Sentences with phrase «ordinary citizens at»

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«Any way you look at it, the bank tax is simply a new tax over which the people who pay it — ordinary citizens — will have little or no say over what is done with the money,» said one respondent.

The conclusion: given relatively unlimited availability, heroin users will voluntarily stabilize or reduce their dosage and some will even choose abstinence; long - addicted users can lead relatively normal, stable lives if provided legal access to their drug of choice, and with few side effects; and ordinary citizens (in Switzerland at least) will support such initiatives.

«While state policies and the actions of extremist groups often mask the high levels of tolerance in the minds of ordinary Arabs, the typical citizen in this region expresses a great deal of support for tolerant policies,» said Michael Hoffman, who studied religious minorities as part of the Religious Freedom Project at Georgetown's Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs.

At the same time, the candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the government upon vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.

As we renew the promise of our nations to make them stronger at home — in the words of President Reagan as the «sleeping giant stirs» — so let us renew the relationship that can lead the world towards the promise of freedom and prosperity marked out in parchment by those ordinary citizens 240 years ago.

Lots of people have spoken at EU events I've attended have said they want to have a conversation about how we can try and have get a Europe that look like it works a bit better for ordinary citizens — not the rich guys in suits zooming about doing the deals but on things that make a difference to their lives like better rights at work.

Michael Kink with the Strong Economy for All Coalition said Trump's tax plan will benefit billionaires at the expense of ordinary citizens, and the Republican - led Congress is moving to take away collective bargaining rights for workers, jeopardizing wages and pensions.

Instead, only personal friends of the couple, along with a number of ordinary British citizens, will be present at Windsor Castle for the royal event of the year on May 19.

Michael Kink, with the Strong Economy for All Coalition, says President Trump's tax plan will benefit billionaires at the expense of ordinary citizens, and the Republican - led Congress is moving to take away collective bargaining rights for workers, jeopardizing wages and pensions.

... Ordinary Brit citizens renting boats, yachts, dinghies or floating bits of driftwood to share the same waterways at the same time as Queen Elizabeth's Jubilee joyride.

According to Sagay: «55 top government officials and private businessmen illicitly deviated in total N1.35 trillion roughly at that time $ 7.5 million to themselves at the expense of ordinary Nigerian citizens.

«I'm the equivalent of the independent candidate, the independent voice the voice for change... the voice for transparency... the voice for ordinary citizens having someone fighting for them at the Capitol, shaking up the status quo.»

The speaker shot back at critics who said she was unhappy being treated like an ordinary citizen.

In the scheme of Lehane's pulp narrative he is, in fact, a white savior, and while various critics and a few ordinary citizens are busy throwing that condemnation at the Ryan Gosling character in «La La Land,» a charge that makes little sense in the context of the movie itself (vanilla is one thing; white savior is a different flavor) here in «Live by Night» we have a serious case of the white saviors.

Jia Zhang - ke's ambitious, stylized look at life in contemporary China stars Zhao Tao and Jiang Wu as ordinary citizens forced into violent confrontations by an apathetic and amoral state.

Despite being featured on the gatefold cover of Vanity Fair's 2017 Hollywood Issue in a sparkly, thigh - baring gown, flanked by Dakota Johnson and Janelle Monáe, Gerwig is pleasantly unpretentious; just an ordinary citizen — like many of her roles — meeting someone for lunch at the restaurant around the corner from her house that serves her favorite fried artichokes.

Statistical significance aside, these teachers turned out at higher rates than ordinary citizens in 12 of 18 elections, but in 5 they actually turned out at lower rates.

The reality is that, while some 96 percent of school boards are elected (according to data collected by Frederick Hess of the American Enterprise Institute), these elections are usually low - turnout, low - interest affairs in which the vast majority of ordinary citizens play no role at all.

A corollary issue is whether teachers who live in a district where they don't work vote at higher rates than ordinary citizens do.

In every district with available data, and for all three sets of elections, other district employees who live and work in their districts vote at substantially higher rates than ordinary citizens do — rates that, on average, are just a shade lower than those of teachers who live and work in the district.

At least $ 600 billion in assets currently invested by California's 80 different public employee pension funds, earning financial interests billions in management fees and commissions every year, and guaranteeing public employees retirement packages that ordinary citizens can only dream of.

Both Mohamed and Morgan, along with a host of ordinary citizens and neurological and psychological experts, form the backbone of Sasha Abramsky's latest book Jumping at Shadows: The Triumph of Fear and the End of the American Dream.

Belize City's Emergency Management Organization (CEMO) is reaching out to those most affected by emergencies — businesses, coordinating organizations and the ordinary citizen — with an annual symposium and expo at the Biltmore Plaza today and tomorrow.

But for a peek at the ordinary lives of citizens of Edinburgh, Real Mary King's Close is a hidden treat, just off the Royal Mile.

But there is reason to hope: many ordinary citizens desire to make positive change in their daily lives, in their communities, and in the world at large.

No offence to David — in this case, an ordinary group of citizens who have spent an extraordinary amount of time becoming pseudo-experts on all things industrial wind turbines — but at first there didn't appear even the slightest chance of stopping the threat of wind power.

Politicians are unwilling to seek meaningful emission targets, corporations are fundamentally committed to economic growth at all costs, and even ordinary citizens refuse to sacrifice their consumer lives for the promise of a stable climate.

The hidden information showed that less than 5 percent of requests were from criminals and high - level public figures (lower than expected), with 95 percent of them made by ordinary citizens, according to Julia Powles, a researcher at the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law who specializes in the law and policy of data sharing and privacy.

«The legislative purpose, at the time of the Act's enactment, was to allow «ordinary citizens» to «clearly see» who is behind the messages they receive during a campaign period, thus promoting informed voting,» said the ruling.

At the same time, the candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the Government upon vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their Government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.

At para 6 of the decision he declared that Pt 36 should be interpreted «in a way that would be understood by ordinary citizens».

Trying to stand back, and at the risk of fudging the strictures to be found in Tinsley, his lordship did not think the «conscience of the ordinary citizen» would find anything so repugnant in the claimant pursuing this claim which would justify ruling it impermissible by use of the unforgiving and uncompromising operation of the ex turpi maxim.

With China's property sector crucial for the broader Chinese economy, accounting for nearly a quarter of fixed asset investment, authorities have been at pains to balance the needs of economic stability with those of ordinary citizens.