Sentences with phrase «if citizens»

If our citizens had a safe, attractive alternative to driving, they might be willing to take that five - minute walk or half - mile bike ride to do errands.»

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If citizens are to be able to exercise their democratic rights they must be in a position to follow in detail the decision - making process within the institutions taking part in the legislative procedures and to have access to all relevant information... Thus, the expression of public opinion in relation to a particular provisional legislative proposal or agreement agreed in the course of a trilogue and reflected in the fourth column of a trilogue table forms an integral part of the exercise of EU citizens» democratic rights, particularly since... such agreements are generally subsequently adopted without substantial amendment by the co-legislators.

Residents of Louisiana who purchase the homeowners insurance of last resort in the state may soon find that their rates are going to be higher than they had been last year, if Citizens gains approval for an increase request that they have submitted.

If citizens in the UK start getting fleeced — or if they start getting affordable legal services — we might draw different conclusions in the US about whether or not the reforms should move across the Atlantic.

After all, the city has a lot on its plate already — is it really going to hire pool police to walk around town and peer over thousands of fences to see if its citizens have added a pool in their backyards?

If citizens can not secure their rights through the courts, they will use other means and the courts will lose the faith that citizens need to place in it.

Khurrum Awan sees the ruling as an opportunity for opposition parties to claim their stake if citizens unite against government inaction,

Changing legislation will not only take months, but it also seems like an impossible dream, and if the citizens strongly support their rights to bear arms, they won't be handing in their weapons so easily; in fact, it could even cause an uproar resulting in civil war, with police forcing citizens to drop their weapons.

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Our democracy is based on the rule of law, and if our citizens can not get access to the law, they lose faith in our system.

If citizens and local govenrment are unable or unwilling to make aluminum recycling work, it falls on the shoulders of the aluminum producers to keep their markets sustainable.

What I have been trying to do is span the gamut from where I believe we are headed based on all the available evidence to what is theoretically possible if the citizens of this planet decided to work collectively.

If the citizens of this planet became serious about survival of our species (which they are not at present), they could «bite the bullet» and replace that existing infrastructure with the low carbon equivalent; they have taken similar losses in wartime to save their countries.

Now, if some citizens want to sell that share, whoopee, good on»em.

Mary Hartman — Republican Eagle — July 28, 2012 If citizens are going to foot the bill for alternative energy, it is important we base this decision on facts, not assumptions or perceptions.

If the citizens of the nation can, rather than buying two items at price $ X, buy one item at price $ X times 1.2 that lasts just as long, those citizens will be advantaged.

As Justice Brandeis explained more than 70 years ago, «it is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous state may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.»»

The defaults will not be necessary if citizens can agree to drastically cut the rate of cost increase in «entitlement programs» both in the US and in Europe.

If citizens know how much their government has earned from oil or minerals, it is harder for corrupt officials to pocket the money.

If citizens cant understand the necessity of implementing sustainable development within their own communities, even as they face water shortages and increasing costs for remediation of environmental pollution, how do we expect them to support a world wide movement towards sustainable development?

They have as much right (so the argument goes) to exploit their resources as we did to exploit ours; and if their citizens want two cars per household and prefer large parking lots to water - control gardens, well, shouldn't they be able to have that?

The only safe place to be is with the lines of your own country, albeit a hollow and precarious terrain, as if citizens within these sectors could fall through to the other side of the world's metal cage in an instant.

Bruce Wayne wouldn't be exploring the streets freely at all if citizens are supposed to have left.

If citizens could have feral cats in their community spayed and neutered at no cost, many would trap and care for these cats.

In a city of 8 million people, imagine if the citizens were allowed to have a few more pets each — 26,000 animals would probably find their way into a loving home.

If Citizens Bank approves the release application, they remove the co-signer from the loan.

It's almost as if citizens liken libraries to a homeless shelter or soup kitchen; they adamantly agree that their towns should definitely have one, even if they themselves do not plan to ever need the services.

If some citizens can speak without a note from the Board Chair and others must have permission based on written evidence, you create two classes of citizens for the purpose of speech.

They must do so if all citizens are to be literate.

Our country can not thrive if its citizens do not know how to maintain it.

If our citizens don't understand how it works, how can we make the right decisions?

Indeed, if citizens were not free to go above and beyond the state financed system to produce a school system that meets their needs, public education statewide would suffer.

If citizens are unhappy with the schools, they can now vote the mayor out of office.

If Citizens jeans didn't cost a small fortune, I'd have 10 pairs.

The purpose is to take a broader view, to reach across boundaries and strive towards a common goal, realizing that science and technology will not suffice to reach a 2 °C target for global warming if citizens do not accept to change their behaviors as well and act accordingly.

Despite record murders and record potholes, in his third State of the City address, Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett said the city can be strong if citizens work together.

Historian Peter Galie of Buffalo's Canisius College said if citizens were required to read the state constitution — which is six times longer than the U.S. Constitution — they would react with everything from puzzlement and anger to a call for action.

Likely Reid is just trying to be provocative in picking this particular number, however it does beg the question: If Citizens United has brought us a world where it is a few rich men - and not us voters - that decide our government, then who are the top 15 most (monetarily) influential people?

As opposite to the assumption from the question, if all citizens have the same rights, why can't some of them use something, what other can?

The problem with this government is that most times, it has acted as if citizens don't matter, but we know that citizens do matter.»

«Nigeria will remain dependent nation if the citizens did not embrace science and technology because no nation can become great without science and technology.

Mr Speaker, if the citizens of this country could see the time and care taken in making these decisions; the carefully - targeted nature of all our interventions; and the strict controls in place to ensure that the law and our democratic values are upheld; and if they could witness the integrity and professionalism of the men and women of the intelligence agencies, who are among the very finest public servants our nation has, then I believe that they would be reassured by how we go about this essential work.

As to regulation I wonder if the citizens of, oh lets say Hoosick Falls, think they need less regulations about waste disposal.

Weiner said he was encouraged that people seem to be giving him a second chance and are listening to his ideas, but added, «If citizens want to talk to me about my personal failings, that's their right and I'm going to do anything I can to answer them.»

Looking into the future, Mr. Kotei said the country would have taken a step forward if citizens also saw persons within the NPP government being prosecuted and not only persons from the past National Democratic Congress [NDC] government.

Even if Citizens United is overturned, a more comprehensive system of campaign finance reform would need to be instituted.

For instance, as long as the Soyuz pipeline through Ukraine is used for shipments to Western Europe, it is difficult to cut off shipments to the Ukraine — if their citizens are freezing, they can take gas now and worry about payments later.

However, if citizens could be guaranteed that they would be # 500 a year richer under independence, the results would be turned on their head.

If citizens from across the globe lobbied their governments and the international community to stand against the Rosia Montana Project, not only would this important heritage site be preserved — but from these lessons learned, other locations can be protected from similar exploitation.