Sentences with phrase «how individual citizens»

He went on to say that Strawless In Seattle «highlights how individual citizens, businesses, and communities can come together and make a big difference.»

Not exact matches

GDPR will codify data protection rules for all companies that collect data from EU citizens while greatly expanding individuals» control over how and when their personal data is collected and used.

Attorneys who safeguard privacy issues for citizens should look into how California's Department of Developmental Services is violating individual service provider's rights by demanding unnannounced visits to their homes.

What we can not tell from these broad analyses is how such trends have been woven into the lives of individual citizens, and how citizens have responded.

Now how effective the guns are at protecting individual citizens is a different matter for a different question, but this is a great summary of the legal background.

A new progressive political project should convincingly explain how its propositions match the individual interest of the majority of citizens.

In June of 2007, the political world was just waking up to the idea that individual citizens were going to shake up how political communications was done.

As one response, some corporate copyright owners have attempted to use digital rights management software to control how owners of copies of individual works can use them, sparking in turn what is essentially a worldwide citizen revolt.

Its goal is to pass a constitutional amendment overturning the 2010 Citizens United Supreme Court decision, which deregulated corporate and union spending for or against specific candidates, and the 2014 decision in McCutcheon vs. FEC, which struck down two - year aggregate limits on how much individuals can donate to candidates, parties and PACs.

«We can't see individual continents or people in this portrait of Earth, but this pale blue dot is a succinct summary of who we were on July 19,» said Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. «Cassini's picture reminds us how tiny our home planet is in the vastness of space, and also testifies to the ingenuity of the citizens of this tiny planet to send a robotic spacecraft so far away from home to study Saturn and take a look - back photo of Earth.»

I've heard people say that «how come citizens aren't all over and you only encounter stray random groups or just random individuals a little bit?»

Most importantly, it takes seriously what it means to understand the relationship between how we learn and how we act as individual and social agents; that is, it is concerned with teaching students how not only to think but to come to grips with a sense of individual and social responsibility, and what it means to be responsible for one's actions as part of a broader attempt to be an engaged citizen who can expand and deepen the possibilities of democratic public life.

This is consistent with how the courts treat other transfers of public funds to individual citizens.

There are several versions of NAEP intended to sample different groups of students — the nation as a whole, individual states, or large cities — but its overall goal is to provide citizens a snapshot of how we're doing as a country.

To make informed decisions, both as individuals and as citizens, students need to develop scientific habits of mind and have knowledge about both the natural environment and how it is transformed through technology.

Maybe because we are teaching our young people how to take test instead of how to be viable citizens, social skills, and all the other things that are involved making an individual a well rounded person.

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Towards Acme's end of life, while under veterinary care for diabetes and cancer the founders observed in the veterinary hospital's waiting room how some individuals, especially senior citizens would sacrifice funds for their own medicine in order to pay for veterinary services.

All our expeditions are hosted by Nicole Nasby Lucas from the Marine Conservation Science Institute and / or by our CEO and citizen scientist Martin Graf who will share their knowledge with powerpoint presentations of their research, instructions on how to identify the individual sharks and they are always available to answer questions.

In a world mediated by the rationale of the market and consumerism, Claire Fontaine co-opts art practices as a method for collective activity, a way of reflecting on how such notions predicate the construction of our lives as individuals and as citizens.

She also hopes to inspire local citizens to think more deeply about how they treat the individuals who care for the city's young souls.

In 2006 the British Government performed an investigation how to control the individual carbon footprint of it's citizens (the effect is reversed: how to control the citizen by his carbon foot print).

But simply pursuing strategies to motivate individual behavioral change without helping citizens understand how the cultural understanding of climate change was manufactured by morally indefensible strategies, does little to change the cultural understanding of the problem held by many.

Therefore, those working to improve government and individual responses to climate change should adjust their tactics to respond to the insights of sociologists that have concluded that citizens need to understand how the cultural understanding of climate change has been shaped by powerful actors who have used sophisticated tactics to achieve support for their position that climate change policies should be opposed on the basis of scientific uncertainty and unacceptable costs to the economy.

Deeply isolated in their own tiny academic bubble only talking to like minded individuals also inside of that bubble where the real word rarely intrudes, I doubt that very many of these scientists realise just how stupid and even imbecilic and disposable they are starting to appear to the ordinary citizen on the street particularly when they try to sell a bill of goods like those adjusted and etc and etc temperatures from a half dozen or more decades past as the real temperatures of the times and then change those same temperatures or remove then the next day or week or whatever and then change then yet again and again.

From the perspective of an individual UK citizen, in practical terms how can this be tested to establish exactly what the lawful position is?

Regular citizens such as 97 % of those reading this commentary, can't begin to guess how these individuals think.

Once powers are in place to remove material deemed by the State to be adverse to the public interest, our society and individual citizens become extremely vulnerable to the gross abuse of these powers, regardless of how well - meaning our current leadership may be now.

But if a foreign state, though last named, may, nevertheless, be a plaintiff against an individual State, how can it be said that a controversy between a State and a citizen of another State means, from the mere force of the order of the words, only such cases where a State is plaintiff?

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