Sentences with phrase «ordinary citizens made»

«The local military, police and ordinary citizens made it quite clear they were optimistic the city would not slip back into violence,» he said.

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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.

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.

Prohibition was reversed because of the federal and state governments» prudential judgment that it had been a practical and social failure, spawning organized crime and making criminals of ordinary, otherwise law «abiding citizens.

When statements were made on radio and television that slandered individuals, or strong positions about issues of public importance were aired which needed balance and rebuttal, it was possible for ordinary citizens to demand that the station provide time for reply.

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.

The ordinary citizen has to save for years in order to carry out this religious obligation, so the determination to make the pilgrimage must be very strong.

In the mid-eighth century, tea shops sprung up and made the tea a mandatory drink for ordinary citizens of China.

He said: «But because most of us will not be allowed into Europe, I think as ordinary citizens, we will have to make some very hard choices, whether we want to use violence to get somebody into power; of which we won't get any of the trickledown effects, destroy our country and become refugees somewhere else.

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.

Central to this model are the principles of random selection and deliberation: the idea that a diverse body of ordinary citizens, chosen on a near - random basis so as to be descriptively representative of the citizen population, are willing and able to deliberate and make recommendations on constitutional questions.

Ordinary citizens are encouraged to make simple changes to their life routine such as not using tumble dryer but hanging out clothes, cutting food waste and preferring showers to baths.

Ghana's laws make corruption a high - risk venture, but, in reality, many see it as a thriving venture where businesses evade tax, public officials receive bribes to facilitate transactions and ordinary citizens are compelled to offer bribes before basic services — including birth certificates, passports, driving licences, electricity meters — are delivered.

He added that «But because most of us will not be allowed into Europe, I think as ordinary citizens, we would have to make some very hard choices, whether we want to use violence to get somebody into power; of which we won't get any of the trickle down effects, destroy our country and become refugees somewhere else.»

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - In a trial run of a public financing system meant to encourage ordinary citizens to make small donations, the Buffalo millionaire Carl Paladino's development companies gave up to the $ 175 limit to Bob Antonacci's Republican state comptroller campaign - 46 times.

But when you read through Ralph Koster's declaration of rights or James Miller's conflict - resolution proposal — and the hundreds of thoughtful critiques posted in response to each — the online world suddenly feels closer to 1776 in America or 1848 in France, when ordinary citizens struggled to make their revolutionary visions of social organization a reality.

They argue that scientists are being led by the nose by citizens and that when you have ordinary people formulating research questions and hypothesizing or being involved in the study, it makes it illegitimate, it takes away the good science.

Such personal reflections are woven throughout «Newtown,» including interviews with ordinary citizens like Father Bob Weiss, who buried eight children following the tragedy, and Rick Thorne, the school's custodian, who has been hailed by some as a hero for making three calls to 911 and keeping police on the phone for 10 minutes while confronting the shooter.

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.

We need to recommit to the civic mission of our schools and universities, so they help students gain the knowledge and the dispositions that make democracy work — in the acts of ordinary citizens, in how we relate to one another, in how we collaborate, and in how we take responsibility to improve the communities of which we are a part.

In a society where it's almost impossible to make any major purchase without a line of credit, we don't have much of a choice other than to accept credit reporting agencies as vanguards of personal lifetime data, knowing full well that an error on their part could literally affect ordinary citizens for the rest of their lives.

The best way to do this, in my view, is to support the educational opportunities of Hispanic, African - American, Asian, Muslim, of racial and ethnic minority children and youth and low income students and to systematically look for ways to help these our children and youth develop agency, and understanding of the political process and of the many opportunities to make democracy work in the acts of ordinary citizens, to discover and master the codes of political participation and power, to develop political efficacy.

But the way they responded to the extraordinary circumstances of life on the new frontier, politics, and war made heroes of these ordinary citizens.

The depiction of the slave catcher's dog in stage re-enactments of UNCLE TOM»S CABIN made him an object of dread to ordinary citizens, and an object of attraction to dog owners who wanted dogs for anti-social purposes.

I am not an expert, just an ordinary citizen who has followed energy issues for 40 years; but for what it's worth, I think that nuclear and coal - with - CCS are neither necessary (since we can get all the electricity we need, and more, from renewables) nor effective (since nuclear will take too long to build up to the point where it makes any significant contribution, and working CCS doesn't exist and is unlikely to exist for decades).

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.

This being my first Congressional hearing I've attended, I found myself surprised by a few things that didn't make sense to me and probably wouldn't to an ordinary citizen:

But it is her personal integrity in the face of endemic bribery and her belief that ordinary people have the power to make change that has made her a hero among Georgian citizens.

Ordinary citizens have to make decisions based on less than expert understanding all the time — every time they vote and every time they serve on a jury.

It comes as a shock to many ordinary citizens to be told that the huge greedy corporations actually make money for THEM, not for some faceless consortium.

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.

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.

Mr. Johnnie Cochran believed he could make a difference in the world, and he did by representing ordinary citizens!

A lot of money has been spent by the wrongdoers lobby to promote the idea that a jury composed of ordinary citizens, a jury of one's peers, is somehow incapable of making a sound reasoned judgment.

The app boasts end - to - end encryption, making it extremely useful for dissidents and ordinary citizens living under oppressive regimes.

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