Sentences with phrase «into good citizens»

Though St. Mark's does not have a significant problem with bullying, our school leaders feel it is important to be proactive to ensure that all students feel safe, show respect, and develop into good citizens.

While giving students vouchers to attend private schools may benefit individual students, it will slowly kill our public schools, and leave the vast majority of Americans without an institution that is essential to turning young kids into good citizens.

Across the country, schools are instilling in their students values they hope will help mold them into good citizens.

Ultimately, the youth civic engagement movement is dedicated to turning today's young people into good citizens and active participants in their communities.

In this Court's view Susan and Mary Lee need the shared strength they get from each other in their familiar community among friends of longstanding in order to nurture and complete their development into good citizens during these next few years.

Not exact matches

Rõivas, the former Prime Minister, says Estonia is working on developing «precision medicine» that would tap into the genome data of its 1.3 million citizens in order to better diagnose illnesses, treat people, and design personalized drugs.

It's this forbidding territory that Exxon (xom), under Tillerson, has turned into one of Russia's most lucrative oil provinces, affording Russia a crucial entry into the fast - growing oil markets of Asia, generating nearly $ 5 billion in tax dollars and other revenue for the government to date, and generally being, by Moscow's lights, a good corporate citizen.

All sorts of social action apps have already sprung up, including Berlin - based «Refugees Welcome,» which has helped dozens of German citizens invite refugees into their homes, as well as «Mobile Justice,» an app related to the #BlackLivesMatter movement and giving users the ability to zap video footage from a phone directly to the American Civil Liberties Union.

But a boycott isn't necessarily in anyone's interest either — it is arguably better to allow Russia a moment in the limelight, precisely because some of that light will shine into the dark corner that is Russia's treatment of its gay citizens.

As we step into the future, we need more and better collaboration locally, regionally, and globally between millennials from around the world as we form the next generation of leaders, entrepreneurs, scholars, parents, and, of course, global citizens.

«Citizens and legal entities risk being drawn - even unintentionally - into illegal activity, including laundering of money obtained through crime, as well as financing terrorism,» Russia's Central Bank said in a statement.

On this retelling, our eighteenth - century forebears appear in a new light: once considered selfish liberal brutes, intent on their rights and interests, they are transformed into virtuous citizens, single - minded in their dedication to the common good.

But if such reshaping of national fertility patterns is to be set in motion by government action, there would obviously have to be direct, far - reaching, and even forcible state interventions into the daily lives of the overwhelming majority of the citizens of these two countries — as well as others with similar «targets.»

The funny thing is that some of the sections of this part of the movie fit very well into prophecy about the End Times, the Mark of the Beast, and the coming Antichrist, especially the parts at the end about the RFID chip and the National Identification Card (which he said will be required of all US citizens in May 2008).

And six months after the Democratic Party took control of both houses of Congress, the prison at Guantánamo Bay was still open and conducting drumhead courts martial of the prisoners held there; the CIA was still using «enhanced interrogation techniques» on prisoners in foreign jails; illegal intrusions into the privacy of American citizens continued unabated; and, more than fifty years after the CIA was founded, it continues to operate under, at best, the most perfunctory congressional oversight.

If it is ever to be brought into being in the real world, my basic democracy would, of course, require a fleshed - out superstructure in which real humans could live together — arguing as well as deliberating, competing as well as deciding, united and distinguished by something beyond their shared conviction that equality, freedom, and civic dignity are essential to collective self - government by citizens.

You can't legislate belief, and when you try to do so you get into some pretty ugly waters pretty quick (after all, can anyone truly say that the enforced atheism of Soviet Russia was better for its citizens than the enforced Catholicism of Dark Ages Europe?).

In the United States in the nineteenth century, and well into the twentieth, it was understood that students should be prepared to play their roles as citizens of the nation.

«But we should also bring them up in a way that makes them into good, honest citizens within the society that there in and I think that can be through different forms of discipline.»

It's not like it involved a wave of acceptance of the concept of free love, exploration into knew spiritualism, a reavluation of morality and ethics, and the first real key stages in recognizing that the idealized «Good Christian Family Values» of the 50's were a lie and a sham, that often enough were just a cover for a an abusive house - hold, treating women like second class citizens, and culuraly engrained and supported bigotry.

This bill will help further deploy the much needed educational programs into our schools to teach kids to stay safe, make wise choices online and be better digital citizens.»

«Buffalo Grove is considering all its options, taking the best interests of all its citizens into account, «a spokesman for the village said Tuesday.

«In addition, detachments of mobile and conventional police as well as the intelligence assets of the Force have been deployed to protect law abiding citizens, reassure the public, prevent the incident from degenerating into a major security threat and aid the Homicide Section being deployed in the location and apprehension of other suspects who are currently at large.

``... I think the major issue today is to get everyone to take a step back, to get everyone to embrace the spirituality of whatever culture they live in and remember that we're still residents of New York City and citizens of America and we can treat each other with a lot more better decorum than perhaps we have the last few days and perhaps turn the situation into a more positive discussion.»

The presence of face to face moments between citizens, or the possibility of those moments, was still considered as crucial for fostering a shared sense of belonging, motivating the pursuit of the common good and securing laws and institutions from turning into mechanisms through which group interests competed.

This has translated into meaningful legislation that protects them as well as all citizens by improving our members work environment and productivity,» he said.

They think the 998 Presidential staffers is the best alternative Ghanaians needed, the use of Vigilante groups to terrorise innocent citizens is what they promised us, issuing of bond without following laid down procedure is what we prayed for, entering into negotiations with nations to establish military bases was what we fasted for, allowing the land to be used as conduit for the propagation of homosexual practice on the continent was what we prayed to God for, market women consulting other gods to support their dying businesses was what we went on our knees for?

@RazieMah Obviously I'm not in favor of the interment camps, but that has little to do with the fact that a minority of those interned weren't citizens and much more to do with the fact that somebody's ethnicity isn't good enough reason to herd him into a camp.

«We've always suspected this is how things are done behind closed doors, but these complaints have really brought it into the light,» said Dick Dadey, executive director of good govenrment organization Citizens Union.

What the opponents say: «What Prop 1 does is take a bad situation and make it even worse by locking a system of political party control into our constitution,» said Susan Lerner, executive director of Common Cause, another good - government group that has done battle with Citizens Union over the proposition.

Good - government group Citizens Union hit the deal Monday because the sides did not enter into a written agreement.

«Unlike the mayor, who has ceased operations of [CONY], this is a last - gasp effort by Eric Adams to rake in the dough before the new law goes into effect,» charged Dick Dadey, executive director of the good - government group Citizens Union.

The best you're going to do there is Luna, a human - size «robot» that will soon be widely available from a company called RoboDynamics in Santa Monica, California, for $ 3,000 — incredibly cheap for a humanoid, but incredibly expensive for a device that can't do much more than try not to bump into furniture and senior citizens as it desultorily wheels itself around your home, toting a tray of drinks you've carefully placed on its precarious, pipe - like «arms.»

Project Violet is a «citizen science» project, and we want to include students as citizens who can get involved as well by diving into the learning process about cancer, research, science and exploration.

Amal Clooney's style (and that perfectly coiffed hair) can be best described as prim and proper, so we love when she adds some edge into the mix with her favorite distressed Citizens of Humanity «Corey Slouchy Slim».

With the way special counsel Robert Mueller has been cracking down on Russians as of late, recently indicting Russian citizens and companies for sticking their noses into the last election — possibly even colluding with Trump or his people — Red Sparrow almost seems like a well - timed piece of anti-Russki propaganda.

In order to effectively run its insular society, the government has chosen to divide its citizens into what they naturally do best: the meek who look out for the well - being of others are in the ruling faction of Abnegation, the happy / friendly people are in the agricultural community of Amity, those who speak the truth work within the law as Candor, those who seek adventure and thrills enforce those laws and protect the community as Dauntless, and the highly intelligent folks serve the city as Erudite.

Susanne is instantly fascinated and an odd kind of courtship begins between the impressionable but headstrong young woman and the older man with an ulterior motive, one that inevitably draws her into the political intrigue of citizens fleeing the East for the West and the espionage by agents no better than mercenary thugs attempting to staunch the flow.

Harry Brown (R for sexuality, drug use, pervasive profanity and graphic violence) Revenge flick about a recently - widowed, law - abiding senior citizen (Michael Caine) who morphs into a crime - fighting vigilante after the street gang that murdered his best friend (David Bradley) gets off with a slap on the wrist.

A dark, disturbing motion picture that will have you questioning whether or not penal systems truly make for better citizens or if they merely turn men into monsters and madmen.

'» Heineman's well - executed intention was «to get at the heart of how this cartel violence is affecting everyday people, the response of everyday people rising up to fight back, and then the ramifications of what happens when citizens take the law into their own hands.»

The truth about these crimes needs to be provided for the protection of victims of those crimes but also people and society (national and international) in general: the identity formation taking place in schools touches upon individual and collective (national) identities at the same time, the objectives of education under international human rights law demand putting a student, an individual, in the centre of the learning process to fully develop his personality and at the same time take into account the demands of democratic society in state and in the world — the world in which a person needs to manage and which needs good peaceful citizens.

We'd like to see the conversation bring into a sharper focus that good digital citizens respect copyright and the work of others.»

«But the average citizen is coming into contact with less selective institutions and community colleges, and to reach our goals it is going to be key to make sure those are the institutions that do well and improve.»

A Framework for Raising Well - Balanced Children Children may be pampered with a plethora of gadgets, but they are not nurtured in a way that helps them develop into responsible and caring citizens, argues Dr. Peter L. Benson.

Any organisation that processes identifiable data on EU citizens must comply with the GDPR and, with just over six months until it comes into force, now is a good time to put data protection in order.»

But if a school tells me that it's only interested in preparing my kids for the «global economy,» I'm walking straight out the door and into a place that wants them to live a good life, be good neighbors and citizens, know something about the arts, and care about their own families.

Rising affluence has turned more Brazilians and Chileans into taxpayers, which increases pressure on the government to provide better public services and to meet citizens» demands.

MPS's diversity is one of its greatest strengths and helps students grow into well - rounded, global citizens.

Alongside these we provide a holistic education which enables our students to develop into well - rounded, self - assured adults who will take personal responsibility, demonstrate compassion towards others and become true global citizens.