Sentences with phrase «ordinary citizens with»

He explained the challenges of collecting and processing data, the legal fights along the way and the goal of empowering ordinary citizens with access to public information.

All this in defense of a document that left the ordinary citizen with little or no role to play in the new government.

Amy Tresidder, an Oswego County legislator, had portrayed herself as an ordinary citizen with a call to public service.

A judge has the rights of an ordinary citizen with respect to financial affairs, except for limitations required to safeguard the proper performance of the judge's duties.

Not exact matches

The Chinese public had something else in mind, and went straight for the jugular with thousands of ordinary citizens taking Modi to task over territorial claims.

• A draft document reveals Australia offered to share information collected on ordinary Australian citizens with the NSA and other «Five Eyes» partners.

«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.

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.

Even with regard to most stockholders they work no better than popular democracy works with respect to ordinary citizens.

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.

Despite efforts in international law to distinguish between degrees of culpability with regard to politicians, generals and ordinary citizens, policies of direct attacks upon civilians continue to find a rationale in the identification of the citizen with the state — even if the ordinary citizen is both ignorant of and indifferent to affairs of state.

But if that is the case, why are there so few public statements, with the «conservative» label attached to them, that tell us exactly what policy should be in the matter of education, welfare provision, environmental protection, planning law, urbanization, infrastructure, and everything else that matters to the ordinary citizen?

«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.

Ordinary citizens like ourselves do not know enough about future technological innovation to vote today with ballots or with dollars in the market.

Etter was not talking about the DDT and parathion and mercury compounds and other pesticides and fungicides and herbicides with which overzealous industrialists and agriculturists and exterminators and ordinary citizens are inadvertently poisoning the earth.

«It's a change in the way we do business with respect to ordinary citizens,» Kenealy said.

«In adolescence, these (character) strengths are mostly developed in relationships with caring adults,» Tough explained to me in an email about what ordinary citizens can do to help.

What I think Nigerians must cudgel themselves with is how the likes of this strange character emerge to have seats in what is supposed to be reserved for the most accomplished, responsible and patriotic senior citizens whose wealth of experience the country requires to change the conditions of the ordinary people.

References to ordinary people were much more gender balanced, with women accounting for 46.8 per cent of individual citizens, although when you take into consideration that women account for a higher proportion of the electorate than men, this too might be viewed as problematic.

A democratic process in which political positions are seen purely as a matter of public service with a responsibility to try and meet the aspirations of the ordinary citizens is likely to engender electoral integrity and healthy participatory government.

I plan to create a dialogue with civic leaders, business professionals, ordinary citizens and political leaders who want to come together to express their views and ideas for the common good.

These protest movements also voice a concern that democratic politics has become imbalanced in favour of corporations and the very rich and / or (as with the indignados) that politicians have become a class separate from ordinary citizens: concerns about the loss of genuine popular sovereignty.

While the rhetoric to justify enhanced surveillance has focused on portraying terrorists as the principal enemies to fight against, we should not forget that the human rights regime was established more than 60 years ago with the main aim to keep in check the power of the state and to prevent abuses against ordinary citizens.

But, as we can see from the facts about wealth inequality noted above, the implied community of interest among all «citizens» and «ordinary people», contrasted with the faceless villains of «corporations and financial markets», is a gross simplification.

But instead of beating her with an ordinary PAC or a campaign contribution to her opponent, the trade association for the chemical industry has chosen to take advantage of the Citizens United loophole to use undisclosed general treasury funds against Baldwin.

All citizens are registered with authorities, so the authorities have the home address of all residents and sends the voting cards by ordinary mail.

He said he wanted to allow more ordinary citizens to attend, which would «reconnect [state government] with the people and rebuild a relationship of trust.»

The judges will be appointed by the Chief Justice in consultation with the Judicial Council, whereas the two ordinary citizens will also be appointed by the Chief Justice, in consultation with the Council of State.

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.

The Roehampton research argues the case for opening up opportunities for more ordinary, local citizens to work with governors and senior leaders in shaping governance.

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.

Citizens Budget Commission Director of State Studies David Friedfel shared how he prepares for the release of the budget, reminisced about his time with the Assembly Ways & Means Committee and offered advice to ordinary New Yorkers who want to understand the governor's proposal.

His campaign is funded primarily by small contributions from ordinary citizens, and runs primarily with the help of local volunteers.

He said the government has fulfilled a part of the social contract it had with the people just 16 months in office, adding they are working assiduously to ensure the fulfilment of the rest to improve the wellbeing of ordinary citizens.

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.

Yet it is something that ordinary citizens deal with daily without knowing.

Factory workers may soon be able to do heavy lifting without throwing their backs out, and ordinary citizens may get some help with the yard work.

i am just an ordinary Filipino citizen with an ordinary life..

I agree with the documentary «Outrage» that we all need to live our lives as openly as possible, especially those we love, whether we are ordinary citizens, in the armed forces or politicians.

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.

Yen, a superb screen fighter with an often bland presence, creates the finest screen character of his career as the dedicated but modest master who becomes a teacher to the ordinary citizens facing the oppressive rule of the occupying Japanese army and the predatory attacks of Chinese bandits.

With 28 Up, the fourth installment in the documentary series charting ordinary British citizens throughout their lives, director Michael Apted finds uncooperative behavior finally starting to claim some of his interview subjects.

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.

This novel was the first I've read that invited me to empathize with the experience of some ordinary citizens of Germany during and after WW2.

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.

Filled with a cast of unforgettable characters more richly drawn than any Lehane has ever created, The Given Day tells the story of two families — one black, one white — swept up in a maelstrom of revolutionaries and anarchists, immigrants and ward bosses, Brahmins and ordinary citizens, all engaged in a battle for survival and power.

American Gods envisions a world in which the old gods co-exist with the ordinary citizens of the world.

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.