Sentences with phrase «of public citizens»

As Barber predicted, «What begins as an assault on bureaucratic rigidity becomes an assault on government and all things public... (destroying) a people's right to govern themselves publicly... (and) to establish the conditions for the development of public citizens.»

He has served on the boards of Public Citizens for Children & Youth, Research for Action, and the National Adoption Center.

Not exact matches

«He made it crystal - clear to me through his representative that he would carry out his public duty as a citizen and resident of this community,» the Tribune reported Evans as saying.

The result is To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science, a Public Benefit Corporation that seeks to «collaborate with global citizens to advance science and build a powerful community of interest» that is made up of three divisions: Entertainment, Science, and Aerospace.

If you'd rather not have a vehicle of your own, the city has a growing network of public buses on the main boulevards which senior citizens can travel for free on.

«The elimination of federal funding to CPB would initially devastate and ultimately destroy public media's role in early childhood education, public safety, connecting citizens to our history, and promoting civil discussions - all for Americans in both rural and urban communities,» Harrison wrote.

The Chinese public had something else in mind, and went straight for the jugular with thousands of ordinary citizens taking Modi to task over territorial claims.

If the census were to count only citizens, rather than all residents, the budget allocations will not accurately reflect the actual number of people who will make demands upon public institutions.

It's an easy way to get the citizens of your region on your side, and get more public visibility at the same time.

So far the battle has entailed more words than action, with the tax's supporters trading charged public comments with representatives of the tech companies such as Weinberg's Bay Area Council Economic Institute and the San Francisco Citizens Initiative for Technology and Innovation, which represents Salesforce, Google, Pinterest, Twilio, and others.

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.

The Supreme Court's Citizens United decision in 2010 allowed for unlimited political spending by corporations, but Justice Anthony Kennedy expressed his strong support for public disclosure of the money spent.

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

Its self - belief — and that of its citizens, businesses and investors — is slowly recovering but the scars from the crisis, such as unemployment and high public debt, remain.

Until a few days ago, the narrative around the Greece crisis was that the damn Greeks should just pay their taxes, repay their debt, and get rid of some of the crazy public spending policies that cosset its citizens.

However, «recent public scrutiny of data management practices at Facebook may have a tempering effect on citizens» willingness to opt - in, especially in the near - term,» the Goldman team said in a note to clients.

Citizens must demand that the motives of those we call public servants be examined.

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.

A recent survey on corporate reputation conducted by the Corporate Responsibility Association (CRA) showed that nearly 50 % of the companies who responded had been targeted by activist citizen groups, and now engage with these non-governmental organizations in order to help improve public perceptions.

The rest is explained by the natural resources with which that country is endowed, the physical infrastructure, the collective know - how of fellow citizens, the quality of public and private institutions, and the degree of trust that greases the wheels of commerce, politics and everyday life.

We are an engaged corporate citizen, committed to the safety of our employees, customers and the public.

Digital Citizens is a coalition of consumers, businesses, and Internet experts focused on educating the public and policymakers on the threats people from all walks of life face on the Internet.

About the Digital Citizens Alliance Digital Citizens is a coalition of consumers, businesses, and Internet experts focused on educating the public and policymakers on the threats people from all walks of life face on the Internet.

Clark and her government are totally manipulative as they dispense spin to a seemingly gullible public on how great they are for the environment - the current carbon tax of $ 30 a ton has remained frozen for years and recently they have approved a huge LNG project and will no doubt OK the Kinder Morgan pipeline - and there is pretty good chance the good citizens of this province will eat up all the propaganda and vote them back in!

But, like many other nations, it suffers from «a failure of the state» begat by «bureaucracies at local, state, and national levels» that remain either too corrupt or too incompetent to supply citizens with decent public services.

Well, the reason is that 45 % of the publicly - held debt is owned by foreigners, and the remaining debt held by the U.S. public represents future transfers of purchasing power - claims of some U.S. citizens on the future output produced by others.

«The restriction of broadcast licenses... will distort competition and does not ensure that the public will be informed objectively objective information to citizens,» the center - right New Democracy party said.

One of the major obstacles they must overcome is the seemingly negative perception the public has of Stéphane Dion; they're attempting to do this by asserting him as a decisive and strong political leader, and by showcasing him as an «average citizen,» rather than a politician who has been regarded as a somewhat - distant intellectual.

We, the undersigned, citizens of Canada, call upon the Government of Canada to restore the use of the Bank of Canada to its original purpose, by exercising its public statutory duty and responsibility.

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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.»

As such, the public's confidence in the integrity of the FISA process depends on the court's ability to hold the government to the highest standard, particularly as it relates to surveillance of American citizens.

«As well, ISDS puts a serious chill on the ability of governments at all levels to enact legislation and public policies that protect the health and well - being of citizens or promote sustainable development.

Have first hand experience living through different regimes and thoroughly understand the impact of public policy on the quality of life of citizens (i.e. I was born and raised in Communist China and flourished in the wonderful democratic Canada).

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I'll be speaking at the second one, at 10:45 in the same room, along with the national leaders of NUPGE (representing provincial workers) and CUPE (representing municipal workers) about the contribution of public workers to greater equality by improving the lives of marginalized Canadians — the unemployed, the homeless, single parents, recent immigrants, senior citizens, and others.

If you even pay casual attention to political news in Canada, you will undoubtedly hear clips from spokespeople representing the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, the Fraser Institute, the National Citizens Coalition, the MacDonald - Laurier Institute, the Canadian Federation of Independent Business or the Frontier Centre for Public Policy.

The Harper government's budget cuts target crucial public services that ensure the health, safety and well - being of citizens.

The minister heads the state oil company PDVSA, which is in desperate need of a hike in fuel revenues and favorable financial ratings to fund imports of consumer goods and medical supplies for its citizens and to keep the socialist government's public services afloat.

YOU MAY NOT ACQUIRE CTK TOKENS DURING THE PUBLIC SALE ROUND IF YOU ARE A CITIZEN, RESIDENT (TAX OR OTHERWISE) OR GREEN CARD HOLDER OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, OR A CITIZEN OR RESIDENT OF CANADA, OR A CITIZEN OR RESIDENT OF THE PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF CHINA, OR A CITIZEN OR RESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA (ie: SOUTH KOREA), OR A CITIZEN OR RESIDENT OF THE FEDERATIVE REPUBLIC OF BRAZIL (ie: BRAZIL).

This solicitude is remarkable because normal free speech principles emphatically (and somewhat dogmatically) require citizens on public streets to put up with the hurly - burly of untrammeled debate.

Palin works from the assumption that one enters public service not to uphold the constitution, not to defend the nation, not to enrich the lives of citizens, but to honor God.

At the hands of bureaucrats, bosses, and judges, Christian merchants, universities, schools, hospitals, charities, campus fellowships, students, public officials, employees, and citizens have been fired, fined, shut down, threatened with a loss of accreditation, and evicted for living out traditional convictions about marriage and sexuality.

A certain tension is built into their official canons of ethics, e.g., «A lawyer is a representative of clients, an officer of the legal system, and a public citizen having special responsibility for the quality of justice.»

Based entirely on anecdotal evidence, however, I believe the press» credibility with senior citizens has taken a hit from which it is unlikely to recover, and it may be entirely due to the election of 2008, when the mainstream media utterly abandoned whatever responsibilities to the public trust to which it still felt obliged, tossed presumptive - nominee Hillary Clinton aside and» rejecting any - and - all discomfiting questions about his experience, background, past - operations, education, friendships or capabilities» hoisted candidate Barack Obama upon their shoulders and carried him into the White House in triumph.

After March 4, 2013, an International Arrest Warrant will be issued against these Defendants.The guilty verdict followed nearly a month of deliberations by more than thirty sworn Citizen Jurors of the 150 case exhibits produced by Court Prosecutors, The Court's judgement declares the wealth and property of the churches responsible for the Canadian genocide to be forfeited and placed under public ownership, as reparations for the families of the more than 50,000 children who died in the residential schools.To enforce its sentence, the Court has empowered citizens in Canada, the United States, England, Italy and a dozen other nations to act as its legal agents armed with warrants, and peacefully occupy and seize properties of the Roman Catholic, Anglican and United Church of Canada, which are the main agents in the deaths of these children

That doesn't mean Religion should be expelled from the public life, as some would - be-little-hitlers advocate, it does however mean that the Church should be independent of the state and conversely the state, and its citizens independent of the Church.

It has indeed caused «severe embarrassment» to the nation, as he laments, for the Senate investigation has laid before the public the elements of a terrible irony: that acts which are illegal and unethical for citizens to engage in at home are condoned, even aggressively pursued, by American law - enforcement officers and secret agents both at home and abroad.

Nobody thought much of religions other than Christianity; as was obvious by our public school pledge — which admonished us all to be good Christian citizens... Sure, I had questions too, but our church was pretty low - key so I was safe from some of the more radically - minded (read: brainwashed) of my peers.

The loss of biblical language in public rhetoric or in public education may have telling effect (Lincoln might be incomprehensible today) Sunday school and other agencies of biblical education, where the texts can be restored and minds can as well be re-stored, are neglected, signaling that citizens are not really serious when they ask for more religion in the schools.