Sentences with phrase «most citizens of»

As Whitney Museum curator Lawrence Rinder points out in his catalogue essay, most citizens of the United States are oblivious as to how citizens in other countries view this country, much less how they are effected by it.

Russia is fairly sparsely populated, with most citizens of Russia living in the larger cities to the west of the country, most notably St Petersburg, Moscow, and Yekaterinburg.

For most citizens of income - tax states, the income tax deduction usually is a better deal.

Most citizens of Nashville trust The Tennessean.

The tension, animosity and elitism shown by Lusher's administration adds on to the problem that the school is perceived by most citizens of New Orleans as not playing fair.

These are basic freedoms which most citizens of the United Kingdom would take for granted, but in this 800th anniversary year of the Magna Carta, the 1.5 million adults with a learning disability [7] are frequently blamed, targeted and forbidden these freedoms, whilst those with power are not held accountable for the consequences of their words and actions.

I am not sure how those that cite passages as the absolute supreme law can overlook those that would require us to kill most citizens of our country?

Those who argue against same - sex marriage on the basis of its potential to diminish the effectiveness of the institution as a solid foundation for social stability have not thought about the price we have already paid for this personal freedom, or the historical reality that most citizens of Western Nations have already chosen to pay it rather than choose the relative social stability / security of tribalistic collectivism.

Although most citizens of the Allied countries tend to assume Horthy and Hungary were wholehearted allies of the Nazis, hostility between Hitler and the Hungarians was such that in March 1944 a German army invaded Hungary and arrested its leaders.

Not exact matches

Walled off by technology and geography from the realities of most of their fellow citizens, the tech elites live lives of extreme, if occasionally odd, luxury.

Japan sells most of its debt at home, allowing it to finance impressive infrastructure that improves the productivity and quality of life of its citizens.

«When I think about how I understand my role as citizen, setting aside being president, and the most important set of understandings that I bring to that position of citizen, the most important stuff I've learned I think I've learned from novels,» he recently told The New York Review of Books.

Last year Calgary's superstar mayor Naheed Nenshi suggested to Maclean's last year that municipal government is the most crucial level for most citizens, and it seems that with startups it's the absence of city engagement that causes problems.

The African nation of Zambia, for instance, has only enough food available to provide its population with 1,870 calories on average, per day, according to a striking global map in the October issue of National Geographic — and in truth, in much of the world, such calorie counts offer an inflated view of what's actually accessible to most citizens, due to widespread poverty, civil unrest, natural disasters, corruption, government mismanagement, food - distribution failures, and other issues.

During the Arab Spring of 2011, it enabled citizens in the middle east to organize and enact real political change, and in 2012, U.S. President Barack Obama marked his re-election with a tweet that at the time was the most retweeted yet.

Periu says most of the 11 million citizens will welcome an influx of U.S. capital, products and services but notes that state workers earn an average of $ 20 per month.

It's this forbidding territory that Exxon (xom), under Tillerson, has turned into one of Russia's most lucrative oil provinces, affording Russia a crucial entry into the fast - growing oil markets of Asia, generating nearly $ 5 billion in tax dollars and other revenue for the government to date, and generally being, by Moscow's lights, a good corporate citizen.

There are a lot of facts that support that, of all the terrorist activities in this country since 9/11, most have been caused by American citizens radicalized by policies implemented by past administrations.

In a country where most citizens have little disposable income, potential franchisees should follow the example of franchisees in other tourism centers, like Indonesia, and focus on tourists to bring in the dough.

«When I think about how I understand my role as citizen... the most important stuff I've learned I think I've learned from novels,» Obama told The New York Review of Books.

If the majority of people fall further and further behind — while others in society become unbelievably rich — the notion that the most important value in a country is its citizens having the ability to select their leaders will lose sway.

«We sell most of our guns to civilians in their homes, so our police need to be at least as well armed as our citizens,» he says, adding that civilians can only buy semi-automatic rifles while police and military buy the fully - automatic version.

The reforms before us have the potential to cause a brain drain of our highly educated, most innovative young citizens, and that means Canadians lose access to goods, services, jobs.

The Department of Homeland Security is proposing to expand the files it collects on immigrants, as well as some citizens, by including more online data — most notably search results and social media information — about each individual.

As a nation, we have a responsibility to our most vulnerable, and the richest of our citizens and the most profitable of our institutions should give more of their wealth to help those who don't have it.

While every drop of urban citizens» water is measured and most residential lawns are nearly grassless and brown, farmers — including non-U.S. farmers — can essentially divert river water or other natural water sources as much as they like to grow their crops, even if these crops are then exported to feed foreign cows.

This could actually be arguments 1 through 10, but its many nuances are being boiled down to the essence of «there's just too much of it, and most of that is because all E.U. citizens have the right to come and work here.»

Latin America holds the ignominious distinction of having the most cities on Mexico's Citizens» Council for Public Security's annual ranking of the world's most violent cities for 2016.

Binelli also meets with everyday people who are shouldering the necessary work that comes with living in a «DIY city» — a place that has lost so many of its most basic services that citizens are stepping in to fill the void.

Perhaps most attractive to UHNWIs, there is also no formal law clearly defining taxation of profits from asteroid mining, though some legal experts contend there is current US law that could be adapted to cover it, albeit only for American citizens.

But while the total number of U.S. life insurance policies — bought by both private citizens and employers — is shrinking, standard life plans are still among the most popular form of coverage purchased.

Mr. Whitehead was one of New York's most prominent citizens.

The IRS said that during that period, only about 900 US citizens paid taxes for Bitcoin - related operations, but according to Coinbase's own statistics, the platform was serving millions of users, most being US residents.

Even though algorithms decide so much of a citizen's life — what ads a person sees, what political messages they hear, what kinds of loans they can get, how they fair in the criminal justice system — these things are all under the sway of algorithms, and most consumers don't feel empowered to push back because they don't know the math.

During a gun control debate at the most recent Greensboro City Council meeting city resident Mark Robinson rose to speak and made known that the citizens of the city are «going to keep [their rights], come hell or high water.»

Thirty five days after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, 85 % of our American citizens on the island are still without power and most have no water.

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Donald Trump's latest, and arguably most concerning, comments regarding the upcoming presidential election have thrown many reasonable citizens into whirlwinds of confusion, anxiety, and outright fear.

If Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, and other founders were to time travel to 2016, they would almost surely be troubled by the threat that inequality poses to the well - being of citizens and democratic governance and ask, «What are your policies to make the U.S. what it should be, the most favorable country in the world for persons of industry and frugality, possessed of moderate capital, to inhabit?»

«Passing a law that makes it illegal for a 20 - year - old to purchase a shotgun for hunting or an adult single mother from purchasing the most effective self - defense rifle on the market punishes law - abiding citizens for the evil acts of criminals,» NRA spokeswoman Jennifer Baker said in a statement this week.

«People here are enthusiastic about the benefits (of Amazon's HQ2), but those economic benefits often miss our most vulnerable citizens,» says Daniel Brisson, executive director of the Burnes Center on Poverty and Homelessness at the University of Denver.

Chinese citizens are among the world's most avid savers, meaning they'll have plenty of money to invest in gold — just as Beijing is telling them to do.

The thing i'll never understand about the NDP across this country is their lack of backbone when it comes to issues that most citizens support.

Patrick Colford concludes by saying: «The New Brunswick Federation of Labour will be looking for political party's platforms to include commitments for improving labour laws so that all workers are entitled to paid sick leave, investing in public services to protect society's most vulnerable citizens and adopting pay equity legislation that covers the private sector.»

We also predict that Greece's citizens will resist such impositions with all the cunning they have developed during centuries of foreign occupation and decades of rule by one of the most corrupt political castes in all of Europe.

EDMONTON — This government has broken its promise to take care of Alberta's most vulnerable citizens while the economy was flourishing...

Leiming Yuan, General Manager of Ant Financial's wealth management unit, said some 70 percent of Chinese citizens do not buy financial products because «most financial products in the market are designed for high - net investors and portfolio management requires both time and expertise.

The Highwood riding board charged that the Tory party «is bereft of policy, planning, execution, follow - through and communication to the members of the party, and, most importantly, to the citizens of Alberta.»

The arrival opens a new era of U.S. - Cuba travel with about 300 flights a week connecting the U.S. with an island cut off from most Americans by the 55 - year - old trade embargo on Cuba and formal ban on U.S. citizens engaging in tourism on the...

These two countries make up most of the company's foreign sales and should help to power its growth in the years ahead as more and more of their citizens move up the socioeconomic ladder.