Sentences with phrase «government protects its people»

It does not change how this city government protects its people.

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The rules the government has set up to protect people from companies just won't apply anymore.

The bill, passed on March 23, prevents local governments from passing any laws to protect LGBT citizens from discrimination, precluding a Charlotte ordinance that would have allowed people to use public bathrooms based on the gender they identify with rather than the one on their birth certificate.

Jaish al - Islam, however, believed it could avoid the same fate even as Syrian troops encircled Douma, saying it wanted to protect the town and its people from forced displacement imposed by the Assad government.

Supporters of the measure say it will protect people and business owners with strong religious convictions from government intrusion.

Can one person protect their data when governments and large corporations routinely report cyberthefts?

Protecting major transfers to persons, spending on health and education and other spending such as that for Aboriginal programs, research and development, and assuming you won't revisit defense and international assistance, then to find an additional $ 8 to $ 11 billion by 2015 - 16 would require major cuts in labor market programs, spending on the homeless, infrastructure programs, and last, but certainly not least, government personnel costs.

The B.C. government filed a reference case to the province's highest court to prove their jurisdiction to protect local people from diluted bitumen.

The white paper, which was distributed to the senior levels of the Trump administration this week, concludes that United States government controls that are supposed to protect potentially critical technologies are falling short, according to three people knowledgeable about its contents, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

By not fully investigating and accurately reporting the death toll, the government of Puerto Rico is choosing not to hold itself accountable to protect the lives of the people it represents.

Shoving people into positions of power at Federal agencies that were created to protect the public interest based on little more than Trump's gut instinct that his picks will show him the requisite personal loyalty that he demands is undermining the Federal government's ability to do its job.

The US Declaration of Independence provided a constitutional and limited government, whose fundamental goal was to protect property rights and whose legitimacy came from empowerment by the people.

«People want to know why the Christy Clark government has not acted to protect renters and increase the number of rental homes in this overheated property market.

VICTORIA — B.C. youth and New Democrat health critic Judy Darcy are calling on the B.C. Liberal government to protect the health of vulnerable young people by banning the sale of flavoured tobacco in British Columbia.

So there's always that tension between the government that doesn't want that price discovery mechanism to exist and the people that want to protect their assets.»

Regulation is an important tool that allows government agencies to protect their citizens from being cheated by vague brokers who exist only to benefit from the ignorance of the people.

There is a rise in government agency regulation to protect the people from external monetary factors that might hurt the economy, for instance, global inflation rates and financial trade.

«No matter the fate of Bill 214, I expect swift and meaningful action from the government and all Members of the Assembly to protect our democracy from those who are more concerned with winning than ensuring the voice of the people is heard and the public interest is served.»

You think you protect the people, but the people think that the government takes away our dreams.»

Chief executive of the Yes campaign, Blair Jenkins, said: «People know that a «Yes» vote is Scotland's one opportunity to achieve job - creating powers, protect our NHS from the damaging impact of Westminster cuts and privatisation, and ensure that never again do we get Tory governments imposed on Scotland that we have roundly rejected.»

something that government are required to protect for all their citizens (and, theoretically, for people elsewhere, but that's another conversation).

It protects people of ALL faiths or NO faiths by making it illegal for the government to espouse ANY ONE belief system.

People who can't stand up for themselves and are preyed upon by others typically are in favor of government regulation, laws, things of this nature to protect them.

jJudaism is the system of law that protects working class people from lying, warmongering, fascist governments.

if the government has to emforce a law to make people understand that something as simple as a male contraceptive or female version will protect them from then spread of disease then so be it.

«I wish to express my church's sincere and joyous preparedness to cooperate as best they could with the government now ruling that had set itself that tasks of promoting the Christian education of the people, repelling ungodliness and immorality, developing readiness to make sacrifices for the common good and protecting the rights of the Church.»

The government should protect people's rights (i.e. child labor) not force employers to provide certain health benefits.

The issue of protecting the basic rights of persons from hostile or indifferent state governments was constitutionally resolved almost one hundred and fifty years ago in the Fourteenth Amendment, purchased with the blood of hundreds of thousands of American lives in the awful crucible of the Civil War.

About rights that all people are endowed with by their Creator; about rights that governments are instituted to protect.

I have proposed one: the government must treat religious people and institutions the same way it treats comparable nonreligious people and institutions, unless special accommodation is needed to protect religious liberty from a facially neutral law that conflicts with religious obligations or forms of organization.

The bill, called the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), would protect the right of every person to practice his religion, without exception, unless the government can show that it bas a «compelling» reason to interfere (meaning that the reasons for the interference are extraordinarily important and can not reasonably be attained in any other way).

'' The strongest reason for people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.»

The Anglican Church in Rwanda, which wishes to present itself as a conciliatory force as well — especially since many churches (itself included) failed to protect their people during the genocide — is closely allied to the government.

It was thought that, since all power in a democracy proceeds from the people in their corporate capacity, the lawmaking bodies of government (the executive, legislature, and judiciary), being representative of the public will, would sufficiently protect these liberties.

Government, ultimately, has to take the lead in protecting people.

I understand that the role of the government is to protect its people.

Our American born corporations have decided to take advantage of people of other cultures with weak governments that do not protect their people or environments and finally we land in China.

People must have the technical means both to speak and to listen if they are to participate in the process of governing themselves, and a major role of government lies in securing and protecting these means.

Consistent with the Hoover Report's recommendations that the United States had to reconsider «long - standing American concepts of fair play» and «learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,» the shadow government built alliances between U.S. government officials, the Mafia, and international drug cartels; assassinated many thousands of civilians in Southeast Asia; carried out or attempted assassination of foreign leaders; trained death squads and secret police forces; worked to shore up unpopular dictators like the Shah of Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in prerevolutionary Nicaragua; worked to destabilize «unfriendly» governments such as Allende in Chile and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; cooperated with the Colombian drug cartel to plot the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, with the intention of justifying a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua by blaming his death on the Sandinistas; contracted with the Reagan administration and the National Security Council to find ways of circumventing a congressional ban prohibiting aid to the contras, including the trading of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and money for the contras; illegally shipped weapons from the United States to the contras and allowed returning planes to use the same protected flight paths to transport drugs into the United States; 11 targeted the U.S. people for disinformation campaigns; and helped prepare contingency plans for declaring a form of martial law in the United States that would have formally suspended constitutional freedoms.

They say we support tyrannical governments and rulers who in turn protect our oil interests, and thus deny to their people the freedom and democracy which we treasure for ourselves..

Governments are built on promises to protect and prosper the people they rule.

Likewise, protecting people from those who are criminally motivated or dangerously reckless is an important aspect of government work.

I guess that my belief about government playing a part in providing social justice is partly due to the fact that according to Paul, government is «ordained by God» (Romans 13:2) to promote justice, restrain evil, and protect the people under its care (Romans 13:3 - 4).

Bottom line is it's not the governments role to make people make the right choice its there to protect us from one another and to keep the peace and law, if we want to help people you and me have to do it.

Similar to all the Arab church leaders interviewed by CT, Zaki — who also leads the Protestant Churches of Egypt — recognizes the right of governments to protect their borders and their people.

In an executive order on religious liberty issued in May, Trump pledged that «the federal government will never ever penalize any person for their protected religious beliefs.»

«The federal government will never ever penalize any person for their protected religious beliefs.»

Craycraft argues that the solution is to trust, not in the Supreme Court or in national elites to protect religious liberty, but in a divided federal government and strong state governments, which will allow the people to form smaller political communities that express how they choose to live.

We are calling on the government to immediately halt the use of Glyphosate in our farms and protect the health of the people and environment!

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