimers stressed the importance of teaching tolerance and global values, as well as developing foreign language skills and knowledge of world history, cultures, and geography.

The Ministry acknowledges that employers seek graduates with higher - order skills like critical thinking, collaboration, communication, creativity, entrepreneurship, as well as the ability to be financially literate and to participate in their local community through active citizenship and civic engagement.