Sentences with phrase «leading citizens of the community»

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.»

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As one of Michigan's leading corporate citizens, DTE Energy is a force for growth and prosperity in the 450 Michigan communities it serves in a variety of ways, including philanthropy, volunteerism and economic progress.

Thanks to the breaking of social bonds in our families and communities, and the lack of self - control that a culture of indulgence promotes, we will continue to become more bureaucratic and inefficient in our governance, while at the same time creating the conditions whereby citizens become less capable of leading their own lives.

A search for a new chief to lead the city of Albany's police force is underway following three community meetings seeking citizen input.

Matthew Bolton, who is the lead London Citizens community organiser in east London and head of the Living Wage campaign, said: «James is very special to us.

«If one got to a situation where town and parish councils began to really engage with the public - that citizens felt part of their responsibility as a human being would be to lead their own communities - one would have the beginnings of reshaping people's sense of what politics is.

Hawkins will be in Buffalo on a citizen led tour of the city to see how Cuomo's failed economic and education policies have impacted upstate communities.

NEW YORK — As New Yorkers went about their busy day in the City Hall area on Saturday, a group of community - minded citizens, led by NYC Council Member Andy King, stood in a moment of silence for a purpose.

«Some have argued that the more armed citizens there are, the lower the firearm homicide rate will be, because the feared or actual presence of armed citizens may deter violent crime,» said lead author Michael Siegel, professor of community health sciences at BUSPH.

Let us start anew with space - based research worthy of a great city, where schools and universities work together, where citizens and communities partner to ensure the success of future generations, where Houstonians lead the charge for students, teachers, parents, scientists and engineers far and wide.

She also taught at Knox College, in Galesburg, IL, where she participated in the founding of a citizen - led community center while engaging students in community - based learning.

The Charlotte Mecklenburg Library is one of America's leading urban public libraries, serving a community of more than one million citizens in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina.

Every school should be a model home, a complete community actively developing future compassionate citizens capable of creating, leading and contributing to the kind of democratic communities - in which we all long to live.

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.

We hope that these choices we made regarding how to publish the book will support collaboration that leads to collective intelligence, as communities of teachers co-create the professional knowledge about how to best empower students as global citizens.

The mission of the York Preparatory Academy (YPA) is for the faculty, staff, students, parents, and community to provide an engaged learning environment that leads to the success of each individual student, while also challenging these students to become life - long learners, independent thinkers, respectful individuals, and responsible citizens thus preparing them for a 21st century global economy.

My job focused on the administrative side of giving aid to the Jewish community there, but my boss, the AJJDC Country Director for Romania, traveled there several times in the lead - up to the revolution and, as the person who wrote and edited his field trip reports, I knew quite a bit about the mood of the country and the conditions there for its citizens under Ceausescu.

Considered one of the most bikeable communities, and home to residents who are in great health, Minneapolis was awarded the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Roadmap to Health Prize, which honors communities every year that are helping their citizens lead healthier lives.

#StillIn Petition Delivery Wednesday, November 15th 14:00 - 15:00 Copenhagen Dome Following the announcement on the Paris Agreement, a large, diverse coalition of progressive groups launched a citizen petition to tell the international community that the US will lead on climate regardless of federal actions.

The Butterflyway Project is a citizen - led movement that is growing highways of habitat for bees and butterflies through neighbourhoods in communities across Canada.

That this council has supported a position totally ignoring the experience of its own community's life and blood citizens in favour of some academic appraisal from disconnected rent seekers is a despicable act of treachery that will ultimately lead to the end of any hope for a civil society.

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.

It will take citizens working in their own communities, region by region, to create the kind of systemic change that will lead to sustainable economic practices — practices that foster ecologically responsible production of goods and a more equitable distribution of wealth. Local currencies are a tool to bring about such change. BerkShares are about building community while building the local economy.

Access and Equity: Indigenous people living in well maintained, safe and healthy communities; additional housing for Indigenous people, with priority given to communities and homelands in greater need; Indigenous people, as individual citizens, benefiting from high quality essential services, housing, and municipal services; Indigenous people benefiting from preventative and diversionary programs that will lead to safer and confident communities; Indigenous people benefiting from efficient use of existing vehicles, transport infrastructure and schemes.

In her essay «The Dream That Lies Before Us,» the book's lead editor, Frances Hesselbein, president and CEO of the Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management, says that «no one sector, no one government, no one industry, can mobilize citizens... to create the new community, the inclusive community that embraces all its people.»