Sentences with phrase «number of citizens»

The use of sanctioned cards only is to provide a more diverse set of questions from a greater number of citizens, rather than a few dominating the course of the discussions.

Anti-corruption agencies engage with and encourage large numbers of citizens who are willing to refuse paying bribes and report corruption.

On Saturday, untold numbers of citizens who support the idea of free scientific inquiry, and enough public funding to pursue it, took to the streets to tell everyone else on the planet they did.

Large number of citizens in any country can be more profited if their country is not fully libertarians.

«Very big armed groups are being formed in Sadr City, backed up by the Interior Ministry, to kill great numbers of the citizens of Baghdad once the curfew is lifted.

As pressures mount, an increasing number of citizens commit suicide by jumping off the towering public apartments.

Eligibility for the program has been increased to include citizens of South Korea who are participants in the Smart Entry System (a trusted traveler program in that country) and a limited number of citizens of Qatar..

The health care industry may continue to grow in Tennessee as a growing number of citizens get health insurance for the first time.

Paul might have stayed much longer than he did had not a demonstration against him and his work taken place that involved a sizable number of citizens.

Using same mapping exercise debuted at our five Community Congresses this past November, workshops like this will allow a greater number of citizens from across the region to map, write and discuss their vision for the future of Erie and Niagara counties over the next 40 years.

A rule of thumb in determining whether a market's earnings power is at risk of permanent impairment is if significant numbers of citizens are fleeing or want to flee the country for their personal safety.

He said just as President Muhammadu Buhari detests corruption, a good number of citizens were honest.

Petitions have been submitted, letters to the papers have been published, a huge number of citizen groups have come together around the idea and all of the main political parties — apart from the Conservatives — have committed themselves to establishing a constitution convention should they form or be part of the government after the 7 May 2015.

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and in addition, if a significant portion (even a small minority) of the parliament asks for referendum, they can ask a certain number of citizens to sign the referendum, and if this certain number of signatures is reached, a referendum is held.

Now, what the paper completely fails to address is how that precondition, that essential public trust, could possibly survive a system under which the security services were empowered by law to routinely trawl through the private communications data of vast numbers of citizens suspected of no crime, simply in order, as Sir David Omand puts it, «to identify patterns of interest for further investigation».

, he envisions a form of government that among other things includes the dissolution of the state, and indeed also a large number of citizen juries, selected by lot, that take decisions on public policy issues.

The Education Accountability Transition Plan HB 7117 / SB 1642 passed despite record numbers of citizen objections.

A new report by internationally available self - publishing platform Blurb Books led to news that a surprising number of citizens in the UK have made self - publishing a book part of their immediate life goals.

The UK had a fair number of citizens who fought against Germany in the Spanish Civil War, in addition to a few who fought against Communism (ie, on the other side).

China, with a roughly similar number of citizens, but where the data on capital punishment are secret, is estimated to kill somewhere between 5,000 and 10,000 people a year through the legal process.

While a university incorporated by statute and subsidized by public funds may in a sense be regarded as a public service entrusted with the responsibility of insuring the higher education of a large number of citizens. . .

China banned ICOs meaning that any projects that are raising money through cryptocurrency are now not allowed in a country that is one that has a large number of its citizens involved in cryptocurrencies — to the point where some are leasing planes to ship graphics cards for mining.

Politicians are pushing new policies, but still, increasing numbers of citizens are getting stuck inside elevators, stuck with dangerous ones, if not stuck with the stairs.

The CBP had previously opened up Global Entry to small numbers of German and U.K. citizens and is opening up enrollment to a limited number of citizens of those countries who are not yet enrolled.

The EU and the Euro have also generated conflicts within member states as the ever growing number of citizens is unhappy with their leaders following instructions from Brussels.

Or perhaps you just feel that diverse, multicultural nations function best when they minimize how often and how much they offend the deeply held religious and moral beliefs of a sizable number of their citizens.

From this view of the subject it may be concluded that a pure democracy, by which I mean a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person, can admit of no cure for the mischiefs of faction.

Ghanaians don't seem to be impressed by government's efforts to curb corruption, as a new report by Transparency International showed that a significant number of citizens, after South Africa, believe corruption has increased in the country.

We live in a culture that's so divided that a good number of our citizens can't recognize the humanity of their fellow citizens.

In the next place, as each representative will be chosen by a greater number of citizens in the large than in the small republic, it will be more difficult for unworthy candidates to practice with success the vicious arts by which elections are too often carried; and the suffrages of the people being more free, will be more likely to centre in men who possess the most attractive merit and the most diffusive and established characters.

The other point of difference is, the greater number of citizens and extent of territory which may be brought within the compass of republican than of democratic government; and it is this circumstance principally which renders factious combinations less to be dreaded in the former than in the latter.

North Korea has since clamped down on the number of citizens travelling to neighbouring China for family - related purposes.

In a state lineup, Alabama ranks nearly dead center in terms of its number of citizens.

For legal purposes, the Bible is not at all irrelevant, precisely because it is very relevant to a large number of citizens, and we do in fact live in something that somewhat resembles a democracy.

Just war means that we do not threaten to kill 5,000 civilians as revenge for the number of our citizens murdered.

Madison, in Federalist No. 10, defined a faction as «a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community.»

If Americans are to play their parts as world citizens with full responsibility, they must speedily extend and intensify the program of foreign language instruction, not only in the traditional fields of Latin, French, German, and Spanish but also, for large numbers of citizens, in Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, and other non-European languages.

Today large numbers of citizens are passionately interested in saving beauty spots, wildernesses and wildlife.

The east route «has a negative impact on the least number of citizens and makes the trail readily accessible to the most number of citizens,» said Commissioner Charles Hegarty.

By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adversed to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community.