Sentences with phrase «of civic duty»

So let's consider the way tolerance has become a norm as a template for a renewed focus on encouraging a sense of civic duty among today's adolescents.

As a community passionate about public charter schools and public education, we encourage all of you to participate in the election process as a part of our civic duty.

I felt it was more of a civic duty.

I was raised with a strong sense of civic duty, and I've been involved in local politics since I was 11 or 12.

But both are from prominent Houston families who consider arts patronage as much of a civic duty as paying taxes, and they shared their passion for drawing with the city's ultimate arts patron, Menil Collection founder Dominique de Menil.

Merely a year after Scott Evans retired from managing nearly $ 500 billion at TIAA - CREF, he says a sense of civic duty led him to the CIO role overseeing New...

Directly elected mayors have a great deal of power — unlike their purely ceremonial counterparts who tend to be senior councillors wearing the robes of office and tasked with carrying out a range of civic duties.

Buhari also extolled the monarch's visionary leadership over his domain by always ensuring peaceful co-existence, promoting tolerance and constantly reminding citizens of their civic duties.

Pediatricians also should remind parents that vaccination is something of a civic duty.

He is thoughtful and gentle, except when immediately provoked, and feels the first stirrings of civic duty while his peers are still focused exclusively on love and friendship.

Fortunately, Loban and other entrepreneurs can count on the desire of local businesses to interact with the academies for reasons above and beyond the call of civic duty.

But is it realistic to expect today's schools, beleaguered as many of them are, to add the promotion of civic duty to their long list of responsibilities?

Most young people simply don't vote, violating the first commandment of civic duty.

Many didn't interpret it as a simple reminder of their civic duty, feeling like they were actually target of full fledged political activity (and they may arguably be right on that).

Journalism, no matter where or how practised, contains a critical component of civic duty, the betterment of society through the dissemination of truth.

It is a tough pill to swallow realizing that the system of selling real estate is still heavily weighted in favour of recruiting real go - getters without previous related real estate experience versus really knowledgeable people with a sense of civic duty about them in the first place, when it boils down to who might make the best sellers / producers.

«It's also part of a civic duty,» said Joo Yu - min, an assistant professor at the National University of Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy whose research focuses on mega-events in Asian cities.

Part of my probably excessive sense of civic duty is the compulsion to work as a judge at the polls during heavy elections.

The investors, especially Henry, have also expressed a sense of civic duty.

It's part of their civic duty.

On the other hand, respondents who are certain they will vote may be enthusiastic about voting for a candidate, whilst others may be voting out of a sense of civic duty.

As the son of Ulster County Sheriff Paul Van Blarcum — also a former Shandaken council member — he credits his father with «instilling in me a sense of civic duty.

Another theory is that people do it not merely because of the chance of changing the outcome of an election, but because it's an act of civic duty, although economist Steve Landsburg, in his popular book «The Armchair Economist», counters «But that ignores the fact that voting takes time away from other more productive acts of civic duty.

It has always been the accepted convention that Labour voters (by their very nature) are a bit fickle and lazy and so are less likely to turn out in bad weather or the dark, whereas our supporters have a greater sense of civic duty and will turn out come what may.

«It means students have a more strongly - rooted sense of their civic duties.

When I'm not at Fordham, I teach a seminar in civics and citizenship to twelfth graders at Democracy Prep, a New York City charter school that consciously (some might say aggressively) tries to inculcate a sense of civic duty and a spirit of activism.

Without imparting on our students a sense of their civic duties, and the knowledge required to carry them out, I worry that all our education reform efforts will be for naught.

Turnout among the youngest voters has declined, even as they have grown more tolerant; plainly, a sense of civic duty is also needed.

In both cases, my central hypothesis is that the stronger the school's civic climate, as measured by the strength of a school's communal belief in voting, the greater the degree of electoral engagement for any of the school's individual students, regardless of their own personal sense of civic duty.

In other words, my analysis isolates the effect of being surrounded by others who see voting as a component of good citizenship regardless of the individual's own expressed sense of civic duty.

They don't just join your team out of a sense of civic duty, however, as palms will need to be greased and favors will have to be doled out if you want the best of the best to join your team.

Quiet and reserved, Noel nonetheless has a strong sense of civic duty and he wishes to protect Hakumu Village.

Their sense of civic duty and dedication to future generations is highly commendable.

Lawyers and firms only fight conflict allegations because they want to retain the file (and the fees, and the profile) not because of some sense of civic duty.

As a result, it's fairly easy to appeal to lawyers» sense of civic duty and recruit a healthy roster of volunteers.