Sentences with phrase «n't good citizenship»

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But now in the EU, citizenship (and a passport, one of the most prized in the world) is moving into the realm of not only the super-rich but the run - of - the - mill well - off.

Not surprisingly, the highest - ranked brands on our Canadian list fared well in these two categories — Canadian Tire, for instance, earned high marks for citizenship, likely because of community - focused initiatives like Jumpstart, its charitable - giving program.

IRC provides legal support not only for refugees and immigrants achieving citizenship but also for reuniting their families as well.

Whereas The Broken Covenant was the voice of a prophet crying in the wilderness, alternately denouncing and lamenting for his people, Habits and its successor volume The Good Society, written by the same five authors and to be published in 1991, speak as one group of citizens to our fellow citizens, criticizing some things but also encouraging, offering examples of effective citizenship and church membership, and looking forward, if not with optimism, at least with hope.

I would have voted for Osama Bin Laden for president if he had renounced Islam, apologized, and said that the world would be a better place without religion (provided of course that he could meet necessary citizenship requirements... oh, and if he weren't dead).

The good preacher left out a lot in his sermon... In the first place you could not detain these people unless you passed laws denying them basic rights of citizenship... and of course they would have to be forbidden from any of the professions..

John Locke, a founder of modern notions of religious liberty, argued that atheists (as well as Catholics and Muslims) should not be granted full citizenship rights.

This citizenship involved such rights as trial before Roman judges, not local ones, and appeal to the imperial court at Rome, as well as exemption from some local taxes.

Sustainability becomes not just good corporate citizenship, but a better way to do business.

People say he wants to prove himself at Arsenal, others say he earns quite well and doesn't want to miss out on this money, others say he wants his children to earn British citizenship etc..

True, some are hucksters, seeking green cards or citizenship, but a good many are not.

Theresa May already had the power to revoke British citizenship if someone's presence is not «conducive to the public good» or if they have obtained British nationality by fraudulent means, but she was not able to remove citizenship on conducive grounds if it left someone stateless.

Since the Supreme Court has now prevented itself from acknowledging the question of whether Barack H. Obama is or is not an Article II «natural born citizen» based on the Kenyan / British citizenship of Barack Obama's father at the time of his birth (irrespective of whether Barack Obama is deemed a «citizen» born in Hawaii or otherwise) as a prerequisite to qualifying to serve as President of the United States under the Constitution — the Court having done so at least three times and counting, first before the Nov 4 general election and twice before the Dec 15 vote of the College of Electors — it would seem appropriate, if not necessary, for all Executive Branch departments and agencies to secure advance formal advice from the United States Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel as to how to respond to expected inquiries from federal employees who are pledged to «support and defend the Constitution of the United States» as to whether they are governed by laws, regulations, orders and directives issued under Mr. Obama during such periods that said employees, by the weight of existing legal authority and prior to a decision by the Supreme Court, believe in good faith that Mr. Obama is not an Article II «natural born citizen».

But my answer to you in general is to recognize that not everyone will agree with you, and democracy has to do its best when a citizenship is divided.

(I appreciate I am not an expert on what that means, but it seems to me to go well beyond the idea of the ummah as a global community of Muslims, which is undoubtedely compatible with democratic citizenship, in an analogous way to how Roman Catholicism is, even if some in Britain once doubted that too).

Since 2006 - she say she was wrong earlier when she said the date was 2003 - only 27 people have been deprived of citizenship on the grounds of their citizenship being not conducive to the public good.

The Trump administration's plan to include a citizenship question on the 2020 U.S. Census isn't sitting well with several elected officials in Brooklyn.

And even those who would regard all such concepts as mythical (cosmopolitans or libertarians who do not think that their passport or citizenship involves any social membership) would probably still acknowledge that existing institutions - the British government, the Monarchy, Parliament, Barclays Bank, Everton Football Club, etc - are inheritors not just of their history (good and bad) but indeed of the material consequences of that (eg assets belonging to the state, or the Royal family, or a business; or indeed debts).

Now that we have moved on from New Labour, hopefully David Mili and the other leadership contenders can finally grasp the bull by the horns and talk about a society where wealth tax is not punitive but good citizenship.

Most likely, this refers to St Kitts» program, and the passports were recalled (just to be clear, not citizenships - passports) because the result of not vetting the applicants was Canada stopping visa-less travel to passport holders because they didn't vet people well enough.

They seek to normalize the idea that formal citizenship doesn't really matter — and that insisting on it as a prerequisite for voting is at best discriminatory, and most likely racist.

The DOJ letter says ACS data alone are not good enough for its efforts to enforce the Voting Rights Act, but that the citizenship question should nevertheless be retained on the ACS.

I guarantee you, if America does not strongly exercise good citizenship in this global crisis, we will pay a price in a whole host of ways that many people do not even imagine right now.

Singles from Ukraine want to find a boyfriend from abroad not because they are eager to money or a good citizenship but mostly because they are disappointed in Slavic men.

For a movie that climaxes with the unfurling of an American flag over the rubble - strewn San Francisco Bay at golden hour as Johnson squints and promises, «Now we rebuild,» San Andreas doesn't have much to do with actual patriotism, let alone good citizenship.

The skill set for good citizenship, and the curriculum to lead youth in those positive directions does not, of course, align with what we are teaching in schools.

The proper measure of whether proposals are consistent with public schooling ought not be whether power, politics, or finances shift, but whether we are doing a better job of educating all children so they master essential knowledge and skills, develop their gifts, and are prepared for the duties of citizenship.

The learning inputs will not only help them to better understand economic citizenship but also help them to interact effectively in their community.

All the way up through the upper grades or making sure that they are practicing good digital citizenship as they're involved in this kind of inquiry, because kids can go in directions that are not safe for them.»

Even in schools that make forthright efforts to teach students good social skills, there is a premium on what can be thought of as «vocational citizenship» — with its emphasis on learning socially desirable behaviors not as part of an attachment to community or nation but for the practical benefits they will provide to the individual student.

Third, these teachers are uniquely well - positioned to report on what students are and are not learning when it comes to citizenship.

Civics and citizenship were not mentioned at all in in the mission statements of well over half of the districts surveyed.

Tony Wagner, a Harvard - based innovator in education, has probed the question of why even our «best» schools are not preparing students for success in college, career, and citizenship.

It is simply not clear how to measure empirically whether students have developed the qualities that Macedo sees as traits of good citizenship.

That right vouchsafes to families the options of private schooling and home schooling but not of no schooling, for it is balanced by «high duty» and by the «power of the state,» as recognized in the same Court decision, to «reasonably to regulate all schools, to inspect, supervise and examine them, their teachers and pupils; to require that all children of proper age attend some school, that teachers shall be of good moral character and patriotic disposition, that certain studies plainly essential to good citizenship must be taught, and that nothing be taught which is manifestly inimical to the public welfare» (emphasis added).

While career and college preparation are important goals, they aren't the sum of the purposes of schools: Our educational institutions also have an obligation to prepare students for citizenship and for a reflective, ethical, and well - examined life.

However, this vision of citizenship and citizenship education is also somewhat narrow, especially if the experiences do not engage students in well - structured problems (Bellan & Scheurman, 1998).

The latter statistic represents the «pipeline» of those ready for college and the 21st century workplace, is a more realistic measure of educational success and the challenge we face than any «dropout» calculation might indicate, and does not bode well, not only for our economic competitiveness, but for the future of responsible democratic citizenship.

Advocates of citizenship education cross the political spectrum, but they are bound by a common belief that our democratic republic will not sustain unless students are aware of their changing cultural and physical environments; know their past; read, write, and think deeply; and act in ways that promote the common good.

To help students prepare for these challenges and opportunities, schools must nurture not only reading, math, science, and history skills, but the arts, executive function, and a range of measures of physical, mental, and emotional well - being and citizenship.

Legislation to protect Dreamers — including the 20,000 educators with DACA — that includes pathways to legal status or citizenship would not only increase the GDP, creating more revenue with which to improve public schools, but it would also mean that students and families across the country currently living in fear of deportation could focus on both their education and creating a better future for themselves and their communities.99

Wherever you draw the line between fiction and nonfiction, remember the basic rules of good citizenship: Do not re-create incidents and characters who never existed; do not write to do harm to innocent victims; do not forget your own story, but while considering your struggle and the heights of your achievements, think repeatedly about how your story will affect and relate to your reader.

What if you believe (either hypothetically or with supporting evidence) that companies that show good environmental and social citizenship will tend to perform better that those that do not?

However, U.S. citizenship is not required as well as insolvency.

The tax is not about targeting immigrants, Wynne said, and a rebate would be available to people who subsequently get citizenship or permanent resident status, as well as foreign nationals working in Ontario and international students.

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EU citizenship makes this kind of «integration thinking» impossible, as it was designed, from the very beginning, not to allow states to divide incoming EU citizens into classes of «good» and «bad».

Also I should point out that on September 22nd, 1988 Canada allowed Japanese - Canadians who were deported between 1941 and 1946 as well as all of their descendants citizenship, provided that descendants were alive on September 22nd, 1988 regardless if the person deported was alive or not, I point this out since Canadian citizenship did not exists until 1947, therefore I also believe that this creates a contradiction by the Canadian goverment on which Canadians and their descendants they want to give citizenship to.

The Supreme Court in Baker v. Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) affirmed that the best interests of the child are not determinative on an immigration application — but they are pretty important.