Sentences with phrase «of their fellow citizens for»

As much as Romney, they're thinking too poorly of too many of their fellow citizens for how and (the Tea Partiers imagine) why they voted.

Not exact matches

Across Canada, misguided populism is creating bad public policy, preventing the spreading of economic benefits to all citizens By Joseph Quesnel Research Fellow Frontier Centre for Public Policy Misguided moratoriums... Read more»

For Lasch, true populism is rooted in mutual respect, which demands that we hold ourselves and our fellow citizens to shared standards of conduct and discourse — a necessary precondition for both civil disagreement and a healthy body politFor Lasch, true populism is rooted in mutual respect, which demands that we hold ourselves and our fellow citizens to shared standards of conduct and discourse — a necessary precondition for both civil disagreement and a healthy body politfor both civil disagreement and a healthy body politic.

In a letter announcing his retirement from the army at the close of the War, he wrote: «I now make it my earnest prayer, that God would have you, and the State over which you preside, in his holy protection, that he would incline the hearts of the Citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to Government, to entertain a brotherly affection and love for one another, for their fellow Citizens of the United States at large, and particularly for their brethren who have served in the Field, and finally, that he would most graciously be pleased to dispose us all, to do Justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that Charity, humility and pacific temper of mind, which were the Characteristicks of the Divine Author of our blessed Religion, and without an humble imitation of whose example in these things, we can never hope to be a happy Nation.»

And it's individualism (that «heart disease» that makes us apathetically indifferent to the fate of our fellow citizens), Tocqueville says, that makes us all easy prey for despots.

It is that passionate love for the truth that motivates me and many other non-believers to shed some light for those who can't see through the harmful religious indoctrination that inflicts and severely intellectually limits so many of our fellow citizens.

Saul of Tarsus was not just some ordinary person he was a Roman citizen, educated by the finest scholars of his day, a zealot for the Jews and you want to make believe he fell for myth, Jesus who his fellow Sanhedrin leaders hated and crucified was a myth, Saul was dispatched to kill those who believed in a myth, Saul witnessed Stephen filled with the Holy Spirit and stood by as Stephen was stoned to death over a myth, Saul later called Paul established the church over a myth, Paul tortured and killed for refusing to reject a myth.

Whosoever has the capacity to protest to prevent his household from committing a crime and does not is accountable for the sins of his household; if he could do so with his fellow citizens, he is accountable for the crimes of his fellow citizens; if the whole world, he is accountable for the whole world.

Whereas The Broken Covenant was the voice of a prophet crying in the wilderness, alternately denouncing and lamenting for his people, Habits and its successor volume The Good Society, written by the same five authors and to be published in 1991, speak as one group of citizens to our fellow citizens, criticizing some things but also encouraging, offering examples of effective citizenship and church membership, and looking forward, if not with optimism, at least with hope.

And so we begin with confession, certainly for particular sins of racism but even for the sin we were unwittingly born into, the sin we did not advocate for or promote but that benefited us nonetheless, the passive and active attitudes and actions of our ancestors who failed to advocate for full equality and justice for their fellow citizens.

However, this translation is a dangerous one, for all modern conceptions of citizens or members of the state, of fellow - countrymen and the like, are utterly mistaken.

This ethnic tension did not hold for the other Greek Jewish communities, and the large proportion of Jews of the rest of Greece survived, not least because of support from their Christian fellow - citizens.

But while I agree with them on many economic policies, I flatly refuse to vote for anyone in bed with the fundamentalists who are campaigning to take away the rights of their fellow citizens.

'' We find that justice - social, economic and political - remains an unrealized dream for millions of our fellow citizens.»

A person who acknowledges their sin, asks God to forgive them in the name of Jesus who died on the cross to forgive our sins, and asks for God's mercy and grace to do His will on this earth, (in all matters, even political) is best going to serve our country and our fellow citizens.

Some people in our country like to call us the greatest country in the world, but our lack of care for our fellow citizens does not bring us that honor.

So then you are no longer strangers and sojourners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, in whom the whole structure is joined together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord; in whom you also are built into it for a dwelling place (OIKOS) of God in the Spirit.

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.

The Constitution could not take for granted that its citizens would all be motivated by civic virtue and so its concern was as much to protect individuals and groups from abuse at the hands of the government and their fellow citizens as it was to involve all its citizens in genuine participation.

Marty's new book is a resource for people of conviction who want to be good citizens in a pluralistic society: «You want to do the right thing by your God, your tradition, your country, the public order, the law and the courts, and your fellow citizens.

A decade after 9 / 11 - even the most intellectually challenged American should have understood that in the part of the world where there is instability and power vacuum - the slightest excuse can be used to rally people for a cause - and the Prophet is a powerful «cause» - that can be misused by political forces... So, any American who irresponsibly puts the lives of his fellow citizens in danger by using such provocation is a traitor to his country.

If you want to know / understand how God wants us to be human and so with this thought, please listen to every bit of Jeremy Myers and move into relationship with Jesus Christ and your fellow citizens of the world meant for you / us.

The legal scholar who is the founder of the New Citizens» Movement was detained in July 2013 after calling for the release of fellow activists who'd urged top officials to disclose their assets.

Mormon volunteers in Ghana, for example, arranged for 1.5 million text messages to be sent to fellow citizens in support of the country's launch of vaccines against pneumonia and rotavirus, two diseases that together claim the lives of more than 2 million children around the world every year.

«I deem the present occasion sufficiently important and solemn to justify me in expressing to my fellow - citizens a profound reverence for the Christian religion and a thorough conviction that sound morals, religious liberty, and a just sense of religious responsibility are essentially connected with all true and lasting happiness...»

But I do admit that your enthusiastic support for trashing the civil rights of your fellow citizens did catch my eye the other day.

Fredom fundamentally allows all expressions short of those causing physical harm to others and calls on the consciences of men to help them make decisions for the greater good of their fellow citizens.

Consequently when Israel is called to imitate this righteous God, it too shall care for those who can not take care of themselves; it shall not «trample the head of the poor... and turn aside the way of the afflicted» (Amos 2:7); it shall not oppress its slaves nor its hired servants, be they fellow citizens or foreigners.

And so nature intends, so to speak, that each of us find compensation for or meaning in our mortality in our replacements, in our children, our fellow citizens, our friends, and in our great accomplishments in thought and deed.

A great many of our fellow citizens see demands for homosexual marriage as just one more step in the democratic struggle against injustice and discrimination, a continuation of the fight against racism.

That's because, for one thing, abortion and marriage are issues to be resolved by the people acting through legislatures, and Catholic Americans, as citizens, are perfectly free to convince their fellow citizens of the truth of their view of who we are as free and relational beings.

Join fellow citizens on Friday, September 11 at 6 PM the Red Hat Amphitheater for the 9/11 Day of Service Evening Commemoration coordinated by Activate Good with support from the Downtown Raleigh Alliance, City of Raleigh, and Triangle area businesses.

By engaging citizens in a wider discussion, it is shaping a certain type of Romanian citizen, a critical one, capable of engaging in civilized discussions with his fellow citizens, of taking action whenever needed and of holding the political leaders accountable for their actions.

(Albany, NY)-- One day after being appointed Ranking Democratic Member of the New York State Senate Elections Committee, Senator Brian Kavanagh today joined with fellow legislators and advocates — including the Brennan Center for Justice, Citizen Action of New York, Citizens Union, Common Cause / NY, the League of Women Voters of New York State, the New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG), Planned Parenthood, and Transportation Workers United Local 100 and colleagues in the Senate to urge Governor Andrew Cuomo to fully fund early voting in the Fiscal 2018 - 2019 Executive Budget.

To all Americans, we are grateful for their willingness to come to our aid as we take on the monumental task of rebuilding and we pledge to do the same should our fellow citizens find themselves facing unexpected and harsh devastation.

Thank you for joining me today to salute those who have made a positive difference in our communities and improving the quality of life for their fellow citizens,» said Senator Klein.

My colleagues in the PNDC and NDC1 and 2 knew that I speak the truth to every fellow citizen even when he is the personification of our collective power for the meantime.

Fellow patriotic citizens, I fought for two long years for justice for the Constitution and for all of us and the Supreme Court eventually vindicated the public's interest by ordering the refund of the unconstitutional loot to the Republic of Ghana.

By Rockland County Executive Ed Day It took the people of Rockland County just four days to fill four tractor - trailer trucks to the brim with relief supplies for fellow citizens in Puerto Rico.

We join with those in Nigeria who appeal for the protection of their fellow citizens» fundamental freedoms and universal human rights.»

You will retain your civic privileges but they will be useless to you, for if you seek the votes of your fellow citizen, they will not grant you them and if you simply seek their esteem, they will pretend to refuse you that too.

Without going through the nitty gritty of the current altercation, available records show that this is not the first time the honorable Member of Parliament is raining verbal abuse on his fellow citizen for criticizing his criticisms.

For the past several months a dedicated group of our fellow citizens have volunteered their time and talents to review our charter and suggest improvements.

Democracy does not function when so many of our fellow citizens can not participate,» said Mazeda A, Uddin of the South Asian Fund For Education, Scholarship and Training (SAFEST).

Let us be clear: there is no place whatsoever for violence of any kind, whether against the police or against our fellow citizens, in New York City.»

It took the people of Rockland County just four days to fill four tractor - trailer trucks to the brim with relief supplies for fellow citizens in Puerto Rico.

Since when does a prime minister basically say that the needs and aspirations and interests of 16.1 million fellow citizens counts for nothing?»

Not only does it show that a «band of brothers» is an accurate description of fellow fighters, but the lack of solidarity of the fighters with ordinary citizens may be partly to blame for the bitter infighting that has emerged in Libya and elsewhere in the wake of successful revolutions.

Now a Canadian citizen, she recently returned to Japan for 2 months as an invited JSPS fellow, working at the government's satellite navigation division of the Electronic Navigation Research Institute.

«Given that Canada is currently experiencing a rapid growth in the population of foreign - born citizens — one of the highest rates of any Western nation — the mental health status of immigrants and refugees should be a national priority,» writes Dr. Kelly Anderson, an assistant professor at Western University, London, Ontario, and a fellow at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES), with coauthors.