Sentences with phrase «over average citizens»
However if we do both don't we give a huge advantage to the wealthy office seeker over an average citizen?
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Given its pervasiveness in our lives — most studies indicate that the average citizen watches over 20 hours a week — it is important that research on a national and impartial level be undertaken, so that we can understand TV's effects.
The Citizens remain unbeaten for the term with a W7 D1 record, and they are averaging over 3.5 goals per game this season as well.
The Citizens have seen over 2.5 goals land in their last 13 home matches in the league, while the Blues have averaged close to two goals per game on the road.
The Citizens have averaged over 3.5 goals per home game this season.
Though we have no way of knowing whether average Iranian citizens regard state - run media as truthful or just a Persian Pravda, for now the government's control over television, radio and newspapers has allowed it to portray the protests in the worst possible light.
According to poll results published this week by the Bush Foundation, 83 percent of Minnesotans said «the voice of average citizens has been lost» in the debate over the state budget.
A report released Monday by the good - government group Citizens Union argued the current system for redistricting, dominated by the Democratic majority in the Assembly and Republicans who control the Senate, has led to less - competitive elections, reduced voter turnout and, over the past four election cycles, a 96 percent re-election rate for incumbents — who are returned to office by an average margin of victory of 61 percentage points.
However, the takeup was unenthusiastic, because the priorities of average Chinese citizens had changed over the decades.
Indeed, if we compute the turnout gap between teachers and average citizens in each district, the median gap over all districts and elections (both school - board and bond) was 36.5 percent, which is a huge number given the very low turnout overall.
The table provided by the Quartz Media LLC shows that the average citizen of the USA hasn't gotten a raise since the 1970s, and the gap between those who get high and low salary has been growing wider and wider over the last decades.
The Insurance Information Institute notes that identity thieves have stolen over $ 107 billion over the last seven years, which is much too large of a number for average citizens to ignore.
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We wanted to get the word out and build momentum for the Road to Paris in a country where rising heat is becoming deadly and researchers find that pollution from coal power plants is chopping over three years off the average citizen's lifespan, but «climate change» is hardly in the popular lexicon.
But the average Chinese citizen has no control over the country's power supply, and he or she is the one breathing in toxic air day in, day out.
Consequently, if information dissemination is held as a public service and not a consumer good, and the media is accepted under section 2 (b) as having no freedom of expression rights in the courtroom over and above those of average citizens, distinctions drawn between the accredited media and the public may indeed prove legally flawed.