Sentences with phrase «many other citizens»

The figure rates between zero and one, with zero representing total equality — where every citizen possesses the same amount of wealth as every other citizen — while one equals total inequality, where one person holds all the wealth.

It's a sentiment rarely seen in our litigious society today, but Lincoln seemed to believe lawyers had a greater social responsibility than other citizens.

Just take a look at the cage match they're fighting over the «Northern Gateway» pipeline, the Canadian equivalent of Keystone XL, which is going nowhere fast, thanks to steadfast opposition from First Nations (tribal) groups and tens of thousands of other citizens north of the border.

As individuals you have the same right as any other citizen but as a group until you start paying taxes, not lobbyist, butt out and obey the laws made by the government.

It's been revealed Israel is helping Kenya to build that will protect Christians and other citizens from terrorism.

Churches in the inner city have been there for people when the government has disappointed them and other citizens fled for greener pastures in the suburbs; they continue to be a crucial part of organizing and ministering to needs in the community.

Taking away fundmental rights from other citizens is one of the things you do not have the right to do, no matter what your religion says.

Should the government be permitted to promote the religious interests of a religious group by subordinating the secular interests of other citizens in access to logging areas?

No one has the rights to step on other citizens rights.

My religious views (or lack thereof) should not preclude me from having my voice heard just like any other citizen.

I do understand that the laws are counting me equal with other citizen in the country.

And while judges may not inject their personal or sectarian values into cases that come before them, they are free to advocate policies in terms that may resonate with other citizens.

When he acts as a citizen, he, like all other citizens, must not be a legal positivist, but must seek moral truth.

@angie does it not occur to you that there were many other citizens who dashed forward to try to help, who didn't even get a posthumous police badge, who died in anonymity, or who returned home safely quietly horrified at what had been witnessed, and did not want to discuss it.

In today's America, the word must be stretched to include not only Protestants, Catholics and Jews, but significant numbers of Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu and other citizens representing various world religions.

However unintentionally, this weakens the constitutional allegiance of Catholic and other citizens outraged at judicial insolence and abandons our great «founding documents» to unchallenged control by the liberal elites.

If you'd like to participate in a peaceful protest along with other citizens of Abbotsford, please join us at City Hall on Monday 24 February at 12 noon.

Liberals are right when they insist that regarding the poor as the equals of all other citizens is essential to the incorporation of a viable welfare state within a robust democracy.

Aside from THAT I will bet you that there are MANY things mentioned in you «bible» that you and others of your «faith» don't follow... but yet you still feel compelled to force SOME things found in your bible on other citizens of this country.

Unlike the Republicans who want to see them get jobs and thrieve like every other citizens.

right cause muslims are the new african americans cause they have not been allowed to build any mosque and do not have the same rights as every other us citizen.

They express loyalty to the United States, but face distrust from a significant minority of other citizens, the report said.

We are a democracy, so just like many laws are based on Christian ideals (regardless of what other citizens believe other than Xtianity) laws in the future could be based on Islamic ideas - all it takes is enough voters becoming muslim.

In such programs both groups of professionals may be only part of larger community programs under the leadership of other citizens.

On this view, legislation informed by religion or by traditional morality expresses a malicious desire by some citizens to apply power against other citizens.

They allow that Americans and other citizens of pluralistic democracies need a civic faith, but they distinguish between legitimate patriotism and genuine religion.

Though the flag in the truck on the parking structure raised alarm, other citizens of Greenville were also around the arena waving Confederate flags.

These include nest box monitors and other citizen science positions.

Simultaneously, through the creation of solidary groups, such as Salvare pentru SMURD, which numbers of fans surged by the hour, they could see this anger was shared by many other citizens.

A reverse of privacy sensibilities: In most other industrialized countries, there is an acceptance of government intrusion of privacy, but other citizens snooping into your past is taboo, and made difficult by things such as «the right to be forgotten» in the EU.

There never really is a point where a former criminal can just move on, and behave like any other citizen.

The individual citizen should be able to argue their case in dialogue with other citizens both in the workplace and in the wider public sphere.

Extend the sphere, and you take in a greater variety of parties and interests; you make it less probable that a majority of the whole will have a common motive to invade the rights of other citizens; or if such a common motive exists, it will be more difficult for all who feel it to discover their own strength, and to act in unison with each other.

But even before dealing with state intervention in the matter, on what plank, secular or divine, might Apostle Suleiman stand, on charging his church members to kill other citizens?

Whilst his father was noted for his public restraint, our new King has spoken out on many issues — feeling, perhaps, that if he will be denied influence whilst in office, he should at least be allowed to express his views like any other citizen.

The medical personnel of the clinic has equally been redeployed to general hospitals, under the directives of the governor who pointed out that government house staff should start using public hospitals where other citizens of the state of the state visits.

While trials can be conducted only by a judge who will pronounce judgment, a citizen has a right to demand a trial by twelve other citizens, chosen at random.

«From now on, all government house staff requiring medical services will proceed to the nearest public hospital to the government house like other citizens of the state.

«In terms of the investigation, I think the mayor is entitled to a presumption of innocence just like any other citizen of the United States of America.

How can we maintain both the speaker's right to speak without reacting so harshly that we infringe on the rights of other citizens to gather and speak?

President Muhammadu Buhari has called on politicians and other citizens to emulate Alhaji Balarabe Musa's virtuous life of honesty, integrity, selflessness and patriotism in order to...

Some of the President's once strong supporters did not only express their disapproval of his administration, but also regretted voting for and mobilising other citizens to vote for him in the 2015 presidential election.

While urging other government appointees to follow suit and ensure party members are satisfied before other citizens, he said, «this government is doing its best to create job opportunities and me for instance, I told my people over there [that], it is because of NPP that I'm here, so the NPP man is my priority.

Harry Gough, who attended the session with several other citizens, said he knew of at least three absentee ballots that were sent in 2013 but never counted.

Call me ethnocentric, but I was born in the Northern Territories of the British Protectorate of the Gold Coast Colony and only joined Ghana after the plebiscite in 1956; therefore I am very sensitive to other citizens not respecting our customs and traditions as well, including the President as first citizen for the meantime.

If anybody thinks that because a president had appointed me to his Government, that I lost my right as a citizen of Ghana, he has to take his post back because I cherish my citizenship of Ghana which puts me at par with any other citizen.

It is also essential that the Democratic Party attract those citizens best qualified to serve, and not impede unreasonably or unnecessarily their recruitment and retention or unfairly deny to them the economic rights and opportunities available to all other citizens.

Like every other citizen, the mayor has the right to exercise his freedom of speech, no matter how offensive that speech may be.

A wealthy person has the right to spend money; but other citizens, individually or collectively, may decide certain things are not for sale.

The police are only supposed to use lethal force to protect themselves or other citizens from a life - threatening situation.