Sentences with phrase «own fellow citizens»

Walled off by technology and geography from the realities of most of their fellow citizens, the tech elites live lives of extreme, if occasionally odd, luxury.

When it came to that last question, there was plenty of anger to go around, with many complaining about David Cameron's decision to call the referendum, others infuriated at the weak Leave campaign, and still others offering less than polite commentary on segments of their fellow citizens.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told local media earlier on Saturday that he would «do his best» to protect the lives and property of his fellow citizens.

This isn't the time to make a buck, this is the time to help your fellow citizens,» Bondi said.

Some economists put a lot of weight on «social trust,» which essentially is the degree to which societies get along with their fellow citizens.

She described the debt that companies owe society, saying, «It doesn't matter to me whether you're Amazon, Google or Starbucks, you have a duty to put something back, you have a debt to your fellow citizens, you have a responsibility to pay your taxes.»

But having one's religious conscience protected from intrusion by one's fellow citizens is a much less compelling need than having it protected from the government.

The mega-rich «wouldn't mind being told to pay more in taxes,» Buffet added, «particularly when so many of their fellow citizens are truly suffering.»

But they also sent a strong and hateful message to a substantial proportion of their fellow citizens, and their fellow human beings.

«Arnold, you've struck our hearts and our minds, and today your government, your fellow citizens are going to strike a gold medal for you.»

Imagine the positive economic and social impact we can generate for ourselves and our fellow citizens.

The rest is explained by the natural resources with which that country is endowed, the physical infrastructure, the collective know - how of fellow citizens, the quality of public and private institutions, and the degree of trust that greases the wheels of commerce, politics and everyday life.

Dangerously near to poisoning their fellow citizens?

Lakewood will be a value to the community in the aftermath of this storm in helping our fellow citizens rebuild their lives.»

They want freedom to act in their interests without hindrance, to take advantage of fellow citizens, their venality hidden and victims believing that if you're not doing well it's your own fault - the marketplace has tested you and found you wanting.

Despite nearly eight years of Conservative rule, I can still recognize my country and my fellow citizens in that collective expression of outraged decency.

All we can ask is for our governments and security agencies is to deal with them judiciously — say, by not appointing a foreign minister with strong historical family ties to a foreign government supported by fascist sympathizers engaged in a civil war with their fellow citizens.

We hope that Mr. Trump similarly will come around to a recognition of the need to unite the country after disaster strikes, and that he will make his intentions plain in that regard when he addresses his fellow citizens in Puerto Rico tomorrow.

It's a chance to help your fellow citizens; it's a chance to leave your mark — however small — on the country.

As much as Romney, they're thinking too poorly of too many of their fellow citizens for how and (the Tea Partiers imagine) why they voted.

«Though we already pay # 11 billion a year to subsidise a low - wage economy because employers are not paying people enough to live on, volunteers up and down the country are providing a further # 30 million a year in «free» labour to ensure that our fellow citizens in low paid work, on zero hour contracts, or relying on a broken benefits system have enough to eat.

The Godless Nazi party then went on to exterminate 6,000,000 innocent fellow citizens of Germany because of their jewish religion.

Especially when we keep losing national elections, we have to confront our fellow citizens with the de facto constitutional decisions they keep making by voting for the Democrats.

You will be much better people for learning how to get along with your fellow citizens.

Find rest in the truth that we are «fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God,» a family that extends further than our travels and through generations ancient and yet to come

Find rest in the truth that we are «fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God,» a family that extends further than our travels and through generations ancient and yet to come (Ephesians 2:19).

If our people languish in dependency, while the means through which we might work toward our own advancement exist, then we have surrendered our claim to dignity and to the respect of our fellow citizens.

For Lasch, true populism is rooted in mutual respect, which demands that we hold ourselves and our fellow citizens to shared standards of conduct and discourse — a necessary precondition for both civil disagreement and a healthy body politic.

And I would welcome more self - discipline and self - sacrifice from my fellow citizens.

Also crucial, I maintain, is an equality of respect and standing in the eyes of one's fellow citizens.

We must believe that our fellow citizens are now truly ready to allow us an equal place in this society.

That would have been a snub to his hometown and fellow citizens.

In a letter announcing his retirement from the army at the close of the War, he wrote: «I now make it my earnest prayer, that God would have you, and the State over which you preside, in his holy protection, that he would incline the hearts of the Citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to Government, to entertain a brotherly affection and love for one another, for their fellow Citizens of the United States at large, and particularly for their brethren who have served in the Field, and finally, that he would most graciously be pleased to dispose us all, to do Justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that Charity, humility and pacific temper of mind, which were the Characteristicks of the Divine Author of our blessed Religion, and without an humble imitation of whose example in these things, we can never hope to be a happy Nation.»

My own agenda is, a) is what I think for myself, b) is what I recommend for Democrats who are not prepared to think a) but who recognize their need to work and dialogue more with their non-liberal fellow citizens.

yet if i am to judge on past choices made by my fellow citizens, well then, i am left depressed with the knowledge of our enablity to make a rational choice concerning the governmentship of this country!

With courts increasingly willing to nullify popular legislation and proclaim new rights, legislators are encouraged to avoid their responsibility for tackling controversial issues; interest groups are encouraged to take their cases to the courts rather than to try to persuade their fellow citizens; and citizens get the feeling that they have no say in setting the conditions under which they live, work, and raise their children.

Those whom I have communicated with, were they elected to the high offices of the land, would first move to rob their fellow citizens of their right to religious freedom leaving only those who are atheist or agnostic free to worship their god..

If Christians / conservatives had been of a mind to force their fellow citizens in this Country to «convert or else», then non-believers would long since have been driven into hiding their non-belief.

My last essay ended by noting that conservatives are told by many of their leading politicians and pundits that America's fundamental problem is that too many of their fellow citizens no longer understand its basic principles, of which liberty has pride of place.

And it's individualism (that «heart disease» that makes us apathetically indifferent to the fate of our fellow citizens), Tocqueville says, that makes us all easy prey for despots.

We sought to convince our fellow citizens of some simple truths.

If it doesn't then they label it Satan and start fear mongering their fellow citizens.

Finally, a heavy reliance on courts can undermine energy to protect rights through the political process and to convince fellow citizens of the Importance of those rights.

It's frightening, Iqbal said, and «there is a lot of shock and disbelief... because we don't expect this kind of behavior from our fellow citizens.»

It is that passionate love for the truth that motivates me and many other non-believers to shed some light for those who can't see through the harmful religious indoctrination that inflicts and severely intellectually limits so many of our fellow citizens.

They reached the hearts of the people who heard Lincoln speak, they, gave shape to the hopes and actions of the black community and the «fellow citizens» in King's time, and they still have some effect today.

We have 39 million fellow citizens who can not afford ANY health care.

«No one can deny that our social and economic reality is terribly unjust and unbalanced, that change in our vitiated structures is mandatory, and that it is necessary first of all to change the mentality of our fellow citizens.»

«Big Brother» is more our fellow citizens than it is the gov «t...

To live by an ethic of civility requires a respectful engagement with the other, whether as fellow person or as fellow citizen.