Sentences with phrase «great majority of our citizens»

Having in view the question of national security, this contribution to the practice of freedom of conscience can be made only because the great majority of citizens are willing to bear arms in defense of their country.

If we look at what is happening with the West today and the Muslim - majority countries, the great majority of citizens are caught between two populisms.

While the great majority of citizens said they thought global warming was underway, few felt really sure of that.

Not exact matches

When it comes to spending their disposable incomes, the vast majority of U.S. citizens invest a great deal into personal care and image enhancing products.

«Mitigation» and control efforts that have been proposed will enrich a favored few with good political ties — at the expense of the great majority of mankind, including especially the poor and the citizens of developing nations.

The nearest I ever came to engaging in a deliberate act of civil disobedience was about a decade ago when I read The Great Treasury Raid by Philip M. Stern.1 This book tells how the tax laws of this country have been manipulated by wealthy people and huge corporations for their own interests and to the disadvantage of the large majority of less privileged citizens.

In 1971 public opinion polls indicated that a great majority of French citizens favored its continuation.

Extend the sphere, and you take in a greater variety of parties and interests; you make it less probable that a majority of the whole will have a common motive to invade the rights of other citizens; or if such a common motive exists, it will be more difficult for all who feel it to discover their own strength, and to act in unison with each other.

«The 2012 redistricting process was business as usual in Albany, with the majority parties controlling the process and lines being drawn for partisan purposes rather than in the best interests of voters, with greater candidate choice and more contested elections,» said Dick Dadey, Executive Director of Citizens Union.

«It's great news that a bipartisan majority of State Senators and Assemblymembers support closing the corporate contribution floodgate Citizens United opened,» said Senator Daniel Squadron, in an emailed statement.

Whatever happened to the American Dream?America II is the story of a great nation that is now, for the first time since its birth, failing to live up to its promises to a majority of its citizens.

The State of Texas joined the great majority of state governments in requiring citizens to supply evidence of their capability while on the highway to cover minimal liability limitations, on January 1, 2011.