Sentences with phrase «model citizens in»

They are recognized as innovators in their profession and are model citizens in their community.

In this case, the applicant had been entirely forthright about her involvement with the LRA, had not had any ongoing issues of dishonesty, and had been a model citizen in Canada.

Not exact matches

Born in 1970 in a village near Sevnica, Slovenia, which was then part of Yugoslavia, Melania moved to New York to pursue her modeling career in 1996 and became a permanent U.S. resident in 2001 and a citizen in 2006.

Either every member of the consumer finance industry became a model citizen overnight when Mulvaney took over in November or the former South Carolina Congress member is looking the other way.

Trying to push British Columbians around won't get Notley and Trudeau the pipeline they want — and neither will anything else Photo: thestar.com When England's Model Parliament was first called in 1295, King Edward the First wrote a writ of summons calling for citizens across the land to join him.

This model left gaps in the growth - potential of early - stage companies, and it cut average citizens out of these investment opportunities.

The long - term vision is a country in which citizens, specialists, professionals, academics, community groups and even businesses can work together, developing innovative information access and visualization tools, better decision - making models, and more tools responsive to the needs of the citizens.

There he says, one, that the shift from the concept of «the State's role as providers of equal opportunities to every citizen» to that of providing education, health and other social services «to those who can afford to pay» is a U-turn in public policy which «has been made surreptitiously by administrative action without public discussion and legislative sanction»; two, that the total commercialization of social sectors is «alien even to free market societies»; and three, that «the ready acceptance of self - financing concept in social sectors alien even to free - market societies is the end result of gradual disenchantment with the Kerala Model of Development», which has been emphasizing the social dimension rather than the economic, but that it is quite false to present the situation as calling for a choice between social development and economic growth.

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I would caution people in assuming bad faith on Kawhi's part, because he has been a model citizen up until this year.

Guy is about as thoroughly a «model citizen» in every imaginable respect as any superstar athlete I can think of.

Mr. Rogers was talking about the traditional model of helpers — people who are EMTs, firefighters, or just average citizens who assist strangers in a crisis.

The macabre implication is that the Republicans have become the party of the patrician class, in support of a feeble social contract that provides as little as possible to the masses, and a model for government whose raison d'être is to enable its wealthiest citizens to achieve a quality of life unattainable to the rest.

The solution then lies in a holistic developmental approach, including rethinking our current revenue models, tapping into the wealth of our Diaspora citizens, reordering our consumption and investment profiles, investing in information technology and reliable transportation networks, etc..

An electoral - cycle cycle based forecasting model did much better than the polls in Britain in 2015, but so too did citizen forecasts (see here).

For example, many in the UK believed that the 2015 election would yield a hung parliament — even Murr's (2016) citizen forecasters (although in relative terms the citizen forecaster model was the most precise).

Among other things, it established a territorial model — the so - called «Estado de las Autonomías» (State of Autonomous Communities)-- which was in principle designed to satisfy the historical demands for recognition and self - government of, above all, the citizens and institutions of two minority nations: Catalonia and the Basque Country.

Yet thirty - six years later, many Catalan and Basque citizens and political and social actors show a deep disappointment regarding the development of this territorial model — in terms of collective rights, political recognition and self - government.

The engagement of citizens in the early stages of policy discussion and formulation should become the new norm — possibly, by extending our concept of democracy beyond the trustee, and even beyond the delegate model, to a more direct form that makes innovative use of new technologies.

The citizens» assembly model is likely to be one part of the answer and the Democracy Matters project represents an important step forward in moving from debate to action.

The next step means working hand in hand with models like the Citizens» Assembly — as allies in the push for more a more democratic Brexit process.

Second, the assemblies are explicitly organised as pilots to showcase the potential of the citizens» assembly model as a way of engaging citizens on constitutional decisions in the UK: an explicit response to conservative voices that suggest they are not suitable for, and would not work, in the UK.

In Meade's model of the Citizens» Trust collective asset ownership is seen as a way of securing a basic income: an income paid to every citizen as of right with no means test or work - related condition.

To support public financing of election campaigns in the state of New York, modeled after New York City's system, and to join coalitions, including Citizens Action of New York, to support this reform.

«It's virtually impossible for someone to serve in this citizen - legislator model and not have some form of conflict.»

Emphasizing that the citizens - driven policing model was the way forward, the IGP said, «This model will address the manpower deficiency challenge in the Nigeria Police as every citizen plays the role of a police officer.»

The governor wants to limit legislators» outside income to about $ 12,000 a year — a clear reaction to former assemblyman Sheldon Silver, whose lawyer argued during his corruption trial, «It's virtually impossible for someone to serve in this citizen - legislator model and not have some form of conflict.

If Gov. - elect Andrew Cuomo wants to help put citizens back in control of their government, he ought to think about making New York City's campaign finance system a model for statewide elections.

The citizen group argues that reforming a cost - sharing model would be an opportunity to form a new partnership between the county and the state, allowing the state to shoulder more Medicaid cost burden in exchange of the county pursuing the group's recommendations.

Cambridge Analytica is registered in Delaware and almost wholly owned by the Mercer family, but it is effectively a shell — it holds intellectual property rights to its so - called psychographic modeling tools, yet its clients are served by the staff at London - based SCL and overseen by Mr. Nix, who is a British citizen.

While some citizen science programs are modeled on the idea that volunteers are strictly there to learn from professionals, Shirk said citizen scientists also want to be part of a discovery and help gather data relevant to a problem that interests them in calling upon programs to embrace learning together.

It was only possible through the participation of thousands of members of the public in the work's biggest ever climate modelling exercise: they offered up spare processing capacity on their home computers to run the calculations via the Climate Prediction citizen science climate modelling programme.

When the model was fed data from the US and Mexico, it found that more deportation resulted in fewer jobs for native - born US citizens by preventing migrants from stimulating job creation in US firms.

ShakeAlert is modeled on successful systems in Mexico, China and Italy as well as one that gave 52 million Japanese citizens precious seconds to prepare for the 2011 magnitude 9.0 Tohoku earthquake.

Air quality in cities is of increasing concern to China's stability - obsessed leaders, anxious to douse potential unrest as more affluent citizens turn against a growth - at - all - costs economic model that has polluted much of the country's air, water and soil.

When the model was fed data from the US and Mexico, it found that more deportation resulted in fewer jobs for native - born US citizens by preventing migrants from stimulating job creation by US firms.

The research made use of the weather@home citizen - science project, part of Oxford's climateprediction.net climate modelling experiment, to model possible weather for January 2014 in both the current climate and one in which there was no human influence on the atmosphere.

Using spare computing power of citizen scientists» screen savers allows many runs of the models and increases the confidence in the results that UCS scientists and collaborators will analyze.

«By generating in situ data with the help of citizen scientists, we envision the app serving supplementary data to scientists as they model mosquito population outbreaks,» says Rusty Low of the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, «And equally important is the ability of the app to act as an enabling tool for citizen scientists who want to reduce disease risk in their communities.»

Science - fisheries, natural resource management, fish behavior, fish biology, conservation; education - science, grades 6 - 12, biology, citizen science, public participation in research, model and systems thinking, evidence - based reasoning; social science - communication, anthropology, human dimensions, risk perception / communication.

Check out the video and bask in the glory of low polygon count models, weird swivel hips, and the panicked screams of a million Japanese citizens:

Shown grace via the Bishop of Digne (Colm Wilkinson who played Valjean for years onstage in London and New York), Valjean becomes a model citizen.

Walsh is probably best known as one of the founders of the Upright Citizens Brigade, and he's also appeared in supporting roles in tons of films (Elf, Bad Santa, Role Models, Mystery Team, Cyrus, every comedy Todd Phillips has ever done) and television shows (Childrens Hospital, Outsourced, Party Down, Human Giant, Reno 911!

In the episodes I viewed, students were largely absent (and when they did appear, they were model citizens).

Clearly, such nurturing of good persons, good workers, and good citizens is the responsibility of many: parents, other relatives, models in the community, and ones from history and the arts; the religious, spiritual, and ideological communities in which we live; the range of traditional and contemporary media.

Three sites have been selected for study — Lebanon, Kenya and Uganda — that allow to study three models: • Integration of refugees in national schools where refugee schools are spatially separate in camps (Kenya) • Integration into national schools where children of refugees and citizens go to school in different shifts (Lebanon) • Full integration in national schools (Uganda) Dr. Dryden - Peterson is responsible for site research in Lebanon.

One of the largest Native American tribes is the first community in the US to implement a hepatitis C elimination program to treat its citizens; federal officials say the initiative could serve as a national model.

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.

Despite their distinctive styles, all these school leaders consciously attempt to model for their teachers and students the way free citizens should treat one another in a democracy — with tolerance, respect, and high expectations.

E3 is working to educate citizens on the benefits of legislation to create ESAs in New Jersey modeled after the first near - universal education savings account program in the nation enacted by Nevada in 2015.