Sentences with phrase «large numbers of citizens»

Anti-corruption agencies engage with and encourage large numbers of citizens who are willing to refuse paying bribes and report corruption.

If Americans are to play their parts as world citizens with full responsibility, they must speedily extend and intensify the program of foreign language instruction, not only in the traditional fields of Latin, French, German, and Spanish but also, for large numbers of citizens, in Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, and other non-European languages.

For legal purposes, the Bible is not at all irrelevant, precisely because it is very relevant to a large number of citizens, and we do in fact live in something that somewhat resembles a democracy.

Large number of citizens in any country can be more profited if their country is not fully libertarians.

, he envisions a form of government that among other things includes the dissolution of the state, and indeed also a large number of citizen juries, selected by lot, that take decisions on public policy issues.

The results are most evident in the projected change in China's share of the total RCI, which nearly triples (from 5.5 % to 15.2 %), reflecting China's rapid economic growth and the large number of its citizens whose incomes are projected to rise above the development threshold in the coming two decades.

Attorney fees also are often available, especially when the relief obtained confers a significant benefit upon a large number of citizens.

While a university incorporated by statute and subsidized by public funds may in a sense be regarded as a public service entrusted with the responsibility of insuring the higher education of a large number of citizens. . .

China banned ICOs meaning that any projects that are raising money through cryptocurrency are now not allowed in a country that is one that has a large number of its citizens involved in cryptocurrencies — to the point where some are leasing planes to ship graphics cards for mining.

Not exact matches

Large numbers of Chinese citizens work in assembly plants for Apple products or in Starbucks stores across the country.

In his charming memoir, Frederic Warburg says that the prominent Jewish community in Berlin appeared to be split down the middle between those hundreds of thousands of Jews who elected to stay and seek a restoration of judicial norms for both the Jews and citizens in general and the equally large numbers of Jews who chose the hard road of migration and a loss of what seemed to be personal security as well as homes and possessions.

It's official: Asia Pacific's ever - growing network of economies has topped North America and Europe as the region with the largest number of wealthy citizens in the world.

Frontier Days is organized and run each year by the Arlington Heights Festival Committee, a large organization of volunteer citizens, with the cooperation of the Park District, the Village and a number of local businesses.

When Chicago citizens were asked about the parks during five community forums convened by the Mayor «s Drug and Gang Task Force, the largest number of negative comments by far were about the district «s failure to make its programs known to the public.

This doesn't begin to account for the large number of Catholic Majority countries that will have their citizens petition their governments hard to rally (The United States is one of the few Christian Majority Nations with a Catholic Minority... the rest are usually reversed).

In the next place, as each representative will be chosen by a greater number of citizens in the large than in the small republic, it will be more difficult for unworthy candidates to practice with success the vicious arts by which elections are too often carried; and the suffrages of the people being more free, will be more likely to centre in men who possess the most attractive merit and the most diffusive and established characters.

An early voice to raise the alarm about the emerging threat of Nazi Germany, she was an outspoken critic of appeasement, telling the House in 1933 that the NSDAP were «inflicting cruelties and crushing disabilities on large numbers of law - abiding peaceful German citizens, whose only offence is that they belong to a particular race or religion or profess certain political beliefs.»

In 2010, the Ghana Immigration Service reported that there was a large number of economic migrants and Illegal immigrants inhabiting Ghana 14.6 % (or 3.1 million) of Ghana's 2010 population (predominantly Nigerians, Burkinabe citizens, Togolese citizens, and Malian citizens).

«A large number of my constituents depend on many of the programs the president wants to eliminate, and pulling the rug out from under them would be detrimental to our most vulnerable citizens,» Tenney said in a statement.

Again EVIDENCE was presented by Alhaji Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia to show that a large number of the 76,000 names of Togolese CITIZENS were captured using stale photographs.

The seller would also have to face the reactions from its own citizens of basically abandoning a bunch of them and causing a schism that most likely separates a large number of families.

She reiterated the need to act urgently, as the development of the Nigerian insurance industry will come with other attendant benefits that are critical to achieve the type of growth and change for the economy and for the large number of Nigerians who have been deprived of the financial stability, protection and business growth that developed insurance markets have provided for their citizens for centuries.

Britain First's confrontational style of campaigning has seen it stage «mosque invasions» and provocative patrols in areas with large numbers of British citizens from ethnic minority backgrounds.

«In view of the speculation, the Command has deployed large number of men of its special unit such as FSARS, PMF as well as Anti-Kidnapping and Anti-Cultist unit, in conjunction with other Conventional Police deployment across the length and breadth of the State to forestall any act capable of undermining the security of the citizens.

To monitor wildfire haze and track citizens» movements in real time, the team suggested using Twitter because Indonesia has the fifth - largest number of Twitter users worldwide.

The Insurance Information Institute notes that identity thieves have stolen over $ 107 billion over the last seven years, which is much too large of a number for average citizens to ignore.

In addition there are a large number of resources available that can be used to stimulate and provoke students to think deeply about the issues involved in becoming a consumer and financially literate citizen of the 21st century

«Many citizens and public officials have voiced concerns about the public health issues and wildlife issues involved in hoarding large numbers of cats in the wild.

When I first came to Belize, 170 years after the Treaty, the idea of farming was still frowned on by large numbers of Belizeans, and anyone working the land was considered a rather second - class citizen.

Additionally, a large number of Chinese citizens don't have easy access to credit and debit cards, so they're known to carry large amounts of cash — and thieves know this.

The status menu is reasonably complicated too with a large number of symbols and numbers littering the screen to denote things such as your merits (only briefly explaining merits replace experience points to level up), the happy face denoting your virtue (still not entirely sure what virtue affects since many people still don't trust me despite having maximum virtue), the happiness levels of each territory (I assume this means citizens will revolt when unhappy but again, not very clear) and much more.

According to one theory, the increased radiation received by hundreds of thousands of citizens will cause an increase in their cancer rate — but an increase too tiny to detect amid the large number of cancers that will occur anyway.

Lacking the ability to hack polling stations, they push» fake» news, knowing how gullible a majority of American citizens are, hence large numbers of low education deplorables vote Trump, instead of the obviously enlightened choice of Hillary.

All of these major changes came about because citizens got together in large enough numbers and society reached a tipping point, then the laws were changed by Congress.

The South Carolina Civil Justice Coalition has been working since 2003 to improve the legal climate in our state and reduce the number and types of frivolous lawsuits brought against our small, medium and large businesses who provide jobs and the many goods and services for our citizens.

Traditional models of legal service are breaking down: a growing number of ordinary citizens can not afford a lawyer to help them navigate basic legal issues, while lawyers in large organizations are under enormous pressure to find new ways to reduce cost without increasing legal risk.

This web site also says that the number of law school graduates that are not practicing lawyers is much larger than the ratio of one lawyer to each 300 citizens.

The data published by the Central Statistics Office asserted that a large number of Irish citizens had taken business trips last year, amounting to about 6.8 million people.

A large number of countries across the globe make use of the Unique Identity (UID) system by which every citizen get a number that contains all the details relevant to their identity for it.

An interesting idea, and certainly the number of citizens multiplied by the profit from mining is a large number, but the lack of consent, just like in Russian Duma, is what seems to be getting the society indignant and seeking justice.

This slow augment forces a larger number of American citizens to create complicated preferences on the topic of their health care requirements.

«The new SALT limit will have the greatest impact on states that provide a large number of services to their citizens by, first, reducing the benefit of tax cuts by disallowing the full value of this deduction, and, second, compounding the issue of the standard deduction vs. the mortgage interest rate deduction,» Kirchner says.