Sentences with phrase «just about citizens»

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Rate of annual job growth: 0.17 % St. Louis citizens enjoy an average commute of just about 11 minutes and pay about 32 % of their income toward getting around town.

Last year, the U.S. Federal Reserve earned about $ 70 billion just by providing its citizens (or, in the case of the C - note, a global criminal elite) with physical money.

With governments increasingly spying on their citizens, the time for the mainstreaming of these tools is just about here.

It's not just the strange juxtaposition of presidential candidate ads and questionable online content that Digital Citizens Alliance is concerned about.

Just like those anonymous sources, Netanyahu continues to use demagoguery about the defense system that has saved the lives of Israel's threatened citizens, who now include people who do not just live in the soJust like those anonymous sources, Netanyahu continues to use demagoguery about the defense system that has saved the lives of Israel's threatened citizens, who now include people who do not just live in the sojust live in the south.

Taking the microphone away from her, McCain said, «No ma'am, he's a decent family man (and) citizen that I just happen to have disagreements with on fundamental issues, and that's what this campaign is all about.»

For in a material sense nothing has yet been decided negatively about a democratic structure of the Church, just as little as in the case of a secular constitution which forbids the destruction of the democratic system and thus limits the possible will of the citizens.

Need I mention what Michele Bachmann and her buddies in congress are now alleging about honest, decent law abiding American citizens just because they are of a different religion.

Soft just war theory is characterized by seven key components: a strongly articulated horror of war; a strong presumption against war; a skepticism about government claims; the use of just war theory as a tool for citizen discernment and prophetic critique; a pattern of trusting the efficacy of international treaties, multilateral strategies and the perspectives of global peace and human rights groups and the international press; a quite stringent application of just war criteria; and a claim of common ground with Christian pacifists.

Religious nutters have no right to try and withhold civil rights from a group of US citizens just because the nutters choose to be ignorant about the science of sèxual orientation.

I don't know about your country, but in mine, that particular word — «socialism» — was transformed long ago into just an ordinary truncheon used by certain cynical, parvenu bureaucrats to bludgeon their liberal - minded fellow citizens from morning until night, labeling them «enemies of socialism» and «antisocialist forces.

Wait a minute, since you and your bigoted friends aren't really talking about taking away citizenship from our gay brothers and sisters (it would be a civil war if you tried, I'm not gay and I would fight against you), how could you take away any of their «God» given rights as a citizen, you know the same «God» given rights that you and your patriotic friends enjoy (I am assuming that you and everyone else that feels like you have served our great country in uniform just like me and my gay brothers and sister have done, are doing and will do).

those in greed and just care about their money... @ # % @ the rest of us... We must give all citizens healthcare.

Just ask those called «U.S. citizens by birth» about «noncitizens» in their midst; ask the «legally naturalized immigrant» about the «illegal alien,» the Jewish Israeli «settler» about the gentile Palestinian «squatter» or the white - suburban commuter about the people who live around his downtown church.

Waco had about 12,000 citizens; Dallas just slightly more than 40,000.

The Citizens haven't been just all about attacking might, they have also only conceded seven goals with four clean sheets in ten at home.

Mr. Rogers was talking about the traditional model of helpers — people who are EMTs, firefighters, or just average citizens who assist strangers in a crisis.

As a citizen and resident of a developing country I think that her attempt at «3rd world cred» on the basis of being a World Traveller (TM) and throwing out spiteful comments about «the west» and «western racism» is just asinine.

Regional democracy is about bringing together all of the actors — government, third sector, private industry, regular citizens — that are capable of contributing to a more sustainable, economically efficient and socially just systems that can provide these key services, regardless of scale.

But as research from the Congressional Management Foundation shows, form emails are just about the least influential way to contact Congress, with many staffers believing (though without any real evidence) that they're often generated without citizens» knowledge.

To give just three examples: in the ideas section, we see the ways in which citizen intellectuals, scholars, and the mass public have used the larger post-reform discursive space to add their voices to the debate about China and the world.

Yet the data in the 2008 E-Voter Institute study show that online social networks SHOULD be fertile ground for political organizers: by just about any measure, users of websites such as MySpace, Facebook and LinkedIn are more likely to be politically active than average citizens.

In any event, you should think about this logically: It would be pretty damn silly if we prevented people from holding office just because a foreign country claimed them as a citizen and refused to recognize any assertions to the contrary.

«To worry about Hollywood at the expense of law abiding citizens of New York just shows how out of touch this administration is.

Knowing that people come to the platform to talk about what they care about, we have developed a politics and government programme essentially to understand how our platform is being used, not just during elections, but also to help governments engage with their citizens and also to see what the risks related to our platform in elections are and what opportunities and programmes can be put in place to address the risks.»

This isn't just an environmental issue about our water, this a public health issue about our citizens, our friends, family, and you.

The worry I have is the more we bang on about immigration — and it seems as though that is going to be one of the big themes of the next election — it resonates with what we understand people are concerned about, but the more we bang on about that as the Conservative Party, the more we will seem I fear to people in this country with brown skin, with black skin, people who've come from outside the UK, they will just think «God, Tories somehow see us as being second - class citizens».

«We're working hard, just trying to contact every voter we can and respond to questions from folks in the media and citizens who have questions about issues,» Faso says.

«There's a whole host of possibilities right now if we're willing to just think about how we work with government in a different kind of way,» Priscilla Grim, a spokeswoman for Citizens Union, told Patch in an interview.

It's known for being the unofficial hangout for the Upright Citizens Brigade improv group, and just for being a wildly popular bar... McManus says negotiations with the landlord have been open, so he expects that they'll be straightforward about what and when they plan to start developing the property.

«Whether you are a volunteer firefighter who wants to see what happens when the calls originate, or just an interested citizen who wants to know more about this vital part of the services County Government provides, we encourage you to attend this open house and come away informed.»

Reeher: Juanita Perez Williams, similar question to what I just asked Laura Lavine, but if we don't use the measures that Howie Hawkins is talking about and I think on a smaller scale, what Ben Walsh is talking about, are we left with just citizens hoping that whoever gets elected among the four of you is going to be able to leverage more money from the state?

«You know it's very clear that the Romney - Ryan ticket just talks about small government in a way that may sound appealing to some people but it what it really translates to is really undermining the federal partnership with the states and ultimately the federal partnership to support its citizens.»

Just by taking photos and observing spiders, citizen scientists can help the Explorit Science Center in Davis, Calif., learn about which climates certain spiders live in and track the distribution of spiders over time.

They seriously are the most comfortable jeans I own and I've tried just about everything... Citizens, Sevens, Hudson, True Religion, J Brand, etc..

In the just - over-three-minute PSA, the red carpet stunners, along with a bevy of other celebs, ask fellow citizens: «What do you care about?»

To make people understand about this infection, recently a poll was conducted in which many US citizens rated this infection as top 2nd in most socially stigmatized condition just beneath HIV.

Elderly aren't the first group of people you think of when speaking about online dating, but mature citizens crave intimacy and companionship just like anybody else.

The character - driven film provokes deep questions about lawlessness, the breakdown of order, and whether it is just for citizens to take up arms to fight violence with violence.

With unprecedented access, this character - driven film provokes deep questions about lawlessness, the breakdown of order, and whether it is just for citizens to take up arms to fight violence with violence.

A subplot about Handy and President Cole running against each other in some contrived mayoral race that showcases every variety of quirky senior citizen (the nudist, the potty - mouthed old biddy usually played by Betty White, the sassy ethnic earth mama, usually Asian or black) doesn't go anywhere and just makes an already laboured piece seem interminable.

Now this is not just the whinging of a grumpy old man; instead, I'm passionate about school's role in developing active citizens.

What can we do as educational and cultural workers, at this crucial moment in history, when corporate revenue expands as the job market shrinks, when there is such a callous disregard for human suffering and human life, when the indomitable human spirit gasps for air in an atmosphere of intellectual paralysis, social amnesia, and political quiescence, when the translucent hues of hope seem ever more ethereal, when thinking about the future seems anachronistic, when the concept of utopia has become irretrievably Disneyfied, when our social roles as citizens have become increasingly corporatized and instrumentalized in a world which hides necessity in the name of consumer desire, when media analyses of military invasions is just another infomercial for the US military industrial complex with its huge global arms industry, and when teachers and students alike wallow in absurdity, waiting for the junkyard of consumer life to vomit up yet another panacea for despair?

Poor and minority citizens are just as informed: Although many have speculated that low - income and minority citizens are less informed about or interested in school quality than more advantaged groups, we found no evidence that this is the case.

The findings, available here, also reveal that poor, minority and less educated citizens are just as informed about school quality as the public as a whole.

«In my view, this poll should serve as proof of just how strongly Connecticut voters feel about campaign finance reform, and as a warning for those candidates who think they can brush aside the Citizens» Election Program...»

By establishing student - centered guidelines, building staff capacity, teaching and modeling, and furthering family education, Lee and Andrew share that it is not just about digital; the learning behind respect and responsibility make our students better global citizens.»

Yes, as a citizen of the world (besides being a book publicist), I know that just about everyone has traded in his or her landline for a cell phone.

«Every once you in a while you just want to see the citizens of Gotham in a new light,» wrote one reviewer on Amazon, «and that's exactly what this book is all about.»

Citizens» «right to privacy» is protected by federal law, and courts have yet to create clear, easily understood rules about just what a person's right to privacy is.