Sentences with phrase «lies on the citizens»

While in some counties it is the duty of the court judge to appoint the clerk, in some other districts, the responsibility lies on the citizens of the district.

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Politicians lie to get elected, doctors lie on Medicare reports, universities lie about athletes, advertisers lie to sell products, ordinary citizens lie on income tax returns, and yes, even preachers lie.

Nothing has more reinforced my conviction on this score than the recent case of a lieutenant colonel, a rear admiral, a CIA chief and a president conspiring to set themselves above the law, and insisting that we citizens should let them lie to us for our own good.

And the cause for this shameful, dark spot on the conscience of this country lies on the hands of those who sit in the seats of power (government), but have done NOTHING to prevent this crime against the citizens of this country.

And as this column was written, we learned from the president's financial disclosure that he lied about the payments to porn star Stormy Daniels, while President Trump's first secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, told graduates at the Virginia Military Institute, «If our leaders seek to conceal the truth, or we as people become accepting of alternative realities that are no longer grounded in facts, then we as American citizens are on a pathway to relinquishing our freedom.»

Yes, I am arguing that the core principle which Powell argued in 1968 - that not having first / second class citizens depended only on the public authorities not discriminating, but that they have no business in the choices which are made by private citizens or organisations, or whatever reasons lie behind them - was pretty much settled in the late 1960s and»70s.

But how would you feel if as someone paying the same stealth taxes as you, sees the same senior citizens lying on hospital trolleys, doesn't have enough money for heating (let alone a peerage) and weren't even asked to support the great «master plan» of the New Labour Dual - Monarchy?

The Electoral Reform Society has therefore teamed up with a range of universities to set up two pilot citizens» assemblies, essentially mini-conventions, which will bring representative samples of the population in the Sheffield and Southampton areas to deliberate on and decide where power should lie at a local level.

Much more serious is his decision to lie on his student loan application, telling the government that he is a U.S. citizen.

Ellsberg knows that the Johnson Administration is systematically lying to both citizens and their Congress alike, and he has 22 years» worth of secret government documents to prove it, but he can't publish them on his own.

Rome has grown up and on top of its citizens — what's visible just a fragment of what lies beneath.

This came after 8 years of wasted time on the subject of AGW / CC Energy, and pipelines and Fracking by the Democrats and Obama, the so - called great communicator and Nobel Peace Prize winner ordering murders to be committed by US citizens and their Proxies all across the planet and repeatedly lying through his teeth about all manner of topics Geopolitical, War, and Economics and repeatedly interfering in other nations governments and «Democratic» elections.

However, Lie (a Los Angeles representative) and DeSaulnier (from Contra Cost) are in Democratic Party «safe seats», so they don't have to worry about the adverse impact their inanity will have on issues important to their citizens (i.e., jobs and energy costs).

Solutions to the climate crisis lie in shifting the focus towards citizens, alongside strong leadership on climate and energy targets from Europe.

Limbaugh denied having making this statement, so he turned the tables, posting the letter on eBay for sale as a «priceless memento» of the folly of Senior Majority Leader Harry Reid and 40 other senators, who attempted to «demonize a private citizen by lying about his views.»

I believe the problem lies partially on the firms themselves, as well as the lack of legal education provided to the average citizen.

Edward Snowden may have exposed countless secrets about the way governments are conducting cyber espionage on their own citizens and each other, but even he couldn't have been aware that as the National Security Agency / Prism scandal broke this past summer, Aaron Shull was quietly figuring out where the legal boundaries of online spying should lie.

«I guess I'm not allowed to sell Bitcoin as a U.S. citizen for cash especially if [responsibility for] what people do with that money lies on me.»