Having a national, bilingual, bijural sounding board to distill the thoughts and opinions
of interested citizens on legal issues is something we can all support.
What will come in the future in other areas of science is the blogasphere, and here too, the collective wisdom
of interested citizens and scientists will shape, and I speculate, increase the speed of science sharing.
Of course this is going to capture the attention
of interested citizens beyond the mere elites,» said Taylor.
Not exact matches
«The roaming regulations,» he added, «have become a symbol
of how the European Union can function in the
interests of its
citizens.»
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.
«We stand with President Trump and are happy to see the national security
interests of American
citizens at the forefront
of his administration's policies.»
The
citizens of the host country expunge all cynicism and find their eyes filling with tears; television viewers around the globe are inspired by a new generation
of fresh - faced athletes, many
of them competing in events which would draw almost zero
interest in any other context; the networks and sponsors breathe a great sigh
of relief knowing that their massive investment was sound; and the folks in Lausanne smile a secret smile.
Administered by AARP Services, a subsidiary
of the senior
citizens»
interest group, the program will offer group health care, retirement plans, and payroll services to these entrepreneurs.
But a boycott isn't necessarily in anyone's
interest either — it is arguably better to allow Russia a moment in the limelight, precisely because some
of that light will shine into the dark corner that is Russia's treatment
of its gay
citizens.
Each
of these risks is
of significant
interest to the risk management sector — and to governments and
citizens round the world We were told that our task was to transform these risks into opportunities and that our contributions would find their way into the 2014 Global Opportunity Report that DNV GL co-produces.
Acting on this
interest in expanded dialogue between Canadian millennials and our peers in Asia will provide us with the types
of soft skills that will make us more effective learners in the classroom, better negotiators in the workplace, and more informed
citizens.
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Once you have completed the form,
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It is unusual for a major country to appoint a
citizen of a different country to head its central bank and it will be
interesting to see.
«[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.»
As the largest manager
of retirement savings in the country, Vanguard has the power — and the obligation — to combat
Citizens United politics and special
interest influence in our elections.
A clean job, one not tainted with actions that are not in the best
interests of the majority
of citizens.
One
of the Coalition's first initiatives has been circulating a Pledge for
interested citizen groups and organizations to sign.
It betrays legislative history, which reveals that Congress passed antitrust laws to promote a host
of political economic ends — including our
interests as workers, producers, entrepreneurs, and
citizens.
The home mortgage
interest deduction is one
of the largest government subsidies available to all
citizens.
As described in this 2015 YouTube video (embedded below), a low social credit score is meant to isolate unruly
citizens from the rest
of the population and deny them access to state services and benefits via travel bans, increased prices for day - to - day products, higher bank
interests, and others.
They want freedom to act in their
interests without hindrance, to take advantage
of fellow
citizens, their venality hidden and victims believing that if you're not doing well it's your own fault - the marketplace has tested you and found you wanting.
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.
In the case
of a foreign
citizen already in Chile, companies
interested in accessing the Visa Tech system through InvestChile should submit a request for a Certificate
of Sponsorship.
APRs at
Citizens Bank typically range from 6 % to 16.25 %, and borrowers have the option
of getting a fixed or variable
interest rate.
The Warsaw Conference has put the
interests of dirty energy industries over that
of global
citizens — with a «Coal & Climate Summit» being held in conjunction; corporate sponsorship from big polluters plastered all over the venue; and a Presidency (Poland) that is beholden to the coal and fracking industry.
And Central Bankers must raise
interest rates higher and sooner next time, to choke off excessive spending by our own
citizens for whom frugality is a fad, not a way
of life.
Asia's sovereign bonds will likely be less endangered by rising
interest rates and less vulnerable to Western policies
of financial repression, which erode the purchasing power
of their
citizens» savings.
One easy option is to get quotes from the banks listed in our private student loan marketplace — we've already vetted these lenders, which include
Citizens Bank, Sallie Mae, and Visit LendKey — and know they offer some
of the best
interest rates and terms to borrowers.
Ms. Russell wrote with penetratingly keen insight, and as a result, I am much more cognizant
of why policy makers in Canada defer in favour
of the
interests of multinational oil companies rather than making decisions that are in the best
interest of the ordinary
citizens of central and eastern Canada when it comes to oil security.
They are privileges, really, impositions on some
citizens and their
interests to the advantage
of others and their
interests, impositions enforced by government.
Although written by a supporter
of Amendment 2 (which was overturned by the court in a decisionnow on appeal), the book provides a convincing analysis
of the crosscutting
interests and passions engaged when
citizens attempt to hold government democratically accountable.
Should the government be permitted to promote the religious
interests of a religious group by subordinating the secular
interests of other
citizens in access to logging areas?
By issuing this report, we hope to give governments an added incentive to honor the rights and the dignity
of their
citizens; but the report also has the benefit
of equipping
interested observers with an arsenal
of facts.
This leads to the negation
of the earlier concepts
of education as laid down in the Constitution
of India which put priority to «promote with special care the educational and economic
interests of the weaker sections
of the people» and to the development
of «scientific temper, humanism and the spirit
of inquiry and reform» in every
citizen.
For me, one
of the most
interesting things is that our elected political officials consistently received lowers scores than the average
citizen.
The good society thus becomes the one that maximizes satisfactions in the name
of distributive justice regardless
of the material content
of the
citizens»
interests.
Yet in view
of its amazing growth in its first 150 years, it is not without
interest to note that an LDS mathematician recently made a half - joking but statistically correct projection that «if Mormonism continues to grow in the United States at its present rate, and if the U.S. population continues to grow at its present rate, then in another 150 years when Mormonism celebrates its tricentennial, all the nation's
citizens will be Mormons.»
When the
citizens of a republic or a civilization become merely self -
interested (or equally worse,
interested in nothing at all) the center fails, and chaos conquers — until a man rides in on a white horse and reestablishes an order based not on nature or on God's will, but on his own subjective vision
of the world.
The eschaton
of radical freedom for all is inevitable, the forces
of History will sweep toward their ultimate victory — and therefore it is essential that every good
citizen accept liberalism (communism) in his heart and promote it publicly, eagerly detecting and shaming bias (class
interest) and intolerance (oppression).
The Texas statute undeniably seeks to further the belief
of its
citizens that certain forms
of sexual behavior are «immoral and unacceptable,»... the same
interest furthered by criminal laws against fornication, bigamy, adultery, adult incest, bestiality, and obscenity,» Scalia wrote in dissent.
Greenawalt concedes that
citizens of a secular liberal state have a legal right to vote their religious convictions, but he is more concerned with when and whether they ought to exercise self - restraint in the
interests of good citizenship.
America would remain free not because
of any quality in its
citizens of spartan self - sacrifice to some nebulous public good, but in the last analysis because
of the concern each individual would have in his own self -
interest and personal freedom40
It is the alliance
of this theory with corporate, short - term
interests, and the desire
of many
citizens to make no sacrifices that undergird the current unsustainable global system.
Urofsky explicitly recognizes the state's power as parens patriae «to protect the
interests and well - being
of its
citizens and to intervene on their behalf when necessary.»
The turn to benign
interests is a turn away from the messier and more obviously political questions that involve the identification
of a controversial good and the contest among
citizens vying for honor.
Since pastors are free to make political endorsements as individual
citizens, just not in their official capacities as leaders
of the church, supporters
of the Johnson Amendment contend that rather than restricting political speech, the rules protect nonprofits from lobbying
interests.
On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Lynn Hughes disagreed, writing the government can not «gag
citizens when it says it is in the
interest of national security, and it can not do it in some bureaucrat's notion
of cultural homogeneity,» according to a report in the Houston Chronicle.
That bows down to corporate
interests instead
of the
citizen?
When groups
of citizens get together to accomplish purposes
of mutual
interest (from which they derive no profit), it should not be the responsibility
of government to inspect, evaluate and approve their endeavors on the basis
of supposed conformity to the prevailing notion
of «public benefit» or «public policy»
of the moment.