Sentences with phrase «local citizens who»

You can ask the question about the city to their local citizens who are also traveling in that local transport like city buses, local trains, metro or shared Autos and you surely get a perfect answer from them.

We are very happy to provide barn cats to local citizens who will feed them and help them stay as safe as possible.

Hein attributed the before - deadline opening (the new span was originally promised by the end of the year) and the on - budget implementation to the involvement of local citizens who had worked closely with Ulster County planning, engineering and highway department staff.

We will shift power away from central bureaucracy and give choice to the parents, patients and local citizens who use public services.

But Justice Sonia Sotomayor worried about the effect on local citizens who choose not to stand and bow their heads when asked during a public prayer.

Tonight while walking, I met a local citizen who told me the tar sands are a clean source of fuel, because Canada has regulations, while there are no environmental regulations in Middle Eastern countries.

And beware the local citizen who seeks out BC Bud, claiming to have glaucoma.

Not exact matches

Tufekci, who has been following the use of Twitter and Facebook by people in Turkey for some time now, said that many Turkish citizens depend on social media as a news source because the local media is either censored by the government or otherwise unreliable.

Of course, there always is the danger that sins of omission will lead to sins of commission — where federal agents or local police go overboard and go after innocent citizens who aren't violent but have unconventional opinions.

One small example of this in our neighborhood is the urban farm one of my friends and mentors started to provide jobs to «returning citizens»: It required the city to help give away land and clear vacant property and some startup capital from a local farming company, but it is based on the church's understanding of the needs of the people and explicitly tied to the concept that faithful believers can help disciple and encourage people who have been incarcerated for harming others, walking them through the transformative process.

This position was certainly not that of the local prosecutor who felt police, but not citizens, had an expectation of privacy.

You get to see «regular citizens,» plus a smattering of the national elite journalists who swoop down to cover the locals, usually stopping in for an obligatory chowder or pie at some diner.

Citizens who try to promote public - works projects through their local or federal governments find that their efforts are crowded out by pork - barrel projects benefiting powerful corporations.

Maria crossed the line using a «local passport,» the document issued by the INS to Mexican citizens who could prove their permanent residence in Mexico.

In overturning Colorado's prohibition of local civil rights statutes based on sexual preference, the Court in Romer v. Evans effectively branded a bigot any citizen who considers homosexuality immoral.

We are, they are, citizens of metropolis and cosmopolis who value, and would have others value the local.

It was an open occasion, and among the local citizens and graduates who came in to hear the disputation was a young Dominican priest, destined to become Regius Professor of Divinity in the University of Cambridge thirty - one years later.

Cat Green is a local community facilitator, who has been bringing The People's Food Plan to citizens all around South East Queensland in 2012 and 2013.

• Our students develop a lifelong love of learning and become world citizens who care about their local and global communities.

Residents who belong to the group Citizens for Better Communities, which was formed to muster local support and to lobby government to prevent the land from becoming a gravel pit, were also on hand to thank Hoffman and members of the park board for their actions.

And by governance on a daily basis, mean from the how from kings, aristocrats, down through every layer of bureaucracy till you get to your local tax collector, what / why / how these people ran the government administration on a day to day basis, from dealing with a rival city who recently stole one of your citizens crops, to pirates interfering with trade on the Mediterranean, to drought, city administration, what to do with tax money, neighborly disputes, superstition, weather, crime, theft, laws and battles of ideology, to political rivalries and infighting, to a foreigner spreading strange religious ideas in the city (or dealing with somebody accused of a crime they claim they did not commit), I mean everything and everything these officials may have dealt with, daily, and how they changed over time.

Whereas, These unambiguously racist, morally repugnant, flagrantly disrespectful, inflammatory and inexcusable comments by Mr. Paladino have garnered both local, national, and international attention that reflects negatively on the Buffalo Board of Education, the City of Buffalo and its leadership and its citizens, the State of New York, and every decent human being in America and abroad who has been shocked and offended by his words; And,

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«These unambiguously racist, morally repugnant, flagrantly disrespectful, inflammatory and inexcusable comments by Mr. Paladino have garnered both local, national and international attention that reflects negatively on the Buffalo Board of Education, the City of Buffalo and its leadership and its citizens, the State of New York, and every decent human being in America and abroad who has been shocked and offended by his words,» Jay wrote.

Howie Hawkins applauded the citizen activists who are protesting to protect Seneca Lake and their local drinking water from Crestwood's gas storage facility.

She said she's a 53 - year - old mother of three who has lived in Rosendale for 17 years, has a PhD in political science from Rutgers University in New Jersey, and is director of the nonprofit Citizens for Local Power.

Citizens for Local Power co-founder Jennifer Metzger, who is also a Rosendale Town Board member, contends that state Thruway Authority officials are seeking the lead agency role despite public statements to the contrary.

The transfer of some policy making traditionally associated with local government to combined authorities means that citizens are increasingly unclear about who is responsible for what, especially in terms of public service delivery in their local communities.

Our de facto unitary system has produced states and local governments who can neither pay staff salaries nor perform the basic functions of governments - who can not properly educate their citizens, secure their communities or provide basic, functional roads and other infrastructure.

«For good local authorities who know their area and are in tune with their citizens, it offers a lot of opportunity to really develop local services that target the needs of their communities,» Evans says.

CHESTERTOWN — Town of Chester citizens who helped upgrade the popular local ski venue known as Dynamite Hill Recreation area were commended Dec. 31 as a ribbon - cutting ceremony was held for the improvements.

In special elections for statewide offices, the selection of the party's replacement candidate falls upon the local county committee members, who are usually citizens loyal to the Democratic establishment.

All registered electors (British, Irish, Commonwealth and European Union citizens) who are aged 18 or over on polling day were entitled to vote in the local elections.

The decision was met with concern from Citizens for Local Power co-founder Jennifer Metzger, who is also a Rosendale Town Board member.

It's as if the local party is slightly stuck in how to respond to a mayor who has managed pretty well compared to many Labour boroughs in protecting citizens from cuts.

He has focused in particular on how to reform politics by devolving power to local constituencies through referendums on important issues and on recalling votes for citizens who are unhappy with the performance of MPs and other elected officials.

«Democracy fails or succeeds at the local level and those issues were identified by citizens who came to us and said «something's not right here,»» Muir said.

In addition, PSC staff writes that there was no need for evidentiary hearings and none of the opponents who weighed in on the acquisition — neither PULP, nor Citizens for Local Power and a municipal consortium nor Democratic Assemblyman Kevin Cahill — requested such hearings until May.

«This program is an excellent way to help improve the safety of Oneida County residents, and I strongly urge our local families to participate, particularly those who have children or older citizens living with them.

But hopefully there'll be further expunging of corruption in our local government until Clarkstown has leadership by honest citizens who are more concerned with the welfare of its residents than they are with themselves and their personal gain.

The first primaries in the history of Russia were held in May 2000 in St. Petersburg, the local branches of the parties Yabloko and the Union of Right Forces, who before the Gubernatorial election offered citizens to choose a single candidate from the democratic opposition.

Affluent, white citizens who were already more likely to vote do so in significantly greater numbers after their local schools are labeled «failing.»

The OSSP was designed at the Lab to help local land stewards manage their properties with students who, as «citizen scientists,» learn about the scientific process while going out to the field to collect useful data.

With Agelessfish.com, the online senior dating site powered by Successful Match, senior singles can quickly get connected with local active senior citizens who are single, over 50, and seeking someone to grow and do things together.

John Boyega, who got his big break in 2015 with Star Wars: The Force Awakens was fitting in his role as a local security guard trying to ease tensions between the citizens and the police.

Gist: Shot in various locations outside the city of Guanajuato, where most citizens work for an automobile assembly plant or the local drug cartel, Heli is confronted with police corruption, drug trafficking, sexual exploitation, love, guilt and revenge in the search for his father who has mysteriously disappeared.

We also consider whether the relationship between school performance and citizen ratings is stronger for parents of school - age children, who are arguably the most connected to their local schools, or for homeowners, whose property values are influenced by school quality.

While recognizing that public education continues to face major challenges and problems that must be addressed, Representative Ziobron has become an advocate for parents who wish to opt their children out of the Common Core tests and for policies that support, not undermine, the role of parents, teachers, and local citizens in how their local schools should be run.

Even with the recent news of a local citizen in the US who launched a Kickstarter campaign to purchase her town's independent bookstore from its retiring owners, a bookstore closing due to the age and employment status of its proprietor isn't attention grabbing.

«Returning Singaporean children» refers to children who are Singapore Citizens (SC) or Singapore Permanent Residents (SPR) who have lived overseas and are currently not attending local schools.