Sentences with phrase «many ordinary citizens»

But the idea of a central place where ordinary citizens can submit news has been overtaken by the social web — that's effectively the way millions of people already use Twitter, for example.

The Chinese public had something else in mind, and went straight for the jugular with thousands of ordinary citizens taking Modi to task over territorial claims.

This accord -; one of the few provisions welcomed by environmental groups -; allows groups and ordinary citizens to accuse member nations of failing to enforce their own environmental laws.

«Any way you look at it, the bank tax is simply a new tax over which the people who pay it — ordinary citizens — will have little or no say over what is done with the money,» said one respondent.

To call attention to U.S. surveillance of ordinary citizens, Snowden only released selective information.

Attorney Marion Munley, who represents the Healeys, said Judge Nealon's ruling «shows why the courts need to be available to ordinary citizens who feel they have been wronged by big corporations.»

Whether 12 ordinary citizens can ignore as jurors what they know as human beings is another question.

I suspect that in India — as opposed to here in Canada — the Trudeau Family's effort to go full Bollywood will be viewed more kindly by ordinary citizens who hear about it, as an eccentric but friendly gesture, not the grave insult Conservative politicians and Canadian pundits are trying to spin it into.

During an interview Wednesday, he noted that both bold unity and great humanity are being demonstrated over and over in Houston in ways large and small as ordinary citizens help each other survive.

So almost by definition, low - tier asset purchases by the ECB and Bank of Japan act as publicly - funded subsidies for bondholders, rather than ordinary citizens.

Ms. Russell wrote with penetratingly keen insight, and as a result, I am much more cognizant of why policy makers in Canada defer in favour of the interests of multinational oil companies rather than making decisions that are in the best interest of the ordinary citizens of central and eastern Canada when it comes to oil security.

«She is a free woman, like any ordinary citizen,» said Abdul Hameed Rana, one of Rimsha's lawyers.

Despite all the problems, governments are more subject to influence by the real needs of ordinary citizens than are corporations.

Along the way, we also instruct ordinary citizens about the general majesty of the law and the particular evil of the criminal's offense.

Even with regard to most stockholders they work no better than popular democracy works with respect to ordinary citizens.

The CNU includes architects, planners, developers, engineers, government officials and ordinary citizens committed to revitalizing and promoting traditional urbanism.

«Broad - brush counter-extremism policies catch ordinary citizens and are actually a waste of resources.

A Western Orientalist did not live like an ordinary citizen in the Orient.

Ordinary citizens are complicit in all of the appetites and short - sightedness of liberal consumer democracy.

All this in defense of a document that left the ordinary citizen with little or no role to play in the new government.

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.

Political activists of all stripes have difficulty getting ordinary citizens to care about their issues, and if they do care, to act on them.

Renewing American Compassion: How Compassion for the Needy Can Turn Ordinary Citizens into Heroes By Marvin Olasky Free Press, 201 pages, $ 21 As I write this, I am unsettled by thoughts of a boy named Kenneth, a mom named Tina, and a monstrous bureaucracy called HUD.

Equally alarming, it is virtually impossible for a member of Congress or an ordinary citizen to obtain even a modest handle on the actual size of military spending or its impact on the structure and functioning of our economic system.

They are the ordinary citizens, the men in the street.

Some of this money comes from ordinary citizens who support them but expect nothing in return.

The conclusion: given relatively unlimited availability, heroin users will voluntarily stabilize or reduce their dosage and some will even choose abstinence; long - addicted users can lead relatively normal, stable lives if provided legal access to their drug of choice, and with few side effects; and ordinary citizens (in Switzerland at least) will support such initiatives.

But above all, it includes the countless ordinary citizens, who knew nothing of Locke or Burke or Thomas or Aristotle, who've struggled and worked and fought and died so that they might live under a government responsible to their will, and constrained to regard them as free men and women rather than as members of a class, church, guild, tribe, town, or race.

Help can be rendered by ordinary citizens in every walk of life who are alert to the signs of the times.

Rorty has taken that position, though he now says that it's religious institutions and religious leaders that worry him, not the religious expressions of ordinary citizens.

Despite efforts in international law to distinguish between degrees of culpability with regard to politicians, generals and ordinary citizens, policies of direct attacks upon civilians continue to find a rationale in the identification of the citizen with the state — even if the ordinary citizen is both ignorant of and indifferent to affairs of state.

But if that is the case, why are there so few public statements, with the «conservative» label attached to them, that tell us exactly what policy should be in the matter of education, welfare provision, environmental protection, planning law, urbanization, infrastructure, and everything else that matters to the ordinary citizen?

I'm not a homeless activist in our city, I'm just a rather ordinary citizen, but let me tell you, I'm disgusted and disappointed and more than a little angry.

How are ordinary citizens to decide for themselves when the experts don't agree on how the system works and on what should be done to keep it going?

It confronts us as a powerful threat over which we as ordinary citizens have little or no control.

«13 The challenge before India's political system is not much different: how to ensure a minimum of equality in an age of globalization as international business and financial institutions deprive governments of some of their old sovereignty, empower elites with transnational loyalties, and cause ordinary citizens to grow indifferent to politics.

Now, individual lives were threatened regardless if you were an ordinary citizen, a Hollywood producer or an Army general.

When statements were made on radio and television that slandered individuals, or strong positions about issues of public importance were aired which needed balance and rebuttal, it was possible for ordinary citizens to demand that the station provide time for reply.

When Americans — whether presidents, Supreme Court justices or ordinary citizens — refer to the «wall of separation» desired by the Founders, they not only perpetuate a historical inaccuracy; they unwittingly revive some of the most distasteful episodes in American history.

Ordinary citizens like ourselves do not know enough about future technological innovation to vote today with ballots or with dollars in the market.

If it is ethically unacceptable to have the world controlled by transnational corporations alone, and if we can not trust global political authority to represent the interests of ordinary citizens, ethicists are under pressure to devise alternative images of a desirable future.

The ordinary citizen has to save for years in order to carry out this religious obligation, so the determination to make the pilgrimage must be very strong.

Though the Eastern European situation will remain in flux for some time, ordinary citizens in East Germany and elsewhere are objecting to the abandonment of such socialist protections as guaranteed employment and medical care.

Wearing a felt hat and a grey garb, not wanting to be called doctor, but Brother Andrew and dear neighbour, as another peasant, subject to the magistrate of Orlamunde and obedient as an ordinary citizen.

Perhaps «probing deeper» by ordinary citizens would not be such a good idea after all.

In the mid-eighth century, tea shops sprung up and made the tea a mandatory drink for ordinary citizens of China.

His Companies Are Worth Half Of The Nigeria Stock Exchange (Mind The Stock Exchange is Worth Trillions In Naira And Billions In Dollars) And Ordinary Citizens Own Shares In It And It Profits Them Well..

Etter was not talking about the DDT and parathion and mercury compounds and other pesticides and fungicides and herbicides with which overzealous industrialists and agriculturists and exterminators and ordinary citizens are inadvertently poisoning the earth.

«It's a change in the way we do business with respect to ordinary citizens,» Kenealy said.

«In adolescence, these (character) strengths are mostly developed in relationships with caring adults,» Tough explained to me in an email about what ordinary citizens can do to help.