Sentences with phrase «kinds of citizens»

I work the intake department where I deal with all kinds of citizens in our community.

As Perkins explains, what is conventionally taught in our schools today may not develop the kinds of citizens, workers, family, and community members we want and need.

Murphy reminds us of the potential tension between teaching the truth and trying to make the right kinds of citizens.

By turning attention to the activities associated with citizens — in this case, as reported by British newspapers in the context of media coverage about migration during a politically crucial time period — I believe we can gain additional insight not only into who counts as citizens, but also what kinds of citizens are valorised and vilified.

Genuine pluralism is a civilizational achievement: the achievement of what Murray called an «orderly conversation» — a conversation about personal goods and the common good, about the relationship between freedom and moral truth, about the virtues necessary to form the kind of citizens who can live their freedom in such a way as to make the machinery of democracy serve genuinely humanistic ends.

The site launched last week, and as of this writing it's only partially filled out, but it's a fascinating example of the new kinds of citizen activism the «net is enabling this year.

The question of why right wingers have not copied this kind of citizen petition site, is something that has baffled us at Care2 for years.

This issue, however, about the nature of citizenship in republican thought and the (pre) conditions for certain kinds of citizen activity pose a difficulty when turning to republicanism for guidance in contemporary democracies.

That kind of citizen participation served as McDonough's springboard into the fifth ward race.

Those schools might become centres for indoctrination and what kind of citizens do you want to produce?»

«There are many, many different kinds of citizen science projects, everything from large - scale, global, data - drive, researcher - driven investigations to community - based, community - driven questions that address a critical problem, and citizen science exists in almost every scientific discipline,» said Jennifer Shirk, interim executive director of the Citizen Science Association, a nonprofit that seeks to support practitioners of citizen science.

There are many kinds of citizen science, among them: making field observations as in the sunflower project, analyzing images and video such as the terrific Zooniverse.org projects, data crunching with spare computing power, and more.

I'm beginning to think there's need for some kind of citizen's watch group that channels public outrage when patients are lured into clinical trials for treating serious diseases based on models / methods that haven't been properly vetted.

And if the students learn that kind of stuff early on, then there is a good chance that they'll become the kind of citizens we're going to need in the years and decades ahead.

What kind of citizen?

And the article paints a pretty impressive picture of the Brave New World on the horizon in terms of gathering, coordinating, making public and making use of, the kind of citizen - driven information that systems like 311 are designed to collect.

Not exact matches

California's proposed privacy law, which will be on the state's November ballot, would guarantee citizens the rights to see what kinds of information large companies are collecting on them, and to prohibit those companies from selling their personal information.

«We have set aside the resources to get the deficit under control and, we hope, in fact, we're counting on some kind of benefit for citizens from a tax point of view,» he said.

The site usually posts adorable videos of animals and other kinds of feel - good, uplifting content: stories and videos of police officers doing good for citizens, underdog stories, and kitchen hacks.

«What matters and should matter to politicians and people who believe in the kind of values that I believe the National Citizens» Coalition share and the Reform Party share is not whether the Canadian state prospers, but whether the Canadian people and the land we call Canada prosper.»

Even though algorithms decide so much of a citizen's life — what ads a person sees, what political messages they hear, what kinds of loans they can get, how they fair in the criminal justice system — these things are all under the sway of algorithms, and most consumers don't feel empowered to push back because they don't know the math.

There are, however, fears that the government is trying to stifle the kind of fintech that seeks to democratise the financial sector, while embracing those that allow it to exert more control over its citizens (in January, plans were announced for a US$ 2.12 bn artificial intelligence [AI] development park in Beijing, with China urging companies including those in the military sector to participate in the technology's development).

The treatment of the Nazi period in all its aspects - Hitler's rise to power; his establishment of a dictatorship in Germany; the abolition of the rule of law; the persecution of all kinds of political opponents; the racially motivated persecution of the Jews, culminating in the Holocaust; the reticence and opposition of German citizens; and, Germany's instigation of World War II - is compulsory teaching matter at all types of schools in Germany and at all levels of education.

You're obliged to exclude people, because if somebody from England says, «I want to become a US citizen», we make them jump through all kinds of hoops.

It's frightening, Iqbal said, and «there is a lot of shock and disbelief... because we don't expect this kind of behavior from our fellow citizens.»

But paying attention to the prophets in this season reminds us that the sort of waiting and preparing that God calls us to as citizens of this upside - down Kingdom is the active kind that demolishes obstructions and levels the playing field, that binds the brokenhearted and liberates the imprisoned, that beat swords into plowshares and spears into pruning hooks, and bets it all by going all in on this irrational and seemingly impossible vision of peace on earth.

It is about sustaining our liberal society itself, and about producing the kinds of free citizens it needs.

On the basis of the First Amendment, as well as the general principles of the Constitution, he opposed public payment for chaplains in Congress and the military, spoke out against national proclamations of days of prayer (though as president he did «recommend» them) and while president vetoed congressional efforts to incorporate churches in the District of Columbia (fullest statement, V: 103 - 105) At the same time, Madison frequently opined that it was appropriate for private citizens to support chaplains and various kinds of semiorganized public religion through voluntary contributions (V: 104,105)

It's kind of like being «in» a country as a citizen.

Laws requiring that businesses be largely owned and controlled by citizens had to be abolished, along with laws of any kind favoring local business.

He states that «it is obvious that we must not demand another mentality presiding over these other actualities (a kind of Uncle Sam over and above all the U.S. citizens).»

Surely some kind of concerted citizen action is valid.

How can we all participate in this kind of job discrimination when highly qualified US citizens are involved?

Control over what kind of children should be born when has fostered the idea that citizens can and should judge between auspicious and burdensome life and auspicious and burdensome families.

We are close to having to chose between remaining citizens of a republic or instead accepting a kind of participatory fascism.

She is a productive citizen of society, works, is monogamous in her relationship, is raising a adorable boy, is kind to everyone she meets and yet you have straight people out murdering, raping, living on welfare, and yet they should live more than a gay person.

This quality is la vertu... It conveys the idea that the citizen of a republic finds the beginning of his participation in governance in his own inner spirit, but that this spirit takes the form of action, and especially that kind of action that expresses willingness: initiative.26

They did, however, understand that government and religion (of any kind) were a bad mix and were very careful to make sure that American citizens, immigrants all, would be free to practice as they wished without governmental interference.

No longer was there a higher kind of life as there had been for the ancients, a life devoted either to theoretical contemplation or to participation in the public activities of a citizen.

The Athenian democracy was a kind of aristocracy of free citizens built on slavery.

Kind of hard to be called racist when arabs are full citizens of the nation, groups like the Druze are given special treamtment for their non-jewish beliefs and when you have arabs in their form of parliment.

There ought to be two distinct kinds of marriage: one governed by the State with rules enforced on all citizens, the other governed by the church with rules enforced by her on her own members.

Many persons who are not likely to join groups in churches and schools may do so if they're made available in family counseling agencies» mental health services, youth organizations, business and industry, fraternal groups, self - help groups (such as A.A., P.W.P., Alanon, etc.), and in the many organizations devoted to special needs of the handicapped, ex-prisoners, ex-patients, unwed parents, minority groups of all kinds, senior citizens, community action groups, ethnic organizations.

In 1864 Pope Pius IX declared that it was insane to teach that citizens had rights to all kinds of liberty, 4 but in 1963 Pope John XXIII, in his encyclical Pacem in Terris, said:

The objective here is to humanize the structures which govern the mass media, both by encouraging persons within the industry to «do well by doing good,» and by insisting that the social and economic powers of the media must be counterbalanced by other kinds of power which express the concerns of citizens for the general welfare.

Another kind of economic intervention can come through direct citizen action.

As this trend becomes more pronounced, the information which is necessary for citizens to make the kind of informed decisions which could reverse this trend is itself becoming increasingly scarce, so that eventually the mass media will be able to provide only circuses for the masses who embrace it gladly, and no longer can tell what they are missing.

The differences in citizens» beliefs about the origin and destiny of human life may keep them from coming to politics with the kind of shared enthusiasm and exuberant rivalry that they bring to sporting events.

But I listen to a lot of white Senior citizens and a whole bunch of them seem to hate everyone but their own kind.

Yet I argue that participation in initiatives to restore a civil society in America, with appropriate reflective self - understandings, could meet the needs and activate the worldly spirituality of precisely those millions of middle - of - the - road citizens looking for the sorts of moral meanings, the kinds of religious roots, these communities used to represent and in some ways still do.