Sentences with phrase «n't engage citizens»

If we don't engage citizens at a level that has never been done before, we are not going to lower greenhouse - gas emissions, because the politicians won't be able to act — they will be cut off at the knees.

Not exact matches

In this regard, Entrepreneur India personally interacted with Revathy Ashok who is not only associated with the Indian Angel Network but is also Chief Executive Officer and Managing Trustee at Bangalore Political Action Committee (B.PAC) which works at improving urban governance in the city by engaging both elected representatives as well as citizens.

All we can ask is for our governments and security agencies is to deal with them judiciously — say, by not appointing a foreign minister with strong historical family ties to a foreign government supported by fascist sympathizers engaged in a civil war with their fellow citizens.

To illustrate, a citizen ought not to be arrested for expressing an unpopular opinion; he can properly be arrested for inciting or engaging in acts of violence, but the physical force with which he is restrained ought not in turn to become counterviolence.

As such, while voting would not be the only thing an engaged citizen would do, it is the very least that would be done.

Not to mention the persistence of yet a different group of «troglodytes,» in this case more sophisticated ones, who with their invention of the Cold War were constantly endangering the country and its young citizens with their longing to engage in jingoistic military exercises.

I have no problem with anyone's faith / religion, but this is supposed to be America, the right to have freedom from.freedom to engage, not the damned Middle east where it is crammed down the throats of every citizen.

We have seen in particular how these laws are used by the government in an attempt to compel citizens to sacrifice their deepest convictions on marriage and what it means to be male and female, people who serve everyone, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity, but who can not promote messages, engage in expression, or participate in events that contradict their beliefs or their organization's guiding values.

One note about calling the tinpot dictator of NK names: if you can't call a homicidal maniac that starves most of his citizens, engages in human trafficking, tortures and kills American students, etc names, who can you call names?

Our multiple award - winning shows and books not only engage and entertain young children (ages 2 - 7), but also nurture the social and emotional skills essential to become kind, communicative, and compassionate citizens of the world.

The net needs to return to its early idealism, said Thompson, so that citizens can define a digital commons to engage online as citizens and not consumers.

Irregular forces, enemy combatants, illegal combatants fight or engage in an act of warfare but they may not be citizens or they may not be part of the national army.

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.

Merely exhorting citizens to be more engaged, more community - oriented, more cooperative, more virtuous is not enough.

«Is it not correct to suggest that your administration acted on the basis that it was essentially unrestrained by international or Nigerian law in engaging in or encouraging the apparent diversion and sharing of the over $ 2 billion meant to purchase arms for Nigerian soldiers in order to protect them against attacks from Boko Haram and to enhance their ability to defend the territorial integrity of the country and provide security for its citizens?»

Knowing that people come to the platform to talk about what they care about, we have developed a politics and government programme essentially to understand how our platform is being used, not just during elections, but also to help governments engage with their citizens and also to see what the risks related to our platform in elections are and what opportunities and programmes can be put in place to address the risks.»

Dick Dadey, head of the watchdog group Citizens Union, said that while it wasn't against the law for de Blasio to assist his bundlers and other supporters — unless he engaged in an illegal quid pro quo — «they shouldn't have any more access to him than the average New Yorker.»

She added: «The government should stop emphasising difference and engage with Muslims as citizens, not through their religious identity.»

I expressed my views in this regard on WhatsApp last weekend, «Any country in which its elites consider re-electing a president like Buhari just as thousands of citizens are murdered across the country with not a single person arrested; a president who can not make an intelligent conversation on any policy or global issue with other global leaders; a president whose EFCC and DSS engage in open confrontation; a regime which crippled the economy and relies on cyclical movements in oil prices as its sole economic lever; a regime under which 10 million jobs are lost; and key accusations against top officials are treated with levity; just as the regime appears complicit in the invasion of its senate by thugs and seizure of mace... such a country is in serious trouble, that is if it isn't doomed.

The statement re-emphasize that the command will not stand idly and allow any person or group of persons to violate the laws of country by engaging in conducts that are perilous to public peace and order as well as the lives and properties of other law abiding citizens, please.

Citizens Union, like dozens of groups that are active in state politics, exists as both a (c)(3)-- which can receive tax - deductible donations but can spend a finite amount of money on direct political activity — and a (c)(4)-- which can engage in a broader range of political activity designed to promote «social welfare» but can't get tax - exempt donations.

Citizens United was not giving any money to a political candidate, they were merely engaging in speech that could affect an election.

«Public authorities do not misuse their powers under Ripa [Regulatory and Investigatory Powers Act] to engage in random mass intrusion into the private affairs of law abiding UK citizens.

It can only advocate positions (which it could do prior to Citizens United) and engage in electioneering activities like endorsing a candidate in advertisements (which it could not do prior to Citizens United).

They provide an opportunity to engage citizens who otherwise might not participate in discussions about science, technology, and the surrounding societal issues.

Members of the OAIE can share resources and engage in online discussions, and, in doing so, will enhance stakeholder interactions and build well - informed communities working to respond and adapt to ocean acidification.The OAIE invites anyone working on ocean acidification to join, including but not limited to government, tribal, and academic research scientists, citizen scientists, experiential and formal educators, NGO employees, marine resources managers, policy makers, concerned citizens, aquaculturists, people in the fishing industry, technology developers, and data managers.

With it comes a timely — if not urgent — opportunity to help students become more engaged citizens.

And so they are not just the skills one needs for work, they are also the skills all of us need to be engaged and effective citizens in a 21st century democracy, as well as to be life - long learners.

As an educator today, I draw on the writings of University of Washington political science and education professor Walter Parker, who has noted that «engaged citizens do not materialize out of thin air.

Most importantly, it takes seriously what it means to understand the relationship between how we learn and how we act as individual and social agents; that is, it is concerned with teaching students how not only to think but to come to grips with a sense of individual and social responsibility, and what it means to be responsible for one's actions as part of a broader attempt to be an engaged citizen who can expand and deepen the possibilities of democratic public life.

Examining five of the eight Lisbon Key competencies, it found that students in schools engaged with Drama in the curriculum are more likely to be successful citizens than those that are not.

And I probably don't need to convince anyone reading this about the value — no, the absolute necessity — of teaching young people to become engaged and active citizens.

By refusing to lay out the true nature of Connecticut's financial problems, Connecticut citizens won't have the information necessary to engage in an honest and thoughtful discussion about the challenges and issues facing the state.

The habits of behavior found in a reflective classroom community — attentive listening to diverse viewpoints, voicing clear ideas, and raising relevant questions — not only help students deeply understand historical content, but also require them to practice skills essential for their role as engaged citizens.

Some may find this as it should be, however citizens are not attorneys and should not be expected to engage one in order to participate in the governing process.

Seeking to serve students at risk of not succeeding in a traditional setting, the school fosters the knowledge, skills and habits of mind necessary to close student achievement gaps in mathematics and reading literacy and provide a community of engaged learners and participatory citizens.

Robin Cutler [00:02:33] And in this case, Canada definitely... But Canada is not the only country, there's many countries around the world that actually think that creating a book, authoring a book, is actually a cultural activity that they want to encourage their citizens to engage in.

In less than a year, they built their Animal Services subscription list to more than 15,000; not to mention more than 3,800 followers on the Hurst Animal Shelter Facebook page — illustrating the power of multi-channel digital communications to engage citizens — a trend we expect will continue to grow over the next several years.

On a positive note, Stewart felt encouraged by the conversations he engaged in with several Yulin citizens, most of whom didn't like the idea of eating dog, as well as butchers who said their businesses had taken a drop in sales due to all the activism, outside pressure, and the government no longer endorsing the event.

P.S. Ironically, your wishes for a triple - A mmo, that is an actual virtual world, not merely a murder - simulator but where players can craft, mine, farm, explore, entertain, do in - game reporting, and engage in a variety of professions, besides pew pew or stabby stabby, much like SWG of old or customize their character so that no two characters are alike COH of old, I'd argue STAR CITIZEN is your last, best hope for the mmo you've been clamoring for all along.

Serving consumers only, with «green shopping,» won't make sense unless citizens are engaged too.

If they don't like any of the particular options that fit the best available evidence on sea level rise, or don't like the particular ones that they suspect a majority of their fellow citizens might, they can be expected to try to stigmatize the municipal and various private groups engaged in adaptation planning by falsely characterizing them and their ideas in terms that bind them to only one of the partisan cultural styles that is now (sadly and pointlessly, as a result of misadventure, strategic behavior, and ineptitude) associated with engagement with climate change science in national politics.

Simply improving messaging in accordance with recommendations of psychologists or following the recommendations of economists to create economic incentives to engage in less GHG producing behavior will not likely create strong citizen support for climate change policies unless citizens better understand that the narrative created by opponents of climate change policies about high levels of scientific uncertainty and unacceptable harm to the economy from the adoption of climate policies is not only false but has been manufactured by fossil fuel companies and other entities which have economic interests in continuing high levels of fossil fuel consumption.

She'll tell you herself that's what she is doing; tell her audience, too, b / c she is trying to engage them as reasoning citizens — not «hoodwink» them.

While (so far) President Obama hasn't personally responded to any of the letters sent by our students, the higher - ups in major companies like Wal - Mart and Hershey's have taken the time to write back thanking students for their input and applauding them for being engaged citizens.

Consequently your Lordships are now engaged, not in the bold development of principle, but in a practical attempt, under adverse conditions, to preserve the general perception of the law as system of rules which is fair between one citizen and another.

As a starting point, given the significant Israeli Arab population, if Israel is engaged in ethnic cleansing, it's doing a damned poor job of it (and while I wouldn't deny that Israel's treatment of its Arab citizens has been anything to be proud of, it's worth noting that whatever understandable sympathy those Arab citizens may have for their kith and kin in the Palestinian territories, they have no particular desire to join them, much less be governed by them).

penalizes the defendant for engaging in public participation «plaintiff» means a person who initiates or maintains a proceeding against a defendant; «proceeding» means any action, suit, matter, cause, counterclaim, appeal, or originating application that is brought in the Supreme Court or the Provincial Court, but does not include a prosecution for an offence or a crime; «public interest» means the whole of the subject matter invites public attention, or a matter in which the public has some substantial concern because it affects the welfare of citizens, or one to which considerable public notoriety or controversy has attached; «public participation» means communication or conduct aimed at influencing public opinion, or promoting further lawful action by the public or any government body, in relation to an issue of public interest; «Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation (SLAPP)» means a claim that arises from a form of expression or public participation, by the person against whom the claim is asserted that was made in connection with an official proceeding or about a matter of public interest; Purposes of this Act: 2 The purposes of this Act are to a) Establish a statutory right to public participation for every individual; b) Encourage individuals to express themselves on matters of public interest; c) Promote broad participation in debates on matters of public interest; d) Discourage the use of litigation as a means of unduly limiting expression on matters of public interest; and, e) Preserve the right of access to the courts for all proceedings and claims that are not brought or maintained for an improper purpose.

• It should provide a speedy and cheap method to stop lawsuits if those suits were brought for an improper purpose, namely to harass or intimidate the defendants; • It should put the onus on plaintiffs to prove that their lawsuits were not improper; • It should help rebalance an inequality of financial resources between the parties, possibly by an order that the plaintiff should pay the defendants» costs at the outset of the litigation; • It should provide stronger legal protection for citizens engaged in public participation, such as through special defences; • It should deter people from bringing such suits in the first place, by exposing plaintiffs, and possibly their directors and officers, and lawyers, to awards of damages or even punitive damages.

I'll provide one of the most eloquent: the House of Lords is «now engaged, not in the bold development of principle, but in a practical attempt, under adverse conditions, to preserve the general perception of the law as system of rules which is fair between one citizen and another.»