Sentences with phrase «of older citizens»

What kind of responsibility do the states have to act — not only by instituting better testing and evaluation of older citizens, but also by helping to plan for options and substitute services that will be needed as millions of the elderly become unable to drive?

Eldergivers, a San Francisco nonprofit that promotes recognition of older citizens» achievements, has named painter Paul Wonner 2004 Bay Area Elder Artist of the Year.

Our volunteers are a wonderful group of people that help SPAN fulfill its mission of taking care of older citizens and their pets.

It has the major responsibility in Knoxville and Knox County of planning for services for senior citizens; assessing needs of older citizens and developing resources to meet those needs; coordinating services for the elderly to minimize duplication and avoid overlap — whether provided by public, nonprofit, or for - profit organizations; providing information about services and programs to older citizens and their families and connecting them to those services; and advocating on behalf of older citizens.

The low - fiber diet commonly consumed throughout the United States, in combination with a generally sedentary lifestyle and poor fluid intake, accounts for a large percentage of older citizens who suffer from constipation.

«We are proud to celebrate the achievements of the older citizens in Oneida County,» said Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente Jr. «The hard work of this year's winners and nominees makes a great difference in improving the quality of life for everyone in this community».

Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente, Jr. today announced that he has proclaimed the month of May «Older Citizens Month» in Oneida County in recognition of the contributions of older citizens to the future, present and past of Oneida County's communities.

It's pretty safe to say that millions of our oldest citizens will continue working in perpetuity, or until they just can't anymore.

I'm not sure that's such a fair deal for it because that's going to hurt a lot of our oldest citizens that are in nursing homes.

Not exact matches

Trump reportedly owns more than three - quarters of Trump Old Post Office LLC, the leaseholder, according to advocacy group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW).

The titans of old Madison Avenue may not have been model citizens, but they were smart enough to realize that their businesses — indeed, the whole idea of marketing — depended on cultivating moral authority.

Citizens were given a week to exchange a limited amount of banknotes at the rate of 100 old won (the North Korean currency) to 1 new won.

The move also drew condemnation from the League of United Latin American Citizens, the nation's oldest Hispanic civil rights organization.

But these days more than three - quarters of the 568 employees based in Vancouver (there remains a video - game team at the company's old digs on Beatty Street) are Canadian citizens or permanent residents, says de Martin, who himself hails from the Fraser Valley.

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

Garcia Zarate, a 45 - year - old Mexican citizen who was released from County Jail before the killing despite a federal request that he be held for his sixth deportation, was convicted of a single lesser charge of being a felon in possession of a gun.

«Crypto Valley was initiated by Johann Gevers after identifying Switzerland with its decentralized, citizen - controlled political system, its centuries - old culture of individual rights, innovation, and entrepreneurship, its neutrality, stability, and business - friendly environment... for building the new generation of decentralized technologies.»

The borrower must be a U.S. citizen who is at least 18 years old and owns at least 20 % of the business.

For example, a moving company promoting a special discount for senior citizens could target people who purchased a house within the last month, layered with an age range of 60 years old or greater and their service area locations.

«Passing a law that makes it illegal for a 20 - year - old to purchase a shotgun for hunting or an adult single mother from purchasing the most effective self - defense rifle on the market punishes law - abiding citizens for the evil acts of criminals,» NRA spokeswoman Jennifer Baker said in a statement this week.

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To qualify at Discover, you must be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident who is at least 18 years old and has household income of $ 25,000 per year.

This opportunity is only eligible for Global Citizens who are at least 18 years old and can volunteer for at least a week (ideally a minimum of two weeks) in Puerto Rico or Texas between now and Dec. 31, 2018.

After a hearty meal and plenty of family time, the citizens of the biggest consumer culture on our planet will commence with the age old tradition...

The arrival opens a new era of U.S. - Cuba travel with about 300 flights a week connecting the U.S. with an island cut off from most Americans by the 55 - year - old trade embargo on Cuba and formal ban on U.S. citizens engaging in tourism on the...

The aircraft was over 60 years old and «had been used in the past to rescue U.S. citizens stranded in the British Virgin Islands following Hurricane Irma and ferry supplies to the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria last year.»

Meanwhile, Iraq's beleagured president Nouri al - Maliki accused the organisation of trying to destroy the «centuries - old heritage» of Christians in Iraq, he said: «What is being done by the Daesh terrorist gang [ISIS] against our Christian citizens in Ninevah province, and their aggression against the churches and houses of worship in the areas under their control, reveals beyond any doubt the extremist criminal and terrorist nature of this group, he said.

This factor may help to explain the reported sharp rise of sexual activity within the Postmature category, those sixty - five years and older (a number of «postmature» citizens of my acquaintance, for instance, would likely decline to participate even before getting to the questions on necrophilia and sadomasochism).

are people so simple they crave the misguided beliefs of others to feel better about themselves or are we triing to understand the lunacy of our citizens to believe something as pathic as a 3000 year old IDEA in order to act properly when voting in those who will run this country for the next 4 years a.k.a. voting in one who using rational thinking and logic to make choices!

And the court has given states broad immunity from being sued in any court for money damages — for example, for infringing a patent or discriminating against older or disabled state employees — even though the Constitution limits this immunity only to suits in federal court by a citizen of a different state.

We are the only country on earth that has a large percentage of it's citizens who think the earth is only 6k years old.

The dynamics of the classroom thereby models that of the culture, teaching tomorrow's citizens the knowledge and appreciation they need of ancient authorities and fresh sassy pretenders to authority, and also teaching them the dialectical skill of marrying old and new, a skill which they will need if our nation is to long endure.

I LOVE your writing, your honesty and your exposition of the WORD... and I'm a senior citizen, in church since I was 2 weeks old!

Yes, citizens have a right to know «about the people who poisoned their lives» without being mired in a near - industrialized settling of old scores in «games organized by the Great Lustrator.»

In rejecting Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind as yet another example of «that old - time [Platonic] Philosophy» which presupposes an objective foundation for an elitist social agenda, Rorty quite properly endorses Dewey's view of the need to develop literacy in all our citizens.

That collective emphasis, that understanding of man as fundamentally social, was derived from the classical conception of the polis as responsible for the education and the virtue of its citizens, from the Old Testament notion of the Covenant between God and a people held collectively responsible for its actions, and from the New Testament notion of a community based on charity or love and expressed in brotherly affection and fellow membership in one common body.

For the Greek citizen of old, leisure and play were what were truly worthwhile, while the workaday world was viewed with disdain.

To illustrate, he takes six scribal interpretations of the Old Testament and interprets each in such a way as to show what it really means for the disciple, the citizen of the kingdom, the Christian.

I remind you of Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan Cpl US Army, a 20 year old Muslim US citizen who lay his life in Iraq in 2007 for his country.

I'm a «senior citizen» now (a nice way of saying «old»), and even in the days that God seems far away, I know He's with me, loves me, and hasn't left me.

Or again, he saw the black citizens» human rights fight making a wise use of social and political power to gain equal dignity and redress old grievances.

The popularity of Wednesday's post speaks to a growing desire, among both young and old *, for radical change in how we treat one another as Christians and as citizens.

Ironically, such proposals come at a time when this form of government, which is but 200 years old, has been expanding rather than restricting freedom for all its citizens, and has been doing so despite massive immigration, legal and illegal, and despite having added «foreign» territories like Hawaii and Alaska.

«13 The challenge before India's political system is not much different: how to ensure a minimum of equality in an age of globalization as international business and financial institutions deprive governments of some of their old sovereignty, empower elites with transnational loyalties, and cause ordinary citizens to grow indifferent to politics.

To defend this somewhat surprising claim, Mahoney looks to Solzhenitsyn's personal observations of Switzerland's Appenzell region, whose citizens impressed him with their old «fashioned character and devotion to local liberty.

Mindful that even as new principles are proclaimed, old habits die hard and citizens and politicians could tend to entangle government and religion (e.g., «the appointment of chaplains to the two houses of Congress» and «for the army and navy» and «[r] eligious proclamations by the Executive recommending thanksgivings and fasts»), he considered the question whether these actions were «consistent with the Constitution, and with the pure principle of religious freedom» and responded: «In strictness the answer on both points must be in the negative.

I happen to live in Britain where the welfare state, despite its obvious failings and inadequacies (to which reactionaries are always calling attention), has had and still does have as its chief concern the provision to everyone of those absolute necessities that are required if the citizens are to lead better, healthier, and more satisfying lives because they have been delivered from nagging fears and worries about illness and old age and much else that can be so dreadfully threatening to them.

«They weren't supposed to do it but they needed to survive and with the help of their friends and former landlords, they made a living until his children, who were U.S. citizens, were old enough to sign for the leases.

According to BBC Sport, the 25 - year - old German joins the Citizens on a four - year contract after seven years with Dortmund, for a fee in the region of # 20m.

Unlike most of those other guys, Fells is a comparative senior citizen at 30 years old.