Sentences with phrase «only as a private citizen»

Not exact matches

The only thing I can figure is it's free radicals or other substances created by the irradiation process, but that kind of testing and research is so far beyond the means of production labs and private citizens as to be laughable.

As a principal shaper of the commercial spaceflight industry, he cofounded Space Adventures, the only company to arrange space flights for private citizens and is the sixth private astronaut to live aboard the International Space Station.

And only if we rally together and act as one nation — workers and entrepreneurs; scientists and citizens; the public and private sectors.

The situation doesn't appear to something that would be likely to have happened that way, much like the second half of the situation in the above - mentioned Gelbspan timeline situation, where he (as a private citizen whose only public appearance at that time in the matter was a solitary article he co-authored which briefly turned him into a skeptic) claimed an Assistant Attorney General allowed him to influence an official hearing in a major way.

If they don't like any of the particular options that fit the best available evidence on sea level rise, or don't like the particular ones that they suspect a majority of their fellow citizens might, they can be expected to try to stigmatize the municipal and various private groups engaged in adaptation planning by falsely characterizing them and their ideas in terms that bind them to only one of the partisan cultural styles that is now (sadly and pointlessly, as a result of misadventure, strategic behavior, and ineptitude) associated with engagement with climate change science in national politics.

But, as he claimed in only a few instances, he discovered the letter - writers were not really concerned private citizens but instead were people working in the PR departments of the fossil fuel industry lobby.

And it is likewise crucial that they «keep a cool head» as they continue to carefully, methodically and dispassionately study the climate system and the effects of AGW with ever - greater understanding, in ever more refined detail, because that's the only way that we — ordinary citizens as well as policy - makers in both the public and private sectors — are going to become aware of the rapidly increasing seriousness and urgency of the problem.

As @feetwet points out, there are a few jurisdictions (New Hampshire and Pennsylvania are the only two I'm aware of) where a private citizen may initiate a criminal prosecution.