Sentences with phrase «of citizens like»

I have dedicated my practice to protecting the rights of citizens like you.

Recruited hundreds and hundreds of citizens like you to run for our Democratic County Committee.

Not exact matches

Klein could have made the citizens of Hartford and his client momentarily happy with a safer team name like the Huckleberries, the choice of Hartford Courant readers, in honor of Mark Twain's history in the city.

Interviewing noted legal thinkers like Michelle Alexander (author of The New Jim Crow), the documentary argues that this «loophole» — allowing forced labor for criminals — enabled resentful white society to imprison black citizens on minor charges and put them to work.

I bring this up because this absence (or call it omission, if you like) underlies the staunch opposition of many conservative Republicans to the Affordable Care Act — and to previous government efforts to provide publicly funded health care and insurance coverage to their citizens going back to the passage of Medicare in 1965.

Besides, for the hundreds of millions of rural peasants who have already migrated to cities — supplying factories with an endless supply of cheap labour — life in cities like Shanghai, Beijing or Shenzhen means being treated like second - class citizens, since their access to social services and education for their children is tightly limited.

Profits realized by government can and often are spent on its citizens, but for anti-government zealots like U.S. presidential contender Ron Paul, that's reason enough to get rid of the Fed.

Proponents of regulations like to point out that government's role is to protect citizens from harm, particularly from greedy businessmen who pick pockets and poison kittens on their way to the top.

Each state has laws that waive the cost for special cases, like minors, senior citizens, victims of identity theft, and their spouses.

In peer countries like Canada, some citizens are taxed at higher rates throughout the year, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development notes, but they get a lot more from their government in terms of social services, including health care.

In a country where most citizens have little disposable income, potential franchisees should follow the example of franchisees in other tourism centers, like Indonesia, and focus on tourists to bring in the dough.

In the mid 1980s, as seemingly every kid in the West was mashing buttons on video - game classics like Super Mario Bros., Donkey Kong, and Duck Hunt, the citizens of the Soviet Union were wondering which pair of shoes they might have to boil for their nutrients first.

Buchholz also argues against policies like France's 35 - hour cap on the workweek, conceived to promote a better quality of life among its citizens.

Graham said he wants to learn more about the «unmasking» of US citizens like former national security adviser Michael Flynn, who may have been caught up, incidentally, in surveillance of monitored non-US persons believed to be foreign agents.

Tanner's strongest claim as a citizen of Portland may be its myriad collaborations with like - minded local businesses.

The system used to generate the fake comments swapped out words in such phrases again and again — for instance, switching «people like me» for «individual citizens» and «products» for «services» — to produce 1.3 million superficially distinct variations on the same basic block of text.

Unlike the nationalism of more culturally monolithic nations that tends to exclude foreign - born citizens, in Canada it's immigrants like Abdul - Rahiim and Tura — people who live here by choice, not happenstance — who tend to be the biggest patriots.

According to reports, Macron's digital team created dummy accounts, or honeypots, that looked like an individual's account with top level information from the campaign, but much of the contents was fake — planted specifically to render a data dump confusing, if not useless, since it would take a tremendous amount of time for reporters and citizen journalists to sort out the real from the fake.

The managers of Singapore Inc. tend to treat local citizens somewhat like the employees of an old - fashioned company town.

Because it is rarely advertised, the Filet - O - Fish may seem like a second - class citizen of McDonaldland, and one now headed for exile thanks to salads, wraps and other modern fare.

While every drop of urban citizens» water is measured and most residential lawns are nearly grassless and brown, farmers — including non-U.S. farmers — can essentially divert river water or other natural water sources as much as they like to grow their crops, even if these crops are then exported to feed foreign cows.

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.

These are the citizens of Free Agent Nation, as author Daniel Pink called it in his influential 2001 bestseller, and they've never met a challenge they didn't like.

Like many of Hazard's roughly 5,300 citizens, he hails from a long line of coal workers.

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»).

The oft - repeated narrative of 2012 goes like this: Citizens United unleashed a torrent of money from businesses and the multimillionaires who run them, and as a result we are now seeing the corporate takeover of American politics.

They, like the American citizens of Puerto Rico, are expendable in the eyes of this racist administration.

But some central bankers have said that issuing their own currencies on some sort of blockchain could make it easier for citizens to use the money without going through intermediaries like banks and credit card companies.

Bill 69, legislation Trudeau introduced on the environment, looks nothing like a citizen's bill of rights, and falls far short of what green activists expect from governments.

Following the publication of a report in July 2017, North Korea's elites, some of the country's few citizens allowed on the Internet, have greatly altered their online behavior, and are now obfuscating their browsing activity, and have ditched US websites like Facebook or Instagram for alternative Chinese social networks.

Mr. Balding cited the downward pressures that have been building on the Chinese currency in the face of outflows, as citizens and companies rush to get their renminbi offshore and convert it into more international currencies, like the dollar.

Private citizens like Vancouver's Scott McIntyre of book publisher Douglas and McIntyre, and Peter Grant, a communications lawyer and former SAGIT member, lobbied colleagues and governments around the world to support the convention.

In regions like the Philippines and India, remittance service providers dominate their respective finance industries due to the lack of affordable and efficient banking systems that accommodate local residents and citizens.

Too often, the poorest of citizens can lose up to 20 % when receiving money from abroad with traditional services like Western Union.

«[I] f your view of the world is having a balance of interests, a competitive marketplace, equal providers, equal parties coming to the table — whether it's a supply chain or a network of things like sending money back and forth or citizens working to solve village - level, regional or global level — this is technology can help implement that.»

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.

It was the first country to offer citizens of the world «e-residency,» a digital ID for non-Estonians that offers access to services like banking, payment processing and taxation.

What is interesting to see with this bitcoin hype is how uneducated writers still are when it comes to the question of what money actually is — especially the assumption that money, e.g. US Dollars, are tied to any real world values like gold is one of these modern fairytales that is repeated often — I can not understand that even after the big corporate crimes (aka as «financial crisis») that US Citizens cost millions of dollars there is still such a lack of understanding of what money actually is.

But by the mid-1990s, Surve, like many of his comrades, grew frustrated by the huge economic disparities that existed in South Africa, even though its progressive constitution afforded all citizens equal rights.

Under the terms of the Bali Package — agreed to at the enclave — India and several other countries, like Brazil, South Africa and members of the G - 33, can provide food grains to their four billion citizens at below market price.

Like it or not, as private citizens and as businesses, we all operate under the flag of Brand Canada.

We all pay taxes, whether we like it or not, because we agree as citizens, as members of a democratic society, that mandatory taxation is for the common good.

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.

Oh, he is part of the «Christian'tradition indeed... treat all women like second - class citizens and let the men deal with the tough stuff.

When we look at the Bible holistically, we see the mandate is for every citizen in the kingdom of God to eradicate injustice The command is there, hidden in plain sight like a plot twist in a movie that our eyes missed because they were looking for something else.

«She is a free woman, like any ordinary citizen,» said Abdul Hameed Rana, one of Rimsha's lawyers.

It is a call for like - minded people of like - faith to UTILIZE the religions freedom established by our forefathers to vote into office a person who... according to our shared beliefs... fits in with our concept of what makes a person «honest, forthright, [and has] a healthy vision for the nations future & its citizens.»

The voting rights act has been eviscerated and we'll see lots more «voter fraud» laws soon and the likes of Citizens United and dark money PACs will flood the electorate with muck - raking the like of which we have never seen.

There are actually some citizens who want to help revive the city, and I think that there should be some type of assistance for a project like this.

I am a US citizen just like you but when I first came here I was at the lower bottom that anyone would ever get but I was train to be a hard working person instead of going to welfare.