Sentences with phrase «leading citizens»

In 1997, the Conservative Party led the citizens of New York in defeating the $ 2.4 billion School Bond Act.

In Arizona's Altar Valley he followed Tim Foley, who leads a citizens paramilitary group patrolling the border.

«Bess Myerson was a trailblazer and leading citizen in our community who grew up in the Sholem Aleichem Houses here in my district,» said Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz.

Cuomo vowed on Friday to «lead a citizen fleet» to stop oil and gas drilling off New York's coast as he proposed a new state law to ban the practice.

Living under the constant threat of assassination, Francisco Pineda was awarded the Goldman Prize in 2011 for courageously leading a citizens» movement that stopped a gold mine owned by OceanaGold... Read More

Satkowski led a citizens group that hounded the board for its decision.

Since January 2014, I've had the honor of leading a citizen science project called Disk Detective, which is funded by NASA and part of the Zooniverse citizen science community.

They are also leading citizen participation in a plan to develop the corridor as an ecotourism destination, which will generate funding for wildlife management and restoration while revitalizing the local economy.

LeeAnne Walters led a citizens» movement that tested the tap water in Flint, Michigan, and exposed the Flint water crisis.

Park District President Judith Loftus had argued that the center, which would include a gymnasium and an indoor pool, would get plenty of use by district residents, but Robert Pribush, a park district trustee, led a citizens opposition group.

A tendency to constrain corruption in both campaign finance and criminal bribery law will lead citizens with few tools to fight a serious threat to our democratic culture.

Accepting his party's nomination for governor yesterday, Andrew Cuomo whipped up the Democratic crowd with his promise to lead a citizen army that would «turn this state around.»

Janina's fury over her missing beloved dogs and brutally hunted animals by corrupt politicians and businessmen sets her on a long, determined path (allied with a few young and old misfits with useful skills) to convince The Powers That Be that wild animals are serial killers out for revenge, while leading citizens are mysteriously dying.

In Mexico, a small - town surgeon leads a citizen uprising against the cartel that has terrorized and bloodied the community for years.

Matthew Heineman) Rarely has a documentary created such tension, as we wonder whether a physician, Dr. Jose Mireles, who leads a citizen revolt against a drug cartel in Mexico, will be murdered before the film is complete.

If using a more lenient definition of proficiency leads citizens to evaluate their schools more favorably, then the advent of common expectations under the Common Core could alter public perceptions quite dramatically — perhaps increasing pressure for reform in regions of the country in which state proficiency definitions have provided an inflated view of student accomplishment.

These community professionals, business officials, public policy leaders, and leading citizens offer their time and talent to serve on the governing boards of this century's most innovative higher education institutions - community, junior, and technical colleges - and make decisions that affect more than 1,200 colleges and over 11 million students annually.

Rebekah, Conway and Bossie (who produced another documentary with Bannon and reportedly with Rebekah, Torchbearer, about Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson, and who led Citizens United, which received Mercer Family Foundation money) are now all on Trump's transition team.

«If you think I'm kidding, I'm not, and I'm going to lead that citizen fleet.»

Living under the constant threat of assassination, Francisco Pineda courageously led a citizens» movement that stopped a gold mine from destroying El Salvador's dwindling water resources and the livelihoods of... Read More

Kuchner has also led a citizen science project called Disk Detective that allows users to scan WISE images for debris disks that could provide clues to planetary formation.

x LeeAnne Walters led a citizens» movement that tested the tap water in Flint, Michigan, and exposed the Flint water crisis.

It leads citizens to avoid holding local politicians to account.

In that year Jerusalem was burned and its temple destroyed, the king was exiled, the leading citizens were deported and public life ended.

If the children are mean or rude or disrespectful, the leading citizens of the community will cluck their tongues and say, «The acorn doesn't fall far from the tree.»

Albrecht Durer was there for a few months; Cranach, later to be a leading citizen and a close friend of Luther's, was already in residence and at work on the castle rooms when Father Martin arrived in the autumn of 1508.

According to the biblical writers, they were punished for this by the destruction of the northern state of Israel in 722 BCE and by the destruction of Jerusalem in 593 BCE, which was followed by the exile in Babylon of the leading citizens of Judah.

Gov. Cuomo vowed on Friday to «lead a citizen fleet» to stop oil and gas drilling off New York's coast as he proposed a new state law to ban the practice.

This is a country where an avaricious group of leading citizens were deeply involved in a cluster of financial institutions that misled investors and swindled their customers.

Some 25 years after Josiah's death, the Babylonians invaded Jerusalem, taking its lead citizens into captivity and destroying the temple built by Solomon — the first Temple of the Jews celebrated in the Old Testament and said to rest under the Temple Mount to this day.

The teens lose their innocence when they become involved in the corruption and seediness that exists about their town after its leading citizen, the town judge and the town sheriff begin working on the latter's re-election campaign.

Too old to recapture his public when sound came in, Rawlinson nevertheless spoke his lines with relaxed conviction, and came in handy for character roles, often playing the «above suspicion» leading citizen who turned out to be behind a city's criminal activities.

Sometimes this has been in spite of the best efforts of leading citizens to avoid it, and sometimes it has been because of their efforts.

The building's sponsor, J. Euclid Miles, was a leading citizen in the development of Santa Monica.

This lead the citizens (Wellies) to do «A Very Bad Thing.»

As he points out: The three stages of the exhibition are city: the first part discusses the architectural thinking of how this fixed ideals and leads citizens to inhabit the city, then» Brutalism» notes the constructive elements to make us think about what architecture is, what it is to be an architect, which is building, and finally, in the final room,» Stability Sea» speaks of the way we live the city as we experience our way through it, like us appropriated.

Trieste was annexed by Italy after the collapse of the Austro - Hungarian empire in World War I. Krausz became one of Trieste's leading citizens and hired private tutors to supplement his children's public - school education.

Living under the constant threat of assassination, Francisco Pineda was awarded the Goldman Prize in 2011 for courageously leading a citizens» movement that stopped a gold mine owned by OceanaGold (formerly Pacific Rim) from destroying El Salvador's dwindling water resources and the livelihoods of rural communities throughout the country.