Sentences with phrase «not about citizens»

Gary Peters: «When the U.S. with its vast wealth, doesn't want to help poor countries adapt to problems that we have helped create, then we should wonder about our political and economic systems, not about our citizens, most of whom are good - hearted and busy.»

When the U.S. with its vast wealth, doesn't want to help poor countries adapt to problems that we have helped create, then we should wonder about our political and economic systems, not about our citizens, most of whom are good - hearted and busy.

Politicians, it is said, must be concerned in their public role not about citizens of other countries, however impoverished; rather, they must focus on the wants and needs of their own country's citizens.

Not exact matches

As the party deepens its ability to cultivate «unity of thought» among citizens, «Amazing China» demonstrates the scope of China's propaganda machine, which not only crafted a stirring documentary about China's renaissance under Xi but also helped manufacture an adoring audience for it.

On what the average citizen without military service probably doesn't grasp about Gen. Petraeus:

There were some rumblings about GE (ge) not having been a great corporate citizen in other locales, and cynics pointed out that only approximately 800 people (out of a total headcount of 333,000) work at corporate headquarters.

Apparently it doesn't matter to Donald Trump that many businesses and citizens are outraged by his views about illegal immigrants.

«City officials may not understand that they will get access to very little of what Google learns from their citizens... Meanwhile, Google will be gaining insights about urban life — including energy use, transit effectiveness, climate mitigation strategies, and social service delivery patterns — that it will then be able to resell to cities around the world.

And these were not lies as a private citizen, or about private business or personal peccadilloes.

In 2012, only about 126 million people voted, and some 93 million eligible citizens did not vote.

That's likely part of the reason that enrollment dropped, as Americans making more than 400 % of the Federal Poverty Level (about $ 48,000 for an individual or $ 98,000 for a family of four) wouldn't be shielded from those rising premiums because they don't qualify for federal subsidies that lower - income citizens do.

It's not just the strange juxtaposition of presidential candidate ads and questionable online content that Digital Citizens Alliance is concerned about.

About 80 % of Aritzia's merchandise is made up of these in - house labels; the 20 % the company doesn't make are mostly popular denim brands like J Brand, Citizens of Humanity and 7 For All Mankind.

Additionally, Buenos Aires has introduced Academia Buenos Aires Emprende, an initiative to educate citizens about enterprise and business building, demonstrating a desire to promote and enrich the startup ecosystem, not only for local residents but also as a symbol for Latin America and the global startup scene.

I would imagine in urban areas like Toronto, Vancouver or Montreal, which have significant populations of recent immigrants, there's probably a significant subset of people who fled from countries where governments do all sorts of nasty things with the information they collect about their citizens and who aren't all that keen to provide such information here (you might say, «sure, but Canada's not Iran», to which the answer would be «exactly»).

, an initiative to educate citizens about enterprise and business building, demonstrating a desire to promote and enrich the startup ecosystem, not only for local residents but also as a symbol for Latin America and the global startup scene.

I'm not optimistic about any of those things (market, govt, country, future), but after my bummer of a post (about the Potemkin market, govt junkie - behavior, country's amazing devastation to institutions, employers and citizens, and the dismal future) I wanted to end on a laugh.

About the fact that the citizens don't want this.

The Council of Senior Citizens Organizations of BC (COSCO) isn't very happy about the neglect it's getting.

«The principle of living debt - free is not about being good money - citizens for the sake of it.

He's also not shy about sharing his take on the U.S.A., pontificating almost annually about the advantages that America has and confers upon its citizens and investors.

I suspect that in India — as opposed to here in Canada — the Trudeau Family's effort to go full Bollywood will be viewed more kindly by ordinary citizens who hear about it, as an eccentric but friendly gesture, not the grave insult Conservative politicians and Canadian pundits are trying to spin it into.

The final phase on the long - term relationship between the UK and EU, however, presents several important questions about economic integration and free trade that Britain's politicians and citizens have not yet agreed upon.

Just like those anonymous sources, Netanyahu continues to use demagoguery about the defense system that has saved the lives of Israel's threatened citizens, who now include people who do not just live in the south.

There's someting good about not seeing each of us, fundamentally, as either a citizen (as do the civic republicans) or as species fodder (as do the Darwinians).

Augustine writes, «This heavenly city, then, while it sojourns on earth, calls citizens out of all nations, and gathers together a society of pilgrims of all languages, not scrupling about diversities in the manners, laws, and institutions whereby earthly peace is secured and maintained, but recognizing that, however various these are, they all tend to one and the same end of earthly peace.

The Republican clowns only talk about what they are going to DO TO the citizens, not what they are going to do for the citizens.

They are not about to champion the Socialist Workers Party, slain Black Panthers and New Left activists — although these are only the most outrageously maligned of the multitude spied upon, which included such sterling citizens as Eleanor Roosevelt and thousands of ordinary, tax - return - filing Americans.

But Justice Sonia Sotomayor worried about the effect on local citizens who choose not to stand and bow their heads when asked during a public prayer.

The point of the law is to make it so that it's not about an employer's choice anymore, it's about setting a minimum standard of care and enforcing it so that ALL US Citizens recieve the same benefits.

These Muslims don't give a DAMN about AMERICANS, even if they happen to be citizens of this country.

The best way to protect America is to warmly welcome law abiding citizens of any faith, such a rare and wonderful thing about us, something we can hold up as unique and special, something that does nt provoke but binds loyalty.Being different, more accepting and loving than the ugliness found in anti-Christian cultures, is our greatest strength.

In thinking about them, we should bear in mind that Lincoln refused to accept the ruling of the Dred Scott Court that blacks — even free blacks — could not be citizens.

I've never been to Russia, but I know enough about Russia that I wouldn't want to be a gay citizen of it.

I think what is not Christian is to call a man who saw the moral dishonesty in denying about 50 million of our citizens healthcare a socialist or anti-Christ.

Roman citizens who did not believe in Jesus, wrote about Him and acknowledged that He did miracles (though they tried to explain them away as «sorcery»).

Here's what Plato wrote about democracy almost 2350 years ago: ``... do you notice how tender they make the citizen's soul, so that if someone proposes anything that smacks in any way of slavery, they are irritated and can't stand it?

if we as Amercians do not care about basic rights and freedom of Religion that every citizen should have, then we are in serious jeapordy of losing it for everyone.

The real debate is not about whether the market economy is desirable or not, but about how citizens should harness the market system to serve ends that they consider fundamental.

Revolution is clear about what the law should be: «As long as people have a choice about where they go for help, then it should not be a problem if the government funds a program in which a person... becomes a good citizen, employee, and family member through religious transformation.»

You can not blast a fellow citizen about the rights of men and women in this country and then simply force your own ideological beliefs on them in the same breath — it's beyond hypocritical.

I don't know about your country, but in mine, that particular word — «socialism» — was transformed long ago into just an ordinary truncheon used by certain cynical, parvenu bureaucrats to bludgeon their liberal - minded fellow citizens from morning until night, labeling them «enemies of socialism» and «antisocialist forces.

I love America, but I worry about my nation as more and more of it's citizens allow ignorance and bigotry to not only control there lives, but attempt to turn it into public policy.

It also bears mentioning, in closing, that the gains from thinking about religion from a broader global perspective accrue not only to the academic researcher in pursuit of recondite problems to study but also to the practitioner of religion and to those whose interest in world affairs resides simply at the level of informed citizen.

I don't exactly hate it, but is kinda weird that there are U.S. citizens who wax sentimental about past enemies of of the U.S.

in peace you don't need guns... but guns for defense and about power who has the real power... citizens army and citizens police force.

Joseph Stalin atheist murdered 24 million citizens not counting his war dead Pol Pot atheist decreased Cambodian population by over two milllion Tell us again about the «kind» «helpful» «do no harm» atheists

When people start talking about private citizens not being able to make their own decisions, I get worried.

Wait a minute, since you and your bigoted friends aren't really talking about taking away citizenship from our gay brothers and sisters (it would be a civil war if you tried, I'm not gay and I would fight against you), how could you take away any of their «God» given rights as a citizen, you know the same «God» given rights that you and your patriotic friends enjoy (I am assuming that you and everyone else that feels like you have served our great country in uniform just like me and my gay brothers and sister have done, are doing and will do).

Not sure what muslim countries your talking about, but culturally most of them do have sharia law in one form or another, which is why most of them consider christians second class citizens & if they ever step out of line by offending muslims there will be rioting and murder of christian families.