Sentences with phrase «group of citizens»

The whole economy is currently set up to benefit a small group of citizens.

A class of smart sophomore asked more questions than I could answer in the morning and a diverse group of citizen did the same in the evening.

The freedom principle should offer protection against the control of information and media by a limited group of citizens.

The introduction of primaries and more open policy - making processes are beginning to bring a wider group of citizens into party activity.

She explicitly rejects the argument that a representative group of citizens, acting from a distance, has a legitimate right to decide what students ought to learn.

Much if it had been removed, but a dedicated group of citizens had a vision of turning it into an urban, linear park.

While credit cards have become a preferred and sometimes essential means of payment, a growing group of citizens can not get access to a card.

These are not really issues between the state and its citizens but between different groups of citizens, and are resolved by the democratic process in different ways.

As the Area Agency on Aging, the Erie County Department of Senior Services convenes a voluntary group of citizens who provide information, guidance, advice, and support to assist in developing, coordinating, and administering services to older persons.

The canniest and most overwhelming documentary to date about the ongoing Syrian civil war, Matthew Heineman's City of Ghosts contrasts the story of a heroic group of citizen journalists with a grim view of the international community they desperately need to galvanize.

Photos: Gerardo Montes de Oca Do It Yourself Bike Lanes in Mexico A group of citizens in Guadalajara, Mexico, was fed up with the inaction of the local authorities.

I have worked with groups of citizen parents to change the culture of excess in these areas, including ongoing projects Putting Family First and Birthdays Without Pressure.

A large group of citizens came to County Hall Thursday to encourage legislators to vote for the fracking ban.

How dare an elected group of citizens stand in the way of the Corporate Education Reform Industry!

This heroic group of citizen journalists banded together to form RBSS, or «Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently.»

... Why do we talk that way about a whole group of citizens?»

Save Buffalo Grove is a grassroots group of citizens concerned about the proposed development of a Downtown Buffalo Grove (pictured) on 65 acres of the Buffalo Grove Golf Course.

A small group of citizens protested outside U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik's downtown office Thursday to urge her not to vote on the upcoming Farm Bill, which contains $ 20 billion in cuts in the SNAP program.

Although the Netherlands have a good track record in using innovative means to engage the general public in the science and technology debate — Van der Starre mentions the use of citizen panels, in which a diverse group of citizens gathers evidence and develops a statement on a particular scientific development or issue — both Schutter and Van der Starre think PCST can be improved.

He takes a motley group of citizens hostage in a designer bungalow and publicizes his act on Youtube.

Up north, Heineman follows Nailer Foley, an impassioned army veteran who patrols the Texas border for cartel members with a volunteer group of citizens, some traveling hundreds of miles to join his cause.

It could be because they are mostly cherry - picked group of citizens, middle - class to upper - middle - class, involved in sculpting, painting, dancing, yoga, reading, and taking long walks along the leafy roads in and about San Luis Obispo.

With astonishing, deeply personal access, this is the story of a brave group of citizen journalists as they face the realities of life undercover, on the run, and in exile, risking their lives to stand up against one of the greatest evils in the world today.

Local funding and control by small, well - informed groups of citizens were gradually eroded and finally lost.

New Public Management approaches accountability as «the accumulation of self - interests» that will «result in outcomes desired by broad groups of citizens (or customers)» (Denhardt & Denhardt, 2007, p. 29), meaning that the success of NCLB can be measured in terms of collective interests.

Never a highly valued group of citizens, the Armenians were now perceived as an internal threat to the security of the government.

And enterprising groups of Citizens formed businesses and went amongst the rejected Creator Citizens, urging them to publish their work without Royal approval and distribute it to the Citizen Readers through the businesses giving the tablets all the choices the Citizens were coming to expect and adore.

A recent analysis of shelter data by an independent group of citizens, with the help of UCLA statisticians, has shown that dramatic drops in intake have been conclusively shown to be driving parallel drops in euthanasia.

«Even with a million cameras, there's no such thing — for certain groups of citizens — as evidence.

The two discuss how a small group of citizens started out talking about energy security over pizza and beer, and ended up persuading the city to set up the peak oil task force, the first of its kind for any city anywhere in the world.

The rejection was prompted in part by a well - funded group of citizens who were less organized when the Amazon wind farm was proposed.

No offence to David — in this case, an ordinary group of citizens who have spent an extraordinary amount of time becoming pseudo-experts on all things industrial wind turbines — but at first there didn't appear even the slightest chance of stopping the threat of wind power.

Today and tomorrow, Toronto Innovation Showcase is bringing together City of Toronto staff, City leaders, and various groups of citizens to discuss the Open Government movement and what it should mean to the City.

The Civic Heart is a powerful, short film opening with video of a diverse group of citizens.

In 1943, the Museum, with the assistance of a small group of citizens, paid off the mortgage.

Maybe a group of citizens from the town ought to ask the EPA to send a delegate to explain the dangers and what they need done.

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.

In that story a group of citizens who hate the nobleman send an emissary (presumably to Rome) to say, «We do not want this... to rule over us.»

Hostility against pro-lifers seems now to have spilled over into a distrust of any group of citizens seeking to connect public policy with a transcendent moral order.

In 1979 Reston, writing from Charlottesville, Virginia, noted that a group of citizens, thinking about the approaching 200th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, had identified the national crisis as basically a moral crisis.

Delaine advised him to purchase picks, shovels and wheelbarrows for a group of citizens who wanted to improve their community's dirt road.

That year Ernie Nance, who was director at the time, asked Regal to serve on the new Recreation Advisory Committee, a group of citizens who provide suggestions and criticisms in an effort to improve the district and make sure it fulfills the community «s needs.

The plan is that every party inside the parliament / local government would have to power to call for a referendum on a subject or matter, and that any social movement / group of citizens with enough signatures (equal to the vote cost of 1 seat on the parliament / local government, for example) could do so too.