Sentences with phrase «more civic duty»

Some people regard their church work as one more civic duty.

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But the 32 - year - old is more interested in fulfilling his civic duty as a private citizen, BuzzFeed said, citing a source close to Zuckerberg.

My civic duty ended up being long spells of sitting, waiting, anticipating action, being counted like school children, some more waiting, then a plea deal before the action ever arrived.

I'm proud to introduce this common - sense legislation that will empower New Yorkers to fulfill their civic duty by making voting on primary days easier and more accessible for our working families,» Treyger said in a statement.

Another theory is that people do it not merely because of the chance of changing the outcome of an election, but because it's an act of civic duty, although economist Steve Landsburg, in his popular book «The Armchair Economist», counters «But that ignores the fact that voting takes time away from other more productive acts of civic duty.

I felt it was more of a civic duty.

Have students reflect often — before, during, and after the project — on what they are learning in terms of content and also in terms of empathy, respect, service, civic duty, and more.

«It means students have a more strongly - rooted sense of their civic duties.

While a mere 5.6 percent of adults went to the polls, more than 40 percent of the city's public - school students took advantage of the rare opportunity to fulfill their civic duties.

Turnout among the youngest voters has declined, even as they have grown more tolerant; plainly, a sense of civic duty is also needed.

All else being equal, a typical individual who attended the school with the largest percentage of students identifying voting as a component of good citizenship was 14 percentage points more likely to vote than the person who attended schools with the lowest percentage of students identifying voting as a civic duty.

People who in 1965 attended a school where students saw voting as a civic duty were far more likely to vote 15 years later.

By extension of Modernist architectural history — specifically that of the eras of Russian Constructivist and Brutalist architecture and their influence on American urbanism — Andrade conjures the legacy of the town square as a place of hybrid activity involving intellectual dialogue, contemplation, political ideology, commerce, protest, civic duty, celebration, violence and more.

I've become completely convinced that more Global Warming equals more Cold and more Snow, and that paying more Taxes is a civic duty to support the Noble cause of saving the planet...